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	History of Cricket Encyclopedia Article @ Overtook.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is generally believed, therefore, that "village cricket" had developed by the middle of the 17th century but that county cricket had not and that investment in the game had not begun.
		Cricket's opposition to apartheid intensified in 1968 with the cancellation of England's tour to South Africa by the South African authorities, due to the inclusion of "coloured" cricketer
		China may also be a source of future cricket development, with the Chinese government announcing plans in 2004 to develop the sport, which is almost unknown in China, with the ambitious goals of qualifying for the World Cup by 2019 and becoming a Test Nation in 2020.
	www.overtook.org /encyclopedia/History_of_cricket (3100 words)

	Modern Cricket
		This cricket, of the 1700s, was essentially a sport of gentlemen who had the means to finance their sport...and this meant not only equipment and venues, but prize money and associated gambling.
		No longer is cricket the bat-and-ball recreation of the countrysides of 7th century India, Pakistan or Persia; or even the community recreation of 10th century Europe, the hearty free-for-all of 16th century England, or even the sport of the 18th century "gentleman amateur".
		Cricket is a major sport, the second-most popular sport in the world after soccer...with all that is implied in terms of money, TV coverage, politics and chicanery.
	www.seattlecricket.com /history/histmod.htm (1367 words)

	CRICKET
		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 1963, 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.solarnavigator.net /sport/cricket.htm (4711 words)

	Century (cricket) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The highest first class score is the only quintuple century ever achieved, 501, and the highest Test score is the only instance of Test quadruple century, 400, both of these scores being achieved by the West Indian batting master Brian Lara.
		The number of centuries, supposedly the most prestigious of batting landmarks, scored by a batsman may be seen as far less important than the number of home runs hit is in assessing a baseball batter.
		No article on centuries in cricket would be complete without mentioning the record of Sir Don Bradman, the Australian almost universally regarded as the greatest batsman in the history of the game.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Century_(cricket) (862 words)

	articles
		Forget the 19th century, it is professed that a game similar to cricket might have been played in the sub- continent of Indo-Pakistan during the time of SIDHARTHA GAUTAM-THE BUDDHA (557-487 BC).
		Cricket fashions and cricket equipment has seen many changes over the years.18th Century JOCKEY HATS covered with silver or gold laces were worn with half pants, silk stockings and buckled shoes.
		This is the time for the entire cricketing fraternity to stand united, forget their personal interests, think only of the game - which as it is faces an uncertain future - and solve the crisis that has already tarnished cricket's image.
	www.yehhaicricket.com /article/articlesarchive/origincricket1.html (1274 words)

	H-Net Review: Ronald H. Fritze on Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth-Century ...
		Cricket's prehistory is the subject of the first chapter which reveals that it evolved out of the bat and ball variety of games.
		Cricket developed in the weald and down lands of southern England in the counties of Surrey, Sussex, and Kent.
		Cricket was just one among many regional varieties of bat and ball games but it was the one that rose to become a national game by the end of the eighteenth century.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3049982341533 (1279 words)

	DM's Explanation of Cricket - History of Cricket
		In the later half of the 18th century, cricket was played by gentleman of the aristocracy, who considered it a manly sport akin to shooting or fox hunting, and a good activity to place a wager on.
		In these days, cricket was seen as a chance for the gentlemen to hit the ball, and bowlers were restricted to bowling relatively gentle underarm lobs.
		The Cricketer's Guide of 1858 noted that the 1844 match was originally considered to be between the Toronto and St George's clubs, and not until 1853 regarded as a game between two nations.
	www.dangermouse.net /cricket/history/origins.html (1002 words)

	Early Baseball and Cricket in America
		The Boston cricketers of the time encouraged "rounders" as a secondary diversion, and even allowed it to be played in their cricket fields by those who preferred an alternative to the more formal sport of cricket.
		It seems the cricketers of the day had no particular interest in having the number of bases conform to cricket, as in the earlier two-base version of the game---as far as they were concerned, it did not matter.
		Cricket became a longer and more leisurely game as batters (batsmen) began to dominate the sport, and wanted more time to display their individual skills.
	www.seattlecricket.com /history/bsblckt.htm (1637 words)

