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THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF CRICKET BOOKS
ART AND AUCTION
A TRUE OBSESSIVE August 23rd 2008
Wisden
The frantic pace of a corporate financier led Tim Bunting to retire in his mid-30s. Now he spends his time and money on collecting cricket books. He finds it therapeutic ...
From ECONOMIST.COM
As head of the corporate-finance department of Goldman Sachs in London, Tim Bunting could boast that he had visited New Zealand three times without staying the night. But he found himself burnt out by his mid-30s; he quit his job after attending 27 dinners on consecutive evenings. Fortunately, he retired quite wealthy, and decided to spend much of his time and money on his collection of cricket books. His collection soon became an obsession.
Cricket books, he says, account for one-half of all books written on all sports. He owns more than 25,000 of them--the largest collection of cricket books in the world--and he built a library in an old rectory in rural Hampshire to hold them.
The best-known of all cricket books is "Wisden Cricketer's Almanack", which has been published annually since 1864. Mr Bunting has two complete sets, but his greatest prize is a third, which belonged to (and was annotated by) W.G. Grace, a legendary English cricket player who died in 1916.
Mr Bunting calls that set "the Holy Grail, the ultimate piece of cricket collecting." It turned up unexpectedly in 2004 in a bookshop near the English seaside resort of Margate. When he learned that it was for sale, he drove perhaps faster than the law allows and got there in time to buy the whole lot for £150,000 ($280,000).
Like many other collectors, Mr Bunting started when he was eight with stamps. He studied mathematics at Cambridge and joined Goldman Sachs, where he had hardly any time for anything other than work, but in his late 20s, he rediscovered his passion for collecting, which he found therapeutic.
He became a student of a celebrated collector named Geoffrey Copinger, who had amassed 16,000 cricket books. When he learned in 1998 that Mr Copinger wanted to sell but not break up his collection, Mr Bunting offered a princely sum (he will not say how much) and promised to build a library to house the books.
His competitors (collecting sporting books is not always a sporting activity) quietly judged that this was an opportunistic purchase, made principally as an investment. After all, he was an investment banker and venture capitalist. Some cricket-book collectors, who started when they were children, instinctively mistrust newcomers like Mr Bunting, largely because he has more money than they do. He is unapologetic: "You can do it without money, but obviously it helps. It gives you space," he says.
His credentials make the critics sound narrow and mean-minded. After all, he amassed 10,000 cricket books before buying Mr Copinger's collection, and his particular obsession--cricket annuals, like Wisden but more obscure--had been well advertised within the trade.
He has ancient annuals from Canada, Barbados and Natal. He is especially pleased with a set of 14 that he completed of John Lawrence's "Cricket in Ireland". On his shelves there is also a complete set of an annual titled "The American Cricketer" (no kidding), from 1877 to its demise in the late 1920s. He also has drawers full of postcards and autographs.
Mr Bunting hopes that in 30 years the collection will be beautifully organised. "My mission," he says, "is to create a place where you can explore cricket history in literature in an orderly manner." And it is not for sale, ever. So what will happen to it? "I'll give it away," he says.
(The Art.view column appears every week on Economist.com.)
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The batsman may play a "shot" or "stroke", attempting to hit the bowled ball with the flat surface of the bat. If the ball brushes the side of the bat it is called an "edge". There is no requirement for the batsman to play a shot, and there is no requirement to run if the ball is struck. The batsman automatically scores runs if he hits the ball to the boundary. Shots are named according to the style of swing and the direction aimed. As part of the team's strategy, the player may bat defensively, blocking the ball downwards, or aggressively, hitting the ball hard to empty spaces in order to score runs.
Batsmen come in to bat in a batting order, decided by the team captain. The first two batsmen - the "openers" - usually face the most hostile bowling, from fresh fast bowlers with a new ball. The top batting positions are usually given to the most competent batsmen in the team, and the non-batsmen typically bat last. The batting order is not agreed beforehand, and if a wicket falls any player who has not batted yet may bat next.

Run scoring

The directions in which a right-handed batsman intends to send the ball when playing various cricketing shots. The diagram for a left-handed batsman is a mirror image of this one.

