Contents:

Introduction……………………………………………. 2

Task 1……………………………………………………… 3

Task 3…………………………………………………….. 9

Task 5…………………………………………………….. 13

Task 6…………………………………………………….. 14

Task 7…………………………………………………….. 14

Bibliography…………………………………………… 16
Introduction:

Cricket is the most popular game in the world, second only to soccer. Cricket
appears to have an hectic and colorful history, although the exact origins of the
game are unknown. As far back as the 1300's, a mention of the game "creag" is
found. However it is blurred whether this is the initial stages of modern-day cricket.
The name "cricket" may have come from the word "cric". The word cric stood for
the enthusiastic staffs carried by Shepards. These may have been the first cricket
bats. Cricket in its early days in England was painstaking a child's game, not to be
played by somber adults.

There was a written record of a game in 1958 called "creckett" or "crickett". It was
the first recorded mention of the game that is played today. Cricket had become an
adult gaming in 1611. Considered illegal and immoral, two men were arrested for
playing the game rather than going to church. More and more arrests were made as
the game grew in popularity.

When English Civil War in 1648 ended, the new government clamped down on
recreational cricket that was played on Sundays. Cricket was played mostly by the
working class and Sunday was their only opportunity to play on those days.
Significance in the sport seemed to diminish. As the years progressed, cricket once
again regained popularity as a betting game. In the year 1688 the Puritan
government of England was gone and the Monarchy was in power again. Cricket
was favored by the government and regained some respectability. There were still
huge problems in the world of cricket however. Betting and rioting marred the
game. Around the year 1784 a London magistrate deemed cricket to be
"respectable" even though there were still problems with wagering.

The "Laws of Cricket" were born in the year 1788. The Laws were written by the
Marylebone Cricket Club.These laws are still adhered to in present day cricket. One
notable change was in 1864 when over arm bowling was first used legally. Cricket is
the only sport today that has laws instead of rules. Gaining even more respectability
in the late 1700s, cricket became the game of "gentlemen". England and the
Eastern United States these laws of cricket were used to play. These laws covered
the length of the pitch, the distance from the pitching crease to the bowling crease,
wicket size, and ball weight.

TASK 1:

[1] provides the latest scores of cricket matches played worldwide.

[2]Chris Taylor was a Professional Cricketer with Yorkshire 1st team and now offers
cricket coaching for children
[3] COMING SOON - OUR NEW E-FIXTURES BUREAU! Be the first to know when a
touring team is in your area! All we need is your Fixture Secretary’s email address
and the postcode of your club’s ground so that when suitable teams book we can
send the dates straightaway by email. Also easily manage fixtures your club has
against our touring teams online. Sign up now at www.shiresports.co.uk to be one
of the first to benefit.

South East Region of ACU&S

[9] The Interactive Online Magazine for the Grounds and Green keeping Industry

www.rotarnet.com/ifcr covers International Fellowship of Cricket Loving Rotarians

(not just umpires but organize a number of overseas tours and festivals as well as
fund raising for charitable purposes.

www.acumenbooks.co.uk/idiriya.htm contains details of Ajith Perera's IDIRIYA

campaign for disabled facilities in Sri Lanka

www.acumenbooks.co.uk/tandf.htm contains details of several international books

www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6442-2133382.html Chief Cricket Correspondent

Christopher Martin-Jenkins looks ahead to the season with healthy optimism

www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,426-2131953,00.html MCC body to tell world how

the game should be played

http://nwmacus.play-cricket.com/content/view.asp?id=10079793&cid=200 North
West Midlands Branch ACU&S.

www.spyra-base.com ground anchors for aircraft. Canal boats, caravans, sight-

screens and covers!

www.refkit.co.uk offers items of interest to football referees

www.teamkit.co.uk offers sets of customized clothing for football, hockey, rugby

and other teams.

There was a condolence meeting in Mumbai on Wednesday 22nd March to pay

tributes to Test Umpire Ahmed M Mamsa who died in November aged 87 having
officiated in 80 First Class games. Full details at www.a-
b.co.uk/attach/mumbai603.doc

www.srilankadirect.org identifies work by Graham Kettles and others doing post-

tsunami aid in Sri Lanka.

