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The Story Of Cricket

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“There is a historical reason behind both these oddities.” In the preceding two paragraphs, find two words/phrases that mean the same as ‘oddities’.

Solution

Two words/phrases that mean the same as oddities are ‘peculiarities’ and ‘curious characteristic’.

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Some More Questions From The Story of Cricket Chapter

“…the men for whom the world is a stage”.
(i) It refers to the famous cricket fields in the world.
(ii) It means that there are many cricket playing countries in the world.
(iii) It implies that cricketers are like actors and every cricket ground is like a stage on which the drama of cricket is enacted the world over.

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?

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