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Cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cricket is also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are known in cricketing parlance as the West Indies. Cricket was prominent in London as early as 1707 and large crowds flocked to matches on the Artillery Ground in Finsbury. Kwik cricket is a form of the sport where the bowler does not have to wait for the batsman to be ready before a delivery, leading to a faster, more exhausting game which is often used in school PE lessons. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cricket   (5540 words)

Credit Bail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Baile, also known as Baile Binnérlach, is the heir to the Ulster throne in the 11th century story Scél Baili Binnbérlaig (The story of Baile and the Clear Voice). Bail out in economics and finance is a term used to describe a situation where a bankrupt or nearly bankrupt entity, such as a corporation or a bank, is given a fresh injection of Liquidity, in order to meet its short term obligations. Bail Prestor Organa (69 BBY - 0 BBY) is a fictional character from the ''Star Wars'' universe, the Viceroy and Prince of Alderaan and a noted statesman of the late Republic and early Imperial eras. www.wwwtln.com /finance/56/credit-bail.html   (1277 words)

Bail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Traditionally, bail''' is some form of property which is deposited or pledged to a court in order to persuade it to release a suspect from jail, on the understanding that the suspect will return for trial or forfeit the bail ("'''skipping bail" is also crimeillegal/). Release on bail is sometimes referred to as police bail, where the release was by the police rather than by a court. The Act states that all noncapital offenses are bailable and that in capital cases the decision to detain a suspect, prior to trial, was to be left to the judge. www.infothis.com /find/Bail   (1308 words)

Cricket Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) cricket pitch (brown), close-infield (light green) within 15 yards (13.7 m) of the striking batsman, infield (medium green) inside the white 30 yard (27.4 m) circle, and outfield (dark green), with sight screens beyond the boundary at either end. Additionally, as in professional cricket it is not unusual for balls to be bowled at over 80 miles per hourmph (129 kilometres per hourkm/h), the game needs to be played in daylight that is good enough for a batsman to be able to see the ball. Cricket entered an epochal era in 1961, when English counties modified the rules to provide a variant match form that produced an expedited result: games with a restricted number of overs per side. www.echostatic.com /Cricket.html   (4594 words)

Definition of Bail A bail can also refer to the smaller sticks placed on top of the stumps to form a wicket in the sport of cricket. Bail is some form of capital which is deposited or pledged to a court in order to persuade it to release a suspect from jail, on the understanding that the suspect will return for trial or forfeit the bail ("skipping bail" is also illegal). In 1966, Congress enacted the Bail Reform Act of 1966 which states that a non-capital defendant is to be released, pending trial, on his personal recognizance or on personal bond, unless the judicial officer determines that such incentives will not adequately assure his appearance at trial. www.wordiq.com /definition/Bail   (930 words)

Encyclopedia: Bail (cricket)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Cricket ball The cricket ball is a hard, solid ball with an interior of cork and a leather case with a slightly raised sewn seam. An umpire in cricket is a person who has the authority to make decisions on the cricket field, according to the Laws of Cricket. An excerpt from Law 8(3)(b) of the Laws of Cricket: The laws of cricket are a set of rules framed by the Marylebone Cricket Club which serve to standardise the format of cricket matches across the world to ensure uniformity and fairness. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bail-(cricket)   (644 words)

Arizona Bail Bonds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Once a bail bond is posted, the suspect is released from custody pending the final disposition of his case. Bail bonds give arrested individuals who cannot afford the full amount of the bail a means of obtaining the required capital rather than remaining in custody until the case goes to trial. Bail may be posted in cash or in property, by the accused or by someone on his behalf. www.wwwtln.com /finance/9/arizona-bail-bonds.html   (1153 words)

Bail (cricket) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) The bails are used to determine when the wicket is broken, which in turn is one of the critical factors in determining whether a ((baseball) a ballplayer who is batting) batsman is out bowled, stumped, run out or hit wicket. Each bail is made of a single (Click link for more info and facts about cylindrically) cylindrically shaped piece of wood which has two smaller cylinders of wood protruding from each end. The (An official at a baseball game) umpires can decide to dispense with the bails completely (for example, where strong gusts of wind would remove even the heavy bails), in which case the umpires will adjudge whether or not the wicket is broken. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bail_(cricket).htm   (322 words)

Bail (cricket)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) The bails are used to determine when thewicket is broken, which in turn is one of the critical factors in determining whether a batsman is out bowled, stumped, run out or hit wicket. Each bail is made of a single cylindrically shaped piece of wood which has twosmaller cylinders of wood protruding from each end. The umpires can decide to dispense withthe bails completely (for example, where strong gusts of wind would remove even the heavy bails), in which case the umpires willadjudge whether or not the wicket is broken. www.therfcc.org /bail-cricket--57783.html   (317 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - bail Bail, in law, obtaining the release from custody of a prisoner by depositing a security to guarantee the prisoner's surrender to proper legal... Cricket is played on a large, circular, grassy area called a ground. Cricket grounds can be any size, but those used in professional cricket are... encarta.msn.com /bail.html   (95 words)

