Sports Cricket & Volleyball

1. Sports Cricket &
Volleyball
By Kartik Singh

2. Cricket
History of Indian Cricket - The Indian cricket team is one of the most well-known and successful
in the world. Cricket has a long history in India, dating back to the British colonial era. The British
the 18th century, and it continually gained popularity among the local population. In 1721,
players at Gujarat, in the first known cricket match in Indian history. Cricket arose in popularity
century, it had become an important sport in India. India made its international debut in 1932,
against England at Lord's Cricket Ground in London.
Final at Lord's. This major win put Indian cricket on the map and encouraged a new generation of
players. The Indian cricket team enjoyed a period of consistent excellence throughout the 1990s
development of great players such as Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, and Anil
won big victories both at home and overseas, confirming its position as a strong cricketing
achieved much more success in the twenty-first century. Under Mahendra Singh Dhoni's
in 2007 and the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011, becoming the first host nation to achieve the
India played its first Test match against England in 1932, marking the Indian cricket team's
formal international debut. Colonel C.K. Nayudu, an iconic Indian cricketer at the time, headed
included excellent players such as Lala Amarnath, Syed Wazir Ali, and Mohammad Nissar. As they
experienced and established cricketing nations, the Indian cricket team faced huge challenges at

3. Volleyball
• Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a
net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court
under organized rules.[1] It has been a part of the official program of the Summer
Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the
programmed at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. The adapted version of
volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball.
• The complete set of rules is extensive,[2] but play essentially proceeds as follows:
a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing
it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the
court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court.[3] The receiving team must
not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to
three times to return the ball to the other side of the court, but individual players
may not touch the ball twice consecutively.[3] Typically, the first two touches are
used to set up for an attack.
– causing the ball to touch the ground or floor outside the opponents' court or without first passing
over the net;
– catching and throwing the ball;
– double hit: two consecutive contacts with the ball made by the same player;
– four consecutive contacts with the ball made by the same team;
– net foul: touching the net during play;
– foot fault: the foot crosses over the boundary line when serving or under the net when a front row
player is trying to keep the ball in play.
– The ball is usually played with the hands or arms, but players can legally strike or push (short
contact) the ball with any part of the body.