Cricket is a game of passion and thrill. You get to experience a craze at the time of tournament. A cricket enthusiast sometimes sticks himself to the television so much that, it seems as if nothing can come between the fans and his television. It is because of this reason that cricket stats holds prime importance in the life of a cricket fan. Cricket stats allow the fans to peep into the details of each and every player’s performance, along with the analysis of an entire match. If the cricket officials are willing to calculate the average of any one’s performance, then this analysis is done with the help of analysis.

Cricket stats are not only necessary for knowing the details of the performance of a player or a team, it is also necessary for enhancing your knowledge. After all, if you are an ardent fan of cricket then acquaintance of cricket stats is mandatory for you. Just think that if someone asks you about your favorite team, and then what would you say. The main aim of the cricket stats is to make you aware of the latest happenings in the field of cricket. Well, cricket stats can just be about anything. Be it batting or bowling or entire team’s performance, cricket stats tell you about the level of a team and player in the ICC rankings.

The game of cricket is not only limited to just batting and Bowling, there is more to it. Cricket stats also tell cricket fans about the world records that are set by the players. With the help of these cricket stats, cricket fans are able to know that how their favorite player is performing and if at all he is making world records or not. In fact, if we look at cricket stats, it seems that they are a source of providing knowledge to all cricket enthusiasts. Cricket is one of the most interesting sports and a lot of people attach their emotions with the game. If their favorite team losses the match, they keep on making a war of rage.

A variety of issues in cricket stats may give a way to the wide range of discussion topics. Many times, the dropping performance of a batsman or bowler can be the hottest issue; while other times it can be on the overall performance of the team. Cricket stats have to be updated regularly for the betterment of cricket lovers, so that they don’t have to depend on the stale information. These stats are available on all aspects such as batting, bowling, fielding and number of runs scored. Cricket is the favorite game of entire world and you get to see a fanatic in every house.

Cricket became famous since it came into existence. Whenever there is a tournament, people either leave their work or take out some time from the busy schedule to catch up the live action. For the working professionals, it is the online cricket stats that are more important than any thing else. After all, it is the only source that keeps them abreast of the latest happenings in the turf of cricket. Cricket stats are prepared on the basis of huge data that is available with the experts.

Ella Wilson
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India volunteers, Alice French and Ben Thurman tell us about their weekend of cricket, cows and controversy.

‘On Saturday 10th February, for the third time, volunteers from all over the globe gathered to challenge the mighty staff at Projects Abroad to a game of cricket. The volunteers were at something of a disadvantage, having only three real cricketers amongst them but, with the assurance that the game would not be taken too seriously, spirits remained high.

The volunteers suffered an early setback as their captain, Simon Walker, tried – unsuccessfully – to field the ball with his head in pre-match practice on Friday evening. He was rushed into hospital and, although declared fit to play, it was clear that his performance suffered as a result. Moreover, our ranks were further depleted as a key member of the volunteers’ team mysteriously fell ill the night before the match. Sabotage was suspected.

We were all rudely awoken at the unearthly, and frankly unfair, hour of 6am (thanks Pabbu!) in order to get to the pitch in time for the ‘fun match’. Though looking around the breakfast table, one wondered how much fun anyone was likely to have at that hour of the day! The so-called ‘fun match’ consisted only of volunteers – cunningly split up into team A and team B – all desperate to prove their worth on the cricket pitch. Some impressed with their skills, whilst others found the game somewhat more challenging. Alice French caused our captain some serious selection problems, but did not quite make the final XI (or fit into the kit). Frederik Isler had the misfortune of being bowled out first ball, for a golden duck or – as volunteer Leonie Lawrence sagely commented – was it a golden eagle? This notwithstanding, he yet somehow managed to make the team. Sexism was suspected.

The real game began with the Projects Abroad staff batting first. Rajendran, who opened the batting, blasted into the game with a dynamic performance, sadly cut short when he was outpaced by Pandi. However Pandi’s stint at the crease was also short-lived as, following a brilliant bit of bowling from Ben Thurman, he was caught out by Alice Lindsay or ‘Big Al’, as she likes to be known. Regardless of her incessant apologies, it is unlikely the two will ever really be friends again. Victor, the imposing opposition captain, then entered the crease and, despite some inspiring bowling from Freddie Swift, managed to preserve his wicket until he was expertly caught out by Alex. Another highlight was Fred Miles’ surprisingly athletic piece of fielding, resulting in Pabbu’s dismissal. Helped by significant contributions from the rest of his team – and despite Frederik Isler’s alternative Bowling style – Victor guided the Projects Abroad staff to a healthy total of 146.

