Cricket - Clive Gifford

A handbook on cricket. It introduces the basic batting, bowling and fielding skills, followed by more advanced techniques. Practical advice is interspersed with facts and stories about cricket, and a reference section provides useful addresses, booklists and websites.

Clive Gifford: Clive Gifford is an experienced writer and editor of children's books and a sporting all-rounder. He has become established as a writer of non fiction children's books through projects with OUP, Kingfisher and DK amongst others. Clive has enjoyed playing and watching cricket from an early age. He has played for his ultra-casual side, The Strollers, and has become an avid member of the Primary Club for cricketers who have been out first ball!

Hodder's ACTIVATOR series has long been one of the best paperback non-fiction series around and these new sporty titles are appropriately tagged 'super.activ' - all recommended.
Achuka website, Sept 2000