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	Stump (cricket) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The stumps are 28 (A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot) inches tall and usually made of wood.
		Off stump is the stump on the (Click link for more info and facts about off side) off side of the wicket.
		Leg stump is the stump on the (Click link for more info and facts about leg side) leg side of the wicket.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stump_(cricket).htm (595 words)

	Stump - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Earth science a stump is a coastal landform which forms when a stack is eroded, leaving a small rock island, usually small enough to be submerged at high tide.
		In the sport cricket the stumps are three small wooden posts which the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
		In politics the stump is the place where a speech is given or an occasion where the campaign takes place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stump (190 words)

	stump - definition by dict.die.net
		Leg stump (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman.
		Stump tracery (Arch.), a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump.
		To go on the stump, or To take the stump, to engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly-settled districts.
	dict.die.net /stump (427 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.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_cricket (276 words)

	Donald Bradman - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After a brief dalliance with tennis he dedicated himself to cricket, playing for local sides before attracting sufficient attention to be drafted in grade cricket in Sydney at the age of 18.
		Despite occasional battles with illness, he continued to dominate world cricket throughout the 1930s and is credited with raising the spirit of a nation suffering under the vagaries of the economic depression, until war intervened.
		As a member of the Australian Cricket Board, and, reportedly, their de facto leader, he was also involved in negotiations with the World Series Cricket schism in the late 1970s.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Donald_Bradman (1087 words)

	Stump Grinding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Boston parish church, known popularly as The Stump, in Boston, Lincolnshire, UK is dedicated to Saint Botolph, the name "Boston" possibly being a corruption of "Botolph's Town".
		Stump was born in Phoenix and was a U.S. Navy World War II combat veteran, where he served on the USS Tulagi from 1943-1946.
		In the sport of cricket, the term stump has three different meanings: #part of the wicket, #a manner of dismissing a batsman, and #the end of the day's play ("stumps").
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/85/stump-grinding.html (1057 words)

	\| Facts about Cricket game \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The fact that Oliver Cromwell had played cricket was levelled against him by his enemies, one whom, in trying to prove that Cromwell had led a dissolute life, stated that he had been 'famous for cricket and wrestling'.
		The third stump was adds about 1776, but it was not until 1864 that the bowler was allowed to raise his arm to any height, provided the ball was not thrown or jerked.
		He can also be stumped or run out if he happens to be out of his ground, beyond a line marked on the turf, when the wicket is hit by the ball.
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	Topspinner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In cricket, a topspinner is a delivery where the ball comes out the top of the bowler's hand, causing it to spin in the direction of travel.
		Because the spin is entirely in the direction the ball is travelling in, the ball does not change direction when it bounces as a normal spin delivery would.
		This can trick the batsman, who may nick the ball behind the stumps, and be caught out by the wicket-keeper or one of the slip fielders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Topspinner (185 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Cricket \| He's out - leg before stump cam
		International cricket's umpiring revolution claimed its first victim on the opening day of the Champions Trophy when Shoaib Malik, a none-too-famous Pakistan batsman until yesterday, became the first player to be dismissed lbw with the help of television replays.
		TV umpire dismissals have previously been limited to run-outs, stumpings and hit wickets, but under experimental regulations that are bound to court controversy, on-field umpires can now request advice on a range of decisions from the third umpire.
		The International Cricket Council had promised that a TV verdict would be delivered within 20 seconds and two statutory replays.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /cricket/story/0,10069,791400,00.html (765 words)

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		A cricket field is a roughly elliptical field of flat grass, ranging in size from about 90 to 150 metres (100-160 yards) across, bounded by an obvious fence or other marker.
		The most serious misconduct in a cricket match is of the order of a rude gesture to an opponent or throwing the ball into the ground in disgust.
		The Ashes trophy is a small urn containing ``the ashes of English cricket'' (in reality the ashes of a set of bails), which ``died'' in a match in 1882 when Australia beat England for the first time.
	www.cs.purdue.edu /homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm (9560 words)

	Indiatimes Cricket - Blonde Bombshell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whether it was by bowling that Ball Of The Century when he bowled Mike Gatting by pitching the ball where a leg slip would be and uprooting Gatting's off stump or by his unsavory association with match-fixing and the fairer sex.
		Cricket pundits have suggested that Shane Warne has revitalised the art of leg spin.
		In the last decade where tearaway bowlers have dominated the cricket scene, no one has been able to hold the leg spin flag flying high, except him.
	cricket.indiatimes.com /homepages/warne/blonde01.htm (352 words)

