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Cricket is a sport played all over the world.The concept is that there are two teams each of which gets to bat and ball.The team scoring the maximum runs in the specified time or overs wins the game.There are three formats of this game namely test, ODI and T20.The most popular among these nowadays is the T20 cricket format.As the name suggests each team gets 20 overs to bat and the team scoring the maximum runs wins the game.Cricket is the national sport of England.The first international cricket match ever played was in 1844 between US and Canada.Since then cricket has gained a lot of popularity and today is the world's 2nd most popular sport after football having nearly 2.5 Billion Fans.There is a lot of difference in modern cricket and ancient cricket.Anciently only test cricket was played.In test cricket, the number of overs are unlimited and the duration of the match is 5 days.Each team gets 2 innings for batting and the team leading the score on the last day wins. In ODI cricket which came into picture in 1971,there are 50 overs for each team to bat and the match lasts for a day.The first OdI match was played on 5th january 1971. The T20 form of cricket is the most popular form of modern cricket.It was developed in New Zealand by a test batsman Martin Crowe.The first T20 match was played in 2003. Modern cricket is more concerned with entertaining the audience.People get entertained when the batsmen hit more boundaries and sixes and when the bowlers take wickets. This is possible when the overs are limited and less.This is the reason why the shortest form of cricket,the T20 cricket is so famous.Cricket is currently played by 125 countries in the world,which in itself defines the impact cricket has on people.There are three actions in cricket-batting,bowling, and fielding.A good batsmen is nowadays the one who can bat with extensive aggression and skill.A batsman must be able to hit any type of ball out of the ground to be called as a good batsman. On the other hand,batsman who have a good batting technique form another class of batsman who don't need to hit big sixes to prove their brilliance. These kind of batsmen are rare and have a great impact on the game.A batsman must be able to judge every ball correctly and hit it from the middle of the bat to scor runs. The act of bowling is a very difficult act to master because of the nature of modern cricket.There is not much error of margin for bowlers.Hence,as a bowler you need to be accurate and economic(in case of conceeding runs).Nowadays being a bowler requires that you are smart enough to understand the mindset of the batsman and bowl accordingly. The pitch is divided into four parts depending upon its distance from the batsman and they are short length,good length,full length and yorker.The good length is an ideal length to bowl and makes it difficult for a batsman to hit shots.the length becoming more popular amongst young bowlers is the yorker length.It is a bowl which is bowled right under the bat and is the most difficult bowl to hit for a six.The last and most crucial part of cricket is fielding.It involves chasing the ball and throwing it to the stumps,catching the ball and wicketkeeping.The most important requirement to be a good cricket player is that you are a good fielder.A person can be a great batsman or a grat bowler but unless and until he is a good fielder he cannot be a complete player.To be a good fielder it is also required that you are a fit.Hence to test the fitness of the plyers various tests are held before admitting them to international teams.There are training personnels to regulate and monitir the fitness of international players which has lead to improvement in fielding performances over the years.