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Cricket

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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Research

6,199 papers

Cricket: The third domesticated insect.Current topics in developmental biology · 2022Mito T, Ishimaru Y, Watanabe T et al.DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2022.02.003
Lipidome of cricket species used as food.Food chemistry · 2021Tzompa-Sosa DA, Dewettinck K, Provijn P et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.129077
A novel cricket morph has diverged in song and wing morphology across island populations.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2023Gallagher JH, Zonana DM, Broder ED et al.DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14235
The Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus: Techniques for Quantitative and Functional Genetic Analyses of Cricket Biology.ReviewResults and problems in cell differentiation · 2019Kulkarni A, Extavour CGDOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23459-1_8
Studies on Neotropical crickets: Aclodes paz n. sp. a new phalangopsid cricket (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae) from the Santander caves, Colombia.ReviewZootaxa · 2022Cadena-Castaeda OJ, Quintana-Arias RF, Rodrguez DMT et al.DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.6.3
The genome assembly and annotation of the cricket Gryllus longicercus.Scientific data · 2024Szrajer S, Gray D, Ylla GDOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03554-z
Challenges with effective nutrient supplementation for amphibians: A review of cricket studies.ReviewZoo biology · 2014Livingston S, Lavin SR, Sullivan K et al.DOI: 10.1002/zoo.21177
DeepLabCut-based daily behavioural and posture analysis in a cricket.Biology open · 2024Hayakawa S, Kataoka K, Yamamoto M et al.DOI: 10.1242/bio.060237

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: type of sport
Subclass of: bat-and-ball game
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
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
different from: croquet
inception: 1909-00-00
authority: International Cricket Council
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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