Cricket

Cricket

·        Introduction

Cricket could be a sport that is compete between 2 groups of 11 players every United Nations agency score runs (points) by running between 2 sets of 3 tiny, picket posts known as wickets. Each of the wickets is at one finish of a parallelogram of planar  grass known as the pitch. Around the pitch could be a abundant larger oval of grass known as the cricket ground. There is thirty yard circle between the bottom (stadium).[1]

The game started in England within the sixteenth century. The earliest definite relation to the game is during a court case of 1598.[2] The court in Guildford heard a coroner, John Derrick, that when he was a scholar at the "Free college at Guildford", fifty years earlier, "he and diverse of his fellows did run and play [on the common land] at cricket and other players".[3][4] Later, the game unfold to countries of British Empire within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

·        Cricket rules

There area unit 2 teams: The team bowling has eleven players on the sphere. The team has been bowled, hitting the ball over the boundary, or by the umpires penalizing the bowling side for bowling an illegal ball.

The captain of the bowling team chooses a bowler from his team; the opposite ten players area unit known as fielders. The bowler is making an attempt to aim the ball at a wicket, that is created from 3 sticks (called stumps) stuck into the world, with 2 little sticks (called bails) balanced on them. One of the fielders, known as the wicket keeper, stands behind the wicket to catch the ball if the bowler misses the wicket. The other fielders chase the ball after the batsman has hit it.

The bowler runs towards his wicket, and bowls towards the batsman at the other wicket. He does not throw the ball. He bowls the ball overarm with a straight arm. If he bends his arm, the other teams are given one run and he has to bowl the ball again. An 'over' is six balls that means he bowls sixfold. Then another player becomes the bowler for future over, and bowls from the other end, and so on. The same bowler cannot bowl 2 overs one when the opposite.

The batsman is trying to defend the wicket from getting hit with the ball. He does this with a bat. When he hits the ball together with his bat, he may run toward the other wicket. To score a run, the two batsmen must both run from their wicket to the other wicket, as many times as they can, before they can be run out. Being run out is explained below. If the ball leaves the field after being hit without bouncing, six runs are scored. If the ball rolls or bounces out, whether or not or not the batter hit it, it counts as four runs.

There area unit alternative ways that a baseball player will get out. The most common ways are:

• The batsman misses the ball and the ball hits the wicket: called bowled, or being "bowled out".
• The ball hits the batsman's body when it would have hit the wicket otherwise. Called LBW (leg before wicket). The manner this rule is applied is complicated; this is often simply the final plan.
• A fielder catches the ball after the batsman hits it, and before it bounces or leaves the field: called caught.
• While the batsmen are running, a fielder can throw the ball at the wicket. If the batsmen cannot end the run in time, and the ball hits the wicket, the batsman nearer to the wicket that is hit is out: this is called run out.

When a batsman is out, another comes onto the field to take his place. The innings is over once 10 wickets area unit taken (i.e. ten of the eleven batsmen are out). After this, the team that was the 'fielding' team becomes the 'batting' team. They now have to score more runs than the other team managed to score. If they score additional runs before 10 wickets area unit taken, they win. If they do not, the other team wins.

In a one-day game, each side has one innings, and innings are limited to a certain number of overs. In longer formats both sides has 2 innings, Associate in Nursingd there's no specific limit to the quantity of overs in an innings.

Today, it is a popular sport in England, Australia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa, New Zealand, the West Indies and sevThe field

A cricket field is where cricket is played. It is circular or oval-shaped grassy ground. There are no fixed dimensions for the field. Its diameter usually varies between 450 feet (137 m) to 500 feet (150 m).eral other countries such as Afghanistan, Ireland, Kenya, Scotland, the Netherlands and Zimbabwe.

·        Where cricket is played

Cricket is well-liked in several countries, largely in Commonwealth countries.

The countries wherever cricket is most well liked vie in international matches (games between countries) that last up to five days, that area unit referred to as check matches. Those countries are England, Australia, West Indies, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. The the Indies area unit a gaggle of Caribbean countries that play along as a team. Several other countries have more junior status. The match game plan was made-up by groups from European nation and Australia within the nineteenth century.Ireland and Afghanistan are the new teams which can play Test cricket.

Cricket is additionally contend in Republic of Kenya, Canada, Bermuda, Scotland

·        The field

A cricket field is where cricket is played. It is circular or oval-shaped grassy ground. There are no fixed dimensions for the field. Its diameter usually varies between 450 feet (137 m) to 500 feet (150 m)., Holland and Namibia; the national team

·        Averages

In cricket there area unit 2 special types of average, used to measure how good a player is:

A batsman's batting average is the number of runs he has scored in a period (such as a year or his whole career), divided by the number of times he was got out in the same period. A good batsman has a high batting average. The highest T20 average for a slugger United Nations agency has vie a minimum of twenty innings is seventy.66 by Chris Harris.

A bowler's bowling average is the number of runs that have been scored while he was bowling, in a period, divided by the number of batsmen he has got out in the same period. A good bowler has a low bowling average. The lowest T20 bowling average for a bowler who has bowled at least 500 balls is Mushtaq Ahmed with 13.80.s of those countries can play one-day international matches, but do not play test matches.