Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport. This sport originated in England in the 16th century. This sport is mostly played on an oval-shaped outdoor arena known as a cricket field at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch that is the focus of the game. At each end of the pitch are three stumps and two bails called wickets.
The game is played between two competing teams of eleven players on each side. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible, while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. Batsmen play in pairs, each equipped with a bat, one at each end of the wicket. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the end of an innings.
The length of games can vary in duration of time, and number of balls bowled. Most popular versions of professional cricket games are Twenty20 (20 overs per side),One-day games (50 overs per side) and Test cricket (played over 5 days, with 2 innings per team).
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