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	Forms of cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cricket is also played in several different shortened forms, designed to pack as much action as possible into an hour or two.
		Club cricket is played extensively in cricketing nations, and also by immigrants from cricketing nations.
		French cricket is a game in which the ball is bowled at the legs of the batsman, with the batsman's legs forming the wicket.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forms_of_cricket (511 words)

	Cricket (sport) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cricket is a team sport that originated in its organised form in England and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth.
		The laws of cricket are a set of rules framed by the Marylebone Cricket Club which serve to standardise the format of matches across the world to ensure uniformity and fairness in the game throughout the globe.
		On 10 June 2004, the Zimbabwe Cricket Union agreed Zimbabwe would not play any further Test matches in 2004, after a dispute between administrators and players meant that it could not field a team of adequate quality, although Zimbabwe's status as an official Test nation was not affected.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/c/cr/cricket__sport_.html (2861 words)

	French cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		French cricket is an informal form of cricket where a ball (usually a tennis ball) is bowled underarm at the legs of another player holding either a cricket bat or a tennis racquet.
		The player holding the bat, the batsman, is required to block and defend his wicket, with the batsman's legs taking the place of stumps.
		French cricket is most commonly played by children, or mixed groups of children and adults, although adults sometimes play it as a diversion during outdoor parties or on picnics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_cricket (284 words)

	DM's Explanation of Cricket - Informal Cricket
		Backyard cricket is an even more informal form of cricket, usually played by adults during the early stages of a barbecue when the fire is just warming up.
		There are several forms of continuous cricket, all characterised by the rule that batsmen may not be run out, but the bowler may bowl the ball as soon as he is ready, without waiting for the batsmen to be ready, or even to have completed a run.
		French cricket is played with just a single cricket bat and a tennis ball.
	www.dangermouse.net /cricket/informal.html (1187 words)

	That's Cricket - your source for all that is cricket
		Cricket is a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean (called the West Indies).
		Occurs almost exclusively in timed forms of cricket where a draw is a possible result (such as first class cricket), in order that the side declaring have enough time to bowl the opposition out and therefore win.
		Used by cricketers both on and off the field to gain advantage of the opposition by frustrating them and breaking the concentration of the opposition.
	www.americancricket.net /cricket/index.asp (6480 words)

	Embassy of France in the US - Just for Kids
		Two third of French men and half the women say they take part in a sporting activity and nearly a quarter of the French now belong to sports federations, three times more than in 1970.
		The victory of the "blues" (the French team's nickname) was celebrated throughout the country with immense jubilation.
		In some fields, such as sailing, judo, fencing, and motoracing, the French are among the best in the world.
	www.info-france-usa.org /kids/lif/base.asp?sports (262 words)

	Mr. Speaker » Blog Archive » Jolly Good Cricket: Methods of Dismissal
		A thorough study of cricket could be likened to the study of any great art - The basics require a short time to acquire, but only after a lifetime of dedication and learning can one expect to fully comprehend its nature and beauty.
		Cricket is a high class, gentlemanly affair and the vernacular remains true to times a-past.
		Also, according to this cricket faq, Abdul Aziz of Pakistan has the unfortunate distinction of being the only player to be recorded as ‘retired dead’.
	mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com /2005/08/02/jolly-good-cricket (851 words)

	Print Article: Cricket a French game? History shows that's nuts, says the professor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Days after a French cricket official attracted international attention by reasserting France's claim to have invented cricket, an American-based historian has gone into bat for the view that the game was not only bred in England but born there, too.
		Earlier this week, however, a former president of the French Cricket Federation, Didier Marchois, who plays for Chauny in northern France, told a London newspaper of medieval documents referring to matches near the battlefields of Crecy and Agincourt during the Hundred Years War.
		After 1600, though, specific references to cricket as we know it became common, and by the late 1600s the game was played by the gentry as well as by peasants.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/11/22/1037697879383.html (487 words)

