Introduction: Cricket is one kind of outdoor game. It is played between two teams. It is played with a ball, a bat and wickets. The ball, the bat and the wickets are properly sized for this game. They are called cricket-ball, cricket-bat and cricket-wickets. Cricket is the national game of England. Its origin is traced back to 13th century. Cricket is very popular in England and its popularity has spread to other parts of the world. Now it is a game of international status and now match-games
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name of the opposition is Australia. A win or a draw at Chittagong would ensure Mushfiqur Rahim’s team its maiden series win over Australia, which undoubtedly will be the most prestigious achievement for Bangladesh in its 17 years history of Test cricket. Nevertheless, the Tigers are fully aware of the fact that they are up against a hurt Australian team which will go all-out to salvage some pride following a humiliating defeat at Mirpur. The hosts also know any sort of complacency can spoil their
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Defeat Is More Illuminating For Green Shirts Shoaib Zaheer No comments A few months back, Pakistan had given Lankan Tigers a mauling in bilateral series. Pakistan under the astute and composed leadership of Misbah-ul-Haq entered the Asia Cup as favorites to win the tournament given their triumph in the previous outing at Bangla shores. The Asia Cup tournament will vindicate the green shirts about possible Achilles heel brewing under the curtains. One appreciates the team mammoth effort against
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" Topic * India Cricket A Test match lasts five days and, if it goes the distance, 2,700 legal deliveries are bowled through that period. In one-day internationals (ODIs), it is 600 balls, and in Twenty20 (T20) the number is 240. If someone could get a cricketer to fix just five or six balls in a match, they could collect huge gambling profits without anyone noticing. And the possibilities for fixes are almost endless. Before the match Bets are taken on predicting the playing squad, and
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed. The
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| Biomechanics of Cricket | | | | | | Cricket is a worldwide sport which incorporates many features of biomechanics at both a competitive and social level. Biomechanics is the area of study which concerns the internal and external forces and the effects produced by these forces. Biomechanics plays a significant role in all aspects of the sport cricket such as of the game such as batting, fielding and bowling. The sport of cricket dates back to the sixteenth century and has developed
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had deprived Mumbai of an attacking start they would have hoped for after choosing to bat, though Tendulkar's reprieves gave them the opportunity to rebuild. Rohit Sharma had won praise from Warne as one of the most exciting talents in Indian cricket, and he undoubtedly would have impressed his opposing captain with his performance today. He quickly took the lead in the stand with Tendulkar, smashing Watson over midwicket and charging out to Chavan to dispatch him over mid-on. His stand-out shot
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What we can learn 1. We should look at teams and leagues that have been successful and analyze why, and look to emulate their business models. 2. If you see something that is promising and you find someone with enough mone to finance it, it is possible to see rapid growth 3. Stadiums are one of the largest expenses for teams and the IPL has elected to pla at existing stadiums thus saving huge costs financially 4. Found stability in fincnace with a steady revenue stream What we can learn
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Case Study: Cricket In two of the above examples (MP & MV) the weight distribution is predominately on the back foot (right foot), the left foot is floating… MR is the opposite having the majority of weight on the front foot, only Andrew Flower has an even distribution at the point of release. In both MP & MV the next frame on the video has the left foot airborne. From looking at the above example, MP’s weight distribution would appear to be in the heels at POR, a reaction to the toe of
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ALONG WITH PEOPLE. - MAHATMA GHANDHI CRICKET is a mixture of mind as well as physical game. It provides us some great examples over the issue of leadership and how certain traits affect the leadership ability. Cricket is always about a calm mind and violent body (this golden rule always work in each and every sphere of life). Cricket provides a wonderful insight of this fact and how leadership helps in getting this thumb rule is the
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