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  cricket ,  England ’s national summer sport, which is now played throughout the world, particularly in  Australia ,  India ,  Pakistan , the  West Indies , and the  British  Isles . Cricket is played with a bat and ball and involves two competing sides (teams) of 11 players. The field is oval with a rectangular area in the middle, known as the  pitch, that is 22 yards (20.12 metres) by 10 feet (3.04 metres) wide. Two sets of three sticks, called wicket, are set in the ground at each end of the pitch. Across the top of each wicket lie horizontal pieces called bails. The sides take turns at batting and bowling (pitching); each turn is called an “innings” (always plural). Sides have one or two innings each, depending on the prearranged duration of the match, the object being to score the most runs. The bowlers, delivering the ball with a straight arm, try to break (hit) the wicket with the ball so that the bails fall. This is on...

This article is about the family of sports. For specific sports and other uses, see football(Disambiguation). Football  is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called  football  include association football (known as  soccer  in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Austrailian rules   football;   Gaelic football ; gridiron   football  (specifically American football , arena football , or Canadian football ); International rules football ; rugby league football ; and rugby union football . These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as " football codes ". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient,...