Cricket being played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the 1860s.

Nevertheless, a " demand for facilities " lead to the upgrade of the Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground ( NTCA Ground ) amongst other sporting facilities in the 1860s.

The first Chesterfield Football Club was formed in the late 1860s, as an offshoot of Chesterfield Cricket Club.

By the 1860s five recreational ovals were marked out: the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Richmond Cricket Ground, East Melbourne Cricket Club ovals ( two ), and an oval in Gosch's Paddock, south of Swan Street.

Cricket has been played in the Netherlands since at least the 19th century, and in the 1860s was considered a major sport in the country.

After being eliminated by neighbours Sri Lanka on home soil at the 1996 Cricket World Cup, the team underwent a year of change as Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, later to become captains of the team, made their debut in the same Test at Lord's.

Having ended his international career, Grace then began the last phase of his overall first-class career when he joined the new London County Cricket Club, based at Crystal Palace Park, which played first-class matches between 1900 and 1904.

It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010 – 11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

In March 2005, Lara declined selection for the West Indies team because of a dispute over his personal Cable & Wireless sponsorship deal, which clashed with the Cricket Board's main sponsor, Digicel.

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.

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.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

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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.

This began in 1915, with some shots being intentionally thrown out of focus for expressive effect, as in Mary Pickford's Fanchon the Cricket.

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; Harwich & Dovercourt Sailing Club ; Harwich, Dovercourt & Parkeston Swimming Club ; Harwich & Dovercourt Rugby Union Football Club ; Harwich & Dovercourt Cricket Club ; and Harwich Runners who with support from Harwich Swimming Club host the annual Harwich Triathlons.

The series took some liberties with historical accuracy for the sake of drama, including a depiction of angry Australian fans burning a British flag at the Sydney Cricket Ground, an event which was never documented.

Steve Smith and Brad Hogg of Australia have also used the flipper with great success in Limited Overs Cricket.

They quibbled with the Melbourne Cricket Club about paying £ 175 for damages to the MCG despite a prior arrangement to do so.

By the 1880s the tradition of England-Australia cricket tours was well established, with a total of eight Tests having been played, five of them at the MCG, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground and one at The Oval in London.

The MCG hosted the historic 1992 Cricket World Cup final between Pakistan and England with a crowd of more than 87, 000.

An aerial view of the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the 1992 Cricket World Cup final packed with 87, 182 people.

In 1882, the club amalgamated with the Hotham Cricket Club and moved into the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve ( Arden St Oval ) which has remained as the home of the club up until this day.

Clydesdale Bank are the current sponsors, and have a three year deal signed with the England and Wales Cricket Board.

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He picks up Arthur and Ford from Lord's Cricket Ground with his Starship Bistromath, after which they head out to stop the robots of Krikkit from bringing together the pieces of the Wikkit Gate.

He also scored 26 runs in a single over off the bowling of Danish Kaneria at Multan Cricket Stadium on 21 November 2006.

Lancashire County Cricket Club | Lancashire players Gary Keedy and Stephen Parry ( cricketer ) | Stephen Parry bowling left-arm orthodox spin in the 2012 Friends Life t20

This was due to his international cricket career, many public speaking engagements ( up to 12 a week ) and his responsibilities to the New Zealand Cricket Council coaching committee ( Hadlee was required to do three weeks of fast bowling tuition ).

The area has a cricket club ( Whitkirk Cricket Club founded 1892 ), which has a large cricket pitch, five tennis courts, a football pitch and a Crown green bowling green, along with a large bar area.

The Recreation Ground, across the road from the library, provides a football pitch, bowling green and cricket pitch, all of which are in regular use by Bollington Cricket Club, Bollington Athletics Club, and the Bollington Bowling Club.

There the MCC Lords saw for the first time that the " fast leg theory " involved in bodyline bowling was not the same as the tactic known by that innocuous name in English County Cricket.

Snow started his First Class Cricket and Test Match career as a fast-medium seam bowler, but when he was not chosen for the 1965-66 Ashes tour of Australia he played club cricket in South Africa and re-modelled his bowling action.

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 ".

He used his skill to build a machine for bowling cricket balls, which was so good that when the Australian Cricket team visited Cambridge in 1909, Venn's machine clean bowled one of its top stars four times.

India won the Cricket World Cup in 1983, defeating the then favourites West Indies in the final, owing to a strong bowling performance.

Gough bowling for Essex against Cambridge University Cricket Club | Cambridge UCCE

McGrath bowling a wicket-taking ball to Kevin Pietersen at the Sydney Cricket Ground | SCG in 2007

It is interesting that the first known codification of the Laws of Cricket, created by the London Cricket Club in 1744, makes no mention of prescribed bowling action and does not say the ball must be delivered at ground level, which suggests a pitched delivery would not be illegal.

In terms of The Laws of Cricket ( Law 24. 1b ), underarm bowling is permitted in other matches provided that the captains agree to it prior to the start of the match.

Since October 2011, this has been managed by the use of two new white balls in each innings, with a different ball used from each bowling end ; the same strategy was used in the 1992 and 1996 Cricket World Cups.

His career-best bowling figures in in the format were 5 wickets for 20 runs against England at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, in October 2000.

Because of the potential danger to batsmen of being hit and to stop bowlers bowling bouncers all the time, there are laws in the Laws of Cricket governing how frequently a bowler may bowl bouncers, as well as how many fielders may field backward of square leg.

It was followed by outstanding bowling performances in Sharjah and later in 1999 Cricket World Cup.

There is also a bowling green, with the Cricket Club, Hockey Club and Bowling Club being held under the Cambusdoon Sports Club title.

Cricket, rugby league, rugby union, netball and tennis are the most common sports but shooting, dancing, hockey, squash, baseball and ten-pin bowling are also present.

Allan Donald coached the reigning domestic champions, Mountaineers, ( a franchise team ) in Zimbabwe and is the bowling coach for the New Zealand cricket team for the ODI series against Pakistan and the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

Fast bowler Graham Onions bowling for Durham County Cricket Club | Durham against Lancashire County Cricket Club | Lancashire in the 2012 Friends Life t20