Cricket Rules For Newbies

If you’re a newbie into the world of cricket, you’ll then need to gain knowledge regarding certain basis rules first. There are numerous cricket rules that you need to know about this breathtaking game.

It requires 2 teams with eleven players in each team to play a cricket game. One team bats first and another one fields. The batting team’s goal is to score maximum possible runs and the goal of fielding team is to take all wickets of opposing team as soon as possible.

After the end of both innings, the team that stands out with many runs will be declared as winner!

A Cricket Match Beginning

A coin is tossed between captains of two opposing team for deciding who would bat or bowl first.

From 11 players, 2 players from the team batting move towards the pitch to bat. The bowler and fielders of opposing team try their best to remove all these wickets in short time, allowing minimum runs as possible. And there are 4 ways for doing this:

- Bowled –Batsman is declared to be bowled when the ball released from bowler ultimately hits the wickets.

- Caught Out –Caught out is declared when an active batsmen hits the ball up in the air and one among the 11 players (fielders) catches the ball before hitting the ground.

- L.B.W (Leg Before Wicket) –L.B.W is when the ball released from the bowler hits the leg of the batsmen and umpire declared the batsmen out of pitch believing that ball would have strike down the wickets if his leg wouldn’t have been hurdle there.

- Run Out – A batsman have to leave the pitch after being Run Out when he try to run between the each end wickets and the fielding team ultimately break down the wickets before he would reach to other end.

Scoring Runs
For scoring runs, the batsmen should hit the ball straightforward to the boundary. Another way for scoring runs is when both batsmen run in between the wickets.