Cricket has players.
Cricket . 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 . The laws of cricket are maintained by the International Cricket Council ( ICC ) and the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) . An innings is one of the divisions of a cricket match during which one team takes its turn to bat . Laws of cricket . There are currently 42 laws , which outline all aspects of how the game is played from how a team wins a game , how a batsman is dismissed , through to specifications on how the pitch is to be prepared and maintained .