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8 unusual facts about cricket


Australian Blind Sports Federation

Blind and vision impaired athletes and teams participate in national championships in Athletics, Cricket, Equestrian, Goalball, Golf, Judo, Karate, Lawn Bowls, Powerlifting, Rowing, Sailing, Swimming, Tandem cycling, Tenpin Bowling, Water Skiing, Wrestling, and Winter Sports.

Barnet Countryside Centre

More open areas have a good variety of insects including the small copper butterfly and Roesel's bush-cricket.

Croesyceiliog RFC

During 1975, under the chairmanship of Mr Jack Walker, the Rugby Club amalgamated with Croesyceiliog Cricket Club, and established headquarters at the cricket ground.

High-speed camera

High-speed cameras are frequently used in television productions of many major sporting events for slow motion instant replays when normal slow motion is not slow enough, such as international Cricket matches.

Hour of Coming

The poem turned out to be almost prophetic, and became famous due to the miraculous coincidences between its final stanza and the events at the inaugural World Twenty20 Cricket final match.

London Buses route 236

Today's 236 traces its history back to an "independently operated" route 263, which commenced operation on 1 April 1926 between London Fields and Leyton (Essex Cricket Ground) via Albion Road, Victoria Park Road, Hackney Wick, Eastway, Leyton, Grove Green Road.

Roesel's bush-cricket

It was first reported in Montreal and Ville St. Laurent by Urqhart and Baudry (1953) in Canada.

Speckled bush-cricket

The speckled bush-cricket is common across much of Europe – it ranges from the British Isles, France and the Netherlands in the west to the European parts of Russia in the east, and from southern Scandinavia in the north to southern Italy, Bulgaria and Greece; it has been recorded as far south as Palestine.


1830 in sports

Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970

Aasif Karim

Karim also holds the unique distinction of having captained his country in both representative cricket (ODIs) and tennis (Davis Cup) competition.

Aberfoyle Park, South Australia

The Happy Valley sports park, which is located near Aberfoyle Park High School, contains the Happy Valley Football Club who are known as the Vikings, the Happy Valley Cricket Club, the Happy Valley tennis club, a lawn bowls club and a BMX track.

Alexander Cadell

Cadell's great-uncle Vernon Royle represented Lancashire, Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club in first-class cricket.

Association France Cricket

France Cricket is France's representative at the International Cricket Council and is an associate member and has been a member of that body since 1998.

Barmy Army

In conjunction with the increasing appearance of English football shirts at cricket grounds in the early 1990s, the song's repetitive cry of "Barmy Army, Barmy Army, Barmy Army" transferred to domestic cricket arenas at Old Trafford and Headingley.

Beverley Ground

The social scene was an important part of the festival; some cricketers formed the Canterbury Old Stagers to provide entertainment in the evenings of the Cricket Week and they claim to be the oldest extant amateur dramatic company in the world.

Charles Marriott

He remains the only One-Test wonder to have taken more than seven wickets in the history of Test cricket.

Cheddleton Carnival

Cheddleton Carnival is an event held annually on the second Saturday of August at Ashcombe Park Cricket Club and all the proceeds from fundraising go to Cancer Research UK.

Chris Gent

However, his real passion is cricket, having grown up next door to The Oval and he is well-known to travel long distances to attend matches.

Civil Service cricket team

A Civil Service cricket team made just one appearance in first-class cricket, when they played the touring New Zealanders, who were on their first tour of England, at the Civil Service Sports Ground in Chiswick in 1927.

Colin Guest

He scored 26 not out and 74 (his highest first-class score) in his first game for Western Australia and made some other useful contributions with the bat, but his bowling lacked its former penetration, and with strong competition for pace-bowling places in the state side from McKenzie, Sam Gannon, Laurie Mayne, Ian Brayshaw and Jim Hubble, he played no further first-class cricket after that season.

Crystal Palace Park Cricket Ground

Ten years would pass before first-class cricket returned to Crystal Palace, when in 1880 the Players played the Australians during their tour of England.

David Fairey

Fairey's father-in-law, Maurice Crouch, played List A and Minor counties cricket for Cambridgeshire, as well as first-class cricket for other teams.

Denis Cousins

Cousins' son, Darren, played first-class cricket, while his uncle, Harold, played Minor Counties Cricket for Cambridgeshire.

Dyce

The area of Aberdeen has sports facilities including the local junior football team Dyce F.C who currently play in the Scottish Junior Football Association North Region and the cricket team.

Edgar Willsher

His older brother, senior by over ten years, William Willsher, would go on to have an inauspicious career with Kent three years before Edgar's own debut when, in 1847, he appeared in one first class match, scoring a pair at number eleven and not bowling.

F. S. Ashley-Cooper

Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician.

George Longman

Longman's son Henry played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Surrey, Middlesex and the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Great Burstead

The Great Burstead cricket team was formed in 1956 has recently merged with East Hanningfield CC but will continue to play in the T Rippon Mid-Essex League.

Guy Jackson

Jackson's brother Geoffrey Jackson and cousin, Anthony Jackson, also played cricket for Derbyshire.

