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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 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...


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Cricket Quotes
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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...


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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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The Independent - London
Cricket
06/02/1994: 979 words, approx. 3 pages
THE first Test match of the summer gets under way here today, and if there is an appropriate word to describe the nation's sense of anticipation for this three-match series, the one which springs least readily to mind is agog. New Zealand have...
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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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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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