How runs are scored and teams win a match.
Main articles: scoring (cricket) and Run (cricket)
To score a run, a striker must run to the opposite end of the pitch, while his non-striking partner runs to his end. To register a run, both runners must touch the ground behind the crease with either their bats or their bodies (the batsmen carry their bats as they run). If the striker hits the ball well enough, the batsmen may double back to score two or more runs. However, no rule requires the batsman to run upon striking the ball. The decision to attempt a run is ideally made by the batsman who has the better view of the ball's position, and this is communicated by calling: "yes", "no" and "wait" are often heard. The batsmen swap ends every time an odd number of runs are scored.
If a fielder knocks the bails off the stumps with the ball while no part of the batsman is grounded behind the popping crease, the batsman nearer the broken wicket is run out. The batsman may ground the bat, provided he or she is holding it.
If the ball reaches the boundary, then runs are automatically scored: six if the ball goes over the boundary without touching the ground, four if it touched the ground. These are scored instead of any runs the batsmen may have already run (unless they have run more, which is unlikely), and they return to the ends at which they started.

Extras
For more details on this topic, see Extra (cricket).
Every run scored by the batsmen contributes

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For more details on this topic, see Cricket field.
The cricket field consists of a large, often circular or oval-shaped, grassy ground. There are no fixed dimensions for the field but its diameter usually varies between 450 feet (137 m) and 500 feet (150 m). The perimeter of the field, known as the boundary, is marked, often with a rope or a painted line.

The pitch
For more details on this topic, see Cricket pitch.

A wicket consists of three stumps that are hammered into the ground, and topped with two bails.
Most of the action takes place in the centre of this ground, on a rectangular clay strip usually with short grass called the pitch. The pitch measures 10 × 66 feet (3.05 × 20.12 m). The longer dimension of the pitch is also a unit of length known as a chain.
At each end of the pitch three upright wooden stakes, called the stumps, are hammered into the ground. Two wooden crosspieces, known as the bails, sit in grooves atop the stumps, linking each to its neighbour. Each set of three stumps and two bails is collectively known as a wicket. One end of the pitch is designated the "batting end" where the batsman stands and the other is designated the "bowling end" where the bowler runs in to bowl.
The area of the field on the side of the line joining the wickets where the batsman holds his bat (the right-hand side for a right-handed batsman, the left for a left-hander) is known as the "off side", the other as the "leg side" or "on side".
Lines drawn or painted on the pitch are known as creases. Creases are used to adjudicate the dismissals of batsmen and to determine whether a delivery is legal.

A typical cricket field.

The nature of the pitch
Pitches vary in consistency, and thus in the amount of bounce, spin, and seam movement available to the bowler. Hard pitches are usually good to bat on because of high but even bounce. Dry pitches tend to deteriorate for batting as cracks often appear, and when this happens spinners can play a major role. Damp pitches, or pitches covered in grass (termed "green" pitches), allow good fast bowlers to extract extra bounce and seam movement. Such pitches tend to offer help to fast bowlers throughout the match, but become better for batting as the game goes on.

Parts of the field
For some limited-over matches, there are two additional field markings. A painted oval is made by drawing a semicircle of 30 yards (27.4 m) radius from the centre of each wicket with respect to the breadth of the pitch and joining them with lines parallel, 30 yards (27.4 m) to the length of the pitch. This line, commonly known as the "circle", divides the field into an infield and outfield. Two circles of radius 15 yards (13.7 m), centred on each wicket and often marked by dots, define the "close-infield". The infield, outfield, and the close-infield are used to enforce fielding restrictions.

Placements of players
For more details on Fielding positions, see fielding positions in cricket.

Fielding positions in cricket for a right-handed batsman. The named positions are only indicative: the fielders may stand anywhere. The bowler and wicket-keeper are always in roughly the same position, and there are only nine other fielders, so there are always many unprotected areas.
The batting team always has two batsmen on the field. One batsman, known as the "striker", faces and plays the balls bowled by the bowler. His or her partner stands at the bowling end and is known as the "non-striker".
The fielding team has eleven players on the ground. One of them is the current bowler. The wicket-keeper, who generally acts in that role for the whole innings, stands or crouches behind the wicket at the batting end. The captain of the fielding team spreads his or her remaining nine players — the fielders — around the ground, positioned according to the team's strategy.

Match structure

The toss
For more details on this topic, see toss (cricket).
The two opposing captains toss a coin before the match, and the captain who wins chooses either to bat or bowl first. The captain's decision is usually based on whether the team's bowlers are likely to gain immediate advantage from the pitch and weather conditions (these can vary significantly), or whether it is more likely that the pitch will deteriorate and make batting more difficult later in the game.

