Explain three fundamental skills of cricket
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Fundamental Skills of Cricket
1.Batting Skills
Given the goals of batting, a batsman must possess good hand-eye coordination, reflexes, strength, running speed, soundudgment, and of course knowledge of cricket rules and an understanding of cricket strategy and tactics.
These basic skills are put to use in specific actions such as:
* Preventing the ball from hitting the wicket (which would result in the batsman being out bowled).
* Avoiding being hit in the legs in front of the wicket (which may result in the batsman being out leg before wicket).
* Avoiding hitting catches to any fielders (which would result in the batsman being out caught).
* Avoiding being hit by the ball in a way that might cause injury.
* Hitting the ball with the bat with precise placement, timing, and strength to avoid fielders.
* Judging when it is safe to take a run, and taking the run.
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s of batting shots
The act of hitting the cricket ball is called a shot or stroke. Batting involves knowledge and skill in several different typesof shot. Good batsmen usually also have what is called "balance", which more or less involves stability of the body withsynchronized movements of the shoulders and feet. There are a variety of shots a batsman can play:
Having taken a long stride, a batsman blocks the ball with a forward defensive shot.
2.B
owling Skills
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n the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler.
A single act of bowling the ball towards the batsman is called a ball or a delivery. Bowlers bowl deliveries in sets of six,called an over. Once a bowler has bowled their over, one of their team mates will bowl an over from the other end of thepitch.
There are rules in the Laws of Cricket governing how a ball must be bowled.
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f a ball is bowled illegally, an umpire willrule it a no ball.
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f a ball is bowled too wide of the stumps or high for the batsman to be able to hit it, an umpire will rule ita wide.
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oals of Bowling
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n terms of strategic importance in a game, the priorities of a bowler are, in order of importance:
1. Get batsmen out.
2. Prevent batsmen from scoring runs.
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icket Keeping
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KEEPER
The wicket-keeper's major function is to stop deliveries that pass the batsman (in order to prevent runs being scored), but often hecan also attempt to dismiss the batsman in various ways. The most common dismissal effected by the wicket-keeper is for him tocatch a ball that has nicked the batsman's bat, called an edge, before it bounces. Sometimes the keeper is also in the best positionto catch a ball which has been hit high in the air. The keeper can also stump the batsman by using the ball to remove the bails fromthe stumps if the batsman has come out of his crease during a delivery. Finally, when the ball is hit into the outfield, the keeper moves close to the stumps to catch the return throw from a fielder and, if possible, to run out a batsman.
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