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Cricket

Cricket is a team sport involving a bat and ball played between two teams of eleven players each. The objective is to score more runs than the opposing team. A match is divided into innings during which one team bats, two batsmen at a time, and the other team bowls.

Cricket originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular participatory and spectator sport, and it is also a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean (called the West Indies). Cricket is arguably the second most popular sport in the world.

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Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman. A Bodyline bowler deliberately aimed the cricket ball at the body of the opposing batsman, in the hope of creating legside deflections that could be caught by one of several fielders in the quadrant of the field behind square leg.

The tactic led to ill feeling between the two national teams, with the controversy eventually spilling into the diplomatic arena. Over the next two decades, several of the Laws of Cricket were changed to prevent this tactic being repeated.

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This is a list of Bangladeshi national cricket captains. Nine cricketers have captained the Bangladeshi cricket team for at least one One Day International:

Bangladeshi ODI captains Number Name Played Won Tied Lost No result 1 Gazi Ashraf7 0 0 7 0 2 Minhajul Abedin2 0 0 2 0 3 Akram Khan15 1 0 14 0 4 Aminul Islam16 2 0 14 0 5 Naimur Rahman4 0 0 4 0 6 Khaled Mashud24 0 0 22 2 7 Khaled Mahmud15 0 0 15 0 8 Habibul Bashar33 8 0 25 0 9 Rajin Saleh2 0 0 2 0 Total 118 11 0 105 2

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William Gilbert "WG" Grace (July 18, 1848 – October 23, 1915) was an English cricketer who, by his extraordinary skills, made cricket perhaps the first modern spectator sport, and who developed most of the techniques of modern batting.

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October 2: Australia beat India by 84 runs at Kochi in second of seven match series.
September 7: Pakistan Cricket Board bans Shoaib Akhtar for an indefinite period for the alleged brawl with his team-mate Muhammad Asif
August 7: Indian Team for the Twenty20 World Championship and the ODI series against England announced.

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1956 - Terry Alderman is born at Subiaco in Western Australia

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ICC Rankings

The International Cricket Council(ICC) is the international governing body of cricket.

Test cricket is the longest form of cricket, played up to a maximum of five days with two innings per side.

Rank Team Matches Points Rating 1 Australia33 4650 141 2 India42 4242 111 3 South Africa44 4789 109 4 England44 4771 108 5 Sri Lanka35 3709 106 6 Pakistan33 3107 94 7 New Zealand25 2277 91 8 West Indies31 2380 77 9 Bangladesh24 23 1 Reference: ICC Official Rankings List, April 13, 2008 edit

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One Day International cricket is the form of cricket played over 50 overs, with one innings per side.

Rank Team Matches Points Rating 1 South Africa43 5478 127 2 Australia44 5597 127 3 New Zealand38 4312 113 4 India56 6330 113 5 Pakistan36 3953 110 6 England40 4200 105 7 Sri Lanka46 4810 105 8 West Indies39 3880 99 9 Bangladesh38 1798 47 10 Ireland11 217 20 11 Zimbabwe31 552 18 12 Kenya6 0 0 Reference: [1], April 13, 2008 edit