	STUMP - Definition
		The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
		(Cricket) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
		(Cricket) (a) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /search.aspx?Dict=&define=stump&search.x=24&search.y=15 (557 words)

	Cop battered with cricket stump in police station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cop battered with cricket stump in police station
		A Sub-Inspector attached to the Nehru Nagar Police Station was attacked with a cricket stump yesterday afternoon, allegedly by
		Mohammed Iqbal Momin (26), a resident of Kasaiwadi, Kurla (West), is charged with hitting Sub-Inspector N M Divekar with a wooden stump.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0402/93.html (289 words)

	Julius Caesar Presents: Samuel Beckett
		Cricket's connection with literature stretches back as far as 1706 when the first full description of a cricket match appeared in Cambridge in a Latin poem.
		Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin, Ireland on the thirteenth of April 1906.As a cricketer he was an opening left hand batsman and left arm medium pace bowler whose first class experience was limited to two games both against Northhamptonshire, (one as an opening batsman and bowler).
		The action took place on a strip almost exactly the length of a cricket pitch, painted a lighter grey than the surrounding floor to the same sort of width as a cricket pitch, with Hamm and Clov in dustbins roughly where the stumps would be.
	www.samuel-beckett.net /cricket.html (1266 words)

	Stump (cricket) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Stumping is a relatively rare form of dismissal, and is usually seen when a medium or slow bowler is bowling.
		It requires co-operation between a bowler and wicket-keeper: the bowler must induce the batsman to move out of his ground, and the wicket-keeper must be very quick to break the wicket before the batsman makes his ground (i.e.
		The bowler obtains credit for dismissing a batsman who is stumped, but obtaining a stumping is largely attributible to the ability of the wicket-keeper.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/stump__cricket_ (448 words)

	Stump (cricket) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Off stump is the stump on the off side of the wicket (the same side as the batsman's bat).
		Leg stump is the stump on the leg side of the wicket (the same side as the batsman's legs).
		In cricket, a batsman can be out stumped if:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stump_(cricket) (460 words)

	S t u m p V i s i o n -- for a closer look @ Sports
		the movement by which the bat is brought back-wards over the stumps before being swung forward again as the batsman plays a stroke, especially an attacking stroke off the front foot.
		A large white movable structure, usually wooden but occasionally made of other materials (such as canvas), which is placed close to and outside the boundary directly behind either of the wickets in order to assist the batsman by enhancing the visibility of the bowled ball.
		Either of the two targets at which the ball is bowled in cricket and which the batsman defends with his bat, each consisting of three stumps set in the ground and surmounted by two bails, the whole construction measuring 28 inches (71.1 centimeters) high by 9 inches (22.86 centimeters) wide.
	cricket.stumpvision.com /criclingo.asp (1392 words)

	CRICKET IN PERIOD
		The profile is reputed to be similar to the early long low wicket in cricket, or the early stool in stoolball, and there apparently exists a 1643 reference to cricket meaning a low stool.
		Since this is in the heartland of cricket’s history, many believe ‘creag’ to be the earliest form of cricket, and no contradicting evidence has come to light on the matter.
		Cricket was generally considered in the second category, and there is no mention of any of the aristocracy approving of it until 1677, when the Earl of Sussex was reputed to have attended a ‘crekitt match’.
	www.sca.org.au /laurels/cricket.htm (5281 words)

	ROUNDERS - LoveToKnow Article on ROUNDERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A hard ball similar to that used in baseball was adopted, and the rule by which a runner could be put out by hitting him with a thrown ball abandoned., The bat must not exceed 31/2 in.
		The original pentagon has been discarded in favor of an elongated diamond, the homebase being at one end and 1st, 2nd and 3rd bases at the other points, while the 4th base is situated on the line of 3rd base towards home and 17 yds.
		A variation of rounders is Fieldball, invented in 1888, a combination of rounders and cricket, a wicket being placed in front of the backstop, and the four bases arranged in a circle 25 yds.
	1.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROUNDERS.htm (2611 words)

	Chapter Studiedly <i>to</i> Stump of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
		We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness.
		to engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; — a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly-settled districts.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1210/24154/6.html (359 words)

