Cricket is a popular bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 11 players each. The objective is for the batting team to score more runs than the opposing team by hitting the ball and running between wickets or to the boundary. Teams take turns batting and fielding, with the fielding team trying to get batters out by various means like bowling and catching, while different match formats include Tests, ODIs, and T20s played over 5 days, 50 overs, and 20 overs respectively.