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PostHeaderIcon T20 – A REVOLUTION IN INTERNATIONAL CRICKET

T20 is a shortest form of game that will be completed within 3-4 hours and many people are interested in watching this game. Because of their hectic schedule people have no time to watch 8 hours or 5 days match. It was introduced by England in the year 2003 and later approved by the international cricket council. The idea was discussed by the England and Wales cricket board. ECB had never thought that the t20 would replace the international cricket and could affect the other formats of cricket.
The t20 has brought profits to the business houses and celebrities who are involved in auction of players and these players could make a huge difference. Past four years it is gaining popularity and slowly action is moving from one day and test cricket to T20. Cheer leaders are attraction to the game and previously women, children dislike watching cricket but T20 cricket has changed it all.
In this game all the batsman try to hit fours and sixes from the first ball they face and crowd enjoy a lot during the fielding restrictions. By looking at this ICC has changed its decision and legalized t20 as international game. It introduced world cup where all the international teams participate in it.
Many retired from international cricket and started t20 cricket because they can earn money at a quick rate. The ICC is trying to divide the 50 over’s game into 2 innings to make people feel like T20 cricket. Many experts opinion is that T20 is destroying the fame of test cricket and reduces the player’s interest to play test cricket.

PostHeaderIcon VARIOUS TERMS RELATED TO CRICKET

Many terms are used in cricket and each player should have an idea about the terms that are involve in cricket. The term are distinguished and are different fort both bowlers and batsman. All these terms are proposed by the ICC (international cricket council) and it updates if any new terms are introduced into the game. It has every right in changing rules and terms that are related to cricket.
Terms related to batsman:
Batting order: it is the place where player gets into ground to bat and it is of top order (1-3), middle order (4-7), and lower order (8-11).
Front foot or back foot: These terms are used when batsman plays a shot by making a forward or back move depending on the release of ball from bowler’s hand.
Straight drive: it is shot where the batsman drives the ball straight and makes it to reach boundary.
Not out: player is declared as “not out” when he stays in ground until innings is completed.
Duck: It is used when the batsman dismissed without making runs and sometimes the term golden duck is used when batsman gets out on the first ball.
Bowler terms:
Fast bowlers: the fast bowlers generally bowl at the speed that crosses 90kmphr. They often make variations like Yorker, leg cutter, off cutter, reverse swing, in swing, out swing.
Seam bowlers: These types of bowler look similar to fast bowlers but they make most use of the pitch to bowl line and length or hit the seam to get rid of batsmen
Maiden over: It is great thing that bowlers try to achieve that is to trouble batsman without giving runs in an over.
Ball tampering: it is an art of changing the ball and its condition to get the unorthodox swing from the ball which confuses batsman.

PostHeaderIcon DIFFERENT FORMATS IN CRICKET

Cricket is not famous in Asian countries but the fame is increasing rapidly in all European countries. Despite of social status every individual in the world can watch and play the game. Cricket is classified in to different types depending upon the hours of play.
Test cricket:
It is a popular kind of game and for five days it is played continuously. The game is played as two innings and each team can bat until they are bowled twice. The probability of game would be wining, losing or end up with tie. It is real form of cricket and most players prefer to play test cricket. The term “follow on” is famous in test cricket .It means that the team which has been bowled out under a certain score that is set by match referee needs to continue to bat. The Ashes trophy that is played by England and Australia is known for rivalry among them. It is held every year.
One –day cricket:
It is generally called as ODI. It is played in two innings and each team has chance of 50 over’s. The 50 over’s is distributed among 5 or 6 skilled bowlers to restrict the team to low score. Each team has special department of bowlers who are specialized and trained for bowling. Some companies like reliance, wills, micromax, nokia etc sponsor a cup and the two teams play for winning the cup. In case if three teams participate then it is tri series and one team is eliminated at initial stage, a final match is played between remaining two teams to announce the winner. For every four years all international teams participate in world cup.

PostHeaderIcon RULES TO PLAY CRICKET

Cricket is an international and globally known game. It is generally played in a circular ground called stadium. Cricket has some strict rules imposed by the ICC (International Cricket Council). The rules are associated to every individual player and complete team. The player and the team which violates the rules are strictly punished under ICC code of offence.
Rules:
• Game starts by player tossing up a coin and the player who wins, select either to bat or bowl.
• It is played by two teams and a team contains 11 players. A chance for substitute is available, if the player in squad gets injured in the match. It has two umpires and one TV umpire who enforces rules and makes decision on the spot.
• Cricket is played on pitch which is made of mud and its dimensions are 22ft long and 10 ft width. The wickets are places on both side of pitch that consist of three stumps, which are 28 inches tall and 9 inches wide with two bails placed on top of them. There will be pitch curator who takes care in making the pitch. The condition of pitch should be good and have even bounce.
• If the ball doesn’t touch the bat and batsman take the run then it is called byes and in case if touches the pad then the runs are considered as leg byes.
• The game has limit of certain overs for every international match the limit is 50 overs, 5 bowlers bowl 10 over’s each and complete the innings

PostHeaderIcon INFORMATION ABOUT CRICKET

Cricket was actually derived from English word crick which means stick or stick pastor. The first match is played between Australia and England in the year 1877 at Melbourne, a famous place in Australia. Cricket is played in various formats generally called international series and domestic series. Most people believe that cricket game was first played between England and Canada in the st George ’s cricket club in the year 1844.

Generally it is played with the help of bat and ball. In present days the cricket bat is paddle shaped and finished of wooden willow. It measures 96 cm long and 10.8 cm wide, it has a handle to hold. A cording to cricket regulations the size of fields in different directions should be of 132 x 152 or 160 x 168. The cricket ball is made of a core of cork with a rope coiled on it and the basic dimensions are 156 and 163 g. cricket is national game of England and Australia.

During 17 Th century the game moved from England and reached North America. The game was actually introduced by America and it has huge popularity today. The oldest stadium is old Trafford in Manchester and it has seating capacity of 22,000. But the world’s largest seating capacity ground is located in Kolkata, the capital city of west Bengal with a capacity of 1, 20,000. The top 10 countries that play international cricket are India, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies and the inventor of game, England. International teams play the game to achieve world cup that is played after four years.