Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails (small sticks) balanced on three stumps. Two players from the batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holding bats, while one player from the fielding team, the bowler, bowls the ball toward the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball with the bat and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one r

international governing body of cricket

thumb|upright|A wicket In the sport of cricket, the term wicket has several meanings: It is either of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at each end of the pitch. The fielding team's players can hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batter out. The wicket is guarded by a batter who, with their bat (and sometimes with their pads, but see the laws on LBW, leg before wicket), attempts to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket (if it does, they may be bowled) and to score runs where possible. Through metonymic usage, the dismissal of a batter is known as the tak

hard, solid ball used to play cricket

in cricket, a blade with a handle used by batsmen to hit the ball

rules of the game of cricket

cricket terminology

thumb|Wicket-keeper MS Dhoni in characteristic [[full squatting position, facing a delivery from a slow pace or spin bowler]] thumb|Wicket-keeper in characteristic partial squatting position (together with slip fielders), facing a delivery from a fast bowler. In cricket, the wicket-keeper is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket, ready to stop deliveries that pass the batsman, and take a catch, stump the batsman out, or run out a batsman when occasion arises. The wicket-keeper is the only member of the fielding side permitted to wear gloves and external leg guards. The r

unit of scoring in cricket

central strip of the cricket field between the wickets

person who has the authority to make judgements on the cricket field

a skill in the sport of cricket

action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, in such a way either to limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or to get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or running the batsman out

thumb An innings is one of the divisions of a cricket match during which one team takes its turn to bat. Innings also means the period in which an individual player bats (acts as either striker or nonstriker). In cricket and rounders, "innings" is both singular and plural; this contrasts with baseball and softball in which the singular is "inning".

History of Cricket, a sport

cricket delivery

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member of a cricket team

cricket when played by girls/women

grassy ground on which the game of cricket is played

in cricket, an event when a batsman’s period of batting is brought to an end by the opposing team

in cricket, the outcome of a game: either a win for one of the teams, a tie, a no result, a draw

sportwear and kit

in cricket, run scored by a means other than the batsman hitting the ball

one of the many ways (test, ODI, Twenty20, club, …) in which the sport cricket is played

area demarcated by white lines painted or chalked on the field of play