how did cricket get its name?
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A number of words are thought to be possible sources for the term cricket. The name may derive from a term for the cricket bat: old French criquet (meaning a kind of club) or Flemish krick(e) (meaning a stick) or in Old English crycc (meaning a crutch or staff). (The latter is problematic, since Old English 'cc' was palatal in pronunciation in the south and the west midlands, roughly ch, which is how crycc leads to crych and thence crutch; the 'k' sound would be possible in the north, however.) Alternatively, the French criquet apparently derives from the Flemish word krickstoel, which is a long low stool on which one kneels in church and which resembles the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket.
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Young Warriors Cricket Club\n\n** i've a team in bd with this name. u r in india so u can use it.
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The Brisbane Cricket Ground is known as The Gabba, due to its location in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia.\n\nAs for Woolloongabba, there are two theories about the meaning of the Aboriginal words from which "Woolloongabba" is derived - "whirling water" or "fight talk place".
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The origin of the word 'wicket' was to refer to the stumps because of their resemblance to wicket gates, and according to the source I found, was first used in cricket in 1733.\nIn terms of getting a wicket, remembering that originally there were far fewer ways of dismissing a batsman than there are today, the bost common way of dismissing a batsman was bowled. This was (and is) referred to as the wicket falling, or fall of wicket.\nSame goes for the bowler "breaking the wicket".\nNot sure how the pitch ever came to be called the wicket.\nAs for things having more than one term, that isn't unique to cricket at all - football (in all its forms, depending on your origin) has its field variously referred to as the track, the field, the paddock, the sward and a host of other titles. I think you have to look at that as being part of the rich tapestry of sport...
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And that in a nutshell is cricket!! Or isnt?
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THE ENGLISH BROUGHT CRICKET IN INDIA WHEN THEY RULED US.\nAT THAT TIME MANY 'MAHA RAJAH'S ADMINISTRATING THEIR PROVINCES WITH COURTESY OF ENGLISH RULERS.\nTHEY TOO PLAYED WITH ENGLISH MEN.\nMAHARAJAH 'RANJIT SINGH' WAS A FAMILIAR FRIEND OF BRITISH RULERS.\nRANJI TROPHY IS NAMED AFTER HIS LOVE ON CRICKET.
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Here are two really good pages to explain it for an American. The second is good and uses baseball as a comparison, so you can compare it to something you know.\nhttp://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ABOUT_CRICKET/EXPLANATION/CRICKET_EXPLAINED_AMERICAN.html\n\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~sccwa/crick.html
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Hockey and Cricket are nothing alike. Cricket has more in common with Baseball, but instead of running around bases, you run back and forth between the bails. The pitcher is trying to knock down the bails behind the batter. It's kind of dumb.
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Cricket: The Rules \nHenry VIII called it "the sport of kings," but for many cricket is shrouded in enigma. This needn't be the case. At heart, once removed of jargon, it remains a simple game of immense depth and beauty, combining strategy, cunning, raw hand-to-hand fist fighting to the death, teamwork and even the occasional tear of sorrow. What follows is a simplified summary of the rules, as first set down by WG Grace, Lord of Wisden, in 1851. \n\n\nThe Basic Set-up \n Cricket is played between two opposing teams. One team bats while the other fields. It is easy to tell which is the batting team, because they are wearing fenners — white woolly jumpers with two cyan stripes around the upper arm (the other team's jumpers have two turquoise stripes). The batters play within the light green rectangle known as the crease, and each stands in front of the wicket — the small wooden apparatus at each end. Although anyone in the team may bat, usually two batters are chosen. The ball is thrown at the batter by the bowler. It is the bowler's job to try and befuddle the batter so that he misses the ball or plays a bad shot. \n\n\nHow Are Points Scored? \nPlayers gain points in the following way: \n\nBy Runs: after hitting the ball the batter may run as many times as he likes between the two ends. Each run (there and back) equals one point on his team's score. \nBy Fours: after hitting the ball the batter may crawl on all fours between the two ends. Each completed trip scores four points. \nBy Popping: If the ball 'knobs' the batter, a pop (two points) is added to the score. \nBy Googling a Six: If the ball, after being hit, rolls along the ground uninterrupted for fifty yards (a google), the team receives six points. (Named after Reg Google, Australian wicket-keeper who was so short that he was incapable of lifting the bat.) \nBy an Over: one point is scored (see below). \nFielding \nLord Larry Grayson said "cricket, like chess, is won in the field," and it is certainly true that the strategic positioning of your men on the pitch can make the difference between check and checkmate. However, it is important to remember that fielders mostly stand around doing nothing. The sometimes obscure names for fielding positions are illustrated below. \n\n \n\nBowling \nThe ball must be thrown from the Knacker's End: the end nearest which the umpire (referee) wearing the Knacker's Hat stands. The ball bounces and the batter must attempt to hit it. If he fails to hit the ball, the following penalties apply, in order: \n\nFirst miss: umpire calls 'maiden' and the ball is passed again to the bowler. \nSecond miss: umpire calls 'over' and one point is given to the opposing team. \nThird miss: umpire calls 'bye' and the player must leave. \nOther Ways of Being Out \nThere are in total seven ways of being out, or dismissed: \n\nWhen the umpire calls 'bye' (explained above). \nWhen the ball is caught by an opposing fielder before it has touched the ground, but after it has been knocked by any part of the batter (including the bat) other than the extra legs (below the navel) or the eyes. \nWhen the player is adjudged to be wasting time (taking more than 24 hours between consecutive bowls). \nWhen the player hits the ball twice, unless doing it to protect his wicket or testicles. \nWhen the umpire calls 'leg before wicket'. This is a complex rule, explained below. \nWhen player, bat and ball remain static, at the discretion of the umpire. This rule was introduced in 1983 after a cardboard cut-out of Ian Botham played for seventeen hours. (Does not apply in wet weather.) \nWhen the ball, after being bowled, hits the wicket and knocks it over (rare). \nLeg Before Wicket \nThis rule was introduced when players realised that it was more productive to kick the ball rather than play it using the bat, because no-one may be caught out thereby (rule 2 above). \n\n \n\nThe
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if that gives you any information about cricket
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England.  I borrowed this from another answer: 'The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "base-ball," showing a set-up roughly similar to the modern game, and a rhymed description of the sport.'\n\nIn the United States, the rules were first codified in 1845.  It is based on two English games, rounders and cricket.  There are references to baseball in the USA going back to 1791.  Baseball as we know it was also once called the "New York" game, there being a variant more like cricket that was called the "Massachusetts" game.  Nonetheless, these developments were American in origin.\n\nChina isn't even in the running.  There wasn't even that much direct trade with China when baseball was developed, though it was growing.  India was the big market.  Whatever the Chinese were playing, it was their own game, not baseball, which was introduced later.
