Samuel Dickson Selvon’s‚ The Cricket Match‚ was written in 1957 and focuses on how little the English and the West Indies understood one another. The story takes place in London during a cricket match. Here the West Indians‚ who really do not play cricket‚ are plating the English and some of the best players in the world at that time. A West Indies man‚ Algernon is almost like the spokesman of the West Indies. He talks a big game but the most cricket he has ever played was as a boy in the streets
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A Village Cricket Match A G Macdonald’s ‘A Village Cricket match” is an excerpt from his satirical work - ‘England‚ their England’ set against a backdrop of an English village. The story is an amusing portrayal of a village cricket match witnessed by Donald Emerson‚ a young Scotsman living in England. The story begins with a description of the village in which a cricket match was to take place. Around the field‚ groups of village rustics were patiently awaiting the start of the game
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A CRICKET MATCH One day I watched a one day cricket match played between the Dave Higher Secondary School’s senior boys team and our school team. There was a large number of audience. It was quiet sunny. It was half an hour for the match to start but the stands and the galleries were almost full. The match was started at 9.00 a.m. The Dave team won the toss and elected to bat first. Their hitters were sent as their opening batsmen. The Dave team started with displaying their full hold over batting
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A Village Cricket Match It is an excerpt from A.G Macdonnel’s humorous novel ‘England‚ their England’. The English society has been satirized in a light hearted manner especially what is known as ‘Englishness’ ‚ as seen from the eyes of a Scotsman. In this the author humorously describes a cricket match being played between men from England and men from Scotland in the village of Fordendan.The cricketers are petty businessmen or local shopkeepers. The story is presented in a mock epic style and
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In A Village Cricket Match A.G. Macdonell has used humour as the main ingredient of the story. Substantiate your answer with instances from the text. Ans: The story ‘A Village Cricket Match’ by A.G. Macdonell is replete with humour and this is very subtle. In fact‚ the humour is clothed in the garb of seriousness but in spite of that‚ the reader appreciates it and cannot help but smile while going through the lines. The first instance of humour is found in the incident of the negotiations between
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------------------------------------------------- Topic: Spot fixing in cricket matches. 1. Introduction Spot fixing in sports is the practice of fixing a specific segment within a match. It usually involves a player agreeing‚ prior to the game that he will perform in a particular way. In cricket this might involve a batsman agreeing to only get a certain number of runs‚ or a bowler bowling a consecutive number of wide balls in a particular over‚ etc. Spot fixing stands in contrast to match fixing which refers to the practice of
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CBI‟s REPORT ON CRICKET MATCH FIXING AND RELATED MALPRACTICES http://cbi.nic.in/match1.htm SECTION-I GENERAL (a) GENESIS: In response to the request from Ministry of Sports regarding an inquiry into match fixing and related malpractices in Indian Cricket‚ vide DO No. F-23-8/2000-SP.III from Shri N.N. Khanna‚ Secretary‚ Ministry of Culture‚ Youth Affairs and Sports‚ CBI registered a Preliminary Enquiry No. 2/S/2000 on 2.5.2000. The scope of the PE is broadly limited to the letter of Shri N
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My favourite sport:Cricket My favourite sport is Cricket. Cricket is a wonderful game between the two teams. Each team will have eleven players and two to three substitutes. Out eleven players five to six players will be bats men‚ and the rest will be a bowlers and fielders and one wicket keeper. Skipper will be appointed to lead the team. It is a team game. Cricket is an one day match and now it is played for threes hours too. Cricket field will have pitch with stamps and bales and two ends
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Proceedings of the 26th Academic Council held on 18.5.2012 PHY102 Materials Science Version No. 2.0 Course Prerequisites/ Corequisites/ antirequisites : L T P C 3024 Objectives: To enable the students to understand the nature of different types of materials namely Conducting‚ Semi conducting‚ Dielectrics‚ Magnetic and Superconducting materials. Expected Outcome: This course will be the base to understand the various concepts involved in the applications of materials
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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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