Cricket is another bat-and-ball play, like baseball, that is played between two opposing teams with 11 players. The game is held on a field which is called the cricket field, at the center of which has a 20-meter pitch. There are two wickets at the two ends of the pitch. And these wickets comprise of two bails that are balancing on three slumps.
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Basic Rules Of Cricket
Cricket is played between two teams each made up of eleven players. (Sometime in junior competitions you will find 8 player teams).
Games comprise of at least one innings where each team will take turns in batting and fielding/bowling.
The fielding team will have a bowler bowl the ball to the batsman who tries to hit the ball with their bat.
The fielding team tries to get the batsmen out by…
Hitting the wickets with the ball when bowling
Catching a batsman’s shot on the full
Hitting the batsman’s leg in front of the wicket (LBW)
Or hitting the wickets before the batsmen can run to the other end of the pitch
The batmen try to score as many runs as possible before getting out by…
Hitting the ball and running between the wickets and making it to the other end before the fielders can hit the wickets with the ball. Each time you run one full length of the pitch it equals 1 run.
Hitting the ball to the boundary along the ground is 4 runs.
Hitting the ball over the boundary on the full equals 6 runs.
The fielding team must get 10 batsmen out before they can change over and start batting.
The aim of the game is to score as many runs as possible before the fielding team takes 10 wickets. The team with the most runs wins.
History of Cricket
Cricket game dates back to the mid-16th century, South East England. And the game became popular with the expansion of the British Empire. And the game is common in India, Australia and other surrounding countries, United Kingdom, and South Africa. Today, the game’s manager is the International Cricket Council (ICC), and the rules, the Laws of Cricket, are set by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in London.
According to historians, the game is believed to be a child play. The first known official record about the game is a court case about the ownership of an estate. According to the case, the game was being played by boys in Surrey, England around 1550. By the time passes, the game spread first to the United Kingdom, and then to the commonwealth countries that makes it an international sport.
