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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
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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