Basics of Cricket
Hey there! Welcome to my first-ever blog. First of all, I am very grateful to have the opportunity to share with you all the sport of cricket. I love cricket and have been passionately following it for as long as I can remember. I thought it would be an enjoyable idea to create an informal document to explain a few simple rules in cricket. The aim is to make a person who has never played or watched the sport understand the rules a little more. Along with this, I will also share a few small anecdotes about the game. The game is played with two sides and each side has 11 players. One side does the batting and another side does the bowling. Before the start of each game, there is a coin toss. The winner of the coin toss decides whether to bat or ball. Here is a picture of a coin toss between India and Pakistan in a championship final in 2017. We don’t speak about that game much in India. You know why 😅😜 The game is normally played on an oval/circular shaped ground with a sm...