Formats of Cricket

 There are three formats of cricket

• Test Cricket ,

• One Day International Cricket

• The new format T20 International Cricket. 

In Test cricket there are two teams having 11 players each play for five days, each team can play two innings in these five days . The first test match recognised in 1877, between England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) , where Australia won by 45 runs.

In ODI cricket there are two teams having 11 players each  play limited overs and in each over there are 6 balls . The Cricket World Cup is played in this format. One Day International matches are also called "Limited Overs Internationals .The first ODI was played  at the Melbourne Cricket Ground  between  Australia and England  on 5 January 1971 .

T20 format is newly developed format of cricket. In this fomat the two teams play a 20 over match . This format is very popular these days . people loves to watch a T20 match. Before T20 matches the worldcup is played in ODI format only but due to it's popularity in  less time worldcup is also played in T20 format .





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Histoty of cricket

Hello everyone my name Amrit Pal Singh. Cricket is my favourite game . It is one of the most interesting games



Cricket was started by England. First international match of cricket was  played in 1844. Cricket was started as a children's games but adult version is started in 17th century. There are three formats of cricket Test cricket, one day international cricket and T20 cricket.
First cricket world cup was held in 1975 in England and the winner of this world cup was West Indies.

 

Nowadays it is a very popular game. Today, Cricket is still a major sport that still attracts players, spectators and even media interest as well . My favourite Team is India because I am from India Also India is the winner of World cup 2011.

Nowadays in India IPL a T20 format of is running . There are 9 teams in IPL. This is 6th Ipl and people are enjoying this very much.

I will Discuss More about Cricket in my next posting.

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