Cricket has players.
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 . At the start of each game , two batsmen and eleven fielders enter the field of play . A dismissed batsman must leave the field , and a teammate replaces him . If a fielder retrieves the ball quickly enough to put down the wicket with a batsman not having reached the crease at that end of the pitch , that batsman is dismissed ( a run-out occurs ) . An innings is one of the divisions of a cricket match during which one team takes its turn to bat .