	Cricket And Chemistry Combine To Provide New Understanding Of How Fats Work
		Anyone who dares to suggest that cricket stumps are just three equal sized lengths of wood would be instantly set upon by cricket fans keen to point out the subtle differences between how the game approaches the leg stump and off stump (the two outside stumps).
		The chemical lay out of fats is in the shape of three long chains connected together at the top of those chains by a short chain akin to the bales on a set of cricket stumps.
		The research team is using a novel Nuclear Magnetic Resonance approach to tag or label the point at which one of the chains or stumps connects with the "bails" of the fat.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1997-06/UoW-CACC-160697.php (261 words)

	Sporting News, The: A bat, a ball and a Ruthian legend - Brief Article - Obituary
		The hard, high-seamed cricket ball thrown 80 mph was bounced toward the batsman's unprotected body and head.
		Yet such was Bradman's dignity that when asked about the cricket equivalent of a baseball beanball war, he said, "It was not, you might say, in the spirit of the game." Rules against bodyline were soon enacted.
		But try this: A cricket batsman is godly if he averages 50 runs in international competitions known as Test matches; Bradman, during his 20-year career, 1928-48, averaged 99.94 runs a Test.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_17_225/ai_73827978 (921 words)

	PCQuest : IT in Cricket : Of Bats and Stumps
		These are micro-cameras placed inside the stumps, giving couch potatoes the experience of being where no spectator on the cricket field can ever imagine being.
		In many cricket fields, there’s a wire traveling underground, connecting the camera to other TV equipment or even PCs, to remotely control them.
		The first stump camera installation was done by the BBC the early 1990s.
	www.pcquest.com /content/cricket/103030407.asp (789 words)

	Cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We are the originators of these unique scoring mechanisms, and most cricket scoreboards in the country have our equipment in current use.
		Available with either two legs or three legs, these scorers are ideal for easy carrying to the cricket field as their weight is only 2kg.
		Our socketed cricket cages are also available in any number of bays to suit your requirements.
	www.hillsport.com /cricket.htm (483 words)

	Stump (cricket) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	Barbados Cricket and West Indies Cricket
		Cricket is the national sport of Barbados and the West Indies.
		Barbados is one of the international capitals of cricket and always contributes a large contingent to the West Indies team.
		Some of the old-time great Barbadian cricketers who contributed a lot to this sport were...
	www.barbados.org /crick.htm (270 words)

	cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Marylebone Cricket Club standardised the rules in the late eighteenth century with the first test match organised in 1877 and one-day cricket starting in 1963.
		For cricket it is particularly important to have good anticipation when you are batting and rapid hand-eye response when fielding.
		Analysing results from the last cricket World Cup researchers found that the most successful teams had more left handed batsmen and Australia, the winners, had four left-handed batsmen out of their top six places in the batting order.
	www.brower.co.uk /opticians/cricket.html (1139 words)

	The Scotsman - Sport - Cash crisis threatens to stump Scottish cricket
		SCOTLAND’S cricketing coach has warned that the national team will be forced to withdraw from the English National League this summer if they fail to secure adequate funding at a meeting with sportscotland this week.
		At the start of what should have been a watershed season, with Scotland lined up to play 18 matches against leading English county opposition, interim coach Tony Judd has warned that the team are now on the brink of pulling out of the limited-overs competition after failing to find any significant sponsors.
		When the news broke that Scotland had been allowed entry to the old Norwich Union League for an initial three-year period, there were hopes that Scottish Cricket Limited could recruit world-class performers such as India’s Rahul Dravid and Pakistan’s Wasim Akram to bolster their home-grown pool.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /sport.cfm?id=73832003 (497 words)

	Gunn & Moore Cannon Cricket Bag (Navy) Slazenger Protege Hold-All Cricket Ba
		The Gunn & MooreÂ® cricket shoulder bag is designed with multiple pockets including a large internal pocket that securely holds up to 2 bats.
		The Ball is a regular BDM Cricket ball mounted on a stump.
		The Gunn & MooreÂ® Cannon cricket bag is a deluxe personal holdall with a large "D" opening for easy access and an end pocket with multiple accessory compartments.
	www.playstation2.gamesite4u.com /R_3402941-2.htm (539 words)

	Observer \| Inside edge
		A cricket stump, a golf ball and a tank stand were the focus of our story last week - the simple equipment used by the young Don Bradman to hone his batting skills.
		Cricket administrators don't normally talk to protesters, but that is what has been happening as Durham prepare to host their inaugural Test match this week.
		Two protesters who separately got on to the field at Lord's during the first Test were led gently away and the Zimbabwe issue compromises the big move made last season to stop pitch incursions by prosecuting offenders.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4681227-102283,00.html (297 words)

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