Cricket, Cricketers, Equipments, Cricket rules, Cricket Teams, India, Australia, Pakistan, Srilanka, South Africa,  England, Bangladesh, West indies

Cricket is a game played between two teams. Each team comprises of eleven players. There are three basic forms of cricket. 20 20 cricket ,50 50 Cricket, Test Match Cricket.

                                                  Equipment used in Cricket                                           

                                                            Cricket Ball:                                                   

Hard, cork and string ball, covered with leather. A bit like a baseball (in size and hardness), but the leather covering is thicker and joined in two hemispheres, not in a tennis ball pattern. The seam is thus like an equator, and the stitching is raised slightly. The circumference is between 224 and 229 millimetres (8.81 to 9.00 inches), and the ball weighs between 156 and 163 grams (5.5 to 5.75 ounces). Traditionally the ball is dyed red, with the stitching left white. Nowadays white balls are also used, for visibility in games played at night under artificial lighting.                                           

                                                  Cricket Bat:                                                  

Blade made of willow, flat on one side, humped on the other for strength, attached to a sturdy cane handle. The blade has a maximum width of 108 millimetres (4.25 inches) and the whole bat has a maximum length of 965 millimetres (38 inches).

                                                      Wickets:                                                   

There are two wickets - wooden structures made up of a set of three stumps topped by a pair of bails. These are described below.                                                  

                                                       Stumps:                                                          

These are put over wickets, 2 on 3 wickets,                                                     

                                                        Bails:                                                       

Two wooden pieces which sit  at top the adjacent pairs of stumps

                                    Rules of Cricket

                                                 Hit Wicket:                                                     

If, in attempting to hit a ball or taking off for a first run, the batsman touches wicket. This includes with the bat .

                                            Handle The Ball:                                                    

If a batsman touches the ball with a hand not currently holding the bat, without the permission of the fielding side. This does not include being hit on the hand by a delivery, or any other non-deliberate action.

                                          Obstructing The Field:                                           

If a batsman deliberately interferes with the efforts of fielders to gather the ball

                                                Clean bold                                               

When a batsman is completely beaten by bowlers length and bowl hits the stump

                                                 Catch out                                                   

When a batsman hits the ball and is caught by a fieldsman.                                  

                                       Leg Before Wicket or LBW
 
LBW decisions are complex and often controversial. When bowls hits the batsman
                                         in  line of stumps                                           

                                             Who Wins?                                              
Team which scores more runs and play better cricket .                     

                                              Indian Cricketers

Sachin Tendulkar
Mohd. Azharuddin
M S Dhoni
Dilip Vengaskar
Rahul Dravid
Kris Srikant
Saurav Gangully
Ajay Jadeja
Yuvraj Singh
Kiran More
Mohammad kaif
Munaf Patel
Irfan Pathan
Suresh Raina
Kapil Dev
V V S Laxman
Ashish Nehra
R.P Singh
Venkatesh Prasad
Laxmipathy Balaji
VRV Singh
Sunil Gavaskar
Wasim Jaffer
Zaheer Khan
Sreesanth
Virender Sehwag
Anil Kumble
Gundappa Vishwanath
Gautam Gambhir
Chetan Chauhan
Harbhajan
Bishen Singh Bedi

 

Ajit Agarkar
Mohinder Amarnath

 Manoj Tiwary

 Piyush Chawla

 Murali Kartik

 Robin Utthapa

 Dinesh Karthik   Rohit Sharma

                                     Australian Cricketers

Alan Border
Matthew Hayden
Michael Bevan
Michael Hussey
Andrew Symonds
Ian chappel
Brad Hogg
Justin Langer
Brett Lee
Michael Kasprowicz
Michael Clarke
Simon Katich
Dennis Lillie
Mark Waugh
Adam Gilchrist
Glenn McGrath
Jason Gillespie
Damien Martin

                                          Pakistan Cricketers

Shahid  Afridi

Danish Kaneria

Saeed Anwar

Ijaj Ahmed

Imran Khan

Inzimam Ul Haq

Shoaib Malik

Javed Miandad

Mushtaq Ahmed

Naved Rana

Rameez Raza

Abdul Razzaq

Salman Butt

Mohammad Sami

Saqlain Mustaq

Shabbir Ahmed

Shoaib Akthar Taufeeq Umar

 

                              Misbah Ul haq

                                      South-African Cricketers

A B Devilliers

Gary Kirsten

Mark Boucher

Herschelle Gibbs

Daryll Cullinan

Jacques Kallis

Allan Donald

Lance Klusener

Andre Nel

Shaun Pollock

Ashwell Prince

Jonty Rhodes

Graeme Smith Roger Telemachus

                                     Justin Kemp

                       West Indies Cricketers

Ian Bradshaw

Shiv Naraine Chanderpaul

Corey Collymore

Narsingh Deonaraine

Fidel Edwards

Sir Gary Sobers

Chris Gayle

Michael Holding

Ridely Jacobs

Kalicharan

Brain Lara

Runako Morton

Phil Simmons

Ram Naresh Sarwan

ViV Richards

Courtney Walsh

                         Srilankan Cricketers

Aravinda De Silva

 

Russel Arnold

 

Marvan Attapatu

Upul Chandana

Avishka Guruwardene

Sanath Jayasuriya

Mahela Jayawardene

Romesh Kaluwitharna

Nuwan Kulasekra

Lasith Malinga

Muttiah Muralitharan

Arjuna Ranatunga

Chaminda Vaas

Upul Tharanga

                        Bangladesh Cricketers

Aftab Ahmed
Alok Kapali
Mohammad Ashraful
Khaled Mashud
Habibul Bashar
Mashrafe Mortaza
Nafees Iqbal
Javed Omar
Rajin Saleh
Mohammad Rafique

 

                         England Cricketers

 

Paul Collingwood

 

Michael Artherton

 

Andrew Flintoff

 

David Gower

 

Darren Gough

 

Ashley Giles

Mattew Hoggard

Stephen Harmison 

Michael Vaughan

Naseer Hussain

Monty Panesar

Ian Bell

 

Simon Jones

 

Kevin Peiteirson

Marcus Trescothick

Andrew Strauss

 

                 Stuart Broad England Fast bowler