Stella Books has a commercial list of general secondhand cricket books

visit www.stellabooks.com/catalogues/Cricket~93.htm
New South Wales Cricket Umpires and Scorer's
Association, http://www.cricketnsw.com.au/scorer/
Magzines:

Cricket Magazine :

Adventure. Fantasy. Nature. Sports. Cricket Magazine features all of these and
more, to stimulate the minds of nine-to-14-year-olds. Every issue is filled with folk
tales and fantasy stories, poetry and non-fiction writing, science and nature articles,
recipes, craft ideas and book reviews, all of which help the young readers explore
the world around them 123India.com Cricket

Features the latest cricket news, articles, player profiles, forthcoming series.

BBC Sport - Cricket

Up-to-the-minute cricket news, results, video, audio and feature stories.

Caribbean Cricket
News, commentary and discussion for cricket in the West Indies and the Caribbean.

CrickBuzz
Interactive portal with live commentary, scores, graphs, chat, and a forum.

Cricket Nirvana
Indian cricket scores, match updates, news, more.

Cricket Online
Find live scores, stats, news, fantasy cricket and more.

Cricket Web

This web runs a fantasy cricket competition, downloadable cricket games, and a
forum. Dedicated to news and views on international cricket.

Cricket World
Online version of UK cricket magazine featuring world news & views, competitions,
cartoons, a club and ground equipment directory for county, club, youth, women's
and disabled cricket.

Cricket365
Quality site providing comprehensive world cricket coverage.

CricketNext.com
Latest cricket news, videos, interviews and updates from India and around the
world.
CricketZone
Provides coverage of Indian cricket along with world news, players profiles, and live
scores.

Cricinfo
Offers live coverage of international cricket events as well as stats database, quality
editorial comment and analysis. Publishes Cricinfo Magazine.

iCricketer.com
Live coverage of all cricket related news worldwide. Also cricket columns and
archives.

SuperCricket
South African and international news, articles, columns, and message boards.

TASK 3:

REVENUE MODELS:

Revenue models define how a corporation generates their revenues and hence they
are an vital fraction of business models. There are already a lot of research on
revenue and business models of the e-Business already exists, there is a deficit of a
concept to derive appropriate software architectures for the underlying software
system directly from these models. This is fascinating since a software system for
companies of the e-Business is the fundamental basis to operate this business in
practice. In this paper a concept is introduced to derive an important part of the
overall software architecture for business models based on a portrayal of its
revenue model. For that purpose, a ‘classification cycle’ is defined including a set of
criteria which enables you to conclude technical decisions for the design of software
architecture. Using this classification cycle, a variety of revenue models can be
identified. Within this paper we focus on the specific revenue model subscription of
services as one example. The derived architecture serves as software reference
architecture for all business models which are based on this type of revenue model.
It means that in case a software system has to be developed for a business model
using this revenue model, the software architecture presented in this paper can be
used as a sample solution to refer to. Thus, it helps architects to derive a
fundamental part of the overall software architecture in an easy and proficient way.

There was a time, when everyone wanted to be in possession of online shopping

pushcart system. By 1997, Amazon.com had served their millionth customer and
was really preliminary to impress regular folks. The internet looked like a realistic
way to do business, maybe even for small businesses.

So soon everyone wanted a shopping cart, got one ready to go, and nothing. They
didn't get any traffic. Then came the website submission hounds with programs like
Submit Wolf. It worked for a time, though some submitters turned into spammers
and thus began the game of cat and mouse between spammers and search
engines.

As the number of websites grew, and around 2000 when Google, who had partnered
with Red Hat and Yahoo, began to become a real force, it was no longer enough to
have a website and submit it... at least not for small businesses online. Sure, about
$66 billion dollars in in goods was sold online in1999, but mostly by big players who
already had bricks and mortar momentum. If the new guy on the block wanted a
piece of the action, he had to get smart and stay smart.

Cue the SEO experts, a growing herd of geeks with a profusion of theories about the
directories and search engines. Some search engine optimizers were ethical and
followed the rules set by search engines. Others practiced "black hat" SEO. The
search engines guarded closely how they rank pages but some SEO devotees put all
their energy into trying to reverse engineer those algorithms, to discover the magic
formula, and find holes, however temporary, to exploit.

By the dawn of the 21st century, some basic "white hat" SEO principles had
solidified, and the fad had shifted from shopping carts to informational websites.
You can't optimize something that doesn't have information, and the more you have
the better. Also, a lot of internet junkies prefer the purely digital and neither had,
nor wanted to have, any physical products to sell.

