Cricket

History of Cricket

Don Bradman had a Test average of 99.94 and an overall first-class average of 95.14,records unmatched by any other player.

The first English touring team on board ship at Liverpool in 1859.

Rules

Cricket bat

Ball

Pitch - rectangular surface in midfield where the bowler and the batsman face each other; it contains two wickets that are 20 m apart.

Batting - the act or skill of

hitting the cricket ball with a

cricket bat to score runs or

prevent the loss of one's

wicket.

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Sachin Tendulkar

batting for India,

coming down the

wicket and hit the

ball for six runs.

Bowling – the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman.

Muttiah Muralitharan bowls to Adam Gilchrist.

Run - the basic unit of scoring;

runs are scored by a batsman.

Key Players

Batsman - one who scores

runs of the balls bowled by

the bowler.

Bowler - one who bowls, and tries to get the batsman "out" (dismissed from the ground).

Fielder – a player who assists

the bowler in achieving his goal,

and prevents the batsman

from scoring runs.

Sachin Tendulker

Ricky Ponting

Brian Lara

Stephen Fleming

Andrew Flintoff