Cricket is the most famous game in national level. Many players are including in this team.
It’s a very intersting game like men and women.And also it is a one of the hobbies for each and every boys.
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a wicket, a set of three wooden stumps sited at each end.
Many national level teams are participating in this game .
One team, designated thebatting team, attempts to score as many runs as possible, whilst their opponents field.
Each phase of play is called an innings. After either ten batsmen have been dismissed or a set number of overs have been completed, the innings ends and the two teams then swap roles.
The winning team is the one that scores the most runs, including any extras gained, during their period batting.
History:
The game of cricket has a known history beginning in the late 16th century. Having originated in south-east England, it became the country’s national sport in the 18th century and has developed globally in the 19th and 20th centuries.
International matches have been played since 1844, although international Test cricket began, retrospectively recognised, in 1877. Cricket is the world’s second most popular spectator sport after association football.
Cricket entered a new era in 1963 when English counties introduced the limited overs variant.As it was sure to produce a result, limited overs cricket was lucrative and the number of matches increased. The first Limited Overs International was played in 1971.
The governing International Cricket Council (ICC) saw its potential and staged the first limited overs Cricket World Cup in 1975. In the 21st century, a new limited overs form,Twenty20, has made an immediate impact.
Equipment used in this game:
Bat and ball: The bat is made of wood (usually White Willow) and has the shape of a blade topped by a cylindrical handle. The blade must not be more than 4.25 inches (108 mm) wide and the total length of the bat not more than 38 inches (970 mm).The ball is a hard leather-seamed spheroid, with a circumference of 9 inches (230 mm).
Pads,batting gloves,helmet: The hardness of the ball, which can be delivered at speeds of more than 90 miles per hour (140 km/h), is a matter for concern and batsmen wear protective clothing including pads (designed to protect the knees and shins), batting gloves for the hands, a helmet for the head and abox inside the trousers (to protect the crotch area).
Game Rules:
A coin toss is held by the team captains (who are also players) just before the match starts: the winner decides whether to bat or field first.
At each end of the pitch is a wooden target called a wicket, placed 22 yards apart.The pitch is marked with painted lines: a bowling crease in line with the wicket, and a batting orpopping crease four feet in front of it. The wicket is made of three vertical stumps supporting two small horizontal bails. A wicket is put down if at least one bail is dislodged, or one stump is knocked down .
The two batsmen take positions at opposite ends of the pitch. One designated member of the fielding team, called the bowler, bowls the ball from one end of the pitch to the striking batsman at the other end. The batsman at the bowling end is called the non-striker, and stands to the side of his wicket, behind his crease. Another member of the fielding team, the wicket keeper, is positioned behind the striker’s wicket.
The fielding team’s other nine members stand outside the pitch, spread out across the field. The fielding captain often strategically changes their position between balls.There is always an umpire at each end of the pitch.
The batsman tries to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket by striking the ball with his bat. (This includes the handle of the bat, and his gloves.) If the bowler succeeds in putting down the wicket the batsman is dismissed and is said to be bowled out. If the batsman misses the ball, but any part of his body prevents it from reaching the wicket, then he is out leg before wicket, or “LBW”.
If the batsman hits the ball over the field boundary without the ball touching the field, the batting team scores six runs. If the ball touches the ground and then reaches the boundary, the batting team scores four runs. The batsmen might start running before the ball reaches the boundary, but those runs don’t count.
If the batsman misses the ball they can still attempt extra runs : these are called byes. If the ball bounces off his body then it is called a leg bye.
If the striking batsman leaves his ground and misses the ball, then the wicket keeper can catch it and put down the wicket – stumped.
Types of Dismissals:
Bowled: the bowler has hit the wicket with the delivery and the wicket has “broken” with at least one bail being dislodged (note that if the ball hits the wicket without dislodging a bail it is not out).
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.
Leg before wicket (lbw): the ball has hit the batsman’s body (including his clothing, pads etc. but not the bat, or a hand holding the bat) when it would have gone on to hit the stumps. This rule exists mainly to prevent the batsman from guarding his wicket with his legs instead of the bat. To be given out lbw, the ball must not bounce outside leg stump or strike the batsmen outside the line of leg-stump. It may bounce outside off-stump. The batsman may only be dismissed lbw by a ball striking him outside the line of off-stump if he has not made a genuine attempt to play the ball with his bat.
Run out: a member of the fielding side has broken or “put down” the wicket with the ball while the nearest batsman was out of his ground; this usually occurs by means of an accurate throw to the wicket while the batsmen are attempting a run, although a batsman can be given out Run out even when he is not attempting a run; he merely needs to be out of his ground.
Stumped: is similar except that it is done by the wicketkeeper after the batsman has missed the bowled ball and has stepped out of his ground, and is not attempting a run. A batsman can be run out on a No ball, but cannot be stumped.
Hit wicket: a batsman is out hit wicket if he dislodges one or both bails with his bat, person, clothing or equipment in the act of receiving a ball, or in setting off for a run having just received a ball.
Hit the ball twice is very unusual and was introduced as a safety measure to counter dangerous play and protect the fielders. The batsman may legally play the ball a second time only to stop the ball hitting the wicket after he has already played it. “Hit” does not necessarily refer to the batsman’s bat.
Obstructing the field: another unusual dismissal which tends to involve a batsman deliberately getting in the way (physically and/or verbally) of a fielder.
Handled the ball: a batsman must not deliberately touch the ball with his hand, for example to protect his wicket. Note that the batsman’s hand or glove counts as part of the bat while the hand is holding the bat, so batsmen are frequently caught off their gloves (i.e. the ball hits, and is deflected by, the glove and can then be caught).
Timed out; means that the next batsman was not ready to receive a delivery within three minutes of the previous one being dismissed.
Retired out: a batsman retires without the umpire’s permission, and does not have the permission of the opposition captain to resume their innings.
Place to play:
It is mostly played to any ground and any large places . And mostly it well played in schools,colleges,stadium .
This game will be played in a all human beings for example men, women, children are also.
Many competition are also held for this game all over india.
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