from which wood  is the cricket bat made ?-mention the name of the wood .?
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Willow wood treated with linseed oil. Check out this link at Answers.com http://www.answers.com/cricket+bat?gwp=12&method=2
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The cricket competition between England and Australia is called The Ashes because when Australia beat England in England for the very first time in 1882 (by only 7 runs) it was said that English cricket had died, and so the day after the match The Sporting Times printed a mock obituary which read:\n\nIn Affectionate Remembrance\nof\nEnglish Cricket,\nwhich died at The Oval\non\n29th August 1882\nDeeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances\n                            R.I.P\nN.B - The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia\n\nThe English media dubbed the next tour to Australia (1882-83) as 'the quest to regain The Ashes'\n       During the 1882-83 tour a small terracota urn was presented to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melborne women the contents of which is said to be the ashes of a bail or a stump. The original urn is no longer used as the trophy as it is said to be to fragile to travel and so it is kept in the MCC Museum at Lords where it was left by Ivo Bligh when he died, instead the winners receive a crystal trophy and a replica of the urn.
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That's a great bat to have.  Some legendary Aussie cricketers in that era.\n\nIn 1974-75 Australia hosted England for the Ashes.\n4th Test team (Syndey)\n\nI Redpath\nR McCosker\nI Chappell (c)\nG Chappell\nR Edwards\nD Walters\nR Marsh\nM Walker\nD Lillee\nA Mallett\nJ Thomson\n\n5th Test (Adelaide) Terry Jenner played\n\n6th Test (Melbourne) Dymock played\n\n\nIn 1975 Australia toured England\n\nMcCosker\nA Turner\nI Chappell (c)\nG Chappell\nR Edwards\nD Walters\nR Marsh\nM Walker\nJ Thomson\nD Lillee\nA Mallett\n\nG Gilmour only other player to play in that series in the 3rd Test.\n\n\nIn 1975-76 West Indies toured Australia\n\nRedpath\nTurner\nI Chappell (c)\nG Chappell\nMcCosker\nMarsh\nGilmour\nJenner\nLillee\nThomson\nMallett\n\nOnly other player to play was Cosier in the 3rd Test in Melbourne.
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Why did the the stupid bat use your cricketer?
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cricket, ball-and-bat game played chiefly in Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries.\nBasic Rules\n\nCricket is played by two teams of eleven on a level, closely cut oval “pitch” preferably measuring about 525 ft (160 m) by about 550 ft (170 m). Two wickets are placed 66 ft (20.12 m) apart near the middle of the field. A wicket consists of two wooden crosspieces (bails) resting on three wooden stumps 28 in. (71.1 cm) high.\n\nAt each wicket stands a batsman. If the opposing bowler, delivering the ball from near the opposing wicket, knocks down the bails of the batsman's wicket, the batsman is retired. In delivering the hard, leather-covered ball, the bowler throws overarm but may not bend the arm, and the ball usually approaches the batsman on one bounce. After six bowls to one batsman, an umpire (there is one at each wicket) calls “over,” and another bowler begins bowling to the batsman's partner at the opposing wicket. The players in the field shift position according to the batsmen.\n\nIf the batsman hits the ball with his willow paddle-shaped bat far enough so that both batsmen may run to exchange places, a run is scored. When the ball is hit a long distance (in any direction, since there are no foul lines), up to four exchanges or runs may be made. (If the ball crosses the boundary of the field on the ground, four runs are scored automatically; if it clears the boundary in the air, six are scored.) However, if the opposing team recovers the ball and uses it to knock down the bails of a wicket before the batsman reaches it, the batsman is out. A batsman is also retired if an opposing fielder catches a batted ball on the fly (as in baseball), or for any of several more technical reasons. An outstanding turn at bat may result in more than 100 runs, a “century.”\n\nA game usually consists of two innings; in one innings all players on each team bat once in a fixed order (unless a team, having scored what it considers runs adequate to win, chooses to retire without completing its order); a game may take several days to complete. Substitutions are allowed only for serious injury.\n\nOrigin of Cricket\n\nCricket's origin is obscure. Evidence suggests it was played in England in the 12th–13th cent., and it was popular there by the end of the 17th cent. By the mid-18th cent. the aristocracy had adopted the game. In 1744 the London Cricket Club produced what are recognizably the rules of modern cricket. The Marylebone Cricket Club, one of the oldest (1787) cricket organizations, is the game's international governing body.
