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    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field with a pitch at the center. The batting team scores runs by hitting the ball bowled at the wickets, while the bowling/fielding team tries to get batters out by methods like bowling or catching the hit ball. A game is made up of innings where each team gets a turn batting and bowling. Cricket has various formats from short Twenty20 games to multi-day Test matches. The sport originated in England and spread worldwide with the British Empire.

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    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field with a pitch at the center. The batting team scores runs by hitting the ball bowled at the wickets, while the bowling/fielding team tries to get batters out by methods like bowling or catching the hit ball. A game is made up of innings where each team gets a turn batting and bowling. Cricket has various formats from short Twenty20 games to multi-day Test matches. The sport originated in England and spread worldwide with the British Empire.

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    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field with a pitch at the center. The batting team scores runs by hitting the ball bowled at the wickets, while the bowling/fielding team tries to get batters out by methods like bowling or catching the hit ball. A game is made up of innings where each team gets a turn batting and bowling. Cricket has various formats from short Twenty20 games to multi-day Test matches. The sport originated in England and spread worldwide with the British Empire.

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    Cricket

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    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field with a pitch at the center. The batting team scores runs by hitting the ball bowled at the wickets, while the bowling/fielding team tries to get batters out by methods like bowling or catching the hit ball. A game is made up of innings where each team gets a turn batting and bowling. Cricket has various formats from short Twenty20 games to multi-day Test matches. The sport originated in England and spread worldwide with the British Empire.

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    Cricket involves two teams of 11 players each batting and fielding in turns. The batting team scores runs by hitting a ball bowled at the wickets with a bat while the fielding team tries to get players out and prevent runs.

    A team scores runs by hitting the ball and running between the wickets while the other team bowls and fields trying to get players out by methods such as bowling, catching, stumping etc. The game is adjudicated by umpires.

    Formats include Twenty20 played over a few hours with single innings of 20 overs each, test matches played over 5 days with unlimited overs and teams batting twice, and other limited over matches.

    CRICKET

    Cricket is a bat and ball game played between


    two teams of eleven players on a field at the
    centre of which is a 20 meter [22 yards] pitch
    with a wicket at each end, each comprising two
    bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side
    scores run by striking the ball bowled at the
    wicket with the bat, while the bowling and
    fielding side tries to prevent this and dismisses
    each player [ so they are “out’]. Means of
    dismissal include being bowled , when the ball
    hits the stump and dislodges the bails, and by
    fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the
    bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten
    players have been dismissed, the innings ends
    and the team swap roles. The game is
    adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third
    umpire and match referee in international
    matches. They communicate with two off field
    scorers who record the match’s statistical
    information. There are various formats ranging
    from Twenty20, played over few hours with each
    team batting for a single innings of 20 overs.
    Test matches, played over five days with unlimited
    overs and the teams each batting for two innings
    of unlimited length. Traditionally cricketers play
    in all white kit, but in limited over cricket they
    wear club or team colours. In addition to the basic
    kit, some players wear protective gear to prevent
    injury caused by the ball, which is hard, solid
    spheroid made of compressed leather with a
    slightly raised seam enclosing a cork core which is
    layered with tightly wound string .
    Historically, cricket’s origin are uncertain and the
    earliest definite reference is in south east England
    in the middle of the 16th century. It spread
    globally with the expansion of the british empire,
    leading to the first international matches in the
    second half of 19th century. The game’s governing
    body Is international cricket council [ICC], which
    has over 100 members, twelve of which are full
    members who play test matches. The game’s rules
    are held in a code called the laws of cricket which
    is owned and maintained by maryleborne cricket
    club(MCC) in London. The sport is followed
    primarily in the Indian subcontinent, australasia,
    the united kingdom, ireland, southern africa and
    The west indies, its globalisation occuring during
    the expansion of the british empire and remaining
    popular into 21st century. Women’s cricket, which
    is organized and played seperately, has also
    achieved international standard. The most
    successful side playing international cricket is
    australia, having won seven one day international
    trophies, including five world cups, more than any
    other country, and having been the top rated test
    side more than any other country.
    HISTORY OF CRICKET
    • Cricket is one of many games in the "club
    ball" sphere that basically involve hitting a
    ball with a hand-held implement; others
    are baseball, golf, hockey, tennis, squash, bad
    minton, and table tennis.[2] In cricket's case, a
    key difference is the existence of a solid
    target structure, the wicket (originally, it is
    thought, a "wicket gate" through which
    sheep were herded), that the batsman must
    defend.[3] The cricket historian Harry
    Altham identified three "groups" of "club
    ball" games: the "hockey group", in which the
    ball is driven to and fro between two targets
    (the goals); the "golf group", in which the ball
    is driven towards an undefended target (the
    hole); and the "cricket group", in which "the
    ball is aimed at a mark (the wicket) and
    driven away from it“. It is generally believed
    that cricket originated as a children's game in
    the south-eastern counties of England,
    sometime during the medieval
    period.[3] Although there are claims for prior
    dates,

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