Cricket Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
team sport played with bats and balls
About Cricket
—Dennis Norden, English writer Cricket is played outdoors on a large circular or oval field of mown grass — artificial surfaces are not used. In the centre is a rectangular pitch, mown shorter. At either end of the pitch are wickets 22 yards (20 m) apart — three vertical wooden sticks with two small wooden bails placed on top. The bowler hurls the ball to hit the wicket; the batsman stands in front of the wicket and defends it — ideally by whacking the ball far enough away for him / her to scamper down to the other wicket, swapping positions with the non-striking batsman. This scores a run, and better still if the ball clears the boundary for automatic runs. This means that cricket can only be played in reasonably dry warm conditions — summer or the equivalent dry season. The ball is hard,
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