Introduction of cricket

Definition of cricket.

Cricket is an international game of England. Which is played between two teams. Every team has 11 players. Now a day’s cricket are played in many countries.

Explain!

Cricket is played by a bat and ball. Cricket is an outdoor game. Cricket is very popular game. It is played on a pitch with two sets of three stamps that is called wicket.

The baller bowls down the pitch then the opposite player protect his wicket. The first team playing and set the target runs as well as possible. A batsman can be out in many ways: When a bowler hit the wicket while bowling when a fielder caught the ball is called caught. After hitting the ball when a player run to take run and the wicket keeper and other fielder catch the ball and hit the wicket is called run out.

Required things for cricket

• Ball
• Bat
• Wickets(three stumps and two bails)
• Protective gear(helmets, pads, and gloves)

Important Roles

1: Captain

2: Wicket keeper

3: bowler

4: Batsman

Punishment for breaking rules

• Warning
• Ban
• Fine
• Suspension

Some rules for batting

• Batsman use only the bat assigning by the caption
• No run on the dead ball

Types of cricket

There is three types of cricket.

• Test match
• One day international match
• T-20 match

Test match

A match which is played for five days is known as test match. In this game the player involve by physically and mentally.

This game contain of ninety (90) overs in a day.

One day international match

One day match is contain of fifty (50) overs. It is played only for a day. One day matches start from 1980s.

T-20 match

T-20 match is consist of 20 overs. This type of game is very interesting.

Formats of cricket

Cricket has many formats. It has many types of fans. Just like some people wanted to see test match because of their suspense. Some people like to see one day match and some people like t – 20 matches

Scoring

• Single: one run scored
• Double: two run scored
• Four: when the ball cross the boundary (4 runs)
• Six : when ball cross the boundary without being touched(6)

Popularity of cricket

Cricket is very popular game in the world. Minimum 2.5 billion fans worldwide. The support is mostly playing in Pakistan, India, United Kingdom and the Austria. International competitions like ICC. Cricket World Cup and ICC champions’ trophy, attract a lot of people. Media cover all the detail and live streaming.

Benefits of cricket

Cricket gave a lot of benefits. It maintain our physical fitness.

It increase our mental level. It increase our team work.

It maintain our discipline. It increase our thinking level.

Challenges and controversy

Cricket faces many challenges now a days. Like corruption in the form of match fixing, can be destroy the value of match.