Overs
For more details on this topic, see Over (cricket).
Each innings is divided into overs, each consisting of six consecutive legal deliveries bowled by the same bowler. For the definition of illegal deliveries, see Extras. No bowler may bowl two consecutive overs, so at the end of the over the bowler takes up a fielding position and another player bowls.
Overs are bowled from alternate ends of the pitch; at the end of each over the umpires swap, the umpire at the bowler's end moving to square leg, and the umpire at square leg moving to the new bowler's end. The fielders also usually change positions.

End of an innings
For more details on this topic, see End of an innings (cricket).
An innings is completed if:
Ten out of eleven batsmen are out (dismissed); the team are said to be "all out".
The team has only one batsman left who can bat, one or more of the remaining players being unavailable owing to injury, illness or absence; again, the team is said to be "all out".
The team batting last reaches the score required to win the match.
The predetermined number of overs has been bowled (in a one-day match only, most commonly 50 overs).
A captain declares his team's innings closed (this does not apply in one-day limited over matches).

Playing time
For more details on this topic, see Playing time (cricket).
Typically, two-innings matches are played over three to five days with at least six hours of cricket played each day. One-innings matches are usually played in one day, and often last six hours or more. There are usually formal intervals on each day for lunch and tea, and brief informal breaks for drinks. There is also a short interval between innings.
The game is usually only played in dry weather; play is also usually stopped if it becomes too dark for the batsmen to be able to see the ball safely. Some one-day games are now played under floodlights but, apart from a few experimental games in Australia, floodlights are not used in longer games. Professional cricket is usually played outdoors. These requirements mean that in England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe the game is usually restricted to the summer. In the West Indies, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh games are played in the winter. These countries' hurricane and monsoon seasons coincide with their summer.

Batting

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Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each.[1] A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a cricket pitch. A wicket, usually made of wood, is placed at each end of the pitch.
The bowler, a player from the fielding team, bowls a hard, fist-sized cricket ball from the vicinity of one wicket towards the other. The ball usually bounces once before reaching the batsman, a player from the opposing team. In defence of the wicket, the batsman plays the ball with a wooden cricket bat. Meanwhile, the other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring runs, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman — if he or she does not get out — may run between the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the "non-striker"), who has been waiting near the bowler's wicket. Each completed exchange of ends scores one run. Runs are also scored if the batsman hits the ball to the boundary of the playing area. The match is won by the team that scores more runs.
Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years and more than 100 countries are affiliated to the International Cricket Council, cricket's international governing body. The sport's modern form originated in England, and is most popular in the present and former members of the Commonwealth. In many countries including Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are known collectively in cricketing parlance as the West Indies, cricket is the most popular sport. In Australia, while other sports are more popular in particular areas, cricket has been described as the "national sport" and has had a role in forming the national identity.[2] It is also a major sport in England, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Many countries also have well-established amateur club competitions, including the Netherlands, Kenya, Nepal and Argentina.

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2008-08-23T20:11:00.000-07:00

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2008-08-23T20:07:00.000-07:00

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2008-08-23T19:51:00.001-07:00

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2008-08-23T19:51:00.000-07:00

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dhoni weds mehla

2008-08-15T00:33:00.000-07:00

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start of ondayindernationals to be held in srilanka.5 onday internationals to be play india and srilanka. india is the best to play they must win the oneday cup. against srilanka.

2008-08-14T21:56:00.000-07:00

this is an international council going to held in australia melbourne. meeting will be held and they tlk about cricket and every importand message and to he be hld in australia.

about sachintendulkar

2008-08-14T21:36:00.000-07:00

sachin is the best player in indain side he will paly and win the match for india.he will do in srilnaka he can taken the game from srilanka indai will win the series defently

oneday series betwenn india wes srilanka

2008-08-14T21:18:00.000-07:00

the onday series indaivs srilanka will be tuff. both teams are strong sides srilanka beat the test series 2/1. india hve to win the onday series and take the series from srilanka. when onday series playing eacn and every match are seem to go tufffight.