Gymkhana Ground

Bombay Gymkhana, premier Gymkhana established in 1875 located in Mumbai and was originally built as a British-only club, designed by English architect, Claude Batley and used as a venue for multiple sports, including cricket and football

Hambledon Club

The current Hambledon Cricket Club ground is nearer Hambledon village at Ridge Meadow, just off the road to Broadhalfpenny Down, about half a mile from the village.

Jamnagar

Cricket is a major sport in Jamnagar, and a number veteran, well-established, and emerging Indian test cricketers originate from Jamnagar; including vinu mankad, Salim Durrani, karsan ghavri, Indrajitsinhji, Ajay Jadeja and Ravindra Jadeja.

Jean Palairet

While working as London agent for Jacob Boreel, Palairet apparently played a part in introducing the game of cricket to the Netherlands: in 1765 he sent four balls and 12 bats to the Netherlands, and attempted to find a copy of a rule-book for the game.

John Atkinson Pendlington

Until recently, the system was believed to have been developed by Bill Ferguson but Pendlington's grandson sent a 1914 newspaper cutting to Richie Benaud in 1994, and Benaud published this in his book My Spin on Cricket (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2005, page 278).

John Dykes

Highlights of his time with ESPN STAR Sports include his anchoring the broadcast of cricket's 1999 World Cup in England, trips to Wimbledon and Flushing Meadows to work alongside Vijay Amritraj on Grand Slam tennis, and his work in Augusta for Tiger Woods' triumph at the 2001 Masters.

Jonathan Clare

Jonathan Clare's grandfather, John Clare, played Lancashire League cricket for Burnley for seven years, grandson having played sporadically in the competition since the age of fourteen, having made his debut in the competition as an opener in 2001, alongside professional representative, Dale Benkenstein.

Ken Higgs

After two years in the Lancashire League, the Leicestershire captain, Ray Illingworth called Higgs out of first-class cricket retirement because of Graham McKenzie's expected unavailability with the 1972 Australians.

Ken Stirling

His sister, Glenda, represented New Zealand in swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics and he is related to former New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori.

Ken Vowles

As an Under-19 player, Vowles held the record for the fastest century scored at the Melbourne Cricket Ground until the record was broken by Viv Richards.

Lasith Malinga

Malinga became a highlight during the 2007 Cricket World Cup, when on March 28, 2007, against South Africa he became the first ever player to take four wickets in four consecutive balls in international cricket.

Maurice Chambers

Maurice Anthony Chambers (born 14 September 1987 in Port Antonio, Jamaica) is a cricketer representing Essex.

Mowbray Cricket Club

The Mowbray cricket club has a history of nurturing outstanding Tasmanian talent including Australian representatives, Ricky Ponting and Greg Campbell, and well as Tasmanian Tigers players Richard Soule and Troy Cooley.

Nick Compton

Compton made his England debut opening the batting with captain Alastair Cook in their first tour match against India A, but made a third ball duck in England's only innings.

Norman Cowans

For these five days, Cowans was the star of English cricket, and had sent the series to Sydney for the deciding Fifth Test, which ended in a draw.

Reuben Reid

Reid gave up the chance of a professional cricket career with Gloucestershire, having played for their second XI, to pursue his career with Argyle and was rewarded with a professional contract in February 2006, along with fellow trainees Scott Laird and Chris Zebroski.

Ricardo Brangman

In Guyana's successful chase, Brangman took a single catch from behind the stumps, catching Travis Dowlin for 4 runs off the bowling of Traddie Simpson.

Robin Singh, Jr.

He currently serves as one of the cricket experts for All India Radio and as a tax inspector for ITO, New Delhi.

Sainik School, Amaravathinagar

Football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, cricket, athletics, cross-country running, swimming, gymnastics, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, mountaineering, parasailing, trekking (hiking), obstacles course, rifle shooting, boxing, NCC,karate,music clubs, literary clubs, theater arts, elocution, photography, fine arts, craftwork, philately, aero-modeling, ship-modeling, Marching band, Choir

South Africa national cricket team

The South African national cricket team, nicknamed the Proteas, represent South Africa in international cricket.

Sydney Riot of 1879

The Australian press and cricket officials immediately condemned the riot, which dominated the front pages of the local newspapers, even though the infamous bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang had raided Jerilderie on the same weekend.

Tama Canning

Tamahau Karangatukituki Canning (born 7 April 1977 in Rose Park) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played four One Day Internationals but no Tests.

Thomas Stringer

Worcestershire were crushed by an innings and 183 runs, and Stringer's only innings of bowling brought him figures of 1-103, his one and only victim in first-class cricket being future Test player Harry Makepeace.

Tim Curtis

He entered the Royal Grammar School Worcester, where he became captain of rugby and cricket and Head Boy of the school.

Walgoolan, Western Australia

The town was a thriving community wit five schools, tennis courts, a cricket club, Country Women's Association and Wheat Growers Union.

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.

William Flintoft

In later life Flintoft was Mayor of Prahran, on the Committee of the Melbourne Cricket Club, and on the Board of the Melbourne Football Club, serving as president of the latter for three years.


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