India's favourite sport

Hi friends ,
I am going to present India's favorite sport, "cricket".
Cricket is played in teams with 11 players. the game was created by the English and in India we have a similar game of cricket called "Gilli". It was created before cricket . It means that they copied some rules from "Gilli" . The objective is taking the highest run (scores) without loosing wickets (losing players) than the other team . most of the team likes to score ''6 runs'' or ''4 runs''(other wise known as boundary) in a ball . in a ground , there are 3 categories : Batsman , Bowler , Fielder . In the picture you see a cricket match between Australia and South Africa , the 2 men with the bat and Helmut are south africa and the other one, who is on the pitch, is the Bowler , and the man with the hat is the umpire

For more details and rules go to :

http://www.webindia123.com/Sports/cricket/rules.htm

Cricket and Cricket

Hi Friends,
I think you all know about football, the first largest played sport in the World, that is no doubt. But you heard about Cricket? That is the second largest played sport in the World after Football.
Read this article to know about Cricket!
-RULES OF CRICKET
There are three types of Cricket matches, Test match which is played for 5 days, One Day International in which a team can bowl 300 balls, and Twenty20 match in which a team can bowl 120 balls. Cricket is played by 22 players in all, 11 players from each team. There are two teams, batting team and bowling team. The winner of the toss will choose to bat or to bowl. . . An over is a group 6 balls. If the batting team lost all their 10 wickets, the bowling team will go to bat, they have to chase the run taken by the other team. A wicket can be fallen in many ways, like bold, catch, run-out, stumped, hit wicket, leg before wicket(lbw).
-CRICKET IN INDIA
Cricket is the famous sport played, watched in India. Cricket is the unannounced indian national sport. Yes, Hockey is the indian national sport, but all Indians' support Cricket. India has a team for Cricket, that team has played cricket since 1932. The first Indian cricket team captain was CK Nayudu, the last was Rahul Dravid, and the present captain is Mahendra Singh Dhoni. There are many famous players in Indian Cricket team, like KapilDev(retired), Sunil Gavaskar(retired), Mohammed Azharuddin(retired), Sourav Ganguly(retired), Anil kumble(retired), Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Virendar Sehwag, MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar called in India, God of Cricket. Yes, he is playing cricket for more than 20 years, he has many unbrokable records, he scored 200 runs in an ODI, he played more than 500 international cricket matches.
Sachin Tendulkar is unforgettable in Cricket history. Indian cricket team is in the top 1st in Test matches and top 2nd in ODI matches. Indian Cricket team has won an International ODI World Cup, and an International T20 World Cup. The team's new records are still going on!

Friends, do you know one more thing, is the 27th October 2010, we, the students of Euro Section 3e played Cricket! It was really funny and great!

meet you soon friends in another article,
your
Bheeshma!

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 ?

Hello friends,
I'm going to talk about cricket which is the most popular sport in India and the Indian team. First of all, the 27th october we (the European section students) were assembled in our school to play cricket which was organised by our English teachers mme François and mme Mathis. The game is quite simple, it is played between two teams of 11 players, first the match is started with a toss and the captain who wins the toss will choose to bat or bowl. The teams which bats first will try to put a big total on the board and after that the other team will try to chase that score within the limited overs. The Indian team, led by M.S Dhoni, has been doing well in the international cricket in the last 3 years: they became the world n01 in test and the world n02 in ODI's and they won the 2007 t20 world cup. Sachin Tendulkar is India's legend player who is the first cricketer in the world to have played 20 years of cricket and he is the first man in the planet to have scored a double hundred in ODI, he has lots of unbreakable records. The other senior players remaining in the test squad are Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman who have some unbelievable records too. But now there are some brillant youngsters like Murali Vijay and Suresh Raina who are growing well.

Hope that they do well in the upcoming 2011 world cup and they become the world n01 in ODI's too.