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Cricket
7,203 words, approx. 24 pages
England's national summer sport, which is now played throughout the world, particularly in Australia, India, Pakistan, the West Indies, and the British Isles. Cricket is played with a bat and ball and involves two competing sides (teams) of 11 players....
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Cricket Summary
522 words, approx. 2 pages
A sport originating in a small Hampshire village in seventeenth-century England, cricket was introduced to South Asia by the British in the early eighteenth century. The first recorded cricket match in South Asia took place in 1721 in Cambai, western...
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Cricket
235 words, approx. 1 pages
(from Middle French criquet, “goal stake”) Game played by two teams with a ball and bat on a large field centring on two wickets. Each wicket is two sets of three sticks. The teams have 11 players each. A bowler from the defending team...
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Cricket Information
8,419 words, approx. 28 pages
Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each.[1] A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a...


Quotations
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Cricket Quotes
1,246 words, approx. 4 pages
Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each, which is played in over 100 countries. Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation...


News and Journals
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Pest Control
Crickets.
10/01/2000: 389 words, approx. 1 pages
BIOLOGY The house cricket (Acheta domesticus) is a common pest of homes in the United States. More than a nuisance, they will feed on fabrics and can cause serious damage, especially to silk and woolens. Adults can reach a length of about...
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Minnesota Monthly
The Cricketeer
10/01/2006: 553 words, approx. 2 pages
An insect farmer from Ham Lake chirps about his love for bugs by cathy madison "HEAR THAT? That's a love song." Gordon Vadis grins as he grabs an errant suitor and tosses it into a Rubbermaid container. "Only the boys sing. Four days...
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AP News
International Cricket Council head dies
5/27/2007: 445 words, approx. 2 pages
Percy Sonn, the president of the International Cricket Council who was instrumental in fighting racial segregation in the sport, died Sunday of complications following colon surgery. He was 57. Sonn became president of world cricket's governing body in 2006 and had been in critical condition...
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AP News
Texas areas battle invasion of crickets
7/26/2007: 505 words, approx. 2 pages
They congregate on patios, slip into stairwells and, if they're crunched under foot, oh do they stink. Crickets are here in force, annoying Texans earlier than usual _ thanks to the year's wet weather in much of the state.The problem is so bad at the...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 75%
Cricket
723 words, approx. 2 pages
The game of cricket has been played in England since the 13th century. This essay outlines how cricket is played, including the rules of play, the equipment used, and the safety precautions taken.


 

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