Test cricket

over 120 millions players participating. The game is set up similar to baseball in the fact that a bat and ball is used to be hit. Also that cricket uses the same system of innings as does baseball. Surprising cricket did make an appearance during the olympics but was never seen again after. Cricket continues to be a ever growing sport in other countries. Cricket is usually played on a large oval-shaped field. In the center there is a rectangular area which is known as the pitch. Boundary lines…

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…

sub-continental conditions (and on similar pitches in West Indies), this tour of South Africa has been the first exposure outside its comfort zone for this Virat Kohli-led team. And here we are, India, the No.1 Test side in the world according to ICC rankings, are 0-2 down after two Tests in a three-match series. The threat of a humiliating whitewash is on the cards and yet the skipper is not ready to answer the tough questions. Instead he argues with journalists on a post-match presser. It is…

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.…

With over 70 bowling centers operated by Army Morale, Welfare, and Recreation worldwide, you can hardly throw a rock on an Army post without hitting one. Bowling is a “lifetime sport that anyone can do,” according to Jim Einhorn of the Galaxy Bowling and Entertainment Center on Panzer Kaserne—which goes some way to explaining its popularity. Einhorn knows something or two about the enduring appeal of the game. The former Army Europe Men’s Bowling Champion previously managed a facility in…

Baseball and cricket are two similar and well known ball games in the world. While the basic principle is similar, they differ in their equipment, scoring system and rules. Both are team sports where they take turns between offenses and defense. Baseball and cricket are famous in two different parts of the world. Cricket is mostly famous in the eastern part of the world like, England India Pakistan and more), whereas baseball is in the Western part of the world like in America. Just as people…

The history of bowling goes way back to the 3200BC in egypt. In the 1930’s Sir Flinders Petrie found a colection of objects that represented bowlig in a egyptions childs grave. There are documents that show a form of bowling in England in 1366, when King Edward III banned it inorder to make the troops focused on archery practice. It also seems that bowling during King Henry VIII time at throne was much alive. At this time there were still many variations of “pin games”, such as lawn bowling…

In 1991, women’s fast pitch softball was added to the roster of the 1996 Summer Olympics – a landmark many people recognize as the ultimate success of a sport. Although softball was later dropped from the 2012 Summer Olympics line-up, the game is still one of the most popular participant sports in the United States and 113 countries have officially joined the International Softball Federation since the organization’s formation in 1952. According to the official rules developed early in the…

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…