Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that originated in England‚ possibly as early as 1300‚ and is now played in more than 100 countries.[citation needed] There are several forms of cricket‚ at its highest level is Test cricket‚ in which the current world leading team is Australia‚[1] followed by One Day International cricket‚ whose last World Cup was also won by Australia; the tournament was televised in over 200 countries to a viewing audience estimated at more than two billion viewers.[2][3]
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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 (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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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‚ in which both he and his leadership have grown up‚ and grown old - grown a little
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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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| | 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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A brief Destruction of the Indies Bartolome’ De Las Casas stated that "those who have traveled to this part of the world pretending to be Christians have uprooted these pitiful peoples and wiped them from the face of the earth (Las Casas‚ 12). After reading the horrific accounts of what has occurred to those long suffering‚ undeserving people of the Indies that "are with out without malice or guile‚ and are utterly faithful and obedient both to their own native lords and to the Spainards in whose
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This article is about the sport. For the insect‚ see Cricket (insect). For other uses‚ see Cricket (disambiguation). "Cricketer" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Cricketer (disambiguation). Cricket A bowler bowling to a batsman. The paler strip is the cricket pitch. The two sets of three wooden stumps on the pitch are the wickets. The two white lines are the creases. Highest governing body International Cricket Council First played 18th century (modern) Characteristics Team members
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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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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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