BBC commentator John Virgo has a website which offers a comprehensive list of snooker clubs in towns and cities across the UK, to find out where you can start playing. John Virgo's club directory The ...

This is one of the methods used to restart play when the ball has gone over a team's dead ball line. For example, if the attacking team kicks the ball beyond the dead ball line, a member of the ...

The EU budget is paid for by the 27 member countries. Click on the buttons to find out about different ways of looking at what each country paid in 2007.

Millions of children in the UK are living in or on the brink of poverty, according to a report from the Campaign to End Child ...

Only players standing on their feet are allowed to handle the ball. So that means that no player lying on the ground is allowed to touch the ball. This is very important in rucks, especially after a ...

Run to the 10m mark first, touching the floor and running back to the start line. Then run to the 20m line and back. Finally run to the 30m line and back.

We've been asking new converts to cricket to send in the questions about the game they don't quite understand. We have been flooded with almost 1,000 emails - and answered them as best we can. Here is ...

What's involved? There are two types of umpires - chair umpires and line umpires. The chair (or senior) umpire sits in the tall chair at one end of the net. He calls the score and can overrule the ...

Being caught is the most common way of getting out. A batsman is out caught when a fielder catches the ball directly off the bat, before it has hit the ground. The ball does not have to come directly ...

A no-ball is a delivery which does not count as one of the bowler's six legitimate balls in one over. The fielding team are penalised one run every time a no-ball is bowled, which is added to the ...

Usually by a blow to the abdomen. Think a football being blasted into you, but sometimes it can happen when you fall to the ground heavily. The technical name for being winded is to receive "a blunt ...