Cricket players and officials

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Players A 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. Teams … Read More

Objective, results, and laws of cricket

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Aerial view of the MCG displaying the stadium, ground and pitch Objective and results Cricket is a bat and ball sport. The objective of the game is to score more runs than the opposing team. A match is divided into … Read More

Cricket

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A cricket match in progress. The lighter strip is the cricket pitch. The men wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires. Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players on each side. It … Read More

Betting scandals

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Historically, sports betting has been associated with a number of unsavory characters, which has a lot to do with its desultory legal treatment throughout the world. Organized crime notoriously has relied upon sports betting for money laundering or funding purposes. … Read More