Cricket

By Jeffrey

(Adopted from Wikipedia)

Cricket, the Mote?

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Cricket, the Insect?

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Cricket, the Sport

cricket ball

cricket bat

wicket-keeping gloves

a wicket

The playing field

The pitch

The pitch

Parts of the field

standard fielding positions in cricket

Match structure

• The toss– The two opposing captains toss a coin before

the match– the captain winning the toss chooses either to

bat or bowl first

• Overs – Each innings is divided into overs– each consisting of six consecutive legal delive

ries bowled by the same bowler

Match structure• End of an innings • An innings is completed if

– Ten out of eleven batsmen are 'out' (dismissed) — the team are all out.

– The team has only one batsman left who can bat (the others being incapacitated either through injury, illness or absence) — again, the team are all out.

– The team batting last reaches the score required to win the match.

– The predetermined number of overs are bowled (in a one-day match only, usually 50 overs).

– A captain declares his team's innings closed (this does not apply to one-day limited over matches)

Match structure

• Playing time• Typically, two innings matches are played over

three to five days with at least six hours of cricket being played each day.

• One innings matches are usually played over one day for six hours or more.

• There are formal intervals on each day for lunch and tea, and shorter breaks for drinks, where necessary.

• There is also a short interval between innings.

Playing time

• The game is only played in dry weather.

• the game needs to be played in daylight – good enough for a batsman to be able to see

the ball

• Play is therefore halted during rain (but not usually drizzle) and when there is bad light.

Batting

• Batsmen strike the ball from the batting crease, with the flat surface of a wooden bat.

Run scoring

• To score a run– a striker must hit the ball and run to the

opposite end of the pitch– while his non-striking partner runs to his end– To register a run, both runners must touch the

ground behind the popping crease with either their bats or their bodies

• If the striker hits the ball well enough– the batsmen may double back to score two or

more runs

Run scoring

• run out– If a fielder knocks the bails off the stumps with

the ball – while no batsman is grounded behind the

nearest popping crease– the nearest batsman is run out

• If the ball goes over the boundary, then four runs are scored, or six if the ball has not bounced

Bowling

• A bowler delivers the ball toward the batsmen

• pace bowlers

• spin bowlers

Dismissal of a batsman

• ten ways in which a batsman may be dismissed– Caught – Bowled – Leg before wicket (lbw) – Run out – Stumped – Hit wicket – Handled the ball – Hit the ball twice – Obstructing the field – Timed out

Fielding

• Fielders assist the bowlers in preventing runs– either by taking catches to dismiss a batsman– or by intercepting the ball and returning it to

the pitch– The wicket-keeper is the only fielder permitted

to wear gloves– A fielder may stop the ball with any part of

their body

wicket-keeper

• a specialist fielder who stands behind the batsman's wicket throughout the game.

• to gather deliveries that the batsman fails to hit– to prevent them running into the outfield– which would enable batsmen to score byes

Forms of cricket

• Test cricket

• One-day cricket

• Twenty20 Cricket

Test cricket

• Test cricket is a form of international cricket

• Test matches are two innings per side, usually played over five consecutive days

• Tests that are not finished within the allotted time are drawn

• Only ten test playing nations

One-day cricket

• Limited overs matches– also known as one day cricket or instant cri

cket

• due to the growing demands for a shorter and more dramatic form of cricket to stem the decline in attendances

• One-day, single-innings, matches • limiting of each side's innings to an agreed

number of overs (nowadays usually 50)

Twenty20 Cricket

• A "Twenty20 Game" consists 20 overs per each side

• Twenty20 World Championship would be held on an biannual basis

• the first ever Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa in September 2007

International structure

• The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body for cricket

• It is headquartered in Dubai

• It includes representatives of each of the ten Test-playing nations– as well as an elected panel representing non-

Test-playing nations.

three tiers

• highest level – Test-playing nations– They qualify automatically for the quadrennial

World Cup matches

• A rung lower – Associate Member nations

• The lowermost rung – Affiliate Member nations

Cricket World Cup

• the premier international championship of one day international men’s national cricket teams

• A Women's Cricket World Cup is also held every four years

• The most recent Cricket World Cup was held between 9 February and 24 March 2003, in Southern Africa– where Australia were crowned champions after beatin

g India by 125 runs • The next tournament will be held in the West Indi

es in 2007 and will consist of 16 teams.

Cricket World Cup

ICC member nations