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Steve Smith starred with a double-century and a 92-ball 82 as Australia beat England by 185 runs in the fourth Ashes Test to retain the urn and lead the five-match series 2-1 with a match to go. Steve Smith made an impressive comeback to the Test cricket after serving a 12-month ban for ball tampering, scoring 671 in five innings of the ongoing Ashes 2019. Australia coach Justin Langer didn't hesitate to rate Steve Smith above India captain Virat Kohli, who recently lost his top position in the ICC Test batsmen's rankings to the former Australia skipper.
"I thought Virat Kohli was the best batsman I've ever seen because of the way he plays in all forms, but Steve Smith... That's another level," Justin Langer told Sky Sports, as quoted by AFP.
"He's a great problem-solver. His hunger for the game, I've never seen anything like it," he added.
Langer was also full of praise for Pat Cummins, who ranks first in the ICC Test bowlers' rankings.
"We've got the best fast bowler in the world (Pat Cummins) and the best Test batsman in the world," Langer said.
Smith scored 211 runs off 319 balls, including 24 boundaries and two sixes, to take Australia to a confident first innings total of 497 for eight after opting to bat.
The 30-year-old right-hander followed it up with an 82-ball knock, which was graced by 11 boundaries, as Australia set a target of 383 for England to win the fourth Ashes Test.
Cummins claimed seven wickets in two innings for Australia, including two dismissals off two deliveries in the first over of England's chase in Manchester.
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There is a consensus of expert opinion that cricket may have been invented during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England. The first reference to cricket being played as an adult sport was in 1611, and in the same year, a dictionary defined cricket as a boys' game. There is also the thought that cricket may have derived from bowls, by the intervention of a batsman trying to stop the ball from reaching its target by hitting it away.Village cricket had developed by the middle of the 17th century and the first English “county teams” were formed in the second half of the century, as “local experts” from village cricket were employed as the earliest professionals. The first known game in which the teams use county names is in 1709. In the first half of the 18th Century cricket established itself as a leading sport in London and the south-eastern counties of England. Its spread was limited by the constraints of travel, but it was slowly gaining popularity in other parts of England and Women’s Cricket dates back to the 1745, when the first known match was played in Surrey.In 1744, the first Laws of Cricket were written and subsequently amended in 1774, when innovations such as lbw, a 3rd stump, - the middle stump and a maximum bat width were added. The codes were drawn up by the “Star and Garter Club” whose members ultimately founded the famous Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's in 1787. MCC immediately became the custodian of the Laws and has made revisions ever since then to the current day.Rolling the ball along the ground was superseded sometime after 1760 when bowlers began to pitch the ball and in response to that innovation the straight bat replaced the old “hockey-stick” style of bat. The Hambledon Club in Hampshire was the focal point of the game for about thirty years until the formation of MCC and the opening of Lord's Cricket Ground in 1787.Cricket was introduced to North America via the English colonies as early as the 17th century, and in the 18th century it arrived in other parts of the globe. It was introduced to the West Indies by colonists and to India by British East India Company mariners. It arrived in Australia almost as soon as colonisation began in 1788 and the sport reached New Zealand and South Africa in the early years of the 19th century. ...........this Words Belongs to THE HOME OF CRICKET I MEAN ICC.
