| I have two brick-coloured sofas and floral curtains with brick and gold to match. |
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| She won the first two games, but lost the set and the match. |
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| No, no, my dear Watson! With all respect for your natural acumen, I do not think that you are quite a match for the worthy doctor. |
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| The umpires can also call an end to the match in case of bad light or weather. |
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| The match, starting on 15 March 1877 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground came to be regarded as the inaugural Test match. |
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| The combined Australian XI won this Test match by 45 runs with Charles Bannerman of Australia scoring the first Test century. |
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| At the time, the match was promoted as James Lillywhite's XI v Combined Victoria and New South Wales. |
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| The teams played a return match on the same ground at Easter, 1877, when Lillywhite's team avenged their loss with a victory by four wickets. |
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| A fourth match was then played which Australia won by 4 wickets but the match was not considered part of the Ashes series. |
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| During this period England also played their first Test match against South Africa in 1889 at Port Elizabeth. |
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| Prior to this, England teams for home Tests had been chosen by the club on whose ground the match was to be played. |
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| Foster scored 287 on his debut and Wilfred Rhodes took 15 wickets in a match. |
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| England lost the first match of the series but bounced back and won the next four Tests. |
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| Test cricket resumed after the Second World War in 1946, and England won their first match back against India. |
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| The decade ended with England drawing the Test series against New Zealand, with every match ending in a draw. |
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| In June 2005, England played its first ever T20 international match, defeating Australia by 100 runs. |
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| The 2009 Ashes series featured the first Test match played in Wales, at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. |
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| England drew that match thanks to a last wicket stand by bowlers James Anderson and Monty Panesar. |
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| England struggled to match their Test form in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup. |
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| Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match. |
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| Bradman himself thought that his 254 in the preceding match, at Lord's, was a better innings. |
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| Under Brearley's leadership, England went on to win the next two matches before a drawn final match at The Oval. |
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| Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series. |
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| Australians have taken 10 wickets in a match on 41 occasions, Englishmen 38 times. |
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| A highlight of Australia's early history was the 1882 Test match against England at The Oval. |
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| Australia ended winning by 45 runs, an identical result to the first Test match. |
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| After lunch, Trescothick played on to be bowled after scoring 41 giving McGrath his first wicket of the match. |
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| Australia needed 423 to win, which would be a record fourth innings total to win a match. |
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| With the match effectively over, the crowd were eager for the Ashes to be presented to England, and the celebrations to begin. |
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| The first World Cup was organised in England in June 1975, with the first ODI cricket match having been played only four years earlier. |
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| On 17 February 2005 Australia defeated New Zealand in the first men's full international Twenty20 match, played at Eden Park in Auckland. |
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| In the case of a tie occurring again in the Super Over, the match is won by the team that has scored the most sixes in their innings. |
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| In each case, the county had played an unregistered player in one match, and all points awarded in that match were deducted. |
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| The name may have arisen from a need to match the status of Norfolk as a county rather than a city. |
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| Yorkshire lost to Gloucestershire by a single run and were overtaken by Kent, who won their last match against Hampshire by an innings. |
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| To mark the occasion, on 5 July an MCC XI captained by Sachin Tendulkar played a Rest of the World XI led by Shane Warne in a 50 overs match. |
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| The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. |
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| Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. |
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| A Canadian team played an American team in a match watched by 10,000 people. |
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| Whilst the new paint was a good metameric match under natural light, it looked odd under a fluorescent light. |
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| The history of the team extends back to 1871 when the English rugby team played their first official Test match, losing to Scotland by one goal. |
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| Not only was this match England's first, but it also proved to be the first ever rugby union international. |
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| Scotland won the match by a goal and a try to a try, in front of a crowd of 4,000 people at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh. |
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| Their first match against Wales was played on 19 February 1881 at Richardson's Field in Blackheath. |
