International Cricket Council

the smack of quarter pound cricket ball, starts to diminish. Perhaps ice is the only elixir that can alleviate me from the anticipation of the flight to U.S.A. tomorrow. The sun starts to creep down as the blanket of shadow encompasses the sky. The game is over, I say to myself as the drops of moisture slithers on the surface of my skin. I observe the dried up portion of the soil around the rich field of grass. It must’ve been caused by repetitive contact of the cricket bat with the–. I suddenly…

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…

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…

Bowling can be a lot of fun with teams and practice. With bowling as a sport you can get you stress out and if you are stressed out just think about the pins being the person or thing that is making you mad, stress, sad, and etc. There are so many ways to bowl, straight, curve, and many ways you can think of especially grandma style, which we do for fun when the coach is not around and do other things when the coaches aren’t around with bowling. People just think bowling is just for fun which it…

Cricket Game Cricket is the most famous outdoor game played between two teams commonly loved by people of all races. Indians and Pakistanis love this game a lot as it’s a good and relaxing game. Just like football and any other sports cricket also has its set of rules that one needs to know and follow when playing or if you want to watch this game. I once went to watch this game and I found it to be interesting after learning the rules and regulations. What is cricket and what are its rules? I…

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…

Personality traits of Indians • Indians treat Cricket as a culture. Indians are crazy about cricket and follow it religiously, they refer to cricket as a ‘religion’. • They are also very Socializing. Indians are hardly spotted alone, they are very talkative and don’t mind making conversation with strangers. • Indians are full of Empathy. They are caring and always ready to help those in need. Eg: due to their social nature, Indians make friends easily and they won’t back off if they see a…

The sun beat down on us as we drew squares on the crumbled street and numbered them with the chalk we had stolen. We played lagoori with a pile of stones and a dirt-covered ball. Each day, our bodies grew, our minds expanded, the streets crumbled some more, but the chalk was always stolen and the stones were always free. My mother’s cold palm gently woke me. A sea of bored, excited and curious faces moved in an unseen current. There were plasma screens of arrival and departure times and people…

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derives from the context of commentary, magazines and even news headlines. Through studying the language techniques prevalent in contexts within these categories, contrasts can be distinguished between the two forms of cricket, the Australian Big Bash League and International Test Cricket. Commentary is the most obvious form context to analyse as it is so unique to sporting events. Literary techniques constantly vary and the language is in no way consistent in every aspect. This is because the…