	rediff.com: cricket channel: News Roll
		A former president of the French cricket federation has revived claims that his country invented a sport widely regarded as the embodiment of Englishness.
		Other evidence cited by proponents of cricket's French origins is a 13th century manuscrpit from St Omer near Calais which purports to show a batsman defending his wicket.
		Meanwhile turning to the present Marchois, who was proud of the fact that France now boasted 50 cricket clubs, said he had a simple explanation for England's defeat by arch-rival Australia in the first Test in Brisbane earlier this month.
	www.rediff.com /cricket/2002/nov/18news.htm (933 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cricket is a game of skill and technique where players are expected to concentrate for long periods of time, either batting, bowling or fielding.
		Like few other sports cricket is tactically linked to water - whenever Michael Parkinson played cricket on the beach at Scarborough, he always made sure that he was batting when the tide was coming in, so that the distance for a boundary was continually shortening.
		Depending upon the level of cricket and type of match being played, there can be breaks in play for lunch and tea as well as for a short time between innings.
	www.club-cricket.com /ccc_nutrition.htm (1375 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 121 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mady Bissey, president of the Aquitaine Softball and Cricket League (LABSC), readily admits that the sport -- with its lengthy matches, arcane rules and strict codes of conduct -- "is not part of French culture".
		But Hackett rejects the idea that playing cricket in the Dordogne is a nostalgic way for expatriates to get in touch with their homeland, describing the phenomenon as a passion shared by the British and the French.
		And last year, the European under-15 cricket tournament was held in Saint-Astier, shining the local spotlight on a sport that is gradually gaining a foothold in France.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/09/23/d40923040835.htm (428 words)

	Cricket Fun
		Ex-England cricketer Chris Lewis’s name was yesterday recalled by a man during the sporting round of a pub quiz.
		The England cricket team sunk to their lowest depths yesterday after losing an impromptu game of French cricket against the hotel staff in the lobby of the Bangalore Marriott.
		Still, at the end of the day, the game of French cricket is all about not letting the ball hit you on the leg and making sure you say “in ”.
	www.crawleycricket.co.uk /fun.htm (653 words)

	LOCAL NEWS: STORY \| Samoa Observer Online: The Information Portal of Samoa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		French is a veteran of 18 three-day internationals and a number of one-day tests.
		Elite Level cricket umpires is another area where his vast experience is being harnessed by Cricket Australia as being a selector and assessor for test cricket umpires.
		Cricket Samoa chief executive, Laki Uaea Apelu has gladly welcomed French's arrival in Samoa with the aim to help out the sport that is vastly gaining popularity amongst the local people.
	www.samoaobserver.ws /news/sports/sp0504/0405sp002.htm (248 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend - Au revoir to cricket's Dr Who
		The moment will be little short of traumatic for armchair cricket enthusiasts, who have come to regard the white-haired Australian's pronouncements in his chosen field with the deference that others reserve for Nelson Mandela and used to reserve for Lord Denning.
		I have even travelled to Strasbourg to play for a French cricket team in sight of nesting storks (Benaud is patron of the sport in France).
		But this most experienced of all cricket watchers picked up the notion that England would be no pushovers as early as April 2004, after watching them beat the West Indies in Barbados - a win that featured a Matthew Hoggard hat-trick.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/54539724-2118-11da-a603-00000e2511c8.html (1319 words)

	Cricket Club Des Ormes - Cricket Team in Brittany, France
		And cricket in Brittany may just be the tour you're looking for.
		Chateau Des Ormes is one of the largest holiday facilities in France with a campsite set in mature woodland, 4 swiming pools including a large leisure pool, tennis courts, equestrian centre, several bars and a nightclub.
		As well as all this, there is the fantastic 18 hole woodland golf couse, 9 hole par 3 course, driving range, club house and the 3 star hotel, which provides the accommodation for the touring teams.
	www.cricketinfrance.com (536 words)

	The Motley Fool UK: The Bribble
		Professional Yorkshireman, xenophobe, misogynist, ex-professional cricketer and soon to be ex-professional cricket commentator (now that test cricket has gone to Channel 4) Geoffrey Boycott was in the headlines last week.
		Boycott is on trial in France in front of a French magistrate in a French court for beating up his girlfriend in a French hotel.
		Elsewhere in the cricket world, the one day England team went all the way to Bangladesh for the Wills International Cup only to be knocked out by South Africa in their first match.
	www.fool.co.uk /bribble/1998/bribble981027.htm (752 words)

	Take Our Word For It, page one - Spotlight
		Needless to say, this is not cricket as played in France, for the French simply do not play cricket.
		It is a very informal version of cricket which has no wickets, the object of the game being to hit the batsman's legs with the ball.
		The word French is used to indicate that this is an odd variant of cricket.
	www.takeourword.com /TOW156/page1.html (393 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Funny Old Game \| France lays claim to cricket
		Cricket was born in the north of France and taken across the channel by English soldiers
		M Marchois says he has unearthed documents that show cricket was being played across the channel as early as the 13th century.
		"Cricket was born in the north of France and taken across the channel by English soldiers who picked it up from us during truce periods in the Hundred Years War," Marchois told the Sunday Express, with a twinkle in his eye.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/funny_old_game/2485439.stm (297 words)

