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China won the toss and elected to field.

Vanuatu won by 73 runs

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Liu Jingmin and Buddhi Pradhan

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Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.

Cricket has been played in Colombia since the beginning of the 20th century. There are reports of cricket matches played at La Magdalena Jockey Club in 1905, 1907 and 1909.Cricket in Colombia received a boost on 20 May 1955 with the creation of the Bogotá Cricket Club (BCC). The first chairman of the club was Englishman Reginald Brand.The club's first match was played in Cali in December 1957 against a rival team gathered by a former BCC member representing Cali Shell. These matches were the first of a series of tests played between Bogotá against Cali and/or the Rest of Colombia for the "H.E.'s Bat", a prize donated by British Ambassador and Honorary President of the Club Sir James Joint.The first international match was played against Maracaibo (Shell) in Bogotá in February 1958. The return game was played in June of the same year. These series continued successfully until 1961.In 1961 the Bogota Cricket Club was merged into the Bogotá Sports Club.In March 1970, the New Zealand Ambassador's Cricket team visited the B.S.C. and was nearly beaten. That team included future internationals J.F.M. Morrison and A. Roberts.Other matches were played against Cali, Medellín, Caracas (team included ex-West Indies Test cricketer Tony White), Curaçao, Lima, the Banks, BEA Silver Wing Club, the California Cricket Club (on their South American Tour), the Quidnuncs (including Dudley Owen-Thomas, David Hays and Derek George), and finally in February 1979 Derrick Robins' XI.The B.S.C. (with Tony White) was the only side to bowl them out (for 184) during their South American tour. Norman Bracht took 5–74 in 20 overs and White 3–70 in 22. Their side was managed by Peter Parfitt (with Henry Blofeld), captained by Chris Cowdrey and included Bill Athey, Graham Stevenson, Tim Lloyd and other good young county cricketers.Though Cali and Bogotá played each other in 1981, in the eighties there were limited cricket appearances in Colombia and internationally due to the decline in the number of expat workers — and thus cricketers — in Colombia.However, the new millennium brought with it a mini-resurgence in Colombian cricket. The enthusiasm of Colombo-Canadian Norman Bracht, among others, allowed a game to be played in December 2000 between teachers of the Anglo Colombian school in Bogotá and a Bogotá Sports Club team comprising teachers from other schools, companies and the British Embassy. 26 players turned out at the first match, which took place at the Bogotá Sports Club's new venue on the via Cota-Suba in the north of Bogotá.Matches between teachers and other expats in Bogotá continued in 2001, before in May that year a touring team from Panamá spent a week in the Colombian capital. Panamá, led by Ismael Patel, won the two match series 2-0.2002 brought further strides for the sport in Colombia as Bogotá took a team to Cali for the first Ambassador's Cup in 21 years. Matches on the tour, which counted on the support of the British Ambassador at the time, Mr Tom Duggan, were held at the Colegio Colombo-Británico in Cali. Around 200 people watched the first game, on Saturday 22 March, which Bogotá won by 25 runs having scored 98 in their allotted 22 overs. In the second match, on Sunday 3 March, Bogotá scored 176, enough to give them victory by 94 runs as Cali managed just 82.

Cricket in Saudi Arabia is a sport growing in popularity. Saudi Arabia's playing season runs from October to April. There are 149 cricket clubs and a single turf wicket in Saudi Arabia.

China won by 55 runs

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Cricket in Northern Ireland

Cricket for Change

Cricket at the 2010 AG

Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor Sports Complex, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Cricket has been played in Colombia since the beginning of the 20th century. There are reports of cricket matches played at La Magdalena Jockey Club in 1905, 1907 and 1909.Cricket in Colombia received a boost on 20 May 1955 with the creation of the Bogotá Cricket Club (BCC). The first chairman of the club was Englishman Reginald Brand.The club's first match was played in Cali in December 1957 against a rival team gathered by a former BCC member representing Cali Shell.

Tenaga National Sports Complex, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.

Glenn Gillies

South Korea won the toss and elected to bat.

ICC Cricket World Cup

Cricket World Cup 2007 Opening Ceremony

Cricket families

Cricket as pet

Cricket was included for the first and only time at the 2010 South Asian Games, hosted by Dhaka, Bangladesh. A men's 20-over tournament was played from 31 January to 7 February 2010.The tournament was contested by five of the eight members of the South Asian Sports Council, with squads restricted to players aged 21 or under. Two venues were used – the Shahid Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi and the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.

Karim Sadiq 2/4

Khalid Latif 53*

Sagar Pun 2/8

Cricket games

Cricket at the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, was held from 6–18 July 2015. A women's tournament was held for the first time, and Samoa won the event to become the first country other than Papua New Guinea to win a gold medal in Pacific Games cricket. In the men's tournament (held the week after the women's event), Vanuatu won the gold medal. The shorter Twenty20 form of the game was used for both the men's and women's competitions.

Vanuatu won by 3 wickets

Sri Lanka won by 2 wickets

Liu Jingmin and Mohammed Kamruzzaman

Round-robin, playoffs

Cricket at the Commonwealth Games

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Sarika Prasad and Buddhi Pradhan

Kisumu, Kenya

Cricket in Morocco

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The team sport of Cricket became a medal sport at the 2010 Asian Games. The last time cricket featured in a major multi-sport event was at the 1998 Commonwealth Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The gold medal was won on that occasion by South Africa, who defeated Australia by 4 wickets in the final with New Zealand winning the bronze medal.

Panna Ghosh 5/10

Kurumi Ota 3/16

Cricket World Cup 1979

Cricket in Malaysia

Park Tae-kwan 4/16
Song Yangyang 18

Reality

Sarika Prasad and Viswanathan Kalidas

Cricket in Cayman Islands

Kamran Hussain 2/21

Cricket Star is an interactive, multimedia talent hunt for the world's best young cricketer. The first season of Cricket Star aired from December 2006 to March 2007 on DoorDarshan and Zee TV. The passion, drama and energy captured the hearts and minds of millions of viewers who followed the unravelling story on television, across the Internet and through their mobile phones.

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Bangladesh won by 54 runs
Winners

Cricket in Luxembourg is dominated by the British and Indian expatriate communities, and remains a minor sport amongst native Luxembourgers.Luxembourg City, home to 1,800 Britons, is the centre of the sport, and all of Luxembourg's club sides are situated in the city's metropolitan area. The dominant club is the Optimists Cricket Club, which plays in the Belgian league, and has won that country's league title on three occasions (1991, 1994, 1995). The Optimists also organise other teams, which, whilst they play against the main side in the domestic tournament, will often pool their players with the Optimists' for matches against foreign opponents.Luxembourgian cricket's governing body is the Luxembourg Cricket Federation (French: Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Cricket), which was established in 1993 to organise the game in Luxembourg and to promote it to the non-British population. The national team competes in the forty-over European Cricket Council Division Four Championship; in 2006, the team finished third, and narrowly missed out on promotion, having lost in the last over to Cyprus. In the corresponding tournament in Cyprus in September 2009, Luxembourg ended fourth out of six.Currently Luxembourg has 3 international teams; Men's, Under 19's and Under 15's

Sana Gulzar 2/8

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Pradeep Airee 52*

Shakti Gauchan 3/21

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Mosur Ramesh and Sun Jianxin

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Maldives won the toss and elected to bat.

Papua New Guinea won by 7 wickets

Malaysia won by 9 wickets

Li Jian 3/8

Tony Harrison

Cricket has been played in Hong Kong since at least 1841. Like most cricketing nations, it was part of the British Empire. The national cricket team has been active since 1866, and the Hong Kong Cricket Association was granted associate membership of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1969. The national team have played four matches with One Day International status, but have never been granted Test match status.

Duméril & Bibron, 1841

Cricket is a growing sport in Brazil, presently in nascent stages. Interest in the sport dates back earlier than 1860, which saw the establishment of the country's first official cricket ground, but it wasn't until 2003 that Brazil became a member of the International Cricket Council and emerged onto the world stage. Since then, cricket has become increasingly popular among native Brazilians, with the formation of a women's team and several junior competitions.

