What is Cricket? | Scoring Runs | Interesting Facts | History | Formats and Cricket

This presentation provides an overview of the game of cricket, including its rules, scoring runs, interesting facts, history, and different formats. It covers topics such as the nature of the game, the cricket ground, wickets, team structure, dismissals, famous cricket personalities, important tournaments, and world cup winners. Whether you're a cricket enthusiast or just curious about the sport, this presentation has all the information you need.

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WHAT IS CRICKET?
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 It is a game that is played by two
teams
 It is played on a large oval shaped
ground with rectangular pitch
present in the middle of the ground
with wickets at each end.
 There are a total of eleven players
in each team (Prabhu & Malcolm,
2015)
 Each team takes the turn of batting
and playing

NATURE OF THE GAME
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 Team game
 Competitive (both the teams
try to win)
 Directly competitive (the
performance of a team can
impact the performance of the
opponent team (Malcolm &
Velija, 2017)

SCORING RUNS
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 Batter has the right of
electing to run after hitting
the ball
 The run is scored every
time the batsman change
the place
 The fly ball hit out of the
field is worth 6; out on a
bounce or roll is 4.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
CRICKET
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 It was Charles Bannerman who scored 165 tat the very
first test century in the match that is played between
England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
in 15-19 March 1887 (Subramaniyaswamy, Logesh &
Indragandhi, 2018).
 W.G. Grace is the first batsman who scored 100 first
class centuries in the year 1895.
 The first ODI Double century was secured by Sachin
Tendulkar against the South Africa at Gwalior in the year
2010.

CONTINUATION
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 Jim Laker win 10 wicket haul against the Australians
team at Old Tafford in the year 1956.
 The first Bowler to take five wicket haul was Billy
Midwinter in the test cricket against Australia in the
year 1877 (Salman, Qaisar & Qamar, 2017).
 The first bowler who took 500 wickets in the whole
history of test cricket was Courtney Walsh.

HISTORY OF CRICKET
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 Cricket was originated in Southern part of England in
the 16th century
 It gradually became the national sport of England
during 18th century
 International matches started beginning during the
mid-19th century
 Cricket is considered to be the second most popular
sports in today (Salman, Qaisar & Qamar, 2017).

FORMATS AND CRICKET
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 Test Cricket
These matches lasts up to five
days
 Twenty20
Limited overs are needed to be
completed in about 3 hours.
(Ahmad et al., 2018)
 Day International
One innings for each of the two
teams.

THE CRICKET GROUND
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WICKETS
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 A wicket consists of 2 bails and
3 stumps
 In every wicket these stumps
are placed in a straight line and
are surmounted by the bails
 The total height of the wickets is
28.5 inches (including the bails)
 The combined width of the
three stumps is 9 inches (Cronin
& Holt, 2017).

BAT, BALL, WICKET,
GLOVES, PADS AND HELMET
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CRICKET MEASUREMENTS
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TEAM STRUCTURE
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 A cricket team comprise of 11 players
 On the basis of their primary skills, the
players are classified as bowler or
batsman.
 A good well-balanced team has 5 to 6
specialist batsmen and 4 to 5
specialist bowlers
 Every team include a specialist wicket-
keeper as of the vitality of fielding
position (Malcolm & Velija, 2017)
 A team is always headed by a captain

CONTINUATION..
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 Captain has the responsibility of
making tactical decisions like
determining the order to battling and
the placements of the fielders
 The players who excel in both the
bowling and batting are known as all-
rounder.
 The players who excel in batting and
wicket keeping is known as batsman
or wicket-keeper (Cronin & Holt,
2017).
 True all-rounders are very rare.

EXTRAS
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DISMISSALS
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 Hit Wicket
 Caught
 Clean bold or bold
 Leg before wicket (lbw)
 Stumped
 Run Out

INNINGS CLOSED
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 Innings is closed when 10 out of 11
batsmen are out (all-out)
 A team has only 1 batsman who can
bat
 The team batting reaches the score
that is required for winning the
match
 A captain declares that the innings is
closed when at least two batsmen
are not out (Prabhu & Parekh, 2015).

NAMES OF FAMOUS CRICKET
PERSONALITIES
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 Brett Lee
 Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
 Mahammed Kaif
 Brian Lara
 Yuvraj Singh
 Mahenra Singh Dhoni
 Virat Kohli
 Nicky Boje
 UnMuckt

IMPORTANT TOURNAMENTS
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 IPL
 World cup ODI
 Try Series
 Champion Trophy
 Ranjhi Torphy
 Border Gavaskar Trophy
 Asia Cup
 World Cup T20

WORLD CUP WINNERS
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REFERENCES:
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 Ahmad, H., Daud, A., Wang, L., Ahmad, I., Hafeez, M., & Yang, Y. (2018). Quantifying team
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 Cronin, M., & Holt, R. (2017). The imperial game in crisis: English cricket and decolonisation.
In British culture and the end of empire. Manchester University Press.
 Malcolm, D., & Velija, P. (2017). Cricket: the quintessential English game?. Routledge.
 Prabhu, S., & Parekh, S. (2015, January). Cricket strategy game: a management game in
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Engineering Field (ICNTE) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
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 Subramaniyaswamy, V., Logesh, R., & Indragandhi, V. (2018). Intelligent sports commentary
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 Velija, P., & Malcolm, D. (2017). Cricket: the quintessential English game?. In Sport and
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