| | 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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Question 5(a): What made Triveni a popular writer? Answer : Triveni (1928 − 1963)‚ originally Anasuya Shankar‚ was a popular Kannada writer. She was known for the subjects she chose to write on‚ her writing style or narrative‚ easy to understand‚ made her popular among masses. Her writings targeted complex psychological problems faced by ordinary people. An author of distinction‚ she was loved and fondly read by people even forty years after her death. Question 5(b): Why did the grandmother
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Retirement of Sachin Tendulkar Good or bad for Indian Cricket? I think Sachin has turned too old to pay great cricket‚ at least on the foreign land. So it’s time the Master Blaster should get retired gracefully and take seats next to seniorcricketers in the commentary box. - Yes sachin must have to retire‚ on the controry‚ he already missed the right time for taking decision‚ he giving stupid excuse for not retiring‚ in one of recent interview‚ he told that if he retired soon after world cup
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Cricket-crazy Indians accept heroes in the field as their role models. They spend hours in front of TV to relish cricket match and taste bat and ball on wayside or here and there‚ wherever possible. Though‚ there have been many controversies yet the popularity of cricket has remained intact. Cricket matches are still something like grand feasts to eyes and mind. We cannot separate ourselves from cricket. Sports were earlier linked to good health because love for a game clearly means playing that
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Early cricket Origin No one knows when or where cricket began but there is a body of evidence‚ much of it circumstantial‚ that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children’s game. Adult participation is unknown before the early 17th century. Possibly cricket was derived from bowls Derivation of the name of "cricket" A number of words are thought to be possible sources for
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India is now at a stage where we will see slow growth and high inflation for some time—GDP growth has slowed to a 9-year low of 5.3% in January-March 2012‚ with WPI inflation staying sticky near 7.5% in May and CPI inflation in double digits. Ideally‚ it should have been the reverse: GDP growth should have been 7.5% plus and inflation near 5%. Clearly‚ the growth-inflation dynamics have reversed. As it stands now‚ we are in a low growth and high inflation trap. Getting out of this will require
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Cricket has become the unofficial national game of India. No other sport is as popular as cricket Cricket! Cricket Cricket! Switch on the television and you will find majority of advertisements with cricketers on most of the TV channels. Listen to young India talking and you will find the conversation centered only on cricket specially when India is playing a cricket match. With attendance in the faces hardly 50% the streets look deserted and they become a driver’s paradise. You can see groups
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2001‚ India became the second country after China to cross the one billion mark. The current population is around 1.15 billion. India occupies only 2.4% of the world’s land area but it supports over 15% of the world’s population. About 70% of the Indian population lives in more than 550‚000 villages. The balance stays in more than 200 towns and cities. India is expected to surpass China in total population by 2030 (five years earlier than previously estimated). As per the current demographic statistics
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Mediterranean Field Cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) is that the male cricket that has been in solitary treatment‚ unable to interact with any other crickets will be more aggressive than the male cricket who was able to interact with other male crickets. Therefore‚ due to the isolation it is hypothesised that it will cause the cricket to be more aggressive toward the other male cricket he is introduced to when there is a female cricket within the enclosure. Three Mediterranean Field crickets were used in
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Part one: 1. The “fittest” of crickets are the ones smart and fast enough to get to the female before the male that is actually chirping can. 2. It depends on which side you look from. If you are going to be the chirping cricket then it is bad because you worked hard to get the female and she was stolen from you. That makes you the “unfit” one. If you are looking from the intercepting cricket’s side then it is good because you got to mate and pass on your genes without having to do any work
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