Cricket catching on across U.S., at UNL campus
CRICKET from Page 1
Mohammad said members of the
club have been playing cricket all
their lives, because it is a popular
sport in their home countries.
“It’s a national pastime to watch
the games,” Mohammad said.
Cricket is a ball and bat game
similar to baseball.
In cricket, 11 athletes play on each
team. They take turns being the field
ing or the batting team.
The bowler is like a pitcher in
baseball. He pitches, or delivers, the
ball and a batsman must hit it. Each
bowler delivers six balls to each bats
men, the set of six called an over.
Two batsmen arc ready to bat at
opposite wickets, or stakes. The UNL
Cricket Club substitutes a trash can
and backpack for wickets.
One batsman bats at a time. When
the ball is hit, the batsmen signal each
other and run to the opposite wicket.
This is counted as a run. They run as
many times as is signalled.
Most professional games arc
played with a limited number of
overs.
The cricket ball is very hard,
weighing a half pound. Mohammad
was hit with the ball during one of the
Iowa State matches and had to get
stitches.
The UNL club use a tennis ball
when they play Saturdays. They
cover it with duct tape to weigh it
down.
The UNL club usually plays after
the library closes so they don’t bother
anyone, said Naushad Syed, a sopho
more architecture major.
But sometimes that doesn’t work.
“Sometimes people call a cop,’’
Mohammad said.
The callers are afraid club mem
bers will break a window in the ad
ministration building.
“But that hasn’t happened in the
six years that we’ve played here,” he
said.
The club has played the Iowa State
cricket team in Ames, Iowa, and here
in Lincoln.
“Two years ago, they played here
and we played behind Sandoz,"
Mohammed said. Iowa won both
times.
He said the club plans to play other
teams from Omaha, Kansas State and
other Midwest colleges. Most of the
colleges have cricket clubs, he said.
Although the game is gaining
popularity, it is not as well-known in
the United States as abroad, Moham
mad said.
Cricket started in ihe late 1700s.
“It was mainly played by English
aristocrats,” Saji Kumar, an applied
math graduate, said.
Eight former British colonies
compete for the World Cup, although
15 countries have playing teams.
Australia holds the World Cup at the
present time.
Other teams that play internation
ally are the West Indies, Sri Lanka,
Pakistan, New Zealand, India, Great
Britain, Zimbabwe, Canada and the
United States.
The U.S. team hasn’t qualified to
compete for the World Cup.
“In order to qualify,” Kumar said,
“someone has to gain cricket status
and then win some matches.”
Cricket is not as popular in the
United States “because Americans
aon i nice siuw games, rvumai saia.
Mohammad said cricket is as fast
paced as baseball, but the games just
lake longer to complete. In traditional
cricket, the game can last for five days
at eight hours a day.
Last weekend’s game wasn’t
completed fast enough, cither.
“It ended in a draw because of the
rain,” Mohammad said.
University lawn sprinklers came
on.
Class aids special education staff
BARKLEY from Page 1
teachers arc trained to serve as career
counselors.
Since the project began in July
1987, Vasa and his staff have pro
duced resource materials that help
students in transition.
“We sent out questionnaires to
various post-secondary schools in
Nebraska and with that made a com
pilation of information about differ
ent schools,” Vasa said.
The result of the compil; aon is the
Directory of Nebraska Post Secon
dary Educational Opportunities. The
directory is a listing of Nebraska
beauty schools, business and trade
schools, community colleges, nurs
ing and health-related schools, and
colleges and universities that offer
programs for learning-impaired stu
dents.
A second upcoming publication,
the Directory oi Services tor Muacnis
in Transition, will provide informa
tion to special education personnel on
various resources available to assist
handicapped students.
Vasa said the project staff just
completed about 350 entries for an
annotated bibliographies publication.
Professional teachers and parents
can use the bibliographies to find
reading materials about secondary
students in transition, Judy Riordan,
instructional development specialist,
said.
A fourth publication, which is still
in production, is the Teachers Guide
for Involving Parents in the Transi
tion Process.
The guide will assist secondary
special education teachers to develop
an effective transition model to help
them address problems that result
after high school, Moscman said.
“It (the guide) provides several
aincrcni ways uiai pians lor iransmon
can be arranged, such as who’s in
volved,” she said.
Since the partnership program
started, a two-credit class, called
“Supporting Parents Partnership in
Secondary Education and Transi
tion,” has been created.
The course will instruct teachers
on an advanced level about working
with parents of mildly/modcratcly
handicapped students. Project Coor
dinator Lori Moseman said.
Lori Moseman, project coordina
tor, said students will receive practi
cal experience both in and out of
class.
In the end, Riordan said, “we want
to have resources that parents and
teachers can use.”
“I hope the materials we have
developed and used will still be avail
able and may remain part of the exist
ing course work.”
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