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27 April – Sunday Cricket begins broadcasting a match each week from the new Sunday League. [8] 1972. A new one-day competition, the Benson & Hedges Cup, begins and the BBC provides live coverage of a match from each round. 1975. 7–21 June – The BBC shows extensive live coverage of the first Cricket World Cup.
Official podcast. Test Match Special (also known as TMS) is a British sports radio programme, originally, as its name implies, dealing exclusively with Test cricket matches, but currently covering any professional cricket. The programme is available on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra ( digital) and on BBC Sounds to the United Kingdom and (where ...
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
The BBC extends its daily live coverage of Wimbledon with coverage running until 8.30pm each night. 24–26 September – The BBC shows live coverage of golf's Ryder Cup for the final time as from 1995 the coverage transfers to Sky Sports. Autumn – The BBC begins displaying a score bug, a digital on-screen graphic displaying the current score ...
A half-century is a score of between 50 and 99 runs. Statistically, once a batsman's score reaches 100, it is no longer considered a half-century but a century. [78] Sachin Tendulkar of India has scored the most half-centuries at the Cricket World Cup with 15.
Notes: Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960-61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
List of highest individual scores in cricket. A. E. J. Collins ' record of 628 not out stood for over 100 years. Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that originated in England around the 16th century. It is played between two teams, with each trying to score as many runs as they can, across one or two innings. Records for early cricket matches are ...
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. Two players from the batting team (the striker and nonstriker) stand in front of either wicket holding bats, with one ...