What does the game of cricket teach us?
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Make hay while the Sun shines.
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We cannot compare football with cricket both are different games, as so many cricket players not intrested in  playing too much cricket, it is better to reduce the no.of matches. Personally i believe it will helps international cricket or else people will not respond very much for every match.
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Its just like every other sport we invent.  Cricket, Football, Rugby...........  Invent the best sports in the world and watch the rest of the world get better than us at it!!!
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Cricket Academy is a place where they train cricketers. It's like a cricket school where they get all the young cricketers.
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cricket\nin progress. The beige strip is the cricket pitch. The people wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires.]] Cricket is a team game played between two teams of eleven players each. It originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular participatory and spectator sport. Cricket is a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean. The length of the game (a game can last over six or more hours a day for up to five days), numerous intervals for lunch and tea and rich terminology help confuse those not familiar with the sport. For its fans, the sport and the intense rivalries between the top cricketing nations provide passionate entertainment that has occasionally given rise to diplomatic outrage. \nObjective and summary\nCricket is a bat and ball sport. The objective of the game is to score more runs (points) than the opposing team. A match is divided into innings. During an innings, one team bats while the other team bowls and fields. (Note: when referring to "a team's innings," one usually means that team's turn to bat.) Games may be played over one or two innings. For some one innings matches each team's innings may be restricted to a set number of fair deliveries to be bowled by the opposing team. The team batting first aims to set a target score for the opposition and the team batting second chases the target. The bowling team tries to limit the runs scored by the batting team and at the same time to get the opposition players out, an event which is described as 'taking a wicket'. Each player continues to bat until he is out; once he is out, he may not bat again in that innings. The team batting always has two batsmen on the field; once ten of the eleven players of the batting team have been dismissed (i.e. ten wickets have been taken) the innings comes to an end. The winner is the team which has scored the most runs. If the team batting last loses, they are said to have lost the match by m run(s), where m is the difference in scores between the teams. If the team batting last wins they are said to have won the match by n wickets, where n is the number of additional wicket(s) the opposing team needed to take to bring the innings to an end. If both teams score the same number of runs, and the team batting last has completed its last innings, the match is a tie. If the match cannot be completed before the allotted time for the match expires, the result is a draw. If the match has only single innings per side, with a set number of deliveries, and the match is abandoned without completion due to an impossibility of continuing the play, because of bad weather, unruly crowd or any such unlikely event or situation, the result is declared as No-Result. See also: Result \nLaws of cricket\nMain article: Laws of cricket The game is played in accordance with 42 laws of cricket, which have been developed by the Marylebone Cricket Club in discussion with the main cricketing nations. Teams may agree to alter some of the rules for particular games. Other rules supplement the main laws and change them to deal with particular circumstances. In particular, there are a number of modifications to the playing structure and fielding position rules that apply to one innings games that are restricted to a set number of fair deliveries. \nPlayers and officials\nMain articles: Cricketer, Umpire Each team consists of eleven players. Depending on his primary skills, a player may be classified as a specialist batsman or bowler. A balanced team usually has five or six specialist batsmen and four or five specialist bowlers. A player who excels in both fields is known as an all-rounder. One player of the team that is currently bowling takes up the role of a
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Dear Sir, You should not have posted this question in cricket. Best of luck and stop playing cricket and study well. Its all cricket in your mind.... Pick up book and study no one else will he pl you will have to help yourself friend :)
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Few have already given u links to sites with rules. So I'll mainly go through the 'cool' aspects of the game-- how it enhances your cricket watching experience. you can always get rules by doing a search\n\n1) You can get back from office or school & still have an entire action-packed game. It’s just like going for a movie or a football game\n2) Game watching experience in TV--the game is not just a reduced cricket match-but an entirely new commercial package!!\n\n*Sky sports, the official broadcasters of the game, has introduced the idea 'man on mic' .so you can actually hear from a player, when the match is in progress. So commentators can actually talk with a fielder just as he takes a catch & so on. Isn’t that cool-you get to hear all the strategies being worked out, captains justifying sudden change in field placements....\n\n*Helmet cam  -you can actually watch the ball from a batsman's perspective, with a camera attached to the helmet\n\n3)'Bowl Out'-It brings all the excitement of a penalty shoot out into the game of cricket! It comes into play when a match gets tied. Players from both the sides are made to bowl at stumps without batsmen in front!! (Its a rare occurrence though-I Think it just happened twice in history. once in international level & once in semifinals of the English twenty-20 cup-but it sure is great fun)\n\n4) Free hit -In normal cricket batsman can't take advantage of a no-ball as in most cases the call is made after the bowl is played. In twenty-20 the ball after a no-ball is a free hit. Batsmen can get prepared to slog the ball-& the crowd starts to roar just as the bowl is about to be bowled & when he misses it .......the roar ends as a low echo-\n\n5) You can see some good improvisation when batsmen just try to invent new shorts for quick scoring! & some good balling at the dead-mixing of yorkers ,slower balls...& plenty of action. Its entertainment guaranteed.
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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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Before I got to the United States, I had seen only highlights of baseball games on TV.  All that music and fanfare had me believing baseball is paced like football, with lots of action.  Imagine my surprise when first watching an entire baseball game, to discover it has almost the leisurely, gentlemanly pace of cricket.  These two sports are said to have common origins in the English game of rounders, and they do invite comparison - the one choosing to run up and down on a single line, the other taking it to two dimensions and running around an entire square (or "diamond").\n\n\nIt's time we faced that all-important question: \nWhich is the "better" sport, baseball or cricket?\nSports fans - it's up to you to decide!\n\n\nWhen making your choice consider these factors:\n\nwhich sport is more fun to watch? \nwhich sport attracts the best fans? \nwhich sport generates the most interesting statistics? \nwhich sport requires more skill to play
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The game of cricket has a known history spanning from the 16th century to the present day, with international matches played since 1844, although the official history of international Test cricket began in 1877. During this time, the game developed from its origins in England into a game which is now played professionally in most of the Commonwealth of Nations.\n\nNo 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, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th century.
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Basketball of course. Who actually cares about cricket?
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Cricket and soccer.  Soccer is so simple but cricket is good from a tactical point of view.
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CRICKET WILL NOT SUIT TO USA.\nCOS, ITS A GENTLEMAN GAME.    \n\n\n("_").
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KILL THE ENGLISH IN CRICKET..\n\nLEAVE THE ENGLISH IN TEXT.LET IT SURVIVE.
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I assume Cricket and baseball.
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The effect is positive. Cricket skills are getting enhanced due to availability if video clips. Therefrom one can improve his/her technique and learn from other cricketers who perform well. Prominence and excellence of Australian cricket has something to attribute to this facility.\n\nSecondly it has broadened the follower base. A lot of people including kids and ladies have started following the game.
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Heres a Good Link.\nhttp://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Boys_Own_Book_of_Outdoor_Sports/howplayc_ib.html\n\nAnd if that dosen't work for you this should.\nhttp://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm\n\nHave fun playing Cricket!