Cricket

Even though Cricket is not the national sport of India, it is one of the most popular sports in the country.

Cricket is a bat and ball sport played between two teams of 11 players.

The team who wins the toss must decide whether they bowl or bat first.

A match consists of two innings.

In the first innings,while the team, who is batting, tries to score as many runs as possible, the other team bowls, fields and tries to dismiss the batsmen to restrict the score of the batting team.

In the second one, the side that was bowling takes its turn to bat and tries
to reach the score put on board by the previous batting team.

To score a run, the batsman must hit the ball with his bat, run to the opposite end of the pitch and touch the crease without getting run-out.

There are several ways to dismiss a batsman:

1. BOWLED:the bowler has hit the wicket with the ball

2.CAUGHT:the batsman has hit the ball with his bat and the ball has been caught before it has touched the ground by a member of the fielding side.

3.LBW: the ball must be going on to hit the stumps and must hit the pad of the batsman first.

4.Run-Out: a member of the fielding side has broken or "put down" the wicket with the ball while a batsman was out of his ground.

and many other ways.

There are many lenghts of matches who depends on the number of overs played in an innings: (an over = 6 balls)

The shortest one is the 20 overs match, and the longest one is the Test Match who is played for 5 days. The other format is the 50 overs match.

So far, the Indian Cricket team is doing very well, they are No.1 in Tests, No.3 in ODIs and No.5 in Twenty20s.

The team's captain is M.S.Dhoni , and here are a few majors members of the team:

Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, the legendary: Sachin Tendulkar, Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Yuvraj singh and Harbhajan Singh...

We even played this sport at the lycée:
The 27th October 2010, We, the classes of 4eme and 3eme Section Euro, have played Cricket but not for long because it rained soon after.

And You, what sports do you play there in Hong Kong ?