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Curtly Ambrose

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Sir Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose, KCN (born 21 September 1963) is a former cricketer from Antigua who played 98 Test matches for the West Indies. [1]

91 relations: Allan Border, Andy Roberts (cricketer), Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda national cricket team, Apprenticeship, Australia national cricket team, Australian Tri-Series, Bangladesh national cricket team, Benson & Hedges Cup, Bouncer (cricket), Bowled, Bowling (cricket), Bowling average, Brian Lara, Central Lancashire Cricket League, Chester Boughton Hall Cricket Club, County Championship, Courtney Walsh, Cricket, Cricket West Indies, Dean Jones (cricketer), Delivery (cricket), Dhaka, Eldine Baptiste, England cricket team, ESPNcricinfo, Fast bowling, First-class cricket, Graeme Hick, Guyana national cricket team, Heywood Cricket Club, Hurricane Georges, Ian Bishop (cricketer, born 1967), ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, ICC Player Rankings, India national cricket team, International Cricket Council, Jeff Dujon, Joel Garner, John Woodcock (cricket writer), Leeward Islands cricket team, Leg before wicket, List A cricket, List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Curtly Ambrose, Liverpool and District Cricket Competition, Malcolm Marshall, Match referee, Matthew Engel, Michael Atherton, ..., Mike Selvey, Mohammad Akram (cricketer, born 1974), New Zealand national cricket team, No-ball, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, One Day International, Order of the Nation (Antigua and Barbuda), Over (cricket), Pakistan national cricket team, Reggae, Richie Richardson, Run (cricket), Sabina Park, Scyld Berry, Seam bowling, Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Slower ball, South Africa national cricket team, Sri Lanka national cricket team, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, Steve Waugh, Swetes, Swing bowling, Test cricket, The Guardian, Throwing (cricket), Tony Cozier, Umpire (cricket), Viv Richards, West Indies cricket team, Wicket, Wicket-keeper, Winston Benjamin, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Yorker, Zimbabwe national cricket team, 1992 Cricket World Cup, 1996 Cricket World Cup, 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy, 1999 Cricket World Cup. Expand index (41 more) »

Allan Border

Allan Robert Border AO (born 27 July 1955) is a former Australian international cricketer.

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Andy Roberts (cricketer)

Sir Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts, KCN (born 29 January 1951) is a former Antiguan first-class cricketer.

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Antigua

Antigua, also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the West Indies.

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Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda is a sovereign state in the West Indies in the Americas, lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Antigua and Barbuda national cricket team

A cricket team representing Antigua and Barbuda has been active since the late 1890s.

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Apprenticeship

An apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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Australian Tri-Series

The Australian Tri-Series refers to the one day international (ODI) cricket tournament held in Australia, and contested by Australia and two touring teams.

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Bangladesh national cricket team

The Bangladesh national cricket team (বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় ক্রিকেট দল), nicknamed The Tigers, is administered by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).

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Benson & Hedges Cup

The Benson & Hedges Cup was a one-day cricket competition for first-class counties in England and Wales that was held from 1972 to 2002, one of cricket's longest sponsorship deals.

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Bouncer (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a bouncer (or bumper) is a type of delivery, usually bowled by a fast bowler.

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Bowled

Bowled is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket.

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Bowling (cricket)

Bowling, in cricket, is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman.

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Bowling average

The bowling average is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers in the sport of cricket.

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Brian Lara

The Honourable Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer.

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Central Lancashire Cricket League

The Central Lancashire Cricket League (CLCL) is a fifteen team cricket league, traditionally based in Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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Chester Boughton Hall Cricket Club

Chester Boughton Hall Cricket Club (often called Chester BH) is a cricket club that is based in Boughton, Chester, England.

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County Championship

The County Championship, currently known as the Specsavers County Championship for sponsorship reasons, 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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Courtney Walsh

Courtney Andrew Walsh OJ (born 30 October 1962) is a former Jamaican cricketer who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test matches.

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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 West Indies

Cricket West Indies (CWI), formerly known as West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), 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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Dean Jones (cricketer)

Dean Mervyn Jones AM (born 24 March 1961) is a former Australian cricketer, who played Tests and One Day Internationals for Australia.

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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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Dhaka

Dhaka (or; ঢাকা); formerly known as Dacca is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

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Eldine Baptiste

Eldine Ashworth Elderfield Baptiste (born 12 March 1960) appeared in 10 Tests (all of which resulted in West Indian victories) and 43 One Day Internationals for the West Indies.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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ESPNcricinfo

ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket.

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Fast bowling

Fast bowling is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.

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Graeme Hick

Graeme Ashley Hick MBE (born 23 May 1966) is a former English cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England.

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Guyana national cricket team

The Guyana cricket team is the representative first class cricket team of Guyana.

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Heywood Cricket Club

Heywood Cricket Club, based in Heywood, Greater Manchester, are an English cricket team that plays in the Central Lancashire Cricket League.

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Hurricane Georges

Hurricane Georges was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde Category 4 hurricane which caused severe destruction as it traversed the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in September 1998, making eight landfalls along its path.

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Ian Bishop (cricketer, born 1967)

Ian Raphael Bishop (born 24 October 1967) is a former Trinidadian first-class cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1988 and 1998 in Tests and ODIs.

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ICC Cricket Hall of Fame

The ICC Cricket Hall of Fame "recognises the achievements of the legends of the game from cricket's long and illustrious history".

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ICC Player Rankings

The International Cricket Council Player Rankings is a widely followed system of rankings for international cricketers based on their recent performances.

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India national cricket team

The India national cricket team, also known as Team India and Men in Blue, is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.