Cricket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Cricket is a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English languageEnglish-speaking Caribbean/ (called the West Indies). Additionally, as in professional cricket it is not unusual for balls to be bowled at over 80mph, the game needs to be played in daylight that is good enough for a batsman to be able to see the ball. Cricket's detractors are wont to deride it as the sport in which a single match can last five days and still finish in a draw. www.infothis.com /find/Cricket   (4661 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) A bail is one of the 5 smaller sticks placed 4 on top of 7 a wicket in 8 the game of cricket. 2 The bail is used 6 to determine whether 5 the ball actually 1 hit the stumps the 9 ruling being that 0 the bail must fall 0 from the stumps for 3 a hit to have 0 taken place. This means 6 that a ball 1 can actually rest against 0 the stumps without 4 the batsman being 4 out. www.softwarex.org /bail_(cricket)_.htm   (107 words)

123India.com Cricket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) (b) The disturbance of a bail, whether temporary or not, shall not constitute its complete removal from the top of the stumps, but if a bail in falling lodges between two of the stumps this shall be regarded as complete removal. If one bail is off, it shall be sufficient for the purpose of putting the wicket down to remove the remaining bail, or to strike or pull any of the three stumps out of the ground, in any of the ways stated in 1 above. If the umpires have agreed to dispense with bails, in accordance with Law 8.5 (Dispensing with bails), the decision as to whether the wicket has been put down is one for the umpire concerned to decide. cricket.123india.com /laws/law28.html   (357 words)

Encyclopedia: Bail (cricket)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Cricket batsman A batsman in the sport of cricket is a player whose speciality in the game is batting. Fielding in the sport of cricket is what fielders do to collect the ball when it is struck by the batsman in such a way as to either limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or get the batsman out by catching the ball or running the batsman... Darren Gough bowling A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bail-%28cricket%29   (644 words)

BBC News | Cricket | Ashes legend unveiled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Cricket's most famous trophy may not be all it seems. For more than a century England and Australia have battled for The Ashes, said to be the remains of a cricket bail. The urn symbolises what at the time was said to be "the death of English cricket" after Australia's first Test match victory in England in 1882 at the Oval in London. news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/sport/cricket/79285.stm   (370 words)

Wicket - SmartyBrain Encyclopedia and Dictionary Primarily, the wicket is one of the two sets of 3 stumps and 2 bails at either end of the pitch. The wicket is guarded by a batsman who, with his bat, attempts to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket. According to the Laws of Cricket, this usage is incorrect, but it is in common usage and commonly understood by cricket followers. smartybrain.com /index.php/Wicket_(cricket)   (394 words)

Shobhan Mehta's bail plea rejected Mehta had urged for anticipatory bail fearing arrest in a case registered against him for allegedly misusing MTNL lines and making international calls to promote his illegal cricket betting network. Sessions court Judge V B Mantri rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Mehta stating that the allegations against him were of serious nature and constituted economic offences. Mehta sought anticipatory bail saying that the alleged telephonic connections were obtained by Ramesh Vyas, proprietor of R B Communication Centre and that he had no association with Vyas. www.rediff.com /cricket/2005/may/18mehta.htm   (341 words)

:: VivaCricket :: News: Former Sri Lankan chief gets bail! The bail hearing was taken up 18 times before he was freed on Friday in a high-profile case which had attracted unprecedented media attention. He was then the president of Sri Lanka Cricket as well as the chairman of Sri Lanka Telecom, the main carrier which is partly owned and fully managed by NTT of Japan. Sumathipala formally ended his term as cricket chief in March, but was promptly named the top envoy to represent the country’s cricket interests abroad. www.vivacricket.co.za /html/news2001.shtml   (393 words)

bail - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about bail The temporary setting at liberty of a person in legal custody on an undertaking (usually backed by some security, bonds or money, given either by that person or by someone else) to attend at a court at a stated time and place. The Bail Act of 1976 presumes that a suspect will be granted bail, unless the police can give good reasons why not, for example, by showing that a further offence may take place. Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. encyclopedia.farlex.com /bail   (202 words)

cricket (sport)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) The urn containing the Ashes, a cremated cricket bail. So great a tradition surrounds the Ashes that when English national newspaper correspondence in the late 1990s questioned whether the urn genuinely contained ashes, and, if so, exactly what cricket equipment had been immolated, there was an expression of outrage from the cricketing establishment. It is played with a small solid ball and long flat-sided wooden bats, on a round or oval field, at the centre of which is a finely mown pitch, 20 m/22 yd long. tiscali-b2b.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0000723.html   (329 words)

