Cricket
EnglandEngland are on a high. They completed a 3–0 Test series win over Pakistan at Edgbaston on 12 September, surviving a late scare in the third Test. A white-ball tour of Australia follows in November and December.
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game between two teams of 11. One side bats and tries to score runs, the other bowls and fields and tries to get ten batters out. A batter scores by running between the two sets of stumps or by hitting the ball over the boundary for 4 (along the ground) or 6 (in the air).
Formats vary in length. A Test match lasts up to five days with two innings per side and is regarded as the highest form. A one-day international is 50 overs a side (an over is six balls). Twenty20 is 20 overs a side and over in about three hours.
White-ball means the limited-overs formats, which use a white ball and coloured kit. The Ashes between England and Australia is the best-known Test rivalry.