Basics. cricket is a team sport for two teams of eleven players each. a formal game of cricket can last anything from an afternoon to several days. although the game play and rules are very different, the basic concept of cricket is similar to that of baseball.. Cricket explained from an american viewpoint - part 1 i'll take a stab at this. as an american, perhaps i can explain in a way more easy to understand to fellow yanks. in a cricket match, there are two sides with eleven players each.. Back in the 1970s an enterprising soul in england came up with an amusing explanation of cricket, clearly aimed at the kind of american tourists who buy plastic policemen's helmets and who believe.
Cricket is a sport which is played between two teams of eleven players each who score runs (points) by running between two sets of three small, wooden posts called wickets.each of the wickets is at one end of a rectangle of flattened grass called the pitch. around the pitch is a much larger oval of grass called the cricket ground.. The wicket (or cricket pitch) is also carefully presided over by the groundsman, but once the game begins grass is left to grow and the wicket to deteriorate. thus the conditions for playing change over the five days of a test.. Scoring in cricket matches involves two elements – the number of runs scored and the number of wickets lost by each team. the scorer is someone appointed to record all runs scored, all wickets taken and, where appropriate, the number of overs bowled. in professional games, in compliance with the laws of cricket, two scorers are appointed, most often one provided by each team..
