The Story of Cricket (Chapter-10)

Use the following phrases appropriately in place of the italicised words in the sentences given below.

(i) Actually, I didn't intend to come to your place. I reached here without planning.

(ii) Sunil, there's a letter for you in today's post. There's one for me also.

(iii) Everybody thought I had composed the poem. The truth is my younger sister did it.

(iv) The doctor told the patient to make sure that he took his pills on time.

(v) It will be better for us to plan our trip before setting out.

Add -ly to the italicised word in each sentence. Rewrite the sentence using the new word. See the examples first.

• He runs between wickets as if his legs were stiff.

He runs between wickets stiffly.

• Why did the batsman swing the bat in such a violent manner?

Why did the batsman swing the bat so violently?

(i) It is obvious that the work has not been done in a proper way.

(ii) He made the statement in a firm manner.

(iii) The job can be completed within a week in an easy way.

(iv) You did not play in a serious manner, or else you would have won the match.

(v) She recited the poem in a cheerful manner.

Wordsearch

• Twelve words associated with cricket are hidden in this grid.

• Six can be found horizontally and the remaining six vertically.

• Two words have been found for you.

Clues to the hidden words are given below.

Horizontal : six deliveries, four runs, attacked while out of arena, no result, stumps, fielder to the off side of the wicketkeeper

Vertical : stumps flying, back to the pavilion, a lofty one, mid-air mishap, not even one out of six, goes with bat

Explain how cricket changed with changing times and yet remained unchanged in some ways.

How have advances in technology affected the game of cricket?

How is cricket different from other team games?

How is Test cricket a unique game in many ways?

What do you understand by the game's (cricket) 'equipment'?

Why has cricket a large viewership in India, not in China or Russia?

Do you think cricket owes its present popularity to television? Justify your answer.

The rivalry between the Parsis and the Bombay Gymkhana had a happy ending for the former. What does 'a happy ending' refer to?

The Parsis were the first Indian community to take to cricket. Why?

Name some stick-and-ball games that you have witnessed or heard of.

"...the men for whom the world is a stage".

(i) It refers to the famous cricket fields in the world.

(ii) It means that there are many cricket playing countries in the world.

(iii) It implies that cricketers are like actors and every cricket ground is like a stage on which the drama of cricket is enacted the world over.

Mark the right answer.

In "the triumph of the one-day game", 'triumph' means the one-day game's

(i) superiority to Test cricket.

(ii) inferiority to Test cricket.

(iii) achievement and success over Test cricket.

(iv) popularity among viewers.

Mark the right answer.

1. A 'professional' cricket player is one who makes a living by playing cricket. Find the opposite of 'professional' in the last paragraph.

Write True or False against each of the following sentences.

(i) India joined the world of Test cricket before Independence. ________________

(ii) The colonisers did nothing to encourage the Parsis in playing cricket. _________

(iii) Palwankar Baloo was India's first Test captain. ___________

(iv) Australia played its first Test against England as a sovereign nation. ___________

How is a cricket bat different from a hockey stick?

There is a historical reason behind both these oddities. ” In the preceding two paragraphs, find two words/phrases that mean the same as 'oddities'.

Cricket is originally a/an

(i) Indian game.

(ii) British game.

(iii) international game.

Mark the right answer.