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	Bowling (cricket) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An infamous "underarm bowling" incident occurred during a One-day International match between the Australia and New Zealand teams, in which the bowler took advantage of the fact that underarm bowling was still legal by rolling the ball along the ground.
		Bowling the ball is distinguished from simply throwing the ball by a strictly specified biomechanical definition.
		In baseball, pitching is considered the defensive role, whereas in cricket bowling is primarily an offensive role and is referred to as the attack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bowling_(cricket) (733 words)

	Definition of Cricket - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A standard cricket ground, showing the 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 common for balls to be bowled at over 90 mph (144 km/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.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Cricket_(sport) (4618 words)

	Cricket - free-definition
		Cricket is a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean.
		The bowling team tries to limit the runs scored by the batting team and at the same time to get the opposition players out, an event which is described as 'taking a wicket'.
		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.
	www.netlexikon.akademie.de /Cricket.html (3990 words)

	Adfunk Sport News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		The laws of cricket stipulate certain exceptions in favour of the batsman; for instance, a batsman should not be given out LBW if the place where the ball bounced on the pitch is to the leg-side of the area strictly between the two wickets.
		Cricket was prominent in London as early as 1707 and large crowds flocked to matches on the Artillery Ground in Finsbury.
	adsport.blogspot.com (17043 words)

	Bowling (from cricket) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The game is quite different from the sport of bowls, or lawn bowls, in which the aim is to bring the ball to rest near a stationary ball called a jack.
		Crickets vary in length from 3 to 50 mm (0.12 to 2 inches).
		Bowling is a year-round sport in which the players roll a ball down a long, narrow lane and try to knock down a group of wooden pins.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-30515?tocId=30515 (757 words)

	S t u m p V i s i o n -- for a closer look @ Sports
		Set your own Batting Strategy and/or counter the Bowling strategy adopted by the cyber bowler you have chosen to bowl at you.
		The Bowling Index is an indication of the wicket-taking ability of the bowlers.
		Even for players who have never bowled a single ball in their lives, the BWI is given as 0.1 to take care of the slim theoretical possibility of a wicket falling to any legal delivery.
	cricket.stumpvision.com /games.asp (711 words)

	Indoor Cricket World - Strategies - Batting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The basic strategy when batting is to try to score at least one or two runs for every ball faced.
		If a ball is bowled that you know you can smack to the back net, then by all means do so - but keep in mind the first imperative....
		A much more successful strategy is to work even harder at not losing another wicket, and continuing to strive for the 1 or 2 runs per ball.
	www.indoorcricketworld.com /What/strategy (563 words)

	DM's Explanation of Cricket - Bowling Strategy and Tactics
		The bowling of the six balls in an over involves a tactical decision by the bowler on what each of the six balls is designed to achieve.
		Other possibilities include changing to inswing, using cut, bowling a slower ball to induce a mistimed shot, or pitching short and aiming at the batsman to force a back foot defensive that may result in a misplaced hit into the air.
		They will bowl this ball repeatedly, with slight variations in flight, line, and length, to get the batsman into a rhythm, and then break it up with a variation such as an arm ball for an off spinner, or a googly or flipper for a leg spinner.
	www.dangermouse.net /cricket/bowlstrategy.html (3493 words)

	Planetcricket Forums - A Season In The Life Of.....................Me...!![C2005] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Work still needs to be done on his bowling, however his best bowling figures of 5 for 48 from 14 overs came on a flat pitch against a touring side from South Africa.
		Unfortunately though, these 6 overs were the only overs he bowled in the opening innings as Craig White did not want to over work the youngster on his debut when he had more experienced bowlers to turn to.
		I saved my game and closed Cricket 2005, and now when i have gone back into it, i loaded up the profile, but my created player had gone and the saved game no where to be seen.
	www.planetcricket.net /forums/showthread.php?t=11643 (1237 words)

	Cricket: It's Wicket Awesome By Robert Lane Greene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I think cricket's just fine the way it is. If we let the Americans in, it is only a matter of time before Uncle Sam, Inc. buys its way to cricketing success.
		One aspect of cricket which I don't think has a parallel in baseball is that a cricket batsman can be technically flawed and physically unremarkable but if he is mentally strong, and has what is called a "good temperament", he can nonetheless be quite successful (and the converse is true).
		Cricket is one of the few sports where batsman with noticeably declining skills can hang around just because of the experience they've accumulated.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It seems that the points being picked by experts sitting far away from the action or even an ordinary cricket fan watching the World Cup on the television, are far more valid than the team of advisors accompanying the team.
		Even the bowling department that has been the soul saver for Pakistan cricket for ages, is not bailing out the team in the tournament because of some flaws.
		The ideal strategy was to open with Wasim and Waqar, as Waqar still utilizes the new ball better than Shoaib.
	www.sportsmasala.com /cricket/cwc2003/206.html (1018 words)

