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By Snehil Gupta
CRICKET
Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each. A cricket match is played on a grass field,
roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards long, called a
cricket
pitch. A wicket, usually made of wood, is placed at each end of the pitch.
The bowler, a player from the fielding team, bowls a hard, fist-sized cricket
ball from the vicinity of one wicket towards the other. The ball usually bounces
once before reaching the batsman, a player from the opposing team. In defence of the wicket, the batsman
plays the ball with a wooden cricket
bat. Meanwhile, the other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions
around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring
runs, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman — if he or she does not get out — may run between
the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the "non-striker"), who has been waiting near the bowler's wicket. Each
completed exchange of ends scores one run. Runs are also scored if the batsman hits the ball to the boundary of the playing area. The match is won by the team that scores
more runs.
By Vedant Parikh
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CRICKET
By
Vedant Parikh
Recently
there was an India
vs Sri Lanka one day series. The first
match was called off because of rains. India
lost the 2nd match by 5 runs, but won the third and fourth matches. India
won the series. The man of the series was Ganguly.
The
names of the players are: Ganguly, Dravid, Lakshman, Tendulkar, Sehwag, Karthik, Dhoni, Kumble, Zaheer Khan, Sreesanth, Harbhajan
Singh and Agarkar.
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SPORTS
By Sanskriti Agarwal
There are different
types of sports like swimming, running, tennis, badminton, football, basketball and squash. My favourite sport is swimming
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TENNIS
By Arnavi Mehta
The No. 1 ranked
player in the world today is Roger Federer. He has won seven Grand Slams. He is one of the stylish and powerful players on
the tennis circuit.
Roger Federer
was born in 8th August 1981 in Basel, Switzerland
but lives in Oberwil. Inspired by tennis greats like Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg, Roger started playing tennis at the age
of 3 years. He turned professional in 1998.
The Swiss superstar
finished at No. 1 for a second straight year which included two Grand Slams and a
record 4 ATP Masters series crowns. As of December 26, 2005, he has ranked No 1 for 100 consecutive weeks. In 2006 his singles
wins included Doha, the Australian Open, the ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells.
Roger speaks English,
German, Swiss German, French and some Swedish and Italian. At a height of 6 ft 1 inch and a body weight of 85 kg, he is a
pleasure to watch.
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FOOTBALL
By Arnavi Mehta
My favourite club
in the English Premier League is Manchester United. They used to have brilliant players like Eric Cantona and George Best.
Now they have players like Wayne Rooney, who is an excellent forward and scores many goals, and Christiano Ronaldo who is
a very good midfielder. They also have good defenders like Gary Neville and Rio Ferdinanad.
Manchester United
recently won the Carling Cup. They are second in the English Premier League. Their coach is Sir Alex Fergusson.
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There
was a hockey match held on December 16th 2005. It was played at Chennai, between India
and Holland. The tournament was the Champions Trophy.
Holland
won 2 – 1. They will now play Australia. The Indian
coach thinks the referee was cheating. Roderick Weusthof and Taeke Taekema scored goals for Holland.
Sandeep Singh scored a goal for India.
In
other matches, Spain beat Germany
3 – 2, while the Australia – Pakistan
match was a draw 3 – 3
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