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ICC WARNS CRICKET PLAYERS TO KEEP THEMSELVES TRANSPARENTLY AWAY FROM BRIBE TAKERS

Being offered a remarkably low amount of salary while all cricket tournaments and plays had come to an end, cricket players can be the dupable targets for some bribe takers who make a living on match score fixing for the upcoming matches.

  •  AFP extracts the statement of Alex Marshall – the leader of The anti-corruption Unit of International Cricket Council (ICC) said, even nowadays, many cricket plays have come to a halt impermanently due to the outbreak of virus corona, however, the risk of corruption still exists as many bribe takers still try to make contact with some cricket players to lure them into fixing matches, which have all been set up the score before the ball rolling.
  • “Covid-19 can turn many international and national cricket matches all over the world into the “frozen” stage, however, many bribe takers still keep on their activies. As a result, we are still on our way of collaborating and working with members, players, councils and other cricket clubs.”, Mr. Marshall said in an interview with The Guardian.
  • Mr. Marshall also added more detailed information that the anti-corruption Unit is now realizing that because of the dramatic decrease in income because of the cancellation of different plays and tournaments can lead to the vulnerability of cricket players, make them harder to keep themselves transparently from involving in match fixing deals from sophisticated bribe takers. “It can be seen that these bribe takers are making use of this sensitive time for different approaches to professional players. At this present, players do not have to meet each other to practice or compete, therefore, they try to make connection with these players. who are thriving for earning more money and try to establish a large community for making dirty profit together.”

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP THROUGHOUT YEARS (TO BE CONTINUED)

Reliance Cup

This 1987 tournament also played an important part in setting the foundation for nowadays tournament as it was the first time World Cup took risk to be held in other new regions out of England. Taking place in India and Pakistan, the 1987 version was sponsored by Reliance, therefore, the cup was called the Reliance Cup.

World Cup Benson & Hedges

These 1990s have witnessed the quick development of the World Cup when it succeeded in taking place in many new regions and in the 1992 season taking place in Australia and New Zealand, Pakistan is the new champion. 

In the 5th season, 9 teams, instead of 8 teams as the previous season, competed to seek for the final winner. Being sponsored by Benson and Hedges, the champion cup of World Cup was made of pure crystal and is known as Benson and Hedges Cup. This is also the one and only champion cup that was not made of metal, being offered in such a special cricket tournament in which the playing uniform turned from white to colorful and the competing ball was white.

World Cup Wills

Being held in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the 1996 tournament was known as the World Cup Wills. There were 12 national cricket teams took part in the championship and Sri Lanka was the champion of this year.

The World Cup Championship ICC

At the beginning of the 21st century, the Cricket World Cup tournament turned into the 7th season. At this time, the international cricket council decided to organize the one and only permanent Cup for these cricket tournaments, which is nowadays, known as ICC World Cup Championship.

Being designed and made by some architectures from Garrand and Co, located in London (which is also known as Crown Jewelers), the present cup is made of gold and silver.

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP THROUGHOUT YEARS (TO BE CONTINUED)

ICC Cricket World Cup is one of the most appealing sports tournaments throughout the world. With a great number of fans as well as nations involved and a group of conscientious players, Cricket World Cup is well-reputed and has quickly drawn many people’s attention.  

World Cup Championship Tournament

The World Cup Champion Tournament would definitely be the most precious Cup among all titles of cricket. Being through many trials and errors, the World Cup Champion has been gradually completed and become the most-viewed cricket tournament of all time. 

Prudential Cup

This cup was donated to the final champions during the very first 3 tournament versions of World Cup, which was, at that time, called Prudential Cup. There have been 20 Prudential Cup tournaments in total being held, 14 of them being held before 2015 and 10 of them being held recently. The number of participating teams during this very first version was 60 teams each season.

During the versions being held in 1975 and 1979, West Indies was the one and only champion which successfully defeated other teams to claim its crown. It was only after 8 years did India came over the title, which was in 1983. At this version, Prudential PLC (a financial company locating in England) was the main sponsor. After this season, the sponsors drew to an important conclusion with another format, another brand new name for this Prudential Cup. This was when the name “The Cricket World Cup” was firstly released.

Reliance Cup

The fourth version of  World Cup was held in 1987, which was called The World Cup Reliance . Even until this version, the format was unremarkably changed. The matches competing time was simply cut down on and the number of competing teams for each season was 50.

TAKE A LOOK BACK AT ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2019: FORMATION OF MOST TEAMS WAS CHANGED DUE TO PLAYERS’ INJURIES

ICC Cricket World Cup 2020 has yet taken place due to the dangerous effects of Covid-19. At this time, looking back and watching the previous session of ICC is considered to be the silver bullet for most cricket fans. ICC 2019 was one of the most impressive one in which most formation of top teams were dramatically changed. ICC 2019 gathered most of top teams from all over the world, which are India, Pakistan, Australia, England, South Africa,New Zealand, West India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to compete in the most worldwide prestigious cricket championship.