Wang Meng, Zhou Haijie 1/12

Amateur cricket began in Serbia in 2007, when 2 clubs: Stari Grad and Mirijevo were founded in Belgrade. Haris Dajč, Vladimir Ninković, Darko Ivić and Nenad Dugić started organizing cricket trainings with the help of ex-Maharashtra player Mr. Amberish Sarang in October 2007. Soon new members and enthusiasts were added. With the help and support from Ms.

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Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.

Farzana Hoque 17*

Cricket in Solomon Islands

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Cricket in Mongolia

Siti Mazila Hanafi 15*
Match 2

The crowd of 7,532 was the largest recorded crowd for a cricket match in Malaysia.
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A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket. A cricket ball consists of cork covered by leather, and manufacture is regulated by cricket law at first-class level. The manipulation of a cricket ball, through employment of its various physical properties, is a staple component of bowling and dismissing batsmen. Movement in the air, and off the ground, is influenced by the condition of the ball, the efforts of the bowler and the pitch, while working on the cricket ball to obtain optimum condition is a key role of the fielding side. The cricket ball is the principal manner through which the batsman scores runs, by manipulating the ball into a position where it would be safe to take a run, or by directing the ball through or over the boundary.In test cricket, professional domestic games that spread over a multitude of days, and almost the entirety of amateur cricket, the traditional red cricket ball is normally used. In many one day cricket matches, a white ball is used instead in order to remain visible under floodlights, and since 2010, pink has been introduced to contrast with players' white clothing and for improved night visibility. Training balls of white, red and pink are also common, and tennis balls and other similar-sized balls can be used for training or informal cricket matches. During cricket matches, the quality of the ball changes to a point where it is no longer usable, and during this decline its properties alter and thus can influence the match. Altering the state of the cricket ball outside the permitted manners designated in the rules of cricket is prohibited during a match, and so-called "ball tampering" has resulted in numerous controversies.Injuries and fatalities have been caused by cricket balls during matches. The hazards posed by cricket balls were a key motivator for the introduction of protective equipment.

Bangladesh won by 70 runs

Cricket World Cup hosts

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Dinesh Chandimal 83

Fuyuki Kawai 1/8

Fareed Ahmad 4/17

Kurumi Ota 2/16

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Cricket World Cup qualification

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Thailand won by 6 wickets

Cricket at the 2007 South Pacific Games

Cricket was introduced to Oman during the time when it was a British protectorate. The sport is popular amongst Oman's South Asian expatriate population, and has more recently been taken up by native Omanis. The governing body of cricket in the country is Oman Cricket.

Nepal won the toss and elected to field.

Salma Khatun 3/4

Cricket and football players

Cricket in Kenya

Cricket Victoria (CV) is the governing body for the sport of cricket in Victoria. It was formed on 29 September 1875 as the Victorian Cricket Association. It is integrated with the Victorian Women's Cricket Association to include funding, programs, office accommodation and staff assistance.In 2007, CV administered the 1,182 cricket clubs and 112,000 registered cricketers in Victoria, and 62,774 children involved in school-based competition.

Cricket Tasmania

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Rain reduced the match to 14 overs per side.

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Cricket in Oceania

Cricket and Crest Tunnels Historic District

Cricket at the 2018 Asian Games

Nadeem Ahmed 3/9

Pakistan won by 51 runs

Vanuatu won by 10 wickets

Masooma Junaid 1/7

Rain reduced the match to 10 overs per side.

Vanuatu won by 234 runs

Cricket in Cook Islands

A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket. A cricket ball consists of cork covered by leather, and manufacture is regulated by cricket law at first-class level. The manipulation of a cricket ball, through employment of its various physical properties, is a staple component of bowling and dismissing batsmen.

Nepal won by 75 runs

Cricket at the 2019 Pacific Games

Cricket in Iraq

Thailand won the toss and elected to bat.

Chandra Sawad 3/19
Pakistan won by 91 runs

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Cricket is a sport relatively unknown to most Greeks. However, it is believed that this sport or one similar was played in ancient Greece. This conclusion is drawn from an ancient relief that depicts athletes with clubs and ball. In modern era the cricket in Greece is connected with Corfu where this sport is pretty popular. The sport was imported to Corfu by the British when the Ionian Islands were under British rule (1815–64).

Cricket in Antigua and Barbuda

Cricket at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games

Mohammed Kamruzzaman and Buddhi Pradhan

Cricket Wireless Amphitheater (Kansas)

Hong Kong won by 30 runs
Afghanistan won by 22 runs

South Africa won by 4 wickets

Sana Gulzar 4/8

Australia

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Cricket at the 2011 Pacific Games in Nouméa, New Caledonia was held on August 29–September 2, 2011. The tournament format was changed from the 50 over cricket previously played to the shorter Twenty20 form of the game.

Sarita Magar 2/16

Fiji won by 133 runs

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Nepal won by 9 wickets

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Siwaporn Kosathong 10

Cricket at the 2015 Pacific Games

Riaz Chaudhry and Mohammed Kamruzzaman

Cricket Victoria

Cricket in Nepal

Nuwan Zoysa 2/15

Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games - Men

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Cricket is a minor sport in Indonesia. Although the sport has been played in the country since the 1880s, the national governing body, Cricket Indonesia, was only formed in 2000. It gained membership of the International Cricket Council (ICC) the following year, and the Indonesian national team made its debut in 2002.

Kuwait won the toss and elected to bat.

Cricket fighting

Cricket in Serbia

Cricket in Germany has a history going back to 1858, when a group of people from England and the United States founded the first German cricket club in Berlin. Several more teams were later founded in Berlin and the rest of Germany, as well as a national federation. Cricket lingered on over the following century, with occasional visits of German players to England and British and other foreign teams touring in Germany, but only when it got a foothold in the German universities in the 1980s did the number of German cricket clubs and players start to grow again. Nevertheless, much of the cricket to date is played by British soldiers stationed in Germany.The national organisation for the game is currently the German Cricket Federation (Deutscher Cricket Bund, DCB), founded in 1988. In 2016 there are about 220 cricket teams in the country, up from 70 in 2012.

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Malaysia won the toss and elected to field.

Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games

Nida Dar 4/16

Cricket flour

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Godiva Li 3/6
Chamari Atapattu 16

Cricket Team of the University of Göttingen

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament. The tournament is one of the world's most viewed sporting events and is considered the "flagship event of the international cricket calendar" by the ICC.The first World Cup was organised in England in June 1975, with the first ODI cricket match having been played only four years earlier. However, a separate Women's Cricket World Cup had been held two years before the first men's tournament, and a tournament involving multiple international teams had been held as early as 1912, when a triangular tournament of Test matches was played between Australia, England and South Africa. The first three World Cups were held in England. From the 1987 tournament onwards, hosting has been shared between countries under an unofficial rotation system, with fourteen ICC members having hosted at least one match in the tournament.The finals of the World Cup are contested by the ten full members of the ICC (all of which are Test-playing teams) and a number of teams made up from associate and affiliate members of the ICC, selected via the World Cricket League and a later qualifying tournament. A total of twenty teams have competed in the eleven editions of the tournament, with fourteen competing in the 2015 tournament. Australia has won the tournament five times, with the West Indies, India (twice each), Pakistan and Sri Lanka (once each) also having won the tournament. The best performance by a non-full-member team came when Kenya made the semi-finals of the 2003 tournament.

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South Korea won the toss and elected to field.

