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| |  Aboriginal cricketer Thirty years after his death, one of the world's greatest cricketers has finally been recognised for his talents although he never played for his national team. This week, Yvonne Archer is joined by William Kremer for a sporting programme as they find out about the life and times of Eddie Gilbert. This week's question: Cricket balls have been made from the same materials since the 1700s. But what colour were they originally? a) white b) light brown c) cherry red Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
[an error occurred while processing this directive] Vocabulary from the programme cricket an outdoor game played by two teams which try to win by scoring points called 'runs' by hitting a ball with a wooden bat cricketers people who play cricket indigenous Australians the original or native people of Australia, also known as Aboriginals or Aborigines, who were in Australia thousands of years before Europeans arrived indignities things that make us feel embarrassed, of little importance or humiliates us a slight a quiet insult shown by a look, gesture or words (an old fashioned word) chaperoned accompanied by someone in authority or who is thought to be a responsible person settlements here, areas where the Australian government forced Aborigines to live and stay the pantheon of cricket a special group made up of the world's best, most admired and honoured cricketers Extras  Download this programme (mp3 - 2.8 MB)  Programme script (pdf - 26K)Related Links BBC Sport: Cricket BBC news story Information on Aborigines* *The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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