Cricket Clubs is one of many games in the "club ball" sphere that basically involve hitting a ball with a hand-held implement; others include baseball, golf, hockey, tennis, squash, badminton and table tennis.
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15 Facts About Cricket Clubs
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Cricket Clubs remained a low-key local pursuit for much of the 17th century.
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Cricket Clubs was prominent in London as early as 1707 and, in the middle years of the century, large crowds flocked to matches on the Artillery Ground in Finsbury.
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Cricket Clubs entered a new era in 1963 when English counties introduced the limited overs variant.
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The first Limited Overs International was played in 1971 and the governing International Cricket Clubs Council, seeing its potential, staged the first limited overs Cricket Clubs World Cup in 1975.
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Cricket Clubs is a bat-and-ball game played on a cricket field between two teams of eleven players each.
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The Laws of Cricket Clubs were updated in 2017 to allow substitutes to act as wicket-keepers.
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Cricket Clubs is the only member of the fielding side who can effect a stumping and is the only one permitted to wear gloves and external leg guards.
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The terse expression of the Spirit of Cricket Clubs now avoids the diversity of cultural conventions that exist in the detail of sportsmanship – or its absence.
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In 2005, the International Women's Cricket Clubs Council was merged with the International Cricket Clubs Council to form one unified body to help manage and develop cricket.
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Cricket Clubs is a multi-faceted sport with multiple formats that can effectively be divided into first-class cricket, limited overs cricket and, historically, single wicket cricket.
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Cricket Clubs is played at both the international and domestic level.
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Cricket Clubs has had a broad impact on popular culture, both in the Commonwealth of Nations and elsewhere.
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Cricket Clubs is the subject of works by noted English poets, including William Blake and Lord Byron.
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Cricket Clubs has close historical ties with Australian rules football and many players have competed at top levels in both sports.
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