2. Cricket
Cricket is played with a bat and ball and involves two competing
sides (teams) of 11 players. The field is oval with a rectangular area
in the middle, known as the pitch, that is 22 yards (20.12 metres)
by 10 feet (3.04 metres) wide.
3. Cricket
The bowlers, delivering the ball with a straight arm, try to break (hit) the
wicket with the ball so that the bails fall. This is one of several ways that
the batsman is dismissed, or put out. A bowler delivers six balls at one
wicket (thus completing an “over”), then a different player from his
side bowls six balls to the opposite wicket. The batting side defends its
wicket.
4. Cricket
There are two batsman up at a time, and the batsman being bowled to (the
striker) tries to hit the ball away from the wicket. A hit may be defensive or
offensive. A defensive hit may protect the wicket but leave the batsmen no time
to run to the opposite wicket. In that case the batsmen need not run, and play
will resume with another bowl. If the batsman can make an offensive hit, he
and the second batsman (the nonstriker) at the other wicket change places.
Each time both batsmen can reach the opposite wicket, one run is scored.
