Cricket

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Cricket !
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What is Cricket ?

• Cricket is a sport somewhat similar to baseball.
• Cricket was originated in England.
• Cricket is played in more than 20 countries
  around the world.
• It is mainly played in every continent but South
  America.

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Cricket Ground
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Info about Cricket !

• Cricket ground is oval in shape.
• Cricket is played on the hard surface called the
  pitch, that is in the middle of the ground.
• The pitch is 24 yards long and on the both ends
  of the pitch there are 3 standing sticks called
  the stumps.
• Cricket teams have 11 players.
• In cricket there are 3 umpires.
• There are 2 kind of cricket, test cricket and
  one-day cricket.
• In test cricket 2 teams play for 5 days (10 hours
  everyday). It is very boring. Every day teams
  play 90 overs (540 balls).
• In one-day cricket 2 teams play for 8 hours. It
  is more interesting and fun than the test cricket
  because the runs are made very quickly.

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More Info!

• Cricket match start with the coin toss that
  decides which team is playing first.
• Two player (batsman) start the match.
• Each team have 5 or 6 bowlers.
• If a batsman run from the one end of the pitch to
  the other end that is considered as one run.
• There is a boundary line at the end of the
  ground. If the batsman hit the ball and it
  crosses the line by bouncing on the ground it is
  considered as 4 runs.
• If the ball crosses the boundary line without
  touching the ground it is considered as six runs.
• Each bowler bowls 6 balls at one time and that is
  called an over.
• If the ball hit the stumps that is out.

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Access to Cricket sites.

• Cricketnext.com
• Cricketinfo.com
• Cricket.com
• Cricketline.com
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