6 The MCC Laws of Cricket‚ Pitch Markings & ICC/ECB Playing Conditions 6 The MCC Laws of Cricket‚ Pitch Markings & ICC/ECB Playing Conditions Stumps (Law 8.2) Stumps shall be of equal and sufficient size to prevent the ball from passing between them. Their tops shall be 71.1cm (28 inches) above the ground‚ junior cricket 68.58cm (27 inches). The portion of a stump above the playing surface shall be cylindrical‚ apart from the domed top‚ with circular section of a diameter not less than
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In John Keats’s sonnet “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket”‚ he expresses his love and admiration for nature and illustrates this attitude by depicting the two “musicians” of different seasons in nature---- the grasshopper and the cricket. Keats writes about a summer and a winter scene in the two parts of the poem divided by the first eight lines and the last six lines. The grasshopper is nature’s “musician” in summer and the cricket is the one in winter. Nature’s “musicians” change as the seasons
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Hockey the National Sport of India not Cricket Well‚ if asked some Indians about what they thought was the National Sport of India his answer would most probably be Cricket. Even though most people will agree but‚ the truth is the National Sport of India actually is Field Hockey. The thing is actually the hockey team deserves little better treatment and higher praise than cricket. But‚ do we treat both games equally in India and do we have any special attachment for our national game
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Sachin Tendulkar is perhaps the best thing to happen to not just INDIA and INDIAN Cricket‚ but the sport in general. He is easily the most worshipped Cricketer across the globe. More than 34‚000 runs scored on all kinds of home and away turfs at an unbelievable 48.74 is testimony enough of the astounding consistency he has shown during the breath-taking 23-year International Career. He is pretty obviously the most prolific run-getter of all times. Technically too‚ He is the most complete batsman
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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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Is Terrorism Justified ? Is terrorism ever justifiable ? The answer is no‚ terrorism is never justifiable. I will argue that terrorism is not justifiable because it does not contribute to a goal of a more peaceful society. Terrorism contributes to conflict‚ no matter what reason is used to legitimize it. But in order to argue that terrorism is unjustifiable I must first decide on a definition of terrorism. This definition encompasses all the acts that we would determine as terrorism. This
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novels from all eras of time. Frequently feelings dealing with deceit –lying or jealousy- creates anger in an individual leading into irrationality. However‚ can a simple trick or lie for the sake of entertainment or flattery allow deception to be justified? Robert Southey once said “All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice‚ and falsehood passing from words into things.” (Southey 133) If we look through the famous works of today‚ we notice deception
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‘saved more Englishman’s lives‚ and minds‚ than all the doctors in the Empire’ (LeBor). However‚ this is a common misconception in the history of gin: in 18th Century England‚ a Gin Craze took over. The Gin Craze was a brief stint in English history when the poor drank excessive amounts of gin (“18th Century Gin Craze”). This period defined the time when the government exploited the poor by domesticating gin production. In doing so‚ gin became affordable to everyone‚ and the government profited from
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Is there such a thing as justified killing? Many would argue that the killing of another individual is by far one of the worse crimes that can be committed. Though under certain circumstances such as capital punishment‚ or to kill in self-defense‚ justified killing is okay. These options are only acceptable if there is no viable alternative to doing so. Everyone has the right to live‚ and once someone decides to kill another individual then they should lose that right. They don’t deserve to have
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Jon Schmidt Professor Cyril Daddieh POL 102 6 March 2013 Vietnam: Justified or not? Vietnam‚ although not technically considered a war was an extended conflict that still had to be justified to an American people. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was the identification of this extended conflict and was declared by Congress in 1964 making this conflict official. This resolution was justified because it was declared by a competent authority and was seen as being the best thing for the American people
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