Cricket

Bat and ball — the formats, history, and quirks of cricket.

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A cricket ball swings because one side is polished and one is rough

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An 'over' in cricket is six balls - and the ball barely changed in 400 years

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Don Bradman's Test average was 99.94 - a duck from 100

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Cricket has Laws, not rules - kept by one club at Lord's

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A Test match can last five days - and one in 1939 ran twelve

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The Ashes is a four-inch urn that has never been a trophy

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