	Cricket: Pietersen's century propels England - Sports - International Herald Tribune
		He was at The Oval Monday, on the final day of a broadcasting career in Britain spanning most of the four decades since in which he has set unmatched standards for insight, objectivity, choosing the right words and, perhaps most important, knowing when not to say anything.
		His departure is the clap of thunder at the end of a glorious summer, not just for the loss he represents in himself, but because it results from the England and Wales Cricket Board's sale of test match rights from next season to a satellite television station.
		Sri Lanka still has a slim first innings deficit of 28 runs with seven wickets in hand after spinners Rangana Herath and Muttiah Muralitharan shared seven wickets between themselves in the first two sessions as the visitors crashed from a dominant position to be dismissed for 188.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/09/12/sports/cricket.php (1193 words)

	Cricket Sports of India
		Cricket became a generally adopted sport in the second half of the seventeenth century.
		In 1956, the name of Imperial Cricket Conference was changed to International Cricket Conference to enable countries outside the common wealth to become its members.
		Cricket was brought to India by the British.
	www.webindia123.com /Sports/cricket/cricket.htm (361 words)

	Lohana Online
		Cricket has been an organized adult game since the seventeenth century when it first took the fancy of English gentlemen lying low in their country estates at the time of the Civil War.
		In England, the emerging public schools, believing that cricket fostered qualities of manliness and leadership, proclaimed it to be more than a game, in fact an institution.
		By the turn of the century cricket had come to assume profound political significance, especially for imperialists.
	www.lohanaonline.com /cricket/cricket11.asp (639 words)

	THE HISTORY AND GAME OF CRICKET \| FIRLE CRICKET CLUB \| GLYNDEBOURNE OPERA HOUSE \| FIRLE BEACON \| RAM INN EAST SUSSEX ...
		Cricket is a team sport played between two groups of eleven players each.
		Cricket is also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean (called the West Indies).
		The cricket field consists of a large circular or oval-shaped grassy ground.
	www.budweiser-beer.net /cricket.htm (4843 words)

	History and development of Cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kent were dominant in the early part of the eighteenth century, but in the later half of the century, English cricket became popular is a small English village called Hambledon.
		By the end of the nineteenth century, cricket had spread from it's English roots to be played in many overseas countries, particularly those which had British Empire connections.
		In the mid-eighteenth century, cricket was played in mainland Europe, and in 1721 mariners of the East India Company ships played cricket at Cambay in India.
	sportsrules.50g.com /cricket/history-cricket.htm (1157 words)

	Cricket History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All research concedes that the game derived from a very old, widespread and uncomplicated pastime by which one player served up an object, be it a small piece of wood or a ball, and another hit it with a suitably fashioned club.
		Nor is there any evidence as to when points were awarded dependent upon how far the hitter was able to despatch the missile; nor when helpers joined the two-player contest, thus beginning the evolution into a team game; nor when the defining concept of placing wickets at either end of the pitch was adopted.
		The measurements of cricket - the origin of the dimensions of cricket by AR Littlewood.
	www.cricinfo.com /link_to_database/ABOUT_CRICKET/HISTORY (1612 words)

	The City of Lauderhill, Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cricket more than any other sport has traditionally been associated with the virtues of honesty, integrity, fair play and team work.
		By the later eighteenth century control of this fashionable and profitable new leisure activity was in the hands of a number of gentlemen’s clubs.
		Televised cricket matches publicized the wares of cigarette manufacturers who were barred from conventional advertising.
	www.lauderhill.net /se_CRICKET_history.html (766 words)

	Calgary & District Cricket League - About Cricket
		Cricket is a game played with a ball and a bat between two teams consisting of 11 players on each side.
		According to some sources, during the 18th century, cricket was limited to the southern counties of England, but it was soon discovered by society and brought to London, where a famous match took place between Kent and All-England in 1744.
		The artificial surface was installed for the start of the 2004 cricket season replacing a red shale and matting wicket that previously stood for 30 years.
	www.cricket.ab.ca /calgary/html/about.html (1027 words)

	Cricinfo - Cricket literature - the 18th century
		Written and pictorial records of cricket may go back to the Plantagenet period, although it is impossible to distinguish between what may be cricket and its brothers, cat and dog, stool-ball, rounders etc., and even at times its cousins, hockey and golf.
		At the very end of this century cricket makes its appearance in the newspapers, a trend that grows rapidly in the eighteenth century but is concerned with announcements of matches, the wagers involved and, occasionally, the ensuing riots rather than with descriptions of matches.
		Literature begins, for cricket, suddenly, unexpectedly and fully grown, like Minerva from the head of Jupiter, in a Latin poem of 95 lines on a rural cricket match that was written by William Goldwin and published in his Musae Juveniles in March 1706.
	content-usa.cricinfo.com /ci/content/story/89662.html (1313 words)

