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Commonwealth XI Cricket Team In Pakistan In 1963–64
A Commonwealth XI cricket team of 14 players visited Pakistan between early November and mid-December 1963, playing six first-class cricket, first-class matches including three five-day matches against Pakistan national cricket team, Pakistan. The Commonwealth XI won the match against a Punjab Governor's XI, and the other five matches ended in Result (cricket)#Draw, draws."Commonwealth XI in Pakistan, 1963", ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Wisden'' 1965, pp. 849–51.Alf Gover"The 1963 Commonwealth Tour" ''The Cricketer'', February 1964, pp. 24–25. Team The team consisted of six players from England, five from the West Indies, and one each from Australia, Pakistan and South Africa. *Peter Richardson (cricketer), Peter Richardson (captain, England) *Bill Alley (Australia) *Keith Andrew (England) *Basil Butcher (West Indies) *Basil D'Oliveira (South Africa) *Tom Graveney (England) *Charlie Griffith (West Indies) *Rohan Kanhai (West Indies) *Khalid Ibadulla (Pakistan) *John Murray ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-class Cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all. The etymology of "first-class cricket" is unknown, but the term was used loosely before it acquired official status in 1895, following a meeting of leading English clubs. At a meeting of the International Cricket Council, Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1947, it was formally defined on a global basis. A significant omission of the ICC ruling was any attempt to define first-class cricket retrospectively. That has left historians and statisticians with the problem of how to categorise earlier matches, especially those played in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |