CRICKET

Origins Cricket is one of many games in the "club ball" sphere that basically involve hitting a ball with a hand-held implement; others include baseball (which shares many similarities with cricket, both belonging in the more specific bat-and-ball games category ), golf, hockey, tennis, squash,

 

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a field at the center of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

Equipment: Cricket ball, Cricket bat, Wicket (Stumps, Bails), Protective equipment

First played: 16th century; South-East England

Olympic: (1900 Summer Olympics only)

Team members: 11 players per side (substitutes permitted in some circumstances)