Cricket Pitch (Batting, Bowling, Fielding)

Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that played between two teams, generally of 11 members each.

In essence, it is single combat, in which an individual batsman does battle against an individual bowler, who has helpers known as fielders. The bowler propels the ball with a straight arm from one end of the 22-yard pitch in an attempt to dismiss the batsman by hitting a target known as the wicket at the other end, or by causing the batsman to hit the ball into the air into a fielder's grasp, or by inducing one of a number of other indiscretions.

In cricket, one team bats trying to score as many runs as possible without being dismissed ("out") while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the other team’s batsmen and limit any runs being scored. When the team that are batting have used all their available overs or have no remaining batsmen, the roles become reversed and it is now the fielding team’s turn to bat and to outscore the opposition.

There are several variations in the length of a game of cricket. In professional cricket this ranges from a limit of 20 overs per side (Limited Overs Cricket) to a game played over 5 days (Test cricket). Depending on the length of the game being played, there are different rules that govern how a game is won, lost, drawn or tied.

The rules of the game are known as the Laws of Cricket. These are maintained by the International Cricket Council (ICC),

Today, the sport is played in more than 100 countries. It is estimated that more than two billion people watched the last Cricket Worldcup.