Cricket:Great Bowlers Wasim Akram & Brett Lee

Wasim Akram and Brett Lee’s bowling credentials

Wasim Akram and Brett Lee are the best fast bowlers of the many great bowlers in cricket in the world. Former Pakistani cricket captain, Wasim Akram is a master bowler. Wasim started his cricket career in January 1985 at the young age of eighteen. He was the first star fast bowler in the history of world cricket. He is a master of seam bowling and swing bowling.
He is famous for slow delivery as well as his bouncer bowling. He is a left armed medium fast bowler and ever batsman fears his bowling attack. Imran Khan is another great cricketer of Pakistan. He discovered Wasim Akram. Read more..

The Basic Rules of Cricket

Cricket basic rules to know before playing

Throughout the world, especially in Commonwealth countries, there are multitudes of cricket fans. It is the most popular game for many a sports fan but, often, the rules are very difficult for someone who hasn’t grown up with the game to understand.
In each cricket team, there are 11 players, with a 12th man who is permitted to field but not to bat or bowl. During play, there are 13 players on the field, two players on the pitch for the batting side and all 11 on the field for the fielding (or bowling) side. Read more..

Test Cricket and T20 Cricket

Importance of test cricket

Test cricket is played over five days. Each team has the opportunity to bat twice and to bowl twice. In earlier years, Test cricket was played over six days, with the fourth day being a rest day for the players. Even before this, Test cricket was played until a result was achieved but, as some games went off for far too long, the limited length was introduced.
This is the oldest and most time honored format of the game but there is also limited over cricket. One day cricket is played over 45 or 50 over, and T20 cricket is contested over 20 over. These games are concluded on the day that they commenced. The shorter versions of the game are more exciting and more popular with fans and have been said that these formats are increasing the popularity of the sport. Read more..

County Club Cricket in England

CCC or the County Cricket Club is the highest level or version of domestic cricket that is played in England and Wales. There are 18 first class CCCs which take part in the annual cricket championships for supremacy. All of the 18 teams are named after famous English counties. The exhaustive list of all the 18 teams includes Derbyshire, Durham, Essex, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and Yorkshire. The full names of these county clubs include the addition of the name along with the term county cricket club which is often abbreviated to CCC. There are basically two championships which are a part of the county cricket cup tournament, the Friends Provident Trophy and the National League, more popularly known as the NatWest Pro20 League. Apart from the bigger and prominent counties of England and Wales, there are a host of other minor counties which compete in their own county championships which takes place every year. Read more..

The T-20 Dream Team 2009

Who would be in the T20 dream team?

The current ICC top 11 T-20 players that would make up a “dream team” contain 11 men that are all proven players capable of incredible, match winning, cricketing performances. They are Ravi Bopara, Chris Gayle, Suresh Raina, David Hussey, Kumar Sangakkara (C), Ross Taylor, Roelof van der Merwe, Fidel Edwards, Shahid Afridi, R P Singh, and Lasith Malinga.

The batting would be opened by the devastating pair of Ravi Bopara and Chris Gayle. Read more..

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