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Cricket: Encyclopedia - Cricket

Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a bat-and-ball game played on a roughly elliptical grass field, in the centre of which is a hard, flat strip of ground some 22 yards long, called the pitch. At each end of the pitch stand a set of wooden poles called a wicket (traditionally made from the wood of the ash tree). A player from one team (the bowler) propels a hard, fist-sized ball from one wicket towards the other. A player from the opposing team (the batsman) attempts to defend the ball ...

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Cricket - International structure

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Cricket: Encyclopedia - Cricketer A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. It is generally used to refer to professional cricketers rather than amateur players. A cricket match is played between two sides, each consisting of eleven cricketers or players, though by agreement that sides may allow fewer or more than eleven cricketers to play as long as no more than eleven players are fielding at any one time. Each team appoints a captain. The rules concerning the players of a cricket game are in Law 1 of the Laws of cricket. This l ...

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Cricketer - Types of cricketers

Cricket: Encyclopedia II - Cricket - Forms of cricket

Cricket - Test cricket. Main articles: Test cricket, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]See also:

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Cricket: Encyclopedia II - Gregor MacGregor cricketer - Cricket

Gregor MacGregor cricketer - Early career. He was a prominent figure in first-class cricket of roughly speaking, twenty seasons, playing his last matches for Middlesex in 1907. Fame came to him before he was 20. After two years in the Uppingham School team he went up to Cambridge University, and as soon as he was seen at the University ground in the spring of 1888 it was realised that a wicket-keeper of extraordinary ability had been found. He gained his Blue at once, and during his four years at Cambridge he was ...

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Cricket: Encyclopedia - Cricket statistics

Cricket is a sport that generates a large number of statistics. Statistics are recorded for each player during a match, and aggregated over a career. At the professional level, statistics for Test cricket, one-day internationals, and first-class cricket are recorded separately. However, since Test matches are a form of first-class cricket, a player's first-class statistics will include his Test match statistics - but not vice versa. Nowadays records are also maintained for List A limited over matches. These matches are normally ...

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Cricket: Encyclopedia - Cricket insect

Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as "true crickets"), are insects related to grasshoppers and katydids (order Orthoptera). They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. Crickets are known for their chirp (which only male crickets can do; male wings have ridges that act like a "comb and file" instrument). They chirp by rubbing their wings or legs over each other, and the song is species-specific. There are two types of cricket songs: a calling song and a courting song. The calling song attracts females and ...

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Cricket insect - Taxonomy

Cricket: Encyclopedia - The result in cricket

The result in a game of cricket may be a win for one of the two teams playing, a draw or a tie. In the case of a limited overs game, the game can also be ended with no result. IN Which of these results applies, and how the result is expressed is governed by Law 21 of the Laws of cricket. The result in cricket - Win. The aim of cricket is to score more runs than the opposing team. A run is scored when both batsmen run 22 yards from one end of a cricket pitch to the other. Runs are also scored when the ...

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Cricket: Encyclopedia - Cave Cricket

Cave crickets are orthopteroid insects of the family Rhaphidophoridae which are found in association with caves. Those occurring in New Zealand, Australia, and surrounding environs are typically referred to as Cave Wetas. Their distinctive limbs and antennae serve a double purpose. Typically living in a lightless environment, they rely heavily on their sense of touch, which is limited by reach. While they have been known to take up residence the basements of buildings, many cave crickets live out their entire lives deep inside actual

Cricket: Encyclopedia - Club cricket

Club cricket is an amateur, but still formal, form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in a competition. Some club cricket is played with limited overs, with each innings usually lasting between thirty and fifty overs. Other club cricket is played over an afternoon or an entire day, sometimes with the restriction that no more than 20 overs may be bowled in the rest of the match after a certain time, or with a large total of overs to be split between the two sides (often 100 or 120 overs). In some leagues, matches are played over both Saturday and Sunda ...

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Club cricket - External link

Cricket: Encyclopedia - Boundary cricket

Boundary has two distinct meanings in the sport of cricket. Boundary cricket - Edge of the field. The boundary is the edge of the playing field, or the physical object marking the edge of the field, such as a rope or fence. If the physical object is moved during play (such as by a fielder sliding into the rope) the boundary is considered to remain at the point where that object first stood. When the cricket ball is inside the boundary, it is in play. When the ball is touching the boundary, bey ...

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Cricket: Encyclopedia - Cricket bat

A cricket bat is used by the batsmen in the sport of cricket. This specialised bat is shaped something like a paddle, consisting of a padded handle similar to - but sturdier than - that of a tennis racquet, which is usually cylindrical in shape. This widens into the blade of the bat, a wider wooden block flat on one side and with a V-shaped ridge on the other to provide greater strength. The flat side is used to hit the ball. The point at which the handle widens into the blade is known as the shoulder of the bat, and the bottom o ...

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Cricket bat - The history of the cricket bat

Cricket: Encyclopedia - Bowler cricket

A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. A bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder. There are several types of bowlers and most teams will have a variety available in the team to take advantage of pitch or weather conditions or known weaknesses of the opposition. A fast bowler is usually the mainstay of a team's attack. He will take a long run up before bowling each ball to build momentum and rhythm a ...

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Bowler cricket - Notable Bowlers by Country current

Cricket: Encyclopedia - Batting cricket

In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat in order to score runs without getting out. Each team usually consists of eleven players, and all the players are expected to bat. A person either skilled at batting or presently taking his turn at batting is called a batsman, and a batsman's main aim is to try and score runs for the team without getting 'out'. At a given moment, only two batsmen from one team can bat (the other team all take the field as fielders). A bats ...

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Cricket: Encyclopedia - Cricket pitch

A cricket pitch is the central strip of the playing area between the wickets. The pitch is 22 yards (20.12 m) long and 10 feet (3.05 m) wide. The surface is very flat and normally covered with extremely short grass though this grass is soon removed by wear at the ends of the pitch. In amateur matches, artificial pitches are commonly used. These can be a slab of concrete, overlaid with a coir mat, or artificial turf. Artificial pitches are rare in professional cricket - only being used when exhibition matches are pl ...

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Cricket: Encyclopedia - Bowling cricket

In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball towards the batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler. A single act of bowling the ball towards the batsman is called a ball or a delivery. There are rules in the Laws of Cricket governing how a ball must be bowled. If a ball is bowled illegally, an umpire will rule it a no ball. If a ball is bowled too wide or high for the batsman to be able to hit it, an umpire will rule it a wide. Bowlin ...