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  London Nigerians Cricket Club's Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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 Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Sport - Cricket
Kensington Oval- the head-quarters of the Surrey Cricket Club.
Cricket —The famous grounds of "Lord's," and "The Oval" with with the more recently established "Prince's "are the principal cricket of grounds of London.
The Surrey County Club (election by ballot by the members generally, ten to make a ballot, and two fl balls to exclude) requires an entrance fee of one guinea; and a subscription of the same amount entitles a member to every privilege except that of practice from the Club bowlers, of whom there are eight.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Marylebone Cricket Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1787, was the original governing body of international cricket.
Though its international functions passed on to the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1993, and its English governance to the England and Wales Cricket Board, the MCC still is the framer and copyright holder of the Laws of Cricket.
The club was involved in a minor controversy over its members' persistent refusal to allow female membership well into the 1990s, with club ballots on the change, although supported by the officers of the club, unable to attract the two-thirds majority amongst the membership required for implementation.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Marylebone_Cricket_Club   (351 words)

  
 cricket, sport. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Cricket is played by two teams of eleven on a level, closely cut oval “pitch” preferably measuring about 525 ft (160 m) by about 550 ft (170 m).
The Marylebone Cricket Club, one of the oldest (1787) cricket organizations, is the game’s international governing body.
In Great Britain the principal cricket matches are those between the universities (especially Oxford and Cambridge) and between largely professional teams representing the English counties.
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 Cricket-news.com - the sport - cricket matches - cricket fans
Cricket is played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players.
The London Cricket Club is given credit for developing the rules of modern cricket In 1744.
The Marylebone Cricket Club, which also dates to the 18th century, is Cricket's governing body.
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 Bessborough cricket club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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 The White Rose Yorkshire Cricket Forum
A great deal of cricket writing is painfully jocose or bathetic, justifying Cyril Connolly's theory of permanent adolescence: compare the endlessly anthologised village cricket match from AG MacDonnell's England, Their England with Hemingway's best baseball stories; cricket has produced many classics of whimsy, but it does not have its Ring Lardner.
Cricket was born 300 years ago in one of the most violent ages in our history, when it was an alternative to the other diversions of the populace, watching animals being tormented or women and children hanged.
One of the first cricket heroes was the Regency rake the Reverend Lord Frederick Beauclerk, duke's son and parson, a petulant, foul-mouthed bully who is said to have made 600 guineas a year from gambling on cricket.
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 Cricket - Fanlisting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1744 the London Cricket Club produced what are recognizably the rules of modern cricket.
In Great Britain the principal cricket matches are those between the universities and between largely professional teams representing the English counties.
The previous owner was Kasey with who I spare the love of this sport ;) Cricket is played in United Kingdom and all countries which had been at a moment of their history influenced by Great Britain (Australia, South Africa, India, Pakistan).
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 History of Lords Cricket Field London England
Marylebone Cricket Club was founded in 1787 - a fact gathered from a poster for a cricket match in 1837 announcing MCC's Golden jubilee.
In 1805 the dukes and earls were keen to see their sons play cricket and so hired the ground for an Eton versus Harrow schools cricket match - the start of a world-famous, and on-going, tradition.
Since MCC was a private Club it could not receive public funds, so it set up a Cricket Council as the governing body of cricket and the Test and County Cricket Board to administer the professional game.
www.cricketclub.org /england_history.html   (913 words)

  
 Your London - Living
The exact origins of cricket are not known but references to forms of the game date back to 1300.
The first known cricket club was Hambledon formed in the 1760's and the county championships began about 100 years later.
This club, founded by Dr W G Grace in 1899, re-launched in 2004 as a new, exciting and inclusive organisation.
www.yourlondon.gov.uk /living/topic.jsp?topicid=6763&borough=null   (207 words)

  
 Sport Cricket United Kingdom
Fen Ditton Cricket Club - playing in the CCA Junior League with news on fixtures, averages, club records, and the latest from the under-11 and under-13 teams.
Hindley St. Peter's Cricket Club - with adult and junior teams competing in the Manchester Association and the West Lancashire League.
St Michael's Cricket Club - one of the oldest clubs in Northampton, competing in the Northampton Town Cricket League.
www.cannylink.com /sportcricketunitedkingdom.htm   (2600 words)

  
 History of Lords Cricket Field London England
Marylebone Cricket Club was founded in 1787 - a fact gathered from a poster for a cricket match in 1837 announcing MCC's Golden jubilee.
In 1805 the dukes and earls were keen to see their sons play cricket and so hired the ground for an Eton versus Harrow schools cricket match - the start of a world-famous, and on-going, tradition.
Since MCC was a private Club it could not receive public funds, so it set up a Cricket Council as the governing body of cricket and the Test and County Cricket Board to administer the professional game.
cricketclub.org /england_history.html   (913 words)

