Initiatives to swell participation numbers to 50, 000 will include the establishment of regional academies ; a Get Into Cricket scheme which will seek to attract six to 12-year-olds to take up the game in clubs and schools ; a Better Clubs Initiative, which will encourage clubs to improve their facilities ; and the Cricket Ireland national awards which will recognise contributions ranging from players to volunteers.

His books include Cricket in Beak, Marifeya or Talking with Dolphins, The Common Heritage of the Planet or About Of Fish and People and The Startled Cheepens.

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

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

Gideon McDuck ( Gedeone de ' Paperoni in original Italian ) is presented as Scrooge McDuck's younger brother, and mainly appears in Italian comic stories ; in those stories, Gideon is the editor of the newspaper " The Cricket ", the most credible newspaper in Duckburg.

", he played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen, MCC, the United South of England Eleven and several other teams.

An affectionate obituary tribute in The Guardian commented, " He loved cricket ... and played it ardently and very badly ", while in a review of Cricket Country, George Orwell described him as " the true cricketer ":

His autobiography, " Burning Bright ", details both his obsession with collecting cigarette cards, as well as his business life, which included becoming President of Selection Trust-at the time, one of the largest mining companies in the world-as well as his lifelong passion for cricket, which culminated in his presidency of Kent Cricket Club.

He uses a similar device in his next two Christmas books, titling the four divisions of The Chimes, " quarters ", after the quarter-hour tolling of clock chimes, and naming the parts of The Cricket on the Hearth " chirps ".

The Oval, officially currently known as " The Kia Oval ", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season.

He is shown to act as Daffy's " Jimmeny Cricket ", which is a far cry from the antagonistic relationship they had from the old days.

Founded in the 1880s the " Greetland Cricket & Bowling Club " is still active and the club competes in the " Halifax League ", playing host to teams from around Calderdale and Kirklees.

In 1943, Carmichael returned to the movies and played " Cricket " in the screen adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, opposite Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, where he sang " Hong Kong Blues " and " The Rhumba Jumps ", and played piano as Bacall sang " How Little We Know ".

World Series Cricket, the first exciting year ", Macarthur Press ISBN 0-85558-798-9.

World Series Cricket, in Australia, New Zealand and the West Indies ", Macarthur Press ISBN 0-85558-608-7.

Snow was recommended to Sussex County Cricket Club by the Sussex player and coach Ken Suttle as a batsman because he was a " magnificent hitter of the ball ", but that his bowling was " erratic and not very hopeful ".

* Accrington FC, known as " Th ' Owd Reds ", is founded in 1878 by the town cricket club and plays at Thorneyholme Road, which remains the home of Accrington Cricket Club to the present.

Another cricket team, the " Frogmore Amateur Cricket Club ", currently based in nearby Frogmore are planning a relocation to Farnborough.

The Cricket Club also hosts a monthly comedy club, " Wivenhoe Funny Farm ", established in 2005.

Sobers ' exploits in 1966 earned him the media-bestowed sobriquet of " King Cricket ", which soon afterwards became the title of a book about him.

" The Cricketers " scores four points ( the number of cricketers is unspecified, so assume two ) but " The Cricket Team ", if it existed, would score 22 ( there are eleven cricketers on a cricket team ).

A bowler of genuinely fast pace who was widely known as " Fiery Fred ", Trueman played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1949 until he retired in 1968.

In the year 2000, he was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame and named twelfth man in Australia's " Greatest ever ODI Team ", selected from the votes of each of Australia's ODI representatives.

In 1755 there is further reference to the laws being revised by " Several Cricket Clubs, particularly the Star and Garter in Pall Mall ", followed by a revision of the Laws by " a committee of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex and London at the Star and Garter " in 1774.

The Sorrento Cricket Club, coached by former Melbourne CC player and mystic guru Nic Davern, also known as " Tin Hat ", competes in the Provincial Division of the Mornington Peninsula Cricket Association, having won the District Division in 2005 / 2006.

It was the release of their third album when Junoon started to gain success and began to reach a wider audience when one of their singles, " Jazba-e-Junoon ", became the signature song of the Cricket World Cup.

The club also hosts the annual Scarborough Cricket Festival, and Yorkshire County Cricket Club uses North Marine Road, for a selection of home fixtures throughout the season.

The match was Yorkshire v Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) at North Marine Road and Hawke, who was bowled by Billy Barnes in both innings, scored 4 and 0.

Other sports at HGSA are: a Tennis club and facilities consisting of 3 tennis courts ; a Squash club and courts ; a Cricket club and cricket square ; and a Short Mat Bowls club with a 3-rink outdoor green.

The Leisure Centre on Station Road can be hired throughout the day for a variety of activities including Badminton, Roller Skating, Basketball, Volleyball, Indoor Cricket, Tennis, Short Tennis.

Whitland has many local sporting teams including Rugby union, Football ( soccer ), Cricket, Short and Long mat bowls, Darts, billiards etc.

Stories about him being a barber by trade or that he published a scandal sheet called The Cricket have been repeated in print despite being debunked decades earlier.

In 2003, Cricket Books published Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art ( ISBN 0-8126-2695-8 ), a retrospective that republishes stories from the magazine and includes interviews with some of the founders and contributors.

* Best Cricket Stories ( 1953 )

Harcourt Brace, 1993 ; Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Seventh Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds., St. Martin's Press, 1994 ; Cricket ( Feb 1997 ))

* A Collection of all the Grand Matches of Cricket 1771 to 1791 ( 1799 )

* Haigh, Gideon ( 1993 ): The Cricket War-the Inside Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket, Text Publishing.

* Haigh, Gideon ( 1993 ): The Cricket War – the Inside Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket, Text Publishing.

* Fred Titmus, My Life in Cricket, Blake Publishing, 2005

Until March 1995, Cricket was published by the Open Court Publishing Company of La Salle, Illinois, now part of Carus.

It owns the Open Court Publishing Company as well as the Cricket Magazine Group, and Cobblestone Publishing.

Muse is a children's magazine published by Carus Publishing, the publishers of Cricket.

* Martin-Jenkins, C. ( 1983 ) The Cricketer Book of Cricket Disasters and Bizarre Records, Century Publishing: London.