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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the center of which is a 20-meter (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.Cricket has close historical ties with Australian rules football and many players have competed at top levels in both sports.[1] The Melbourne Football Club was founded the following year, 1858, and several club members codified the first laws of the game.[2]The game's governing body is the International Cricket Council (ICC), which has over 100 members, twelve of which are full members who play Test matches. The game's rules are held in a code called the Laws of Cricket which is owned and maintained by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in London. The sport is followed primarily in the Indian subcontinent, Australasia, the United Kingdom, southern Africa and the West Indies, its globalisation occurring during the expansion of the British Empire and remaining popular into the 21st century.[3] Women's cricket, which is organised and played separately, has also achieved international standard. The most successful side playing international cricket is Australia, having won seven One Day International trophies, including five World Cups, more than any other country and having been the top-rated Test side more than any other country.Cricket is one of many games in the "club ball" sphere that basically involve hitting a ball with a hand-held implement; others include baseball, golf, hockey, tennis, squash, badminton and table tennis.[4] It is believed that cricket originated as a children's game in the south-eastern counties of England, sometime during the medieval period.[5]The first definite reference to cricket being played comes from evidence given at a court case in Guildford on Monday, 17 January 1597 (Julian calendar; equating to 30 January 1598 in the Gregorian calendar). The case concerned ownership of a certain plot of land and the court heard the testimony of a 59-year-old coroner, John Derrick, who gave witness that: "being a scholler in the ffree schoole of Guilford...he and diverse of his fellows did runne and play there at creckett and other plaies".[6][7][8]Derrick's testimony does not explicitly state that the game was known as "cricket" at the time, but it is generally agreed that it was. In 1611, a court case referred to cricket being played on Easter Monday at Chevening, Kent.[9] A 1612 poem attributed to John Taylor makes the earliest reference to the sport being played by children: "We play at cricket, on the green; And when the sun doth shine/We flash our bats and run about the field/We also bat at sun and hide our stumps".[10]The game underwent major development in the 18th century to become England's national sport.[11] Its success was underwritten by the twin necessities of patronage and betting.[12] Cricket was prominent in London as early as 1707 and, in the middle years of the century, large crowds flocked to matches on the Artillery Ground in Finsbury.[13] The single wicket form of the sport attracted huge crowds and wagers to match, its popularity peaking in the 1748 season.[14] Bowling underwent an evolution around 1760 when bowlers began to pitch the ball instead of rolling or skimming it towards the batsman. This caused a revolution in bat design because, to deal with the bouncing ball, it was necessary to introduce the modern straight bat in place of the old "hockey stick" shape.[15][16]The Hambledon Club was founded in the 1760s and, for the next twenty years until the formation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1787, Hambledon was both the game's greatest club and its focal point.[17] MCC quickly became the sport's premier club and the custodian of the Laws of Cricket. New Laws introduced in the latter part of the 18th century included the three stump wicket and leg before wicket (lbw).[18]Between 1787 and 1876, cricket had a presence in every country where the game was not wholly prohibited by the authorities. This was particularly true in England, where the game flourished as a county sport from its earliest days and was prominent in London as a result of the large number of expatriates from the West Indies and other colonies who had made their homes there.[19]The 19th century saw underarm bowling superseded by first roundarm and then overarm bowling. Both developments were controversial.[20] Organisation of the game at county level led to the creation of the county clubs in the late 18th century.[21] The first county clubs began playing in the 1790s, including Sussex in 1839.[22] In the 1820s, a new code of laws was established by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the game's popularity began to spread throughout England and Wales.[23]The inter-war years were dominated by Australia's Don Bradman, statistically the greatest Test batsman of all time.[24] Test cricket continued to expand during the 20th century with the addition of the West Indies (1928), New Zealand (1930) and India (1932) before the Second World War and then Pakistan (1952), Sri Lanka (1982), Zimbabwe (1992), Bangladesh (2000), Ireland and Afghanistan (both 2018) in the post-war period.[5][25] South Africa was banned from international cricket from 1970 to 1992 as part of the apartheid boycott.[26]Cricket entered a new era in 1963 when English counties introduced the limited overs variant.[27] As it was sure to produce a result, limited overs cricket was lucrative and the number of matches increased.[28] The first Limited Overs International was played in 1971 and the governing International Cricket Council (ICC), seeing its potential, staged the first limited overs Cricket World Cup in 1975.[29] In the 21st century, a new limited overs form, Twenty20, made an immediate impact.[30] On 22 June 2017, Afghanistan and Ireland became the 11th and 12th ICC full members, enabling them to play Test cricket.[31][32]Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played on a cricket field (see image, right) between two teams of eleven players each.[33] The field is usually circular or oval in shape and the edge of the playing area is marked by a boundary, which may be a fence, part of the stands, a rope, a painted line or a combination of these; the boundary must if possible be marked along its entire length.