Today plenty of books on sports are available in the market, but most of them are only elementary reading. Quite a few pretend to be encyclopaedias, but are really not so. A comprehensive sports encyclopaedia, therefore, is the need of the hour. This well-knitted work fulfils the need to a large degree. The world of Sports undergoes changes like customs, habits and modes of amusement. The rules of games, too, are changed from time to time. Cricket, for examples, ...