Wicket Keeping
A Comprehensive Modern Guide for Cricket Players and Coaches
$23.83
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2021
Summary
This book is aimed at players and coaches (male & female) of all levels. James Knott and Andrew O’Connor have created a comprehensive and up to date guide to wicket keeping for coaches, players and parents featuring photographs and diagrams along with sixty accessible drills.
A high percentage of modern wicket keepers are batsmen who are converted to wicket keeping as a second string to their bow. This is an essential guide for those players as the authors make comparisons between…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913538316 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1913538311 |
| Author: | James Knott, Andy O’Connor |
| Publisher: | Polaris Publishing Limited |
| Imprint: | Polaris Publishing Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Polaris Publishing Cricket Guides |
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Critics Review
‘This book will take you through step by step everything you require to be a top wicket keeper and coach in the amazing world of wicket keeping’
‘This book will take you through step by step everything you require to be a top wicket keeper and coach in the amazing world of wicket keeping’
– Kevin Innes, Academy Director, Northants CCC‘An excellent guide for wicket-keepers and coaches alike – full of key details across all aspects of a keeper’s role and very easy to read’
– Richard Hudson, Managing Director, Buckinghamshire Cricket Board‘A proper insight into the life of the modern-day wicketkeeper. The mix of experienced review and coaching drills offers the reader a real opportunity to realise his/her potential in a number of ways’
– Jonny Cater, Oxfordshire CCC Captain‘excellent … covers every aspect of wicket keeping clearly and accurately’
– Callum Morin, wicketkeeper at Hadleigh Cricket Club‘A fantastically detailed & clear look into the art of wicketkeeping’
– Phil Arnold, Stowe 1st XI Cricket Coach‘In the most comprehensive book on wicketkeeping on the market, James Knott and Andrew O’Connor provide detailed and easy-to-understand insights into all aspects of wicket keeping, whether you are a player or coach, and no matter your level … Clear, insightful and easy to follow, this is an essential guide for improving your game or your coaching methods’
* Cricket World *‘clubs, schools and universities could all do with stocking this in their changing rooms’
– Ivo Tennant * The Cricketer *About The Author
James Knott
James Knott played professional cricket for eight years between 1994 and 2001 and is an ECB Level 3 coach. He is the Head of Cricket and Assistant Director of Sport at Stowe School and since his appointment in 2004 Stowe has finished top of the schools cricket league twice, winning the Schools Arch Trophy twice and finishing runners up of the National T20 twice and several of his former pupils have gone on to play professional cricket in that time.
Andy O’Connor is an ECB Level 3 coach and a member of the Northamptonshire ECB Coach Education team. He is part of the junior coaching setup at Northants, having coached most age groups, both boys and girls. He is currently Coach of the new U18s boy’s squad, having coached the u17s Boys team during their ECB National Championship three-day and one-day cup winning seasons of 2017 and 2019.
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