
Fun Critzket – Cricket! It’s not just a bug that exacerbates the spike that can ruin your crops. It also happens to be England’s national summer sport! Originally from the South East of England, variations of cricket have existed for hundreds of years and, like football, were exported to other parts of the British Empire – such as Australia, South Africa, India and Pakistan – during their reign during their mission to colonize the whole world. Although the British no longer occupy those countries, the influence of cricket continues and the sport is as popular as ever.
Interested in learning some facts and rules about the sport of cricket? Here’s a big lot of them!
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The earliest version of cricket is believed to have started in the early 1200s with country children bowling a ball at a tree stump, or an animal pen gate which consisted of two uprights with a crossbar on top. The gate was called a wicket and the bail was the crossbar. The game of cricket began to evolve from there, with the players choosing to use the wicket instead of the stump because of the way the bail would come off the wicket. The earliest known reference to cricket appears in the records of a legal case in Surrey, South East England in 1597 when this coroner named John Derrick testified that he had played cricket as a child around 1550.
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Bat-and-ball games similar to cricket are mentioned all the way back to the Middle Ages, and there are many written references to cricket specifically through the 1600s. As such there have of course been many cricket matches but according to the people at Britannica the first known official cricket match with 11 players per side took place in Sussex in 1697. The contestants bet 50 guineas on the outcome of the match, which is about $63 USD.
In cricket there are two (2) teams of eleven (11) players in each team. The batting team consists of two (2) players on each side of the field: a striking batsman who faces the bowler and a non-striking batsman.
The purpose of the fielding team in cricket is to limit the number of runs scored by the attackers and get them out – not unlike the defensive fielding team in baseball. Three (3) of these positions are located around the field: The Bowler (sort of like a pitcher in baseball), the Pitcher (a specialist baseball catcher who is located behind the wicket), and the First Slip, which hangs out of the Pitcher’s reach to catch short balls. Often there will be a second slip and a third slip as well. It is generally the captain of the team who decides where the fielders should be positioned throughout the pitch.
The pitch is the rectangular area in the middle of the oval playing surface where cricket matches are played. The pitch is 20.12 meters by 3.04 meters – or 22 meters by 10 feet in America. The pitch has four (4) white lines painted on either side which include two (2) back creases, a bowl crease and a pop crease. The edge of the oval has a border delineating a diameter between 450 and 500 feet. Like baseball fields, there are no uniform dimensions of a cricket field and the diameter can vary.
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Runs are scored when the batsman hits the ball and runs to the other side of the field. At the same time, his batting partner must run in the opposite direction. The team scores runs when both batsmen touch the ground behind the popping crease which is four (4) feet in front of the stumps, either with their body or bat. If the fielding team does not get the ball back and the batsmen return safely, they will score two (2) runs or more. Around the oval pitch is a boundary line. If the ball is hit on the ground beyond the end line, a team scores four (4) runs. If the ball is hit over the finish line in the air, the batting team scores six (6) runs – not unlike the Grand Slam home run in baseball which has more runs.
There are basically three (3) main formats of cricket played around the world: test matches, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 (T20). Matches are played under the rules and regulations governed by the International Cricket Council. Test cricket is the traditional format of the sport, and has been played since 1877. The matches are marathons, and can last up to five (5) days and are a real test of stamina. ODI cricket is a faster style of the game which makes it different in terms of tactics and strategy. The format started in 1971 and by the 1980s it had become a very popular form of cricket. The new kid on the cricket block is T20 cricket, which is short, fast and full of action. While Test matches take up to five days to play, a T20 match can be played in three hours.
A turn occurs when a player from the fielding team bowls six (6) balls to a batsman from the opposing team. The captain of the fielding team gets to choose any of the players from the fielding team to bowl – the only player who cannot bowl is the wicketkeeper. Once the six (6) balls have been bowled, the match referee will shout, “over!” Another ball will then be chosen by the captain to bowl the next six (6) balls. At this point the outside players will change position.
Cricket bowlers often do not start from a standing position when bowling the ball to opposing batsmen. Bowlers tend to take a run of varying distances before releasing the ball. When a bowler runs up, they have to release the ball behind the bowling table, and there are different runs from different types of bowlers. Spin bowlers usually run for a short time, medium bowlers run up from about ten (10) yards. Meanwhile, there are fast bowlers who will take a long run which allows them to build up more speed with the ball.
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A century is quite an important statistic in cricket. The term specifically refers to 100 runs scored within one innings of a game. A batsman aims to score a century as it is a significant personal achievement. A batsman can also score half centuries, double centuries, triple centuries or quadruple centuries. In 1877, Australian batsman Charlie Bannerman scored the first century.
In the 2003 Cricket World Cup, Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar bowled the fastest scoring ball in cricket history. Nicknamed the “Rawalpindi Express,” right-hander Shoaib Akhtar clocked 161.3 kilometers per hour – that’s 100.2 miles per hour – in a match against England.
According to Guinness World Records, England and South Africa played the longest cricket match ever in March 1939 in Durban, South Africa. The match lasted for 12 days and surprisingly the match ended without a winner. Now known as the “Timeless Trial,” the contest ran from March 3 to March 14 and lasted an incredible 43 hours and 16 minutes. During the cricket match a total of 5,447 balls were bowled and the teams combined for 1,981 runs.
Yes! Completely. Women and girls absolutely play cricket, and have done so since before the first recorded women’s cricket match on 26 July 1745. The first known women’s cricket club was the White Heather Club founded in Yorkshire in 1887 and the Original English Lady Cricketers were a professional women’s touring cricket team of the time. The ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup has been held since 1973 and includes ODIs, while the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup is also a big deal. There is even a Team USA Women’s cricket team. Women’s cricket continues to grow, and the Women’s Cricket team has been tirelessly documented.
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No. The only time cricket appeared in the Olympics was at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. There were only two (2) teams competing: Great Britain (which won the gold medal) and France (which consisted mainly of expatriates from England). However, in recent years the International Cricket Council (ICC) has made plans to push for cricket to be included in the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Today, baseball bats are mostly made from maple wood. However, the usual wood of choice for a cricket bat is willow – preferably from trees grown in Suffolk or Essex – because it is shock resistant while also being light. The cricket bat has seen little evolution over the past 200 years and remains largely the same as it was a few centuries ago. The flat blade of the cricket bat is made from a single piece of willow and the handle is made from cane.
As well as a bat, you’ll need a set of high-quality cricket bats and wickets to store in your backyard – preferably something that complies with ICC regulation.