Cricket in England - England Cricket Team, England Women's Cricket Team, Minor Coengland Cricket Team, England Women's Cricket Team, Minor Counties of English and Welsh Cricket, Eton V Harrow Unties of English and Welsh Cricket, Eton V Harrow (Paperback)

Chapters: England Cricket Team, England Women's Cricket Team, Minor Counties of English and Welsh Cricket, Eton V Harrow, National Cricket Performance Centre, County Cricket, Salfords, Loughborough University Centre of Cricketing Excellence, Professional Cricketers' Association, Seaford Cricket Club, Village Cricket. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 79. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The England cricket team (Welsh: ) is the cricket team which represents England and Wales. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from 1903 until the end of 1996. England and Australia were the first teams to be granted Test status on 15 March 1877 and they gained full membership to the International Cricket Council (ICC) on 15 June 1909. England and Australia also took part in the first One Day International (ODI) on 5 January 1971. England are the current holders of the Ashes, which is the Test match series contest between England and Australia and which has been played since the late nineteenth century. As of 23 August 2009, England have won 310 of the 891 Test matches they have played and are ranked fifth in the ICC Test Championship. They have finished runners-up in 3 Cricket World Cups (1979, 1987 and 1992), and have also been runners up once in the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004. As with their Test match ranking, they are currently in fifth place in the ICC ODI Championship. England played their first Twenty20 match on 13 June 2005, facing Australia once again. In Twenty20 cricket, England won the ICC World Twenty20 in 2010, beating Australia by seven wickets. The first England team to tour Australia.The first recorded incidence of a team with a claim to represent England comes from ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=75912