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CRICKET STROKES
Cricket

CRICKET IS A BALL GAME PLAYED by two teams of eleven players on a pitch with two sets
of three stumps (wickets). The bowler bowls the ball down the pitch to the batsman of
the opposing team, who must defend the wicket in front of which he stands. The object
of the game is to score as many runs as possible. Runs can be scored individually by
running the length of the playing strip, or by hitting a ball that lands outside the
boundary (“six”), or that lands inside the boundary but bounces or rolls outside FORWARD BACKWARD
DEFENSIVE DEFENSIVE
(“four”); the opposing team will bowl and field, attempting to dismiss the batsmen.
STROKE STROKE
A batsman can be dismissed in one of several ways: by the bowler hitting the wicket
with the ball (“bowled”); by a fielder catching the ball hit by the batsman before
it touches the ground (“caught”); by the wicket-keeper or another fielder
breaking the wicket while the batsman is attempting a run and is therefore
out of his ground (“stumped” or “run out”); by the batsman breaking
the wicket with his own bat or body (“hit wicket”); by a part of Wicket-keeper
the batsman’s body being hit by a ball that would otherwise
have hit the wicket (“leg before wicket” [“lbw”]). A match
ON-DRIVE OFF-DRIVE
consists of one or two innings and each inning ends when
the tenth batsman of the batting team is out, when a certain
number of overs (a series of six balls bowled) have been Batsman
played, or when the captain of the batting team
“declares” ending the innings voluntarily. Wicket
Bowling
POSSIBLE FIELD POSITIONS FOR AN AWAY SWING crease
BOWLER TO A RIGHT-HANDED BATSMAN (IN RED)
AND OTHER FIELD POSITIONS CRICKET
PITCH PULL HOOK
Long on Long off
Umpire
Bowler
Boundary line 66 ft
Nonstriking (20 m)
Deep
batsman
mid-wicket
Mid-on Extra
cover
Silly
mid-on
Mid-off
Forward
short leg SQUARE CUT LEG GLANCE
Silly
mid-off
Square CRICKET BALL AND WICKET
leg
Cover Seam
Leather
Deep skin
square Point
BALL
leg
Bail
Square-leg Gulley WICKET
umpire
Third man
Batsman
Bowler Stump
Long leg
Second
slip Return
Leg slip
crease
Wicket-keeper First slip
Umpire Nonstriking
Fine leg Sight screen batsman
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