| | 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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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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Roman Polanski’s The Pianist presents viewers with the story of one man’s desire to survive against all odds‚ as he endures terrible hardship and pain. Set in Warsaw‚ Poland‚ during the German invasion of World War 2‚ it follows the journey of Wladyslaw Szpilman‚ a Jewish piano player who tries to stay alive as the Jewish people are all forced into submission. The Pianist gives a very stark portrayal of the events the Jewish people endured because of the Nazi’s tyranny and also details a story of
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You’re living a life of pain‚ suffering and anguish. You’re flat on your back‚ on a stone cold bed - 24 hours a day‚ 7 days a week. You have no control over your body. You cannot see‚ hear or speak to your loved ones. You’re dieing. Your inner workings of your body are slowly but constantly diminishing and there is no cure for your disease. Even at the best of times‚ life is a titanic struggle. Put yourself in this position. Imagine your life is one of pain‚ of suffering and of anguish. Better still
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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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As the play nears its bloody conclusion‚ Macbeth’s "tragic flaw" comes to the forefront: like Duncan before him‚ he is too trusting. He believes the witches’ prophesies at face value‚ never realizing that‚ like him‚ things are seldom what they seem. Thus he foolishly fortifies his castle with the few men he has left‚ banking on the fact that the events the witches predicted seem impossible. But in fact these predictions come true: the English army brings Birnam Wood to Dunsinane‚ and Macduff‚ who
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Cricket‚ also called the Gentleman’s game‚ is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. The sport’s earliest definite mention was in a 1598 court case which referred to a sport called cricket being played by boys at the Royal Grammar School‚ Guildford around 1550. It is believed that it was originally a children’s game but references around 1610‚ indicate that adults had started playing it and the earliest reference to inter-parish
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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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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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