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Sport is an Institutionalized competitive activity that involves vigorous physical exertion or the use of relatively complex physical skills by individuals whose participation is motivated by a combination of the intrinsic satisfaction associated with the activity itself and the external rewards earned through participation. According to Webster sports means diversion, amusement or recreation, a pleasant past time, a past time persuade in the open air, or having an athletic character as, hunting, fishing, racing, baseball, bowling or wrestling. Science plays an important role in all spheres of human life. Technological progress during the last century is the result of advancement in mathematics, physics as well as in other applied sciences. Physical education seems to have taken a new turn in the form of sports sciences. The sports sciences in turn have taken their substance and methodology from various basic sciences. Physical education and sports, being an integral part of education, have also experienced the impact of scientific advancements. A number of words are thought to be possible sources for the term "cricket". In the earliest known reference to the sport in 1598