But digital purists need money too, so various revenue sources have been explored
- from running advertisements (clunky old banners and the dynamic Ad Sense
variety), to helping others sell their goods through affiliate programs, to developing
their own digital goods, like eBooks, special reports, even programs and web
utilities. These paths have already been stalk blazed, but you have to choose the
best one for you. If you have a product, you'll want to use the internet to sell it. If
you don't have one, you could develop one. If you don't want to do that, just run
ads.

Pros and cons of each revenue source:

1. Selling physical goods requires warehousing, shipping, returns, and heavy

customer service. It's a significant investment of time and/or money, but this
has the highest revenue potential.

2. Just running ads is much less work, especially with if you don't have to deal
directly with the advertisers. However, the earnings per click are quite low, so
you need a lot more traffic to make good money. And not all informational
topics are profitable. For example, searchers for entertainment and sports
information don't tend to click on ads or buy anything.
 3. When you promote other people's goods as an affiliate, you sit between the
last two options- it can pay better than ads and be less hassle than hard
goods. But you still have to provide content on profitable topics, and you
need to be a comfortable and effective salesperson for the products that pay
your bills.

4. Developing and selling your own digital products is at least as much work as
selling hard goods, but requires much less overhead. You can write an ebook,
turn it into a pdf, and get it onto a website with very little money.

5. And we shouldn't end without mentioning that you can also sell your services
online. If you write about what you do, whether you're a web designer,
lawyer, doctor, psychologist, carpenter, whatever, you can get web visits
from prospects in your local area and turn those people into customers.

Business models are perhaps the most discussed and least understood aspect of
the web. There is so much talk about how the web changes traditional business
models. But there is little clear-cut evidence of exactly what this means.

In the most basic sense, a business model is the method of doing business by which
a company can sustain itself -- that is, generate revenue. The business model
spells-out how a company makes money by specifying where it is positioned in the
value chain.

Many of the models are quite simple. Selling of goods or services is provided by the
producer. If all goes well, the revenues from sales exceed the cost of operation and
the company realizes a profit. Other models can be more intricately woven. One of
the good examples is broad casting. Radio and later television programming has
been broadcasted over the airwaves free to anyone with a receiver for much of the
past century. The broadcaster is part of a complex network of distributors, content
creators, advertisers (and their agencies), and listeners or viewers. Who makes
money and how much is not always clear at the outset. The bottom line depends on
many competing factors.

New kinds of business models can get rise due to internet commerce. That much is
certain. But the web is also likely to reinvent tried-and-true models. Perfect example
of this is Auction. One of the oldest forms of brokering, auctions have been widely
used throughout the world to set prices for such items as agricultural commodities,
financial instruments, and unique items like fine art and antiquities. The Web has
popularized the auction model and broadened its applicability to a wide array of
goods and services.

There are many different ways to define and categorized the business models. This
is one attempt to present a comprehensive and cogent taxonomy of business
models observable on the web. The proposed taxonomy is not meant to be
exhaustive or definitive. Internet business models continue to evolve. We can
expect new and interesting variations in the future.

The basic categories of business models discussed in the table below include:

• Brokerage

• Advertising

• Inform diary

• Merchant

• Manufacturer (Direct)

• Affiliate

• Community

• Subscription

• Utility

The models are implemented in a variety of ways, as described below with

examples. Moreover, a firm may combine several different models as part of its
overall Internet business strategy. For example, it is not uncommon for content
driven businesses to blend advertising with a subscription model.

Business models have taken on greater importance recently as a form of

intellectual that can be protected with a patent. Indeed, business models (or more
broadly speaking, "business methods") have fallen increasingly within the realm of
patent law. A number of business method patents relevant to e-commerce have
been granted. But what is new and novel as a business model is not always clear.
Some of the more noteworthy patents may be challenged in the courts.

TASK 5:

In the world of communication internet is Boon. Everyone has now understood the
concept of easiness and simplicity. You can easily shop, communicate, process
meetings and do almost everything that involves a conversation between two
people or many. Forum is one of the most suitable examples of such concepts.
Forum is place where people can put forward their views and ideas on a particular
thing that the forum is about. Several forums including those on films, sports,
business, society, politics and many other features are now displayed through the
world of web, where people of similar interests participate and share their thoughts
regarding the topic. Even in cricket forum, as the name suggests, cricket fans put
their opinions about cricket, players, issues and everything that in some way is
related with cricket.

