Cricket Kit:
Cricket is played with a ball, a bat and wickets. The ball, the bat and the wickets are properly sized for this game.They are called cricket-ball, cricket-bat and cricket-wickets.The batsman wears hand-gloves, arm-guard, leg-guards, thigh-guards, shoes and helmet as safe against injury.
Fielding Positions:
Cricket is played between two teams.One is the bowling side and the other is the batting side.There are eleven players in each team.Beside, there are two umpires, one stands just the back of the wicket of the bowling side and the other stands some yards away, left or right of the wicket of the batting side.The players of the bowling side play in different positions such as: Bowler, Wicket keeper, First slip,Second slip,Deep point,Deep cover,Mid off,Mid on,Cover,Extra cover,Point,Backward point,Short man,Silly point,Gully,Short leg,Silly mid off,Silly mid on,Long off boundary,Long on boundary,Deep mid wicket,Deep square leg,Long leg,Deep fine leg,Backward square leg,Third man,Mid wicket.The players of the batting side come to play as two openers, first down, second down, third down, fourth down, fifth down, sixth down, seventh down, eighth down, ninth down.
Batting Format:
The bowler bowls the ball aiming at the wickets and the batsman tries to drive this ball with his bat.When the ball is batted off,the batsman runs from this wicket to that wicket and from that wicket to this wicket as many times as it is possible for him before the ball is obtained by the players of the bowling side.If the batted ball crosses the boundary line it is declared four and if the ball crosses the boundary line in air it is called a six.If a player of the bowling side catches the batted-off ball before it falls on the ground he earns the credit of a catch and the batsman is ousted.If the stumps of bails are bowled off the batsman is ousted.Similarly run out,hit wicket etc.In those cases another player of the batting side comes to his positions.If a batsman makes one hundred runs in an innings, he earns a century.In the second turn of the game the bowling team, becomes the batting team and the batting team becomes the bowling team. During the game, the runs of each team are counted. The team winning the greater number of runs is proclaimed winner.
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