Paragraph on a cricket match of 250 words
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Last Sunday our school played a cricket match against the cricket team of D.A.V. Public School. It was played on our school cricket grounds. A large number of students of both the schools witnessed the match.
The P.T.I.’s of both the schools acted as umpires. There was a toss. Then the match started at 10 a.m. Our captain won the toss. He decided to bat first. Our whole team was out for 250 runs. Our captain and his opening partner scored 68 runs.
The players had some refreshments during the break. Then the other team came to bat. Their batting was very strong but we bowled very well. Their captain scored 58 runs and was then bowled out. After the fall of the captain, their entire team was out for 206 runs. So we won the match by 44 runs.
Explanation:
Cricket is a sport which is played between two teams of eleven players each who score runs (points). This is done by hitting the ball across the boundary, or by running between two sets of three small, wooden posts called wickets. The wickets are at each end of a rectangle of short grass called 'the pitch'. The pitch is inside a much larger oval of grass called the 'area of play'. The area of play is a 30 yard circle inside the cricket ground or stadium.[1]
The game started in England in the 16th century. The earliest definite reference to the sport is in a court case of 1598.[2] The court in Guildford heard a coroner, John Derrick, that when he was a scholar at the "Free School at Guildford", fifty years earlier, "he and diverse of his fellows did run and play [on the common land] at cricket and other players".[3][4] Later, the game spread to countries of the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Today, it is a popular sport in England, Australia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa, New Zealand, the West Indies and several other countries such as Afghanistan, Ireland, Kenya, Scotland, the Netherlands, and Zimbabwe.