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HISTORY OF CRICKET

Cricket is a ball -and- bat team sport. lots of variations exist, with its the majority popular form played on an oval-shaped outdoor arena famous as a cricket field at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard (20.12 m) long pitch that is the focus of the game. A game (or match) is contested among two teams of eleven players each. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as probable while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman beating the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and moving the crease there without being dismissed. The teams switch among batting and fielding at the end of an innings.
There are also variations in the length of a game of cricket. In trained cricket this ranges from a bound of 20 overs per side (Twenty20) to a game played over 5 days (Test cricket, which is the highest stage of the game). Depending on the form of the match being played, there are different rules that rule how a game is won, lost, drawn or tied. The rules of two-innings games are identified as the Laws of Cricket and maintained by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC); supplementary Standard Playing Conditions for Test matches and One Day Internationals supplement these laws.[1] In one version of Indoor Cricket, matches include just 6 players per side and include two 12-over innings.[2]
Cricket was first recognized as being played in southern England in the 16th century. By the finish of the 18th century, it had industrial to the point where it had become the national sport of England. The expansion of the British territory led to cricket being played overseas and by the mid-19th century the first international matches were being held. The ICC is the game's governing body and currently has 105 member countries.[3] Cricket is most popular in the Test playing countries.




                                                                                                  

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