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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 - News, Schedule, Photos, Teams
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
The ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 was the tenth Cricket World Cup, and hosted by three South Asian Test cricket playing countries India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It took place during the months of February and March 2011. Total Matches : 49 In India : 29 Matches(Includes one quarterfinal, semi-final and final) In Sri Lanka : 12 matches(Includes one quarterfinal and semifinal) In Bangladesh : 8 matches(Includes two quarterfinals)

Amazing Cricket Facts
Do you know Some facts
Cricket is said to be a gentleman's game. The reason to say this is that i didn't got a start to write this lens and hence i wrote this line. Cricket was always my passion. I wanted to be a cricketer but surroundings didn't gave me the support. And naturally my interest was a little less in that than before. But still I love cricket and watch every interesting match of my country. Of course, the people who will read this will have a certain knowledge of what cricket is. But still who don't k...

Cricket Kit Explained - Batting
Bats and pads and gloves and boxes....
Like most sports, cricket has a range of kit which is unique. Most of this kit is used with protection in mind, after all a leather ball bowled at 70mph plus can hurt. This lens will take you through the various pieces of equipment used during the game of cricket. Whilst it's not aiming to be an exhaustive list it will cover the most commonly used piece when batting. We'll start at the head and work downwards finishing with the legs. I cover clothing and wicket keeping in my lens called Cric...

How to Maintain Cricket Bat ?
History of Cricket Bat
Playing cricket started in the year 1620 onwards. Bats were shaped initially more or less like hockey sticks. The traditional cricket bat came to its transition in the year 1770s. The bat was very heavy at the base and it was there until 1820s. The search of correct timber for making cricket bats were continued with different type of woods. Manufacturers initially tried their experiment with English willow. This bat was used in early 1800s. As these were weigh massive upto 5 pounds, because ...

2012 IPL 5th Season
Twenty 20 Cricket
in India IPL - Indian Premier League started in the year 2008 and every year, twenty 20 match is being conducted during the month of March April. This year, the fifth edition of IPL starts from 4th April and will be played till 27th May 2012. Total of nine teams are playing in this league. Each team will play the other eight opponent team twice and so each team has to play 16 matches each. The top four team will qualify for quarter finals and move to semis and then 27 May they play the fin...

Cricket
Cricket - Another religion in India
If you are living in Asian countries specially in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, than I must know what is cricket for you guys. We simply love this game and at the crucial game we forget almost everything and glued to television sets. I still remember final of T20 World Cup 2008. All eyes were on the television and for last one hour they do not want to do anything except to watch the nail biting game of India and Pakistan.

Cobras and Cricket
The Panic Healing Way
Like everyone else, I too would have dismissed the above as yet another indicator of irrelevance or inappropriateness like ghulam khader and gokulashtami fly in a smithy had I not seen the news track on 'Star Sports' the day before the Ferozeshah Kotla fixture between India and Pakistan, which included an interview of a couple of snake-charmers, who along with their squad will be on duty for full five days of the match. The provocation was Shiv Sena threat to let loose serpents during the mat...

Rae of Hope
From Bradman to Brand Men
It was nice of Allan Rae, the West Indies opener of yesteryears, to have likened Sachin's batting to that of a famous compatriot of his; George Headley, known as 'Black Bradman'. Though this sentiment might have stemmed more from his nostalgic memories of a test career which began and ended in India in the '50s, the timing was of significance, coming as it did on the eve of the fixture with New Zealand, though we were already out of the world cup reckoning. Despite the tension free match, we ...

Ball, Bat and Bomb
Of Bad-mouthing & Ballistic Bowling
The battle of Waterloo, they say was won on the playfields of Eton. In the perspective of world cup fixture between India and Pakistan, with the backdrop of smoke from shell in Kargil, it might as well be said the other way about i.e. the match at Old Trafford was won on the battlefields of Kargil. The compressed cricket as we see today is loaded with money, and mortar is today a different kettle of fish from the game of genuine gentlemen that it was. You see speedsters doing their best to h...

Twenty20 Cricket For Dummies
The New Cricket, an explanation
This lens is written for 2 sorts of people: those who basically understand conventional cricket but who are unsure of the different rules and emphases of T20 cricket and secondly those to whom the whole world of cricket is a boring, meaningless blur.(also known as Americans). Sorry, just a joke. Definition: Twenty twenty cricket is the newest form of the game and I shall henceforth refer to it as T20 cricket, so T20 equals Twenty twenty. Those of you who don't understand the basic idea of cr...