Cricket

Cricket is the most popular and favorite game of everyone. We like cricket very much and play in the daily evening in the small playground. It is liked by people of almost all age groups as it is a very interesting and suspicious game. There is no accurate prediction that a particular team would win. At the last moment, any of the teams may win which increases the enthusiasm of everyone. People have their own favorite team which they want to win and see until the game becomes over and they get some result. There become a big crowd of cricket lovers in the stadium and TV rooms to see the cricket whenever any test match, national level or international level competition takes place.

Young boys are highly affected by this game and almost everyone wants to be a good cricketer. Cricket is not an Indian native game however played with lots of enthusiasm and joy. Cricket is played in many countries England, India, Pakistan, Ireland, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, etc. Cricket matches are generally played for five days with one Rest-Day. A cricket match is played with two teams of 11 players in each and the whole test match contains two innings of first innings and second innings. Win and loss in cricket by any team depend on the highest total runs scored by the teams in their two innings. And the team getting maximum runs at the end of the game is declared as the winner of that day’s match.

Cricket is not a simple game however can be learned and practiced on a regular basis by following all the rules and regulations of cricket. There is two main players called one batsman and one bowler at a time and both are changed timely whenever they become out or completed their all number of balls and overs. Before starting the cricket match, a coin is tossed to decide which team would start the batting first. The team who wins the toss starts batting first and the opponent team does bowling however both of the teams get a chance of batting and bowling alternatively. Winning and defeating are two aspects of the cricket game which have made this game most interesting and suspicious. Whenever the batsman through the ball for chaaka and chukka, the whole cricket ground and stadium becomes full of the high tuned sound of the cricket lovers especially when the most favorite team does batting.