Health Benefits of Cricket

• Increase Stamina and Endurance: the constant running across the field helps to increase stamina.
• Balance: balance is also something one can improve through this sport because of the utmost concentration required while playing cricket.
• flexibility: learning to move freely is something that comes with practice in cricket, thus imporving on flexibility of an individual.
• Coordination: when catching or throwing the ball, a cricket player improves his hand eye coordination.
• Cardio: Cricket includes a lot of throwing and sprinting across the field, which is a great cardiovascular activity.
• Improved Motor Skills: Bowling, batting and catching the ball require gross motor skills. These are such activities that make the large body muscles to work.
• Social Skills: it's a great way to interact with people and its also a great way to learn to cope with winning or losing. Cricket matches can last several hours, and within that time one must work with the team in a cooperative manner to develop and initiate game strategies and win the match.
• Muscle Toning: like any other sport, cricket also helps with gaining and toning your muscles.
• Physical fitness: all the sprinting and running, which increases your physical activity level.
  

Importance of cricket

Cricket is a thrill both to play the game and to watch it and its importance is no less than any sporting event. The game also ecourages team spirit, fosters discipline, helps build up character and brings out the quality of leadership.

It fosters team-spirit. The game is played between two teams and not between two individuals. The game can be won onl if all the members of the team put all their efforts in once direction.

The game of cricket is also a good specimen of division of work. Every player has a specific job to fullfill. The bowlers are expert in bowling. The batsman makes run with his bat. The wicket-keeper knows well about his job. And, all the players that take to fielding try hard to save runs.

Cricket on the whole improves the feeling of co-operation, to work together in harmony. Professional players earn a lot of money by playing Cricket. Many good players easily get jobs in offices.
Hence, a good player has a fair chance of getting a job in these hard days.

Meaning & introduction to Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a target called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps topped by two bails) at each end. Each phase of play is called an innings during which one team bats, attempting to score as many runs as possible, whilst their opponents field. Depending on the type of match, the teams have one or two innings apiece and, when the first innings ends, the teams swap roles for the next innings. Except in matches which result in a draw, the winning team is the one that scores the most runs, including any extras gained.

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played on a cricket field (see image, right) between two teams of eleven players each. The field is usually circular or oval in shape and the edge of the playing area is marked by a boundary, which may be a fence, part of the stands, a rope, a painted line or a combination of these; the boundary must if possible be marked along its entire length.

In the approximate centre of the field is a rectangular pitch (see image, below) on which a wooden target called a wicket is sited at each end; the wickets are placed 22 yards (20 m) apart. The pitch is a flat surface 3 metres (9.8 ft) wide, with very short grass that tends to be worn away as the game progresses (cricket can also be played on artificial surfaces, notably matting). Each wicket is made of three wooden stumps topped by two bails.