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International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket.

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Jeff Dujon

Peter Jeffrey ("Jeff") Leroy Dujon (born 28 May 1956) is a retired West Indian cricketer and current commentator.

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Joel Garner

Joel Garner (born 16 December 1952), also known as "Big Joel" or "Big Bird", is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early 1980s West Indies cricket teams.

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John Woodcock (cricket writer)

John Charles Woodcock OBE (born 7 August 1926) is an English cricket writer and journalist.

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Leeward Islands cricket team

The Leeward Islands cricket team is a first class cricket team representing the member countries of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association, a regional association which again is part of the West Indies Cricket Board.

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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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List A cricket

List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket.

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List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Curtly Ambrose

Curtly Ambrose, a former West Indian cricketer, took 26 five-wicket hauls at international level.

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Liverpool and District Cricket Competition

The Liverpool and District Cricket Competition is regarded by some as the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in the Liverpool area and since 2000 has been a designated ECB Premier League.

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Malcolm Marshall

, Malcolm Denzil Marshall (18 April 1958 – 4 November 1999) was a West Indian cricketer.

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Match referee

A match referee is an official appointed to oversee professional cricket matches.

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Matthew Engel

Matthew Lewis Engel (born 11 June 1951 in Northampton) is a British writer, journalist and editor.

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Michael Atherton

Michael Andrew Atherton OBE (born 23 March 1968) is a broadcaster, journalist and a former England international first-class cricketer.

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Mike Selvey

Michael Walter William "Mike" Selvey, born 25 April 1948, Chiswick, Middlesex, England) is an English former Test and county cricketer, and now a cricket writer and commentator. Selvey played in three Tests for England in 1976 and 1977. His county cricket commitments included service to Surrey, Middlesex and Glamorgan.

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Mohammad Akram (cricketer, born 1974)

Mohammad Akram (Urdu: محمد اکرم) (born 10 September 1974) is a former Pakistani cricketer (now holding British citizenship) who bowled right arm fast-medium.

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New Zealand national cricket team

The New Zealand national cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, played their first Test in 1930 against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket.

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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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Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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One Day International

A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, usually 50.

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Order of the Nation (Antigua and Barbuda)

The Most Distinguished Order of the Nation is an Antiguan and Barbudan order of chivalry recognising distinguished and outstanding service to Antigua and Barbuda, the Caricom region or the international community.

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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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Pakistan national cricket team

The Pakistan national cricket team (پاکستان قومی کرکٹ ٹیم), popularly referred to as the Shaheens (شاہینز), Green Shirts and Men in Green, is administered by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Richie Richardson

Sir Richard Benjamin Richardson, KCN (born 12 January 1962) is a former West Indies cricketer and a former captain of the West Indian cricket team.

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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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Sabina Park

Sabina Park is a cricket ground and the home of the Kingston Cricket Club, and is the only Test cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Scyld Berry

Anthony Scyld Ivens Berry (pronounced "Shild", born 28 April 1954) is cricket correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph.

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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.

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Sharjah Cricket Stadium

The Sharjah Cricket Stadium (Arabic:لشارقة جمعية ملعب الكريكيت) is in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

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Slower ball

In the sport of cricket, a slower ball is a slower-than-usual delivery from a fast bowler.

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South Africa national cricket team

The South African national cricket team, nicknamed the Proteas (after South Africa's national flower, Protea cynaroides, commonly known as the "king protea"), is administered by Cricket South Africa.

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Sri Lanka national cricket team

The Sri Lanka national cricket team, nicknamed The Lions, is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and T20 International status.

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St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda

St.

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Steve Waugh

Stephen Rodger Waugh, AO (born 2 June 1965) is a former Australian international cricketer and twin brother of cricketer Mark Waugh.

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Swetes

Swetes, also spelled Sweet's, is located in Saint Paul Parish on the island of Antigua, in Antigua and Barbuda.

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Swing bowling

Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Throwing (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, throwing, commonly referred to as chucking, is an illegal bowling action which occurs when a bowler straightens the bowling arm when delivering the ball.

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Tony Cozier

Winston Anthony Lloyd Cozier (10 July 1940 – 11 May 2016) was a Barbadian cricket journalist, writer, and radio commentator on West Indian cricket for over fifty years.

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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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Viv Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE (born 7 March 1952), known as Viv Richards, is a former Antiguan cricketer, who represented the West Indies at test and international levels.

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West Indies cricket team

The West Indies cricket team, colloquially known as and (since June 2017) officially branded as the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies.

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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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Winston Benjamin

Winston Keithroy Matthew Benjamin (born 31 December 1964) is a former Antiguan cricketer who played 21 Tests and 85 One Day Internationals for the West Indies.

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Wisden Cricketers of the Year

The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season".

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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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Yorker

In cricket, a yorker is a ball bowled (a delivery) which hits the cricket pitch around the batsman's feet.

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Zimbabwe national cricket team

The Zimbabwe national cricket team is administered by Zimbabwe Cricket (formerly known as the Zimbabwe Cricket Union or ZCU).

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1992 Cricket World Cup

The 1992 Cricket World Cup (officially the Benson & Hedges World Cup 1992) was the fifth staging of the Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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1996 Cricket World Cup

The 1996 Cricket World Cup, also called the Wills World Cup 1996 after its official sponsors, ITC's Wills brand, was the sixth Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy

The 1998 ICC Knock Out Tournament (officially known as Wills International Cup) was a One Day International cricket tournament held in Bangladesh.

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1999 Cricket World Cup

The 1999 Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Cricket World Cup '99) was the seventh edition of the Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtly_Ambrose

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