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337 relations: Adam Gilchrist, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Cricket Board, Afghanistan national cricket team, Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament, Albert Chevallier Tayler, All-rounder, Amateur status in first-class cricket, Apartheid, Appeal (cricket), Artillery Ground, Association football, Aston Villa F.C., Australia, Australia national cricket team, Australia women's national cricket team, Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868, Australian rules football, Australian rules football playing field, Backyard cricket, Badminton, Bail (cricket), Ball tampering, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Cricket Board, Bangladesh national cricket team, Baseball, Bat-and-ball games, Batting (cricket), Batting glove, Batting order (cricket), Bete-ombro, Beyond a Boundary, Big Bash League, Blood sport, Board of Control for Cricket in India, Bodyline, Boundary (cricket), Bowled, Bowling (cricket), Box score (baseball), Boxing Day Test, Bramall Lane, British Empire, Brooklyn, Bye (cricket), C. L. R. James, Calypso music, Camille Pissarro, Canada national cricket team, ... Expand index (287 more) »
- Ball and bat games
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- Sports originating in England
- Turf sports
Adam Gilchrist
Adam Craig Gilchrist (born 14 November 1971) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer and captain of the Australia national cricket team.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
Afghanistan Cricket Board
The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB; د افغانستان کرکټ بورډ, کرکت بورد افغانستان; formerly Afghanistan Cricket Federation) is the official governing body of cricket in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan national cricket team
The Afghanistan men's national cricket team (د افغانستان کرکټ ملي لوبډله, تیمملی کریکت افغانستان) represents Afghanistan in international cricket.
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Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament
Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament is a four-day cricket tournament in Afghanistan played between regional teams, each representing a number of Afghan provinces.
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Albert Chevallier Tayler
Albert Chevallier Tayler (5 April 1862 – 20 December 1925) was an English artist who specialised in portrait and genre painting, but he was also involved in the plein air methods of the Newlyn School.
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All-rounder
An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling.
Amateur status in first-class cricket
Amateur status had a special meaning in English cricket.
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Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
Appeal (cricket)
In cricket, an appeal (locally known as a "Howzat") is the act of a player (or players) on the fielding team asking an umpire for a decision regarding whether a batter is out or not.
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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 football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. Cricket and Association football are sports originating in England, team sports and turf sports.
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Aston Villa F.C.
Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Australia national cricket team
The Australia men's national cricket team represents Australia in men's international cricket.
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Australia women's national cricket team
The Australian women's national cricket team (formerly also known as the Southern Stars) represent Australia in international women's cricket.
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Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868
In 1868, a cricket team composed of Aboriginal Australians toured England between May and October of that year, being the first organised group of Australian sportspeople to travel overseas.
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Australian rules football
Australian rules football, also called Australian football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Cricket and Australian rules football are team sports and turf sports.
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Australian rules football playing field
An Australian rules football playing field is a venue where Australian rules football is played.
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Backyard cricket
Backyard cricket, also known as bat ball, street cricket, beach cricket, corridor cricket, garden cricket, gully cricket (on the Indian subcontinent) and box cricket (in instances of shorter grounds), is an informal variant of cricket. Cricket and Backyard cricket are team sports.
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Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Cricket and Badminton are sports originating in England.
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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Ball tampering
In the sport of cricket, ball tampering is an action in which a fielder illegally alters the condition of the ball.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Bangladesh Cricket Board
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (Bānlādēśa krikēṭa bōrḍa; abbreviated as BCB) formerly known as Bangladesh Cricket Control Board, is the governing body of cricket in Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh national cricket team
The Bangladesh men's national cricket team (বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় ক্রিকেট দল), popularly known as The Tigers, is administered by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. Cricket and Baseball are ball and bat games, sports originating in England, team sports and turf sports.
Bat-and-ball games
Bat-and-ball games (or safe haven games) are field games played by two opposing teams. Cricket and Bat-and-ball games are ball and bat games.
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Batting (cricket)
In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket.
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Batting glove
Batting gloves are a component in bat-and-ball games sportswear.
Batting order (cricket)
In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batters play through their team's innings, there always being two batters taking part at any one time.