There are several sites where you can get cricket forums. In fact several sports sites
are now available on the Internet that has various options to gather information.
You can not only read stuff about cricket, players and matches but can also post
your views and thoughts concerning them. It has no limitation of features, any issue
including your favorite player, match and decisions. You may also write about the
events and controversies that are more likely to happen during cricket World Cup.
Many times an injury or other such excuses can create a controversy regarding the
bad performance of a player or a team in a particular tournament.

All cricket fans have different opinions and thoughts related to the cricket. And most
of the times they want to share and discuss things over such issues. For such,
cricket forum is the most appropriate idea. The entire idea is very easy to use and
post. You just have to browse the Internet and find the websites on sports that have
the option of forum. To post in the forum, you have to get yourself registered. So,
with just couple of clicks and little valid information you get the access to post
anything that is related to the game. You are then allowed to discuss and post your
thoughts on any issue and event concerning cricket irrespective of your nationality,
favorite player and tournament.

The discussions are often very interesting. People take a lot interest in knowing
other people's opinion and thoughts regarding some decision and performance of
the players. It is an easy way to know about the reputation of a player among the
common populace. Most interesting topics to discuss are the ones that discuss
about an ongoing match. The ongoing matches hold the cynosure most of the
times. You can even maintain the discussion when the match is going on. Right
from the beginning, people start discussing as in who will win the toss, whether they
should choose to bat or ball. These discussions on cricket forum may lea to serious
evaluations, witty conversation and pleasurable experience. It is a better way to talk
about cricket in every sense with good number of participants. Difference in
opinion, aspects and approach to a tournament and players is fun to know about.

The first rule regarding using forums is to just slowly try to integrate yourself into
the community. Follow these rules closely and concisely so that you do not offend
anybody:
 1. Do not spam the forum with your problems. If you have a few things that you
would like to discuss you will probably get help, but do not try to hog all of
the assistance for yourself. For one thing, most of your questions have
already been answered, believe it or not. There is generally a “search”
option. Always use this before posting your problem.

2. Do not “Flame.” Flaming is a term used among forum dwellers to describe

the behavior of “yelling” at people via the forum. This is generally associated
with cursing, constant argument, typing in all caps to try to convey anger,
and dismissing other people’s posts in an undignified fashion. There are other
problems that are included in flaming, but I have given you the jist of it.

3. Never take a post off topic. If there is something that you would like to
discuss that was inspired by a post on another topic, post a new topic in the
appropriate board and explain where the topic was conceived. You may still
want to reply to the post just to let people know that the topic has been
created so that somebody else doesn’t take it off topic.

4. Do not “bump” your thread (or post). Bumping a post is when you reply to
your own post in hopes of getting a response sooner. The only time that this
is acceptable is if your thread has laid dormant for about a week. Bumped
threads are very annoying to most forum users. Bumping posts on a regular
basis will probably lead to a lack of interest in your posts and will probably
contribute to a lack of support in your ventures.

5. Be friendly. There is no reason that you can’t be completely polite when

posting on a forum. You will get very good response if you are simply polite in
your post. Politeness in the world of forums includes making sure that you
have communicated your problem carefully so that people attempting to help
you can understand and provide answers to the best of their abilities.

Join in on the community favorites. Many forums now include “games” which are
occasionally pretty fun. They are pretty much just there for if you are bored and
waiting for a response to your other posts, but they are enjoyable if you keep up
with them as many forum dwellers are quite articulate and funny.

Task 6:

We should make our ezines secure for everyone and have to insure our customers
that by choosing e zine facility they are going to make a rite choice. We have to
make security barriers that nobody can misuse the web services and have to make
the payment facility online direct through credit card. Therefore, have to ensure
that our customers are feeling easy and having full use of the facility making most
use of their time.

TASK 7:
We should stop this e-zine facility and have to continue the publication of
magazines as if we stop the publication of magazine there will be a great loss of
many people bread and butter .many people will have to suffer from our that
decision our labor will not be having sufficient resources to earn money. And
secondly many people cannot afford to have the facility of ezine.

We should publish the magazine and have to launch the ezine facility as the people
who can have the facility of ezine they should facilate it and other can have the use
of magazine.

We should stop printed publishing magazine as it would help people having

knowledge about e-zine can make most use of their time. As they don’t have to
panic or have to cover a distance to buy or get anything.

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