Cricket of Bangladesh

Cricket is an door game. It is an interesting game from beginning to end. So all classes of people are fond of watching this game. It is a costly game. It is a costly game. It has come from Europe. Now it is a popular game of India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Australia, West Indies, Bangladesh and many other countries of the world. Cricket is generally played in winter.

A large portion of perfectly flat (generally oval in shape and smooth ground is necessary for this game. A Cricket fields must have a turf which must be kept soft by watering. Two wooden bats, a ball and two wickets each having three stamps pointed by bails at the

top required for it. The wickets are pitched opposite and paralleled at a distance of 22 yards. The bating side bats two at a time, one at each end. The fielding side, Therefore, has to get ten out to finish the innings.

Cricket is played by two teams, each consisting of eleven players. The team takes that wins the toss may bat or ball first. When one team bating, then the other team bowling and fielding. One bowler comes and bowls the ball to the batsman who strikes the ball with the bat. This ball is caught by the player engaged in fielding. There fiekds men are placed on one side-one at square leg, one at mid on and the third at long on. This game is played for the whole day in shifts from morning to 2 pm, and 3 pm, except unavoidable reasons. The play begins with the signals of the umpire and bowler starts bowling.

When the batsman changes his position with his partner after hitting the ball, a run is said to be scored before the ball is receive at the wickets. If the ball touch the boundary line, four runs are scored. If it flies over the boundary lines six runs are played generally in cricket. Now-a-days one innings of limit over in mostly played. The team that can score a greater number of runs after defeating the opponents is said to win the game.

Two umpires conduct and supervise the game. All cases of disputes are settled by them. They maintain the discipline in the game.

Bangladesh has made a good progress is cricket. In the sixth I.C.C. trophy was held in March, 1997 at Kualalampur in Malaysis. Bangladesh became unbeaten champion. As a result of this, championship Bangladesh qualified for participation in the world cup cricket from 1999.

Cricket is a very interesting and expensive game. Now Bangladesh is advancing tow in this game It makes the player healthy.