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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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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A CRICKET MATCH One day I watched a one day cricket match played between the Dave Higher Secondary School’s senior boys team and our school team. There was a large number of audience. It was quiet sunny. It was half an hour for the match to start but the stands and the galleries were almost full. The match was started at 9.00 a.m. The Dave team won the toss and elected to bat first. Their hitters were sent as their opening batsmen. The Dave team started with displaying their full hold over batting
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are interesting and joyful but i like cricket the most.Cricket is as same to the players as songs to the singers and music to the musician. Cricket match is always played between two teams.it has three forms till now.One Day Cricket match ‚ Test or five day cricket match and T20 Cricket match. One day cricket match consists of 100 overs ‚ Test Cricket consists of 450 overs at the maximum and twenty twenty cricket has 40 overs in a match. I know cricket and love it because of Shahid afridi
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------------------------------------------------- Topic: Spot fixing in cricket matches. 1. Introduction Spot fixing in sports is the practice of fixing a specific segment within a match. It usually involves a player agreeing‚ prior to the game that he will perform in a particular way. In cricket this might involve a batsman agreeing to only get a certain number of runs‚ or a bowler bowling a consecutive number of wide balls in a particular over‚ etc. Spot fixing stands in contrast to match fixing which refers to the practice of
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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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At Old Trafford in 1956 Jim Laker produced one of the most famous individual performances ever in a Test Match‚ and one which will surely never be repeated. It was hardly surprising then‚ following that 19 for 90 in the Ashes deciding fourth Test‚ that publishers rushed to sign up the man who had enthralled the nation‚ and it was Frederick Muller Limited who secured the rights to publish Laker’s autobiography. In the 1950’s Mullers were one of the leading publishers in that field also‚ at various
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y 13 June 1999 THEY WERE rightly hailed as heroes 16 months ago. They were determined‚ they were bold‚ they were lucky. It was a combination which enabled England Under-19s to become the only (male) cricket team from this country to win a World Cup. It was natural to hope that they would all swiftly mature into adult players of similar achievement‚ obvious that they would not‚ at least in every case‚ and pertinent to muse on their progress in the days following England’s elimination from the World
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CBI‟s REPORT ON CRICKET MATCH FIXING AND RELATED MALPRACTICES http://cbi.nic.in/match1.htm SECTION-I GENERAL (a) GENESIS: In response to the request from Ministry of Sports regarding an inquiry into match fixing and related malpractices in Indian Cricket‚ vide DO No. F-23-8/2000-SP.III from Shri N.N. Khanna‚ Secretary‚ Ministry of Culture‚ Youth Affairs and Sports‚ CBI registered a Preliminary Enquiry No. 2/S/2000 on 2.5.2000. The scope of the PE is broadly limited to the letter of Shri N
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It is 200 words too long so I will have to make it shorter. Any opinions are appreciated. enjoy ;) Evaluate a significant experience‚ achievement‚ risk you have taken‚ or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. This year‚ there were elections at my school for "Students Council President" and I had always wanted to participate‚ so I decided to take part of it. I was very excited for I was going to have the chance to improve the school and make a change for the better. I consider
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