richmond green

2008-08-13T20:33:00.000-07:00

letter by Sir Robert Paston of Richmond refers to a game on Richmond Green, which became a noted venue in the 18th century [3].
1668
The promoter of a match at Maidstone in Kent had to obtain a licence to sell ale there [4].
Cricket was again mentioned in a court case as being played at Shoreham in Kent [3].
1671
A man called Edward Bound was charged with playing cricket on the Sabbath and was exonerated: a sign, perhaps, that times were changing in the wake of the Restoration. The case was reported in Shere, Surrey [3].
1676
Sat 6 May. A diarist called Henry Tonge, who was part of a British mission at Aleppo in Turkey (now in Syria), recorded that at least forty of the English left the city for recreational purposes and, having found a nice place to pitch a tent for dinner, they had several pastimes and sports including krickett. At six they returned home in good order [12].
1677
Accounts of Thomas Lennard, the 1st Earl of Sussex, include an item which refers to £3 being paid to him when he went to a cricket match being played at ye Dicker, which was a common near Herstmonceux in east Sussex [9].
1678
Mention of cricket as a play (presumably in the sense of a sport that is played) in a Latin dictionary published by Dr Adam Littleton [3].
1680
Lines written in an old bible invite All you that do delight in Cricket, come to Marden, pitch your wickets. Marden is in west Sussex, north of Chichester, and interestingly close to Hambledon, which is just across the county boundary in Hampshire [9].
This is the earliest known reference to the wicket. The wicket until the 1770s comprised two stumps and a single bail. By that time, the shape of the wicket was high and narrow after the 1744 Laws of Cricket defined the dimensions as 22 inches high and six inches wide. But earlier 18th century pictures show a wicket that was low and broad, perhaps two feet wide by one foot high. The ends of the stumps were forked to support the light bail and there were criteria for the firmness of pitching the stumps into the ground and for the delicate placing of the bail so that it would easily topple when a stump was hit [3].
There has been a lot of conjecture about the origin of the wicket, but suffice to say that the 17th century outline shape is more akin to the profile of a church stool, which is low and broad. Furthermore, the legs of the stool were called stumps, which adds further credence to the idea that stools were used as early wickets. Interestingly, according to the Churchwarden’s Accounts for Great St. Mary’s Church of Cambridge (1504–1635), a church stool was sometimes known in the south-east by the Flemish name of "kreckett", this being the same word used for the game by John Derrick in 1597 [3].
1685
Mitcham Cricket Club was formed, the club playing on what is today known as Mitcham Cricket Green. The site has hosted cricket matches ever since [13].
1693
A match in Sussex was the occasion of crowd trouble and a number of persons were charged with riot and battery. We know about it because of a later petition by the defendants to Queen Anne (who did not succeed until 1702) in which they pleaded for remission of fines imposed, they having been mere spectators at the game [9].
1694
Accounts of Sir John Pelham record 2s 6d paid for a wager concerning a cricket match at Lewes [9].
1695
Parliament decided against a renewal of the Licensing Act and so cleared the way for a free press on the Act’s expiry in 1696 [3].
1696

the royal grammar school

2008-08-13T20:30:00.000-07:00

Evidence in a 1597 court case indicates that kreckett was played on a certain plot of land in Guildford, Surrey, around 1550. This is the earliest definite reference to cricket being played anywhere [4].
1597
Mon 17 January. The court case in Guildford concerned a dispute over a school's ownership of the plot of land in question. A 59-year old coroner, John Derrick, testified that he and his school friends had played kreckett on the site fifty years earlier. This is the first definite mention of cricket in the English language. The school was the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Mr. Derrick's account proves beyond reasonable doubt that the game was being played c.1550 [4].
John Eddowes in his The Language of Cricket (1997) points out that Mr Derrick’s surname was derived from the Dutch name Hendrik. In Rowland Bowen’s history, he mentions that Heiner Gillmeister of Bonn University, a European language expert, derived "cricket" from the Flemish met de (krik ket)sen (i.e., "with the stick chase"), which may indicate a possible Flemish connection in the game’s origin, but it is more likely that the terminology of cricket was based on words in use in south east England at the time and, given trade connections with Flanders, especially in the 15th century when it belonged to the Duchy of Burgundy, many Flemish words will have found their way into southern English dialects [7].
1598
There was a reference to cricket in an Italian-English dictionary produced in 1598 by Giovanni Florio and his definition of the word sgillare, which he defines as: "to make a noise as a cricket, to play cricket-a-wicket, and be merry". Some writers think the reference is spurious and relates only to the insect variety of cricket but "to play cricket-a-wicket" hardly suggests insect activity, although it could be a euphemism for sexual activity: e.g., rock and roll. Given the reference to cricket as a boys’ game in another dictionary only 13 years later, it would seem that Florio does have both an insect and a game in mind [3].

