In addition to the basic kit, some players wear protective gear to prevent injury caused by the ball, which is a hard, solid spheroid made of compressed leather with a slightly raised sewn seam enclosing a cork core layered with tightly wound string. #cricket #icc

Traditionally cricketers play in all-white kit, but in limited overs cricket they wear club or team colours. #cricket #icc

Forms of cricket range from Twenty20, with each team batting for a single innings of 20 overs and the game generally lasting three hours, to Test matches played over five days.. #cricket #icc

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end . #Cricket #Icc

Cricket is one of many games in the "club ball" sphere that basically involve hitting a ball with a hand-held implement. #Cricket #icc

The game's governing body is the International Cricket Council (ICC), which has over 100 members, twelve of which are full members who play Test matches.#Cricket #icc

each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the bowler, "bowls" (propels) the ball from one end of the pitch #cricet #icc