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Cricket: Cricket Is A Bat-And-Ball Game Played Between Two Teams
Cricket: Cricket Is A Bat-And-Ball Game Played Between Two Teams
This article is about the outdoor sport. For the variant of the
game played indoors, see Indoor cricket. For the insect, see
Cricket
(insect).
For
other
uses,
see
Cricket
(disambiguation).
"Cricketer" redirects here. For other uses, see Cricketer
(disambiguation).
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams
of 11 players on a field, at the centre of which is a
rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to
score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls
and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the
runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the
striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the
opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there
without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting
and fielding at the end of an innings.
Cricket was first played in southern England in the 16th
century. By the end of the 18th century, it had developed
into the national sport of England. The expansion of the
The bowler reaches his delivery stride by means of a "runup", although some bowlers with a very slow delivery take
no more than a couple of steps before bowling. A fast
bowler needs momentum and takes quite a long run-up,
running very fast as he does so.
Fielding
Fielding (cricket) and Fielding strategy (cricket)
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Caught: the batsman has hit the ball with his bat, or
with his hand which was holding the bat, and the ball
has been caught before it has touched the ground by a
member of the fielding side.[11]
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