PHILIPPINE CRICKET ASSOCIATION INC

Mailing Address: 29-B, Madrid Street . Merville Park. Paranaque City. Philippines.
Email: [email protected], Website: www.cricketphilippines.com

BASICS OF CRICKET FACT SHEET

BASIC TERMINOLOGIES

BATSMAN - Player hitting the ball (known as striking or facing batsman), player at other end next to bowler (known as non-striking
or non-facing batsman)

BOWLER - Player delivering ball that batsman tries to hit (has to be done with a straight arm action - bending of bowling arm more
than 15 degrees is prohibited), equivalent position to that of a baseball pitcher

WICKET KEEPER - Player behind the stumps, equivalent to a baseball catcher

FIELDER - All other players on the fielding team except the bowler and wicket keeper.

STUMPS - 3 x wooden sticks at both end of the pitch that the bowler and fielders aim at to get a batsman out, on top of the stumps
at each end are 2 x ‘bails’ which sit between the stumps as connecting pieces.

PITCH - Playing surface in the middle of the field where the bowler and batsman are while play happens.

OUTFIELD - The grass area of play surrounding the pitch.

UMPIRE - The officiator of the game, most matches have 2 x umpires, 1 at each end of the pitch. The main umpire behind the set of
stumps the bowler is bowling from & the square leg umpire - who is parallel with the batting end set of stumps at a square on angle.

WICKET - Any form of ‘out’ for a batsman is known as a wicket.

The main forms of wickets are - Bowled (bowler hits the stumps at batsman’s end), Caught (any fielding player catches a ball hit by
the batsman before the ball touches the ground, including by the wicket keeper and bowler), Run Out (Fielder throwing the ball at
the stumps at either end before the batsman reaches their ‘crease’ - which is a line signifying a batsman being safe or out)

RUNS - After a batsman hits a ball they may attempt to take a run or runs, which is achieved by both batsman getting to the other
end of the pitch before a fielder hits the stumps with the ball, should a batsman complete one or multiple runs they are attributed to
the batsman that hit the ball.

BOUNDARIES - Any ball that is hit past the boundary by a batsman (marked by a line or marking cones, etc.) shall be awarded as a
‘four’ (if the ball bounces or rolls before reaching the boundary) or a ‘six’ (if the ball goes over on the full), the umpire then signals
this to the scorer/s and those runs are automatically added to the batsman’s score without either batsman having to run.

WIDES - Any ball deemed by the umpire to be outside of an area that a batsman has a fair shot at is called a wide, and 1 automatic
run is added to the batting team’s total, with the ball to also be re-bowled.

NO-BALL - An umpire may call a no-ball for any illegal delivery bowled by a bowler & this results in 1 run automatically counted to
the batting team’s score, a re-bowl and also that the next ball is a ‘Free-Hit’, meaning that any form of wicket can not be counted on
the ‘free-hit’ ball, except for a run out.

OVER - 6 x legal deliveries (excludes wides and no-balls) constitute a completed ‘over’, once an over is complete the fielding team
must select a new bowler to bowl.

INNINGS - The time period for batting (known as team innings or individual innings respectively).

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 Student Questions - Cricket

How many players are on a cricket team? (circle correct answer) 8/9/10/11/12

How many balls must a bowler bowl to complete an ‘over’? 5/6/7/8/9

When a batsman hits a scoring shot what is the cricket term used for point scoring? _____________________________

What is a ‘wicket’? Explain & provide one example of a wicket

What is the player, similar to a baseball catcher that stands behind the stumps at the batting end called?

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How many batsmen must get out before a team is considered “All Out” and the innings complete? 8/9/10/11/12

Instead of having referees, the match officials on a cricket field are known as ___________________________________

If a batsman is “Bowled” what has happened?

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If you were the captain of a cricket team, explain what basic tactics you would implement for your team:

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With more cricket competitions being started up for Filipino/Filipina players, would you be interested in playing the
sport competitively alongside other Filipino/Filipina players? Yes/No

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