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Bete-ombro
Bete-ombro, also known as bets, tacobol, pau na lata, or taco (all of these names having a word meaning "bat" in them), is a Brazilian bat-and-ball game closely related to cricket.
Beyond a Boundary
Beyond a Boundary (1963) is a memoir on cricket written by the Trinidadian Marxist intellectual C. L. R. James, which he described as "neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography".
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Big Bash League
The Big Bash League (known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, often abbreviated to BBL or Big Bash) is an Australian men's professional club Twenty20 cricket league, which was established in 2011 by Cricket Australia.
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Blood sport
A blood sport or bloodsport is a category of sport or entertainment that involves bloodshed.
Board of Control for Cricket in India
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the principal national governing body of cricket in India.
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Bodyline
Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia.
Boundary (cricket)
In cricket, the boundary is the perimeter of a playing field.
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Bowled
In cricket, the term bowled has several meanings.
Bowling (cricket)
Bowling, in cricket, is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batter.
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Box score (baseball)
A box score is a chart used in baseball to present data about player achievement in a particular game.
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Boxing Day Test
The Boxing Day Test match is a cricket Test match held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, involving the Australian cricket team and an opposing national team that is touring Australia during the southern summer.
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Bramall Lane
Bramall Lane is a football stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which is the home of Sheffield United.
British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
Bye (cricket)
In cricket, a bye is a type of extra.
C. L. R. James
Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989),Fraser, C. Gerald,, The New York Times, 2 June 1989.
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Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles by the mid-20th century.
Camille Pissarro
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).
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Canada national cricket team
The Canada national cricket team represents Canada in international cricket.
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Canadian cricket team in the United States in 1844
The Canadian cricket team in the United States in 1844 was a tour consisting of the first international cricket match.
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Captain (cricket)
The captain of a cricket team, often referred to as the skipper, is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of the other players.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Caught
Caught is a method of dismissing a batsman in cricket.
Charles II of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.
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Chevening
Chevening House is a large country house in the parish of Chevening in Kent, England.
Chevening, Kent
Chevening is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England.
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Club cricket
Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in competitions at weekends or in the evening.
Commonwealth of England
The Commonwealth was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The republic's existence was declared through "An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth", adopted by the Rump Parliament on 19 May 1649.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.
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Comparison of baseball and cricket
Baseball and cricket are the best-known members of a family of related bat-and-ball games. Cricket and Comparison of baseball and cricket are ball and bat games.
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Cork (material)
Cork is an impermeable buoyant material.
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Coroner
A coroner is a government or judicial official who is empowered to conduct or order an inquest into the manner or cause of death.
County Championship
The County Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Vitality County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
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County cricket
Inter-county cricket matches have been played since the early 18th century, involving teams that are representative of the historic counties of England and Wales.
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County of Flanders
The County of Flanders was one of the most powerful political entities in the medieval Low Countries, located on the North Sea coast of what is now Belgium.
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COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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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 at the 1900 Summer Olympics
A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.
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Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia.
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Cricket ball
A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket.
Cricket bat
A cricket bat is a specialised piece of equipment used by batters in the sport of cricket to hit the ball, typically consisting of a cane handle attached to a flat-fronted willow-wood blade.
Cricket cap
A cricket cap is a type of soft cap, often made from felt, that is a traditional form of headwear for players of the game of cricket, regardless of age or sex.
Cricket clothing and equipment
Cricket clothing and equipment is regulated by the laws of cricket.
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Cricket field
A cricket field or cricket oval is a large grass field on which the game of cricket is played.
Cricket helmet
Helmets in cricket were developed in the 20th century.
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Cricket Ireland
Cricket Ireland, officially The Irish Cricket Union Company Limited by Guarantee, is the national governing body for cricket on the island of Ireland (both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland), and oversees the national men's and women's cricket teams.
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Cricket pavilion
A cricket pavilion is a pavilion at a cricket ground.
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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.
Cricket South Africa
Cricket South Africa (CSA) is the governing body for both professional and amateur cricket in South Africa.
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Cricket statistics
Cricket is a sport that generates a variety of statistics.
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Cricket West Indies
Cricket West Indies (CWI) is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies (a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that once formed the British West Indies).
