On Thursday, September 30th; Dr. Adrian Turner came into my Sports and Globalization class to talk the game of Cricket. Dr. Turner went over the basics of the game with us. There are 11 players on each team and each team takes a turn a batting. The player throwing the ball is called a bowler. The ball is made of a leather material and has one side smooth as the other side of roughed up a bit. Two players at a time are batter but only of them is actually trying to strike the ball. A run is scored when both players successfully run from wicket to wicket without getting out. If the batter hits the ball and it bounces over the boundary they score four runs for their team. If the ball flies over the boundary much like in baseball or softball they score six runs. The batter can be called out a number of ways. The ball being caught, the ball hitting the wickets, the batter hits the wickets with the bat, the wicket keeper catches the ball and hits the wickets with the ball before the batter leaves the batting crease, a run out or the umpire calls the batter out for blocking the wickets with his/her legs.
Dr. Turner also talked about a player by the name of Glenn Mcgrath who Dr. Turner refered to as the “Tiger Woods” of Cricket. Here is an internet article on the top 10 bowlers in the history of Cricket.
http://top-10-list.org/2010/03/16/ten-bowlers-list-cricket-history/
Thanks for posting this list. I noticed two names that were familiar to me on the list. The first was Glen McGrath, whom, as you noted has been referred to as the "Tiger Woods" of cricket (hopefully not for his off-the-field antics). While I was in New Zealand, I heard that McGrath had recently gotten married, for the second time. I believe that he played on the Australian team when I saw the cricket match between Australia and New Zealand. I also recognized the name of Sir Richard Hadlee, after whom the Chappell-Hadlee series is named--that was the competition I saw when I was in NZ three years ago.
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