A sport loved by many

Cricket was first discovered by England . Then later this game was brought to the world and many people got pretty interested in the sport . Specially the Asian countries .

Rules

Cricket is a bat and ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field .The “field” is 22 yards (20.12 meters) by 10 feet (3.04 meters) wide. It is oval with a rectangular area in the middle, known as the pitch . The “wickets” ( two sets of three sticks ) are set in the ground at each end of the pitch. Across the top of each wicket lie horizontal shaped pieces called bails.  The sides take turns at batting and bowling ; each turn is called an “innings”. Sides have one or two innings each, depending on the prearranged duration of the match, there are 11 players per side . There are two batsman up at a time, and the batsman being bowled to , tries to hit the ball away . The fielding team tries to prevent runs from being scored . The bowler bowls the ball towards the striker’s wicket from the opposite end of the pitch . When a batsman is running between wickets, the crease represents the area in which he is “safe”, only a cricketer’s bat needs to be in the crease . One player on each team acts as a captain. There are two umpires—one standing behind the bowler’s wicket, the other at the position called square leg about 15 yards from the batsman’s popping crease , to control the game according to the laws . Only runs scored from the bat count to the batsman, but to the side’s score may be added as extras .

Formats

Test cricket

This format of cricket lasts for 5 days ( if needed ) . Over 90 overs are bowled each day . It have a total of 450 overs in 5 days .( supposing ) If The toss winning team chooses to bat , they are going to bat all day if are not bowled out ( all out ) by the fielding side , if that’s not the case then the batting team can declare on any score they want . Now in the second innings the fielding team will bat and the batting team will field ( bowl ) . the batting team needs to complete the target without being bowled out if , not manages to do it in that event the fielding team will again come to bat and will add more score on the board and then they’ll go back to field and the opposition now will have to complete the whole score that was made by the opposition from day 1 . (Eg: if the toss winning team makes a total of 500 runs in both the innings allotted , the opposition is then duty pound to make those runs before being bowled out to win the test match ) . To win the match ( on the last day ) the fielding team has to take all 10 wickets of the batting side and the batting side has to complete the target of given runs . The match can draw if both the teams fails to win it before the last day ends .

First-class cricket

Test cricket the highest standard of cricket, is statistically a form of first-class cricket, though the term “First-class cricket“, is mainly referred to domestic competition. A player’s first-class statistics is included to his test match performances . First-class cricket is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket along with list A cricket and T20 cricket . A first-class match is one of three or more days scheduled duration , between two sides of eleven players and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all.

One Day International

One day internationals consists of 100 overs of cricket . There are two innings each consisting of 50 overs . one for each team . It is similar to T20 cricket instead of overs . 4 of the main bowlers bowl 10 overs The cricket World cup , generally held every four years, is played in this format. One Day International matches are also called Limited Overs Internationals (LOI) . In an ODI match there are 3 powerplays, overs 1 to 10, overs 11 to 40 and overs 41 to 50. All the players in the team bat until either they are all out, or they run out of balls to score from. Each bowler can bowl only 1 over at a time and not more than 10 overs in the whole game.

Limited overs (domestic)

To become a professional player , one needs to play domestic cricket first so he can later be at ease in any format of cricket and knows the conditions best . This form of cricket protects players from low stamina . All cricket below international level, including first class cricket, regional cricket or any cricket match or event played between Territorial Boards or among cricket clubs . The scheduled number of overs in domestic cricket ranges from forty to sixty overs per side, mostly fifty overs. Every board is itself responsible for the domestic cricket .

Twenty20 International

Twenty20 is a shortened game format of cricket . In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innings  each, which is restricted to a maximum of twenty overs . Twenty20 is one of the three current form in cricket recognized by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as being at the highest international or domestic level.

A typical Twenty20 game is completed in about 40 0vers in total comprising of two and a half hours , with each innings of 20 overs lasting around 70 minutes and an official 10-minute break between the innings. This is much shorter than previous forms of the game, and is closer to the timespan of other popular team sports. It was introduced to create a fast-paced game that would be attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television and will attract the fans towards the stadium as well . The game has succeeded in spreading around the cricket world. Several T20 international leagues started after the popularity of the 2007 ICC World T20 international .