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Cricket World Cup
The Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Men's Cricket World Cup) is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket.
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Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game
Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game was a British cricket magazine, published in London, which ran from 1882 to 1913.
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Crotch
In humans, the crotch is the bottom of the pelvis (the region of the body where the legs join the torso) and is the part of the body that includes the groin and genitals.
CSA 4-Day Domestic Series
The CSA 4-Day Domestic Series is the domestic first class cricket competition of South Africa.
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Declaration and forfeiture
In the sport of cricket, a declaration occurs when a captain declares their team's innings closed and a forfeiture occurs when a captain chooses to forfeit an innings without batting.
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Delivery (cricket)
A delivery or ball in cricket is a single action of bowling a cricket ball toward the batter.
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Derby County F.C.
Derby County Football Club is a professional association football club in Derby, England.
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Derek Birley
Sir Derek Sydney Birley (31 May 1926 – 14 May 2002) was a distinguished English educationalist and a prize-winning writer on the social history of sport, particularly cricket.
Dismissal (cricket)
In cricket, a dismissal occurs when a batter's innings is brought to an end by the opposing team.
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Don Bradman
Sir Donald George Bradman (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
Dubai
Dubai (translit) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the country's seven emirates.
Duchy of Burgundy
The Duchy of Burgundy (Ducatus Burgundiae; Duché de Bourgogne) emerged in the 9th century as one of the successors of the ancient Kingdom of the Burgundians, which after its conquest in 532 had formed a constituent part of the Frankish Empire.
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Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method
The Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method (DLS) is a mathematical formulation designed to calculate the target score (number of runs needed to win) for the team batting second in a limited overs cricket match interrupted by weather or other circumstances.
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Duke of Richmond
Duke of Richmond is a title in the Peerage of England that has been created four times in British history.
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Easter
Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.
Ecclesiastical court
An ecclesiastical court, also called court Christian or court spiritual, is any of certain courts having jurisdiction mainly in spiritual or religious matters.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
England and Wales Cricket Board
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the national governing body of cricket in England and Wales.
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England cricket team
The England men's cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket.
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England in the Middle Ages
England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the early modern period in 1485.
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England women's cricket team
The England women's cricket team represents England and Wales in international women's cricket.
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English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33
A cricket team representing England toured Australia in the 1932–33 season.
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English cricket team in North America in 1859
The English cricket team in North America in 1859 was the first ever overseas cricket tour by an English team.
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ESPNcricinfo
ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket.
Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England.
Extra (cricket)
In cricket, an extra (sometimes called a sundry) is a run scored by, or awarded to, a batting team which is not credited to any individual batter.
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Fast bowling
Fast bowling (also referred to as pace bowling) is one of two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling.
Fielding (cricket)
Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the striking batter, to limit the number of runs that the striker scores and/or to get a batter out by either catching a hit ball before it bounces, or by running out either batter before they can complete their current run.
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Finsbury
Finsbury is a district of Central London, forming the southeastern part of the London Borough of Islington.
First-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket.
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Floodlight
A floodlight is a broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial light.
Forms of cricket
Cricket is a multi-faceted sport with different formats, depending on the standard of play, the desired level of formality, and the time available.
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Francis Bacon (artist)
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery.
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French cricket
French cricket is a form of cricket that creates a game similar to catch.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Gentry
Gentry (from Old French genterie, from gentil, "high-born, noble") are "well-born, genteel and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past.
Glossary of cricket terms
This is a general glossary of the terminology used in the sport of cricket.
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Golden age of cricket
The "Golden Age" of cricket is a nostalgic term that has often been applied in cricket literature to the period in English cricket from 1890, the opening season of the official County Championship, to the outbreak of World War I which occurred just before the scheduled end of the 1914 season.
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Cricket and Golf are ball and bat games and turf sports.
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Guildford
Guildford is a town in west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London.
Hambledon Club
The Hambledon Club was a social club that is famous for its organisation of 18th century cricket matches.
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Harry Altham
Harry Surtees Altham (30 November 1888 – 11 March 1965) was an English cricketer who became an important figure in the game as an administrator, historian and coach.
