Information And A Little Overview About Cricket

The game known as cricket is not unlike one of the most popular American sports of all time. In fact, people who play cricket often use baseball softball pitching machines to keep their performance up. One cricket player is known to have said he has a batting cage at his home, so cricket players also use batting cages to improve their skills. The game of cricket has been around for centuries and it is popular in plenty of countries around the world as it was brought to different parts of the globe through colonization.

Cricket was first played in England during the the first few years of the 1700s. The game really became popular in England after it officially was known as the national sport. This is the point where the game became more organized when it came to rules and organized teams. By the time England began exploring and colonizing other nations, they were liked to play the sport, so naturally they brought the game with them as the British began to colonize other nations. Because of colonization, the people from England were able to bring the game of cricket to many different parts of the globe. The game is still very popular in pretty much all of the former British colonies.

Each team, is allowed to put on the pitch a total of eleven players. The game is played with two opposing teams and like the American sport, one person pitches or bowls, as it is called in cricket, to the opposition team's hitter. It is similar to the American sport in that the person who bats is attempting to get as many points as possible before getting out. The big difference is that instead of running to the bases, the person who hits the ball is wants to run around something that is called the wicket as many times as possible. The wicket is supposed to stand directly behind the batter, where it is about waist high. There are two ways to play the game in which the game could go on for only a few hours over the course of one day or the game could go on for about five days, again, depending on which way is chosen. For most other parts of the game it is not much different than our "great American pastime" as far as outs are concerned and how the game is actually played.

The game is said to be the second most popular sport in the world only to soccer, which is currently holding the top spot. The better known countries that play the game are India, Australia, Pakistan, and England. Teams from these nations are almost always some of the best in the world.

There are many things that England has contributed to the rest of the globe since they became a huge empire. England had a hand in spreading both soccer and cricket to many nations, which are today, two of the most popular sports on the planet. Cricket is really close to the "great American pastime" when it comes to many of the fundamentals of the game. The history of cricket is extremely rich and the game will most likely continue to grow as cricket is brought to other nations in the future.