Transcript Cricket

Cricket
By Jeffrey
(Adopted from Wikipedia)
Cricket, the Mote?
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Cricket, the Insect?
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Cricket, the Sport
cricket ball
cricket bat
wicket-keeping gloves
a wicket
The playing field
The pitch
The pitch
Parts of the field
standard
fielding
positions
in cricket
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
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)
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.
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.
Batting
• Batsmen
strike the ball
from the
batting
crease, with
the flat
surface of a
wooden bat.
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
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
Bowling
• A bowler
delivers the
ball toward
the batsmen
• pace bowlers
• spin bowlers
Dismissal of a batsman
• ten ways in which a batsman may be dismissed
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Caught
Bowled
Leg before wicket (lbw)
Run out
Stumped
Hit wicket
Handled the ball
Hit the ball twice
Obstructing the field
Timed out
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
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
Forms of cricket
• Test cricket
• One-day cricket
• Twenty20 Cricket
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
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)
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
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 nonTest-playing nations.
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
Cricket World Cup
• the premier international championship of one
day international men’s 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.
Cricket
World
Cup
ICC member nations