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YOUR NAMES SOUNDS AN INDIAN.\nSO  IN INDIA  SURELY CRICKET DOMINATING OTHERS.
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Australian team was known as\n\nThe Invincibles
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It's a takeoff of "innings", which is a singular word used in cricket to describe one time at bat for a team.  Over time in America, it became known in one of two ways, both singular and omitting the final "s": as one team's at bat (their [half of the] inning), as well as both teams' times up.\n\nAs for the name itself, it comes from Middle English innynge, a getting in- like getting in the field or getting into the dugout to prepare to bat :)
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As in the Cricket Ashes? It is the burnt wicket from the first ever test match between austrila and england in 1882 which was done as a joke... \n\nThe 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, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour, to Australia (1882-83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.
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Baseball is thought to be a direct descendant of cricket, rounders, and town ball (which was much like rounders). The first explicit references to baseball appear to come from England. The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "baseball" (showing a similar set-up to the modern game) and a rhymed description of the sport. Also, a British letter dating from 1748 by Lady Hervey describes how the then Prince of Wales diverted his time playing baseball.\n\nAnother early mention of the game can be found in an 1886 edition of Sporting Life magazine, in a letter from Dr. Adam Ford of Denver, Colorado, formerly of St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, who details a base ball game played in Beachville, Ontario, Canada, on June 4, 1838 -- Militia Muster Day.\n\nAlexander Cartwright had a hand in compiling and publishing an early list of rules in 1845 (the so-called Knickerbocker Rules) to meet the demands of the already popular sport, and today's rules of baseball have evolved from them.\n\nProfessional baseball began in the United States around 1865, and the National League was founded in 1876 as the first true major league, quickly producing famous players such as Honus Wagner. Several other major leagues formed and failed, but the American League, established in 1901 as a major league and originating from the minor Western League (1893), did succeed. While the two leagues were rivals who actively fought for the best players, often disregarding one another's contracts and engaging in bitter legal disputes, a modicum of peace was established in 1903, they began playing a World Series that year.\n\nCompared to modern times, games in the early part of the 20th century were lower scoring and pitchers were more successful. The "inside game", whose nature was to "scratch for runs", was played rather more violently and aggressively than it is today. Ty Cobb said of his era especially, "Baseball is a war!" This period, which has since become known as the "dead-ball era", ended in the 1920s with several rule changes that gave advantages to hitters and the rise of the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth, who showed the world what power hitting could produce and thus changed the nature of the game.\n\nDuring the first half of the 20th century, a "gentlemen's agreement" in the form of the baseball color line effectively barred African-American players from the major leagues (though not Native Americans, oddly enough), resulting in the formation of several Negro Leagues. Finally in 1947, Major League Baseball's color barrier was broken when Jackie Robinson was signed by the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers. Although it was not instantaneous, baseball has since become fully integrated.\n\nBaseball has often been a barometer of the fabled American "melting pot", as immigrants from different regions have tried to "make good" in various areas including sports. In the 19th century, baseball was populated with many players of Irish or German extraction. A number of Native Americans had successful careers especially in the early 1900s. Italians and Poles appeared on many rosters during the 1920s and 1930s. Black Americans came on strong starting in the late 1940s after the barriers had been lifted, and continue to form a significant contingent. By the 1960s, Hispanics had started to make the scene, and had become a dominant force by the 1990s. In the 21st century, East Asians have been appearing in increasing numbers.\n\nThe middle of the century led major league baseball to the West of the United States and also became a time when pitchers dominated. Scoring became so low in the American League, due to pitching dominance, that the designated hitter was introduced; this rule now constitutes the primary difference between the two leagues.\n\nDespi
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You can try cricinfo.com\nHope that helps you.  Cricinfo is the best site for cricket.