NETS

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NETS as an acronym may refer to:

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Nets Group

Nets is a Nordic provider of payments, cards and information services. The company has been known as Nets since 2009, but has a history that goes back to 1968. Nets have more than 2000 employees working in five countries. The head office is located in Copenhagen. The local commercial centres are in Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki and Tallinn. The customers of Nets are banks, businesses, merchants and the public sector.

Product portfolio

Business areas

Payment & Information Services handle local direct debit solutions. These are called Betalingsservice, AvtaleGiro and eFaktura and are an integral part of the Danish and Norwegian payment infrastructures.

The section Cards manage payment card solutions by offering issuers and acquirers secured front-end and back-end solutions. They are a large card issuing and acquiring partner for banks and non-banks in northern Europe. Cards is also a central part of the local payment infrastructure in Denmark and Norway, providing processing and service for the domestic card schemes Dankort and BankAxept.

Cricket nets

A cricket net is a practice net used by batsmen and bowlers to warm up and/or improve their cricketing techniques. Cricket nets consist of a cricket pitch (natural or artificial) which is enclosed by cricket nets on either side, to the rear and optionally the roof. The bowling end of the net is left open. Cricket nets are the cricket equivalent of baseball's batting cages, though fundamentally different, as baseball cages provide complete ball containment, whereas cricket nets do not.

Purpose

Cricket nets serve to stop the ball travelling across a field when the batsman plays a shot - saving time and eliminating the need for fielders. They also negate the need for a wicket keeper should ball travel past the bat. They allow greater intensity of training, specifically when multiple lane cricket nets are used. Cricket nets allow solitary batting practise when used with a bowling machine.

Use

Cricket nets are fundamental to cricket practise and are used at every level of cricket. Professional cricket establishments are likely to have over 10 lanes of nets, and have the capacity to practise indoors and outdoor. Cricket nets are also very prevalent in educational establishments; including schools, colleges and universities. They are particularly desirable in these fields as they allow safe and efficient training with a high volume of pupils where there are significant constraints on time. Completing the spectrum is their use as garden cricket nets. Cricket nets are very common site in the gardens of keen cricketers and are probably rightfully considered highly important to the development of young cricket players.