Cricket

THE GAME I LIKE THE MOST IS

“CRICKET”

CRICKETCricket is a Bat and Ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bows 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 hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the end of an innings. Cricket was first played in southern England in the 16th of England. The expansion of the British Empire led to cricket being played overseas and by the mid-19th century the first international matches were being held. The ICC, the game's governing body, has ten full members. The game is played particularly in Australasia, the Indian subcontinent, the West Indies, Southern Africa and England. The objective of each team is to score more runs than the other team. In Test cricket, it is necessary to score the most runs and dismiss the opposition twice in order to win the match, which would otherwise be drawn.

HISTORY OF CRICKET

The history of cricket to 1725 traces the Sport’s development from its perceived origins to the stage where it had become a major sport in England and had been introduced to other countries. The earliest definite reference to cricket occurs in 1598 and makes clear that the sport was being played c.1550, but its true origin is a mystery. The sparse information available about cricket's early years suggests that it was originally a children's game. Then, at the beginning of the 17th century, it was taken up by working men. During the reign of Charles I, the gentry took an increased interest as patrons and occasionally as players. By the time of the Hanoverian succession, investment in cricket had created the professional player, thus establishing the sport as a popular social activity in London and the south of England. Meanwhile, English colonists had introduced cricket to North America and the West Indies; and the sailors and traders of the East India Company had taken it to the Indian subcontinent.

PITCH AND CREASES The pitch is 22 yards (20 m) or one chain in length between

the wickets and is 10 feet (3.0 m) wide. It is a flat surface and has very short grass that tends to be worn away as the game progresses. The "condition" of the pitch has a significant bearing on the match and team tactics are always determined with the state of the pitch, both current and anticipated, as a deciding factor.

A bowling crease is 8 feet 8 inches (2.64 m) long with the middle stump placed dead centre. The popping crease has the same length, is parallel to the bowling crease and is 4 feet (1.2 m) in front of the wicket. The return creases are perpendicular to the other two; they are adjoined to the ends of the popping crease and are drawn through the ends of the bowling crease to a length of at least 8 feet (2.4 m).

WICKETS

Each wicket consists of three wooden stumps placed in a straight line and surmounted by two wooden crosspieces called bails; the total height of the wicket including bails is 28.5 inches (720 mm) and the combined width of the three stumps is 9 inches (230 mm).

CRICKET BALL Hard, cork and string ball,

covered with leather. A bit like a baseball (in size and hardness), but the leather covering is thicker and joined in two hemispheres, not in a tennis ball pattern. The seam is thus like an equator, and the stitching is raised slightly. The circumference is between 224 and 229 millimeters (8.81 to 9.00 inches), and the ball weighs between 156 and 63 grams (5.5 to 5.75 ounces). Traditionally the ball is dyed red, with the stitching left white. Nowadays white balls are also used, for visibility in games played at night under artificial lighting.

CRICKET BAT

Blade made of willow, flat on one side, humped on the other for strength, attached to a sturdy cane handle. The blade has a maximum width of 108 millimeters (4.25 inches) and the whole bat has a maximum length of 965 millimeters (38 inches).

PADS, BAT, BALL, HELMET AND GLOVES

TEAM STRUCTURE A team consists of eleven players.

Depending on his or her primary skills, a player may be classified as a specialist batsman or bowler. A well-balanced team usually has five or six specialist batsmen and four or five specialist bowlers. Teams nearly always include a specialist wicket-keeper because of the importance of this fielding position. Each team is headed by a captain who is responsible for making tactical decisions such as determining the batting order, the placement of fielders and the rotation of bowlers.

A player who excels in both batting and bowling is known as an all-rounder. One who excels as a batsman and wicket-keeper is known as a "wicket-keeper/batsman", sometimes regarded as a type of all-rounder. True all-rounders are rare as most players focus on either batting or bowling skills. 

EXTRAS Bye No ball Wide Leg bye

DISMISSALS (OUTS)

Bold or Clean Bold Caught Leg before wicket {lbw} Run out Stumped Hit wicket

STATISTICS InningsNot outsRuns Batting and Bowling AverageCenturies (100) Balls Faced Strike RateBallsMaiden Overs & OversRunsWicketsExtras

TYPES OF MATCHES

Test cricket is the highest standard of first-class cricket. A Test match is an international fixture between teams representing those countries that are Full Members of the ICC. It is played for 5 days and both teams play 2-2 innings.

ODI {One Day International} is played for 50-50 overs having 6balls / over.

