Nadeem Qureshi

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cricket is abat-and-ball team sport. Many variations exist, with its most popularform played on an oval-shaped outdoor arena known as a cricket field atthe centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard (20.12 m) long pitch thatis the focus of the game. A game (or match) is contested between twoteams of eleven players each. One team bats, and will try to score asmany runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying todismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team.When the batting team has used all its remaining batsmen within theavailable overs, the roles reverse and it is now the fielding team'sturn to bat and try to outscore the opposition.