Henry Chadwick (writer)
Henry Chadwick (October 5, 1824 – April 20, 1908) was an English-American sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian, often called the "Father of Baseball" for his early reporting on and contributions to the development of the game.
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History of Australian cricket from 1876–77 to 1890
This article describes the history of Australian cricket from the 1876–77 season until 1890.
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History of cricket
The sport of cricket has a known history beginning in the late 16th century England.
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History of English amateur cricket
Cricket, and hence English amateur cricket, probably began in England during the medieval period but the earliest known reference concerns the game being played c.1550 by children on a plot of land at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Surrey.
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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.
Hockey
Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. Cricket and Hockey are team sports.
Hockey stick
A hockey stick is a piece of sports equipment used by the players in all the forms of hockey to move the ball or puck (as appropriate to the type of hockey) either to push, pull, hit, strike, flick, steer, launch or stop the ball/puck during play with the objective being to move the ball/puck around the playing area using the stick, and then trying to score.
Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.
ICC Champions Trophy
The ICC Champions Trophy, also called the "Mini World Cup" or simply "Champions Trophy" is a cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council every four years.
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ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Super League was an international cricket competition contested in the One Day International (ODI) Cricket format and the top level of the three-league Cricket World Cup qualification system which was introduced in 2019.
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ICC Intercontinental Cup
The ICC Intercontinental Cup was a first-class cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as part of its cricket development programme.
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ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Qualifier
The Cricket World Cup Qualifier (previously called the ICC Trophy and officially known as the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Qualifier) is a One-Day International (ODI) cricket tournament that serves as the culmination of the qualification process for the Cricket World Cup.
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ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings
The ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings (formerly known as the ICC ODI Championship) is an international One Day International (ODI) cricket rankings system of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
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ICC Men's T20 World Cup
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup (formerly the ICC World Twenty20) is a biennial Twenty20 International cricket tournament, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) every 2 years since it's inauguration in 2007 with the exception of 2011, 2018 and 2020.
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ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings
The ICC Men's T20 Team Rankings is an international Twenty20 cricket rankings system of the International Cricket Council.
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ICC Men's Test Team Rankings
The ICC Men's Test Team Rankings (formerly known as the ICC Test Championship) is an international rankings system of the International Cricket Council for the 12 teams that play Test cricket.
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ICC World Test Championship
The ICC World Test Championship, also referred to as the Test World Cup, is the international championship of Test cricket.
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Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
India national cricket team
The India men's national cricket team represents India in men's international cricket.
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India–Pakistan cricket rivalry
The India–Pakistan cricket rivalry is one of the most intense sports rivalries in the world.
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Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League (IPL), also known as the TATA IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's Twenty20 (T20) cricket league held annually in India.
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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.
Inter-Provincial Championship
The Inter-Provincial Championship is a three-day cricket tournament in Ireland, played between regional teams drawn from three of Ireland's five provincial unions.
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International cricket
International cricket matches are played between the teams representing their nations, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
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International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the global governing body of cricket.
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International Women's Cricket Council
The International Women's Cricket Council was formed in February 1958 by the women's cricket associations of Australia, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand and South Africa to organise international matches between the countries.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Ireland cricket team
The Ireland men's cricket team represents all of Ireland in international cricket.
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Kent
Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.
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Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury
Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury is an oil on canvas painting by Albert Chevallier Tayler completed in 1907.
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Laws of Cricket
The Laws of Cricket is a code that specifies the rules of the game of cricket worldwide.
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Leather
Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay.
Leg before wicket
Leg before wicket (lbw) is one of the ways in which a batter can be dismissed in the sport of cricket.
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Leg bye
In cricket, a "leg bye" is a type of extra, a run scored by the batting team without the batsman hitting the ball.
Lexicon
A lexicon (plural: lexicons, rarely lexica) is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical).
Limited overs cricket
Limited overs cricket, also known as white ball cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day.
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List A cricket
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours.
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List of Australian rules footballers and cricketers
This is a listing of players to have played both Australian rules football in the nation's premier leagues first-class cricket or higher.
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List of children's games
This is a list of games that are played by children.
