‘My favorite game’

There are many sports. Among them, cricket is my favorite game. It keeps our body sound and strong. The game of cricket needs two teams of which each team has eleven players. It needs a big ground to play. Bats, balls and two sets of stumps are also needed. Two umpires conduct the game. Sometimes a third umpire is required to solve acute confusion. At the beginning of the match, a toss is adapted to select a fielding group and a batting group. The batsman may be out in many ways. He may be bowled out, run out, stumped out and caught out. When a bowler bowls, a batsman hits the ball away and changes position with his partner before the ball is received at the wickets. Thus, one run is scored. If the ball crosses the boundary line, four runs are made. If it flies over the boundary line, six runs are scored. After the interval, the fielding group comes to bat and the batting group goes to field for fielding. The team that scores more runs wins the game. The duration of the game depends on the fall of wicket or completion of the over. Cricket is very popular all over the world. I like it very much.