not have had more disparate days. Defending a 1-0 series lead‚ Mathews embraced an extreme form of conservatism and his team drowned in it on the final day in Sharjah. With no choice but to launch an unrelenting attack‚ Misbah kept his side in the match long enough‚ until after a whirl of bludgeoned drives and reverse-sweeps from way outside leg stump‚ he hit the winning run to complete a frenetic victory. Pakistan have been dormant in Tests since that day‚ but Mathews has had a busy six months
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Cricket (game)‚ a high-scoring outdoor bat-and-ball game played between teams of 11 players that originated in England over 500 years ago. A team sport exceeded in popularity worldwide only by soccer and basketball‚ cricket can be found in over 120 countries. The game has been played in the United States since the early 18th century. II. EQUIPMENT AND PLAYING AREA Cricket Basics Cricket Bowler Bob Willis Cricket Pitch Cricket Bowler Bob Willis
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Technology in Cricket Introduction: For a game as steeped in tradition as cricket is‚ the question of how much to rely on technology is a perennial and is now becoming increasingly complex. The Decision Review System has been controversial since it was first put in place. If anyone needed proof that cricket ’s new video-replay scheme‚ the Umpire Decision Review System (DRS)‚ has completely changed the sport‚ the Test series in which England have just slumped to defeat against Pakistan in
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a roughly circular field‚ at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. Each team takes it in turn to bat‚ in which they attempt to accumulate as many runs as possible‚ while the other team fields‚ attempting to prevent the batting team scoring runs. Teams may bat once or twice each depending upon the format of the game. Each turn is known as an innings. The game progresses as one member of the fielding team known
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Future of Test Cricket Big-time cricket all looks so rosy. It is at the start of a $1.1 billion (£550m) television rights deal for international tournaments‚ which should keep the wolf from the door until 2015.(ICC) It is weeks away from the quite astonishingly lucrative Indian Premier League(IPL)‚ a Twenty20 competition from which most of the leading cricketers in the world will reap rewards beyond their dreams and avarice. Money has done a lot of talking. Couldn’t be better? Don’t believe it.
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Crickets by Robert Olen Butler – an essay Coming to America can be difficult in itself. Adjusting to the cultural and social part of a new country is a big task when you’re a Vietnamese soldier who doesn’t speak a word of English. But when your only child is letting go of the central values that are a big part of your own world – you can’t stop to wonder what you can do to change this situation. This is the condition that Thieu‚ the main character of “Crickets”‚ finds himself in. “Crickets”
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IPL Super Patch For Cricket 07. Before Continuing‚ Please Make Sure You Have Gaurav’s Asian Windies Face Pack Installed. When You Install It‚ only install the faces‚ and not the roster from the pack. You May Continue If You Have The Face Pack Installed. YOU NEED TO READ THIS READ ME AFTER INSTALLING‚ TO FIND OUT HOW THE TOURNAMENTS WORK‚ YOU HAVE TO LOAD TOURNAMENTS INSTEAD OF CREATE THEM. THERE ARE SPECIAL PROGRAMS THAT COME WITH THIS PATCH‚ YOU NEED TO READ TO KNOW HOW TO WORK THEM
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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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Cricket Cricket was invented in early 1300’s and is now being played over more than 100 countries. There are different formats of cricket there are one-day internationals which they play 50 overs each side during‚ they can play under the floodlights if the umpire decided to‚ each bowler can bowl up to 10 over per match or less‚ each overs has six deliveries. There is a 20twenty format in cricket in which each team bath for 20twenty overs and the last format is test cricket which lasts until
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Question 5(a): What made Triveni a popular writer? Answer : Triveni (1928 − 1963)‚ originally Anasuya Shankar‚ was a popular Kannada writer. She was known for the subjects she chose to write on‚ her writing style or narrative‚ easy to understand‚ made her popular among masses. Her writings targeted complex psychological problems faced by ordinary people. An author of distinction‚ she was loved and fondly read by people even forty years after her death. Question 5(b): Why did the grandmother
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