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List of fatalities while playing cricket
The following is a list of notable cricket players who died while playing a game, died directly from injuries sustained while playing, or died after being taken ill on the ground.
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List of International Cricket Council members
The International Cricket Council (ICC) was founded at Lord's on 15 June 1909 as the Imperial Cricket Conference, with Australia, England, and South Africa as its founding members.
See Cricket and List of International Cricket Council members
Logan Cup
The Logan Cup is the premier domestic first-class cricket competition in Zimbabwe and is organised by Zimbabwe Cricket.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.
Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.
Lord's Old Ground
Lord's Old Ground was a cricket venue in London that was established by Thomas Lord in 1787.
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Major League Tournament (Sri Lanka)
The Major League Tournament (formerly known as the Premier Trophy) is the main domestic first-class cricket competition in Sri Lanka.
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Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club (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.
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Match referee
A match referee is an official appointed to oversee professional cricket matches.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as The 'G, is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria.
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Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.
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Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
Michael Hussey
Michael Edward Killeen Hussey (born 27 May 1975) is an Australian cricket coach, commentator and former international cricketer, who played all forms of the game.
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Middle Dutch
Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects whose ancestor was Old Dutch.
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Middlesex County is a county located in the north-central part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, extending inland from the Raritan Valley region to the northern portion of the Jersey Shore.
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Monroe Township High School
Monroe Township High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Monroe Township, in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades part of the Monroe Township School District.
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Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Monroe Township is a township located in southern Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Muttiah Muralitharan
Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (born 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer.
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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests.
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National Cricket League
The National Cricket League is the oldest domestic first-class cricket competition in Bangladesh.
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National sport
A national sport is a physical activity or sport that is culturally significant or deeply embedded in a nation, serving as a national symbol and an intrinsic element to a nation's identity and culture.
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Netherlands women's national cricket team
The Netherlands women's national cricket team, nicknamed the Lionesses, represents the Netherlands in international women's cricket.
See Cricket and Netherlands women's national cricket team
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
New South Wales cricket team
The New South Wales men's cricket team (formerly named NSW Blues) are an Australian men's professional first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
New York Clipper
The New York Clipper, also known as The Clipper, was a weekly entertainment newspaper published in New York City from 1853 to 1924.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
New Zealand Cricket
New Zealand Cricket, formerly the New Zealand Cricket Council, is the governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand.
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New Zealand national cricket team
The New Zealand national cricket team represents New Zealand in men's international cricket.
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New Zealand women's national cricket team
The New Zealand women's national cricket team, nicknamed the White Ferns, represents New Zealand in international women's cricket.
See Cricket and New Zealand women's national cricket team
No-ball
In cricket, a no-ball is a type of illegal delivery to a batter (the other type being a wide).
Noblesse oblige
Noblesse oblige (literally "nobility obliges") is a French expression that means that nobility extends beyond mere entitlement, requiring people who hold such status to fulfill social responsibilities; the term retains the same meaning in English.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
Not out
In cricket, a batsman is not out if they come out to bat in an innings and have not been dismissed by the end of an innings.
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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Obstructing the field
Obstructing the field is one of the ten methods of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Old Style and New Style dates
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively.
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
One Day International
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of 50 overs limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 7 hours.
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Over (cricket)
In cricket, an over consists of six legal deliveries bowled from one end of a cricket pitch to the player batting at the other end, almost always by a single bowler.
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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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Pads
Pads (also called leg guards) are a type of protective equipment used in a number of sports and serve to protect the legs from the impact of a hard ball, puck, or other object of play travelling at high speed which could otherwise cause injuries to the lower legs.
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Pakistan Cricket Board
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) formerly known as Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan, is a sports governing body for cricket in Pakistan responsible for controlling and organising all tours and matches undertaken by the Pakistan national cricket team.
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Pakistan national cricket team
The Pakistan national cricket team has represented Pakistan in international cricket since 1952.
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Parabolic trajectory
In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics a parabolic trajectory is a Kepler orbit with the eccentricity equal to 1 and is an unbound orbit that is exactly on the border between elliptical and hyperbolic.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.
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Partition of India
The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.
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Penance
Penance is any act or a set of actions done out of repentance for sins committed, as well as an alternate name for the Catholic, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession.
