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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DBQ-The Witch Craze Identify and analyze at least three major reasons for the persecution of individuals as witches in Europe from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. From the Middle Ages until the 1700s‚ a fevered witch craze was spread throughout Europe. These witches were isolated‚ persecuted and when found‚ tortured and consequently killed. With most of the population concentrated in southeastern Europe‚ over 100‚000 witches were tried. It was believed that these individuals
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Cricket Cricket was invented in early 1300’s and is now being played over more than 100 countries. There are different formats of cricket there are one-day internationals which they play 50 overs each side during‚ they can play under the floodlights if the umpire decided to‚ each bowler can bowl up to 10 over per match or less‚ each overs has six deliveries. There is a 20twenty format in cricket in which each team bath for 20twenty overs and the last format is test cricket which lasts until
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“The Cricket Match” Samuel Selvon’s short story‚ “The Cricket Match” explores the subtle racial tensions amongst West Indian immigrants living in England whilst working with English counterparts. Selvon sets his narrative in a tyre factory in Chiswick‚ England. Most likely‚ the timeline in which this story occurs is somewhere in the mid 1950’s when England were still colonists of most of the English speaking Caribbean islands. The main idea behind Selvon’s tale lies with Algernon the protagonist
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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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first was that the Satan wanted to destroy Christian society and needed a multitude of witches to do so. Therefore‚ witchcraft was now seen as an attempt to overthrow state and church. Secondly‚ since witchcraft was such a monstrous crime it was justified by torture. The Holy Roman Emperor decreed in 1532 that witchcraft could be determined by judicial torture and punishable by death specifically being burned at the stake.(
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Cricket‚ one of the best sports any can play‚ where eleven fielders and two batsmen stand on a field trying to show how they are better than the other. This was definitely not the case at one of the best cricket matches I have ever been to. The Asian XI VS The Rest of the World XI match which was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in January 2005. This match was played for the reasons of Charity for the Boxing Day Tsunami disaster in 2004. The match was very different to a normal cricket match
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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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Witch craze in Europe during: the period of the Protestant Reformation‚ Catholic Counter-Reformation‚ the Scientific Revolution‚ and the consolidation of national governments from about 1480-1700 For more than two hundred years‚ individuals were persecuted as witches throughout the continent of Europe‚ even though the witch hunt was concentrated on Southwestern Germany‚ Switzerland‚ England‚ Scotland‚ Poland‚ and parts of France. In a collective frenzy. witches were sought‚ identified‚ arrested
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Fashion repeats itself every six months “Oh my God is she wearing that cheetah print...!” “O haven’t you noticed‚ the animal prints are back.” Thus began my recent trip to a local shopping mall with a close friend. Needless to say‚ every trip to the mall means a trip down the memory lane. You see a new dress‚ a new design and something starts ticking in your head. Where have I seen it? Who was wearing it? And slowly‚ so very slowly‚ realization sets in. Oh God‚ this is a remake of the chic
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