Cricket birth presentaion basics

Cricket

• Cricket Origin

Origin Of Cricket

• Evidence suggests it was played in England in the 12th-13th century

• In 1744 the London Cricket Club produced what are recognizably the rules of modern cricket

First International Matches

• First official international match: Canada v United States, at New York, September 24-25, 1844

• The first ever test match was held between England and Australia, at Melbourne, from the 15th to the 19th of March, 1877

Some basic stats of Cricket

• There are currently 96 cricket playing nations in the world

• In the U.S., there are 29 established leagues, 500 clubs and over 10,000 players.

The Cricket Field

Some more basics• 11 player per side• 2 batsmen are in

action at a time• 1 bowler bowls• 1 wicket keeper• 9 fielders• 2 umpires• 2 sets of wickets

on each side

Batsman

Bowler

Spin bowling

Fielders

Umpires and Match Referee

Bats, balls and wickets

Other cricketing equipments

Putting all into practice…playing cricket

• Scoring runs

• Making the batsman out and the rest…

Putting all into practice…playing cricket

Very basic rules about cricket

• 6 balls in 1 over

• A bowler can bowl 1 over at a time

• Wides and no balls

Forms of Cricket

• Test Match Cricket - can go up to 5 days

• One day International- about 7 hours

- 50 over match

• 20-20 International - 20 over match

- about 3 hours

Questions??