	Cricket: Ponting joins Bradman with 29th century \| Cricket \| Guardian Unlimited Sport
		Makhaya Ntini negated the effects of Ricky Ponting's 29th Test century by leading a determined South Africa fightback on the opening day of the second Test as three Australia wickets fell in five overs shortly before the close.
		Ponting had painstakingly worked his way to a fourth century in seven innings against South Africa - equalling Sir Donald Bradman's overall mark, only three short of Steve Waugh's Australia record of 32 - and all seemed rosy at 198 for two on a good pitch under clear blue skies.
		But the Australia captain, flushed with success at reaching the landmark, drove wildly at the next ball from Nicky Boje and was smartly snapped up by Herschelle Gibbs at short cover to depart for 103 from 225 balls with 11 boundaries.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /cricket/story/0,,1739322,00.html?gusrc=rss (284 words)

	Tony Mann: the first nightwatchman century maker - Cricket - Sport
		Jason Gillespie's amazing effort this week of scoring a double century in the Test in Chittagong after coming in as a nightwatchman has shone the light on his only Australian predecessor to score a ton after being sent in to shield the recognised batsmen.
		Mann's century against the Indians was his second first-class century as nightwatchman.
		He played state cricket for 21 years, from 1964 to '84, and now coaches Western Australia's most promising teenagers in the art of leg spin.
	theage.com.au /news/cricket/tony-mann-the-first-nightwatchman-century-maker/2006/04/21/1145344277465.html (785 words)

	THE FIRST CENTURY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		centuries, and the logical ancestors of the game we know as cricket.
		In the sixteenth century there were several references to cricket and by the
		end of the seventeenth century century it was firmly established as a
	www15.brinkster.com /ajayr/THEFIRSTCENTURY.htm (830 words)

	Wisden to name Indian cricketer of century-Cricket-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		NEW DELHI: With Indian cricket looking up after the win in the NatWest Triangular series, the Wisden Indian Cricketer of the Century award which is co-sponsored by Indiatimes and which will be announced on July 23, could not have been timed better.
		Gavaskar, by virtue of having the highest number of Test centuries (34) to his name and being one of the best opening batsmen ever, is one of the favourites.
		For the first time in Indian cricket, some of the most talented cricketers the country has ever produced would be rubbing shoulders at the Wembley Conference Centre, followed by a Gala Dinner at the Long Room at Lord's.
	www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.cms?art_id=16751123 (442 words)

	The Hindu : Sport / Cricket : Magnificent century by Kallis
		Kallis is, in an era when footballers kiss, athletes cry and cricketers scream their appeals, a man with so little emotion that he appears not to understand his own greatness.
		That's modern cricket; for most of the first 100 years Test cricket was unfair but no-one knew.
		Afterwards Nicky Boje was caught off Matthew Hoggard with the new ball at 249 for eight, Makhaya Ntini clubbed Hoggard for six, and Kallis hooked four to fine leg, pulled four to deep mid wicket and jogged a single to keep the bowling, all off Hoggard.
	www.hindu.com /2004/12/28/stories/2004122805052100.htm (577 words)

	Cricket: Malik century cements Test spot \| Cricket \| Guardian Unlimited Sport
		Cricket: Shoaib and Asif have doping bans overturned
		His century, off 124 balls, cemented his place at the top of the Test order, probably with Imran Farhat.
		Younis Khan's half-century also showed there is little rustiness in the batting but of more interest were events at the other end of the day - the beauty contest for the third seamer's spot in the Test team.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /cricket/story/0,,1812230,00.html?gusrc=rss (358 words)

	History of cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The greatest crisis to hit international cricket was brought about by apartheid, the South African policy of racial segregation.
		Cricket's opposition to apartheid intensified in 1968 with the cancellation of England's tour to South Africa by the South African authorities, due to the inclusion of "coloured" cricketer Basil D'Oliveira in the England team.
		The establishment of the Pro Cricket professional league in America in 2004 did little to broach this last frontier, though the game continues to grow through immigrant groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_cricket (3449 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Langer's century props up Australia in first test - Friday December 14, 2001 07:05 AM
		Inspired by Langer's 11th test century, Australia closed the first day on 272 for six in 90 overs after deciding to make first use of a sparsely grassed surface.
		Langer, who was forced out of the record-breaking Australian side at the start of the 2001 Ashes during the northern summer, has returned to the side by amassing 537 runs in seven innings at an average of 134.25.
		While Langer celebrated his first century against South Africa, the Waugh twins made 10 runs between them in their 100th test appearance together.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2001/12/14/aus_sa_copy1_ap (647 words)

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