Cricket

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Cricket

• By Jeffrey
• (Adopted from Wikipedia)

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Cricket, the Mote?

• Nice Try!

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Cricket, the Insect?

• Sorry, wrong again!

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Cricket, the Sport
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cricket ball
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cricket bat
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wicket-keeping gloves
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a wicket
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The playing field
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The pitch
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The pitch
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Parts of the field
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standard fielding positions in cricket
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Match structure

• The toss
• The two opposing captains toss a coin before the
  match
• the captain winning the toss chooses either to
  bat or bowl first
• Overs
• Each innings is divided into overs
• each consisting of six consecutive legal
  deliveries bowled by the same bowler

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Match structure

• End of an innings
• An innings is completed if
• Ten out of eleven batsmen are 'out' (dismissed) 
  the team are all out.
• The team has only one batsman left who can bat
  (the others being incapacitated either through
  injury, illness or absence)  again, the team are
  all out.
• The team batting last reaches the score required
  to win the match.
• The predetermined number of overs are bowled (in
  a one-day match only, usually 50 overs).
• A captain declares his team's innings closed
  (this does not apply to one-day limited over
  matches)

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Match structure

• Playing time
• Typically, two innings matches are played over
  three to five days with at least six hours of
  cricket being played each day.
• One innings matches are usually played over one
  day for six hours or more.
• There are formal intervals on each day for lunch
  and tea, and shorter breaks for drinks, where
  necessary.
• There is also a short interval between innings.

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Playing time

• The game is only played in dry weather.
• the game needs to be played in daylight
• good enough for a batsman to be able to see the
  ball
• Play is therefore halted during rain (but not
  usually drizzle) and when there is bad light.

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Batting

• Batsmen strike the ball from the batting crease,
  with the flat surface of a wooden bat.

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Run scoring

• To score a run
• a striker must hit the ball and run to the
  opposite end of the pitch
• while his non-striking partner runs to his end
• To register a run, both runners must touch the
  ground behind the popping crease with either
  their bats or their bodies
• If the striker hits the ball well enough
• the batsmen may double back to score two or more
  runs

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Run scoring

• run out
• If a fielder knocks the bails off the stumps with
  the ball
• while no batsman is grounded behind the nearest
  popping crease
• the nearest batsman is run out
• If the ball goes over the boundary, then four
  runs are scored, or six if the ball has not
  bounced

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Bowling

• A bowler delivers the ball toward the batsmen
• pace bowlers
• spin bowlers

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Dismissal of a batsman

• ten ways in which a batsman may be dismissed
• Caught
• Bowled
• Leg before wicket (lbw)
• Run out
• Stumped
• Hit wicket
• Handled the ball
• Hit the ball twice
• Obstructing the field
• Timed out

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Fielding

• Fielders assist the bowlers in preventing runs
• either by taking catches to dismiss a batsman
• or by intercepting the ball and returning it to
  the pitch
• The wicket-keeper is the only fielder permitted
  to wear gloves
• A fielder may stop the ball with any part of
  their body

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wicket-keeper

• a specialist fielder who stands behind the
  batsman's wicket throughout the game.
• to gather deliveries that the batsman fails to
  hit
• to prevent them running into the outfield
• which would enable batsmen to score byes

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Forms of cricket

• Test cricket
• One-day cricket
• Twenty20 Cricket

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Test cricket

• Test cricket is a form of international cricket
• Test matches are two innings per side, usually
  played over five consecutive days
• Tests that are not finished within the allotted
  time are drawn
• Only ten test playing nations

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One-day cricket

• Limited overs matches
• also known as one day cricket or instant cricket
• due to the growing demands for a shorter and more
  dramatic form of cricket to stem the decline in
  attendances
• One-day, single-innings, matches
• limiting of each side's innings to an agreed
  number of overs (nowadays usually 50)

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Twenty20 Cricket

• A "Twenty20 Game" consists 20 overs per each side
• Twenty20 World Championship would be held on an
  biannual basis
• the first ever Twenty20 World Championship in
  South Africa in September 2007

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International structure

• The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the
  international governing body for cricket
• It is headquartered in Dubai
• It includes representatives of each of the ten
  Test-playing nations
• as well as an elected panel representing
  non-Test-playing nations.

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three tiers

• highest level
• Test-playing nations
• They qualify automatically for the quadrennial
  World Cup matches
• A rung lower
• Associate Member nations
• The lowermost rung
• Affiliate Member nations

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Cricket World Cup

• the premier international championship of one day
  international mens national cricket teams
• A Women's Cricket World Cup is also held every
  four years
• The most recent Cricket World Cup was held
  between 9 February and 24 March 2003, in Southern
  Africa
• where Australia were crowned champions after
  beating India by 125 runs
• The next tournament will be held in the West
  Indies in 2007 and will consist of 16 teams.

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Cricket World Cup
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ICC member nations