Penny (British pre-decimal coin)
The British pre-decimal penny was a denomination of sterling coinage worth of one pound or of one shilling.
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Pitched delivery bowling
In cricket in the early 1760s, there was an evolutionary 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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Plaquita
La plaquita or la placa (English: little plate) is a bat-and-ball game played in the Dominican Republic with many similarities to cricket.
Plunket Shield
New Zealand has had a domestic first-class cricket championship since the 1906–07 season.
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Pound sterling
Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.
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Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Professional boxing
Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing.
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Professional sports league organization
Professional sports leagues are organized in numerous ways.
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Public school (United Kingdom)
In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys.
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Puritans
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.
Quaid-e-Azam Trophy
The Quaid-e-Azam Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket competition in Pakistan.
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Randle Cotgrave
Randle Cotgrave was an English lexicographer.
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Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy is a premier domestic first-class cricket championship played in India and organized annually by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Result (cricket)
The result in a game of cricket may be a "win" for one of the two teams playing, or a "tie".
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Retired (cricket)
In cricket, a batter may retire from an innings at any time when the ball is dead; they must then be replaced by a teammate who has not been dismissed.
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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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Rowland Bowen
Major Rowland Francis Bowen (27 February 1916 – 4 September 1978) was a British Army officer and a cricket researcher, historian and writer.
Royal Grammar School, Guildford
The Royal Grammar School, Guildford (originally 'The Free School'), also known as the RGS, is a private selective day school for boys in Guildford, Surrey in England.
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Royal Mail
The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company.
Run (cricket)
In cricket, a run is the unit of scoring.
Run out
Run out is a method of dismissal in cricket, governed by Law 38 of the laws of cricket.
Runner (cricket)
In cricket, a runner is a team member who runs between the wickets for an injured batsman.
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Russell Drysdale
Sir George Russell Drysdale (7 February 1912 – 29 June 1981), also known as Tass Drysdale, was an Australian artist.
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Sabbath
In Abrahamic religions, the Sabbath or Shabbat (from Hebrew שַׁבָּת) is a day set aside for rest and worship.
Salix alba
Salix alba, the white willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (– 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
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Scorer (cricket)
In cricket, a scorer is someone appointed to record all runs scored, all wickets taken and, where appropriate, the number of overs bowled.
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Seam bowling
Seam bowling is a bowling technique in cricket whereby the ball is deliberately bowled on to its seam, to cause a random deviation when the ball bounces.
Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks is a town in Kent with a population of 29,506 situated south-east of London, England.
Shaun Pollock
Shaun Maclean Pollock (born 16 July 1973) is a South African cricket commentator and former cricketer, who was captain in all formats of the game.
Sheffield Cricket Club
The Sheffield Cricket Club was founded in the 18th century and soon began to play a key role in the development of cricket in northern England.
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Sheffield Shield
The Sheffield Shield (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Marsh Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia.
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Sheffield United F.C.
Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
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Sidlesham
Sidlesham is a small village and civil parish, on the Manhood Peninsula, five kilometres (3 miles) south of Chichester in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England.
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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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
South Africa national cricket team
The South Africa men's national cricket team, also known as the Proteas, RSA, represents South Africa in men's international cricket and is administered by Cricket South Africa (CSA).
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South Africa women's national cricket team
The South Africa women's national cricket team, nicknamed the Proteas, represents South Africa in international women's cricket.
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
South East England
South East England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.
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Spheroid
A spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid of revolution or rotational ellipsoid, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters.
Spin bowling
Spin bowling is a bowling technique in cricket, in which the ball is delivered relatively slowly but with the potential to deviate sharply after bouncing.
Sports betting
Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome.
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Sports team
A sports team is a group of individuals who play a team sport together.
Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, and with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors.
Squash (sport)
Squash, sometimes called squash rackets, is a racket-and-ball sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow, rubber ball. Cricket and squash (sport) are sports originating in England.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Sri Lanka Cricket
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is the governing body for cricket in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka national cricket team
The Sri Lanka men's national cricket team, (Shri Lanka Jathika Crikat Kandayama; இலங்கை தேசிய கிரிக்கெட் அணி) nicknamed The Lions, represents Sri Lanka in men's international cricket.
