Cricket originated in England over 500 years ago from various stick-and-ball games. By the 17th century, it had evolved into a distinct game recognized as cricket. Cricket involves two teams of 11 players who take turns batting and fielding. The captain who wins the toss can choose whether their team bats or bowls first. The aim is for the batting team to score runs and the fielding team to prevent runs and get batters out. Cricket is played in various formats with Test matches lasting 5 days and One Day matches restricting each team to 300 balls. Key pieces of equipment include bats, balls, pads and gloves. Players have roles as batters, bowlers and fielders, while umpires officiate

1. The Short Story Of Cricket
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2. History of Cricket
* Cricket grew out of many stick-and-ball
games played in England 500years ago, under
a variety of different rules.
* The word ‘bat’ is an old English word that
simply means stick or club.
* By the seventeenth century, cricket had
evolved enough to be recognisable as a
distinct game.
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3. Full Form of Cricket
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4. The Cricket
Cricket involves two teams with 11 players on
each side. The captain who wins the toss
decides whether his team bats or bowls first. If
they bat first , their aim is to score a lot of runs
and make sure the other team does not reach
that score.
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5. Cricket Formats Of Game
Cricket is played in many formats , but the
most popular are TEST CRICKET and ONE
DAY cricket. In TEST cricket game goes on for
5 days, with each team batting twice - if time
permits.
ONE DAY is the most popular format, with
each team getting 300 balls to score runs. And
the other team tries to outscore them within
the same number of balls.

6. Cricket Used Equipments:
Cricket bat
Stumps
Ball
Batting Gloves
Leg Pads
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7. Cricket Key Players
Four functions of the players are
1. BATSMEN
2. BOWLING
3. FIELDING.
4. Umpiring
There are 2 umpires who stand on the ground
& ensure the rules are followed.
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8. Game length
There are 3 different styles of cricket
games….
Twenty20 match
One day match
Test Match
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9. Batsmen - one who scores runs of the balls
bowled by the bowler.
Bowler - One who bowls, and tries to get the
batsmen "out" (dismissed from the ground).
Fielder - Players (10) who assist the bowler in
achieving his goal, and prevent the batsmen
from scoring runs.
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10. Cricket Game Rules
* Cricket is a very popular game in Australia
that is played mostly in summer on a large
grassy field.
* There are 2 teams of 11 players
* The teams are made up of people that are
skilled in…
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11. Scoring
* Runs can be scored in a number of ways:
* Each time the batting pair run between the
wickets (after the ball has been hit) a run is
scored.
* If the ball is hit outside the boundary line
extra points are scored.
* 4 runs = If the ball touches the ground
before going outside the boundary.
* 6 runs = If the ball does not touch the
ground.
* Runs can also be scored if the bowler
delivers the ball incorrectly…
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