| WATCH ASIA CUP 2010 LIVE ONLINE STREAMING | | | | ICC oversees both men's and women's cricket. The |
| ON | | | | rules of the game are known as the Laws of |
| Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first | | | | Cricket.[5] These are maintained by the ICC and the |
| documented as being played in southern England in | | | | Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which holds the |
| the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, | | | | copyright. A cricket match is played on a cricket field |
| cricket had developed to the point where it had | | | | at the centre of which is a pitch. The match is |
| become the national sport of England. The expansion | | | | contested between two teams of eleven players |
| of the British Empire led to cricket being played | | | | each.[6] One team bats, trying to score as many |
| overseas and by the mid-19th century the first | | | | runs as possible without being dismissed ("out") while |
| international matches were being held. Today, the | | | | the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the |
| game's governing body, the International Cricket | | | | other team's batsmen and limit the runs being scored. |
| Council (ICC), has 104 member countries.[1] With its | | | | When the batting team has used all its available overs |
| greatest popularity in the Test playing countries, | | | | or has no remaining batsmen, the roles become |
| cricket is widely regarded as the world's second most | | | | reversed and it is now the fielding team's turn to bat |
| popular sport, after association football.[2][3][4] The | | | | and try to outscore the opposition. |