| CRICKET |
Cricket is today’s one of the most popular game.
It has its origin in the south eastern part of England.
Cricket is a game of bat and ball, played between two teams, eleven players each. A cricket match is played on a grass, in the centre of which is a flat strip, called a pitch.
Mainly cricket has two form – test and one-day.
’Test’ were introduced in 1877 and ’one-day’ were introduced in 1963
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Cricket Australia in India tobacco ad row |
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Cricket Australia has pulled Hindi adverts displayed during the series with India after being alerted that they could be promoting tobacco, which would attract big fines for breaching local laws.
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Cricket 'tobacco' adverts pulled |
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Cricket Australia withdraws Hindi advertisements displayed during recent games with India after warnings they could be illegally promoting tobacco.
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Jurassic chirp: scientists recreate ancient cricket song |
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The call of a Jurassic-era cricket was simple, pure and capable of traveling long distances in the night, said scientists who reconstructed the creature's love song from a 165 million year old fossil.
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| Queensland 251/10 & 111/4 * |
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| Western Australia 359/10 |
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