Fiji won by 4 runs

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Wongpaka Liengprasert 1/13

Cricket has an extremely minimal presence in Iraq, with the majority of national focus on football, with basketball, swimming, weightlifting, bodybuilding, taekwondo, boxing, kickboxing, and tennis also followed. Sporting activity in general has been limited somewhat by the Iraq War and succeeding conflicts. Iraq is not a member of the International Cricket Council, and what cricket is found has been introduced to schools largely through the British Armed Forces, or played between the militaries of the various Commonwealth forces stationed there – most often Australian, British and New Zealand troops.CricketArchive records matches as having been played in Iraq as early as July 1931, when a two-day match was played in Baghdad between Royal Air Force officers and "casuals" (enlisted ranks). At least one first-class cricketer has been born in Iraq – Zayyad Qayyum (born in Baghdad in 1979), who played Pakistani domestic cricket and represented the Pakistani national under-19 team.In 2003, a sergeant of the British Royal Logistics Corps petitioned the Marylebone Cricket Club for cricket equipment to be sent to troops in southern Iraq to create a cricket training centre. The equipment was sent to forces in the country, presented by former Test player Mike Gatting. In April 2007 Wisden writer Tony Munroe covered the efforts of Major Andrew Banks, who toured schools in Iraq with a detachment of the Royal Air Force handing out cricket equipment and explaining the laws of cricket to teachers. He recorded that "after some simple explanation of the basic rules of cricket (through an interpreter) and a quick demonstration by members of the RAF, the Iraqi children joyfully hit the ball around the playground. I duly handed over the set to the games mistress and she in turn professed to be keen to allow her charges to play on a regular basis." He noted that "The teachers have seen a lot of projects come out of the West so they were sceptical until they saw the kids having fun" and that "They never quite understood the lbw law but they enjoyed themselves and that was what mattered."Inter-force cricket matches between various units of the British Army have taken place in the country, and in September 2007 a British Army team were defeated by a team from the Australian military near Basra. The match raised 14,000 US Dollars for charities.

Pakistan won by 9 wickets

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Cricket at the 2015 Pacific Games - Men's tournament

Cricket frog (disambiguation)

Cricket World Cup 2011 Final

Cricket and the Genie (Movement I, The Delirium)

Bangladesh won by 203 runs

Riaz Chaudhry and Buddhi Pradhan

Nawroz Mangal 20*

Cricket is a sport relatively unknown to most Greeks. However, it is believed that this sport or one similar was played in ancient Greece. This conclusion is drawn from an ancient relief that depicts athletes with clubs and ball. In modern era the cricket in Greece is connected with Corfu where this sport is pretty popular. The sport was imported to Corfu by the British when the Ionian Islands were under British rule (1815–64). The first teams in the island were created after the departure of the British, shortly after 1864. In 1893, the still existing club Kerkyraikos Gymnastikos Syllogos (Corfiot Athletic Club) was founded. Other cricket clubs were founded in subsequent years. In 1925 the club GSK Vyron was founded, and in 1976 the club AO Faiax was founded. The Hellenic Cricket Federation was founded in 1996. It is the only Greek sport federation that is not based in Athens but based in Corfu.

Cricket in Luxembourg

Cricket club

Cricket World Cup records

Mei Chunhua 3/8

PNG won by 114 runs

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Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field.

Vanuatu won the toss and elected to bat.

Hong Kong won by 7 wickets

Riaz Chaudhry and Sarika Prasad
Bangladesh won by 25 runs
Mohammed Kamruzzaman and Riaz Chaudhry

World Cup Trophy

Buddhi Pradhan and Viswanathan Kalidas

Subash Khakurel 27*

Ayasha Rahman 51*

Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.

Cricket was included for the first and only time at the 2010 South Asian Games, hosted by Dhaka, Bangladesh. A men's 20-over tournament was played from 31 January to 7 February 2010.The tournament was contested by five of the eight members of the South Asian Sports Council, with squads restricted to players aged 21 or under. Two venues were used – the Shahid Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi and the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka. Bangladesh, captained by Mithun Ali, defeated Sri Lanka in the final to claim the gold medal, while Pakistan defeated Nepal in a play-off for the bronze medal. The leading run-scorer at the tournament was Sri Lanka's Ashan Priyanjan, while Bangladesh's Subashis Roy and Pakistan's Kamran Hussain were the joint leading wicket-takers.

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Cricket bowling

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Cricket in Japan

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Cricket is the second most popular sport in Kenya. Kenya has competed in the Cricket World Cup since 1996. They upset some of the World's best teams and reached semi-finals of the 2003 tournament. They also won the inaugural World Cricket League Division 1 hosted in Nairobi and participated in the World T20. Their most successful player is Steve Tikolo.Cricket has always been played only at club level in cities like Nairobi, Kisumu, Nakuru and central province.

Vanuatu won by 28 runs

Chamely Khatun 2/4

Cricket awards

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Nizakat Khan 63*

Nary Thapa 1/6

Cricket has been played in Hong Kong since at least 1841. Like most cricketing nations, it was part of the British Empire. The national cricket team has been active since 1866, and the Hong Kong Cricket Association was granted associate membership of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1969. The national team have played four matches with One Day International status, but have never been granted Test match status. Each year, Hong Kong hosts the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes, an ICC sanctioned event that features teams of six players in a six over competition.

Cricket in Oman

A cricket cap is a type of soft cap, often made from felt that is a traditional form of headwear for players of the game of cricket, regardless of age or gender. It is usually a tight-fitting skullcap, usually made of six or eight sections, with a small crescent shaped brim that points downwards over the brow to provide shade for the eyes. It is often, but not always, elasticised at the rear to hold it in place upon the wearer's head.

Cricket is a long-established sport in Ireland, and is governed by Cricket Ireland, which maintains the Ireland men's and women's cricket teams. Like several other sports, cricket is organised on an all-Ireland basis. Following the team's success in the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the sport's popularity increased in Ireland.

Mahmoud Bastaki 1/8

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Cricket Star is an interactive, multimedia talent hunt for the world's best young cricketer. The first season of Cricket Star aired from December 2006 to March 2007 on DoorDarshan and Zee TV. The passion, drama and energy captured the hearts and minds of millions of viewers who followed the unravelling story on television, across the Internet and through their mobile phones. The winner, Sukhvir Singh, was awarded a contract with Leicestershire County Cricket Club.Cricket Star India is the first programme in a 5-year international roll out, and the new series is scheduled to air in early 2008. This series will focus on the exciting new Twenty20 format, which Cricket Star helped introduce into India, as the Cricket Star contestants were put through a series of Twenty20 matches to test their skills. Public interest and excitement around the Twenty20 format continues to grow following India's surprise win of the inaugural World Twenty20 in South Africa in 2007. With the growth of this novel format of the game, there are new opportunities for cricketers with Twenty20 skills to shine.Visit the Official website here: Cricket StarThe Cricket Star formula is as simple as it is compelling:A nationwide application and screening process creates a shortlist of talented candidatesCandidates are invited to attend auditions in their regionCelebrity judges, national selectors and professional coaches select a final groupFinalists spend up to 10 weeks in the Cricket Star Academy and are subjected to a televised series of unique mental and physical tests and a range of patented cricketing challengesWeekly televised cricket matches at the academy involving cricket celebrities will give the candidates a chance to shineExtended televised coverage will portray life at the academy, the interaction between hopefuls and insights into their passion for the gameBased on the performance each week the judges will score each pupil. The public will vote by phone, online or text to eliminate a pupil each week until only two remain. The final selection will be made by millions of television viewers in a dramatic final episode.

Buddhi Pradhan and Sarika Prasad

Afghanistan won by 8 runs

Shahrulnizam Yusof 4/21

Tonga won the toss and elected to bat.

Amrit Bhattarai 3/16
Buddhi Pradhan and Sun Jianxin

A cricket tournament at the Pacific Games, previously the South Pacific Games, was introduced in 1979 and was played intermittently at games in the 1980s and 1990s, depending on the facilities of the host nation. Since 2003, cricket has featured at every Pacific Games. Detailed records of the tournaments prior to 2003 have not been kept and beyond knowing what teams won the gold and silver medals at each Games, little is known with certainty of the first three tournaments.

