How do you play the sport cricket?

Answer 1

Two teams, both with 11 players, who take it in 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. A run is defined as running between either end of a 22-yard area called wicket which is a grassed area .

The other team must get them out by Bowling the ball overarm at the stumps, which are at either end of a 22-yard area called a wicket.

A batsman protects his stumps

A batsman protects his stumps

The bowling team can get the batsmen out by hitting the stumps or catching the ball.

Other ways of getting out

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. Teams can have one or two innings depending on how long there is to play.

The Ashes Test matches are over five days so England and Australia have two innings each to score as many runs as they can.

Whoever scores the most runs wins. But a cricket match can be drawn too.

That happens when the team bowling last fails to get all the batsmen out. But this is only when there are two innings per team.

If there is one innings, the only way a match can be drawn is if the two teams score the same amount of runs.