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Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton
Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton (31 January 1702 – 8 June 1747) was a British peer and significant cricket patron who was jointly responsible for creating the sport's earliest known written rules.
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Alfred Shaw
Alfred Shaw (29 August 1842 – 16 January 1907) was an eminent Victorian cricketer and rugby footballer, who bowled the first ball in Test cricket and was the first to take five wickets in a Test innings (5/35).
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All-rounder
An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling.
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Appeal (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, an appeal is the act of a player on the fielding team asking an umpire for a decision regarding whether a batsman is out or not.
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Articles of Agreement (cricket)
References to English cricket matches in the 1727 season between the 2nd Duke of Richmond and Mr Alan Brodrick mention that they drew up Articles of Agreement between them to determine the rules that must apply in their contests.
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Artillery Ground
The Artillery Ground in Finsbury is an open space originally set aside for archery and later known also as a cricket venue.
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Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers
The Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers (commonly abbreviated as the ACU&S) was established in 1953 by the umpire Tom Smith as the Association of Cricket Umpires (the scorers were included in the title several years later), in order to provide training and advice to cricket officials.
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Bail (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a bail is one of the two smaller sticks placed on top of the three stumps to form a wicket.
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Batting (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket.
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Boundary (cricket)
In cricket a boundary is the edge or boundary of the playing field, or a scoring shot where the ball is hit to or beyond that point.
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Bowled
Bowled is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket.
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Bye (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a bye is a run scored by the batting team when the ball has not been hit by the batsman and the ball has not hit the batsman's body.
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Caught
Caught is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket.
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Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville
Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville (15 November 1743 – 10 December 1822), styled Lord Ossulston from 1753 to 1767, was a British nobleman, a collector of shells, arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system; together with an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species...
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Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, (18 May 1701 – 8 August 1750) was a British nobleman, peer, and politician.
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Charles Powlett
The Reverend Charles Powlett (1728, England – 29 January 1809, Marylebone, London) was a noted patron of English cricket who has been described as the mainstay, if not the actual founder, of the Hambledon Club.
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Chertsey Cricket Club
Chertsey Cricket Club in Surrey is one of the oldest in England.
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ComBat
The ComBat was an aluminium cricket bat and the subject of an incident that occurred at the WACA cricket ground in Perth in December 1979.
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Crease (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, the crease is a certain area demarcated by white lines painted or chalked on the field of play, and pursuant to the rules of cricket they help determine legal play in different ways for the fielding and batting side.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).
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Cricket ball
A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket.
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Cricket bat
A cricket bat is a specialised piece of equipment used by batsmen in the sport of cricket to hit the ball, typically consisting of a cane handle attached to a flat-fronted willow-wood blade.
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Cricket pitch
In the game of cricket, the cricket pitch consists of the central strip of the cricket field between the wickets.
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Declaration and forfeiture
In the sport of cricket, a declaration occurs when a captain declares his team's innings closed and a forfeiture occurs when a captain chooses to forfeit an innings.
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Delivery (cricket)
A delivery or ball in cricket is a single action of bowling a cricket ball toward the batsman.
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Dennis Lillee
Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE (born 18 July 1949) is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation".
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Fair and unfair play
Law 41 of the Laws of Cricket covers unfair play.
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Fielding (cricket)
Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, to limit the number of runs that the batsman scores and/or to get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or by running the batsman out.
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Follow-on
In cricket, the follow-on is where a team batting second is forced to take its second innings immediately after its first, after having failed to reach close enough to the score achieved by the team who batted first (in that team's first innings).
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Gerald Brodribb
Arthur Gerald Norcott Brodribb (21 May 1915 – 7 October 1999) was a cricket historian and archaeologist.
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Goodwood House
Goodwood House is a country house and estate of covering in Westhampnett, Chichester, West Sussex, England.
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Guildford
Guildford is a large town in Surrey, England, United Kingdom located southwest of central London on the A3 trunk road midway between the capital and Portsmouth.
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Hambledon Club
The Hambledon Club was a social club that is famous for its organisation of 18th century cricket matches.
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Hampshire county cricket teams
Hampshire county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that.
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Hit the ball twice
Hit the ball twice, or "double-hit", is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket.
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Hit wicket
Hit wicket is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket.
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Innings
An innings is one of the divisions of a cricket match during which one team takes its turn to bat.
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International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket.
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Jasper Vinall
Jasper Vinall (c.1590 – 10 September 1624, West Hoathly, West Sussex) was the first cricketer known to have died as a result of an incident during a game.
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John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, KG (24 March 1745 – 19 July 1799) was the only son of Lord John Philip Sackville, second son of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset.
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John Small (cricketer)
John Small (19 April 1737 – 31 December 1826) was an English professional cricketer who played in important matches from c.1756 to 1798, one of the longest careers on record.
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Kent county cricket teams
Kent county cricket teams have been traced back to the 17th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that.
