The ''MCC Coaching Manual'' is the popular name for ''The MCC Cricket Coaching Book'', a manual of

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

skills produced by the

Marylebone Cricket Club Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket retaining considerable global influence ...

(MCC). The book outlined the traditional approaches to

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and fielding. It was first published in 1952, written by

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, and went through several editions before being superseded by '' MCC Masterclass: The New MCC Coaching Book'' in 1994. That book is now out of print, and has been replaced in the UK by a range of coaching resources from the ECB. 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", while unorthodox shots such as the

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are ones "you wouldn't find in the MCC coaching manual." File:MCC_Coaching_book.jpg

References

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