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| The early Five Nations competitions of the 1950s were unsuccessful for England, winning one match in the 1950 and 1951 championships. |
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| England did not win a single match in 1966, and managed only a draw with Ireland. |
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| The first England match was held on 9 October 1910 between England and Wales. |
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| The first match to be played at the redeveloped Twickenham was on Sunday 5 November 2006 against the All Blacks. |
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| France destroyed an Irish side who had gone into the match hopeful of a win, scoring 31 early points to put the game out of reach. |
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| Unfortunately, it was probably the last match for Australian star Ben Darwin, who injured his neck in a scrum. |
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| With 20 seconds left before sudden death, Wilkinson scored a drop goal to win the match and with it the world championship. |
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| England won the championship, however they missed a Grand Slam after losing their final match against Scotland. |
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| England won all their subsequent matches during the tournament, with the exception of the Irish match, which was postponed until October. |
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| During the match, Wilkinson injured his leg and was stretchered off the pitch. |
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| The very physical match later saw Wilkinson leave the pitch with a dislocated left shoulder. |
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| The opening match of the 2003 Six Nations Championship saw France, the reigning champions and Grand Slam winners, play England. |
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| In January 2005 he injured his medial knee ligament in a match against Perpignan. |
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| Carter then reclaimed the record on 30 July 2011 in the second 2011 Tri Nations Series match against South Africa. |
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| The Stadio Olimpico in Rome had been proposed as the venue to host the final and the first match of the tournament. |
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| A team scoring four tries in one match scored a bonus point, as did a team that lost by fewer than eight points. |
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| Tigers hit the top of the league on 28 November and stayed there losing only one match all season. |
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| The title was sealed in the penultimate match of the season away to Newcastle Falcons. |
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| Outgoing skipper Steve Borthwick led by example and was a tower of strength in the lineout on his way to becoming FedEx Man of the match. |
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| This cricket field is used for local contests and by Somerset County Cricket Club for one match a year. |
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| Teams can also earn 1 try bonus point for scoring four or more tries, and 1 losing bonus point for losing a match by seven points or fewer. |
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| The attendance of 82,208 set what was then a world record for a club match in the sport's history. |
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| She struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky, blinky light. |
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| But few could match the bred-in-the-bone exceptionalism rooted deep in America's self-image. |
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| But with both sides in the Premier League's bottom three before the game began, the three points at stake made for a cagey match. |
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| We won the match and I got on the scoresheet with a chip-and-gather try to cap a performance that did my confidence a world of good. |
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| He was as good a man as Jacky at any weapon that could be named, and if Jacky were game for a chiving match, he was ready for him. |
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| If you refuse to wear a proper uniform, you will not be allowed to compete and will default this match. |
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| To make up the match with my eldest daughter, my wife's dilling, whom she longs to call madam. |
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| A player who is dormy cannot be beaten, and at the worst must halve the match. |
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| Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design? |
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| It's not so long ago that Argentina looked to be in complete control of this match. Now Paraguay are forcing their backs to the wall. |
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| He was long-married hisownself, real friendsome, and his smile wasn't aimed at me, it was to match my own. |
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| They lost heartbreakingly, with an own goal in the last minute of the match. |
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| The match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, home of the West of Scotland Cricket Club. |
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| Young girls worked at match factories, where phosphorus fumes would cause many to develop phossy jaw. |
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| If you use much plate matter, make your choice of homeset heads to match those on the plate matter. |
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| These fragments do not seem to match any of the standing stones or bluestone stumps. |
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| In the period between about 201 to 27 BC, we can see the development of more flexible laws to match the needs of the time. |
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| While Kennedy infought to trim outlays to match resources, critics claimed that the era of the big eleemosynaries had come to an end. |
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| Further, Eleanor championed the match, as Navarre bordered Aquitaine, thereby securing the southern border of her ancestral lands. |
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| After Chelsea had two goalkeepers injured in one match, their captain went in goal for the last few minutes. |
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| He was convinced of the need for an alliance with France and had been negotiating a match between Edward and a French bride. |