Different teams took out new formations and alternative choices for injured players who were previously chosen to take part in the harsh competition. Let see how these changes were carried out

India

In India playing formation, it were batsman and Kedar Jadhav, who missed the chance to take part in World Cup because of serious injuries. This talented player had hurted his left hand in an attempt to protect Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the recent final of India Premier League (IPL) competing with Mumbai Indians. He was immediately taken out from the court and took a break before replaying the match.

The latest news about his health status at that time was qualified enough to join World Cup, however, according to the report, Ambati Rayudu, Axar Patel, Saini and Ishant Sharma were on the preliminary list.

Pakistan

A Pakistan player Mohammad Amir was injured while he was called for the World Cup team. However, top Pakistan cricket experts had to make a second thought after the succession of his poor performance recently during the ODI tournament. However, in the end, there were no alternative choice for Amir.

DISCOVERING THE HISTORY OF FOUNDING AND PLAYING OF CRICKET (PART 02)

Since 1962, there has been a cricket eliminating competition between 4 teams, namely Midlands Knock-Out Cup. Being held after this tournament is the Gillette Cup taking place in 1963, which has made cricket more viral in England than ever before.

During these last years of the 1970s, Kerry Packed established a new cricket competition which was

World Series Cricket (WSC). This competition has set many stones and rules for nowadays cricket, including cricket uniforms. WSC’s plays were performed under the light and being streamed on the black screen. To have it live-streamed on different TV channels, a lot of cameras and micro effects have been set to bring cricket fans all over the world the most real experience of spectating. The success and popularity of cricket champions and tournaments in England and the rest of the world have virtually made ICC consider to organize an official Cricket World Cup.

World Cup Prudential (1975 – 1983)

The first Cricket World Cup took place in 1975 and definitely, in England, the only country which had enough capability, financial status and other essential powers to hold such worldwide large-scale cricket champion like The World Cup Cricket. The champion got the name The World Cup Prudential as it was mainly sponsored by the Prudential plc. Every plays happened daily to a traditional way of playing, in which players wore a white uniform and used a red cricket ball.

During a conference taking place after World Cup 1979, the International Cricket Organizing Department came to a final decision to turn The World Cup Prudential into a worldwide event that takes place 4 times a year. Yearly, this most prestigious tournament of cricket in the world appealed million fans and spectators, brought a staggering number of money revenue for the host nation. 

DISCOVERING THE HISTORY OF FOUNDING AND PLAYING OF CRICKET

Cricket is definitely one of the most long-lasting, traditional sports that have been played and developed throughout the history. Some former types of cricket had been quickly developed and spreading among many sports lovers community. Cricket’s origin is known to be South England. It used to be the most favorite sport among many members of peasant families located in East South England. 

Before the first Cricket World Cup being held 

The first international official cricket plays have been taken place with the participation of Canada and the USA on the 24th and 25th, September 1844. After that event, there have been different trial cricket plays being held. Cricket was also officially taken into account as an Olympic field of competition in the 1900 Olympic being taken place in Paris. At that event, England National Cricket Team successfully defeated French National Cricket Team to win the gold medal. This was the first and last time cricket appearing in the Summer Olympic.

The first cricket tournament at the international level which involved different nations was the one being held in 1913, the trial one with the participation of 3 different nations including England, Australia, and South Africa.

Unfortunately, this did not turn out to be a successful one as the weather condition in summer was especially wet, which made it hard to play cricket. The number of spectators turning up at that event was also not high. Since then, the International Cricket Trial Tournament has often between held just between 2 nations. The number of nations which have taken part in this tournament had also climbed gradually. However, these cricket matches were often held during the period of 3,4 or 5 days.

In the first years of the 1960s, some England cricket teams began to play an abridged version of cricket which a match only lasted 1 day.

ENGLAND CRICKETERS DONATED 10,2 MILLION POUNDS TO TK WITH THE VIEWING TO FIGHT OVER CORONA

England is now in the top 05 most dangerous nations being affected by fatal Coronavirus. Meanwhile, the number of people being affected to and dead of ‘coronavas’ virus worldwide has been 1 million 25 thousand. Because of this high escalation of people being affected to Covid-19, the community of cricketers in the England has decided to expand their financial support to help the government fight against the “invasion” of Covid-19. Previously, the cricket community in Pakistan had also taken their actions to promote the tough time of fighting over Covid-19 in their country. In this deal, each cricket player will donate part of their salary to create a supporting Covid-19 fund for their office.

For the very first time, they made a donation of 1 million pounds (around 11 million Bangladesh). All the players revealed that this sum of money will be used to support any effective campaigns being held to prevent the large spread of Covid-19. However, in the past, there had been a shameful scandal happening in England cricket community when cricketers in this country also cut down on their salary to make a donation to Covid-19 campaigns. To successfully fight against Corona, England cricket board has committed to ECB to cut down half of their players’ salary for making a donation, especially convince cricket superstars to share hands with the whole nation. However, there had been conflicts between players, organizers and other staff about the amount of money that should be donated. Some players found this amount of money too much as they would also be the victims of Covid-19 financially. 

