• A cricket pitch consists of the central strip of a cricket field between the two wickets. It is 22 yd (20.12 m) long (1 chain) and 10 ft (3.05 m) wide...
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    of carefully prepared grass upon which cricket pitches can be prepared and marked for the matches. The pitch is where batsmen hit the bowled ball and...
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  • Look up pitch, pitched, pitches, or pitching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pitch may refer to: Pitch (music), the perceived frequency of sound including...
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    Backyard cricket, also known as bat ball, street cricket, beach cricket, corridor cricket, garden cricket, gully cricket (on the Indian subcontinent)...
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    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre; 66-foot) pitch with...
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    Lancashire and some neighbouring counties[citation needed] Doctored pitch a cricket pitch which has been intentionally prepared in a specific manner in order...
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  • derived from the earlier feature of cricket pitches, the popping hole. One popping crease is drawn at each end of the pitch in front of each set of stumps...
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  • by any Wicket put down, unless with the Ball in Hand. In modern cricket: (a) the pitch is 22 yards long; (b) the teams are eleven-a-side; (c) runs were...
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  • field from the rest of the field). In cricket, the bowling, batting, and running may all take place on the cricket pitch, which is the area where the ball...
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    to either the building or a particular team. In the sport of cricket, the cricket pitch refers not to the entire field of play, but to the section of...
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    pitch of a cricket is sometimes the same as the rest of the roof, but not always. For Steep-slope roofs, it is most common to have the cricket pitch to...
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    around a 2-acre (0.81 ha) open space with sports fields (including a cricket pitch), retail space, and hiking trails. Demolition of the original buildings...
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  • raised by the English Cricket Board whether to play away series against Sri Lanka over the planned pitch tampering at the Galle Cricket Stadium for the first...
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    the indoor tournaments. The length of an indoor cricket pitch is the same as a conventional cricket pitch, and has 3 stumps at each end, but there the similarities...
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  • A boundary rope usually demarcates the perimeter of the field and a cricket pitch, an area close to the centre of the field is where the batter hits the...
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  • The 2018 Cricket Pitch Fixing scandal refers to the alleged doctoring of the pitch, a central strip of the playing field, in the home test matches of...
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    action of the bowler and the condition of the ball and the pitch, while working on the cricket ball to obtain optimal condition is a key role of the fielding...
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    played baseball instead of cricket. It's not clear when the basic rules of cricket such as bat and ball, the wicket, pitch dimensions, overs, how out...
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    In cricket, an over consists of six legal deliveries bowled from one end of a cricket pitch to the player batting at the other end, almost always by a...
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    Batters have to adapt to various conditions when playing on different cricket pitches, especially in different countries; therefore, as well as having outstanding...
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    Wicket (redirect from Wicket (cricket))
    sport of cricket, the term wicket has several meanings: It is either of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at each end of the pitch. The fielding...
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    In cricket, a yorker is a ball bowled (a delivery) which hits the cricket pitch around the batsman's feet. When a batsman assumes a normal stance, this...
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    that Mahrashtra Cricket Association sacked Salgaonkar from the job. According to 'cricket.com.au', the pitch curator showed batting pitch to the men around...
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  • portal First-pitch strike Bowling, the equivalent in cricket Throwing (cricket), an illegal action in cricket similar to baseball pitching Pitch (softball)...
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  • end of the pitch, each measuring 71.1 cm above the floor. The length of an indoor cricket pitch is the same as a conventional cricket pitch, and has 3...
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    side will inspect the pitch. Based on the pitch and weather conditions, the captains select their final eleven players. If the pitch is soft or dusty, the...
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    Left-arm orthodox spin (category Cricket terminology)
    bowler are the topspinner (which turns less and bounces higher in the cricket pitch), the arm ball (which does not turn at all and drifts into a right-handed...
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    1991, the workers of the Indian political party Shiv Sena dug up the cricket pitch at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on the eve of an India-Pakistan Test...
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  • the only varsity cricket team in the United States. Haverford's cricket team (started in 1833) is generally accepted as the first cricket club exclusively...
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    consistently as is often assumed. The chain also survives as the length of a cricket pitch, being the distance between the stumps. Civil engineers and surveyors...
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