• It's just down to watching the cricket ball and playing the best I can.

    BBC: Form merited England call - Trott

  • With a cricket ball in his hand he seems intent on bowling as many short balls as he can to help intimidate you in the contest.

    BBC: Justin Langer column

  • So I took out a motorcycle helmet made of fibreglass, with a polycarbonate visor that could take a double-barrel shogun from 10 paces - so I though it could withstand a cricket ball!

    BBC: World Series Cricket

  • And for want of a father the fifteen-year-old Princess had been born posthumously, months after a cricket ball fatally injured her father, Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1751 her brother William Henry, Duke of Gloucester gave her away.

    NPR: Excerpt: Princesses

  • It returned to the Firmdale family (and to the Design Hotels portfolio) in May 2012 after being gutted and "Kitted" out with chic, slightly eccentric touches like handwoven Argentinean rugs, bespoke wallpaper mocking vintage botanical prints and cricket-ball doorknobs.

    CNN: 7 hot new London hotels

  • "As the series against Sri Lanka has been decided we have an ideal opportunity to provide Ricky with two solid weeks of red-ball cricket, " said selector Greg Chappell.

    BBC: Ashes: Ricky Ponting keen to end to Aussie 'doom'

  • Spot-betting involves gamblers staking their money on the minutiae of sporting encounters, such as whether the first ball of a cricket match will be a wide or a no-ball.

    BBC: Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed hits out at tabloid sting

  • Recent experiments have featured pink balls, as the cricket authorities look for a ball which is highly visible under floodlights, but will allow the players still to wear whites.

    BBC: Does the white ball behave differently?

  • The live-blogging phenomenon actually pre-dates CoverItLive by several years, and probably has its roots among the team of sports obsessives of CricInfo, who first provided ball-by-ball coverage of cricket matches in the mid-1990s.

    CNN: The global appeal of 'sticky' live blogs

  • The new batsman, Ravi Bopara, had to weather a stormy introduction to Ashes cricket - which included a nasty ball from Siddle which struck his throat.

    BBC: England make solid start to Ashes

  • Now Ambrose, who will be remembered as one half of one of the deadliest pairings in cricket history - with either new ball or old - sunk to his knees in front of his brother-in-arms.

    BBC: King Courtney reigns

  • Pakistan forfeited a Test against England at The Oval - the first in Test cricket's history - on charges of ball tampering.

    BBC: SPORT | Cricket | International Teams | Waqar quits Pakistan coach role

  • Chasing Yorkshire's 180-3, in which ex-South Africa Test star Herschelle Gibbs hit his first ton in Twenty20 cricket, Northants needed 13 off the final ball.

    BBC: Boje earns Northants unlikely tie against Yorkshire

  • The Hawk-Eye system uses strategically-placed cameras to determine the exact flight of a ball and is already used in international cricket and at grand slam tennis tournaments.

    CNN: Goal-line technology enters final testing

  • Overlooked by FIFA for those tournaments, Hawk-Eye -- which already provides ball-tracking systems for tennis and cricket -- will install its technology in 20 Premier League grounds and at Wembley, which will host August's Community Shield.

    CNN: England on course for goal-line history

  • "The way he is controlling the swinging ball is as good as anyone in world cricket at the moment, " said Strauss.

    BBC: Anderson a world beater - Strauss

  • At the top of that list is Hawk-Eye, the ball tracking system already used in tennis and cricket that may soon stake its place in World Cup soccer.

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  • In Test cricket they always wear whites and play with a red ball, whereas in the shorter game they wear coloured clothing and play with a white ball.

    BBC: The difference between Test and limited-overs cricket

  • Because a white ball becomes discoloured towards the end of a 50-over one-day innings, making it difficult for the batsman to pick out, current International Cricket Council regulations state that after 34 overs, the ball must be changed for one of similar age, that has been cleaned and rewhitened.

    BBC: Does the white ball behave differently?

  • If there was only one really memorable shot played, a dreamy on-drive for four off Onions, it was a classic example of how building an innings in Test cricket is all about high-quality defence and putting away the bad ball.

    BBC: Jacques Kallis hits ton after England set early pace

  • Much has been made of Michael Vaughan's poor record in one-day cricket, and he produced a dreadful shot as he aimed to pull a ball that was not nearly short enough, and dragged the ball into his stumps for a seven-ball duck.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • "MCC were tasked with finding a white ball that lasts the course, " the club's head of cricket, John Stephenson told BBC Sport.

    BBC: Pink ball makes debut at Lord's

  • India's prolific domestic cricket is played on dull, flat tracks, which make most of its batsmen vulnerable to the moving ball and bouncy pitches overseas.

    BBC: Indian cricket's end of an era

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