References: ^ John Major‚More Than A Game‚ HarperCollins‚ 2007 ^ John Leach‚ From Lads to Lord ’s quotes the precise date of the accounting entry as Thursday 10 March 1300 (Julian date)‚ which is in the Gregorian year of 1301 ^ David Underdown‚ Start of Play‚ Allen Lane‚ 2000‚ p.3 ^ a b H S Altham‚ A History of Cricket‚ Volume 1 (to 1914)‚ George Allen & Unwin‚ 1962‚ p.21 ^ Timothy J McCann‚Sussex Cricket in
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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] A cricket match is contested by two teams‚ usually of eleven players each[4] and is played on a grass field in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20 m) long called a pitch. A wicket‚ usually made of wood‚ is placed at each end of the pitch and
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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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Assignment #7 Week 10 Term Paper Rochelle D. Colvin CIS500: Information System Decision Making Eve Yeates March 17‚ 2013 Abstract In this term paper‚ I will assess the effectiveness and efficiency mobile-based applications provide to capture geolocation data and customer data‚ and quickly upload to processing server without users having to use a desktop system. Next‚ I will evaluate benefits realized by consumers because of the ability
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In organized sports‚ match fixing‚ race fixing or sports fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result‚ violating the rules of the game and often the law. Where the sporting competition in question is a race then the incident is referred to as race fixing. Games that are deliberately lost are sometimes called thrown games. When a team intentionally loses a game‚ or does not score as high as it can‚ to obtain a perceived future competitive advantage (for instance
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conclusion of the anthem. This marked the start of the handshakes between the players to show their sportsman’s spirit. The players already warmed up by the crowd’s cheering took some pre-match strides to loosen up their muscles. The home team‚ winning the toss‚ chose to start of the proceedings of the match. As the referee’s whistle sounded‚ the game started with a light touch to the ball by the striker to the player close-in and then the long pass to the defender at the back started the battle
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Essay on cricket Match fixing in Pakistan Match fixing has been a curse to the game of cricket since the time the game was invented. Pakistan is one of those countries‚ which has been accused of match fixing more than any other country has ever been accused of. The first major accusation came under the Justice Qayum report according to which various Pakistani cricketing stars were involved in fixing matches‚ these included Wasim Akram‚ Waqaq Younis‚ Inzimam-ul-Haq‚ Mushtaq Ahmed and various
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MATCH FIXING GOOD AFTER NOON EVERY ONE INTRO: NAME AND SCHOOL NAME TODAY I M GOING TO SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT MATCH FIXING WHAT IS MATCH FIXING? MATCH FIXING IS ACT WHERE THE RESULTS OF MATCH IS DECIDED BEFORE THE MATCH FOR EX’PLE: IF A BOWLER IS BOOKED FOR FIXING HE WILL BOWL MANY WIDES AND NOBE BALL IN THE PARTICULAR DECIDED OVER MATCH FIXING IS NOT ONLY IN CRICKET BUT ALSO IN OTHER SOPTS MATCH FIXING IS BECAME A DISEASE TO SPORTS NOW A DAYS. ACTUALLY‚ WHEN WAS
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Descriptive Writing Cricket Match It had been long and successful cricket season for the U12 Oxfordshire cricket team and the final game of the season was approaching fast. It was a cup final against Middlesex and the ground that had been selected was Lords. How fantastic was that! The coach journey seemed to take forever but we finally arrived in readiness for what we knew was going to be an extremely tense and competitive game. The coach atmosphere had been electric; we were all excited‚
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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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