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Sticky wicket
A sticky wicket (or sticky dog, or glue pot) is a metaphor used to describe a difficult circumstance.
Stockman (Australia)
In Australia, a stockman (plural stockmen) is a person who looks after the livestock on a station, traditionally on horse.
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Stoolball
Stoolball is a sport that dates back to at least the 15th century, originating in Sussex, southern England. Cricket and Stoolball are ball and bat games and team sports.
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 dismissing a batter in cricket, in which the wicket-keeper puts down the striker's wicket while the striker is out of their ground (the batter leaves their ground when they have moved down the pitch beyond the popping crease, often in an attempt to hit the ball).
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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Super Over
A Super Over, also known as a one-over eliminator or a one over per side eliminator, is a tie-breaking method used in limited-overs cricket matches, In a super Over, each team plays a single additional over of six balls to determine the match winner.
Surrey
Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.
Sussex
Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.
Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Swing bowling
Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket.
T10 cricket
T10 cricket or Ten10 cricket is a short form of cricket.
Table tennis
Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand. Cricket and table tennis are sports originating in England.
Tally stick
A tally stick (or simply tally) was an ancient memory aid device used to record and document numbers, quantities and messages.
Team sport
A team sport is a type of sport where the fundamental nature of the game or sport requires the participation of multiple individuals working together as a team, and it is inherently impossible or highly impractical to execute the sport as a single-player endeavour. Cricket and team sport are team sports.
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Cricket and Tennis are sports originating in England and turf sports.
Test cricket
Test cricket is a form of first-class cricket played at the international level between teams representing full member countries of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
The Ashes
The Ashes is a men's Test cricket series played biennially between England and Australia.
The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) was founded in England in 1973 for the purpose of researching and collating information about the history and statistics of cricket.
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The cricketers
The cricketers is a 1948 painting by the Australian artist Russell Drysdale.
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The Hundred (cricket)
The Hundred is a 100-ball cricket tournament involving teams in major cities across England and Wales run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) which took place for the first time in 2021.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Third umpire
The third umpire (or TV Umpire) is an off-field umpire used in some cricket matches, particularly international matches.
Timed out
Timed out is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket.
Tom Wills
Thomas Wentworth Wills (19 August 1835 – 2 May 1880) was an Australian sportsman who is credited with being Australia's first cricketer of significance and a founder of Australian rules football.
Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Toss (cricket)
In cricket, the toss is the flipping of a coin to determine which captain will have the right to choose whether their team will bat or field at the start of the match.
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Twenty20
Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket.
Twenty20 International
A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), where each team faces a maximum of twenty overs.
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Umpire (cricket)
In cricket, an umpire (from the Old French 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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Under-19 Men's Cricket World Cup
The ICC Under-19 Men's Cricket World Cup is an international cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) contested by national under-19 teams.
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Underarm bowling
Underarm bowling is a style of bowling in cricket.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States national cricket team
The United States men's national cricket team is the team that represents the United States in international cricket.
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University of Bonn
The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
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Village cricket
Village cricket is a term, sometimes pejorative, given to the playing of cricket in rural villages in Britain.
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W. G. Grace
William Gilbert Grace (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely considered one of its greatest players.
Wendy Nanan
Wendy Nanan (born 1955) is an artist from Trinidad and Tobago.
West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.
West Indies Championship
The Regional Four Day Competition, formerly known as the Shell Shield, Red Stripe, Busta and Carib Beer Cup, is the West Indies's first-class cricket competition that's run by Cricket West Indies.
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West Indies cricket team
The West Indies men's cricket team, nicknamed The Windies, is a men's cricket team representing the West Indies—a group of mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region—and administered by Cricket West Indies.
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Wicket
In cricket, the term wicket has several meanings.
Wicket (sport)
Wicket or wicket ball was a historical American form of cricket played until the late 19th century.
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Wicket gate
A wicket gate, or simply a wicket, is a pedestrian door or gate, particularly one built into a larger door or into a wall or fence.
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 ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises.
