The Cricket Society is an organisation that was originally founded as the Society of Cricket Statisticians at Great Scotland Yard, London in 1945. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
Through its charitable trust, it raises money to coach underprivileged children in the skills of cricket. Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries They link up with various organisations, such as the Arundel Castle Cricket Foundation, in achieving these aims. Arundel is a Market town and Civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England.
The Society has a cricket team which plays at a number of venues each season. It also holds monthly meetings for the members at venues in London, Bath, Birmingham and Durham at which invited speakers address the audience. Bath is a city in Somerset in the south west of England It is situated west of London and south-east of Bristol. Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um Durham (ˈdʌrəm in RP, locally ˈdʏrəm is a small city and main settlement of the City of Durham district of County Durham, England These activities are held to raise funds for the charity.
The Cricket Society publishes a quarterly journal and a regular news bulletin for its subscribed membership.
The Society commissioned E.W. Padwick to compile a comprehensive bibliography of cricket literature under the title A Bibliography of Cricket. Eric William Padwick (born 1923 is a professional bibliographer who compiled the definitive bibliography of Cricket literature The first edition, published in 1977 by the Library Association had 8294 entries. [1] A revised edition, published in 1984, extended this to over 10,000 entries (ISBN 978-0853659020). A second volume, published in 1991 as Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, was compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths and covers works published between 1980 and 1990 (ISBN 978-0853655282).
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- ^ Barclay's World of Cricket - 2nd Edition, 1980, Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-216349-7, p588
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