[34]The pitch is a flat surface 10 feet (3.05 metres) wide, with very short grass that tends to be worn away as the game progresses (cricket can also be played on artificial surfaces, notably matting). In between the wicket-keeper and the batsman is the pitch tracker, who keeps track of the number of balls bowled, the number of runs scored and, importantly, the number of overs bowled.The game on the field is regulated by the two umpires, one of whom stands behind the wicket at the bowler's end, the other in a position called "square leg" which is about 15–20 metres away from the batsman on strike and a similar distance from the wicket-keeper. The umpires have several responsibilities including adjudication on whether a ball has been correctly bowled (i.e., not a no-ball or a wide); when a run is scored; whether a batsman is out (the fielding side must first appeal to the umpire, usually with the phrase "How's that?" or "Owzat?"); when intervals start and end; and the suitability of the pitch, field and weather for playing the game. During an innings two umpires are on the field, one at each end of the pitch. The umpires are authorised to interrupt or even abandon a match due to circumstances likely to endanger the players, such as a damp pitch or deterioration of the light.[35]The main objective of each team is to score more runs than their opponents but, in some forms of cricket, it is also necessary to dismiss all of the opposition batsmen in their final innings in order to win the match, which would otherwise be drawn.[36] If the team batting last is all out having scored fewer runs than their opponents, they are said to have "lost by n runs" (where n is the difference between the aggregate number of runs scored by the teams). If the team that bats last scores enough runs to win, it is said to have "won by n wickets", where n is the number of wickets left to fall. For example, a team that passes its opponents' total having lost six wickets (i.e., six of their batsmen have been dismissed) have won the match "by four wickets".[37]Cricket is a multi-faceted sport with multiple formats that can effectively be divided into first-class cricket, limited overs cricket and, historically, single wicket cricket. The highest standard is Test cricket (always written with a capital "T") which is in effect the international version of first-class cricket and is restricted to teams representing the twelve countries that are full members of the ICC (see above). Although the term "Test match" was not coined until much later, Test cricket is deemed to have begun with two matches between Australia and England in the 1876–77 Australian season; since 1882, most Test series between England and Australia have been played for a trophy known as The Ashes. The term "first-class", in general usage, is applied to top-level domestic cricket. Test matches are played over five days and first-class over three to four days; in all of these matches, the teams are allotted two innings each and the draw is a valid result.[38]One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket has been played over 50 and 20 overs respectively. The Cricket World Cup, first held in 1975, is a one-day international competition held every four years. It is the world's flagship List A limited overs cricket tournament, and one of the game's most watched sporting events.[39] The first Limited Overs International was played in 1971 and the governing International Cricket Council (ICC), seeing its potential, staged the first Cricket World Cup in 1975.[40] Limited overs cricket has seen various innovations including the use of multi-coloured kits and crease modifications.Test cricket is almost always played as a series of matches between two countries, with all matches in the series taking place in the same country. The number of matches in a series varies from two to six, with the occasional series consisting of as many as eight matches. Matches are played over five days and the first four days are typically allocated for the game's traditional format of first-class cricket, with the final day reserved for Twenty20 cricket. Test matches are the highest level of cricket, with the game's rules and playing conditions having been established by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the game's governing body. The ICC plays a leading role in ensuring that cricket maintains its international appeal, with regular Test series between the top cricketing nations taking place every year.Cricket has had a broad impact on popular culture, both in the Commonwealth of Nations and elsewhere. It has, for example, influenced the lexicon of these nations, especially the English language, with various phrases such as "that's not cricket" (that's unfair), "had a good innings" (lived a long life) and "sticky wicket". "On a sticky wicket" (aka "sticky dog" or "glue pot")[41] is a metaphor[42] used to describe a difficult circumstance. It originated as a term for difficult batting conditions in cricket, caused by a damp and soft pitch.[43]The game's governing body is the International Cricket Council (ICC), which has over 100 members, twelve of which are full members who play Test matches. The game's rules are held in a code called the Laws of Cricket which is owned and maintained by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in London. The sport is followed primarily in the Indian subcontinent, Australasia, the United Kingdom, southern Africa and the West Indies, its globalisation occurring during the expansion of the British Empire and remaining popular into the 21st century.[3] Women's cricket, which is organised and played separately, has also achieved international standard. The most successful side playing international cricket is Australia, having won seven One Day International trophies, including five World Cups, more than any other country and having been the top-rated Test side more than any other country.Cricket is one of many games in the "club ball" sphere that basically involve hitting a ball with a hand-held implement; others include baseball, golf, hockey, tennis, squash, badminton and table tennis.[4] It is believed that cricket originated as a children's game in the south-eastern counties of England, sometime during the medieval period.[5]The first definite reference to cricket being played comes from evidence given at a court case in Guildford on Monday, 17 January 1597 (Julian calendar; equating to 30 January 1598 in the Gregorian calendar). The case concerned ownership of a certain plot of land and the court heard the testimony of a 59-bet 365 cricket rules