Cricket in Cambodia

Sri Lanka won by 68 runs
Nadeem Ahmed 1/8

Cricket Wireless Amphitheater

Afghanistan won by 8 wickets

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The Cricket Writers' Club is an association for cricket journalists working in print, television or radio. It was established in 1947, and contains around 90% of those eligible for membership. During the 1946–47 Ashes series, the Australian and British cricket media spent around eight months travelling around together covering the matches, and during this time they established an informal "Empire Cricket Writers' Club". This placed the idea in the minds of a number of journalists for a formal association, and so in June 1947, the Cricket Writers' Club was started.Although it was established significantly later than other such organisations around the world, it triggered the creation of the Football Writers' Association and the Sports Writers' Association in the United Kingdom within six months. In 1950, the Cricket Writers' Club began awarding a Young Cricketer of the Year award, and have since introduced a number of other awards which are presented at their annual dinner.

Cricket at the 2015 Pacific Games – Men's tournament

China won the toss and elected to bat.

Cricket frog

Cricket Victoria (CV) is the governing body for the sport of cricket in Victoria. It was formed on 29 September 1875 as the Victorian Cricket Association. It is integrated with the Victorian Women's Cricket Association to include funding, programs, office accommodation and staff assistance.In 2007, CV administered the 1,182 cricket clubs and 112,000 registered cricketers in Victoria, and 62,774 children involved in school-based competition. It employed more than 320 people, including 43 full-time staff and 25 contracted first-class players.CV administers the Victorian Bushrangers team and Victorian Premier Cricket.

Cricket history

Cricket at the South Asian Games

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

Cricket in Indonesia

Sri Lanka won by 117 runs

Cricket at the 2014 Asian Games - Men

Cricket Wales

Cricket in Luxembourg is dominated by the British and Indian expatriate communities, and remains a minor sport amongst native Luxembourgers.Luxembourg City, home to 1,800 Britons, is the centre of the sport, and all of Luxembourg's club sides are situated in the city's metropolitan area. The dominant club is the Optimists Cricket Club, which plays in the Belgian league, and has won that country's league title on three occasions (1991, 1994, 1995).

Irfan Ghafoor and Buddhi Pradhan

Cricket in Germany

Cricket in Kuwait

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Cricket at the Pacific Games

Cricket Team of Sri Lanka

Cricket ball

Hong Kong won by 35 runs

Nadeem Ahmed 3/36

Cricket in Iran

Cricket is a minor sport in Canada.

Cricket at the 2011 Pacific Games

A cricket tournament, played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes. The only match of the tournament was played between teams representing Great Britain and France, and was won by 158 runs by Great Britain.Originally, teams representing Belgium, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands were scheduled to compete in the tournament. Belgium and the Netherlands pulled out of the competition, leaving Great Britain to play France. Neither team was nationally selected. The British side was a touring club, the Devon and Somerset Wanderers (alias Devon County Wanderers), while the French team, the French Athletic Club Union, comprised mainly British expatriates living in Paris.The two-day game commenced on 19 August 1900. Great Britain batted first and scored 117, and bowled France out for 78. Great Britain then scored 145 for 5 in their second innings, setting the hosts a target of 185. The tourists bowled out France for 26 to win the match by 158 runs, a significant margin, but with only five minutes of the match remaining. The Great Britain team was awarded silver medals and the French team bronze medals, together with miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower. The match was formally recognised as being an Olympic contest in 1912, and the medals were later reassigned as gold and silver.

Cricket diplomacy consists of using the game of cricket as a political tool to enhance or worsen the diplomatic relations between two cricket playing nations. Cricket is the second-most widely played game in the world after football, and is thus used as a political tool to bridge the gap in the diplomatic vacuum.

Mohammad Ashraful 2/3

Cricket Team of the University of Goettingen

Pakistan won by 10 wickets

Pakistan won by 128 runs

Cha In-ho 1/8

Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.

Cricket World Cup 1983

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The popularity of cricket in Oceania varies from place to place – in some countries, it is the national sport, while in others it is not played at all. A number of Oceanian countries are members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), and participate in tournaments organised by the ICC East Asia-Pacific (EAP) development program. The other major regional competition is the cricket tournament at the Pacific Games, which is open to ICC non-members.

China won by 8 wickets

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Bangladesh won by 27 runs

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Cricket in Saudi Arabia

Nepal won by 7 wickets

Cricket at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games

Cricket Superstar

Malaysia won by 89 runs

Cricket frogs, genus Acris, are small, North American frogs of the family Hylidae. They are more aquatic than other members of the family, and are generally associated with permanent bodies of water with surface vegetation. The common and scientific names refer to their call, which resembles that of a cricket.

Roy Lamsam 17*

Cricket at the 2007 South Pacific Games was contested by five teams. Papua New Guinea won the gold medal, Fiji won the silver, and Samoa won the bronze. Tonga and New Caledonia were the other participating nations.

Bangladesh won by 81 runs

Alessandra Shunmugam 3/14

No result

Cricket captaincy

Roshani Bohara 16
Mosur Ramesh and Narayanan Sivan

Ramani Batumalai and Sarika Prasad
China won by 7 wickets

Cricket World Cup 2003

Pakistan won by 6 wickets

PNG won by 68 runs
Vanuatu won the toss and elected to bowl.

Hameed Hassan 2/16

Papua New Guinea won by 4 wickets

Cricket is a minor sport in Canada. Canada is unusual among the former Dominions of the British Empire in not having adopted cricket as a major sport—in contrast with Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa.While Canada is not sanctioned to play Test matches, the team does take part in One Day International (ODI) matches (there are a few grounds in Canada that are sanctioned to host ODI's by the International Cricket Council or ICC) and also in first-class games (in the ICC Intercontinental Cup) against other non-Test-playing opposition, with the rivalry against the United States being as strong in cricket as it is in other team sports. The match between these two nations is in fact the oldest international fixture in cricket, having first been played in 1844. This international fixture even predates the Olympics by over 50 years.The most famous Canadian cricketer is John Davison, who was born in Canada and participated in the Cricket World Cup in both 2003 and 2007. At the 2003 World Cup, Davison hit the fastest century in tournament history against the West Indies in what was ultimately a losing cause. In that World Cup he also smashed a half-century at a strike rate of almost 200 against New Zealand. One year later, in the ICC Intercontinental Cup against the USA, he proved the difference between the two sides, taking 17 wickets for 137 runs as well as scoring 84 runs of his own. In the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies, Davison scored the second-fastest half-century against New Zealand. Canada has participated in the 1979, 2003, 2007 and 2011 Cricket World Cups.Canada has traditionally had a strong Women's team. Also The Canadian Under 19 team have competed in the Under 19 World Cup on three occasions. In 2002, they were eliminated in the first round, meaning they competed in the plate competition, in which they did not win a game. They repeated this performance in the 2004 competition. The Canadian u19 team competed in the 2014 u19 World Cup in Dubai, finishing 15th.Canada Senior Men's team qualified in April 2009 at the ICC World Cup qualifier held in South Africa to compete in 2011 World Cup, their third World Cup appearance in a row.

Cricket in Norfolk Island

Cricket World Cup

Connie Wong 1/7

Kuwait won by spin of coin.

Javeria Khan 29

Nadhirah Nasaruddin 1/9

Shafiq Sharif 21

Cricket has an extremely minimal presence in Iraq, with the majority of national focus on football, with basketball, swimming, weightlifting, bodybuilding, taekwondo, boxing, kickboxing, and tennis also followed. Sporting activity in general has been limited somewhat by the Iraq War and succeeding conflicts.

Men's cricket
A cricket tournament, played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes. The only match of the tournament was played between teams representing Great Britain and France, and was won by 158 runs by Great Britain.Originally, teams representing Belgium, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands were scheduled to compete in the tournament. Belgium and the Netherlands pulled out of the competition, leaving Great Britain to play France.

Shizuka Miyaji 2/10

Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.

