The Cricket Society

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The Cricket Society is an organisation that was originally founded as the Society of Cricket Statisticians at Great Scotland Yard, London in 1945.

Through its charitable trust, it raises money to coach underprivileged children in the skills of cricket. They link up with various organisations, such as the Arundel Castle Cricket Foundation, in achieving these aims.

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. 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. 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).