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Cricket A cricket match in progress Cricket is a team sport involving a bat and ball played between two teams of eleven players each. The objective is to score more runs than the opposing team. A match is divided into innings during which one team bats, two batsmen at a time, and the other team bowls. Cricket 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, and it is also 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). (more...) Categories Origins · Competitions · Players · Umpires · Laws · Countries · Limited Overs · Venues · Records · Teams · Writers · Other  Test match nations Australia · Bangladesh · England · India · New Zealand · Pakistan · South Africa · Sri Lanka · West Indies · Zimbabwe ODI (one day international) nations Bermuda · Canada · Ireland · Kenya · Scotland · The Netherlands History of cricket The early years of the game · The "Hambledon Era" · Gentlemen v Players · The Ashes · History of Test cricket (1890 to 1900) · Bodyline Famous venues Adelaide Oval · Artillery Ground · Basin Reserve · Brisbane Cricket Ground · Broadhalfpenny Down · Carisbrook · Eden Gardens · Headingley Stadium · Lord's Cricket Ground · Melbourne Cricket Ground · The Oval · Sydney Cricket Ground · Trent Bridge · WACA Ground Iconic cricketers Don Bradman · Bhagwat Chandrasekhar · Denis Compton · Kapil Dev · Rahul Dravid · C B Fry · Sunil Gavaskar · W G Grace · Richard Hadlee · Walter Hammond · Jack Hobbs · Len Hutton · Imran Khan · Wasim Akram · Malcolm Marshall · Muttiah Muralitharan · Graeme Pollock · Dennis Lillee · K S Ranjitsinhji · Wilfred Rhodes · Garfield Sobers · Fred Spofforth · Sachin Tendulkar · Victor Trumper · Waqar Younis · Shane Warne Glossary Dismissal · Extra · Fast bowling · International structure of cricket · Laws of cricket · One-day International · Over · Result · Roundarm bowling · Scoring · Spin bowling · Test · Wicket Quiz A quiz to test and improve your general knowledge of cricket is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Quiz. Feel free to join in.

Featured articles The Ashes is a biennial Test cricket contest played between England and Australia. The Ashes is one of cricket's fiercest and most celebrated rivalries, and certainly the oldest such in international cricket, dating back to 1882. The 2005 Ashes series was played in England, and was won by England. Australia had held the Ashes for 16 years prior to that. The next Ashes series will be in Australia in 2006-07; the next series in England will be in 2009. The series is named after a satirical obituary published in The Sporting Times in 1882 following the match at The Oval, in which Australia beat England in England for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died (more...) Other featured articles: A. E. J. Collins – Bodyline – Brian Close – History of Test cricket (to 1883) – History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889) – Sydney Riot of 1879 Featured lists Asian XI ODI cricketers · Australian captains · Australian Twenty20 International cricketers · Bangladeshi captains · Cricket terms · English captains · English Twenty20 International cricketers · Hong Kong ODI cricketers · Indian captains · Namibian ODI  cricketers · New Zealand captains · ODI records · Scottish ODI cricketers · Test cricket grounds by date · Test records · Test hat-tricks · Test triple centuries · World XI ODI cricketers · Wisden Cricketers of the Year · Zimbabwean captains You Can Contribute Too Wikipedia's maxim is that anyone can edit. If you are interested in cricket and have useful information that would form a new article or would enhance an existing article, please feel free to take part. See category:Cricket and category:History of cricket for guidance about where to find existing material or where to store new articles. There is much to be done and new contributions are most welcome. Tournaments and trophies Cricket World Cup · Asia Cup · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · Chappell-Hadlee Trophy · County Championship · ICC ODI Championship · ICC Test Championship · National League · Pura Cup · Ranji Trophy · Twenty20 · World Cricket Tsunami Appeal · World Series Cricket International cricket in 2005-06 Zimbabwe v New Zealand · Videocon Tri-Series · Sri Lanka v Bangladesh · Zimbabwe v India · South Africa v New Zealand · Pakistan v England · Australia v West Indies · India v South Africa · Australia v South Africa · New Zealand v Sri Lanka · 2006 Under–19 Cricket World Cup · Pakistan v India · South Africa v Australia · India v England · New Zealand v West Indies · Bangladesh v Australia · Trans‑Tasman Trophy · VB Series · ICC Super Series · South Africa Academy in Pakistan · Australia A in Pakistan · South Africa A in Sri Lanka · A‑team Tri Series in Sri Lanka · Australia Under‑19s in India · DLF Cup 2005-06 (India v Pakistan) 2005–06 and 2006 domestic seasons Australia 2005–06 ·India 2005–06 ·West Indies 2005–06 ·England 2006 International cricket in 2006 West Indies v Zimbabwe · England v Sri Lanka · West Indies v India · England v Pakistan · Sri Lanka v South Africa ·