Chandima Gunaratne 1/10

Cricket and the Genie

Cricket at the 2014 Asian Games – Men

Cricket Wireless Pavilion

Nepal won by 10 wickets

Cricket in Bahamas

Cricket box

Shakib Al Hasan 46

Nattakan Chantam 16

Cricket for Change (C4C), registered as the London Community Cricket Association, is a UK charity established in 1981 to provide support for young disadvantaged people to be able to take part in cricket events. Programmes include providing cricket facilities, training, disabled access to cricket, establishing cricket projects in deprived inner-city estates and providing coaching and practical support for other charities internationally.

Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games – Men
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

Ema Kuribayashi 32*

Sarika Prasad and Mosur Ramesh

Oh In-yeong 1/8

China won by 1 run

Double round-robin, playoffs

Cricket at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

Nattaya Boochatham 24*

English

Sarita Magar 25/2

Sarika Prasad and Sun Jianxin

Jahanara Alam 0/3

Khalid Latif 26

Cricket World Cup 1992

* Acris blanchardi
* Acris crepitans
* Acris gryllus

This is a summary of the performances of various international teams in the Cricket World Cup

Thailand won by 9 wickets

Cricket World Cup Qualifier

Cricket has a considerably lower profile in Scotland than it has in neighbouring England. Scotland is not one of the ten leading cricketing nations which play Test matches, but the Scottish national team is now allowed to play full One Day Internationals even outside the Cricket World Cup, in which Scotland competed in 2007. Scotland has a well established recreational cricket structure. In 2016 it was estimated that around 17,000 people play cricket in Scotland

Jeevantha Kulatunga 31

Jeevan Mendis 3/13

Cricket Wireless Amphitheater (Phoenix, Arizona)

Cricket Star

Yu Miao 2/10

Shaun Pollock 4/19

Gyanendra Malla 30

Cricket Tasmania (formerly the Tasmanian Cricket Association) is the administrative body for cricket in Tasmania, Australia, and they are based at Bellerive Oval.Cricket Tasmania's primary purpose is to promote and develop the game of cricket in Tasmania, run junior and educational programmes and competitions and administer the Tasmanian Grade Cricket competitions.Cricket Tasmania is also responsible for the selection and administration of Tasmania's first class cricket team, the Tasmanian Tigers are part of the Association. They compete in the Sheffield Shield, the Australian first-class competition, and the Ford Ranger Cup, the Australian one-day competition, and the domestic Twenty20 competition.The current president of Cricket Tasmania (CT) is Glenn Gillies, and the current chairman is Tony Harrison, and he presides over a board which oversees all the activities of the TCA, and cricket in Tasmania. CT has over 100 staff and is responsible for 159 cricket clubs, and over 14,000 registered players.The Southern Tasmanian Cricket association was formed in the 1850s and was renamed as the Tasmanian Cricket Association (TCA) in 1906. The TCA then began trading as Cricket Tasmania from September 2009. Originally based at the TCA Ground on Hobart's Queens Domain, the TCA relocated to Bellerive Oval in 1977, and now houses modern facilities as well as the museum of Tasmanian Cricket within Cricket Tasmania headquarters at the ground.

Faisal Hossain 33

The Cricket Tunnel and Crest Tunnel are a pair of railroad tunnels in northern Arkansas, near the city of Omaha in Boone County. The Crest Tunnel, at 3,500 feet (1,100 m) is the longest tunnel in Arkansas, and is its only curved tunnel. Both tunnels were built by the White River Division of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in the early 20th century. The tunnels were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Cricket World Cup 07

Pundarika Prathanmitr 46

Faruq Hakimin 4/14

New Caledonia won the toss and elected to bat.

Zhou Haijie 1/14

Japan won by 10 wickets

Anamul Haque 43

Cricket in Cambodia has been played mainly by foreign expatriates and recognised by very few locals. Recent promotion of the sport has seen a growth in its popularity and the formation of clubs and associations.A cricket club has existed at some stage in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, the Phnom Penh Cricket Club. This team has competed against other nearby Asian cricket clubs, including a club based in Singapore. This club was involved with successful sport's club Phnom Penh Crown, widely known for their football team, but often branching out into other games. Another club was formed in 1999. This club was formed by mostly Indian and Sri Lankan expatriates, where they competed amongst themselves on a regular basis.The Cambodia Cricket Association was launched in 2011. Cambodia cricket expects to receive funding from the Asian Cricket Council. A cricket coach from Afghanistan, Ruhaan Dharmesh Shah and his assistant coach from Pakistan, Spandan Gautam Pandya will be visiting Cambodia for the next three years promoting the sport. There are sufficient expatriate cricketers who have resided in Cambodia long enough to qualify to field a national side. The Phnom Penh Cricket Club was re-established in 2012 and is introducing the game to schools. It has an over-16 team and a junior squad which has 99 percent local members. Former Indian international Ajit Agarkar was named as the head coach of the Phnom Penh Cricket Club in 2012, he also contributed in developing Cambodia's national cricket team.

Nazril Rahman 2/23

Cricket in Romania

Zhang Mei 23

Cricket in Chile is a minor but growing sport. The Chilean playing season runs from September to December. There are at least 10 cricket clubs and 2 turf pitches in Chile.

Ema Kuribayashi 24

Cricket ball swing

Ramani Batumalai and Buddhi Pradhan

Raza Hasan 3/10

Acris

Rahul Vishwakarma 3/9

Moumou Marurai 4/46

Acris gryllus

Women

Suhrawadi Shuvo 4/6
Roy Lamsam 47

Shashikala Siriwardene 4/13

Najib Taraki 17

Cricket Wireless Amphitheater (Bonner Springs, Kansas)

Bangladesh won by 52 runs

Cricket has been played in New South Wales since the 19th century and is traditionally very popular sport. It is also the most popular summer sport of the state.The New South Wales Cricket Association is the state's cricket governing body.The men's cricket team, the blues, are the most successful Australian domestic team.

Song Seung-min 1/17

Zhou Haijie 1/16
Nattakan Chantam 19

Cricket during World War II

Fahad Bastaki 3/48

Cricket in Fiji

Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games – Women

Sri Lanka won by 147 runs

Cricket in Namibia

Thailand won by 31 runs

Amateur cricket began in Serbia in 2007, when 2 clubs: Stari Grad and Mirijevo were founded in Belgrade. Haris Dajč, Vladimir Ninković, Darko Ivić and Nenad Dugić started organizing cricket trainings with the help of ex-Maharashtra player Mr. Amberish Sarang in October 2007. Soon new members and enthusiasts were added. With the help and support from Ms. Katherine Lawrence from the embassy of United Kingdom, as well as gentlemen Nandikesh Nayar and Vimal Kumar Yadav from the embassy of Republic of India, the full equipment was obtained as well as new instructors and players.In 2009, the Serbia national cricket team, playing under the identity of the Belgrade Cricket Association, played their first international match against Slovenian club Mezica CC, winning one match, and losing one. The Serbian Cricket Federation was founded in 2009, and since then have been working hard flat out on development all over the country

Sarika Prasad and Li Zhen

Sung Dae-sik 33

Shabir Noori 35

Nida Dar 51*

Cricket was one of the 36 sports at 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea from 20 September – 3 October 2014. Both Men's and Women's tournaments were held in the event. Top Asian associate members and full members took part at the 2014 Asian Games. The matches were played under Twenty20 format.In the men's event, Sri Lanka won the Gold medal by defeating Afghanistan by 68 runs while Afghanistan won the Silver medal. Bangladesh won the Bronze medal by defeating Hong Kong in the play-off for third place.In the women's event, Pakistan won the Gold medal by defeating Bangladesh by 4 runs in a rain-reduced match while Bangladesh won the Silver medal. Sri Lanka won the Bronze medal by defeating China in the play-off for third place.

Incorporated association

Moosa Kaleem 1/12

Daniel Vettori 3/33

Mohammad Shahzad 42
Match abandoned without a ball being bowled

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament.

No toss. Coin was flipped to decide the result of the match.

