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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by hitting the ball bowled at the wicket by the fielding side's bowler and running between the wickets, while the fielding side tries to dismiss the batting side's batsmen before they have scored too many runs.