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Cricket Case

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Cricket is the national game of Britishers.In the history of Cricket,the first Cricket match was played in New York.In earlier days,only England,Australiaand South Africa used to play Cricket and in between South Africa was also banned.After that West Indies,India,New Zealand came in the 60s,in 70s Sri Lanka,Pakistan,Zimbabwe,Bangladesh and in 90s South Africa again started to play Cricket.

The first' World Cup' held in England in the year 1975.West Indies was the first team to win the first wolrd cup.Australia is holding the record to win the world cup title 4 times.In the game of Cricket 11 player can play of each team.Cricket is of 2 types Test and One -Day match.Test matches for 5 days and One- Day match is only for a single day.In the History of Cricket Sachin Tenduljer is having the record of leading run scorer in ODIs & Test both.From the bowing side, Muttiah Murlidaran is the leading wicket taker,Sir Don Bradman is having the highest average in Test &i n ODIs Michael Bevan is having the highest average.West Indian Brian Lara holds the record for highest score in both Tests & first class cricket.Brendon Mccullum holds the record for highest number of runs in Twenty 20 International.

There are ten ways in which a batsmen can be dismissed;five relatively common & five extremly rare.The common of dismiissal are "bowled","caught","leg before wicket"(lbw),"run out",and "stumped".Less common methods are "hit wicket","hit the ball twice","obstructed the field","handled the ball" &"timed out"-these are almpst unknown in the professional game.If the team that bats is all out having scored fewer runs than their opponents,the team is said to have"lost by n runs"(where n is the differrence between the number of runs scored by the teams).If the team that bats last scores enough runs to win,it is said

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