A Brief Introduction to Cricket

 Cricket is a cutting edge sport played between two groups. Each group has eleven players. The game is played on an oval or round molded ground which has a rectangular 22 yard long pitch at the middle. One group bats to score however many runs as would be prudent. The other group stops the run stream by excusing the batsmen. A run is scored when a batsman hits the ball with his bat, hurries to furthest edge of pitch and contacts the wrinkle there without being excused. 

There are three organizations of the game: 

a) Test Cricket 

b) One Day Cricket 

c) Twenty-Twenty 

Test Cricket 

The most established type of cricket is Test Cricket. The sport of cricket really advanced with Test Cricket. Records show that first since forever test match was played among Australia and England in the year 1876-77. The sport of cricket has progressed significantly from that point forward. The standards have changed a ton. A test match is played over a time of five days with each group batting and bowling twice. Greatest over that can be bowled in a day is 90 while there is no restriction on the quantity of over a solitary bowler can bowl. More than 2000 test matches have been played till date. 

There are nine test playing countries which are full individuals from International Cricket Council - The International Cricket Governing body. These individuals are Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies. 

One Day International 

Restricted over cricket was presented in England in the year 1963. Globally, the previously restricted over game was played in the year 1971. One game is played in one day. A bowler can dumbfound a limit of 10's in a game. In 1975, another competition known as World cup appeared. All International Cricket Council individuals accumulated at one spot for a progression of matches against one another. The victors of competition were named as World Champions. 

World cup is played after like clockwork. ICC has directed 10 world cups till date. Australia became support multiple times, West Indies and India twice while Pakistan and Sri Lanka once. The last world cup was held in the year 2011 and was won by India. 

Twenty-Twenty 

The most recent development in the sport of cricket is twenty-twenty. Here, each group plays 20 overs and a bowler can bowl a limit of four overs. First global Twenty-twenty game was played in the year 2005 among Australia and New Zealand. Initial twenty-twenty world cup was held in 2007. The competition is played at regular intervals and twenty-twenty title holders are delegated. 20 worldwide groups have played the game till date. 

Even following 100 years of its reality, the notoriety of game is as yet expanding. An ever increasing number of individuals are taking up this game. It is simply second to Football as far as devotees around the planet and is set to post a test for the top opening very soon.