Cricket (1)

The most popular sport you probably know nothing about

Soccer (or football) can easily claim the greatest number of fans of any sport. But you might be surprised to find out what game is often named the runner-up - cricket.

A little like baseball ...
Both baseball and cricket share some feathers - a ball and a bat, throwers and runners. In cricket, a bowler throws a ball to the striker, like a batter, on the other team. Numerous players wait in the oval field to catch balls hit by the striker, hoping to manage an out. The similarities between the two sports mostly end there.

But not much
While baseball is played on a diamond with four bases, cricket has a 20.1 -meter pitch with two ends. One batsman stands on each end with the bowler throwing from behind one of them. If the striker hits the ball well, the batsmen rack up runs by running to trade places. Then they perform this wsitch again and again before the bowler's team breaks a wicket. Wickets, structures at either end of the pitch, come apart when hit correctly.

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