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| Although the marriage made sense in terms of foreign policy, Henry was still enraged and offended by the match. |
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| As the relationship between the king and Warwick became strained, Edward IV opposed the match. |
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| With the failure of the Spanish match, Charles and Buckingham turned their attention to France. |
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| But instead of a match the 12,000 crowd saw a short athletics meeting followed by a selection of music and a fireworks display. |
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| Without L cuts, a conversation between two people can feel like a tennis match. |
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| The number of innings and the number of overs per innings vary depending on the format of the match. |
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| The Fed sets a target for the Fed funds rate, which its Open Market Committee tries to match by lending or borrowing in the money market. |
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| Air Force acquisition chief, said that Lockheed Martin needed to reduce manufacturing capacity to match the reduced market for their aircraft. |
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| Mardy Fish walloped the final shot of the match for a winner, and he let loose a jubilant roar of his own. |
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| Various species require different levels of testing to ensure a compatible match. |
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| Of the 23 tram stops, 11 roughly or directly match former railway stations. |
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| In July 2010, they celebrated their first ever win over England in any form of match. |
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| To match the new names, there was a transferring of responsibilities between the two Departments of State. |
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| My second marriage, unlike my first, in which I became pregnant at 19 and married the man, was a love match from the start. |
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| In the old style modular subjects, pupils may mix and match tiers between units. |
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| The results of the exam would be used to match children's secondary schools to their abilities and future career needs. |
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| These rooms were also partially redesigned at the same time to more closely match modern tastes. |
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| The Habsburg Emperor secured the match for his son, the future Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, with the aid of Mary's stepmother, Margaret. |
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| A number of bars specialise in imported beer, with food and decor to match, Belgian and Bavarian themes being the most common. |
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| She is reputed to have had paintings of her burnt that did not match the iconic image she wished to be shown. |
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| Claudius switches tactics, proposing a fencing match between Laertes and Hamlet to settle their differences. |
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| Depending on how well the tests match the predictions, the original hypothesis may require refinement, alteration, expansion or even rejection. |
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| The Porter family did not approve of the match, partly because of the difference in their ages. |
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| The end of the matchstick is dipped in a sulfurous compound to turn it into a complete match. |
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| Through Scott was positive, Austen's work did not match the prevailing aesthetic values of the Romantic zeitgeist. |
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| Yet, in urban Ontario, the plowing match is probably the least known megafestival there is. |
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| Moviegoers found John Gilbert's voice an awkward match with his swashbuckling persona, and his star also faded. |
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| In showing the films, synchronization of sorts was achieved by adjusting the hand cranked film projector's speed to match the phonograph. |
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| It's the gold standard and what any other technology has to match up to, but none have, in my opinion. |
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| The first match recorded by the Scottish Football Association took place in 1892 in Glasgow. |
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| The goalkeeper must wear clothing that is easily distinguishable from that worn by the other players and the match officials. |
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| Added time was introduced because of an incident which happened in 1891 during a match between Stoke and Aston Villa. |
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| In 1624, a player called Jasper Vinall died after he was struck on the head during a match between two parish teams in Sussex. |
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| The single wicket form of the sport attracted huge crowds and wagers to match, its popularity peaking in the 1748 season. |
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| In some forms of cricket, it is also necessary to dismiss the opposition in order to win the match, which would otherwise be drawn. |
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| It is decided before the match whether the teams will have one innings or two innings each. |
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| The order of batsmen is usually announced just before the match, but it can be varied. |
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| These matches also have a match referee whose job is to ensure that play is within the Laws of cricket and the spirit of the game. |
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| The match details, including runs and dismissals, are recorded by two official scorers, one representing each team. |
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| Depending on the type of match being played, each team has either one or two innings. |
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| In all forms of cricket, if a fielder is injured or becomes ill during a match, a substitute is allowed to field instead of him. |
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| In the traditional form of the game, if the time allotted for the match expires before either side can win, then the game is declared a draw. |
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| If the match has only a single innings per side, then a maximum number of deliveries for each innings is often imposed. |
