What is cricket?
Cricket is a game played among two teams. Each team is comprised of eleven players which include batsman and bowlers. A pitch of length 22 yards is located at the center of field and on the both ends of the pitch is a wicket of three stumps having two bails at the top. After tossing the coin, the toss winning team decides either they have to bat or bowl first. The batting side scores the runs bowled by opposite team by hitting the ball either for four, six or singles by running between the two wickets of pitch. The bowling side prevents the batsman to score the runs. Batsman gets dismissed by being bowled; when ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails or by catching the ball after hitting the bat but before hitting the ground or hitting the wicket before the batsman crosses the crease. When all the batsmen of one team are dismissed the innings end and the opposite team gets the batting and try to reach the target set by the opponent team. The game is judged by two field umpires and a third umpire. The international matches have a match referee in addition to the umpires. They are fully engaged with two off field scorers who observe the statistical information of the match.
Forms of cricket
Cricket has two forms:
Twenty-twenty
In twenty-twenty matches both teams play innings up to twenty overs (each team holds batting for twenty overs)
Test Matches
Test matches are played for a span of five days. Traditionally players play the test matches with white equipment, whereas in limited overs they use team plus club colors. Except for the basic kits, a few players use shielding tools to stay safe from the danger of the injury caused by ball. This injury may be fatal. These shields comprise of a hard ellipsoid of revolution. This ellipsoid is made up of trampled leather with slight stitches s on an elevated layer that encloses a cork core seamed with firmly attached string.
Beginning
The earliest reference to cricket was in the mid-16th century in South East England. With the extension of the British Empire, it spread globally, with the first international matches in the second half of the 19th century. The International Cricket Council (ICC), which has over 100 members, twelve of whom are full members who play test matches, is the governing body of the game. Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in London maintains the game’s rules, the Laws of Cricket. In the Indian subcontinent, Australasia, the United Kingdom, southern Africa and the West Indies, the sport is primarily followed. The international standard has also been achieved by women’s cricket, which is organized and played separately. Australia, which has won seven One Day International trophies, including five World Cups, more than any other nation and has been the top-rated test side more than any other country, is the most successful side playing international cricket.
History
Cricket is one of many games that basically involve hitting a ball with a hand-held device in the “club ball” sphere; others include baseball (which shares many similarities with cricket, both belonging to the more specific category of bat-and-ball games, golf, hockey, tennis, squash, badminton and table tennis. In the case of cricket, the existence of a strong target structure is a key difference.
It is generally thought that cricket originated in the south-eastern counties of England as a children’s game, sometime during the medieval period. Although there are claims for prior dates, the earliest definite reference to cricket being played comes from evidence provided on Monday, 17 January 15977 in a court case in Guildford (Julian calendar; equating to 30 January 1598 in the Gregorian calendar). (Julian calendar; equating to 30 January 1598 in the Gregorian calendar). (Julian calendar; equating to 30 January 1598 in the Gregorian calendar). The case concerned ownership of a certain plot of land and the court heard the testimony of John Derrick, a 59-year-old coroner, who testified:
Being a Scholler in Guldeford hee’s ffree school and various of his fellows did run and play at cricket and other plays there. Given Derrick’s age, when he was at school it was about half a century earlier, and so it is certain that cricket was being played c. 1550 in Surrey, by boys. Randle Cotgrave’s 1611 English-French dictionary, in which the noun “crosse” is the crooked staff wherewith boys play at cricket" and the verb form “crosser” as to play at cricket" reinforces the view that it was originally a children’s game
The old English word “cryce” (or “cricc”) is a possible source of the sport’s name. The name “criquet” seems to be a sort of stick[11], in Old French, because of the strong, medieval trade links between South-East Englande and the County of Flanders when it was in the Duchy of Burgundy, the name could have been derived from the Middle Netherlands (in use in Flanders at the time). The word “criquet” in Old French seems like a sort of club and a stick. The name “criquet,” however, may be derived from the Middle Netherlands (i.e., “with the stick chase”).The Middle Dutch word “krickstoel,” which means a long low stool used to kneel in the church, resembles the long low wicket, with two stubbing used for early cricket. The Middle Dutch phrase met de (kkrikket)sen, which is with the stick chaser," says Heiner Gillmeister of European Language Scientist at the University of Bonn (Germany).
Professional and ■■■■■■■ cricket growth in Britain
Cricket bat development. The original “hockey stick” (left) developed into the direct bat of c. In 1760 bowling began when it was pitched.
Even though the primary purpose of the game was always to make the most progress, the early shape of cricket differs from the current game in some key techniques. Many of these aspects are retained by the North American cricket variant known as wicket. The Bowler bowled the Ball under arm and on the ground towards a hockey stick-like batsman armed as a bat. In the year 1611, when the dictionary of Cotgrave was published, the ecclesiastical court records in Sidlesham in Sussex stated that two parishioners, Bartholomew Wyatt and Richard Latter, did not attend the church on E The first mention is of an adult’s participation in cricket and about the same time, the first known organized inter-parish or village match was played in Chevening, Kent. In 1624, after a match between two parish teams, Jasper Vinall had accidentally struck the skirt at the head of Sussex, a player named Jasper Vinall died. It was known from many records in the ecclesiastical court cases that the Puritans sometimes proscribed Cricket before the Commonwealth and during the XVIIth century The problem has almost always been the question of Sunday playing because if the Puritans are played on the Sabbath, Cricket is deemed “profane”. The Social Historian Derek Birley said in 1660 that sport had been “strongly increased after its restructuring.” Gambling on sport was a problem that became sufficiently significant for Parliament to adopt the 1664 Gambling Act, limiting its loans to £100, which in any event amounted to over 99 percent of the annual income of the population.
