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The Cricket PortalArts · Biography · Geography · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Science · Society · TechnologySports — American football Association football Baseball Basketball College football Cricket Golf Olympics TennisCricketCricket is a team sport involving a bat and ball played between two teams of eleven players each. The objective is to score more runs than the opposing team. A match is divided into innings during which one team bats, two batsmen at a time, and the other team bowls.Cricket originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular participatory and spectator sport, and it is also a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean (called the West Indies). Cricket is arguably the second most popular sport in the world.Read more...Featured articlePaul David Collingwood MBE (born 26 May 1976, Shotley Bridge, Durham), is an English cricketer. He is vice-captain of Durham County Cricket Club and plays Test and One-day International cricket for England.Collingwood is an all-rounder, combining natural strokeplay with reliable medium-pace bowling. Described as a "natural athlete", he is also a highly skilled fielder and is regarded as one of the finest of his contemporaries. In 2005, Collingwood made the best all-round performance in a One-day International, with 112* and 6/31 against Bangladesh.More featured articles · Read more...Featured listThis is a list of Bangladeshi national cricket captains. Nine cricketers have captained the Bangladeshi cricket team for at least one one-day international:Bangladeshi ODI captainsNumberNamePlayedWonTiedLostNo result1Gazi Ashraf700702Minhajul Abedin200203Akram Khan15101404Aminul Islam16201405Naimur Rahman400406Khaled Mashud24002227Khaled Mahmud15001508Habibul Bashar33802509Rajin Saleh20020Total1181101052Read more...Current cricketInternationalIndia in EnglandBangladeshis in Sri LankaMore... Domestic2007 English cricket seasonSelected pictureWilliam Gilbert "WG" Grace (July 18, 1848 – October 23, 1915) was an English cricketer who, by his extraordinary skills, made cricket perhaps the first modern spectator sport, and who developed most of the techniques of modern batting.In the newsSeptember 7: Pakistan Cricket Board bans Shoaib Akhtar for an indefinite period for the alleged brawl with his team-mate Muhammad Asif (AndhraNews.net)August 7: Indian Team for the Twenty20 World Championship and the ODI series against England announced. (AndhraNews.net)July 14: Muttiah Muralitharan becomes only second man to take 700 Test wickets. He is 9 wickets short to break Shane Warne's record as the most wicket taker in Test Cricket. (AndhraNews.net)June 16: Ian Botham is awarded a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.June 12: Jamaican police formally announce that Bob Woolmer was not murdered, but died of natural causes.Older news...Did you know...From Wikipedia's newest cricket articles:...that there are fourteen Ugandan first-class cricketers?...that the roundarm trial matches were played between Sussex and All-England teams in 1827 to help the MCC to decide if roundarm bowling should be legalised or not?...that Mohammad Lablur Rahman is a first-class and List A cricketer from Bangledesh?Archive · Start a new article...ICC RankingsThe International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket.Test cricket is the longest form of cricket, played up to a maximum of five days with two innings per side.RankTeamMatchesPointsRating1Australia2535341412England3639791113India2931071074Sri Lanka2526731075South Africa2727591026Pakistan262573997New Zealand151481998West Indies241717729Bangladesh18654Reference: ICC, August 13, 2007editmore...One-Day International cricket is the form of cricket played over 50 overs, with one innings per side.RankTeamMatchesPointsRating1Australia2734961292South Africa2733371243New Zealand2528431144Sri Lanka3235361115Pakistan1819431086India3739881087England3031371058West Indies2828531029Bangladesh2612384810Ireland822728Reference: ICC, September 8, 2007editmore...CategoriesHistory of cricket · Forms of cricket · Cricket laws and regulations · Cricket equipment · Cricket terminology · Cricket scoring · more...Featured contentFeatured articlesThe Ashes · Bodyline · Brian Close · Paul Collingwood · A. E. J. Collins · Cricket · Cricket World Cup · Adam Gilchrist · History of Test cricket (to 1883) · History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889) · Bart King · Bill O'Reilly · Kevin Pietersen · Harbhajan Singh · West Indian cricket team in England in 1988Featured lists2006 ICC Champions Trophy squads · Asian XI ODI cricketers · Australian captains · Australian Twenty20 International cricketers · Bangladeshi captains · Cricket terms · English captains · English Twenty20 International cricketers · Hong Kong ODI cricketers · Indian captains · Namibian ODI cricketers · New Zealand captains · ODI records · Scottish ODI cricketers · Test cricket grounds by date · Test records · Test hat-tricks · Test triple centuries · World XI ODI cricketers · Wisden Cricketers of the Year · Zimbabwean captains