⚡️Mia San Mia⚡️

Hey everyone! As we all may know, the cricket world cup has started yesterday. Some of you have been asking, ‘Ali how is this game being played I can’t understand it?’ No problem fellas! :) here are the rules:

Each team consists of 11 players. These eleven players will have varying roles in the team from batsmen, bowlers, fielders and wicket keepers. 

It is usually played on a circular grass field, though it can be played in bare sand. Around the edge of the field is what’s known as the boundary edge and is basically the line between being in play and out of play.

In the centre of the pitch will be the wicket. The wicket will have two sets of three stumps at either end and they must be 22 yards apart. At each end of the wicket is known as the crease and a line is drawn about 2 yards across the wicket from the stumps. The bowler will bowl the cricket ball from one end whilst the batsmen will try and hit the ball from the other end.

A run occurs when a batsman hits the ball with their bat and the two batsmen at the wicket manage to successfully run to the other end each time, counting as a ‘run.’ The batsmen can run as many times as they like from one end to another, scoring one run each time, though they must get back to the crease with their bat before the fielder throws the ball to the bowler or directly at the stumps, otherwise he/she is out.

If the ball crosses the boundary rope after it has bounced at least once from leaving the bat then 4 runs are given. If the ball goes over the boundary rope without bouncing then 6 runs are awarded to the batting team.  

Runs can also be scored when the bowler bowls a wide delivery (a ball that is too far away from the stumps), a no ball (where the bowler oversteps the front line on the wicket while bowling the ball), a bye (where no one touches the ball after the ball is delivered but the two batsmen run anyway) and a leg bye (where the ball hits the batsmen’s leg or body and a run is taken).

One team will bat first and one team will field first. The batting team will try and score as many runs as possible in the allotted time whilst the bowling team will try and contain them by fielding the ball. The teams then swap and the second team batting will try and outscore the runs their opponents scored first. All of it is counted in a cumulative process. If they fail they lose, if they succeed they win.

The bowler must bowl 6 legal deliveries to constitute an over.

A batsmen can be given out by either being bowled (the ball hitting their stumps), caught (fielder catches the ball without it bouncing), Leg Before Wicket (the ball hits the batsmen’s pads impeding its line into the stumps), stumped (the wicket keeper strikes the stumps with their gloves whilst the batsmen is outside of their crease with ball in hand), hit wicket (the batsmen hits their own stumps), Handled ball (the batsmen handles the cricket ball on purpose), timed out (the player fails to reach the crease within 30 seconds of the previous batsmen leaving the field), hit ball twice (batsmen hits the cricket ball twice with their bat deliberately) and obstruction (the batsmen purposely prevents the fielder from getting the ball).

The fielding team must have one designated wicket keeper who is the only person allow to wear pads and gloves on the field. The wicket keeper stands behind the opposite end to the bowler to catch the ball.

One Day cricket in played with 50 overs. Each team has 50 overs to bat and bowl before swapping and doing the previous discipline. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins. The World Cup is set to 50 overs per innings of the game, totalling to 100 for the day. 

In case of bad weather, overs may be reduced depending on the amount of time play was called off. If there are insufficient overs left, the game will be abandoned due to bad weather and there is no winner. 

However, runs may be calculated using a system to which a new target may be in order. For example, should the match between Pakistan and the West Indies (Caribbean Islands) have reached halfway and the team batting second had rain occurring, then depending on whether the rain stops a new target will be set. So if Pakistan was chasing 290 in 50 overs and the match was then reduced to say 30, then Pakistan will then have to chase 170 in 30 overs and they restart from where they left off.

However, if there were still insufficient amount of overs for a certain period of time in which they cannot go on, the game will be called off but depending on how fast Pakistan chased the total for example, they will deem them the winner, or lose if they were too slow to chase, in case if they were on par to reach the total of the team batting first.