Blackbuck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Jiwan who had allowed former Indian cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi to be released on bail after he was arrested for killing a protected flbuck. Former Indian cricket skipper Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi was today granted bail by a local court in a flbuck hunting case. Judicial Magistrate Sudhir Jiwan of the Jhajjar sessions court made the remark as he granted bail to Pataudi in the case related to the poaching of a flbuck... www.conservation.mongabay.com /news/Blackbuck.htm   (1926 words)

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport Even as an inquiry is being held into the match-fixing scandal in cricket, Mr Arun Agarwal, who conducted an inquiry into Doordarshan’s telecast of sports events in the past few years, today alleged that efforts were on to shelve the fact regarding the scams related to the erstwhile sports consortium. He said the grant of anticipatory bail was against all cannons of justice and requested the court to hear the matter urgently as the proceedings before the Magistrate was going on at present. The Metropolitan Magistrate, Mr K.S. Mohi rejected the bail application of Rajesh Kalra saying his release on bail would hamper the investigation of the case as the other accused in the match-fixing case are still to be arrested and interrogated. www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000428/sports.htm   (5753 words)

rediff.com: cricket channel: Narvekar gets conditional bail The lower court Wednesday granted conditional bail to former Goa deputy chief minister and Goa Cricket Association president Dayanand Narvekar in the bogus tickets case, keeping in line with the high court's anticipatory bail order. After being arrested on Monday, Narvekar was remanded to custody for a day on Tuesday, pending a final hearing of his bail application. Speaking from hospital, Narvekar said his arrest was a clear case of contempt, since the Supreme Court had disposed the petition filed by the police, without an order against the high court order, which stated that he was not required for custodial interrogation. www.rediff.com /cricket/2001/jun/06narve.htm   (341 words)

CNNSI.com - Cricket - Former Sri Lankan cricket chief bailed - Monday August 13, 2001 12:08 PM An anticipatory bail application was filed by Thilanga Sumathipala at a magistrate's court in Colombo on Thursday, restraining the country's Criminal Investigation Department from unwarranted arrest and harassment. T. Heiyatudawa, Chief Magistrate of Colombo, granted bail on condition that Sumathipala cooperate with all CID and police investigations and warned him against leaving the island without informing the court. Sumathipala, sacked in March from his post as president of the Board of Control for Cricket, is accused of misappropriating funds from the 400 million rupees (US$4.4 million) allocated for the construction of an international cricket stadium and using 3 million rupees (US$33,333) of the cricket board funds for his personal legal matters. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2001/08/13/sri_lanka_bailed_ap   (310 words)

Emergency in Nepal, Govt sacked; Indian Govt voices concern over Nepal situation; HAL's Chetan flies its first flight; ... Acharya's another anticipatory bail application in the Thirukoshtiyur Madhavan assault case is pending with the sessions court in Chennai. Activists said that when Pakistani cricket board officials are inspecting the venues for the matches, attacks on innocent people continue. Where there are talks of cricket tour being conducted, a member of Pakistani cricket board officials are inspecting the venues, there are attacks on innocent people in Jammu and Kashmir. www.indiatraveltimes.com /news/news2005/feb05/feb0105_news2.html   (717 words)

Cricket betting: Spl court rejects Tarannum's bail plea Mumbai, October 4: A special court today rejected the bail plea of bar girl Tarannum Khan and that of two alleged bookies who were held on charges of indulging in cricket betting. Special Judge D B Pujari rejected the bail pleas of Tarannum, the bookies Pradip Parmar and Milind Dhiraj Nandu on the ground that investigations were still on and their release on bail would hamper the probe. The three, arrested on September 16 for their alleged involvement in a cricket betting racket, were remanded to judicial custody till October 10. www.expressindia.com /cricket/fulleistory.php?type=ei&content_id=55895   (174 words)

bail bail, in law, procurement of release from prison of a person awaiting trial or an appeal, by the deposit of security to insure his submission at the required time to legal authority. Failure of the person released on bail to surrender himself at the appointed time results in forfeiture of the security. Courts have greater discretion to grant or deny bail in the case of persons under criminal arrest, e.g., it is usually refused when the accused is charged with homicide. www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0805779.html   (177 words)

Oval Cricket Ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Oval Cricket Ground is the headquarters of the Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC) and is on land leased from the Duchy of Cornwall. Originally a cabbage patch and market garden the Montpelier Cricket Club of Walworth was granted a lease in 1845 initially for 31 years at £120 per annum. The urn is on display at in the cricket museum at the Lords Cricket Ground. www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Oval.html   (438 words)

Salman makes another attempt to get bail : Entertainment News : IndiaExpress.Com Arrested Bollywood star Salman Khan on Tuesday again sought bail from a sessions court in a hit-and-run case. Alluding to the prosecution's opposition to his bail in a sessions court, the actor said that allegation of police about his tampering with witnesses was baseless. Even the Supreme Court had laid down that allegation of tampering could not be a ground to refuse bail unless it was substantiated by the prosecution, the actor's petition said. www.indiaexpress.com /news/entertainment/20021022-2.html   (307 words)

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