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How to Play Cricket Everybody knows that soccer is the most played game in the world but very few people know that the second most played game after soccer is cricket. Cricket had it origin in 700 A.D. Baseball was derive from cricket. The word cricket came from French word ‘criquit’. Most of people who don’t know about cricket think cricket is very complicated game but it is not true. Cricket is a very simple game if one knows these simple rules. If anyone wants to know how cricket is played he must first know some basics of cricket. Cricket ground is round with capacity of just under 100,000 with a playing area in between which is rectangular and is called pitch. On the both sides of pitch there are three wood sticks known as wickets, which are 28 inch long and 9 inch wide. In cricket, there are two teams with 11 players in each team. In each team usually there are five special batsman and there job is to attack the bowling attack of opposite team.. These batmen only bat and usually they don’t bowl. After 5 batsmen, there is wicket keeper. He is only a wicket keeper and batsman and he don’t bowl. After these 5 batsmen, there are 2 all rounders. In cricket all rounder is that player which also bat and also bowl. After all rounder, there are four specialist bowlers’ .These bowlers with all rounders attack the batting of opposite team. In cricket, one bowler can only bowl 6 balls at one time and then another bowler bowl 6 balls. These 6 balls are known as one over so one bowler ball one over then another bowler bowl one over. Like this, it goes till 30 overs. There are three umpires in a cricket match. Two of umpires are in ground and third umpire is not in ground instead he is in special chamber in stadium watching all game on screen. And if ground umpires can’t solve any problem then they ask help to third umpire who watch replay and then decide. In cricket the decision of umpire is final no matter it is wrong or correct. In cricket, scoring points are called runs just as in soccer scoring points are goals First, the captains of both teams come in ground with an umpire and do toss. The team who win the toss decides to bat first or bowl first. Suppose, that team decides to bat first so two players of batting team will go to ground and the whole bowling team will be in ground. Two batsmen will stand at opposite ends of pitch .One batsman will face the bowler and another will be at other end. Bowling team fielders will spread in whole ground according to captain’s order. The batting team will try it best to make as more runs it could make and bowling team will try to minimize runs. If batsman hit the ball and ball running on ground touches the boundary, it is considered four runs for batting side. If ball goes flying in air out side the boundary of ground without touching ground, it is consider six runs. The fielders of opposite team try to stop the ball reaching the boundary. If bowler bowls the ball and batsman misses the ball it hits the wickets or stumps, batsman is out. If one batsman is out then another batsman replaces him till all the 11 players are out. If batsman hits the ball in air and the fielder of opposite team catches, the ball before it touches the ground, batsman is consider out. There is a line known crease line on both side of pitch, which is 3 feet’s from wickets. If batsman is out of his crease line then fielder try to hit the wickets with ball. If ball hits the wicket and batsman is out of his crease line then he is out. Bowlers have to bowl in range of batsman that’s mean they cant bowl very wide from batsman .If they bowl wide ball then have to bowl again and batsman gets one run. When the bowler bowls, he can’t place his foot out side crease line. If the foot is out side crease line then that bowl is bowl again and batsman gets one run. This type of bowl is known as no –ball. There is two types of cricket, one is known as one day cricket or one day match and another is known as test cricket or test match. As compare to test match, one day match is more popular. In one day match both teams have only 300 balls to play. After 300 balls, the score of batting team is target for bowling team. If batting team is out before 300 balls its ok. But if batting team has players after 300 balls, it has to stop and it can’t play more than that. After 300 balls batting team, bowl and bowling team bat in same style. If it achieve the target in 300 balls it is winning team and if whole team is out before reaching target it loses. After knowing the basic steps of cricket, no one can say cricket is a complicated game instead, it will feel a joy to watch a cricket match going on TV. Almost 29 countries of world play cricket out them ten countries only play test cricket. These ten countries go directly into world cup without playing qualifying round. The rest of countries have to play first a qualifying round to enter in world cup. Cricket world cup is held after every 5 years. The world best cricket teams are Pakistan, Australia, England and South Africa Essay Grade: 5.00/5 This essay is only for research purposes. If used, be sure to cite it properly! |
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