Bosses and other social class players called “the gentry” began to classify themselves as “amateurs”[fn 1], in order to distinguish clearly themselves from professionals who were constantly members of the working class, even to such an extent that they had separate change/restaurant facilities.
Cricket is a worldwide sport
The first English team on board the North America tour abroad in 1859
By the middle of the 19th century Australia, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, Northern America and South Africa were well established in the British Empire. In 1844 the United States and Canada held their first international match In 1859, an English player team traveled to North America to make a contribution to the game’s development .
The first Australian team to travel overseas was composed of aboriginal stockmen who toured England in 1868. In 1862, an English team was on their first tour of Australia. In 1876-77, the British team was involved in a retroactive match at the Melbourne Cricket Group against Australia that was recognized as their first ever test match, The competition between England and Australia brought the Ashes of 1882 about, and it was still the most famous competition for the test cricket. When South Africa played England, the test cricket began to expand between 1888-89.
Rules/how to play?
Area of play
Cricket is a cricket played between two teams of 11 players each on a cricket field. The boundary of the field is usually circular or ovally shaped, and the edge on the boundary of the playground is marked with a boundary that can consist of a fence, a part of the stands, a corner, a painted line, or a combination of them if possible, the boundary must have been marked along its entire length https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket.
The rectangulary pitch is at the approximate center of the field (see picture below), at the end of which is situated a wooden target called a “wicket”; wickets are placed 22 yards (20 m) apart. The pitch is 10 feet (3,0 m) wide and the grass, very short, usually worn as the game progresses (cricket can also be played on artificial surfaces, notably matting). (cricket can also be played on artificial surfaces, notably matting). The three wooden stumps each wicket with two bails are enhanced by.
As demonstrated above, at each end the pitch is marked by four white lines: a bowling hollow, a bowling hollow, and two return hollows. The three stumps are centrally aligned to the 8 feet long bowling hollow. The bowling hollow is drawn at four feet and parallel to the bowling hollow; although drawn as a 12-foot line 6 ft from each side of the wicket), in fact its length is unlimited. The return dots are drawn to the bowling dot in the right angles so that they cross the ends of the bowling dot. Each eight-foot dotting dot is drafted so that it lengthens four feet behind the dotting dot, but is actually unlimited in length.
Roles of the Player
Botton to Batsman Basic gameplay
Thirteen players and two arbitrators are on the field during normal play. Two of the players are batsmen and the rest are 11 fielding team members. In the pavilion are the other nine players of the batting team. The picture below shows what happens when a ball is bowled and which staff are on or near the square. In the photo, at each end of the pitch the two batsmen (3 & 8; yellow) are standing (6). Three fielding team members (4, 10 & 11; dark blue) shot. One of the two arbitrators (1, white hat) is stationed behind the wicket (2) on the end of the pitch of the bowler (4). On the other side of the bowler (4), he bowles the ball (5) from its end of the pitch to the sniper (8) who is called the “striker” The other scout (3) is called the no striker’ at the end of the bowling. Having a specialist, the wicket keeper (10) is placed behind the wicket of the striker (9) and one of the fieldmen is behind him in the position of first slip’ (11). The two snipers and the wicket guards wear the safety appliance including safety helmets, padded gloves and the beet guards while the bowler wears conventional slips only (pads). While the shot arbirt (1) is at the end of the pitch of the bowler, the colleague is standing in or near the square leg field, usually in the square leg, so that he is in line with the bowling plunge (7) at the end of the striker’s pitch. The bowling plume (not numbered) lies between the bowling plunges of the wicket (12). The bowler (4) is intended to hit the wicket (9) with a ball (5) or, at least, to avoid the scorer (8). By using his bat, the striker (8) intends to defend the wicket and hit the ball, if possible, off the pitch to make the points.
Some players have both a batting and bowling experience and are called all-rounders, either as well as wicket maintenance. Bowlers are classified as fast bowlers, seam bowlers or spinners, according to their style. Whether they’re right-handed or left-handed, batsmen are classified.
Fielding
Cricket positions for the batsman on the right
Three of the eleven fielders are in shot. The remaining eight are elsewhere and the captain or the bowler determines their position on a tactical basis. Fields often change their location, again as the captain or bowler specifies .
If a fielder is wounded or ill during the match, the replaceor can not replace him, and the replacee cannot replace him, unless he has been replaced for international cricket in the event of a concussion.[69] The replacement leaves the field where the injured player has been able to return.[81] In 2017, the cricket laws were updated, allowing replacements to act as wicket-keepers.
Summary
Cricket is a versatile game which was popular in the past as well as at present days.It is played in many countries. Its matches are seen at large scale all over the world .Its rules are being changed with the course of time how ever it is still well liked by the cricket lovers .