The national male cricket team which is PCA gave information through a text:” The payment for us in the next 3 months will just only be 20% of the salary being dealt in the playing contracts”

BECAUSE OF THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK, SOUTH AFRICA’S CRICKET PLAYERS ALL STAY AT HOME FOR EXERCISING

The outbreak of Covid-19 has largely affected on many nations, and South Africa is of no exception. As it has been plunged into the coronavirus outbreak, all South African residents have to practice self-quarantine, which is also known as social distancing at their own homes during a stringent lockdown period of 21 days. 

South Africa Government only give allowances for workers belonging to essential fields such as medicine or polices, .. If the resident leaves home without serious reasons like seeking for medical treatment, collecting social grants, or buying food, they will be fined. 

Exercising activities outside are totally prohibited. There are no more gyms, no matches, no unnecessary direct communication either. 

It has been very lucky for South Africa cricket as all important cricket tournaments had come to an end before Covid-19 was spread into this country. 

South Africa isn’t due on the field until June when they are scheduled to play six white-ball games in Sri Lanka. 

Needless to say, however cricket, or other types of sports, is not only about public championship and tournaments. In case the social distancing situation will still take place for a long time on, cricket players will not be able to have outstanding performances after then if they are turning themselves into those couch potatoes who watch TV, eat and chill for several weeks. Fitness activities and home alone training are needed for cricket players to maintain their levels.

Training and communication are two main keys for cricket players to gain more knowledge and quickly upgrade their skills. But now, both of these methods need to be done remotely, which have actually been challenging and tough tasks for most cricket coaches, according to Tumi Masekela – the strength and conditioning coach of South Africa national men’s team in an interview with Cricket South Africa (CSA).

Basic bets on cricket

  • For victory. Usually bookmakers only accept bets on team wins, but in cricket a draw is possible. There are two types of draw: by score or by time. Almost all bookmakers do not place bets on a draw, and when it happens, they make a refund to all players who bet on a win.
  • To win the tournament. Cricket tournaments do not have a large number of participants, so you can analyze the teams and make a bet on this market.
  • The best batsman / bowler. In cricket, it is very rare for one player to be a head stronger than their teammates, so such a bet would be very risky.
  • On the total points of the best player of the match. A bet on individual indicators of players.
  • Other bids. Bookmakers take bets on total wides or run-outs, on the total runs of the first pair of batsmen of the team, you can also bet on which team will score more runs or run-outs, etc.Such bets are better to do only after you fully understand the rules of cricket.

Betting features

This is one of the few sports where professionals play Live. The large length of matches allows you to make slow decisions, but you need to be careful, because the game may change several times weather conditions that will make big adjustments to its outcome.

Very often, unexpected results occur in cricket, so quotes for outsiders in this sport are usually understated. It is best to use a strategy of betting on approximately equal opponents in cricket.

A huge plus for bettors is that cricket is not common in the US, Korea and Japan, where there are a lot of professional players. Usually bet on cricket ordinary fans of this sport, who are far from earning money on bets. This leads to large line runs on which you can earn good money.

 

The England cricket team will not play football in training after an injury to one of the players

The England cricket team will no longer play football during training or as a warm -up before matches. The reason for this decision was an injury to player Rory burns, who injured his ankle during training while playing football. England managing Director Ashley Giles has previously stated that he believes football is too injury- prone, but the players said it was important to maintain team spirit. At the same time, the England and Wales cricket Board did not give direct instructions about the ban on football training.

The maximum audience for the Wimbledon final on English TV was twice the audience for England’s victory in the Cricket World Cup

The Wimbledon final between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, which was broadcast on BBC One in the UK , was watched by 9.6 million people at the same time . This is more than twice the peak audience of the cricket world Cup final (4.5 million), which was also held in London and ended just after tennis (England defeated New Zealand).

In addition, the British Grand Prix ended yesterday. Its maximum audience was 2.5 million.

On average, the Wimbledon final was watched by 6 million English viewers, while the other two were watched by 2.4 and 1.8 million, respectively.

The Bangladesh cricket team was on its way to a mosque in New Zealand when the attack occurred

The Bangladesh cricket team was on its way to a mosque in New Zealand when the attack occurred.

Today, in the new Zealand city of Christchurch, a 28-year-old Australian opened fire on parishioners of a mosque. A little later, his accomplices attacked a mosque in Linwood. As a result of the attack, 49 people were killed and 39 were injured.

The Bangladesh team was due to play New Zealand in a test match today. The team’s players and coaches were on their way to a mosque in Christchurch to pray just as the shooting started there.

The athletes managed to get back on their bus and safely reached their hotel. The match against New Zealand was cancelled.

“The entire team escaped from the shooters today. Terrible experience, pray for us, ” wrote team player Tamim Iqbal.

“Allah saved us today from shooting at the mosque. We were very lucky. I never want to see that again… Pray for us, ” said player Mushfiqur Rahim.