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Mannschaftssportart

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Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of eleven players, where batters attempt to hit a bowled ball and score runs by switching positions with a teammate, while fielders try to prevent scoring. The game centers on a pitch with wickets (sets of sticks called stumps and bails) at each end, where a bowler delivers the ball to a striker who defends their wicket.

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Key facts

Sport.name
Cricket
Sport.image
Pollock to Hussey.jpg
Sport.nickname
''The Gentlemen's Game''
Sport.imagesize
300 px
Sport.union
International Cricket Council
Sport.first
16th century; South East England
Sport.contact
No
Sport.team
11 players per side (substitutes permitted in some circumstances)
Sport.mgender
No, separate competitions
Sport.type
Team sport, Bat-and-Ball
Sport.ball
Cricket ball, Cricket bat, Wicket (Stumps, Bails), Protective equipment
Sport.venue
Cricket field
Sport.glossary
Glossary of cricket terms
Sport.region
Worldwide (most popular in the Commonwealth)
Sport.olympic
1900, 2028

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
type of sport
Country of origin
England
Official website
ICC-Cricket.com
Image
Muralitharan bowling to Adam Gilchrist.jpg
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Commons category
Cricket
topic's main category
Category:Cricket
Unicode character
🏏
Commons gallery
Cricket
uses
wicket
practiced by
cricketer
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
different from
croquet
inception
1909-00-00
topic's main Wikimedia portal
Portal:Cricket
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Article · Deutsch

Cricket (englisch [ˈkɹɪkɪt]; in Deutschland amtlich Kricket, in den Anfängen auch „Thorball“) ist ein Schlagballspiel mit zwei Mannschaften. Dabei dreht sich alles um das Duell zwischen dem Werfer (Bowler) und dem Schlagmann (Batter). Der Bowler versucht, den Batter zu einem Fehler zu bewegen, damit dieser ausscheidet, der Batter seinerseits versucht, den Ball wegzuschlagen, um Punkte (Runs) zu erzielen. Der Bowler wird durch die anderen Feldspieler unterstützt, die den Ball so schnell wie möglich zurückzubringen versuchen. Die Sportart wird vor allem in den Ländern des Commonwealth als Sommersport betrieben und ist in einigen Ländern auch Nationalsport.

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