Gentleman's Game - CRICKET



CRICKET- A Gentleman's Game

Captains of all the Teams

As we all know what is cricket, as ofcourse it is a game and everyone reading this must have played cricket in his or her life atleast once. So, just to make it more interesting I will start by telling you about cricket. Cricket is a game played with a bat and a ball on a large ground/field. It is being played between two teams of 11 players in each team. The main focus in the game is to score more and more runs for the team and to defeat them by making them out or dismiss the opponent batsman when in the field.

Cricket - A Gentleman's Game: As we know that Cricket is a gentlemans game. it is said gentleman's game because this game is being played in a gentlemanly manner. As there is no sledging, cheating, bodyline bowling, temper tantrums or excessive appealing. In a match if any batsman knew that he was out, he should have to walk away even if the umpire decided otherwise.

Helping Opponent 
Giving applause to a cricketer
   
As we know that cricket was once considered as Gentleman's game, but now it is no longer the same. it had been seen many a times that players are sledging to their opponent, arguing with the umpair etc. But still we can see many gentleman's spirit in the matches. So, we still call cricket as a gentleman's game. The players have to abide by the Spirit of the game, which should guide the players conduct. Some of the qualities that make cricket a gentleman's game are: respect for your umpires, opponents, spectators, and the game, fair and honest play.


Origin of Cricket: Cricket was created during Saxon or Norman times by the childrens living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearing in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. In Englandgentlemen were rich people who only used to bat. The poor people were allowed to bowl and field. As we know that cricket was invented in England but we Indians love this game the most. And we can say that each and every Indian have a special connection with this game tough it is the National game of England but still we love this game more than them.

Some of the basic rules to make a batsman out:  

Measurements and field positions
  • Hitting the wicket with the bal when bowling ( bowled out ).
  • Catching a batsman's shot on the full.
  • Hitting the batsman's leg in front of the wicket ( LBW ).
  • Hitting the wickets before the batsman can run to the other end of the pitch.

Filding Positions in Cricket

Different formats in Cricket:

  • Test Cricket: Test Cricket is the longest hours of cricket as it runs for five days. All the players required to wear white t-shirts and white trousers. The field restrictions are quite different compared to limited over matches. A red coloured cricket ball is used in this format. And everyday one team can bowl upto 90 overs. Bowling team has to take all the wickets of the opponent and then get chances of batting or if the batting team wants to declare after scoring a good total then also opponents gets chances of batting and if the opponent beat the score and goes on batting till the last day of the match then they are the winner. And if the second team gets all out during the chase of second innings, then the first team will be declared as winner, else the match is drawn between both teams.
Test Cricket
  • One-Day International Cricket: One day international cricket (ODI) is a limited over format of Cricket. It was introduced in 1980s. And at that time 60 overs were bowled from one side. The dress code was also same as that of test cricket. But now this formats also changes drastically in rules and now only 50 overs were bowled from one side and now there are coloured uniform also. And the red ball was replaced with white ball. If Team A is batting first then they can only bat for 50 overs after that Team B will chase the score of Team A and if Team B succeded in chasing the score then they will be the winner but if they can't chase the score then Team A will be the winner.
One Day International Cricket
  • T20 International Cricket: T20 is the latest and the most succesful format of cricket as it has attracted lot of audiences in the ground to witness the match. In this format cricket became widespread all over the world as most of the countries adapted it. In this each team gets to play 20 overs only as it the shortest formats of the game. If Team A sets a target for Team B in 20 overs then Team B has to has to chase that score of Team A. If Team B succeded in chasing then team B is the clear winner but if Team B is not able to Chase then Team A is the winner.
T20 International Cricket

Some of the most popular Cricketers in the World:

  1. Sachin Tendulkar  (India)                                                  
  2. Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)
  3. Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka)
  4. Chris Gayle (West Indies)
  5. Brian Lara (West Indies)
  6. Wasim Akram (Pakistan)
  7. M.S.Dhoni (India)
  8. Shoaib Akhtar (Pakistan)
  9. Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)
  10. Brett Lee (Australia)
  11. Yuvraj Singh (India)
  12. Rahul Dravid (India)
  13. Virender Sehwag (India)
  14. Rickey Pointing (Australia)
  15. AB de Villiers (South Africa)
  16. Sourav Ganguly (India)
  17. Kapil Dev (India)
  18. Adam Gilchrist (Australia)
  19. Sunil Gavaskar (India)
  20. Anil kumble (India)                  etc..... etc.....   and many more......

Sachin Tendulkar: For every Indian cricketer as well as every youngester Sachin Tendulkar is like God of Cricket. They gets motivated by Sachin Tendulkar. He was an Indian previously International cricketer and was a former captain of the Indian national team. Till now he is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of Indian cricket. He is the heighest run scorer of all time in International cricket. He was awarded as Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Shri, Wisdom Cricketers of the Year, and many more awards.

Sachin Tendulkar (India)


 M.S.Dhoni: For all Indians he is known as Mahi or Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian International Cricketer who has captained the Indian national team in limited overs format from 2007-2016 and in Test cricket from 2008-2014. From all other captains he was the only captain in the history of cricket to win all ICC trophies. After Sachin Tendulkar, Movitation for every Indian is M.S.Dhoni, he is loved by all. And he is one of the great cricketer India has till date after Sachin Tendulkar. Most of the people watch cricket matches only because of M.S.Dhoni. He also has many acheivements as well as many awards which are Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, ICC ODI Player of the Year, ICC Award for Spirit of Cricket, MTV Youth Icon of the Year and many more. He is one of the most loved Cricketer in the history of Cricket.

M.S.Dhoni (acheivements & trophies) (India)


Earlier there were no place to see matches online, there were no such facilities but now people can      see matches online on hotstar ( https://www.hotstar.com/in/sports ) and many other apps. We can also   chat with other peolple while watching the match. We can also watch the match in ICC cricket website( https://www.icc-cricket.com/ ) where we can see live matches, fixtures, events etc. So, we people are very luckey to watch matches anywhere and anytime. Now a days people are mad about cricket, they love cricket so much that they pays a lot of money and go to watch the matche live. As the craze of cricket fans are much more than any other sports. This is why it is the most loved sports in India.

If you want to know more about Sachin Tendulkar you can directly go to his wikipedia page by this link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar

Also if you want to know about M.S.Dhoni you can go to his wikipedia page from here -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Dhoni

Like this if you want to know more about different cricketers you can go to their wikipedia pages.



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