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          How the success of the USC basketball team                        benefits the football team. For the first time since 2008, USC entered the Associated Press Top 25 basketball poll this week, and it couldn't have come at a better time for the Trojans.   Never mind that Coach Andy Enfield is in the third year of his contract and has a lot riding on this season's results. Or that in the previous two seasons, the Trojans had only won five games in the Pacific-12 Conference.   The Trojans' 15-3 record is an antidote to the football team's recent struggles. After losing to Wisconsin in the Holiday Bowl just three weeks ago, USC had their second-worst football season since 2001.   Since then, Head Coach Clay Helton has put together a coaching staff that includes defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast, special teams coach John Baxter, and running backs coach Tommie Robin...

                          ICC World Test Championship The World Test Championship will begin on August 1, 2019, and will include nine nations participating in 71 Test matches over two years in 27 series. Each team, made up of the world's top nine Test teams, will play three home and three away series. In June 2021, the top two teams will participate in the ICC World Test Championship Final in the United Kingdom, with the victors being proclaimed World Test Champions. The WTC was created to provide bilateral Test cricket a context. As the world's finest teams face head to head, every game will be crucial. For each game, points will be available. The WTC recognises the significance of cricket's longest format and provides a pinnacle event for it, similar to the World Cups for men and women in the ODI and T20I formats. The WTC was open to the top nine ranked teams o...

                                  A brief history of cricket Cricket has a well-documented history dating back to the late 16th century. Originating in south-east England, it became the country's national sport in the 18th century and has since grown in popularity around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. International matches have been played since 1844, while Test cricket began in 1877, according to historical records. After association football, cricket is the world's second most popular spectator sport (soccer). The International Cricket Council (ICC) is in charge of governance, with over a hundred countries and territories as members, however only twelve now play Test cricket. Cricket was most likely invented by youngsters living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that spans Kent and Sussex, during the Saxon or Norman periods. [1] The first docum...