  
 Cricket South Africa
Speaking on the eve of the tournament, Cricket South Africa’s CEO, Gerald Majola said: “This tournament launches the 2006/7 domestic season and, once again, it is a showpiece for South African cricket.
“Club cricket lies at the very heart of the game in South Africa and it is most important for all levels of the game that it is kept alive and well.
The primary aims of the tournament are to enhance the strengths of club cricket and to engender a more robust participation between clubs.
www.cricket.co.za /default.asp?aId=191252&sportCategory=csa/sateam   (411 words)

  
 Lords Cricket Field London England
That cricket club would have you believe that they are a family of cricketers who trace their collective genealogy back to before the days the game was played on grass by gentlemen, hence the name ôLordsö for their ancestral home.
For those who bemoan the current plight of cricket with its betting, professionalism, marketing and match fixing, you will be comforted to know that the genus of the MCC and Lords was in gambling and the desire of the English nobility to do their scandalous business out of the eyes of the prying public.
I genuinely hope the name Marleyborne Cricket Club does not disappear from the cricket radar screen to become associated with a brand of sport apparel marketed over the net but I fear it and your sponsors may drive you to it.
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 Cricket
Players in one day cricket are generally attired in brightly coloured clothing to add spectator interest and to further enhance the appeal to the television networks, which broadcast many one day international matches.
He was made captain of the Indian cricket team from 1996-1997, and was the second youngest captain in Indian cricket history.
He continues to perform well under the massive weight of expectation of hundreds of millions of cricket followers, in India and around the world, and most recently was named Player Of The Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
www.spatial.maine.edu /~kapoor/Sport/Cricket.htm   (1419 words)

  
 Articles - Hit the ball twice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cricket is often considered to be a rather gentle pastime but it has a history of extreme violence.
In 1624, a fatality occurred at Horsted Keynes in east Sussex when a fielder called Jasper Vinall was struck on the head by the batsman, Edward Tye, who was trying to hit the ball a second time to avoid being caught.
One example, which is also the last instance of this dismissal in first-class cricket in England, happened in 1906 when John King, playing for Leicestershire against Surrey at The Oval tried to score a run after playing the ball twice to avoid getting bowled.
www.bowling-balls.net /articles/Hit_the_ball_twice   (493 words)

  
 Beckenham Cricket Club
Beckenham Cricket Club is actually five separate sports clubs, all united at one club in Beckenham, just twenty minutes from the centre of London.
The Club used to be the home of the June pre-Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, which traditionally started the British Grass Court Season.
The club is only twenty minutes drive from the M25 (junctions 3, 4 or 6).
www.beckenhamcricketclub.co.uk   (434 words)

  
 Alexandra Park Cricket Club, London
A third and crucial factor in the club's ascendancy and undoubtedly the most important in establishing A.P.'s playing reputation was the acquisition in 1922 from the Albemarle and Friern Barnet Club of L.W. (Len) Newman, and the arrival in 1925 of C.S. Con Davies.
The club had its indoor nets in the Palace itself, operated under its own independent constitution and was open to all cricketers regardless of club.
The club was by then probably at its zenith with a ten games a week fixture list, and its future looked assured at a time when sport of all kinds was flourishing in the euphoria of peace time.
www.apclub.co.uk /apcc/history/history.htm   (2052 words)

  
 1744 English cricket season at AllExperts
The earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket was written by the noblemen and gentlemen of the London Cricket Club which played at the Artillery Ground.
The match included one of cricket's earliest known declarations by Slindon in their second innings at 102â€"6, although the term "declaration" was not in use at that time and neither was the concept generally recognised.
The Penny London Morning Advertiser announced a match on Walworth Common in Surrey between "11 gentlemen of the Borough of Southwark and 11 gentlemen of High Kent and Blackman; the wickets to be pitched at one o'clock".
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 rediff.com: cricket channel: India's tour of England - All about the venues
The Lord's Cricket ground, situated at St John's Wood, London, is considered the premier ground in the world.
It is the home of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) which owns the ground and is also the home ground and headquarters of the Middlesex County Cricket Club.
The Surrey County Cricket Club, which was formed in 1845, has the Kennington Oval, now known as the AMP Oval, as its home ground and headquarters.
www.rediff.com /cricket/2002/jul/17lords.htm   (502 words)