The volunteers’ innings got off to a promising start with a superb opening stand of 70 between Ben Thurman and Freddie Swift, before the inspired decision to bring Pabbu on to bowl, resulted in the former being dismissed for 23. A catastrophic middle order collapse ensued as Simon and Tom were returning to the pavilion almost before they had reached the wicket. Freddie ‘man of the match’ Swift controlled the innings, with help from Fred Miles who made 10, before being dismissed on 80. This left Frederik Isler and Leonie Lawrence to bring up the tense conclusion to this enthralling match, and it was here that we saw Frederik’s place in the team justified as the Swiss superstar outplayed himself in his first ever game of cricket. In the controversial last over, Leonie Lawrence was judged run out, going for the run to tie the match. The volunteers were left forlorn and dejected as they lost the match by a mere 1 run to the far more experienced Teaching & Projects Abroad side. Victor’s until then unseen competitive side shone through as he ecstatically lifted the trophy up on high (although not that high), and the writing on the back of his shirt said it all! Alice Lindsay also batted well.

Despite the unwelcomingly wet weather, painfully early start and occasional intrusions by cows on the pitch, it was overall a highly successful day, enjoyed by all. So, from all the volunteers, a sincere thank you to the staff at Projects Abroad, but also a warning that this defeat was but a minor setback and will only make us stronger, so next time – watch out!’

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When studying for an exam, the ultimate goal is to either pass or get the best possible grade. One of the difficult parts of taking an exam is that you don’t always know what to expect. Since you don’t know what exactly will be on the exam, it is hard to determine how much you should be studying. Exactly how well do you need to know the material before you are fully prepared to take the exam? You might be putting in hundreds of hours studying when all you really needed to put in was the initial ten hours.

I have found that the best possible way to prepare for any given exam is to practice taking exactly what you think will be included on the test. If it is a multiple choice exam, practice taking multiple choice questions that would resemble the questions on the exam. One of the reasons that this is a good idea is that you will be prepared for taking the actual exam, rather than just knowing the material really well. Obviously, knowing the material is very important, but being able to apply it to answering the questions of the test is key in your success.

I think that one of the fundamental problems with exams is that some exams are just poorly written. Even people who know know the material very well might fail because of ambiguous or confusing questions. For example, you may have taken an exam where some of the questions have more than one right answer, but you must select only one. You know that both are right, but how are you supposed to know which one the author likes better? By taking a practice exam or two before going in for the real thing, you can better understand what they are looking for in the answers.

Here is an example: A football team prepares for their games in two ways. First, they make sure that they study and memorize all the plays they will be running. Second, and most importantly, they go out in practice and they run the plays over and over again. They get the thories down and understand the fundamentals by studying and learning about their plays, but they really become able to perform well by actually doing what they will be doing when they are in the spotlight. If you entered a Bowling tournament, you would practice bowling each day before going to the competition. You wouldn’t sit around and study bowling strategies and then try to implement them when the time comes.

Taking advantage of your practice exams is the best method to preparing for any sort of exam. Check online to see what sort of study guides offer practice exams for your test. If you absolutely can’t find some good practice exams, see if anyone who has taken the test before can give you an example of what kind of questions are asked. We all know that practice makes perfect, so the best thing that you can do before your exam is practice, practice, practice!

Tom Noonan
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If you think wooden building blocks are just for little kids…think again! There are many fun and interesting things even middle school students can enjoy doing. Most of these will work best on a hard, smooth surface such as linoleum or hardwood, rather than rugs or carpet. For some of them, you can even work on a tabletop.
 
1. Build a tower as high and narrow as you can. Count the number of wooden blocks you used and take pictures. Look up the world record for a tower of wooden blocks. Measure yours. Did you come close?
 
2. Build a castle and decorate it with paper pennants glued to toothpicks. Make knights and ladies out of paper figures cut out from magazines. Add a picture of yourself and tape on a paper crown. Congratulations! You are now ruler of a miniature realm.
 
