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Kabaddi is the national game of Bangladesh. It is an outdoor game played on a rectangular court with two teams, one on either side. It is played in 20 minute session. Bangladesh Amateur Kabaddi Federation is formed in the year 1973. The first Kabaddi test was played in Bangladesh against a team from India in 1974.

Since India had the largest viewership for the game amongst the cricket-playing nations and the largest market in the cricketing world, the games centre of gravity shifted to South Asia. This shift was
symbolised by the shifting of the ICC headquarters from London to tax-free Dubai.

Among the given options, other than first statement, remaining are true.

• Cricket in England was seasonal.
  
• The captain of the team was traditionally a batsman in Victorian England. This is because amateurs played only as batsmen as they were rich and played for pleasure. They left energetic, hardworking aspects of game to professionals.
  
• Len Hutton was the first professional Yorkshire Batsman to lead the English test team.
  
• There was a clear social hierarchy between the batsmen and the bowlers in Victorian England because rich were called amateurs and were called gentlemen who were batmen. On the other hand professionals were described as players. They even entered from different entrances.
  

Pakistan has pioneered two great advances in bowling: the doosra and the reverse swing. Both the skills were developed in response to subcontinental conditions: the doosra to counter aggressive
batsmen with heavy modern bats who were threatening to make finger-spin obsolete and reverse swing to move the ball in on
dusty, unresponsive wickets under clear skies.

A stylish right-handed batsman and useful left-arm seam bowler, he became famous in the 1950s as the first black captain of the West Indies cricket team. Along with Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott, he formed what was known as "The Three Ws" of the West Indian cricket. He was the first of the two batsmen to have been involved in two 500-run partnerships in first-class cricket.