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Cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6468 words) |
 | Cricket is also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are collectively known in cricketing parlance as the West Indies. |
| A standard cricket ground, showing the cricket pitch (brown), close-infield (light green) within 15 yards (13.7 m) of the striking batsman, infield (medium green) inside the white 30 yard (27.4 m) circle, and outfield (dark green), with sight screens beyond the boundary at either end. |
| Cricket was prominent in London as early as 1707 and large crowds flocked to matches on the Artillery Ground in Finsbury. |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3160 words) |
| By the 1880s the tradition of England-Australia cricket tours was well established, with a total of eight Tests having been played, five of them at the MCG, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground and one at The Oval in London. |
| In a one-day international cricket match in the late 1990s, the behaviour of Bay 13 was so bad that Shane Warne had to enter the ground from his dressing rooms and tell the crowd to settle down at the request of opposing England captain Alec Stewart. |
| The first rock concert to be held at the ground was one by David Cassidy in 1974. |
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