WHAT IS CRICKET?
 

To start off, cricket is most popular in Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, Kenya,Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe.Cricket is also popular in some other countries not mentioned above.

 

This national sport was first played in England during the 16th century and was later introduced during the time of the British Empire in the 19th and 20th century (so that explained why it’s not quite popular here in the Philippines, hmmm…).

 

Cricket is said to be just like baseball, you see a ball, you hit the ball — with a bat of course . *tongue’s out* This national sport is played between two teams which are composed of 11 members each who are required to score. It is played in a circular field which is called cricket field (well, duhh! Obviously.) This circular field has a strip of a less than an inch of a grass called the pitch. In a pitch there are three wooden sticks called the wicket which are placed in one of the ends of the pitch.

 

As I was researching more about cricket, I learned that there are different levels of cricket. To tell you frankly, I had a hard time understanding cricket that it came to a point that I asked Toshi and Aham - Aham to help me understand it. HAHA *facepalm*

Toshi then told me there are different levels of cricket such as:

 

Club level cricket
National Cricket
International Cricket
 

 Also, Toshi mentioned there are different formats of cricket, some of these formats are:

 

Test match
One Day International (ODI):
Twenty 20
Super 6
Champions Trophy
 

Check out Toshi's awesome blog about cricket and avatars here. 

 

I wanted to explain each of the following I listed above briefly to let you guys know what these things are. But seriously though, I just couldn’t. It is hard for me to explain what these different levels and different formats are all about. I’m sorry for that (boo!!), but — worry not, you can check out Harrrr’s blog about cricket. He explained there the different formats I listed above plus the teams that could play all international cricket formats.

 

 

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