Bangladesh won by 10 wickets

Cricket as a social event

Vanuatu won by 158 runs

Jehan Mubarak 3/6

Rain Delay – Target revised to 72 from 15 overs .

Sri Lanka won by 64 runs

Cricket at the South Pacific Games

Iceland

Japan won the toss and elected to bat.
Ayako Nakayama 1/10

Cricket and the Genie (Movement II, Oratorio Di Cricket)

Cricket World Cup Teams

Pakistan won by 2 wickets

Suhan Alagaratnam 32*

Cricket is a minor sport in Morocco. Cricket was first introduced to the country in 1991, and the Royal Moroccan Cricket Federation became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1999.The Moroccan national team has been active since at least 2004, and made its international debut in 2006, at the 2006 Africa Division Three tournament.

Pakistan won by 4 runs
Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets

Cricket in Brazil

Cricket and Crest Tunnels

Frog Call

Nattakan Chantam 4/6

Vanuatu won by 4 wickets

Cricket Super League

Nadeem Ahmed 17

Cricket in American Samoa

Mark Chapman 38

Cricket in Argentina

The Mongolian Amateur Cricket Association (MACA) was established and registered by the Ministry of Justice under the Mongolian law in 2007. The main aim of this organisation is to develop cricket as a recognised sport in Mongolia, both at school level and at a national level. Cricket is a very popular sport in Australia and it has a rich history.

Mithun Ali 59

Sabbir Rahman 4/31

Bismah Maroof 24

Ashan Priyanjan

Buddhi Pradhan and Mosur Ramesh

Malaysia won by 8 wickets

View of Jomo Kenyatta Sports Ground in Kisumu

Tareq Beidas 4

Kim Jeong-yoon 20

Rewina Mohammad 3/21

Keenu Gill 33

Sabbir Rahman 27*

Cricket in England

Cricket World Rankings

Cricket fielding positions

Nepal won by 46 runs

Cricket in Iceland is still a fledgling sport, with only a couple of teams playing the sport. Iceland is not a member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), but has ambitions to join the European Cricket Council, which would make it an affiliate member of the ICC.

Cricket is the second most popular sport in Kenya. Kenya has competed in the Cricket World Cup since 1996. They upset some of the World's best teams and reached semi-finals of the 2003 tournament. They also won the inaugural World Cricket League Division 1 hosted in Nairobi and participated in the World T20. Their most successful player is Steve Tikolo.Cricket has always been played only at club level in cities like Nairobi, Kisumu, Nakuru and central province. But there never was a competition where these cities played each other until the Zonal League was started.

Cricket coqui

New Zealand won by 51 runs

Cricket in Pakistan

Cricket World Cup 1975

Bangladesh won by 6 runs

Ramani Batumalai and Riaz Chaudhry

Cricket field positions

Cricket Umpires

Ahmed Faiz 45

Sun Huan 47

Zhang Mei 17

Asghar Stanikzai 38*

The cricket coqui, green coqui, or coqui grillo (Eleutherodactylus gryllus) is a species of frog in the Eleutherodactylidae family endemic to Puerto Rico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Faruq Hakimin 3/13

Cricket grounds in Andhra Pradesh

Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Cricket World Cup qualification is the process a national cricket team goes through to qualify for the Cricket World Cup. The Cricket World Cup is a global event, and qualification is used to reduce the large field of participants from about 100 to 14. The current process is known as the World Cricket League.

Rumana Ahmed 2/13

Nida Dar 27

Cricket Wellington

Thanapan Saisud 1/4

Mohammad Ashraful 3/5

鬥蟋蟀

Manrick Singh 2/10

Cricket at the 2003 South Pacific Games was contested by six teams. The gold medal was won by Papua New Guinea.

Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year

Cho Sung-hoon 19
South Korea won by 6 runs

Song Yangyang 20

Cricket World Cup Trophy

Sachin Tendulkar

Cricket fighting is a blood sport involving the fighting of male crickets. Unlike most blood sports such as bullfighting and cockfighting, cricket fighting rarely causes injuries to the animals. It is a popular pastime in China and dates back more than 1,000 years to the Tang Dynasty. However, the sport has been losing its popularity in China.Cricket fighting was nurtured by Tang Dynasty emperors more than 1,000 years ago, and later popularized by commoners.

Cricket in Greece

Cricket at the Asian Games

Cricket is known to have been played in England since the 16th century. The Marylebone Cricket Club, based at Lords, developed the modern rules of play and conduct.

Hassan Ibrahim 2/16

Cricket at the 2003 South Pacific Games

Irfan Ghafoor and Sarika Prasad

Cricket clothing

Chris Harris 56*

Mei Chunhua 1/3

Cricket World Cup qualification is the process a national cricket team goes through to qualify for the Cricket World Cup. The Cricket World Cup is a global event, and qualification is used to reduce the large field of participants from about 100 to 14. The current process is known as the World Cricket League. The qualification process can start as early as almost 6 years before the World Cup.Before each World Cup, ICC decides beforehand the number of spots that the associate and affiliate members are fighting for. The Test-playing nations (and sometimes in the past ODI-playing nations at the time) get an automatic berth in the World Cup. While the other teams have to qualify through a series tournaments to qualify for the World Cup Qualifier.Qualifying tournaments for the World Cup Qualifier are held within the five ICC regional bodies (Africa, Americas, Asia, East Asia-Pacific, Europe), and are organized by their respective councils. The ICC Trophy, the first qualifying tournament, was held for the second world cup.

Cricket at the 2015 Pacific Games - Women's tournament

Cricket equipment

Arkansas#USA

Salma Khatun 24

Hassan Ibrahim 1/10

Cricket World Cup 2015

Ruan Xiang 5/9

The Cricket Writers' Club is an association for cricket journalists working in print, television or radio. It was established in 1947, and contains around 90% of those eligible for membership. During the 1946–47 Ashes series, the Australian and British cricket media spent around eight months travelling around together covering the matches, and during this time they established an informal "Empire Cricket Writers' Club".

Teunu Eliaba 61

Cricket dolls

Cricket australia players

Peniamina Ioka 2/21

Ramani Batumalai and Liu Jingmin

Chihiro Sakamoto 25*

William Clarke 27

Mohammad Shahzad 41*

Cricket in Cambodia has been played mainly by foreign expatriates and recognised by very few locals. Recent promotion of the sport has seen a growth in its popularity and the formation of clubs and associations.A cricket club has existed at some stage in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, the Phnom Penh Cricket Club. This team has competed against other nearby Asian cricket clubs, including a club based in Singapore.

Cricket in Bermuda

Nattaya Boochatham 4/7

Cricket Superstar is an Australian cricket-based reality television series that airs on Fox8. Working on a weekly elimination format (known on the show as dismissals), the winner will receive a rookie-contract with his state and a scholarship to the Centre of Excellence. The winner was 21-year-old Victorian, Ian Holland.

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.

Cricket in Hong Kong

Michael Rindel 67

Men's cricket at the 2015 Pacific Games

Khalid Latif 103*
Raza Hasan 2/19

The Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year is an annual cricket award, presented to the young player who is adjudged to have been the best of the year in English county cricket. The award has been presented since the 1950 season and the winner is chosen by a vote amongst the members of the Cricket Writers' Club. Only players that are qualified to represent the England cricket team, and are aged under 23 on 1 May of the awarding year, are eligible for the prize. With the exception of 1986, when a joint award was made, the accolade has been presented to one individual each season. The award has been described by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as "prestigious". Although not a firm rule, once a player has won the award, they are considered ineligible to receive it in the future.Archie Ledbrooke, a sports reporter for the Daily Mirror and the first treasurer of the Cricket Writers' Club, came up with the idea for the award. It was first presented in 1950, when Roy Tattersall of Lancashire was the recipient. In 1986, the vote was tied, and the award was made jointly to Ashley Metcalfe of Nottinghamshire and James Whitaker of Leicestershire. The 1995 winner, Andrew Symonds, went on to make over 200 international appearances for Australia, but at the time of his award was eligible to play for England, as he was born in Birmingham. As of 2015, representatives of seventeen of the eighteen first-class cricket counties have won the award; no player from Worcestershire has ever won. Yorkshire players have collected the award most frequently, doing so on eleven occasions. Only eight winners have not gone on to play international cricket.On ten occasions, the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year has also been named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for that season. Since 1990, 15 of the 26 winners have also collected the PCA Young Player of the Year award, selected by members of the players' trade union, the Professional Cricketers' Association.

