What is power play in cricket?
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WHEN YOU COME IN POWER
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Men's play with 2 bat & 1 ball\nWomens play with 1 bat & 3 balls\n:)
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because of the english cricket game
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Yes they are playing to little tests, but the reason for that is that the BCCI (Board for Control for Cricket in India) know that one day games generate a lot more money.  So to boost their income, they will rather play more ODI's.
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20 overs a side match. More or less similar to ODI (50 overs a side). Fielding restrictions are a bit different.
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A ball pitched very close to the batting crease that the batsman can play as soon as it is pitched
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You know what is cricket?
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No........ Everyone is playing excessive cricket these days.\nAnd as they are rotating the players these dayz... its really good thing..... This way they can minimize exhaustion as well as can make "the bench" stronger.
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50-50 chances for both teams....Since Pitch is palying veyr imporant role in teams performances during this trophy  , so a good wicket  ,ll be a bonus .  Wining  toss n making proper  decision accordinlgy ,ll play major role.so the team favoured by the  "conditions" will win.
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YOU ARE TRYING TO START AN INNINGS. CATCHES WIN THE MATCHES.YOU HAVE TO HIT THE TARGET..BE AN ANCHOR...BALL IS THE KEY IN YOUR PLAY..GOOD PARTNERSHIP WILL GET THE VICTORY.RESPOND YOUR PARTNER'S "CALL". DONT GET RUN-OUT.
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Cricket is a team sport. The team which scores the most amount of runs, and gets the other team out, wins. Nothing simpler.\n\nThere are two forms of the game:\n\n1) Test cricket—which takes place over five days. Think of it as akin to the novel with all the running dramas, climaxes, anti-climaxes, intrigues and counter-intrigues of that artform. Test cricket is the original and only true form of cricket.\n\n2) Pyjama or One-Day cricket—the shortened form. It is to test cricket as a bad TV advertisment (wheredyagedit?) is to a superb film. Loud, noisy, predictable, wholly lacking in subtlety and eye-jarringly colourful. To be watched only if there is no test cricket available.\n\nFor obvious reasons, I will largely be discussing test cricket.\n\nCricket is played on an oval. A large expanse of green grass usually surrounded by a white picket fence. The grass is kept at a specific height by the groundsman. In the centre of the oval is the cricket pitch (or wicket) which is a strip of paler grass. The wicket (or cricket pitch) is also carefully presided over by the groundsman, but once the game begins grass is left to grow and the wicket to deteriorate. Thus the conditions for playing change over the five days of a test. The condition of the oval and pitch has a large effect on whether the cricket played on it will be high or low-scoring. Some afficionados argue that the groundsman is the most important person in cricket. I think this is going a tad too far.\n\nAt either end of the cricket pitch (or wicket) are the stumps (or wicket). The stumps are a wooden constuction of three stakes (Buffy would have plenty of weapons available should she have to deal with a nest of vampires while attending a cricket match) impaled in the ground, with two smaller pieces of wood, known as the bails, balanced on top. In front of these stumps (or wicket) at either end is a white painted line which marks the crease.\n\nTwo teams of twelve people play (though the position of the twelfth man is that of gofer. They don't actually play unless one of the fielders needs to leave the oval for a short amount of time). The two teams take turns fielding and batting. In test cricket each team has two innings. In pyjama (or one-day) cricket they have one innings each.\n\nThe team batting has the job of protecting the stumps (or wicket) and trying to score runs. Two batsmen at a time are on the field (unless one of the batsmen is injured in which case they have a runner and there are three batsmen on the field). One batsman is at either end of the cricket pitch (or wicket) defending the stumps (or wicket) and trying to score runs.\n\nRuns are scored by hitting the ball (made of cork covered with red leather) with a cricket bat (traditionally made of willow—thus the expression "the glorious sound of leather on willow" which sound dirty if you're thinking of a certain character from Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and running up and down the cricket pitch (or wicket). Although only one batsmen can hit the ball at any one time, both must run and get safely behind their crease. If the ball is hit all the way to the boundary (typically a thick white rope, not the fence) it is deemed to be four runs. If it is hit over the boundary it is six runs. The batsmen need not run for these boundaries.