Kartik Sharma Experince about Cricket
Hi Guys me kartik sharma. Today
we will talk about cricket. I m big fan of cricket. First time Surjeet ji was
told me about cricket & learnt me.
Cricket is a
national sport which is played between two teams of eleven players each who
score runs (points) by running between two sets of three small, wooden posts
called wickets. Each of the wickets is
at one end of a rectangle of flattened grass called the pitch. Around the pitch
is a much larger oval of grass called the cricket ground.[1]
The game started in England in the 16th century. The earliest
definite reference to the sport is in court case of 1598.[2]The court in Guildford heard a coroner, John Derrick, that when
he was a scholar at the "Free School 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 spread to
countries of the British Empire in
the 19th and 20th centuries.
Today, it is a popular sport in England, Australia, the Indian
subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh),South Africa, New Zealand,
the West Indies and
a few other countries such as Afghanistan, Ireland, Kenya, Scotland, the Netherlands and Zimbabwe.
A Brief Description about CRICKET
Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that
originated in England, possibly as early as 1300, and is now played in more
than 100 countries.[citation needed] Its highest levels are Test cricket, in
which the current world leading team is Australia,[1] and One Day International
cricket, whose last World Cup was also won by Australia; the tournament was
televised in over 200 countries to a viewing audience estimated at more than
two billion viewers.[2][3]
A cricket match is contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each[4] and is played on a grass field in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20 m) long called a pitch. A wicket, usually made of wood, is placed at each end of the pitch and used as a target.
The bowler, a player from the fielding team, bowls a hard leather, fist-sized, 5.5 ounces (160 g) cricket ball from the vicinity of one wicket towards the other, which is guarded by the batsman, a player from the opposing team. The ball usually bounces once before reaching the batsman. In defence of his wicket, the batsman
A cricket match is contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each[4] and is played on a grass field in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20 m) long called a pitch. A wicket, usually made of wood, is placed at each end of the pitch and used as a target.
The bowler, a player from the fielding team, bowls a hard leather, fist-sized, 5.5 ounces (160 g) cricket ball from the vicinity of one wicket towards the other, which is guarded by the batsman, a player from the opposing team. The ball usually bounces once before reaching the batsman. In defence of his wicket, the batsman
plays the ball with a wooden cricket bat. Meanwhile, the
other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions around the field
as fielders, players who retrieve the ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring
runs, and if possible to get him or her out.
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Modern
cricket is a team sport originating in England and popular mainly in areas that
formerly made up the British Empire. The major international test teams are England,Australia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and the West Indies. Thelanguage of cricket is particularly idiosyncratic and tends to
reflect the somewhat complicated and eccentric nature of the game itself. The
majority of the terms used in cricket have originated in England and Australia,
however these terms have generally been adopted by the majority of playing
nations and their cricketers.
The
game is played between two competing teams of eleven players on each side, on a
large expanse of (usually grassy) ground called a pitch. The teams are comprised of players with a
mixture of abilities, some who specialise at batting, some at bowling,
occasionally some who excel in both capacities, and one highly specialist
player who acts as 'wicket-keeper'. In the centre of the pitch is a length of
grass, (usually 22 yards long), called 'the wicket'. At each end of the wicket
are placed three sticks adjacent to each other in an upright position: these
are the 'stumps'.
They are separated by a gap not greater than the diameter of a cricket ball. On
top of each set of stumps are placed two smaller sticks, or 'bails'. A chalk
outline is drawn in front of each set of stumps called a 'crease'. The game is refereed by two 'umpires'.
The
length of games can vary in duration of time, and number of balls bowled. One
side will 'bat' first, the other side will bowl to them. Batsmen play in pairs,
each equipped with a bat, one at each end of the wicket.
The
object for the batting side is to score the optimal number of 'runs' (points)
before the bowling side have dismissed them. The object for the bowling side is
to dismiss the batsmen as economically as possible. Once the process is
complete the roles are reversed, i.e. the side which were batting then bowl and
the bowling side then bat. This reversal may happen only the once (typically in
'one-day' or
'limited overs' cricket) or twice, as in county or international test match cricket.
Runs
can be scored in a number of ways: each time that the batting pair is able to
run between the wickets after a ball has been bowled (and before the stumps are
or potentially can be touched with the ball) a run is scored. If the ball
travels outside of the playing area, and it has touched the ground prior to
leaving the playing area, 4 runs are scored. If the ball does not touch the ground
on its way out, 6 runs are scored.
Additionally,
runs can be accrued through the failure of the bowler to correctly deliver the
ball; either through an incorrect bowling action, when this is deemed a
'no-ball', or through the ball being delivered too wide for the batsman to
strike it, known as a 'wide'. The number of runs accrued can be affected by
where the ball ends up; a no-ball which crosses the boundary will count for 4
runs. Additionally, any balls which are deemed foul have to be bowled again by
the same bowler before his turn or 'over' of 6 correctly delivered balls is
deemed complete.
Dismissal
of the batsmen can occur in a number of ways. The batsman facing the bowler can
be 'bowled' out, i.e. the ball will hit the stumps without him being able to
prevent it. If the batsman strikes the ball with the bat and it is caught by
the bowler or one of the bowler's side who are dotted around the ground to
field the ball before it hits the ground, then he is deemed to be out. A
batsman can also be stumped by the specially equipped wicket-keeper, a player
who stands immediately behind the batsman to retrieve balls coming through from
the bowler, if the batsman steps in front of the crease leaving no part of his
anatomy or the bat behind, and the wicket-keeper is able to remove the bails from the wicket with
the ball. A batsman can also be out 'leg before wicket' or 'lbw': this is one
of the more complex and vexatious rules and usually involves the ball striking
the batsman's leg-protectors or 'pads' and the likelihood of the onward
trajectory of the ball striking the wicket has the player's anatomy not
intervened.
Either
player can be 'run-out' if the
wicket towards which they are running during the course of play is struck with
the ball prior to their reaching the safety of the crease.