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| This means that in the event of heavy rain, a match may be cancelled, abandoned or suspended due to an unsafe outfield. |
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| Such pitches tend to offer help to fast bowlers throughout the match, but become better for batting as the game goes on. |
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| This rule, seen only in impromptu games, speeds the match up by removing the batsman's right to block the ball. |
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| Each team starts the match with 15 players on the field and seven or eight substitutes. |
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| Prior to 2016, all substitutions, no matter the cause, counted against the limit during a match. |
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| Women's international rugby union began in 1982, with a match between France and Netherlands played in Utrecht. |
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| The system of numbering players is different depending on which country the match is played in. |
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| Meanwhile, technology led to the use of synthetic strings that match the feel of gut yet with added durability. |
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| Game points, set points, and match points are not part of official scoring and are not announced by the chair umpire in tournament play. |
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| As such, each player plays doubles and singles over the course of a match, with the singles player always serving. |
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| A recent rule change is to allow coaching on court on a limited basis during a match. |
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| A grip is a way of holding the racket in order to hit shots during a match. |
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| Often, media outlets covering a match will personally score the match, and post their scores as an independent sentence in their report. |
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| A match generally consists of a predetermined number of frames and the player who wins the most frames wins the match. |
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| A match may be divided into sets, with each set being contested as over a fixed number of legs. |
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| The last major match races before the American Civil War were both between Lexington and Lecompte. |
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| In sudden death, a player who scores lower on a hole than all of his opponents wins the match. |
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| A representative match between England and Scotland was played on 5 March 1870, having been organised by the Football Association. |
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| The first match at the stadium was a game played behind closed doors between Multiplex and Wembley Stadium staff. |
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| The first player to score in a FIFA sanctioned match was Italian striker Giampaolo Pazzini after 28 seconds of the same game. |
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| The match saw captain John Terry become the first England international goal scorer at the new stadium when he scored in the 68th minute. |
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| This match cost England qualification to Euro 2008 and head coach Steve McClaren his job. |
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| Their Aviva Premiership clash with Harlequins in 2012 was played before a crowd of 83,761, a world record for a rugby union club match. |
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| In 2015, another first occurred as the first ever divisional match took place at Wembley between the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets. |
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| Brown's first match as manager was against the newly crowned world champions England at Wembley Stadium. |
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| The Scotland fans invaded the pitch after the match, ripping up the turf and breaking a crossbar. |
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| The squad went into their last qualification match against Wales needing a point to progress to a qualifying playoff against Australia. |
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| This second successive failure to qualify prompted Craig Brown to resign from his position after the final qualifying match. |
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| After losing their opening match in Germany, Scotland recorded home wins against Georgia, the Republic of Ireland and Gibraltar. |
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| The SFA includes a match against a Hong Kong League XI played on 23 May 2002 in its statistical totals. |
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| Scotland's 1937 British Home Championship match against England set a new world record for a football attendance. |
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| This attendance was surpassed 13 years later by the decisive match of the 1950 FIFA World Cup, but remains a European record. |
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| For any match other than the final, if the teams were still tied after extra time, lots would be drawn to determine the winner. |
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| All the group's matches were played at Wembley Stadium apart from the match between Uruguay and France which took place at White City Stadium. |
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| The most used venue was Wembley, which was used for nine matches, including all of England's six matches, the final and the third place match. |
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| The first group stage saw a politically charged match as West Germany played a game against East Germany. |
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| The round of sixteen knockout match against Algeria remained goalless after regulation time, resulting in extra time. |
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| After initial security reservations, the DFB decided to play the match on 15 November. |
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| However, after reports about a concrete threat to the stadium, the match was cancelled ninety minutes before kickoff. |
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| In association and rugby football, the scoring of two goals or tries by one individual in a single match is referred to as a brace. |
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| It consisted of five wickets in five balls, across two innings and separated by seven days, as the match took place on consecutive Saturdays. |
