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The Cricket
What is the cricket, cricket is played between two teams, 11 players each side,
and gives the maximum chance for combining team effort with individual skill and
initiative. Each team bats, or takes its innings, in turn the choice for first
innings is by toss. The game is played on a pitch on which two wickets are placed
22 yards (20.12 m) apart, this distance can be reduced for children.


The two bats men defend the wickets against the bowling of the fielding side,
and when a bats man is 'out' someone else come on his place, and so on until ten
bats men are out or until the innings has been declared closed. A bowler from the
other side bowls an over of 6 balls from one end to the other bats man defending
his wicket, and aims to dismiss him in one of the ways provided for in the Laws.


The more used methods of dismissing a bats man are the bowling straight on the striker's wicket, catching him from a stroke, his being Leg before wicket,stumping by the wicket keeper when he has gone out of his ground, and by either bats man being run out.

Overs are bowled successively from alternate ends. No bowler can bowl two overs in succession,but otherwise the captain of the fielding side can change his bowling as he thinks it should do good to him. The score is reckoned by 'runs', i.e. the number of times the bats men run from one end to another of the area between the 'popping crease' at each end of the pitch.

Runs are usually the result of hits, but can be scored when the ball has not actually been hit by the striker, e.g. 'Byes' and 'Leg byes', or as penalties for 'Wides' and 'No balls'. The fielding side has the twofold object of dismissing the opposing bats men and of preventing them from scoring runs. When the first team has finished its innings, the other team starts its own. A match could consist of one or two innings by one side. The side scoring the largest aggregate of runs
in the match wins. If the match is not played out to a finish, it is regarded as drawn.

The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status.The Indian cricket team is currently ranked first (as of 21 March 2010) by the ICC in Tests
and second (as of 21 March 2010) in ODIs.[3] As of March 2010, the Indian team has played 437 Test matches, winning 104, losing 137 and drawing 195 of its games, with 1match ending in a tie.[4] India has a relatively better record in One Day Internationals, winning over 50% of matches played. Currently, Gary Kirsten is the head coach while Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the captain in all forms of the game.[5] Under the leadership of Dhoni, the Indian team has set a national record for most back-to-back ODI wins (9 straight wins)[6] and has emerged as one of the most formidable teams in international cricket.

Although cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th-century and the first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in 1792, India's national cricket team didn't play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's. They became the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status.In their first fifty years of international cricket, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 test matches.

The team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Mohammed Azharuddin and the Indian spin quartet. Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, the Indian team has improved its overseas form since the start of the 21st century. It won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and was runners-up in 2003 under Sourav Ganguly. It also won the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007. The current team contains many of the world's leading players, including Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid who hold numerous cricketing world records.