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    Sunday Cricket

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    Sunday Cricket Symbolism Cricket X game (“serious business”) imported in colonies from British Empire To British: demonstrate British superiority (cultural dominance) To colonized: unify the diverse people in Caribbean against Britain‚ for nationhood‚ freedom and independence show that they are as powerful as‚ or even better than the British (“Cricket in the Caribbean is in the blood) Church The Baptist church Christianity religious and cultural dominance by British Empire Risen

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    Sports Cricket

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    My favourite sport is (c)ricket. Cricket is a wonderful game (played)between two teams. Each team (has) eleven players and two to three substitutes. Out ( of the)eleven players five to six players will be batsmen‚ and the rest will be bowlers and fielders and one wicket keeper. (A) skipper will be appointed to lead the team. It is a team game. Cricket is a one day match and it is played for threes hours . The cricket field will have (a)pitch with st(u)mps and bales and two ends where two (batsmen)

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    Story of Cricket

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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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    Test Cricket

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    Cricket has become the unofficial national game of India. No other sport is as popular as cricket Cricket! Cricket Cricket! Switch on the television and you will find majority of advertisements with cricketers on most of the TV channels. Listen to young India talking and you will find the conversation centered only on cricket specially when India is playing a cricket match. With attendance in the faces hardly 50% the streets look deserted and they become a driver’s paradise. You can see groups

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    Cricket in Bangladesh.

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    The Bangladesh national cricket team (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় ক্রিকেট দল) is a national cricket team representing Bangladesh. The team is administered by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). Bangladesh is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status. It played its first Test match in 2000 against India in Dhaka‚ becoming the tenth Test cricket playing nation. Bangladesh’s first official foray into international cricket came in the 1979 ICC

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    Cricket Report

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    COMMITTEE ON GOVERNANCE OF WEST INDIES CRICKET FINAL REPORT October 2007 Most Hon. P. J. Patterson‚ ON‚ PC‚ QC: Chairman Sir Alister McIntyre‚ OM‚ OCC Dr. Ian McDonald. Kingston‚ Jamaica 1 Copyright © 2007 Committee on Governance of West Indies Cricket All rights reserved. Permission is granted to copy or reprint portions for any noncommercial use‚ except they may not be posted online without permission. Edited by Carol Collins Cover Design by Debra Hamilton Printed by Lithographic Printers

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    Mediterranean Cricket

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    Mediterranean Field Cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) is that the male cricket that has been in solitary treatment‚ unable to interact with any other crickets will be more aggressive than the male cricket who was able to interact with other male crickets. Therefore‚ due to the isolation it is hypothesised that it will cause the cricket to be more aggressive toward the other male cricket he is introduced to when there is a female cricket within the enclosure. Three Mediterranean Field crickets were used in

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    Fitness of Crickets

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    Part one: 1. The “fittest” of crickets are the ones smart and fast enough to get to the female before the male that is actually chirping can. 2. It depends on which side you look from. If you are going to be the chirping cricket then it is bad because you worked hard to get the female and she was stolen from you. That makes you the “unfit” one. If you are looking from the intercepting cricket’s side then it is good because you got to mate and pass on your genes without having to do any work

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    Physics in Cricket

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    Cricket is not a game that most Americans know about‚ however‚ it is a popular sport in Australia and in other British parts of the world. This sport is not unlike any other sport in the area that it involves a great deal of physics. However‚ this paper will focus on the aspect of bowling the ball and the batters reaction to this. When comparing Cricket to other sports that most Americans know‚ the closest match that can be found is baseball. For example‚ a ball is thrown toward someone with

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    Cricket and Glamour

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    Glamorization of Cricket Cricket has been way too glamorized in India since the time it started. Cricketers are almost omnipresent. On TV – either playing or in the news for their controversies with the coach. Or in the papers for their new hairstyle. Or in the posters for being brand ambassadors. Or on the radio for their marriage band or banquet. Cricket covers more than half of the national news. If you ask a kid today the national game of our country‚ it wouldn’t come as a surprise if he replies

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