Cricket at the 2010 South Asian Games

Zhang Yufei 1/31

Lahiru Thirimanne 57

Cricket in New South Wales

Mithun Ali 39

Tonga won by 60 runs

Cricket Team of the University of Gottingen

Cricket World Cup 1996

Cricket is a minor sport in Japan. It was introduced to the country by the British, with the first match played in 1863 and the first club formed in 1868, both in Yokohama. Until the 1980s, it was played almost exclusively by expatriates. The sport's governing body is the Japan Cricket Association (JCA), which was formed in 1984 and has been a member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1989, initially as an affiliate member and then as an associate member from 2005.

Sadia Yousuf, Nida Dar 2/2

Cricket World Cup 2011

Li Jian 14

Cricket was included in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia. This was the first—and, to date, only—time cricket has been played at a Commonwealth Games. Matches were played over 50 overs, and had List A status, although they were not full One Day Internationals. As is normal at the Commonwealth Games, the Caribbean islands that entered participated as separate nations, not as the combined West Indies team. Indeed, the Games were the first occasion on which an Antigua and Barbuda side competed at a senior level. Northern Ireland also entered, this occurrence being noteworthy because Irish cricket is usually represented by an all-island Irish cricket team.Sixteen teams entered the competition, including seven of the nine then Test-playing nations: West Indies did not enter as mentioned above, while England declined to send a team at all, on the grounds that the September date chosen clashed with other fixtures such as the end of the County Championship.The strength of the teams that were entered varied somewhat. Strong squads including seasoned Test and ODI players were fielded by the three nations that eventually won medals: Bronze medalists New Zealand with Stephen Fleming and Daniel Vettori, silver medalists Australia with Steve and Mark Waugh, Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting, Damien Fleming and Darren Lehmann and gold medalists South Africa with Shaun Pollock, Jacques Kallis, Makhaya Ntini, Mark Boucher, and Herschelle Gibbs. India and Pakistan sent weakened teams as a result of a clash with the 1998 Sahara Cup, although India still named Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh and VVS Laxman to its Commonwealth team while Pakistan included Shoaib Akhtar. Other notable cricketers who took part in the Commonwealth tournament included Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene, Zimbabwe's Andy Flower and the West Indies' Curtly Ambrose and Richie Richardson, playing for their home country of Antigua and Barbuda under the Commonwealth format.

Cricket is a minor sport in Morocco. Cricket was first introduced to the country in 1991, and the Royal Moroccan Cricket Federation became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1999.The Moroccan national team has been active since at least 2004, and made its international debut in 2006, at the 2006 Africa Division Three tournament. Although Morocco falls into the ICC Africa development region, the national federation also has links with European countries – a development team from the Gibraltar Cricket Association toured in 2003, and England's Marylebone Cricket Club toured the following year. In 2016, it was reported that there were twelve active clubs, spread across six cities (Bouznika, Casablanca, Khemisset, Rabat, Salé, and Tangier).In the early 2000s, an Emirati businessman, Abdulrehman Bukhatir, financed the construction of a US$25-million international cricket venue in Tangier, known as the National Cricket Stadium. Bukhatir's aim was to promote cricket in the Arab world. In August 2002, Pakistan, South Africa, and Sri Lanka played a One Day International (ODI) series at the ground, which was known as the Morocco Cup.

Cricket Warbler

Cricket made its debut at the 16th Asian Games 2010 at Guanggong International Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou, China where it was one of 42 sports competed in. The matches were played in Twenty20 format.Both Men's and Women's tournaments were conducted.

Lata Mondal 34*

Shafraz Jaleel 12

present

Cricket in Botswana

Shashikala Siriwardene 15

Cricket at the 2014 Asian Games

Glenn McGrath

Jone Seuvou 4/26

Official trophy awarded since the 1999 World Cup

Bangladesh won by 9 wickets
Emylia Eliani 19

Charlotte Chan 1/21

Eleutherodactylus gryllus

Connie Wong 0/5

Cricket bats

Ema Kuribayashi 24*
Japan won the toss and elected to field.

Cricket diplomacy

Cricket World Cup fixtures 2007

Subashis Roy

Sindh Cricket team match with Australia in 1935.jpg

Cricket caps

Thailand won the toss and elected to field.

Cricket captains

Mirwais Ashraf 3/8

Viswanathan Kalidas and Liu Jingmin

Sagar Pun 9

Liu Jingmin and Sarika Prasad

The Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year is an annual cricket award, presented to the young player who is adjudged to have been the best of the year in English county cricket. The award has been presented since the 1950 season and the winner is chosen by a vote amongst the members of the Cricket Writers' Club. Only players that are qualified to represent the England cricket team, and are aged under 23 on 1 May of the awarding year, are eligible for the prize.

Cricket in Belgium

Mei Chunhua 1/9

GBR

Emylia Eliani 13

Japan won by 7 wickets

Cricket historian

Kamran Hussain

Cricket WC 2011

Cricket in Colombia

Cricket at the 2014 Asian Games - Women

Cricket in Guam

Mohammad Nabi 4/18

Tonga won by 7 wickets

Nida Dar 4/7

Najeeb Amar 2/10
Naeem Islam 34*

Sri Lanka won by spin of coin.

Cricket World Cup centuries

Cricket Umpire

dòu xīshuài

Species

Cricket World Cup teams

Cricket in Iceland

Steve Waugh 90*

Cricket in Chile

Cricket commentators

Inoa Baeau 3/31

Mamta Chaudhary 22*
Sarita Magar 2/19

Winning the Cricket World Cup

Colts Cricket Ground, Port Moresby

Cricket groin guard

Cricket Tasmania (formerly the Tasmanian Cricket Association) is the administrative body for cricket in Tasmania, Australia, and they are based at Bellerive Oval.Cricket Tasmania's primary purpose is to promote and develop the game of cricket in Tasmania, run junior and educational programmes and competitions and administer the Tasmanian Grade Cricket competitions.Cricket Tasmania is also responsible for the selection and administration of Tasmania's first class cricket team, the Tasmanian Tigers are part of the Association.

Cricket county championship

Cricket at the Olympics

Cricket World Cup qualifier

Cricket at the Summer Olympics

PNG won by 8 wickets

Cricket glass frog

July 2016

Cricket in Ireland

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South Africa won the toss and elected to field.

Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.

Cricket grounds in AP

Ritu Kanujiya 0/7

Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.
Zhong Wenyi 4/9

Shukhtara Rahman 3/6

Intan Jaafar 1/7

Sarika Prasad and Narayanan Sivan

Nary Thapa 18

Bangladesh won by 8 wickets

Cricket Writer's Club Young Cricketer of the Year

Keenu Gill 45*

Shukhtara Rahman 37

Bangladesh won by 5 wickets

Wu Juan 3/11

Nadeem Ahmed 1/13

Farzana Hoque 20*

Wongpaka Liengprasert 2/9

Cricket bat willow

Cricket frogs

Buddhi Pradhan and Narayanan Sivan

Cricket in Canada

Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games - Women

Sports

Cricket captain

Jeevantha Kulatunga 20

Cricket in Germany has a history going back to 1858, when a group of people from England and the United States founded the first German cricket club in Berlin. Several more teams were later founded in Berlin and the rest of Germany, as well as a national federation.

Cricket World Cup 2007

Arafat Sunny 4/8

Cricket in Kiribati

Cricket Writers' Club

Rain stopped Bangladesh's innings after 11 overs. Coin was flipped to decide the result of the match.

