| | 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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COMMITTEE ON GOVERNANCE OF WEST INDIES CRICKET FINAL REPORT October 2007 Most Hon. P. J. Patterson‚ ON‚ PC‚ QC: Chairman Sir Alister McIntyre‚ OM‚ OCC Dr. Ian McDonald. Kingston‚ Jamaica 1 Copyright © 2007 Committee on Governance of West Indies Cricket All rights reserved. Permission is granted to copy or reprint portions for any noncommercial use‚ except they may not be posted online without permission. Edited by Carol Collins Cover Design by Debra Hamilton Printed by Lithographic Printers
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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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The cricket match and the concert afterwards are two highly significant incidents in L.P. Hartley’s novel‚ The Go-Between. These events mark the passage of Leo’s growth into manhood. At the cricket match Leo changes from being a spectator sitting on the sidelines to taking an active role. He has to deal with the responsibility of making the great catch. While doing so he learns of various underlying factors in the behaviour of the adults. The experience is in some ways repeated in the concert where
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Abdi Ethnic Studies 101 Scottsboro Boys Summary In the year 1931‚ all nine of the Scottsboro boys Haywood Patterson‚ Charles Weems‚ Clarence Norris‚ Andy Wright‚ Ozzie Powell‚ Olen Montgomery‚ Eugene Williams‚ Willie Roberson‚ and Roy Wright are arrested and tried on charges of assault from fighting white boys on a train. Along with accusations made by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates that the boys raped them. Their trial begins April 6‚ 1931. All of the boys except for Roy Wright are tired and convicted
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‘‘Boys and Girls’’ was first published in 1968 in The Montrealer‚ The story‚ narrated by a young girl‚ details the time in her life when she leaves childhood and its freedoms behind and realizes that to be a ‘‘girl’’ is to be‚ eventually‚ a woman. The child begins to understand that being socially typed entails a host of serious implications. Thus becoming a ‘‘girl’’ on the way to womanhood is a time fraught with difficulties for the young protagonist because she senses that women are considered
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All of us know about baseball since it is America’s game‚ but many of us have no idea what cricket is. The sports are very similar yet very different. A former U.S. ambassador to Britain once said‚ “Even Americans living in England usually find it easier to become a practicing Buddhist than a cricket fan”. This statement shows just how different the two sports are. Comparing and contrasting the two sports would be very intriguing‚ so that is what I’m going to do today. Here are the similarities
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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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This article is about the sport. For the insect‚ see Cricket (insect). For other uses‚ see Cricket (disambiguation). "Cricketer" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Cricketer (disambiguation). Cricket A bowler bowling to a batsman. The paler strip is the cricket pitch. The two sets of three wooden stumps on the pitch are the wickets. The two white lines are the creases. Highest governing body International Cricket Council First played 18th century (modern) Characteristics Team members
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The Lost Boy This book tells the story of a young boy who has never had a family. His only possessions are the old‚ torn clothes he carries in a paper bag from foster home to the next. The only world he knows in adaption to survive is one of isolation and fear. Thankfully others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother‚ but his real hurt is just beginning -- he has no place to call home. Lost boy is a follow up to Dave Pelzer’s book “A Child Called It”. This Novel is an auto-biography
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