  
 The Stanmore Cricket Club - Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The club is one of the oldest institutions in the North West of London.
Currently the club boasts a membership of over 300 (including junior members), who combine to form a very strong unit of players in the respective levels of the game.
With the individual commitment and ardent support all round, Stanmore Cricket Club continues to be a strong outfit in the Middlesex county cricket league.
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 Lords Cricket Ground - Things to do in London - All in London
Lords Cricket Ground is named after Thomas Lord, a fine bowler who was approached to establish a flat and fair ground for the increasingly popular elitist sport of the mid seventeen hundreds.
Lords is the home to Middlesex County Cricket Club and the MCC Library and museum are a popular attraction for visitors and hold the Ashes Urn and Wisden Trophy.
It is a remarkable testament to the club that the home of Cricket is still in use today and visitors are able to tour the ground where it all started more than 200 years ago.
www.allinlondon.co.uk /lords-cricket-ground.php   (380 words)

  
 Cricket better than wife?
Cricket is considered a great game, perhaps more than merely a game.
The main point against cricket is the pace of the game, ideal for the snails.
cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.
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 Lord's Cricket Museum, London NW8 : tourist information from TourUK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lord's and the Marylebone Cricket Club, the MCC, were created together in 1787 by wine merchant Thomas Lord and his sponsor, the 9th Earl of Winchilsea.
The Marylebone Cricket Club Museum is a place of pilgrimage for cricket fans, celebrating the 450-year history of game.
With memorabilia and caricatures, photographs and paintings of notable cricketers, as well as the 'Ashes', the charred remains of one of the bails from the 1882/83 Test series, the object of competition between the English and Australia.
www.touruk.co.uk /london_museums/lordscricket_museum1.htm   (400 words)

  
 London New Zealand Cricket Club
The club is a wandering side playing fixtures in and around the south east of England.
His contribution to the club has been immense over the years and we will miss his hard work and behind the scenes contribution top the club.
As a wandering club, we also invite all the clubs we play against, to return the wonderful hospitality we receive from them each year.
www.lnzcc.org   (308 words)

  
 Dulwich Cricket Club, London
Coaching is available to people of all ages who wish to improve their skills and can be provided either on a individual or group basis.
Whilst the netting facilities at Dulwich Cricket Club are undergoing renovation we have access to the use of the grass and all weather nets at Dulwich College.
We are also keen to 'spread the gospel' of the wonders of cricket into the wider community thus all our coaches are available for demonstrations, presentations and discussion groups particularly in schools which will inspire young people to participate in this most beautiful game.
www.dulwichcc.com /corporate/club_facilities.asp   (284 words)

  
 London Colleges: News item
The cricketing icon, who claimed more than 500 wickets in one-day internationals, 400 in Test matches and more than 1,000 in first class matches, was mobbed by fans at Uxbridge Cricket Club ground next to the college in Park Road, Uxbridge.
"The cricket academy is being developed as part of the college"s policy of encouraging personal development, which is highly prized by universities.
Uxbridge Cricket Club captain Preetinder Singh said: "We are delighted to be part of this.
www.londoncolleges.com /news/item.aspx?id=247   (394 words)

  
 University of Cincinnati Cricket Club
UCCC had been thrashed, pummelled and rolled over by Lexington Cricket Club at the same venue for two successive seasons.This time the opposition was different and the "C-A-T-I-T-U-D-E" was different too.
LCC's attack was not a threatening one and with a cement pitch and small boundaries, a high score was on the cards.
LCC had a quiet start to their innings with Pritesh Patel doing much of the work.
www.uc.edu /groups/uccc/MWM9.htm   (1095 words)

  
 Cricket Clubs In London And Surrounding Boroughs.
The other cricket clubs mentioned on this page are mainly amateur sides and the featured cricket club for London is Dulwich Cricket Club, one of the best clubs in South London....
Established in 1867, Dulwich Cricket Club is one of the leading cricket clubs in south London.
In addition, the club provides a healthy and progressive youth development environment, supported by top quality professional coaching.The Club is in the heart of Dulwich Village, in an almost countryside atmosphere, with good local transport, free parking and a genuine family atmosphere.
www.hotelsin-london.co.uk /cricket.htm   (232 words)

  
 C / Cricket - 020 London
London Colney cricket club is a small, enthusiastically-run club based around the village community of London Colney in Hertfordshire
Bromley Cricket Club is a private multi-sports club providing excellent facilities for over 500 members who want to play cricket or other sports.
BACC are proud of the facilities at the Concorde Club in Cranford, which are arguably second to none in the league or in the local area.
www.020.co.uk /c/cricket/london.shtml   (970 words)

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