CRICKET

Cricket Cricket  is a national sport which is played between two teams of eleven players each who score runs (points) by running between two sets of three small, wooden posts called  wickets . Each of the wickets is at one end of a rectangle of flattened grass called the pitch. Around the pitch is a much larger oval of grass called the cricket ground.There is 30 yard circle between the ground (stadium). The game started in  England  in the 16th century. The earliest definite reference to the sport is in a  court  case of 1598. The court in  Guildford  heard a  coroner , John Derrick, that when he was a scholar at the "Free School at Guildford", fifty years earlier, "he and diverse of his fellows did run and play [on the common land] at cricket and other players". Later, the game spread to countries of the  British Empire  in the 19th and 20th centuries. Today, it is a popular sport in England,  Australia , th...