Japan won by 45 runs

Cricket was included in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia. This was the first—and, to date, only—time cricket has been played at a Commonwealth Games. Matches were played over 50 overs, and had List A status, although they were not full One Day Internationals. As is normal at the Commonwealth Games, the Caribbean islands that entered participated as separate nations, not as the combined West Indies team.

Cricket at the 1900 Olympics

Cricket made its debut at the 16th Asian Games 2010 at Guanggong International Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou, China where it was one of 42 sports competed in. The matches were played in Twenty20 format.Both Men's and Women's tournaments were conducted. In the men's event host nation China, were joined by three of the four ICC Full Members in Asia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well as Afghanistan who played in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.Due to other international commitments, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan fielded understrength teams whilst India did not participate. Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan in the final event to win the gold medal while the latter won the silver. The bronze went to Pakistan after they beat Sri Lanka in the third-place match.In the women's event China played with ICC Women's Cricket Full Member Pakistan. India and Sri Lanka did not participate. Pakistan won its first cricket gold in women's event while Bangladesh gained a silver.Japan defeated China in the bronze medal match, in what could be a boost for cricket in Japan.

Shafraz Jaleel 13

Cricket is the second most popular sport in Nepal after football. It is played by many people throughout the country, especially in the Terai region due to its close proximity to India. The biggest cricketing achievement of the national cricket team was when the team reached the qualification tournament of 2014 ICC World T20 held in Bangladesh. Nepal's playing season runs from September to November and starts again in March before finishing in May.

Cricket balls

Cricket bat industry of India

Wang Jing 1/14

A cricket cap is a type of soft cap, often made from felt that is a traditional form of headwear for players of the game of cricket, regardless of age or gender. It is usually a tight-fitting skullcap, usually made of six or eight sections, with a small crescent shaped brim that points downwards over the brow to provide shade for the eyes. It is often, but not always, elasticised at the rear to hold it in place upon the wearer's head. Sometimes, rather than tight-fitting, the cricket cap comes in a baggy variety, that is always kept in place by elastic.

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PNG won the toss and elected to bat.

Cricket fighting is a blood sport involving the fighting of male crickets. Unlike most blood sports such as bullfighting and cockfighting, cricket fighting rarely causes injuries to the animals. It is a popular pastime in China and dates back more than 1,000 years to the Tang Dynasty. However, the sport has been losing its popularity in China.Cricket fighting was nurtured by Tang Dynasty emperors more than 1,000 years ago, and later popularized by commoners. In the thirteenth century, the Southern Song Dynasty prime minister Jia Sidao wrote a how-to guide for the blood sport. Jia's obsession with cricket fighting is believed to have contributed to the fall of the empire. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) China's Communist government banned cricket fighting as a bourgeois predilection, but it is now undergoing a revival among a younger generation eager to embrace genuinely Chinese pastimes.

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Cricket Wireless Amphitheater (disambiguation)

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Argentina is the strongest cricket country in South America except Guyana who are part of West Indies and Suriname who mostly field players from Guyana.

Tonga won by 37 runs

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Cricket at the 2014 Asian Games – Women

won by 85 runs

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Cricket Stadiums in Bangladesh

Cricket in Scotland

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Vanuatu won by 7 runs

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Cricket in Denmark

Cricket World Cup trophy

PNG won by 225 runs

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PNG won the toss and elected to bat

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Pakistan won by 8 wickets

Cricket in Nauru

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Papua New Guinea won by 150 runs
Papua New Guinea Won by 62 runs

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Sri Lanka won by 82 runs

Cricket World Cup 1987

Sri Lanka won by 18 runs

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PNG won by 10 wickets

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Cricket in America

Cricket in Gibraltar

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Cricket Whites

Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre

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The team sport of Cricket became a medal sport at the 2010 Asian Games. The last time cricket featured in a major multi-sport event was at the 1998 Commonwealth Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The gold medal was won on that occasion by South Africa, who defeated Australia by 4 wickets in the final with New Zealand winning the bronze medal. At a general meeting of the Olympic Council of Asia, held in Kuwait on 17 April 2007, it was announced that cricket would be included as a medal sport in the 2010 Asian Games to be held in Guangzhou. Matches would be played on a Twenty20, 20-overs per side format.Following the announcement, Asian Cricket Council Chief Executive Syed Ashraful Huq said "Cricket will receive a major boost across Asia and in particular China, as a result of this enlightened decision. The Asian Cricket Council pledges its support to the Guangzhou games organizers in order to make the event a success."Asian cricketing powerhouses Pakistan and India have been the drivers behind the inclusion of cricket in the Asian Games. The Test status nations in the Asian Cricket Council, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka would compete with the initial plan that the Associate teams such as Nepal would also be invited to play in the inaugural competition. China will compete as the host nation which serves as a boost for the Chinese Cricket Association which has boldly stated its ambition of China becoming a force in one-day cricket by the 2019 World Cup.The plans for including Associate/Affiliate nations in the Asian Games was later changed, along with the format that the competition would take place in, changing from 50 over matches to Twenty20 matches. It was decided that the 2009 ACC Twenty20 Cup would serve as the pre-tournament qualifying competition. Afghanistan qualified as winners of the tournament along with the national teams of Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

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The Mongolian Amateur Cricket Association (MACA) was established and registered by the Ministry of Justice under the Mongolian law in 2007. The main aim of this organisation is to develop cricket as a recognised sport in Mongolia, both at school level and at a national level. Cricket is a very popular sport in Australia and it has a rich history. With the help of cricket enthusiasts and friends with passion for cricket MACA started organising regular cricket games and training sessions in Melbourne two years ago. Many Mongolian students have been involved in these activities and some of them became members of the Association. Over one hundred Mongolians and Aussies have attended the matches and training sessions so far. The important thing is that many Mongolians and Aussies are making friends through the wonders of cricket. Battulga G., the founder of MACA, has become the cricket coach after finishing the Cricket Coach Accreditation Course by Cricket Australia.Back in Mongolia MACA members and some alumni from Australian universities expressed their interest to support the activities run by the Association. Initially, MACA is aiming to organize regular training sessions at some secondary schools in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. MACA sent some cricket gear to Mongolia for Mongolian cricketers and kids last year. The first cricket introductory program in Mongolia was launched by MACA at secondary school number 34 in May 2013 in Ulaanbaatar. The cricket program had a duration of four weeks and it will resume during the next school term. MACA is planning to introduce cricket into more secondary schools in Ulaanbaatar.There is a plan to organise a 2014 tour of the Aussie/Mongolian team to Mongolia for exhibition matches to further develop our cause. The Association is working on the itinerary and is ready to establish links with any organisations or individuals who support our activities. Any sort of support would be appreciated and welcomed by MACA. Further info and photos about our activities on Cricket Mongolia Facebook page.

Cricket is a long-established sport in Ireland, and is governed by Cricket Ireland, which maintains the Ireland men's and women's cricket teams. Like several other sports, cricket is organised on an all-Ireland basis. Following the team's success in the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the sport's popularity increased in Ireland. The country is an associate member of the International Cricket Council and plays in tournaments like the World Cricket League and ICC Intercontinental Cup, which are qualifying rounds for associate teams for the Cricket World Cup and ICC World Twenty20. Ireland qualified for the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, the 2011 Cricket World Cup and 2010 ICC World Twenty20. In the 2011 World Cup, they beat England in the group matches.In 2017 domestic cricket in Ireland will be recognised as first-class cricket for the first time, seen as a further boost on Ireland's journey to gain Test status.

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China won by 4 runs

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Cricket was one of the 36 sports at 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea from 20 September – 3 October 2014. Both Men's and Women's tournaments were held in the event. Top Asian associate members and full members took part at the 2014 Asian Games. The matches were played under Twenty20 format.In the men's event, Sri Lanka won the Gold medal by defeating Afghanistan by 68 runs while Afghanistan won the Silver medal.