Everybody knows what soccer is, world’s most popular sport, but a lot of people do not know the sport that comes after soccer, which is called cricket (the world’s second most popular sport). In order for you to play cricket, you have to know what cricket really is and where did it came from. Cricket is an international sport, which is played by many countries, but it is not that popular in many countries such as United States of America (USA), Germany, Russia, and many more. In these countries, whenever people hear the word cricket, most of them think of the insect, which makes weird sounds. The game itself was called something else when it was first played in England. Nobody really knows when it originally started playing, but researchers
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Interesting thing is that mostly all of the cricket grounds are little different from each other. Some might have boundaries about 60 meters long and at the same time, some grounds might even have 80 meters boundary lines, but all of them are round shaped. In the center of the ground, there is a 22 yards long and 10 feet wide pitch. A pitch is something that has to be same in all the cricket grounds. A pitch has 2 bases, which is called a crease. Bases are located at each end of the pitch. Each base has 3 sticks in the middle called stumps. These stumps are about 28 inches in height and also have 2 bails on top of it. This makes up a wicket. Wicket is the defense for any batsmen, and of course it is the target of any …show more content…
Cricket requires 11 players per team. It also has 2-field umpire and a 3rd umpire who stays in a room with all the cameras and different technologies to help the 2 infield umpires out with anything that a naked eye cannot detect. Every team has its own specialization. Now that can be with the ball or bat, but all teams usually have 5 batsmen, 5 bowlers and a wicket keeper. Wicket keeper stays behind the wickets or the batsman. In these 5 batsmen, they are mixed with some batmen who can clear the boundary with ease, and there are also those who handle the situations of the match and play to win the whole game. Whenever a team gets a chance to bat, they tend to like their best batsmen to bat first. Same thing goes with the bowling part. Bowling team would like to have their best bowlers to attack first and get as many as early wickets they can. There is this one rule about cricket bowling the ball in cricket, is that the ball has to bounce on the 22 yard pitch before the batsman gets a chance to hit it. However, the bowler does have an opportunity to bowl a full toss, but it has to be below the batsman’s waist. If the ball goes over waist height, it would be called a “no-ball” straight away. No ball means an extra run for the opposite team and the bowler would have to bowl an extra ball in that over. Every over has 6 balls in it. In ODI, there are 50 overs per team. In t20, there are 20 overs per team.
Interesting thing is that mostly all of the cricket grounds are little different from each other. Some might have boundaries about 60 meters long and at the same time, some grounds might even have 80 meters boundary lines, but all of them are round shaped. In the center of the ground, there is a 22 yards long and 10 feet wide pitch. A pitch is something that has to be same in all the cricket grounds. A pitch has 2 bases, which is called a crease. Bases are located at each end of the pitch. Each base has 3 sticks in the middle called stumps. These stumps are about 28 inches in height and also have 2 bails on top of it. This makes up a wicket. Wicket is the defense for any batsmen, and of course it is the target of any …show more content…
Cricket requires 11 players per team. It also has 2-field umpire and a 3rd umpire who stays in a room with all the cameras and different technologies to help the 2 infield umpires out with anything that a naked eye cannot detect. Every team has its own specialization. Now that can be with the ball or bat, but all teams usually have 5 batsmen, 5 bowlers and a wicket keeper. Wicket keeper stays behind the wickets or the batsman. In these 5 batsmen, they are mixed with some batmen who can clear the boundary with ease, and there are also those who handle the situations of the match and play to win the whole game. Whenever a team gets a chance to bat, they tend to like their best batsmen to bat first. Same thing goes with the bowling part. Bowling team would like to have their best bowlers to attack first and get as many as early wickets they can. There is this one rule about cricket bowling the ball in cricket, is that the ball has to bounce on the 22 yard pitch before the batsman gets a chance to hit it. However, the bowler does have an opportunity to bowl a full toss, but it has to be below the batsman’s waist. If the ball goes over waist height, it would be called a “no-ball” straight away. No ball means an extra run for the opposite team and the bowler would have to bowl an extra ball in that over. Every over has 6 balls in it. In ODI, there are 50 overs per team. In t20, there are 20 overs per team.