The Short Story Of Cricket

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History of Cricket

* Cricket grew out of many stick-and-ball games played in England 500years ago, under a variety of different rules.

* The word ‘bat’ is an old English word that simply means stick or club.

* By the seventeenth century, cricket had evolved enough to be recognisable as a distinct game.

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Full Form of Cricket

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The Cricket

Cricket involves two teams with 11 players on each side. The captain who wins the toss

decides whether his team bats or bowls first. If they bat first , their aim is to score a lot of runs and make sure the other team does not

reach that score.

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Cricket Formats Of Game Cricket is played in many formats , but the most popular are TEST CRICKET and ONE DAY cricket. In TEST cricket game goes on for 5 days, with each team batting twice - if time permits.

ONE DAY is the most popular format, with each team getting 300 balls to score runs. And the other team tries to outscore them within the same number of balls.

Cricket Used Equipments:

Cricket bat Stumps

Ball Batting Gloves

Leg Pads

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Cricket Key Players

Four functions of the players are 1. BATSMEN 2. BOWLING 3. FIELDING. 4. Umpiring

There are 2 umpires who stand on the ground & ensure the rules are followed.

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Game length

There are 3 different styles of cricket games….

Twenty20 match One day match

Test Match

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Batsmen - one who scores runs of the balls bowled by the bowler.

Bowler - One who bowls, and tries to get the batsmen "out" (dismissed from the ground).

Fielder - Players (10) who assist the bowler in achieving his goal, and prevent the batsmen from scoring runs.

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Cricket Game Rules

* Cricket is a very popular game in Australia that is played mostly in summer on a large grassy field.

* There are 2 teams of 11 players * The teams are made up of people that are skilled in…

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Scoring * Runs can be scored in a number of ways: * Each time the batting pair run between the wickets (after the ball has been hit) a run is scored.

* If the ball is hit outside the boundary line extra points are scored.

* 4 runs = If the ball touches the ground before going outside the boundary.

* 6 runs = If the ball does not touch the ground.

* Runs can also be scored if the bowler delivers the ball incorrectly…

* ‘No-ball’ = an incorrect bowling action, (= 1 bonus run).

* ‘Wide’ = bowling the ball so wide the batter can’t hit it (= 1 bonus run).

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