Results of cricket

If the team that bats last is all out previous to it has reached the total required to win, it is said to have "lost by n runs" (where n is the difference between the number of runs scored by the teams). If the team that bats very last scores enough runs to win, it is said to have "won by n wickets", where n is the number of wickets left to fall. For occurrence a team that passes its opponents' score having only lost six wickets would have won "by four wickets".

In a two-innings-a-side match, one team's combined first and second innings total may be less than the another side's first innings total. The team with the greater score is then said to have won by an innings and n runs, and does not require to bat again: n is the difference between the two teams' aggregate scores.

Overview of Cricket


The aim of the batting team is to score as several runs as possible. A run is scored when both batsmen effectively move to their respective opposite ends of the pitch. (The batsmen will usually only attempt to score runs after the striker has hit the ball, but this is not required by the rules—the batsmen can attempt runs at any time after the ball has been bowled.) Runs are also scored if the batsman hits the ball to the boundary of the before a live audience area (this scores six runs if the ball crosses the boundary without having touched the ground, or four runs otherwise), or if the bowler commits some technical contravention like bowling the ball out of reach of the batsman.[citation needed]

The aim of the bowler's side is to get each batsman out (this is called a "taking a wicket", or a "dismissal"). Dismissals are achieved in a different ways. The most straight way is for the bowler to bowl the ball so that the batsman misses it and it hits the stumps, dislodging a bail. While the batsmen are attempting a run, the fielders may dismiss either batsman by using the ball to beat the bails off the set of stumps to which the batsman is closest before he has grounded himself or his bat in the crease. Other ways for the fielding side to dismiss a batsman contain catching the ball off the bat before it touches the ground, or having the batsman adjudged "leg before wicket" (abbreviated "L.B.W." or "lbw") if the ball strikes the batsman's body and would have gone on to hit the wicket. Once the batsmen are not attempting to achieve any more runs, the ball is "dead", and is bowled again (each attempt at bowling the ball is a "ball" or a "delivery").

History of cricket

Cricket has been a standard team sport for hundreds of years. It originated in its modern form in England and is most well-liked in the present and earlier members of the Commonwealth. Cricket is the second the majority popular sport in the world. More than a hundred cricket-playing nations are familiar by the International Cricket Council. In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is the most well-liked sport. It is also a main sport in England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are together known in cricketing parlance as the West Indies. There are also well-established part-time club competitions in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Kenya, Nepal and Argentina, among others.

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contest by two teams, regularly of eleven players each.A cricket match is played on a grass ground, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a cricket pitch. A wicket, regularly made of wood, is placed at each end of the pitch.

The bowler, a player from the fielding team, hurls a hard, fist-sized cricket ball from the surrounding area of one wicket towards the other. The ball usually bounces once before attainment the batsman, a player from the opposing team. In boldness of the wicket, the batsman plays the ball with a wooden cricket bat. Meanwhile, the other members of the bowler's team stand in different positions around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman—if he or she does not get out—may run between the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the "non-striker"), who has been coming up near the bowler's wicket. Each completed exchange of ends scores one run. Runs are also scored if the batsman hits the ball to the boundary of the in performance area. The match is won by the team that team must took more runs.