[edit] Development of village cricket

origins of cricket

2008-08-13T20:27:00.000-07:00

Origins of cricket as a boys' game
1300

Edward II (depicted in Cassell's History of England) played creag during his youth
Thurs 10 March (Julian). Wardrobe accounts of Edward I include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent by Prince Edward (the future Prince of Wales), then aged 15. It has been suggested that creag was an early form of cricket. There is no evidence to support this view and creag could have been something quite different. It has been plausibly suggested that creag is an early spelling of the Gaelic word craic that has been rendered into modern English as crack (craic) and means simply "fun, enjoyment, abandonment, or lighthearted mischief; often in the context of drinking or music" [1]. This sense of the word crack is found in Irish English, Scottish English, and Geordie in North East England. In Ireland the spelling craic is now more common than crack [2].
Whether creag was anything to do with cricket is a matter for speculation, but the location in Kent is much more likely.
The most widely accepted theory about the origin of cricket is that it developed among the farming and metalworking communities of the Weald, which spreads across Kent and Sussex. It is significant that these counties and neighbouring Surrey were the earliest centres of excellence and that it was from there that the game quickly reached London, where it secured its lasting popularity, and other southern counties like Berkshire, Essex, Hampshire and Middlesex [3].
It is quite likely that cricket was devised by children and survived for many generations as essentially a children’s game. Possibly it was derived from bowls, assuming bowls is the older sport, by the intervention of a batsman trying to stop the ball reaching its target by hitting it away. Playing on sheep-grazed land or in clearings, the original implements may have been a matted lump of sheep’s wool (or even a stone or a small lump of wood) as the ball; a stick or a crook or another farm tool as the bat; and a gate (e.g., a wicket gate), a stool or a tree stump as the wicket. The invention of the game could have happened in Norman or Plantagenet times anytime before 1300; or even in Saxon times before 1066 [3].
It seems more likely that the name.

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2008-08-13T20:16:00.000-07:00

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2008-08-13T20:11:00.000-07:00

NEW DELHI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - International Cricket Council (ICC) representatives will travel to four participating nations to allay safety fears over ...
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2008-08-03T20:17:00.000-07:00

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 Aug 2008Twenty20 cricket is not unlike reality TV. It is not the most subtle form of entertainment. By Andrew Strauss What you see is what you get, and it doesn't ...Cricket’s historical transition — from Test matches to Twenty20 ... Daily TimesTelegraph accessability links Telegraph.co.ukTelegraph accessability links Telegraph.co.ukTelegraph.co.uk all 6 news articles »
Cricket-Sri Lanka v India second test scoreboard - lunchReuters - 18 hours agoGALLE, Sri Lanka, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Scoreboard at lunch on the fourth day of the second test between India and Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka first innings 292 ...

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2008-08-03T20:03:00.000-07:00

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 Aug 2008Two matches into the ICC's referral experiment and I believe there is a growing consensus from players and officials that the system is working. ...Sri Lanka captain backs ICC technology trial Reuters IndiaSangakkara bats for umpire referral system Cricketnext.comDravid dismissal spins controversy Hindustan TimesCricketnext.com all 24 news articles »

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2008-08-03T19:54:00.000-07:00

England's most successful ever Test cricket captain Michael Vaughan has broken down in tears as he announced he was stepping down from the role. ...Michael Vaughan Steps Down as England Cricket Captain (Update3) BloombergCricket-England call news conference amid Vaughan speculation Reuters.ukMichael Vaughan steps down as England Test cricket captain CNN InternationalUnited Press International - Reuters.uk all 4,269 news articles »
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2008-08-03T19:47:00.000-07:00

CricInfo.com, UK - 15 hours agoThe Pakistan Cricket Board has allotted more than Rs 500 million to upgrade the facilities at the three Champions Trophy venues - Rawalpindi, ...Pakistan Panorama: Pakistan’s war to host peaceful cricket Peninsula On-linePakistan to send two teams in Champions League Press Trust of IndiaMoving CT would have split cricket: Naghmi Cricketnext.comHindu - Calcutta Telegraph all 264 news articles »
Training camp battle: Cricket vs. the Jones kidsDallas Morning News, TX - 1 hour agoJust bumped into my man Deon "Cricket" Anderson, who was mumbling about those "rugrats" on the way back to his room. He was coming from an ice-cold battle

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2008-08-03T19:45:00.000-07:00

Reuters.uk, UK - 19 hours agoGALLE, Sri Lanka, Aug 3 (Reuters) - India's new ball bowlers Ishant Sharma and Zaheer Khan delivered early blows to leave Sri Lanka in trouble on 24 for two ...India beat Sri Lanka in second Cricket Test, level series Khaleej TimesSri Lanka bounce back in India cricket Test AFPMendis lays claim to being the new Murali International Herald TribuneAFP - AFP all 1,105 news articles