CONTENTS

1- Acknowledgement 13- Playing Time

2- Cricket 14- Batting
3- History of the Cricket 15- Bowling
4- Derivation of the name “Cricket” 16- Fielding
5- The Playing Ground 17- Run scoring
6- Cricket Ground 18- Dismissal of a Batsman
7- Cricket Bat 19- Forms of Cricket
8- Cricket Ball 20- Test Cricket
9- A Wicket 21- One-Day Cricket
10- A Pitch 22- T-20 Cricket
11- Match Structure 23- World cup list
12- End of an inning 24- Bibliography
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
• I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my
teacher Mr. Shubham Dhingra as well as our principal Mrs. Deepti
Kochak who gave me the golden opportunity to do this wonderful
project on the topic Cricket, which also helped me in doing a lot
of Research and I came to know about so many new things I am
really thankful to them.
Secondly i would also like to thank my parents and friends who
helped me a lot in finalizing this project within the limited time
frame.
CRICKET

SUBMITTED BY- EKAM BEHAR XII

CONFLUENCE WORLD SCHOOL
 HISTORY OF THE
CRICKET
• The first definite reference to the game is found in a 1598 court
case concerning dispute over a school’s ownership of a plot of
land. A 59-year old coroner, John Derrick, testified that he and
his school friends had played creckett on the site fifty years
earlier. The school was the Royal Grammar school Guildford,
and Mr. Derrick’s account proves beyond reasonable doubt that
the game was being played in Surrey in 1550.
 DERIVATION OF THE NAME
OF “CRICKET”
• A number of words are thought
to be possible sources for the
term "cricket". In the earliest
definite reference,it was spelled
creckett. The name may have
been derived from the Middle
Dutch krick(-e), meaning a stick;
or the Old English cricc or cryce
meaning a crutch or staff.
•THE
PLAYING
GROUND
CRICKET GROUND
CRICKET BAT
CRICKET BALL
A WICKET
A PITCH
MATCH STRUCTURE
THE TOSS
The two opposing captains toss a coin before the match.
The captain winning the toss chooses either to bat or bowl first.

THE OVERS
Each innings is divided into overs.
Each consisting of six consecutive legal deliveries bowled by the same bowler.
 END OF AN INNINGS
An inning is completed if
Ten out of eleven batsman are “out” (dismissed)--- the team are all out.
The team has only one batsman left who can bat (the others being incapacitated
either through injury, illness or absence)----again, the team are all out.
The team batting last reaches the score required to win the match.
The predetermined number of overs are bowled (in a one-day match only, usually
50 overs.
A captain declares his team’s innings closed (this does not apply to one-day limited
over matches).
 Playing time
Typically, two innings matches are played over three to five days with at least six
hours of cricket being played each day.
One inning matches are usually played over one day for six hours or more.
There are formal intervals on each day for lunch and tea, and shorter breaks for
drinks, where is necessary.
There is also a short interval between innings.
The game is only played in dry weather.
The game needs to be played in daylight.
Good enough for a batsman to be able to see the ball.
Play is therefore halted during rain (but not usually drizzle) and when there is bad
light.
 BATTING
Batsman strike
the ball from the
batting crease,
with the flat
surface of a
wooden bat.
 BOWLING
A Bowler delivers
the ball towards the
batsman.
Pace Bowlers.
Spin Bowlers.
 FIELDING
Fielders assist the bowlers in
preventing runs.
Either by taking catches to dismiss a
batsman.
Or by intercepting the ball and returning it to
the pitch.
The wicket-keeper is the only fielder
permitted to wear gloves.
A fielder may stop the ball with any part of
their body.
 RUN SCORING
To score a run

A striker must hit the ball and run to the opposite end of the pitch.

While his non-striking partner runs to his end.

To register a run, both runners must touch the ground behind the popping crease with either their bats or their
bodies.

If the striker hits the ball well enough

The batsman may double back to score two or more runs.

Run out

If the fielder knocks the bails of the stumps with the ball.

While no batsman is grounded behind the nearest popping crease.

The nearest batsman is run out.

If the ball goes over the boundary, then four runs are scored, or six if the ball has not bounced.
 DISMISSAL OF A BATSMAN
Ten ways in which a batsman may be dismissed :-
Caught
Bowled
Leg Before Cricket (LBW)
Run Out
Stumped
Hit Wicket
Handled the ball
Hit the ball twice
Obstructing the field
Timed Out
FORMS OF
CRICKET
TEST CRICKET
ODI CRICKET
T-20 CRICKET
 TEST CRICKET
Test cricket is a form of international
cricket.
Test matches are two innings per
side, usually played over five
consecutive days.
Tests that are not finished within the
allotted time are drawn.
Only ten test playing nations.
 ONE-DAY CRICKET
Limited overs matches
also known as one day cricket or instant
cricket.
Due to the growing demands for a shorter and
more dramatic form of cricket to stem the
decline in attendances.
One-day, single-innings, matches.
Limited of each side’s innings to an agreed
number of over (nowadays usually 50).
 T-20 CRICKET
A ‘Twenty20 Game’ consists 20
overs per each side.
Twenty20 World Championship
would be held on an biannual basis.
The first ever Twenty20 World
Championship in south Africa in
September 2007.
ONE DAY WORLD CUP
LIST
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nootan ISC Physical Education class 12.
WIKIPEDIA
Cricbuzz
Cricket 24