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The Ash tree..\n\nAlso, in Ireland we play a game called hurling, and the hurley (which is the stick you hit the ball with) is made from the Ash tree!  We learned this when we were younger and we were like "Oh my God, the hurleys made from toothpicks"\n\nHope this helps.
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The Ashes is a Test cricket series, played between England and Australia - it is international cricket's oldest and most celebrated rivalry dating back to 1882. \n\nIn the Test match played between England and Australia in 1882,\nAustralia defeated England for the first time.  Following this defeat a satirical obituary published in The Sporting Times in 1882. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.\n\nThe English media dubbed the next English tour, to Australia (1882-83) as the quest to regain The Ashes. This is how the test cricket series between England and Australia has been named\nas Ashes series. \n\nA small terracotta urn was presented to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women at some point during the 1882-83 tour. The contents of the urn are reported to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. The urn is not used as a trophy for the Ashes series, and whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the MCC Museum at Lord's because it was bequeathed to the MCC by Ivo Bligh upon his death. Since the 1998-99 Ashes series, a Waterford crystal trophy has been presented to the winners.\n\nIf you would like to have more details about Ashes, please check the following website:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes
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There are two kinds of willows bats are usually made from: The english willow and the Kashmir willow. There have been occasions when people like Dennis Lillee have used Alumunium as well.
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Cricket's most likely birthplace is the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. The game was probably devised by children of the Weald's farming and metalworking communities. There is evidence to suggest that it survived as a children's game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th Century. The game's origin seems to have been in Norman or perhaps Saxon times (i.e., before 1066).\n\nPlaying on sheep-grazed land or in clearings, the original implements may have been a matted lump of sheep’s wool as the ball; a crook or other farm tool as the bat; and a gate (i.e., a wicket gate) or a treestump as the wicket. It is possible that the game was derived from the older sport of bowls by the introduction of a "batsman" to stop the ball reaching its target by hitting it away. There seems little doubt that the game had a rustic upbringing and it is significant that the Wealden counties and neighbouring Surrey were the earliest centres of excellence. Eventually, it spread north to London and west to Hampshire, the two places that cemented its popularity in the 18th century.\n\nAccording to some other theories, cricket originated outside England and was brought there by the Normans after 1066. As early as the 8th century, bat and ball games were played in the Punjab region of southern Asia — the ancestors of games such as gilli-danda and perhaps polo. Like the other great recreational import of the time, chess, these sports are believed to have migrated via Persia and through Constantinople into Europe. There are 8th and 9th century accounts of bat and ball games being played in the Mediterranean region, sometimes as church-sponsored events to promote community spirit. If the games reached France in this manner, it is reasonable to assume they would cross the Channel and be introduced in England. But all of this is speculation and there is general agreement among cricket historians that the sport did originate in south-east England.\n\nEarly references are few, far between and sometimes spurious. Some manuscripts from the 12th and 13th centuries show diagrams which have been interpreted as early forms of cricket, but there is no definite evidence to support these conjectures. In c.1183, Joseph of Exeter wrote an account of a community activity played by both sexes which he called cricks, but there is nothing to prove that it was a form of cricket. The evidence is circumstantial only.\n\nThe first clue we have which is reasonably convincing comes from the Royal Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I (aka Edward Longshanks) for 1299-1300. This records that £6 was paid out for the 15-year old Prince Edward to play creag and other games at Newenden in Kent. Although there is no evidence that creag was a form of cricket, it does at least seem a likely suspect, especially given the location.\n\nThere are no other references until 1597, not even to indicate commercial interest in the game by innkeepers or other entrepreneurs. Cricket, if it was played at all, did not have sufficient popularity to be subjected to any kind of specific sanction, unlike some other games. For example, a statute of King Edward IV in 1477–8 (17 Edw.IV c.3) made the playing of handyn and handoute illegal because it interfered with the compulsory practice of archery.\n\nIn 1597 there was a dispute over a school's ownership of a plot of land in which a 59-year old coroner, John Derrick, testified that he and his school friends had played kreckett on the site fifty years earlier. This is generally considered to be the first definite mention of cricket in the English language - the school was the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Mr Derrick's account proves beyond reasonable doubt that the game was being played c.1550.\n\nIn the following year John Florio, in his Italian-English dictionary defined the verb sgillare
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KILL THE ENGLISH IN CRICKET..\n\nLEAVE THE ENGLISH IN TEXT.LET IT SURVIVE.
