Nunn also directed the little-known 1986 Webber – Rice musical Cricket, at Windsor Castle.

For the finished project, Lloyd Webber used at least five of the tunes he had written for the 1986 one-act musical Cricket, which he had written with Tim Rice.

That year he also performed at Windsor Castle as a lead in the Lloyd Webber – Rice musical Cricket.

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

* Comfortably averaging over 50 per innings ( the benchmark for batting greatness in Test cricket ), Lara has been ranked the number one batsman in Test cricket in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Cricket Ratings several times.

* Cricket ( insect ), family Gryllidae, also known as " true crickets "

* Cricket ( darts ), a game using the standard 20-number dartboard

* The Cricket ( magazine ), a 19th-century American general-interest magazine, named after the insect

* Cricket ( 1914 automobile ), an early American automobile

* Plymouth Cricket ( disambiguation ), two automobiles

* Cricket ( roofing ), a ridge structure designed to divert water on a roof

* Cricket ( warning sound ), an audible warning in the cockpits of commercial aircraft.

The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council ( ICC ), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years.

Essendon were known as the " Same Olds " ( as in " the same old Essendon ") in order to distinguish the Essendon VFL side ( that played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground ) to which this article refers, from the separate and unconnected Essendon VFA side ( that played at what was then the Essendon Cricket Ground ), which existed from 1900 to 1921.

This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, did not go over well with many Essendon people ; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first ( although it played in the same colours ), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the Victorian Football Association.

* International Cricket Captain ( series ), a video game series about cricket management

In 2005 he was elected to the Committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ), historically the governing body of the sport, and still guardian of the laws of the game.

* John Nash ( cricket administrator ) ( 1906 – 1977 ), English Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1931 – 1971

The National Stadium hosted two group matches ( Pakistan v. South Africa on 29 February and Pakistan v. England on 3 March ), and a quarter-final match ( South Africa v. West Indies on 11 March ) during the 1996 Cricket World Cup.

They played their first-ever County Championship match there in 1921, competing there every season ( except while first-class cricket was suspended during the Second World War ), their last match being against Somerset County Cricket Club in August 1966.

Queensland Bulls versus Victorian Bushrangers in a one-day match at the Brisbane Cricket Ground ( The Gabba ), Queensland, Australia

Test matches are played between national representative teams with " Test status ," as determined by the International Cricket Council ( ICC ), with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days.

The first officially recognised Test match commenced on 15 March 1877, contested by England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ), where Australia won by 45 runs.

Whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum at Lord's since being presented to the MCC by Bligh's widow upon his death.

In the Fourth Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground, England batting second scored 513 to defeat Australia ( 98 & 258 ) by an innings and 157 runs.

This led to a serious misunderstanding amongst the English public and the Marylebone Cricket Club-the administrators of English cricket-of the dangers posed by Bodyline.

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams.

* Cricket, a translation into English of the Polish poem Chrząszcz by Jan Brzechwa

* Cricket, character played by Hoagy Carmichael in the film " To Have and Have Not "

* " Cricket ", a song by The Kinks on their album Preservation Act 1

The finals of the Cricket World Cup are contested by all ten Test-playing and ODI-playing nations, together with other nations that qualify through the World Cup Qualifier.

The 2011 Cricket World Cup was co-hosted by Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka from 19 February to 2 April 2011.

The inaugural Cricket World Cup was hosted in 1975 by England, the only nation able to put forward the resources to stage an event of such magnitude at that time.

In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies ; the Cricket World Cup became the first such tournament to be hosted on all six populated continents.

The 2011 Cricket World Cup was jointly hosted by India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The World Cricket League ( administered by the International Cricket Council ) is the qualification system provided to allow the Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC more opportunities to qualify. The name " ICC Trophy " has been changed to " ICC World Cup Qualifier ".

The Cricket World Cup trophy which is kept by the ICC.

* DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition by Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu.

The term " first-class cricket " was formally defined by the then Imperial Cricket Conference ( ICC ) in May 1947 as a match of three or more days duration between two sides of eleven players officially adjudged first-class ; the governing body in each country to decide the status of teams.

** Cricket Associations and Departments ( corporate teams ) versus each other, or other first-class opponents, provided the associations or departments are affiliated to the Pakistan Cricket Board, and the match is organized by the Pakistan Cricket Board

** Sri Lanka ' A ' ( or another team designated by Sri Lanka Cricket ) versus a touring ' A ' team

** Special matches between teams adjudged first-class by the Board ( s ) of cricket concerned, with the approval of the International Cricket Council

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).