	Stick Cricket
		It can be highly competitive in two player mode and provides plenty of stats for the cricket tragics.
		Bowling is controlled by the number pad on your keyboard ('+' key for a random delivery).
		Batting is controlled at the other end of the same keyboard using the A,S,D and W keys in the same way that you used the arrows keys in single player mode.
	www.freeworldgroup.com /games/cricket2 (254 words)

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		In cricket, it is the batter, not the pitcher, who takes center stage and is challenged by a series of pitchers/bowlers.
		To understand cricket strategy, start with the batter, see all he can do, and then look at Fielding and Pitching/Bowling as ways to limit the batter.
		The strategy of cricket gets changed by time limits, which are common in modern cricket.
	www.seattlecricket.com /history/strategy.htm (2500 words)

	The Cricket Wishlist
		Based on these figures, a box should be generated while bowling and the spot where the ball pitches should be generated randomly within the box.
		Bowl faster with the breeze, batter can hit the ball further with the breeze, and so on.....
		Each damned ball bowled is random, not giving you much of a chance to improve (or just get bat on to) a particular shot.
	www.geocities.com /cricwishlist (2711 words)

	Commercial Cricket Games - Anil Kumble's Googly Cricket Challenge
		Anil Kumble's Googly Cricket Challenge is that latest game in the Googly series (previous games were Anil Kumble's Googly Independence Cup and Anil Kumble's Googly World Cup 97).
		Cricket Challenge is a powerful, attractive and interactive visual package on windows that turns your computer into a playing field.
		Cricket Challenge enables you to setup a tournament of your choice in any format and any number of tournaments can be played at one time.One can even have a "Dream Team" of World XI battling against another "Dream Team" of one's choice.
	www.cricketgames.com /games/commercial/akgcc (487 words)

	::.Learn Cricket.:: Introduction to the sport!
		If you are clueless about cricket, then this is the ideal place to know more about the sport.
		The rules and laws of Cricket have been explained in a simple manner.
		For those who are familiar with baseball, I have brought about some comparisons between the two sports, so that Cricket can be better understood.
	members.fortunecity.com /learncricket (319 words)

	News - India "a learning curve" for Ntini : HTCricket.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For South African pacer Makhaya Ntini, bowling on the slow Indian tracks is "a learning curve" providing an opportunity to fine tune his skills.
		Asked if there would be any change in the bowling strategy at the Eden Gardens, Nitini said, "We will do as per the instructions of the captain and coach."
		But he added that the grass was hard at the Eden and the strategy had to be decided keeping that in mind.
	www.htcricket.com /htcricket/14_1123957.htm (261 words)

	Ubersportingpundit
		I was 'lucky' enough to experience one of these disturbances up close and personal in this fixture in Australia's tour of 2000, and I saw first hand the way in which the ground authorities were eager to maximise sales of the full strength local beverage- they were selling it by the six-pack.
		I wrote about Brian Lara in the sense that his career was, at bottom, a tragedy; Shoaib's place in cricket lore is not yet set.
		I have landed the prize writing gig of cudmurgeon and Australian-in-residence at the excellent British cricket blog Corridor of Uncertainty, so be sure to bookmark that one for more of my irreverent sort of commentary.
	www.ubersportingpundit.com (2559 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Warne slows down to gain more wickets - Tuesday February 27, 2001 10:40 AM
		Warne took four wickets as India was dismissed for 176 on Tuesday's opening day of the first test and said his overall bowling strategy went according to plan.
		"I bowled really well, if I continue this way I should pick up a few more wickets in the series," he said after his tally of four for 47.
		Warne bowled round the wicket more usual and took a leg stump line to the right-handers.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2001/02/27/warne_wickets (397 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The basic strategy when bowling is to prevent the batsman from scoring.
		By bowling this line, even an over-pitched ball becomes less damaging to the fielding side.
		The most common mistaken belief about bowling in indoor cricket, especially from Testosterone-soaked young males, is that faster is better.
	www.indoorcricketworld.com /what/strategy/bowling/frameright.html (460 words)

