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GRADE 4 Start Up G.K

44 1. What do you call the players who guard the Test cricket
ball on the cricket field? A test match is the
longest form of cricket.
Cricket is a very popular sport all over the world especially in India. Let us 2. If the umpire raises both arms above the head It is played for five

learn more about the interesting sport. with the index fingers pointing towards the days with breaks in
A cricket match is played between two teams having 11 players each. sky, what does it signal? between. Players of
3. Who stands behind the wickets to guard
Two umpires on the ground and a third umpire off the field controls all the teams wear
the game. the ball? a white dress.
4. If the umpires on the ground are unable to
The pitch is a rectangular strip between the wickets. It is 22 yards long.
take a decision, whom do they consult?
Wickets are made up of three wooden stumps with two wooden bails. One Day International

The game begins with a coin toss and the winning captain chooses to bat or 5. India’s cricket team is dressed in which colour? It is also called ODI.
field. The bowler balls and the batsman hits the ball to score runs. They can It is completed in one
also run between the wickets to score runs. single day. Each team
6. Look at the picture below and write the gets 50 overs to bat. It
The batsman facing the ball is called a striker. The batsman on the other numbers which stand for the following.
end is called non-striker. may be played in day
umpire wicket-keeper or night. Each country’s
When the ball hits the boundary four runs are scored. When the ball goes team wears a different
over the boundary, six runs are scored. pitch non-striker coloured dress.

When a player is out another player from that team takes his place. This batsman wickets
continues till 10 batsmen are out or all overs are completed.
bowler leg umpire T-20 cricket
The team that scores the most runs wins.
This form of the game
1 is very short. Each
8 4 team gets 20 overs to
5 bat. A T-20 game is

3 completed in about
3-4 hours.

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Info-bites
Cricket is more
than 165 year old
sport in India. It
was first played
in India in the
year 1848.

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