Cricket is a bat and ball sport played between two teams, usually of eleven players each. A cricket match is played on a grass field which is roughly oval, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards long, called a pitch.
At each end of the pitch there is a set of stumps drive in the ground with 2 small bails on top of them.
Two teams take turns to bat and bowl. When one team is batting, they try and score as many runs as they can by hitting the ball around an oval field. The other team must get them out by bowling the ball overarm at the stumps, which are at either end of pitch called a wicket. The bowling team can get the batsmen out by hitting the stumps or catching the ball.
Once the batting team is all out, the teams swap over and they then become the bowling side. Each time a team bats it is known as their innings.
Whoever scores the maximum runs wins the match.

Rules To Play Cricket

On a cricket ground at any given time the fielding team have all 11 players on the field but there are only two batsmen of anothe team.
Out of 11 players of the fielding team, 9 players can positioned anywhere around the field and the remaining two of them are the wicketkeeper and the bowler.
The bowler delivers the ball, overarm, at one of the batsmen who will try and hit the ball to score runs.

Scoring

One run is scored each time the batsmen cross and reach the set of stumps at the other end of the pitch.
Four runs can be scored if the ball reaches the perimeter of the field.
Six runs can be scored if the ball crosses the perimeter without bouncing.