cricket pitch

The cricket pitch is a rectangular area, 22 yards long and 10 feet wide, located in the center of an oval field. At each end of the pitch stand three wickets, which are sticks topped with bails. The game involves two teams of 11 players who take turns batting and bowling. The bowler aims to hit the wicket with the ball, while the batsman tries to hit the ball away to score runs. Runs are scored when batsmen cross between the wickets, or by hitting the ball to the boundary. The team with the most runs wins. The pitch surface is ideally level turf, but artificial surfaces can also be used. Lines called creases mark areas around the wickets, defining the batsman's ground and the bowler's delivery area.12