	DM's Explanation of Cricket - History of Cricket
		Harold Heydon, secretary of the NSW Cricket Association wrote Bill Jeanes in Adelaide, secretary of the Board of Control, warning that any repeat of the Bodyline tactics at the Adelaide Oval might be liable to cause public disorder.
		In response to the injury to Woodfull and the subsequent Bodyline bowling, the Australian Board of Control drafted a cable to be sent to the MCC in London.
		We, the Committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club, note with pleasure that you do not consider it necessary to cancel the remainder of programme, and that you are postponing the whole issue involved until after the present tour is completed.
	www.dangermouse.net /cricket/history/bodyline.html (13225 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport
		Cricket Bible Wisden has given full credit to captain Sourav Ganguly for transforming Indian team from “stoic losers to chest-thumping warriors” and helping it emerge as the “second-best” team in the World Cup.
		Terming India as “A New Steel”, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2003 said the “hub” of India’s transformation was Ganguly who “lifted Indian cricket from a state of factionlist torpor by the sheer force of his personality”.
		Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) joint secretary Prof Ratnakar Shetty told PTI here on Friday the selectors were more than happy with the players’ performances in the semifinals against Baroda and decided to retain the same squad.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030503/sports.htm (4586 words)

	Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Muttiah Muralitharan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Muralitharan's rise from humble beginnings, being the Tamil son of a hill-country confectioner, to the top of the wicket-takers' list in Test cricket has divided the cricket world in the past decade because of his weird bent-arm bowling action.
		He bowls marathon spells, yet is forever on the attack.
		From a loose-limbed, open-chested action, his chief weapons are the big-spinning offbreak and two versions of the top-spinner, one of which goes straight on and the other, which has now been labelled his doosra, which spins in the opposite direction to his stock ball.
	content.cricinfo.com /srilanka/content/player/49636.html (702 words)

	rediff.com: 20 years on...Celebrating India's greatest cricket triumph
		He used to tell me a lot about bowling because he had played a lot of cricket.
		Advice is given where to bowl, where not to bowl, what to do.
		We have had a lot of genuine all-rounders until now, though, in domestic cricket and other classes of cricket.
	www.rediff.com /cricket/2003/jun/24madan.htm (640 words)

	Reid working on strategies for Indian bowlers : Cricket NEWS : CricketZone.Com
		India's short-term bowling coach Bruce Reid is banking on a clutch of videotapes on the Pakistani batsmen to advise his wards on the bowling strategy for the all-important Sunday's clash in the Champions Trophy.
		The former Australian left-arm paceman is known to advise bowlers not only on the line and length they should bowl to batsmen but also helps in plotting their downfall by closely scrutinising their techniques.
		Good disciplined line and length is the way forward for Indian bowlers who rely on movement in their deliveries rather than express speed.
	www.cricketzone.com /news/stories/20040916-1.html (355 words)

	GAMBLING - Internet Casino Gambling Online
		With proper strategy, a smart player can create a positive mathematical expectation.
		In addition many bookmakers offer fixed odds on a number of non-sports related outcomes, for example the direction and extent of movement of various financial indices, whether snow will fall on Christmas Day in a given area, the winner of television competitions such as Big Brother, and so forth.
		Here the bettor picks a horse and bets it will win, and makes an additional bet that it will show, so that theoretically if the horse runs third it will at least pay back the two bets.
	www.gambling.freegames.eu.com (2560 words)

	Or just play it on ice! at wongaBlog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I saw the cricket equivalent of a penalty shoot-out recently where the bowlers just had to hit the stumps with nobody in the way, and they were pants!
		The TV coverage is full of info about bowling strategy and Hawk-Eye is wonderful for showing the different deliveries.
		Its just that bowling straight at the stumps, to good batsmen, tends to result in Mr Batty-Batty dispatching the ball the edge of the ground.
	wongablog.co.uk /2005/08/15/or-just-play-it-on-ice (1139 words)

	:: VivaCricket :: News: Windies implement fast bowling strategy
		The West Indies Cricket Board has agreed to implement an injury prevention system for fast bowlers under the age of 19 and specifically in Under-15 and Under-19 WICB competitions.
		For example, bowling spells will be limited at Under-15 level to four to five overs per spell and two spells per innings, while Under-19 players will be limited to five to six overs per spell with three spells per innings.
		On the issue of overuse, previously we left it to the good sense of team coaches to manage this area appropriately, but the Cricket Committee felt they had to step in to protect young bowlers.
	www.vivacricket.co.za /html/news1411.shtml (791 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Tendulkar's century not enough for India in second test - Thursday December 13, 2001 10:28 AM
		The Indian batting caved in against England's disciplined bowling despite Tendulkar's fluent 103.
		Tendulkar struck 12 boundaries and one six from 197 balls faced in his 254-minute knock before miscuing an intended on-drive against paceman Matthew Hoggard to skipper Nasser Hussain at mid-on.
		Tendulkar said he was not bothered by England's defensive bowling strategy.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2001/12/13/india_england_copy3_ap (670 words)

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