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The origins of cricket lie somewhere in the Dark Ages – probably after the Roman Empire, almost certainly before the Normans invaded England, and almost certainly somewhere in Northern Europe. All research concedes that the game derived from a very old, widespread and uncomplicated pastime by which one player served up an object, be it a small piece of wood or a ball, and another hit it with a suitably fashioned club. \n\nHow and when this club–ball game developed into one where the hitter defended a target against the thrower is simply not known. Nor is there any evidence as to when points were awarded dependent upon how far the hitter was able to despatch the missile; nor when helpers joined the two-player contest, thus beginning the evolution into a team game; nor when the defining concept of placing wickets at either end of the pitch was adopted. What is agreed is that by Tudor times cricket had evolved far enough from club–ball to be recognisable as the game played today; that it was well established in many parts of Kent, Sussex and Surrey; that within a few years it had become a feature of leisure time at a significant number of schools; and – a sure sign of the wide acceptance of any game – that it had become popular enough among young men to earn the disapproval of local magistrates. \n\n\nHistory\nOn June 15, 1909 representatives from England, Australia and the South Africa met at Lord's and founded the Imperial Cricket Conference. Membership was confined to the governing bodies of cricket within the British Empire where Test cricket was played. India, New Zealand and West Indies were elected as Full Members in 1926, doubling the number of Test-playing nations to six. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, it was given Test status in 1953, becoming the seventh Test-playing nation. South Africa resigned from the ICC in 1961 due to apartheid.\n\nIn 1965, the Imperial Cricket Conference was renamed the International Cricket Conference and new rules adopted to permit the election of countries from outside the Commonwealth. This led to the expansion of the Conference, with the admission of Associate Members. Associates were each entitled to one vote, while the Foundation and Full Members were entitled to two votes on ICC resolutions. Foundation Members retained a right of veto.\n\nSri Lanka was admitted as a Full Member in 1981, returning the number of Test-playing nations to seven. In 1989, new rules were adopted and International Cricket Conference changed its name to the current name, the International Cricket Council. South Africa was re-elected as a Full Member of the ICC in 1991, after the downfall of the apartheid regime; this was followed in 1992 by the admission of Zimbabwe as the ninth Test-playing nation. Bangladesh was admitted as the tenth Test-playing nation in 2000.\n\n \nThe ICC's offices in Dubai.In 2001, the ICC established an office in Monaco to ensure that its commercial income would remain free of tax. After 96 years of being based at Lord's Cricket Ground, the ICC moved its main administrative offices to Dubai, United Arab Emirates in August 2005. This move enabled the ICC to bring together its staff from London and Monaco into the same new Dubai office, whilst continuing to allow their commercial activities to be in a tax-free environment (as they had been in Monaco).\n\n\nCommercial focus\nThe ICC has a strong commercial focus and it has a duty to its members to maximise the value to them of its primary "property" the Cricket World Cup. Sponsorship of the World Cup brought in US$550m between 2000 and 2007, by far the ICC’s main source of income. The ICC has no income streams from other international cricket matches (Test matches and One-day Internationals) so it has sought to create other new events to augment its World Cup revenues. These include the ICC Champions Trophy and the so-called ICC Super Series played in Australia in 2005. However this expansion has n
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answer lies in the newton's laws of motion and properties of the sufaces.\n\nsee the ball hits the bat and there is a change of the momentum of the ball by mv + mv1 where m is mass and v is the initial velocity, v1 final velocity of the ball. this much divided by the time is the force supplied to the ball. \n\naluminium has two advantages\n1. now with a aluminium bat the energy utilized in the process will be very low. and the v1 will be quite large. so the momemtum increases hence the force. \n\n2. there is no compression of the bat as compared to the wood so the time of contact with the bat will be very less.\nso the force increases.\n\nand as the force applied to ball is high ball goes further.