	MSN India - Cricket’s new French connection
		London, Nov. 19: The French have once again laid claim as the originators of cricket, a game considered worldwide as being invented by the British.
		A former president of the French cricket federation Didier Marchois was quoted by Britain's Sunday Express that he had seen medieval documents that referred to matches near the battlefields of Crecy and Agincourt during the Hundred Years War.
		Cricket was born in the north of France and taken across the Channel by English soldiers who picked it up from us during truce periods in the Hundred Years War," he said in the newspaper article.
	autofeed.msn.co.in /pandoraV15/output/0652F4FA-FCC0-47CC-ACDB-FE9370C37960.asp (222 words)

	IOL: Howzat! Cricket bowls over Frenchmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Saint-Astier, France - The large British expatriate community in the Dordogne region brought its love for cricket to south-western France many years ago, but is now finally converting locals to the sport.
		Mady Bissey, president of the Aquitaine Softball and Cricket League (LABSC), readily admits that the sport - with its lengthy matches, arcane rules and strict codes of conduct - "is not part of French culture".
		Cannon bought a three-hectare plot of land, and thus the Cricket Club of Saint-Astier was born.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw1095768001414A141 (596 words)

	Halfbakery: Pretend everything was invented by someone French
		The idea is to pretend that any given idea or product was actually invented by a French person who then gave their surname to that concept or thing.
		All right minded people know that everything was invented by the English...and stolen by the French (except for bad breath and terrible toilets, which they invented themselves and eating sausages which was invented by the Germans).
		He would have been French enough to play for their rugby team, but he had to invent the game first.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Pretend_20everything_20was_20invented_20by_20someone_20French (2165 words)

	rediff.com: A Backpacker's diary
		For this gorgeous city is arguably the home of cricket in India, which is in turn, of course, perhaps the world's home of cricket.
		When I played cricket with friends on lazy summer afternoons as a boy, even when in larger groups, we would not normally bother organising a game.
		I love the way that so much cricket is crammed into such large areas, as though even if the space was endless there would be enough games to cover them.
	www.rediff.com /cricket/2001/nov/19barmy.htm (881 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - French Cricket
		The very name of French cricket is something of an anomaly, for it is neither French, nor does it much resemble the sport of cricket.
		The name probably derives from hackneyed xenophobia about 'French doing things differently,' and the only piece of cricket equipment you'll need is a bat.
		Many rules have been developed and lost for French Cricket over the years; the following is an attempt (in the manner of the development of most sports) to unify the most sensible and widely played rules into this - the Unified h2g2 Rules of French Cricket.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A804133 (1122 words)

	CRICKETNEXT.COM FEATURES ::: The French & Cricket don't get well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Unfortunately to save money, (a cricket correspondent is paid very inadequately, a cricket correspondent who has never played cricket even less adequately) I had to board a plane that went Mumbai-Paris-Cape Town-Harare, a route so bad and so cheap that even Columbus wouldn't have bothered travelling it.
		It struck Broachaskar, while sipping on three glasses of wine, and eating every other table's glass of bread that there has to be reasons why the French don't play cricket.
		A little disappointed, I posed the question to Faid, a 35 of North African descent, who named all five children Zidane, after the French World Cup hero, never mind that two of them were girls.
	www.cricketnext.com /features/cyrus/broachaskar064.htm (464 words)

	AngloINFO Normandy - Bookshop: Biography & Memoirs
		Once upon a time, former night club bouncer, seamstress and professional bedtester George East and his wife Donella fled to Normandy to escape their creditors and try to live off their wits in a foreign land.
		French Letters is the final book in the La Puce trilogy, and continues the adventures of the author and his wife as they struggle to come to terms with an isolated rural community where time is cheap, good friends...(read more)
		Further adventures on life in a small French town from Susan Loomis, cookery book writer and author of "On Rue Tatin".
	normandy.angloinfo.com /bookshop?ID=11 (296 words)

	Take Our Word For It Issue 80
		A deep kiss is a French kiss and, in England, a condom is often called a French letter.
		Curiously, it was not immediately apparent how this disease was transmitted and when King Henry VIII contracted the French pox, there were rumors that Cardinal Wolsey had given it to the king by constantly whispering in his ear.
		While it must have been gratifying for the English to blame syphilis on their old enemies, the French, it actually came from the West Indies, being brought to Europe by Columbus and his crew.
	www.takeourword.com /Issue080.html (2873 words)

	BBC SPORT \| CRICKET \| Learning le googly
		But the plot of her story moves to Belgium and the charming little town of Mechlin, renowned for church bells and beer rather than cricket and female leg-spinners.
		"I played well and proved women could be accepted in cricket, that we're as strong as men," she says.
		The story has it that about 600 years ago, bored English soldiers cooling their heels in between the various battles of the Hundred Years' War played cricket on French soil.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/low/cricket/1840214.stm (507 words)

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