Essays on Cricket

Cricket game is famous all over the world, and it has produced many good cricketers over time. One of them is Virat Kohli, who is also the current captain of the Indian cricket team. Virat Kohli started playing cricket when he was just 3 years…

Going by numbers, Virat Kohli, the captain, has achieved great things so far in his tenure. He is the only Asian captain to win a Test match in South Africa, England, and Australia. In ODI cricket, Kohli shares the record for most wins after 50…

Cricket might be played across 22 yards in a stadium but it is widely discussed across schools, offices, parks, restaurants, tea stalls and homes. Everyone has an opinion and everyone loves to compare the greats. Being one of the modern powerhouses of the game, the…

The monsoons had set in and it was drizzling throughout the day. The ICC Prudential World Cup matches were going on in England. India had started well, unexpectedly winning against the formidable West Indians in their first match. They won the second match against Zimbabwe…

The recently completed 5th Test Match between England and India marked the 2318th game to have been played in this particular format of the sport since the inaugural match in 1877. Trying to choose a selection of matches across that kind of time period would…

2017 has been a turnaround year for the women’s cricket in India. Sample this: Barely a dozen journalist were present at the press conference where Indian captain Mithali Raj outlined her plans for what was to be the biggest tournament of her career, before leaving…

My name is Muhammed Shaheer Younus and I’m currently 15 years old. At the moment I do GCSE PE as a subject. I play a wide range of sports and play as many as I can do the best of my ability. Out of the…

In the last 3-4 years, the cricketing world has seen a surge in the demand of wrist spinners in almost all the teams across the world, be it ODIs, T20Is or the different T20 leagues. While creating squads, the selectors/coaches/team owners put the requirement of…

It began a long time back, almost a decade when a young Delhi boy known as Virat Kohli came into the picture emerging from the under -19 days. His toughness was shown for the very first time during the Vizag ODI where he won a…

P. G. Wodehouse’s “The Odd Trick” and “How Pillingshot Scored” stories illustrate that cricket players are usually rude; two cricket players treat their colleagues rudely. To this end, Tony Graham forces Philip St H. Harrison to strip in public within “The Odd Trick”. Similarly, Scott…

Abstract Animal personality is a collection of behaviors exhibited by an individual in a population. Being an individual, we are all unique and behave in various ways. However, due to evolution and genetics, some traits are correlated with others, meaning, that one trait may influence…

England’s Sports England has originality and a great, vast history on their side. Their sports are unique to their culture and landscape. Americans adopted and adapted some European sports, but not many people in America know which sports were adopted and revised. America changed sports…

The Pakistani cricket team had not got the start as they wanted and had lost their opening matches against India and West Indies under the skipper Misbah. However Pakistan comfortably stood victorious in their next two matches against Zimbabwe and UAE. The upcoming match was…

Did you know, that cricket is one of the highest scoring sports ever played with scores averaging in the 100’s to 200’s per team. Cricket is a sport with a very immense history going back to the 1300’s. It is much more complex in rules…

While reviewing the literature, I have gone through some book reviews by the journalists and the novelists related to my novel in order to understand this in broader way. Quinn Annalisa, a journalist, wrote a book review at this novel in 2017 at NPR books….