Outline of cricket

A bowler bowling to a batsman.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cricket:

Cricket a bat-and-ball team sport. Many variations exist, with its most popular form played on an oval-shaped outdoor arena known as a cricket field at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard (20.12 m) long pitch that is the focus of the game. A game (or match) is contested between two teams of eleven players each. One team bats, and will try 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. 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.

What type of thing is cricket?

Forms of cricket

Main article: Forms of cricket

Classes of professional cricket

Other forms of cricket

Equipment of the game

Training and practice equipment

Rules of the game

Main article: Laws of cricket

Game play

Cricket, by region

History of cricket

Main article: History of cricket

Professional cricket

International cricket

International cricket teams

  1.  Australia (5 January 1971)
  2.  England (5 January 1971)
  3.  New Zealand (11 February 1973)
  4.  Pakistan (11 February 1973)
  5.  West Indies (5 September 1973)
  6.  India (13 July 1974)
  7.  Sri Lanka (7 June 1975)
  8.  Zimbabwe (9 June 1983)
  9.  Bangladesh (31 March 1986)
  10.  South Africa (10 November 1991)

The ICC temporarily grants ODI status to other teams; at present these are:

Players

See also

Notes

  1. Barclays World of Cricket – 2nd Edition, 1980, Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-216349-7, pp 636–643.

References

External links

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