\n\nOnce a batsmen has run safely from one end of the cricket pitch (or wicket) to the other they have scored one run for themselves and also for their team. The batsman who is facing the bowling is said to be on strike. You do not have to hit each ball. You do not have to run if you do hit the ball. Hitting the ball to the boundary is the most efficient way of making runs because you accumulate runs faster and you don't have to exhaust yourself running.\n\nGetting fifty runs is good for an individual batsman, getting one hundred (or a century) is better, and getting more still is even better. The most amount of individual runs ever was 380 scored by the A
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It is generally believed the game of cricket was not played outside the British Isles until the Britons themselves introduced it to the natives of many lands that make up the British Empire, upon which it has been said, the sun never sets.\n \nProclaimed as the National Game of England, 32 other countries are members of the International Cricket Council, located in London. The rules that govern the game all over the world are those drawn up by The Marleybone Cricket Club (MCC) in about 1788.\n\n\nThe game was introduced to the American colonies in the mid-18th century but never achieved widespread popularity in the United States.\n \nNaturally, one suspects that the game has been played since that time in every corner of England by every generation of 'gentlemen'. The term is used loosely, as from time to time, it would appear to the casual observer that quite the opposite may be the case. The game is said to build character, courage and determination. To stand steadfast in the face of imminent danger, and to protect your wicket at all cost is a feat, if it can be achieved, that is held in the highest regard by those peers of the person achieving.
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no boring Cricket is interesting sport like SOCCER\n\nhope this feature will help you.\n\nA cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. It is generally used to refer to professional cricketers rather than amateur players.\n\nA cricket match is played between two sides, each consisting of eleven cricketers or players, though by agreement that sides may allow fewer or more than eleven cricketers to play as long as no more than eleven players are fielding at any one time. Each team appoints a captain.\n\nThe rules concerning the players of a cricket game are in Law 1 of the Laws of cricket. This law also requires each team to be named prior to the toss of a coin to decide which team bats and which team bowls first. They may not be changed thereafter (but see Substitute). Law 1 also makes the captains responsible at all times for ensuring that play is conducted within the spirit and traditions of the game as well as within the Laws.\n\n\nTypes of cricketers\nCricketers can be classified by what area of the game they are best at. The most common classifications are:\n\nBatsman \nBowler \nWicket-keeper \nAll-rounder
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Twenty20 cricket was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2003. It is a form of one-day cricket in which each team bats for a maximum of only 20 overs, contrasting with 50 overs for a standard one-day match.\n\nMajor changes from the laws of cricket include:\nShould a bowler deliver a no ball by overstepping the popping crease, his next delivery is designated a free-hit, from which the batsman can only be dismissed through a run out, as is the case for the original "no ball". \nBowlers may bowl a maximum of only 4 overs per innings, as is standard for 20-over cricket. \nUmpires may award 5-run penalty runs at their discretion if they believe either team is wasting time. \nIf the fielding team do not complete bowling their 20 overs within 75 minutes, the batting side is credited an extra 6 runs for every whole over bowled after the 75 minute mark. \nThe following fielding restrictions apply: \nNo more than 5 fielders can be on the leg side at any time. \nDuring the first 6 overs, a maximum of 2 fielders can be outside the fielding circle. \nAfter the first 6 overs, a maximum of 5 fielders can be outside the fielding circle. \nIf the match ends with the scores tied, the tie is broken with a bowl-out (similar to a penalty shootout in football), with 5 bowlers from each side delivering 2 balls each at an unguarded wicket. If the number of wickets is equal after the first 10 balls per side, the bowling continues and is decided by sudden death.
