Fielding is a crucial part of cricket and there are many areas where a fielder will be placed. The position names can seem a little strange to the untrained eye. You can field in the slips, at gully, ...

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In Hindi and Urdu, doosra means "second" or "other". Put simply, the it is the off-spinner's version of the googly. Over the past five years, the world's top off-spinners have developed the doosra to ...

Do not retreat within 10m of an opponent who is waiting for the ball Move towards the opponents or the place where the ball lands without first coming back onside The referee will award a penalty at ...

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After a team has scored a try (including a penalty try), they are awarded a "conversion" kick at goal. A successful kick is worth two points. The kick is taken from a point in line with where the ball ...

Sprinting is one of the most natural events around as it involves running as fast as you can. The 100m champion is considered ...

Duckworth and Lewis came up with the equation which determines how much a run target should be altered. For example: a team ...

The easiest way to tell Test and limited-overs cricket apart is by looking at the players. In Test cricket they always wear ...

The movie is 108k and should take no more than 1 minute to download over a 56k modem. It is designed to be played on computers with at least a 400Mhz processor and users with slower machines may ...

In the modern age of football there are many different roles and jobs a defender can have. And a wonderful sight in the game is seeing the wing-back fly up and down the touchline terrorising the ...