In organized sports‚ match fixing‚ race fixing or sports fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result‚ violating the rules of the game and often the law. Where the sporting competition in question is a race then the incident is referred to as race fixing. Games that are deliberately lost are sometimes called thrown games. When a team intentionally loses a game‚ or does not score as high as it can‚ to obtain a perceived future competitive advantage (for instance
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MATCH FIXING Heroism is essential to sport and cricket is no exception. Boys need players to worship and so their fathers. Film stars are wonderful but all know that their world is fantasy-with players it is different. Their art is real. Today‚ the line dividing the rigged and the real becoming blurred and this blurredness promise nothing for the game but an uncertain future. Cricket‚ a great a gentleman’s game is shrouded in shame. It is a game stained beyond caliper measure. Every sport is allowed
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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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Political Order in Changing Societies by Samuel P. Huntington Review by: A. F. K. Organski The American Political Science Review‚ Vol. 63‚ No. 3 (Sep.‚ 1969)‚ pp. 921-922 Published by: American Political Science Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1954438 . Accessed: 14/01/2014 15:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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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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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. Each team takes it in turn to bat‚ attempting to score runs‚ while the other team fields. Each turn is known as an innings.The bowler delivers the ball to the batsman who attempts to hit the ball with his bat far enough for him to run to the other end of the pitch and score a run. Each batsman continues batting until he is out. The batting team continues batting
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Early cricket Origin No one knows when or where cricket began but there is a body of evidence‚ much of it circumstantial‚ that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children’s game. Adult participation is unknown before the early 17th century. Possibly cricket was derived from bowls Derivation of the name of "cricket" A number of words are thought to be possible sources for
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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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Cricket‚ also called the Gentleman’s game‚ is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. The sport’s earliest definite mention was in a 1598 court case which referred to a sport called cricket being played by boys at the Royal Grammar School‚ Guildford around 1550. It is believed that it was originally a children’s game but references around 1610‚ indicate that adults had started playing it and the earliest reference to inter-parish
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