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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field with wickets at either end, involving batting, bowling, and fielding. The pitch is 22 yards long, and the batting team scores runs by hitting the ball and running between the wickets without their wickets being broken by the ball. There are different formats of cricket including Test matches over 5 days and Twenty20 matches with each team batting for one 20 over innings. The international governing body is the ICC, with over 100 member countries and 12 full members playing Test cricket.

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Cricket 5

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field with wickets at either end, involving batting, bowling, and fielding. The pitch is 22 yards long, and the batting team scores runs by hitting the ball and running between the wickets without their wickets being broken by the ball. There are different formats of cricket including Test matches over 5 days and Twenty20 matches with each team batting for one 20 over innings. The international governing body is the ICC, with over 100 member countries and 12 full members playing Test cricket.

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A field with wickets at either end made of two bails balanced on three stumps is used for the bat-

and-ball game of cricket, which is played between two teams of eleven players. The pitch is 22 yards
long (20 metres). By preventing the ball from leaving the field and reaching either wicket, the
bowling and fielding side attempts to prevent this from happening and dismisses each batter. After
hitting a ball that has been thrown at one of the wickets with a bat and sprinting between the
wickets, the batting side scores runs (so they are "out"). A player can be dismissed in a number of
different ways, including by being bowled, having the ball strike the stumps and remove the bails,
having the ball caught by the fielding side after being struck by the bat but before it hits the ground,
or having the ball strike a wicket before the batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. After
retiring 10 consecutive batters, an inning is declared complete, and the teams trade places. In
international matches, in addition to the two umpires who make the ultimate determinations, a
third umpire and match referee are also present. Two off-field scorers who monitor the game's
statistics are in communication with them.

In Twenty20, each team bats for a single innings of 20 overs (each "over" is a set of six fair chances
for the batting team to score), while Test matches are played over five days. Players don club or
team colours instead of the traditional all-white outfit when playing limited overs cricket. Players
should wear protective equipment in addition to their regular equipment since the ball, a solid, hard
spheroid made of compressed leather with a slightly raised stitched seam encircling a cork core
wrapped in tightly coiled thread, can hurt them.

At the middle of the 16th century, South East England was where cricket was first mentioned. In the
later part of the 19th century, when the first international games were played, they spread
throughout the world alongside the expansion of the British Empire. The body in charge of regulating
the sport is the International Cricket Council (ICC), which has more than 100 members and 12 full
members who take part in Test matches. The Rules of Cricket, which regulate the game, are upheld
by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in London. The countries with the most popularity for the
sport are South Asia, Australasia, the UK, Southern Africa, and the West Indies. 

Women's cricket, a sport that is openly organised and practised, has also advanced to a high level on
the global scene. Australia is the most successful international cricket team, having won more Test
series triumphs than any other country and more One Day International trophies, including five
World Cups.

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