This afternoon, the Detroit Lions, will host its 73rd Thanksgiving Day game .
Bath face Wasps at Twickenham on Saturday before a final-day game at home to Leeds.
Their CBS Thanksgiving day game against the Miami Dolphins was watched by 31 million viewers.
Derbyshire, who Glamorgan face in four-day game starting on Monday are bottom of Division Two while Worcestershire host Sussex.
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He said he hoped the one-day game would assume more significance within English cricket after 15 years of failure.
"We think he picked it up in the three-day game with Sussex last week, " said Ireland coach Phil Simmons.
"I thought I batted better in the one-day game but there's nothing to match a Test match hundred, " he says.
Other players, who might not achieve such heights in the history books, are also capable of transforming a one-day game.
But, expensive floodlit matches aside, much of the one-day game is played by second-choice players in front of empty seats.
Arthur is anticipating the likely Test side will be fielded in the three-day game with Middlesex starting at Uxbridge on Friday.
These players can win a one-day game single-handed, either by a commanding innings or by taking three or four quick wickets.
"I'm fully committed to New Zealand but feel the time is right for me to retire from the one-day game, " he said.
West Indies will play Queensland in a four-day game starting on 18 November, their only warm-up fixture before the opening Test in Brisbane.
Bracewell's credentials in the one-day game speak for themselves, but can he maintain and, if possible, improve New Zealand's effectiveness in Test cricket?
It matters: the difference between a boundary four and a boundary six can be the margin of victory in a tight one-day game.
There are recurring concerns over the health of the one-day game, though it got a great boost after India lifted the World Cup.
Pakistan went into the three-day game without their star of 2006, but skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq had no hesitation in batting after he won the toss.
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After standing in 24 Tests, Willey feels life is generally much easier for an umpire in a one-day match than in the five-day game.
The final Test at The Oval gets under way on 8 September, before which Australia have a two-day game against Essex on the weekend.
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The 2011 season will also include three games in the Intercontinental Cup, which will have one-day and T20 games scheduled alongside the four-day game.
"Neil McKenzie plays this four-day game and then goes home, and then we're joined by Shaun Pollock and Albie Morkel for the Twenty20, " said Benkenstein.
The loophole was exposed on the Lions' Thanksgiving Day game when Schwartz threw the challenge flag on an 81-yard touchdown run by Houston's Justin Forsett.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Butt said he had heard from bookmakers that England had been paid to lose Friday's third one-day game at The Oval.
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The Crusaders have endured a pitiful season in the one-day game, contrasting with their excellent form in the championship, and this match was no exception.
Warne, 36, announced his retirement from the one-day game just before the 2003 World Cup but then missed the tournament because of a doping ban.
Newton, a qualified coach, made her international debut in a one-day game against South Africa in 1997 and is the only mother in the England team.
India next play England A at Chelmsford in a three-day game starting on Friday, their final warm-up for the first Test at Lord's on 19 July.
"Ryan has got a slight problem so there has to be some concern, and he'll miss the three-day game as a precaution, " said England skipper Michael Vaughan.
In 72 one-day internationals he has scored 18 fifties and three hundreds, with an average of 34, slightly higher than his overall record in the one-day game.
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