Wicket-keeper's gloves
Wicket-keeper's gloves are large gloves used in cricket and worn by the wicket-keeper of the fielding team, which protect the hands of the wicket-keeper when catching balls bowled by the bowler, hit by a batter or thrown by a fielder.
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Wide (cricket)
In cricket, a wide is a type of illegal delivery to a batter (the other type being a no-ball) that is judged by the umpire to be too wide or (in international cricket) too high to be hit by the batsman by means of a normal cricket shot.
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William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.
Willow and Stumpy
Willow and Stumpy is an animated feature on the Sky Sports TV channel in the United Kingdom.
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, or simply Wisden, colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom.
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Women's cricket
Women's cricket is the team sport of cricket when played by women.
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Working class
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.
World Cricket League
The ICC World Cricket League (WCL) was a series of international one-day cricket tournaments for national teams without Test status (i.e., teams of Associate status) administered by the International Cricket Council.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
Zimbabwe Cricket
Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), previously known as the Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) until 2004, is the governing body for the sport of cricket in Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe national cricket team
The Zimbabwe men's national cricket team, also known as the Chevrons, represents Zimbabwe in men's international cricket and is overseen by Zimbabwe Cricket (formerly known as the Zimbabwe Cricket Union).
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1748 English cricket season
The 1748 English cricket season was the fifth season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket.
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1900 Summer Olympics
The 1900 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1900), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad (Jeux de la IIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1900, were an international multi-sport event that took place in Paris, France, from 14 May to 28 October 1900.
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1975 Cricket World Cup
The 1975 Cricket World Cup (officially called the Prudential Cup '75) was the inaugural men's Cricket World Cup, and the first major tournament in the history of One Day International (ODI) cricket.
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2008 Mumbai attacks
The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11 attacks) were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant Islamist organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
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2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team
The 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team occurred on 3 March 2009, when a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, part of a larger convoy, was fired upon by 12 gunmen near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan.
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2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship
The 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship was the inaugural edition of the ICC World Test Championship of Test cricket.
See Cricket and 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship
2028 Summer Olympics
The 2028 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 2028 or LA28, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from July 14–30, 2028, in the United States.
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See also
Ball and bat games
- Alak dolak
- Baseball
- Baseball genres
- Baseball5
- Bat and trap
- Bat-and-ball games
- Brännboll
- British baseball
- Comparison of baseball and cricket
- Corkball
- Cricket
- Danish longball
- Elle (sport)
- Fuzzball (sport)
- Golf
- Hailes (ball game)
- Indian Ball
- Knickerbocker Rules
- Knurr and spell
- Lapta (game)
- Massachusetts Game
- Matball
- Miniature golf
- Oină
- Old cat
- Palant
- Pesäpallo
- Podex
- Rounders
- Schlagball
- Softball
- Splatter Up
- Stickball
- Stoolball
- Tee-ball
- Town ball
- Vigoro
- Vitilla
- Wiffle ball
Former Summer Olympic sports
- Basque pelota
- Cricket
- Croquet
- Equestrian vaulting
- Figure skating
- Gliding
- Indian club
- Jeu de paume
- Lacrosse
- Longue paume
- Offshore powerboat racing
- Plunge for distance
- Polo
- Rackets (sport)
- Roque
- Rugby union
- Singlestick
- Tug of war
Sports originating in England
- Association football
- Badminton
- Bandy
- Baseball
- Bowls
- Cricket
- Croquet
- Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling
- Darts
- Devon wrestling
- English billiards
- Eton fives
- Extreme ironing
- Ferret-legging
- Field hockey
- Fives
- Grice hockey
- History of tennis
- Indoor cricket (UK variant)
- Lancashire wrestling
- Miniten
- Netball
- Rackets (sport)
- Rallycross
- Rounders
- Rugby fives
- Rugby league
- Rugby union
- Scoring the Hales
- Shin-kicking
- Squash (sport)
- Table tennis
- Tennis
- Touchtennis
- Underwater hockey
- Walking football
- Water polo
Turf sports
- Association football
- Australian rules football
- Baseball
- Cricket
- Golf
- Gridiron football
- Rugby football
- Rugby league
- Rugby union
- Tennis
References
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