CRICKET

HISTORY Early cricket was at some time or another

described as a club striking a ball the ancient games of club-ball, stool-ball, trap-ball, stob-ball. Cricket can definitely be traced back to tudor times in early 16th-century England. Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by prince Edward, the son of Edward at newenden, Kent in 1301 and there has been speculation, but no evidence, that this was a form of cricket. A number of other words have been suggested as a sources for the term ‘cricket’

Don Bradman of Australia first-class average of 95.14

RULES AND GAME-PLAY SUMMRAY…….. Cricket is a bat and ball game, played between

two teams of eleven players each. One team bats, attempting to score runs, while the other bowls and fields the ball, attempting to restrict the scoring and dismiss the batsmen, the objective of the game is for a team to score more runs than its opponent. In some forms of cricket. It may also be necessary to dismiss the opposition in order to win the match, which would otherwise be drawn.

CRICKET BALL

GAME

BLOWING ACTION

FIELDING POSITION

BATTING All eleven player on the fielding side take the field

together. Once of them is the wicket-keeper aka ‘keeper’ who operates behind the wicket being defended by the batsman on strike. Wicket-keeping is normally a specialist occupation and his primary job is to gather deliveries that the batsman does not hit, so that the batsmen cannot run byes. He wears a special gloves, a box over the groin, and pads to cover a lower legs. Owing to his position directly behind the striker, the wicket keeper has a good chance of getting a batsman out caught of a fine edge from the bat. He is the only player who can get a batsman out stumped.

WICKET

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