WHAT IS CRICKET?

RULES

Cricket is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players were they play on centre of a large circle where there is a pitch having one wicket at each end. A wicket is recognized by having three stumps and two bails on top of the stumps. The team that is on the batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the other team tries to prevent them by bowl them out, preventing the ball to leave from the field, get the ball to either of the wickets before the batmans cross the crease, catch the ball before it lands on the ground and etc. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swaps roles. The are two people called umpires who are the ones deciding how many runs each ball is and which is out or not out. But the empires gets aided by third umpire which exist on international games or very popular games for example IPL.

FORMATS

There are short formats and long formats in this sport and the difference between these two are the duration. Popular formats nowadays are 10 over-format and 20 over-format. These formats last idealy less than 2.5 hours and less comapared to longer formats such as 40 over- and 50 over-format which last normally 7 hours or less.

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