Eastern Midwest Hub · a field guide to cricket

Delaware, Ohio · 501(c)(3) · EIN 92-3799590

A field guide to cricket in the eastern Midwest

Almost nobody here has seen a match. This guide sets out what you would be looking at — the field, the pitch, who stands where, and what a beginner actually needs, which is very little.

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A red cricket ball in the grass of a park field, three stumps with a bat leaning on them behind it, and a chain-link baseball backstop under the trees in the distance.
Frontispiece Stumps pitched on a park field, with the baseball backstop behind them.

Contents — 7 plates

  1. 01The field and the pitchrecorded
  2. 02Battingrecorded
  3. 03Bowlingrecorded
  4. 04What a beginner bringsrecorded
  5. 05Where everyone standsrecorded
  6. 06Who playsrecorded
  7. 07The organizationrecorded
  8. —A groundnot recorded yet
  9. —Coachesnot recorded yet
  10. —Age groupsnot recorded yet
  11. —A first sessionnot recorded yet

Eastern Midwest Hub

A nonprofit set up to open cricket to young people across this part of the country — including, especially, the ones who have never held a bat. Four entries in the index above carry no plate number yet. Each gets one as we settle it.