My Favourite Game Cricket Essay

My Favourite Game Cricket Essay
Cricket was the national game of England. It has now become the second national game of Pakistan too, The top six cricket teams of the world at present are Australia, India, Srilanka, New Zealand, England South Africa, Pakistan and West Indeas. The first cricket club in England was hambled which existed till 1825.

This game is placed upon a large piere of levelled ground. Generally, It is played on turf. Batting is done on the pitch. On this pitch stumps are fixed 22 yards aparts. There are 3 stumps on each side. On the top of these stumps are placed two balls.

There are two umpires, one at each set of stumps. There cricket match is played between two teams of eleven players each. Before the play, captains of both teams go to the umpires for toss. The winner of the toss has choice to bat or field first, Six players generally stand on the right or off side of the batsman at long off, cover point, short slip long slip and square mid-on and long-on, The man behind the wicket is called "Wicket keeper". The bowler is the elevanth man. The toss winner captain sends his two opening batsman for batting.

The bowler starts bowling. If his bowl beats the bats man and struck the wicket or if the bats man hits the ball but he is caught, of if he is lef before the wicket or he leaves the crease and the fielder hits the wicket, then he is given out and the other batsman comes in. But if the batsman hits the ball and completes the running in between the wickets, he scores runs. The scorer notes down these runs and the score is displayed on the score board.

Thus when the ten batsmen of each team are out it is called one inning. Generally, two innings are played and the time for test matches in 5 or 6 days. If during this time, two innings are not complete, the match ends in a draw. The team that scores higher wins the match.

The game develops the habit decisiveness, and trains the will and inteilect. It teaches patience, discipline, obedience and co-operatin. It makes the players smart and healthy. 

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