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Welcome to Cricket Wiki Contents Players Players, Rankings and others Read more > One Day Matches All One day Matches Read more > Test Matches All Test Matches Read more > T20s T20 matches Read more > About Welcome to the Cricket Wiki A collaborative community about Cricket than anyone can edit. This Wiki is a Encyclopedia-Style Wiki. First and foremost we deal in editing and maintenance. Socializing on chat while acceptable should be done with the understanding continuing contributions to the articles is a major requirement. Tobifan (talk) 00:54, October 6, 2012 (UTC) We are waiting for u to come and start editing on this wiki. Come join us. Tobifan (talk) 00:54, October 6, 2012 (UTC) About Cricket Cricket, known as the gentlemen's game, is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the end of an innings. In professional cricket the length of a game ranges from 20 overs of six bowling deliveries per side to Test cricket played over five days. The Laws of Cricket are maintained by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) with additional Standard Playing Conditions for Test matches and One Day Internationals. Cricket was first played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, it had developed into the national sport of England. The expansion of the British Empire led to cricket being played overseas and by the mid-19th century the first international matches were being held. The ICC, the game's governing body, has ten full members. The game is played particularly in Australasia, the Indian subcontinent, the West Indies, Southern Africa and England. The objective of each team is to score more "runs" than the other team and so win the game.