There is a sport called Cricket.
In the sport of cricket , batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one 's wicket . 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 . There are various formats ranging from Twenty20 , played over a few hours with each team having a single innings of 20 overs ( i.e. 120 deliveries ) , to Test cricket , played over five days with unlimited overs and the teams playing two innings apiece . In the sport of cricket , a dismissal occurs when the batsman is out ( also known as the fielding side taking a wicket and/or the batting side losing a wicket ) . In the sport of cricket , an over is a set of six balls bowled from one end of a cricket pitch .