Cricket

game of cricket, is one of the oldest sports in the world, can date its origins all the way to the 1500s where it was played in small villages in England. From those humble beginnings in small British villages now known as Sussex, the game of cricket now boasts an estimated fan base of around two and half billion fans according to a research report by topendsports.com. Now, cricket has become the second most popular sport in the world. People from all over the world play and follow cricket.…

Pujara scored his runs with on an impressive rate of almost 61 runs per 100 balls, which can be considered as a fitting reply to recent criticisms on his so called poor strike-rate. However, how much does strike-rate matter for a batsman in Test cricket? Well, according to Arvind Pujara, the father of Cheteshwar and a former First-Class cricketer of Saurashtra, more than strike-rate, batting according to match situation is…

DHONI Indian Cricket history has many legends with the tremendous records of achievements. Cricketing fans have been celebrating their heart breakers with various sessions of their time travel. After Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the not only a name is more than an emotion for majority of cricket fans round the globe. Past of this young talented cricketer has lots of difficulties and with enormous speed breakers with the pinned with the politics behind Cricket in…

Excessive Home Dominance Now, we will take into account how much home dominance has downplayed Test cricket. Now, it has become the story of every other series. We will start with Ashes, the most compelling series of the lot in the whites. If we exclude the exceptional English triumph on Aussie soil in 2010/11, the script seems to be pre-written. In the last seven Ashes series, six has been triumphed by the hosting nation. If we talk about India and Australia, there fierce rivalry saw new highs…

The British game of cricket and the American game of baseball both use the old game idea of a bat and ball. Robin Williams once said, “Cricket is basically baseball but played with valium.” The intertwined history of Cricket and Baseball, share the same basic principles of equipment, game play and the culture. The playing field in cricket is more oval like. The field is bigger than baseball, but with baseball the average outfielder has to cover more ground than the average cricket player…

Big tournaments include, The Ashes, the IPL league and The Cricket World Cup. Betting is also very popular amongst cricket fans, with fans being able to effectively bet the outcome of every ball bowled, over or match. However, match fixing is easily achieved in cricket and has been an issue in previous years. In these cases, players are approached by various bookmakers and are bribed into ensuring a particular outcome…

Million Dollar Arm by J.B. Bernstein is that it is hard to adapt Indian cricket players, like Rinku and Dinesh, into American baseball players, especially while simultaneously having to deal with the culture shock of moving to America. Cricket uses a different arm motion than baseball. As newcomers to the sport, they have to adapt, and get the many years of training their competitors have in a short amount of time. First, cricket players use a different arm motion compared to baseball, and they…

Steve Waugh - My Sporting Hero Steve Waugh is a perfect role model for adolescents. Not only has this man reached some amazing new feats in cricket but after his retirement he started a foundation in which he helps kids with rare illnesses and diseases. Many of the people (aged 0-25) that have been helped by this foundation often have has little to no funding to help them out. Before Steve Waugh helped hundreds in India and started his foundation, He was just a young man who was becoming one…

and if someone who was not of that background played it was either to fetch the ball or to play on behalf of the British folk.” Around the 1860s cricket extended to people who were not white and involved Africans and other people who were not considered white, due to the social changes in the Caribbean around that time” (nalis,gov,tt). “The first cricket match that involved person of colour in the Caribbean was played in between Barbados and British Guiana and later down in the nineteenth…

Joseph O’Neill’s, “Netherland,” teaches us about the character of the competitive sport, cricket, and how people specifically behave at the games. O’Neill uses an exciting tone to arouse his audience to be as mentally involved with the sort as the spectators were at the time. The audience of this excerpt is sports fans; O’Neill uses the diction he does to reach out to these audience members and, in turn, they are the ones that are the most intrigued by the excerpt. This also shows that O’Neill’s…