ABOUT SOME

CRICKETERS

SIR DON BRADMAN

BRIAN LARA

RAHUL DRAVID

Competition Test ODI FC LA

Matches 164 344 298 449

Runs scored 13,288 10,889 23,794 15,271

Batting average 52.31 39.16 55.33 42.30

100s/50s 36/63 12/83 68/117 21/112

Top score 270 153 270 153

Balls bowled 120 186 617 477

Wickets 1 4 5 4

Bowling average 39.00 42.50 54.60 105.25

5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0

10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0

Best bowling 1/18 2/43 2/16 2/43

Catches/Stumping 210/0 196/14 353/1 233/17

SACHIN TENDULKARCompetition Test ODI FC LA

Matches 188 462 292 550

Runs scored 15,470 18,374 24,38

9 21,947

Batting average 55.44 44.81 58.62 45.53

100s/50s 51/65 49/96 78/11

1 60/113

Top score 248* 200* 248* 200*

Balls bowled 4,174 8,032 7,539 10,220

Wickets 45 154 70 201

Bowling average 54.33 44.32 61.95 42.11

5 wickets in innings 0 2 0 2

10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a

Best bowling 3/10 5/32 3/10 5/32

Catches/Stumping 113/– 140/– 181/– 175/–

GARFIELD SOBERS

THE INDIAN CRICKET TEAM

THE INDIAN CRICKET TEAM

THE INDIAN CRICKET TEAM :-

The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of theInternational Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status.

DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN CRICKET TEAM :-

Although cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th century, and the first cricket club in India was established inCalcutta in 1792, India's national cricket team did not play its first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's.[2] They became the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status.[3] In its first fifty years of international cricket, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 Test matches.[4] The team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet — Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (both off spinners), Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (a leg spinner), and Bishen Singh Bedi (a left-arm spinner). Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, the Indian team has improved its overseas form since the start of the 21st century. It won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 under Kapil Dev, was runner-up in 2003 under Sourav Ganguly, and won the World Cup a second time in 2011 under Mahendra Singh Dhoni. It thus became only the third team after West Indies and Australia to have won the World Cup more than once.[5] It is also the first cricket team to win the World Cup on home soil. India also won the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007 and 2013 ICC Champions Trophy under the captaincy of Dhoni. India has also been the runner-up in 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy and the joint champion along withSri Lanka in 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, led by Ganguly in both the instances.

INDIAN RANK IN CRICKET:-

The Indian cricket team is currently ranked second in Tests, first in ODIs and second in T20Is by the ICC.[6] Currently, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the captain in all forms of the game while Duncan Fletcher is the coach. Under the leadership of Dhoni, the Indian team has set a national record for most back-to-back ODI wins (nine straight wins)[7] and has emerged as one of the most formidable teams in international cricket.

Tournament history World CUP RECORDYear Round

Position

GP W L T NR

 1975 Round 1 6/8 3 1 2 0 0

 1979 Round 1 7/8 3 0 3 0 0

 1983 Champions 1/8 8 6 2 0 0

 1987 Third Place 3/8 7 5 2 0 0

  1992 Round 1 7/9 8 2 5 0 1

 1996 Third Place 3/12 7 4 3 0 0

 1999 R2 (Super 6s) 6/12 8 4 4 0 0

 2003 Runners-Up 2/14 11 9 2 0 0

 2007 Round 1 10/16 3 1 2 0 0

 2011 Champions 1/14 9 7 1 1 0

 2015 - – – – – – –

 2019 - – – – – – –

 2023 - – – – – – –

Total 12/12 2 titles 67 39 26 1 1

WORLD TWENTY20 RECORD

Year Round Position GP W L T NR

 2007 Champions 1/12 7 4 1 1 1

 2009 Super 8s 7/12 5 2 3 0 0

 2010 Super 8s 8/12 5 2 3 0 0

 2012 Super 8s 5/12 5 4 1 0 0

 2014 - - - - - - -

 2016 - - - - - - -

Total 6/6 1 title 22 12 8 1 1

Other Major Tournaments

ICC Champions Trophy Asia Cup

1998: Semi Finals2000: Runners Up2002: Joint Champions with Sri Lanka2004: Round 12006: Round 12009: Round 12013: Champions

1984: Champions1986: Boycott1988: Champions1990/1991: Champions1995: Champions1997: Runners Up2000: 3rd Place2004: Runners Up2008: Runners Up2010: Champions2012: 3rd Place

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CRICKET

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