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Cricket Trivia

• There are ten modes of dismissal in cricket (the first six are common, while the last four are really technicalities and rarely occur)
  • Caught
    
  • Bowled
    
  • Leg before wicket (lbw)
    
  • Run out
    
  • Stumped
    
  • Hit wicket
    
  • Handled the ball
    
  • Hit the ball twice
    
  • Obstructing the field
    
  • Timed out

• The first Test match began on 15 March 1877

• The first men's Twenty20 international was between Australia and New Zealand in 2005

• The first Australian cricket team to tour England was made of indigenous Australian players, in 1867.

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