About Cricket | How To Play Cricket
About Cricket | How To Play Cricket Cricket is a popular sport in many countries, particularly England, Australia, India, Pakistan, South Africa, and the West Indies. It is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a circular or oval-shaped field with a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch at the center. The game is played with a hard leather ball and wooden bats. The game's objective is for one team to score more runs than the other team by hitting the ball and running between two sets of wickets, which are three wooden stumps with two bails on top of them. The team that is fielding tries to prevent the other team from scoring runs by bowling the ball and fielding the ball when it is hit. Cricket has different formats, including Test cricket , One Day International (ODI) cricket, and Twenty20 (T20) cricket. Test cricket is the oldest and longest format of the game, played over five days, while ODI cricket is limited to 50 overs per side, and T