A PROJECT ON CRICKET CRICKET MATCH Cricket is a bat and ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field‚ at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats‚ trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and field‚ trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat‚ running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching
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Essay on: An Exciting Cricket Match A cricket match is always interesting whether it is played at international level or national level. Everybody is very interested in this game. Modern media had made this game more popular. At school level it is also liked and played. A very interesting and very exciting cricket match was played the other day between Government Degree Science College Malir and Liaquat Government College Malir on the ground of Government Degree Science College Malir. The home
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| | You are here: Home >> Sports & Recreation >>Cricket >>The Story of Cricket >> | | Topics | The Story of Cricket | | | | | The Story of Cricket Cricket grew out of the many stick-and-ball games played in England 500 years ago‚ under a variety of different rules. The word ’bat’ is an old English word that simply means stick or club. By the seventeenth century‚ cricket had evolved enough to be recognizable as a distinct game and it was popular
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spectators. The cricket lovers plan their schedule well in advance as the dates for IPL matches are fixed much ahead‚ so that the real fans do not miss out a game. Everybody appears to be getting recharged after a IPL match. To add colour‚ the industrialists‚ cinestars and people at the helm of affairs mark their presence at this event in a grand manner. The aim of IPL tournament was initially to play cricket. But of late‚ it has become a pure source of entertainment. Unlike One-day cricket and test
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In the sport of cricket‚ bowling is the action of propelling the ball towards the batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler. The act of bowling the ball towards the batsman is called a ball or a delivery. In the sport of cricket there are laws that govern how a ball can be bowled. If a ball is bowled illegally‚ an umpire will call it a ‘no ball’. If a ball is bowled too wide or high for the batsman to be able to hit it‚ an umpire will rule it a ‘wide’. There are other types of illegal
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Rules LAW 1 Number of Players and Captain Nomination of Players NOTES (a) More or Less than Eleven Players a Side A match may be played by agreement between sides of more or less than eleven players but not more than eleven players may field. LAW 2 SUBSTITUTES AND RUNNERS: BATSMAN OR FIELDSMAN LEAVING THE FIELD: BATSMAN RETIRING: BATSMAN COMMENCING INNINGS LAW 3 THE UMPIRES Appointment Change of Umpire Special Conditions The Wickets Conduct and Implements LAW 4 THE
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Bollywood and Cricket! Both have their own share of success and star factor – Shah Rukh Khan has a big fan following in Germany‚ while Sachin Tendulkar was gifted a Ferrari by Michael Schumacher. Both are big businesses – the Bollywood stars as do the cricketers appear regularly on TV to endorse everything from under-garments to life insurance to passenger cars. How about bringing them together – and that’s what happened in 2008 when the Indian Premier League (IPL) was inaugurated. Cricket‚ in its traditional
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7 HISTORY AND SPORT : THE STORY OF CRICKET CONCEPTS Cricket grew out of the many stick and ball games played in England. By the 17th century it evolved enough to be recognisable as a distinct game. It became so popular that its fans did not mind to be fined for playing it on Sunday instead of going to church. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CRICKET AS A GAME IN INDIA Cricket was given its unique nature by the history of England. Peculiarities of cricket A match can go on for five days and still
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Samuel Dickson Selvon’s‚ The Cricket Match‚ was written in 1957 and focuses on how little the English and the West Indies understood one another. The story takes place in London during a cricket match. Here the West Indians‚ who really do not play cricket‚ are plating the English and some of the best players in the world at that time. A West Indies man‚ Algernon is almost like the spokesman of the West Indies. He talks a big game but the most cricket he has ever played was as a boy in the streets
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relationship between cricket and politics is clearly portrayed in South Asia from 1880 to 2005 through the easing of the tension between different caste members‚ although the tension eased was not always from a religious aspect between the Pakistanis‚ Indians‚ and the British. The different problems that arose in South Asia was mostly class or caste systems (Docs 2‚ 3‚ 4)‚ rivalry (Docs 1‚ 6‚ 10)‚ and religious tensions (Docs 5‚ 7‚ 8‚ 9) against the different countries and cricket teams. Cricket in many ways
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