Cricket is a bat and ball team game with elaborate laws and traditions, certainly played in England before the end of the sixteenth century and is now the most popular throughout the world. Cricket is a team game played between two teams of eleven players each. It originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular participatory and spectator sport. Cricket is a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean (called the West Indies).
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat and ball team game with elaborate laws and traditions, certainly played in England before the end of the sixteenth century and is now the most popular throughout the world. Cricket is a team game played between two teams of eleven players each. It originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular participatory and spectator sport. Cricket is a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean (called the West Indies).
Cricket is a bat and ball game between the two teams. Each team is having eleven players. A cricket match is played on a grass field, oval in a shape, in the center of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards long called a pitch. At each end of the pitch is a construction of three parallel wooden stakes (known as stumps) driven vertically into the ground, with two small crosspieces (known as bails) laid across the top of them. This wooden structure is called a wicket.The two opposing captains toss a coin before the match, and the captain who wins chooses either to bat or bowl first. The bowler, a player from the team who is doing fielding, hurls a hard, fist-sized, cork-centred, leather-covered ball towards the batsman from the opposite team. The ball usually bounces once before reaching the batsman, a player from the opposing team. In defence of the wicket, the batsman plays the ball with a wooden cricket bat. 
The other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the batted ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman, if he or she does not get out (for example if the bowled ball hits the wicket, or if a fielder catches the ball off the bat before it bounces), may run between the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the non-striker), who has been waiting near the bowler's wicket. Each completed exchange of ends scores one run, and the match is won by the team that scores more runs. tHe main motto of both the teams is to score as many as runs without getting out till the overs are there. The batsmans have to run across the wickets.The game is divided into overs of six (legal) balls. At the end of an over, the batting and bowling ends will be swapped, and the bowler replaced by another member of the fielding side. The two umpires also change positions at this time (the umpire previously at square-leg becomes the bowler's umpire at what is now the bowling end, and vice versa), and the fielding positions are rearranged.
The other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the batted ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman, if he or she does not get out (for example if the bowled ball hits the wicket, or if a fielder catches the ball off the bat before it bounces), may run between the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the non-striker), who has been waiting near the bowler's wicket. Each completed exchange of ends scores one run, and the match is won by the team that scores more runs. tHe main motto of both the teams is to score as many as runs without getting out till the overs are there. The batsmans have to run across the wickets.The game is divided into overs of six (legal) balls. At the end of an over, the batting and bowling ends will be swapped, and the bowler replaced by another member of the fielding side. The two umpires also change positions at this time (the umpire previously at square-leg becomes the bowler's umpire at what is now the bowling end, and vice versa), and the fielding positions are rearranged.
Batsman can be dismissed, when the fielder caught his ball,when the ball hits the stumps at the batsman' end. or When a delivered ball misses the bat and strikes the batsman's leg, pad or body. Batsman can be run out.And there are many other rules on the basis of which batsman can be caught. There are mainly two different types of cricket played. First is Test cricket. And the second one is the one day cricket.Another form of the cricket getting popular today is 20 20 cricket.