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Cricket is a team sport involving a bat and ball played between two teams of eleven players each. The objective is to score more runs than the opposing team. A match is divided into innings during which one team bats, two batsmen at a time, and the other team bowls.

Cricket originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular participatory and spectator sport, and it is also a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean (called the West Indies). Cricket is arguably the second most popular sport in the world.

Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman. A Bodyline bowler deliberately aimed the cricket ball at the body of the opposing batsman, in the hope of creating legside deflections that could be caught by one of several fielders in the quadrant of the field behind square leg.

The tactic led to ill feeling between the two national teams, with the controversy eventually spilling into the diplomatic arena. Over the next two decades, several of the Laws of Cricket were changed to prevent this tactic being repeated.

This is a list of Bangladeshi national cricket captains. Nine cricketers have captained the Bangladeshi cricket team for at least one One Day International:

International

• India in England
• Bangladeshis in Sri Lanka
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Domestic

• 2007 English cricket season

• October 2: Australia beat India by 84 runs at Kochi in second of seven match series.
• September 7: Pakistan Cricket Board bans Shoaib Akhtar for an indefinite period for the alleged brawl with his team-mate Muhammad Asif
• August 7: Indian Team for the Twenty20 World Championship and the ODI series against England announced.

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Australia

• 1956 - Terry Alderman is born at Subiaco in Western Australia

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