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    Cricket‚ not snake charmers and elephants‚ is the most common sight in India. Go where you will or want‚ there will always be a narrow street nearby‚ chock full of a group of enthusiastic boys‚ of all ages and descriptions‚ playing cricket with remarkable energy and passion. Little boys who are only just bigger than the bats they bravely hold‚ teenagers attempting to play in the manner of the national cricketers they watch and admire‚ grown men whose love for the game has never waned – such are

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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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    There is nothing remarkable about the content of the book and there are no compelling reasons for anyone to seek out a copy today‚ however there is one fascinating chapter‚ the final one‚ where Laker looks forward in order to speculate as to what cricket in the year 2000‚ forty three years on‚ might be like. The purpose of this article is to have a look at Laker’s approach in order to see just how accurate or otherwise his predictions were and then for the writer to try and project the game forward

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    Overview Twenty20 cricket‚ often referred to as the “short game” involves each team only playing a single innings‚ batting each for a maximum of 20 overs. The timespan of a typical Twenty20 game is just under 3 hours‚ each innings therefore lasting 75 mins‚ and this brings the game more in line with other popular sports such as football or rugby. The game was conceived by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) with the aim of creating a faster and more exciting version of cricket. The board stressed

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    Cricket, a Civilized Game

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    different sports and games have been invented and started in England. Many of these are still played and remain very popular to the people of that country. The game of cricket is a very complicated sport to those who have never played with all of the rules and regulations but is one to be enjoyed by all. The exact measurements of the cricket playing field have not been officially agreed upon. The area is usually around 450 feet by 500 feet. When setting up the wicket‚ three stumps and driven into the

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    Village Cricket Match

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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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    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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    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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    Cricket is one of the most popular game in the world .But cricket has changed a lot from its beginning to today. In this study‚ the change in format of cricket is discussed. I wanted to know that‚ change is making cricket popular or not. The study shows that change in the format is making cricket popular .So‚ my hypothesis has matched with my findings. I tried to research based on my hypothesis. This study also shows that among three formats‚ T-20 is more popular than Test and ODI cricket. But

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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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