Introduction

Cricket is known as Gentlemen’s game. Cricket is a bat and ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a roughly circular field, at the center of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. Each team takes it in turn to bat , in which they attempt to accumulate as many runs as possible, while the other team field, attempting to prevent the batting team scoring runs. Teams may bat once or twice each depending upon the format of the game. Cricket has two format test and limited over cricket. Each turn is known as an inning. The game progresses as one member of the fielding team known as the bowl delivers the ball to the batsman down the length of the pitch. The batsman then attempts to strike the ball with his bat so that the ball either reaches the boundary or travels far enough away from a fielder to enable him to run to the other end of the pitch and thus accumulate runs. Each batsman may continue batting until he is dismissed. Once ten batsmen from the batting side have been dismissed, the team is said to be all out and the two teams change roles. A person who plays cricket is called a cricketer.

Three format of cricket

Test cricket: Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the ICC. Currently there are 10 international teams who are playing test cricket with each other. These are England, South Africa, India, Australia, Sri-Lanka, Pakistan, West-Indies, Zimbabwe, New Zealand and Bangladesh. In test cricket there is four innings. Each team plays two innings. As compare to past years its popularity is decreasing day by day. As some people feel it is boring and too long. In test cricket every team wear white cloths.

Limited over cricket: Limited overs cricket, also known as one-day cricket, in which a match is generally completed in one day, whereas test matches can take up to five days to complete. The name reflects the rule that in the match each team bowls a set maximum number of overs, usually between 20 and 50, although shorter and longer forms of limited overs cricket have been played. Important one-day matches, international and domestic, often have two days set aside, the second day being a "reserve" day to allow more chance of the game being completed if a result is not possible on the first day (for instance if play is prevented or interrupted by rain). In this format every team wear coloured cloths.