3. Create a maze for your pet hamster and time how long it takes him to get through. If he seems unmotivated, give him a little training. Start him off easy with a straight run with food at the end, so he gets the idea (it helps if he’s hungry). Next add a turn or two. Finally put him in a full-fledged maze with many turns and dead ends. Time him on successive runs. Does his speed improve?
 
4. If your wooden building blocks are of many different sizes and shapes, it can be as fun and challenging as any puzzle to try to stack them compactly together into the smallest possible space.
 
5. Outline miniature bowling lanes with wooden blocks and challenge your friends to a game. Use colorful cap erasers for bowling pins and marbles for Bowling balls. Deduct points for hitting the block walls of the lane. Make the game more challenging by keeping the lanes fairly long, and the erasers just far enough apart that you have to hit them exactly right to get a strike. Make the game easier by shortening the lanes and positioning the erasers a little closer together.
 
6. Build a spiral staircase. This might require a lot of building blocks to achieve the full effect, but it will be a lot of fun.
 
7. Build an arch completely made of wooden blocks. For help, look up arches in your encyclopedia. If your wooden building blocks do not include a keystone shape, you might need to create one out of cardboard for the top.
 
8. Build a special “domino city” and carefully run a line of dominos in, out, around, up, down and over the building blocks. Set up a small bell at the end (one of those little Christmas jingle bells tied on a ribbon works well). Push the first domino down.
 
9. Surprise your mom by setting the table early for supper. Surprise her more by carefully balancing each water glass on a stack of wooden building blocks. Explain solemnly that you couldn’t find any stemware, so you improvised as best you could.
 
10. If you have a cat or dog that’s a good sleeper (or a big brother), carefully build a “house” right over top of them out of wooden blocks. Yes, include a roof (you can support it with strips of cardboard if your longest blocks aren’t quite long enough for the roof base). If it is a large dog, or your big brother, you may have only enough blocks for your house to cover his head. That’s okay. Be sure to be around when they wake up! Or perhaps, if it’s your big brother, you should be very far away.

Joe Kanooga

The prevalent way of defining mass is to say that it is the quantity of matter possessed by the object concerned. For example, a small rock has a fixed, unchanging quantity of matter. If we were to take that rock to the Moon, to Mars, or to any other part of the universe, it would have the same quantity of matter i.e. the same mass as it has on Earth. Mass is sometimes confused with weight. Weight is defined as the gravitational attraction on an object by some body, such as Earth or the Moon. Generally we say that weight of an object is the force with which it is attracted by the earth towards itself. The rock described above would have a greater weight on Earth than on the Moon because Earth exerts a greater gravitational attraction on bodies than does the Moon (six times grater on earth than that on moon.)

A more precise definition of mass can be obtained from Newton’s second law of motion according to which and assuming that the object in question is free to move horizontally without friction, if a constant force is applied to an object at rest, that object will gain speed. For example, if we hit a ball with a hammer (the constant force), the ball goes from a zero velocity (when it is at rest) to some speed as it rolls across the ground. Mathematically, the second law can be written as F = m · a, where F is the force used to move an object, m is the mass of the object, and ‘a’ is the acceleration, or increase in speed of the object. Thus force applied on an object is the product of its mass and the acquired acceleration.

In other words we can say that Newton’s second law states that the amount of speed gained by an object when struck by a force depends on the quantity of matter in the object. If we strike a bowling ball and a golf ball with the same force, the golf ball will gain more speed than will gain the bowling ball because it takes a greater force to get the Bowling ball moving than it does to get the golf ball moving. This fact provides another way of defining mass. “Mass is the increase in speed of an object provided by some given force.” Or, one can solve the equation above for m, the mass of an object, to get m = F ÷ a. A kilogram, for example, can be defined as the mass that increases its speed at the rate of one meter per second when it is struck by a force of one newton.

In the International System of Units (SI system of measurement), the fundamental unit of mass is the kilogram. A smaller unit, the gram, is also used widely in many measurements. In the English system, the unit of mass is the slug. A slug is equal to 14.6 kilograms. Scientists and nonscientists alike commonly convert measurements between kilogram and pounds, not kilograms and slugs. Technically, though, a kilogram/pound conversion is not correct since kilogram is a measure of mass and pound a measure of weight. However, such measurements and such conversions almost always involve observations made on Earth’s surface where there is a constant ratio between mass and weight.

Dr.Badruddin Khan
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