In one-day cricket, an innings is of 50 consecutive overs that lasts for 210 minutes (Three and a half hours). The batsmen are entrusted the task of scoring runs with the bat.īowlers bowl – hurl the ball to the batsmen by bouncing the ball before them.īowlers, by bowling intelligently, have to try and reduce the runs scored by the batsmen, with the aid of fielders.Įach innings is divided into overs – an over consists of six consecutive deliveries bowled by the same bowler. That is currently bowling takes up the role of a wicket-keeper – a highly specialised fielding position. A balanced team usually has five or six specialist batsmen and four or five specialist bowlers.Ī player who excels equally in both fields is known as an all-rounder. Depending on his primary skills, a playerĬan be classified as a specialist batsman or bowler. Result is a draw in Test cricket, or no-result ( N/R) in an ODIĮach team consists of eleven players. Innings cannot be completed before the allotted time for the match expires, the If both teams have scored the exact number of runs, the match is a tie. Winner is declared after totalling the net runs scored by the two teams in their two batting innings. In Twenty20 and ODI matches,Īfter the completion of both innings, the team that scored the most runs isĭeclared the winner. Test cricket consists of two innings per team, played over five days while ODI and Twenty20 consist of a single innings per team. The bowling team tries to limit the runs scoredīy the batting team and at the same time to get the opposition players out – dismiss them, so that they cannot bat further in the innings. The team which is batting aims to score runs, either to set a total or chase a target set by the opposition.
The use of the word innings will henceforth only refer to a team's batting innings. International cricket matches are some of the most widely watched matches in the world after football (soccer) commanding a viewership of over a billion.Īlways in the plural form and when referring to "a team's innings," it refers that particular team's turn to bat, i.e. The Twenty20 format is a relatively new version, introduced in 2004. There are three main forms of cricket played at the international level – Test cricket, One-day international ( ODI), and ( 25.25 55.3 ) The laws of cricket are set by the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC) in London, United Kingdom. Headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Today, cricket is administered by the International Cricket Council ( ICC) Cricket originated inĮngland in the 1300s and became a mainstream sport four hundred years later. Is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. The game, sometimes referred to as the "gentleman's game", Cricket is a team sport played with bat and ball, in an open ground, between two
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