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Undoubtedly,it was wood from a tree from\nthe area where they were.  The Bible does\nnot tell us what kind of wood was used.
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Here are two really good pages to explain it for an American. The second is good and uses baseball as a comparison, so you can compare it to something you know.\nhttp://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ABOUT_CRICKET/EXPLANATION/CRICKET_EXPLAINED_AMERICAN.html\n\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~sccwa/crick.html
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Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a bat-and-ball game played on a roughly elliptical grass field, in the centre of which is a hard, flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called the pitch.\n\nAt each end of the pitch stand a set of wooden poles called wickets (traditionally made from the wood of the ash tree). A player from one team (the bowler) propels a hard, fist-sized ball from one wicket towards the other. A player from the opposing team (the batsman) attempts to defend the wicket from the ball with a wooden cricket bat, traditionally made of willow. Another batsman (the non-striker) stands in an inactive role near the bowler's wicket.\n\nIf the batsman hits the ball with his bat, he may run to the other wicket, exchanging places with the non-striker. This scores a run. The batting team attempts to score as many runs as it can, while members of the bowling team gather the ball and return it to either wicket. If the ball strikes a wicket while the nearest batsman is still running, the batsman is out. Batsmen can also be out by other means, such as failing to defend the bowled ball from hitting the wicket, or hitting a catch to a fielder.\n\nOnce out, a batsman is replaced by the next batsman in the team. As there must always be two batsmen on the field, if and when the tenth batsman is out, the team's turn to bat or innings (always with a terminal "s" in cricket usage) is over, and the other team may bat while the first team takes the field. Depending on the specific rules of the match, one or two innings may be played, possibly with a fixed number of legally-bowled balls defining the end of an innings rather than ten batsmen having been dismissed. At the end of the match, the winner is the team that has scored the most runs. However, the game may run out of time before it is finished, in which case it is a draw, even if one team is overwhelmingly winning at that point. This is sometimes surprising to those not familiar with the game, but it does add interest to one-sided games by giving the inferior team the incentive to try and achieve a draw even if they cannot win.\n\n    Cricket Portal \nCricket has been an established team sport for several centuries. It originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In some countries in South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular sport. Cricket is also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are known in cricketing parlance as the West Indies. It is also a prominent minor sport in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Israel, Nepal, and Argentina (see also: International Cricket Council).\n\nThe length of the game — a match can last six or more hours a day for up to five days in one form of the game — the numerous intervals for lunch and tea, and the rich terminology are notable aspects which can often confuse those not familiar with the sport. For its fans, the sport and the intense rivalries between top cricketing nations provide passionate entertainment and outstanding sporting achievements. It has even occasionally given rise to diplomatic outrage, the most infamous being the Bodyline series played between England and Australia.
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Named after a great Australian batsman Bill Ponsford, The PONSFORD stand is located at the  MCG in Melbourne.Built in 1967 the stand was demolished and made way for a new stand and cost $ 430 million to redevelop the new PONSFORD stand.\n\nPonsford, a contemporary of Don Bradman, was a brilliant opening batsman and respected administrator who twice scored quadruple centuries at the MCG.