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The Story of Cricket
How is a cricket bat different from a hockey stick?
Till the middle of the eighteenth century, bats were roughly the same shape as hockey sticks, curving outwards at the bottom. However, later the curved bat was replaced with the straight one. A hockey stick is thin and curves at the bottom while a cricket bat is thicker, wider, and straight. Earlier it was cut out of a single piece of wood. Now it consists of two pieces − the blade and the handle.
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Name some stick-and-ball games that you have witnessed or heard of.
The Parsis were the first Indian community to take to cricket. Why?
The rivalry between the Parsis and the Bombay Gymkhana had a happy ending for the former. What does ‘a happy ending’ refer to?
Do you think cricket owes its present popularity to television? Justify your answer.
Why has cricket a large viewership in India, not in China or Russia?
What do you understand by the game’s (cricket) ‘equipment’?
How is Test cricket a unique game in many ways?
How is cricket different from other team games?
How have advances in technology affected the game of cricket?
Explain how cricket changed with changing times and yet remained unchanged in some ways.
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