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The News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. [4]
The World Cricket Tsunami Appeal, a one-off match between the Asian Cricket Council XI vs ICC World XI in the 2004/05 season. The Afro-Asia Cup, two three-ODI series played in 2005 and 2007 Afro-Asia Cup between the Asian Cricket Council XI and the African XI .
Muttiah Muralitharan has taken the highest number of wickets in Test cricket. [1] Taking 300 or more wickets across a playing career is considered a significant achievement in Test cricket. [2] [3] [4] First accomplished in 1964 by Englishman Fred Trueman, [5] as of March 2024 the feat has been achieved by only 37 cricketers in the history of ...
The first major international cricket played in the West Indies was between local, often predominantly white, sides and English tourists – the Middlesex player Robert Slade Lucas toured the West Indies with a team in 1894–95, [9] and two years later Arthur Priestley took a team to Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica, which included, for the first time, a match against a side styled "All West ...
Rest of the World cricket team in England in 1970, and briefer tours occurring in the 1960s, including in 1966 and 1967; Rest of the World cricket team in Australia in 1971–72; World Series Cricket World XI, competed in World Series Cricket 1978–79; Sport Aid 1986 team v. West Indies; Victorian Cricket Association centenary ODI v.
The 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Seven was a cricket tournament took place from 1 to 8 May 2011. [1] It formed part of the ICC World Cricket League and qualifying for the 2015 Cricket World Cup .
The final of the 1979 ICC Cricket World Cup was played in Lord's, London on 23 June. This was the second time that Lord's had hosted an ICC Cricket World Cup final. The match was won by the West Indies when they defeated England by 92 runs to lift the trophy.
Some sports governing bodies prefer the title "world championship" or a related term; some even organize both a world cup and a world championship with different rules.. Usually, such competitions take one of two forms: a short periodic competition or a year-long series of meetings, but more frequently many sports have both a World Cup (usually consisting of multiple events in a season), and a ...