What Exactly Is Indoor Cricket? - TORQ03

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What Exactly Is Indoor Cricket?
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• Indoor cricket is cricket played indoors. But,
  how can cricket be played indoors? Cricket is a
  game that requires a vast field ranging between
  450-500 feet, with a pitch of 20 meters in the
  center. How is the same going to be duplicated in
  an indoor space!? Well, indoor cricket is a
  variation of standard cricket, which was
  developed in Perth, Western Australia, in the
  late 1970s, as a low-cost small version
  cricket, suitable for cricketers and novices
  alike. It is a rectangular artificial-grass
  surfaced court, which is enclosed in a
  tight-tensioned netting, and a 4 meter high
  ceiling. While the field dimension may be smaller
  than the actual cricket ground, the pitch and
  stumps are exactly the same dimensions as
  outdoor cricket.

How is indoor cricket played? The game of indoor
cricket consists of two innings, each inning
lasting for 16 overs. There are 8 players per
side, thus having each fielder bowl 2 overs, and
each pair of batsmen face 4 overs. The ball used
in the game is softer than a regular cricket
ball and runs
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• can be scored in a variety of ways, rather than
  the basic fours, sizes, and runs to be made
  running across the pitch. Such an easy play and
  a small space, with everyone closely associated
  with one another, the game of indoor cricket is
  highly suitable for both adults as well as
  children.
• Advantages of playing indoor cricket
• One of the biggest advantages of indoor cricket
  is that it can be played all the year round,
  regardless of the season and outdoor
  environment. Thus, indoor cricket can be played
  during summers, winters, autumn, spring, and
  monsoon morning, evening, day, and night.
• Indoor cricket helps play without being out in
  the scorching sun one of the biggest concerns
  for parents of little children. Neither do the
  kids have to compromise on not playing when its
  raining heavily outside.
• Indoor cricket is a highly active sport. This is
  because unlike the regular cricket game, fours
  and sixes dont need the ball to be crossing
  hundred yards. It is a small space, making
  run-outs very common. Fielding also becomes one
  of the features of the game, both from a
  players perspective as well as the
• spectators. This makes it very easy for a score
  to be made or a
• wicket to be taken on each ball bowled. This
  makes indoor cricket an active and interesting
  game.
• You can see how indoor cricket can be a sport to
  be enjoyed for fun, as well as taken as an
  opportunity by children to learn the sport. Any
  novice may begin by practicing at an indoor
  cricket stadium, and when they learn the skills
  required for the game, can then shift to the
  actual outdoor cricket game. And, you never know
  when one may become a professional cricketer!
• So, if being a cricket is your dream, you could
  always begin by practicing with indoor cricket.
  Torq03 is the best place for indoor cricket in
  Bangalore, where you can come to practice your
  skills, or play just for fun. Come with your
  friends

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and challenge them for a game of cricket, or come
n have some fun with other strangers who are
looking for a team. In any way, Torq03 is the
place where you can satisfy your urge for playing
cricket all the year round. ALSO READ Learning
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