Cricket‚ one of the best sports any can play‚ where eleven fielders and two batsmen stand on a field trying to show how they are better than the other. This was definitely not the case at one of the best cricket matches I have ever been to. The Asian XI VS The Rest of the World XI match which was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in January 2005. This match was played for the reasons of Charity for the Boxing Day Tsunami disaster in 2004. The match was very different to a normal cricket match
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administration pie than just influence. By nudging Sharad Pawar off after he handed the ICC Champions Trophy in 2006 and before the shutterbugs went on overdrive‚ Ricky Ponting and his mates showed they didn’t want politicians or patrons intruding into a players’ moment. That the situation could have been handled better is a no-brainer and Ponting subsequently apologised but politicians do have a tendency to seek their 15-second of ‘frame’ by being around successful sportspersons. Politicians ‚ believes
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Theres Something About Sachin The Tendulkar saga is about genius‚dedication and an unquenchable love of the game Ayaz Memon When Miranda sees Fernando for the first time in Shakespeares Tempest‚she is drawn to say: I might call him a thing divine;for nothing natural i ever saw so noble.At a fanciful stretch‚the cricket lover might say that about Sachin Tendulkar. The milestone of 100 international centuries does not add substantially to the game or indeed Tendulkars greatness as a batsman
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20 -20 will eclipse traditional cricket With a cocktail of energy‚ adrenalin and high TRPs‚ the World Twenty20 is already a success. Commentators and cricket buffs are labelling it the future. There is a certitude here that was absent‚ for instance‚ when predictions for the one-day format were made at the 1975 Prudential Cup. Despite the success of the World Twenty20‚ the ICC has insisted that it will not replace the 50-over format and that the limit of seven Twenty20 matches per Test-playing
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their various demands against the ability of the ecosystems to withstand the resulting pressures. [Ponting 1991‚ p17] The period that has come to be known as the Neolithic Revolution (somewhat erroneously so [see Ponting 1991‚ p37]) marked the most fundamental shift in human development seen since the first bipedal human-like species walked the earth. During this time and the brief era [see Ponting 1991‚ p18] that has followed it to the present‚ humans have made a multiplicity of social‚ cultural
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Kolkata Knight Riders (Bengali: কলকাতা নাইট রাইডার্স) (often abbreviated as KKR) is the franchise representing Kolkata in the Indian Premier League‚ a Twenty20 cricket tournament. The team is led by Sourav Ganguly‚ and coached by Dav Whatmore. Sourav Ganguly is the team ’s Icon Player. The official theme of the team is Korbo‚ Lorbo‚ Jeetbo Re (Bengali for We will do it‚ Fight for it‚ Win it) and the official colors are purple and gold. As per the recent study done by a UK based brand valuation company
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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket. In 2002‚ just 12 years into his career‚ Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time‚ behind Donald Bradman‚ and the second greatest one-day-international
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Andrea Atkinson History 140 Marcus Bussey Research Essay Why Human History Cannot be Understood in a Vacuum When trying to decipher what Clive Ponting meant when he said‚ “Human history cannot be understood in a vacuum‚” I have deemed it is necessary to break the explanation up into three different parts. The first being‚ what does human history look like through a vacuum? What is it comprised of‚ what are its characteristics? The second being if human history is not understood in a vacuum
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the jury system Advantages of the Jury System Long established trial by peers which has public confidence Lord Devlin‚ a famous House of Lords judge‚ has said that trial by jury is the “lamp that shows that freedom lives”‚ arguing that a defendant has the right to be tried by his peers. Supporters of this view maintain that a jury will exercise common sense rather than slavishly follow the law. For example the case of R v Wang W was charged with having an article
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Easter Island is one of the most unusual places on the planet. In A Green History of the World Clive Ponting notes‚ “Easter Island is one of the most remote‚ inhabited places on earth. Only some 150 square miles in area‚ it lies in the Pacific Ocean‚ 2‚000 miles off the west coast of South America and 1‚250 miles from the nearest inhabitable land of Pitcairn Island‚” (Ponting‚ 1991). The extreme isolation of Easter Island or Rapa Nui is not the islands most distinguishing feature. The most interesting
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