Cricket example sentences

Success at cricket became a measure of racial equality and political progress.Even though Nayudu was past his cricketing prime when he played for India in its first Test matches against England starting in 1932, his place in India s cricket history is assured because he was the country s first Test captain.Since India had the largest viewership for the game amongst the cricket-playing nations and the largest market in the cricketing world, the game s centre of gravity shifted to South Asia.Modern cricket is dominated by Tests and one-day internationals, played between national teams.Suppose one of the fielders in a cricket team drops an important catch during a match — this will have consequence for the entire team.By 1780, three days had become the length of a major match, and this year also saw the creation of the first six-seam cricket ball.For example, all of us discuss sports like cricket and soccer using a common vocabulary.This was possible because Test cricket from its origins in 1877 was organised as a contest between different parts of the British empire, not sovereign nations.Initially, both innovations were greeted with great suspicion by countries like Britain and Australia which saw them as an underhanded, illegal bending of the laws of cricket.But this did not happen at once; it took a while for the relative unimportance of postimperial Britain to be reflected in the organisation of world cricket.I know that we have in India many noble indigenous games just as interesting and exciting as cricket or football, also as much attended with risks as football is, but with the added advantage that they are inexpensive, because the cost is practically next to nothing Speech at Mahindra College, 24 November 1927, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi.By the seventeenth century, cricket had evolved enough to be recognisable as a distinct game.While some English team games like hockey and football became international games, played all over the world, cricket remained a colonial game, limited to countries that had once been part of the British empire.One hundred and fifty years ago the first Indian cricketers, the Parsis, had to struggle to find an open space to play in.A six at the Melbourne Cricket Ground needs to clear much more ground than a lofted shot for the same reward at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi.

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