As
far as latest sports news or sports videos
are concerned, I always log in at selected sites and watch my favourite
basketball games. If you know, the rules of basketball, thankfully, are fairly straightforward.
Basketball is a team sport. Two teams of five players each try to score by
shooting a ball through a hoop elevated 10 feet above the ground. The game is
played on a rectangular floor called the court, and there is a hoop at each
end. The court is divided into two main sections by the mid-court line. If the
offensive team puts the ball into play behind the mid-court line, it has ten
seconds to get the ball over the mid-court line. If it doesn't, then the defence
gets the ball. Once the offensive team gets the ball over the mid-court line,
it can no longer have possession of the ball in the area in back of the line.
If it does, the defence is awarded the ball. The ball is moved down the court
toward the basket by passing or dribbling. The team with the ball is called the
offense And latest sports news.
The team without the ball is called the defence. They try to steal the ball,
contest shots, steal and deflect passes, and garner rebounds. When a team makes
a basket, they score two points and the ball goes to the other team. If a
basket, or field goal, is made outside of the three-point arc, then that basket
is worth three points. A free throw is worth one point. Free throws are awarded
to a team according to some formats involving the number of fouls committed in
a half and/or the type of foul committed. Fouling a shooter always results in
two or three free throws being awarded the shooter, depending upon where he was
when he shot. If he was beyond the three-point line, then he gets three shots.
Other types of fouls do not result in free throws being awarded until a certain
number have accumulated during a half. Once that number is reached, then the
player who was fouled is awarded a '1-and-1' opportunity. If he makes his first
free throw, he gets to attempt a second. If he misses the first shot, the ball
is live on the rebound.
Each
game is divided into sections. All levels have two halves. In college, each
half is twenty minutes long. In high school and below, the halves are divided
into eight (and sometimes, six) minute quarters And latest sports news.
In the pros, quarters are twelve minutes long. There is a gap of several
minutes between halves. Gaps between quarters are relatively short. If the
score is tied at the end of regulation, then overtime periods of various
lengths are played until a winner emerges.
In
its intensity, its passion and its sheer scale, Indian cricket is unsurpassed
by any sport. One of my friends who has been in the media line told me once
that the only time and place he has heard anything to match the noise made in
an Indian ground when ViratKohli is batting well is at
the Old Firm derby. And just like the Old Firm, Indian cricket has sectarian
roots. Before the regionally-based Ranji Trophy, cricket in the country was all
about the Bombay Quadrangular, played in a Gymkhana outside the city walls
between teams representing the English, the Parsees, the Hindus and the
Muslims. Those divides are long since forgotten, subsumed beneath a more unifying
nationalistic desire to see team India win, but the strength of feeling those
matches provoked seems to linger still among a committed minority And cricket
videos.
The
passion for cricket is such that when Pakistan lost to India in the
quarter-finals of 1996 World Cup cricket videos,
two Pakistani fans died during the game, one had a heart attack and the other
committed suicide, turning his gun on himself after shooting out his TV screen.
Again, you have to be careful not to extrapolate conclusions from such
incidental and anecdotal evidence, but the stories still serve to exemplify the
strength of feeling some followers feel. Nothing else in cricket comes close. The
laws may stay the same, but financially and socially, cricket in some countries
like India is a whole different ball game.
cricket
videos celebrates the message that cricket is
a game for everyone. We know that sport, especially cricket,has the power to
bridge cultural divides. It has the unique capacity to bring together people
from all walks of life be it on the streets in India, the beaches in the
Caribbean or the alleyways in Melbourne. For years now, the game of cricket has
fostered greater harmony, respect and understanding of people from all
cultures. The impact that can be achieved by sharing a field together, and the
camaraderie that is developed between teammates and opponents alike, remains
the calling card of our sport. All cricketers, regardless of who they are, play
not just under the laws of the game but under the spirit of cricket.
Two
of the greatest passions of an average Indian at least for the last three
decades have been cricket and cinema whether it is watching, following,
discussing and debating the cricket matches or films with strong opinions about
the stars of both fields. I am also certain that no two topics in India can
make people in various walks of life can unite or divide with very strong agreement
or disagreement among the fans of the celluloid screen and cricket field. And
now, to catch some exciting cricket videos,
just be online!