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| On 31 March 1866, there was a match between a team representing the city of Sheffield and one representing London, at Battersea Park. |
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| During a match, it is the task of the referee to interpret and enforce the Laws of the Game. |
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| Winners also qualify for the Europa League and a place in the FA Community Shield match. |
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| If the score was still level after extra time, the match would go to a replay. |
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| From August 2006 to 2013, Umbro supplied match balls for all FA Cup matches. |
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| The first final on BBC Television was in 1937 in a match which featured Sunderland and Preston North End but this was not televised in full. |
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| It was reported on 9 November that Wilkinson suffered a lacerated kidney during the match. |
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| The first match of the competition, between Wantage Town and Brading Town, was broadcast live online. |
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| Adidas is a secondary sponsor and supplies the official match ball, the Adidas Finale, and referee uniform, as they do for all UEFA competitions. |
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| The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool's first match at Anfield. |
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| His first match in charge was a draw, followed by a run of 10 undefeated games. |
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| Aston Villa's first match was against the local Aston Brook St Mary's Rugby team. |
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| As a condition of the match, the Villa side had to agree to play the first half under Rugby rules and the second half under Association rules. |
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| In 1980, Stamford Bridge hosted the first international floodlit cricket match in the UK, between Essex and the West Indies. |
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| Chelsea, along with Arsenal, were the first club to play with shirt numbers, on 25 August 1928 in their match against Swansea Town. |
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| On 22 January 1927, their match at Highbury against Sheffield United was the first English League match to be broadcast live on radio. |
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| Adidas is a secondary sponsor and supplies the official match ball, as it does for all other UEFA competitions. |
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| Libya's opening home match in the World Cup qualifiers against Cameroon will be played at a neutral venue and behind closed doors, FIFA said on Friday. |
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| Gielgud used a scholarly combination of Q1 and Q2 texts and organised the set and costumes to match as closely as possible to the Elizabethan period. |
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| In addition, the opening match of the tournament will be held at The Oval. |
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| The following match was contested on Wednesday last week, when the Town Club, though without their two top boardsmen, proved far too strong for the soliders. |
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| The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. |
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| My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today. |
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| After a consensus is made, the name of the appointed referee remains confidential up to two days before the match for the purpose of minimising public influence. |
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| The first match played in the USA was on 12 March 2016 when London Irish were defeated by Saracens at the Red Bull Arena in the New York Metropolitan Area. |
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| But I figured Najah was cupcaking with Johan, Chelsea was eating something that didn't match while Greg rubbed her feet, and Kalena wasn't in a space to talk or listen. |
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| Gordon Brown's deathbed conversion to electoral reform may look like pure opportunism and widening the goalposts for his team just as the match kicks off. |
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| The bonus points are retained regardless of the outcome of the match. |
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| A discussion about politics may devolve into a shouting match. |
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| To celebrate the club's centenary a 6 match tour to Australia and Fiji was arranged in August 1980, the first undertaken by an English club in the southern hemisphere. |
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| Five innings constitute a game, depending on the level of the match. |
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| A match is won when a player wins a predetermined number of frames. |
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| The Australia v South Africa match, at Lord's, was notable for a visit by King George V, the first time a reigning monarch had watched Test cricket. |
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| The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. |
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| He got the better of him early in the match, but finished by losing. |
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| Can you give me a guarantee that he will be fit for the match? |
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| All that counts is whether you won, lost, or halved the match. |
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| A darts match is played over a fixed number of games, known as legs. |
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| After this match, many new cricket clubs were formed in the county. |
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| The referee is the official timekeeper for the match, and may make an allowance for time lost through substitutions, injured players requiring attention, or other stoppages. |
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| There were doubts about whether they could play before the match started, because of the injuries they had sustained earlier, but they both passed fitness tests. |
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| Gaelic football is the most popular sport in Ireland in terms of match attendance and community involvement, with about 2,600 clubs on the island. |
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| There are two basic forms of golf play, match play and stroke play. |
