Cricket guides
The rules, the history and the records of cricket, in plain words, each with a game to try it.
History
- The history of cricket: from village greens to T20: Cricket began in south-east England, with records from the 1590s. The first Test was in 1877, the first ODI in 1971 and the first T20 international in 2004.
Rules
- LBW rules in cricket: when is a batter out?: A batter is out LBW when a fair ball hits their body before the bat, in line with the stumps, and would have gone on to hit the wicket.
- Umpire's call and DRS rules in cricket, explained: Umpire's call is DRS's verdict when ball tracking shows an LBW is too close to overturn: the on-field decision stands and the side keeps its review.
- No-ball rules in cricket and the free hit: A no-ball is an illegal delivery under Law 21: it adds one run, doesn't count in the over, and in ODIs and T20Is the next ball is a free hit.
Records
- Most runs and wickets among players active since 2008: The top run-scorers and wicket-takers in Tests, ODIs and T20Is, men and women, counted from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball records of players active since 2008.
Guides
- Cricket's formats explained: Tests, ODIs and T20s: Tests give each side two innings over up to five days, ODIs one innings of up to 50 overs, and T20 internationals one innings of up to 20 overs.
- How a cricket auction works: purse, base price and bids: In a cricket auction, teams with equal purses bid in fixed steps from each player's base price, and the last bid when the hammer falls wins the player.
Cricket data from Cricsheet, used under the Open Data Commons Attribution licence. cricsheet.org