How Many Innings in Cricket?
A Brief Background of the Sport, Cricket.
Cricket. A game hailed from the countryside of South-East England during the 16th century and this sport is loved and played by different countries under the British Empire like Australia, West Indies, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Cricket is a game played by two teams which consist of 11 (eleven) members each or sometimes 8 (eight). The games of cricket usually last about five days.
This game has a huge amount of equipment to be used. For the main type of equipment, a cricket bat, which looks like a small oar, the cricket ball which has a cork in the centre then wrapped in leather, the colour of the ball is usually red, a cricket glove for catching the ball. For the protective gears, a cricket cap to protect your face from the sun, a cricket helmet to shield your head from getting hit by a ball, stoke by blunt force and velocity, some cricket elbow guards since most players of cricket tumble on the ground and to avoid injuries if they got hit by the ball on their elbows, and, thigh pads and leg pads, to protect their lower bodies from the brute impact when they fall to the ground.
Now that a brief description is out of the way, it is time to discuss the rules of the game and most importantly, how many innings does the sport has.
How to Play Cricket and the Rules of the Cricket?
Cricket somehow resembles the gameplay of baseball but it is certainly obvious that the rules can still be differentiable from one another.
It was already discussed how many teams and players are participating in the game. For the roles, a cricket team has a captain, wicketkeeper, bowler, batsman, or batswoman. Each of them has important roles to follow.
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How Many Innings are there in a Cricket Test Game?
But before diving into the walkthrough of the game, you should have an idea of what an inning is. An inning is the division of the game wherein each team in cricket is given the chance to bat.
In a test game of cricket, every team is given an opportunity to bat two times. Basically, each team has two innings in the game, a total of four innings.
However, if the test matches were affected by bad weather, hypothetically speaking, if the match lost about 3 days due to rain, it is highly unlikely to witness 2 innings per team in a test match because it will be hard to compress 4 innings in just two days. But to conclude the games that were affected by bad weather, the games will always end in draws.
How Does an Inning End in a Cricket Match?
First of all, there are two types of innings and those are the “individual innings” and the “team innings”. This next segment of the blog will explain how the two different types of innings will end.
Individual Innings
This will discuss about how does the batsman’s innings end.
1. The Umpire Gives Out the Batsman– Once the umpire had their finger raised, and the batsman gives out, their innings will be over.
2. If the Batsman Retires from the Game Due to an Illness or Injury– It is pretty much self-explanatory that the reason for the individual inning to end is because the player is disabled because of injuries or any health-related problems. The batsman will leave the field, causing them to not resume their innings. Added to this, if the player does not go back to the field before the team innings will end, this will risk them for their individual innings to end.
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