The MCC Coaching manual is the popular name for The MCC Cricket Coaching Book, a manual of cricket skills produced by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC is a private members' club founded in 1787 The book outlined the traditional approaches to batting, bowling and fielding. Bowling is a Game / Sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a Bowling ball along a flat surface either into objects called pins It was first published in 1952, written by Harry Altham, and went through several editions before being superseded by MCC Masterclass: The New MCC Coaching Book in 1994. Harry Surtees Altham, CBE, DSO, MC ( November 30, 1888 at Camberley, Surrey – March 11, 1965 That book is now out of print, and has been replaced in the UK by a range of coaching resources from the ECB. The England and Wales Cricket Board ( ECB) ( Bwrdd Criced Cymru a Lloegr) is the governing body of Cricket in England and Wales.
In modern cricket, the MCC coaching manual is usually cited idiomatically in reference to orthodox techniques: a well-executed classical batting stroke may be described as "straight out of the coaching manual"[1], while unorthodox shots such as the reverse sweep are ones "you wouldn't find in the MCC coaching manual. Andrew-Strauss-Cricketer-detailjpg|thumb|right|250px| Andrew Strauss batting for England during the 2005 NatWest Series]] In the Sport of Cricket, batting "[2]