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A similar question was asked earlier too. I am copying my same answer about POWER PLAY.\n\nPower Play has been around for quite a while now to make cricket a bit more interesting.\n\nEarlier, Field Restrictions used to be for the first 15 overs. During those 15 overs, only 2 players are allowed to field outside the circle.\n\nBut now, this field restriction rule is innovated a bit. Instead of 15 overs, the restriction is for 20 overs. But the interesting part is, it's not the first 20 overs.\nRestriction for the first 10 overs is still a MUST. The next 10 can be broken down into 5 each. These 5 overs, with the field restriction, can be bowled anytime during the innings. The bowling Captain has the right to decide when he wants to bowl those pairs of 5 overs.\n\nMost captains use these pair of 5 overs all at once, making it 20 overs in a row for field restriction.\n\nThe reason why this Rule was imposed was to make cricket little less boring. Because during mid innings, between 20 to 40 overs, the innings slows down considerably. With this rule, the batsmen can have a chance of attacking if the field restrictions (or POWER PLAY) are imposed during those dead overs.\n\nRegarding the benefit to team: It only benefits the batting team, because they have the chance to score more boundaries. The job of the bowling captain is to use it effectively, and not allow too many runs during those overs. That's one of the reasons why bowling team prefers bowling 20 overs in one go (they don't want to keep those overs till the end with the slog overs when the batsmen go all out for hitting/slogging.). One more reason is, they can take more wickets early on in the innings if the POWER PLAYS are used early (so that the batsmen try to hit and lose their wickets). \n\nThe 2 pairs of 5 overs are usually referred as POWER PLAY (power play 1 & power play 2).\n\nHope, that makes it clear.
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At anytime during a game you can swap any player with your super sub.  You are right in winning the toss you get the chance to fully implement your sub.  If you pick a batter as a sub (say), then you win the toss and bowl, in the 2nd innings you then sub a bowler for you super sub (batter) and you gain a extra batsman, whilst having full use of your bowling during the 1st innings.  Overall your batting gets longer without loosing any bowling power (bit like a really good all-rounder)\n\nIf you lost the toss and was sent into bat (assuming your sub is a batter) you loose the extra man from above, but could implement the sub in the 1st innings anyway go for it in your batting then try and make up the extra overs (lost by subbing your bowler) through some part time bowlers....\n\nOverall its a rather stupid rule and doesn't really bring the innovation to the game it was intended to.  As the options are actually quite limited, there are not many "tricks" you can pull on your opposition that they won't be expecting.
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cricket\nin progress. The beige strip is the cricket pitch. The people wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires.]] 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. The length of the game (a game can last over six or more hours a day for up to five days), numerous intervals for lunch and tea and rich terminology help confuse those not familiar with the sport. For its fans, the sport and the intense rivalries between the top cricketing nations provide passionate entertainment that has occasionally given rise to diplomatic outrage. \nObjective and summary\nCricket is a bat and ball sport. The objective of the game is to score more runs (points) than the opposing team. A match is divided into innings. During an innings, one team bats while the other team bowls and fields. (Note: when referring to "a team's innings," one usually means that team's turn to bat.) Games may be played over one or two innings. For some one innings matches each team's innings may be restricted to a set number of fair deliveries to be bowled by the opposing team. The team batting first aims to set a target score for the opposition and the team batting second chases the target. The bowling team tries to limit the runs scored by the batting team and at the same time to get the opposition players out, an event which is described as 'taking a wicket'. Each player continues to bat until he is out; once he is out, he may not bat again in that innings. The team batting always has two batsmen on the field; once ten of the eleven players of the batting team have been dismissed (i.e. ten wickets have been taken) the innings comes to an end. The winner is the team which has scored the most runs. If the team batting last loses, they are said to have lost the match by m run(s), where m is the difference in scores between the teams. If the team batting last wins they are said to have won the match by n wickets, where n is the number of additional wicket(s) the opposing team needed to take to bring the innings to an end. If both teams score the same number of runs, and the team batting last has completed its last innings, the match is a tie. If the match cannot be completed before the allotted time for the match expires, the result is a draw. If the match has only single innings per side, with a set number of deliveries, and the match is abandoned without completion due to an impossibility of continuing the play, because of bad weather, unruly crowd or any such unlikely event or situation, the result is declared as No-Result. See also: Result \nLaws of cricket\nMain article: Laws of cricket The game is played in accordance with 42 laws of cricket, which have been developed by the Marylebone Cricket Club in discussion with the main cricketing nations. Teams may agree to alter some of the rules for particular games. Other rules supplement the main laws and change them to deal with particular circumstances. In particular, there are a number of modifications to the playing structure and fielding position rules that apply to one innings games that are restricted to a set number of fair deliveries. \nPlayers and officials\nMain articles: Cricketer, Umpire Each team consists of eleven players. Depending on his primary skills, a player may be classified as a specialist batsman or bowler. A balanced team usually has five or six specialist batsmen and four or five specialist bowlers. A player who excels in both fields is known as an all-rounder. One player of the team that is currently bowling takes up the role of a