Cricket is an English game . People from most other countries think it is very , very slow but the English think it is exciting
There are two teams with eleven players on each team in a cricket match . They play outdoors in the field . They play around two wickets . A wicket is there sticks in the ground with two sticks across them at the top . The wickets are twenty meters apart.
One player is a bowler. He stands by one wicket and throws a ball at the other wicket.He tries to hit one of the top sticks and make it fall to the ground.Another player is a batsman. He holds a stick called a bat. He stands behind thesecond wicket. He tries to hot the ball before it hits the sticks. If he hits the ball, he runs tothe other wicket. Sometimes he can run from one wicket to the other several times until aplayer in the field catches the ball and throws it back to the wickets. An important match can continue for 4 or 5 days.The players make hundreds of runs.Cricket began in England in the 1300s. It became a major sport in the 1700s.Englishmen taught the game to people in their colonies. Today cricket is still popular in mostof those countries.
1. The bowler tries to ____________.
A. hit the bat B. hit the wicket C. run to the wicket D. run into the field
2. Cricket became popular in England in the ____________ century.
A. Eleventh B. fourtheenth C. eighteenth D. twentieth
