What is cricket?
Q: What is cricket?
A: Cricket is a sport which is played between two teams of eleven players each. One team, which is batting, tries to score runs while the other team fields and tries to prevent this.
Q: How are runs scored in cricket?
A: Runs are scored by hitting the ball, which is thrown by a player from the fielding team to a player from the batting team, across the boundary or by the two batting players running back-and-forth between the two wickets.
Q: What are wickets?
A: Wickets are sets of three small wooden posts that are at each end of a rectangle of short grass called 'the pitch', which is 22 yards long.
Q: Where does cricket take place?
A: The pitch is inside a much larger oval of grass called the 'area of play'. The area of play is a 30 yard circle inside the cricket ground or stadium.
Q: How can players be "out" in cricket?
A: The fielding team can attempt to get batting players "out" in a number of ways such as catching them out or bowling them out. When a player is out, their teammate will replace them in the field.
Q: When did cricket become popular?
A: Cricket started to gain popularity in England in 16th century with an earliest definite reference being heard in 1598 during John Derrick's court case about playing on common land 50 years prior. Later it spread throughout countries within British Empire during 19th and 20th centuries and today it remains popular worldwide.
