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  Describe three main differences between amateurs and professionals?    Or Mention any five differences between amateurs and professionals.      Or Distinguish   between   Amateurs   and professionals.              

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                  The organisation of cricket in England reflected the real nature of British society. (i) The rich who could afford to play cricket for pleasure were called amateurs and the poor who played it for living were called professional. (ii) Amateurs had the aristocratic value, i.e., they played for pleasure not for money. Moreover there was not enough money in the game which attracted them. But professionals got the wages by subscription or gate money. (iii) Amateurs tended to be batsmen while professionals were fast bowlers. Captains of teams were always amateurs. (iv) Amateurs were called as gentlemen, while professional were known as players. They even entered the ground from different entrances. (v) Amateurs were rich aristocrat class. But professionals worked as miners or in other froms of working class employment in winter, the off-season.