According to the Marylebone Cricket Club website, there are 42 different laws of cricket, most of them divided into multiple sub-sections, plus an appendix.
One player who would feel right at home immersed in such fine legal details is seam bowler Kate Coppack, who will be part of the Essex women's squad this summer.
Coppack, who helped Sunrisers win last summer's Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy under the old regional format, is an employment lawyer by profession.
But at the age of 30, she is temporarily turning away from the world of litigation and affidavits, having signed a professional contract at Chelmsford as the women's county game enters a new era.
"When I was growing up, it [turning pro] wasn't an option at all," Coppack told BBC Look East.
"Even when I was at uni, it wouldn't have been an option for me to be a professional cricketer - law was always the career path and cricket was playing on the weekends, seeing how high I could go amateurly.
"But when the game became professional, there were added incentives, the standard got better and I really enjoyed working hard at my game and seeing where it could go. It was kind of a natural progression to try to get a fully professional contract while I still can."
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Essex are among eight women's county sides granted fully-professional tier one status by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) - although Nottinghamshire will continue to use their old regional name, The Blaze - and will take part in their own T20 Blast and 50-over One-Day Cup competitions this summer.
Coppack played for Sunrisers on a 'paid-by-game' basis and took 4-27 as they beat South East Stars in a rain-affected RHFT final last September, for which she was named player of the match.
But she now has the chance to concentrate fully on cricket this summer, as her legal career takes a back seat.
"In terms of how much studying I did, and training, in total it was seven years - five years of studying, then two years in practice," she said. "It's a long road to become a lawyer and I didn't stop it lightly. I did think about it for a while.
"I will miss it, I love the firm I was working with, the team I was working with, but it's good I can now focus on cricket.
"I will miss that intellectual stimulation and I am going to try and do a bit of work while playing cricket. In the winter, there'll obviously be a lot more opportunity for that, there's quite a bit of downtime when I can do some legal work still so that's the best of both worlds really."
Apart from last summer's final, Coppack has a couple of other more notable achievements on her cricketing CV.
When she was 13, she became the first girl to play for the first XI at King's School in Chester and also made six appearances as a guest for Peru at the 2018 South American Women's Cricket Championship.
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