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| Botham returned to from and played exceptionally in the remainder of the series, being named man of the match in the third, fourth and fifth Tests. |
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| The total number of students that enrolled for these courses has grown only slightly and the marginal increase of graduates does not match the growth rate of the ICT industry. |
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| Its scoring is similar to match play, except each player compares their hole score to the hole's par rating instead of the score of another player. |
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| This form of play, as a minor variation to stroke or match play, is neither defined nor disallowed by strict rules and so is used according to local rules for an event. |
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| The 1966 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match in the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth football World Cup and one of the most controversial finals ever. |
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| But often the match ends immediately when one team to bat has completed its innings or both its innings, and the other team already has more runs. |
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| Students with intellectual disabilities, such as reading or developmental disabilities, may be given picture cues of certain emotions to match with nature. |
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| England's points total of one from three matches was its worst ever in the World Cup, obtaining one point from drawing against Costa Rica in their last match. |
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| England played their first match at the stadium in 1924 against Scotland and for the next 27 years Wembley was used as a venue for matches against Scotland only. |
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| Suggestions that Mary marry the Duke of Cleves, who was the same age, came to nothing, but a match between Henry and the Duke's sister Anne was agreed. |
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| England's third goal has remained controversial ever since the match. |
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| In 1759, George was smitten with Lady Sarah Lennox, sister of the Duke of Richmond, but Lord Bute advised against the match and George abandoned his thoughts of marriage. |
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| Churchill was convinced that the only way to alleviate tensions between the two populations was the transfer of people, to match the national borders. |
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| He played a major role in the pool match against the Springboks, in which he scored 20 of England's 25 points, in the victory which held their opponents to just six. |
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| A decade later, on 16 September 1937, an exhibition match between Arsenal's first team and the reserves was the first football match in the world to be televised live. |
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| The south stand redevelopment was completed in March 1995 and included the first giant Sony Jumbotron TV screen for live game coverage and away match screenings. |
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| After the match, Wilkinson expressed his relief at converting the winning drop goal, as it was his first success in four attempts during the match. |
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| Ponting narrowly survived being run out early on and this proved crucial in the context of the match as the momentum gradually swung in Australia's direction. |
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| Twenty20 is a new variant of limited overs itself with the purpose being to complete the match within about three hours, usually in an evening session. |
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| At the start of 1903 season the Northern Union thought about international matches and scheduled a match for England on New Year's Day 1904 in Oldham. |
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| The invention of the game is credited to William Webb Ellis whilst breaking the existing rules of a football match played in 1823 at Rugby School. |
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| The Metro has a distinctive design and corporate identity, to distinguish itself from the decrepit rail system it replaced and to match the livery of the buses then in use. |
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| In 1905 France played England in its first international match. |
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| England seemed doomed to be bowled out cheaply and to lose the match. |
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| Since March 2013, Nike has supplied the official match ball. |
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| It is the responsibility of the match officials to check players' clothing and equipment before a game to ensure that it conforms to the laws of the game. |
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| Wilkinson played a large role in England's match against the All Blacks. |
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| The record attendance for a domestic club match is 99,124, set when Racing 92 defeated Toulon in the 2016 Top 14 final on 24 June at Camp Nou in Barcelona. |
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| Thomas Hughes 1857 novel Tom Brown's Schooldays, set at Rugby School, includes a rugby football match, also portrayed in the 1940s film of the same name. |
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| The interior was decorated with paintings by Gustav Klimt and other artists, and the architect even designed clothing for the family to match the architecture. |
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| The club played host to a 2006 Lord's Taverners cricket match. |
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| In film, Ealing Studios' 1949 comedy A Run for Your Money and the 1979 BBC Wales television film Grand Slam both centre on fans attending a match. |
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| However, the first credited Test match was played in 1877 between Australia and England, and the two teams competed regularly for The Ashes in subsequent years. |
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| There was also a doubles match which was won by a local pair. |
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| From 1988 to 1997, the BBC and Sky Sports had coverage of the FA Cup, the BBC had highlights on Match of the Day and usually one match per round while Sky had the same deal. |
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| Hamlet does well at first, leading the match by two hits to none, and Gertrude raises a toast to him using the poisoned glass of wine Claudius had set aside for Hamlet. |
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