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Laleham Burway
Laleham Burway is a tract of water-meadow and former water-meadow between the River Thames and Abbey River in the far north of Chertsey in Surrey.
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Leg before wicket
Leg before wicket (lbw) is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed in the sport of cricket.
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Leg bye
In the sport of cricket, a leg bye is a run scored by the batting team if the batsman has not hit the ball with his or her bat, but the ball has hit the batsman's body or protective gear.
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London Cricket Club
The original London Cricket Club was formed by 1722 and was one of the foremost clubs in English cricket over the next four decades, holding important match status.
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Lumpy Stevens
Edward "Lumpy" Stevens (1735 – 7 September 1819, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from c. 1756 to 1789.
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Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club, generally known as the MCC, is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's cricket ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England.
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Middlesex county cricket teams
Middlesex county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that.
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No-ball
In the sport of cricket a no-ball is a penalty against the fielding team, usually as a result of an illegal delivery by the bowler.
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Obstructing the field
Obstructing the field is one of the nine methods of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket.
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Ounce
The ounce (abbreviated oz; apothecary symbol: ℥) is a unit of mass, weight, or volume used in most British derived customary systems of measurement.
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Over (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, an over consists of six consecutive balls bowled by a single bowler from one end of a cricket pitch to the batsman at the other end.
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Overarm bowling
In cricket, overarm bowling refers to a delivery in which the bowler's hand is above shoulder height.
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Pall Mall, London
Pall Mall is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, Central London.
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Philip Dehany
Philip Dehany (died 1809) was a West Indies plantation owner and cricket pioneer.
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Pitched delivery bowling
In cricket in the early 1760s, there was a transition from the sport's "pioneering phase" to its "pre-modern phase" when bowlers began to bowl pitched deliveries by pitching the ball towards the wicket instead of rolling or skimming it along the ground as they had previously done.
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Result (cricket)
The result in a game of cricket may be a "win" for one of the two teams playing, a "draw" or a "tie".
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Retired (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a batsman may retire from his innings any time when the ball is dead and be replaced by a teammate who is yet to be dismissed.
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Richard Nyren
Richard "Dick" Nyren (c. 1734–1797) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket during the 1760s and 1770s in the heyday of the Hambledon Club.
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Roundarm bowling
In cricket, roundarm bowling is a bowling style that was introduced in the first quarter of the 19th century and largely superseded underarm bowling by the 1830s.
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Roundarm trial matches
The roundarm trial matches were a series of cricket matches between Sussex and All-England during the 1827 English cricket season.
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Run (cricket)
In cricket, a run is running the length of the pitch, and is a basic means of scoring, as the team with the most runs wins.
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Run out
Run out is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket governed by Law 38 of the Laws of cricket.
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Runner (cricket)
In cricket, a runner is a team member who runs between the wickets for an injured batsman.
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Scoring (cricket)
Scoring in cricket matches involves two elements – the number of runs scored and the number of wickets lost by each team.
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Single wicket cricket
Single wicket cricket is a form of cricket played between two individuals, who take turns to bat and bowl against each other.
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Sir Horatio Mann, 2nd Baronet
Sir Horatio (Horace) Mann, 2nd Baronet (2 February 1744 – 2 April 1814) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1807.
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Stump (cricket)
In cricket, the stumps are the three vertical posts that support the bails and form the wicket.
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Stumped
Stumped is a method of dismissal in cricket.
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Substitute (cricket)
A substitute in the sport of cricket is a replacement player that the umpires allow when a player has been injured or become ill after the nomination of the players at the start of the game.
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Surrey county cricket teams
Surrey county cricket teams have been traced back to the 17th century, but Surrey's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that.
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Sussex county cricket teams
Sussex county cricket teams have been traced back to the early 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket dates from much earlier times as it is widely believed, jointly with Kent and Surrey, to be the sport's birthplace.
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Thomas Brett (cricketer)
Thomas Brett (1747 – 31 December 1809) was one of cricket's earliest well-known fast bowlers and a leading player for Hampshire when its team was organised by the Hambledon Club in the 1770s.
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Thomas White (cricketer, born c. 1740)
Thomas "Daddy" White (c. 1740, probably in Surrey – 28 July 1831, Reigate) was a noted English cricketer.
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Timed out
Timed out is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket.
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Toss (cricket)
The captain who won the toss decide to bat or chase.
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Umpire (cricket)
In cricket, an umpire (from the Old French nompere meaning not a peer, i.e. not a member of one of the teams, impartial) is a person who has the authority to make decisions about events on the cricket field, according to the Laws of Cricket.
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Wicket
In the sport of cricket, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch.
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Wicket-keeper
The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and be ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises.
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Wide (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a wide is one of two things.
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William Draper (British Army officer)
Lieutenant General Sir William Draper KCB (1721 – 8 January 1787), was a British military officer who conquered Manila in 1762 and was involved in the unsuccessful defence of Menorca in 1782.
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (or simply Wisden or colloquially "the Bible of Cricket") is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Cricket
