LEARN TO PLAY CRICKET

Author: Dr. Deepak Kumar Dogra, Dr. Ajay Kumar Verma

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. There is a 30-yard circle between the ground ( stadium ). They started in England in the 16th game century. The earliest definite reference to the sport is in a court case of 1598. The court in Guildford heard a coroner, John Derrick, that when he was a scholar at the " Free School at Guildford ", fifty years earlier, " he and diverse of his fellows did run and play [ on the common land ] at cricket and other players ". Later, the game spread to countries of the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. Today, it is a popular sport in England, Australia, the Indian subcontinent ( India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh ), South Africa, New Zealand, the West Indies, and several other countries such as Afghanistan, Ireland, Kenya, Scotland, the Netherlands and Zimbabwe.

Contents: History of the Game .. Cricket in India. Rules and Regulations of the Game Fundamental Skills and Techniques of the Game  Measurement of Playfield and Equipments  Important Tournaments and Venues. Sports Awards and Sports Personalities. Glossary of the Game.

ISBN 9789384603489

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495