There is a sport called Cricket.
In the sport of cricket bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman . Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field , at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a wicket ( a set of three wooden stumps ) at each end . The most common forms of dismissal are bowled , when the bowler hits the stumps directly with the ball ; leg before wicket , when the batsman prevents the ball from hitting the stumps with his body instead of his bat ; and caught , when the batsman hits the ball into the air and it is intercepted by a fielder before touching the ground . Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman , to limit the number of runs that the batsman scores and/or to get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or by running the batsman out . Leg before wicket ( lbw ) is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed in the sport of cricket .