Cricket Rules & Regulations

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  • Author Lalit Kumar
  • Published August 4, 2011
  • Word count 905

Cricket was brought by the British.The beginning of cricket are very indistinguishable, and many theories have been put onward suggesting its beginning. Cricket was first start by England. in the 16th century. At the end of the 18th century, it is the national sport of England. To play this game there are some rules and regulations have been developed to it. This game managed by the umpire which the main module of this game. Cricket rules are applied on 2 individual teams to play perfect. Every player follows these rules.

Cricket is the most popular game, and played in a big ground, having a oval-shaped field. There are some tools are used to play this sports game that is:- bat, ball, and gloves, pitch, wickets, Bowling, popping, and return creases, Covering the pitch. To play a match there are two teams, each team consisting of a maximum of 11 players to play in ground, compete in one or two innings depending on the time and agreement of the team. An inning will be distinct as both batting and fielding for each playing team. One team goes to the batting side and the other team goes to fielding sides. Two batsmen take the field at one time, one man at each wicket, which are 23 yards apart

During an inning, there is 6 balls in 1 over & 6 balls will be bowled to one wicket, and then the fielding team will bowl six balls to the batsman who playing to save his own wicket and increase the score board. Batsmen are members of the cricket team responsible for scoring a run during a game. The fielding team may change bowlers at the end of overs according to the need.

There is the main member in the cricket is umpire, whose tasked to maintain the game, are the ones to declare if there is an out or a runout. Another function of the umpire is that he can decide when the game will start and when match will stop A batting team may freely end their batting inning at the end of any over. Either team may request that a game can be stop due to light or weather or other special circumstances. The request will be measured by the umpire or decided by Rock-Scissors-Paper Democracy. The team with the most runs at the end wins. An umpire makes the decisions during the course of the game. If an umpire is not available, decisions once again will be made by using Rock-Scissors-Paper democracy.

Scoring and winning

Scoring runs :- For batting team runs are scored by batsman when the two batsmen plays in play ground ,run to each other's end of the pitch. Batsman can make several runs one ball

Boundaries :- Boundary is the line where the ball once touched then batting team will get four runs. if bowler make a wide ball & wicket keeper is not able to caught the ball & ball touched the line then the batting team will get 5 runs extra and that ball not count in over.

The over :- An over keeps 6 balls to bowled without wide balls & no balls. But if a bowler make these then batting team will get 1 extra runs to increase score board.

Dead ball.:- A ball becomes dead ball when all the action from that ball is over. Once the ball is dead, no runs can be scored and no batsmen can be dismissed.

No ball :- A ball become no ball form several reasons. if the bowler bowls from the wrong place or if bowling is unsafe or if the ball bounces more than 2 or if the fielders are standing in illegal places. If these condition occurs then no ball adds one run to the batting team's score

Wide ball:- a ball becomes wide ball when the bowler bowls a bouncer that goes over the head of the batsman. A wide adds one run to the batting team's score,

Ways to get out:-

Bowled :- A batsman out if his wicket is put down by a ball that is delivered by the bowler.

Timed out.:- if a batsman out & an incoming batsman must be ready to face a ball within 3 minutes of the outgoing batsman being dismissed, otherwise the incoming batsman will be out.

Caught:- ball is delivered by the bowler, batsman hits this ball by the bat, and if the fielder caught this ball before the ball bounce then the batsman is out.

RunOut :- At any time while the ball is in play and no part of batsman’s bat, behind the popping crease and his wicket is quite put down by the field side team then the batsman run out or during taking runs if batsman does not reached at the time on crease and his wicket is quite put down by the field side team

Stumped

A batting team player is stumped out when the wicket-keeper puts down the wicket of the batsman that is on crease, he is receiving a ball which is not a No ball and not attempting a run.

Out hit the ball twice :-

The batsman or Striker, on appeal, the batsman shall be out if he Hit the Ball twice or double, after the ball is stopped by any part of his person, If the batsman hits the ball twice in a effort to stop the ball hitting the wicket he is given out.

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