The Indian Premier League (IPL)
The popularity of the Indian Premium League continues to thrive each season, having started quite recently in 2008. The IPL is a Twenty20 cricket league that brings international stars to play alongside local Indian players; there tends to be plenty of Australian players found in the IPL. In the 2011 season, there was 10 teams participating, but for the upcoming 2012 season there will be just 9 after Kochi Tuskers Kerala were terminated for breaching its terms of agreement. The 2012 IPL (or IPL 5) will begin in April and end in late May. This is a short period, but there are plenty of other cricket competitions taking place in India throughout the year.
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The ODI and Test Cricket Records of Sachin Tendulkar
The Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar is widely considered as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of world cricket. In the previous posting (Cricket Batting Average), we looked at which batsmen in the history of the sport had the highest career batting average in Test Cricket. Donald Bradman was the clear star with an average of 99.94 and we were then introduced to a few players that had just managed to pass the 60 mark by a smidge. A good cricket batsmen would tend to have an average between 30 and 50! That posting touched on Sachin Tendulkar who has a relatively low career Test Cricket average of 56.25 at this time. The superstar Sachin Tendulkar more than makes up for this with his ODI and Test Cricket records though.
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Cricket Batting Average
The cricket batting average allows us to measure the performance of a cricket batsman and we will usually have separate averages for various forms of cricket such as ODI, Test Cricket etc. How do you work out a cricket batting average? This is a simple calculation whereby you take the total number of runs made by a batsman and then divide this amount by the number of times he has been out (number of innings). Remember to firstly take away the number of "not-outs" from the total innings. Using the example of the greatest batting average of all time (6996 runs, 80 innings and 10 not-outs), take the 10 not outs from the 80 innings and we have 70. Then we have the 6996 runs and then divide this by that 70, equating to a batting average of 99.94.
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ODI and Test Championship Rankings
The ICC ODI Championship arrived in 2002. One Day International (ODI) is limited overs cricket that is unique to test cricket in that the 10 teams with "Test Status" are involved, but as well as this 6 of the top associate and affiliate members can also compete (5 of these are associates and Afghanistan is an affiliate). For a reminder of those 10 Test Status teams, we have alphabetically Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. The top 6 teams with ODI status are Ireland (11th), Netherlands (12th), Kenya (13th), Afghanistan (14th), Scotland (15th) and Canada (16th).
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India’s 2011 World Cup Cricket Squad with Player Achievements
30 players were initially listed to each World Cup cricket squad. This is then cut in half to 15. Below you will find the 15 Indian players that made the grade in the 2011 Cricket World Cup. India were of course the 2011 World Cup Champions, but as well as this some of their players achieved highly impressive achievements in the tournament. The achievements of highest number of runs and highest number of wickets may have been aided by India playing the most number of matches alongside Sri Lanka with 9, but no one can questions the credentials of Yuvraj Singh who was deservedly crowned "Man of the Tournament". India's World Cup cricket squad has been listed below alphabetically with the noted player achievements.
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Featured Cricket Live Score Widgets
The intention here at Live Cricket Score 4U is to provide live cricket scores from across the globe and at the same time provide fresh relevant content to each and every visitor. The critical element here is the live cricket scores that are presented here as widgets. There are currently two widgets featured and this posting will provide some information on each of these. The objective here will always be to raise the bar and fortunately the featured widgets are continually being improved with an eye on design and speed. For now, a live cricket score widget has been taken from ECB and VCricket. Both widgets show up on every single page that you visit on this site.
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India Cricket – The Focus of Cricket Live Score 4U
This site is based in England, whereby cricket first spawned all the way back in the 16th century. Cricket will always be very important here, but the passion for the sport does seem to have shifted elsewhere in modern times. The national sport here in England is cricket. This then brings us on to the national sport of India being field hockey. This is generally not the modern outlook though, with football being the dominant sport in England and cricket being the clearly dominant force in India. There is a massive Google search volume attracted to cricket and the majority arises from India and this is evident from popping through most Indian streets.
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Types of Cricket Matches (Domestic and International)
Domestic Cricket: I will use the example of domestic cricket in England. Here we have the LV= County Championship league consisting of 18 sides that play home and away in 4 day matches. The most successful team is Yorkshire. Domestic cricket is also played in much shorter periods here in the Friends Life t20 tournament (this replaced the Twenty20 Cup) and this has 18 competing teams. The most successful team is Leicestershire Foxes covering both Friends Life t20 and the previous Twenty20 Cup. "Twenty20" is a modern limited overs concept in cricket that has a very fast pace, whereby the match is aimed to be completed in just three hours.
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