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Cricket
Signals
Find
the tools of the game and signals.
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The Equipments
and Game Signals
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The
Ball  |
The
ball is
hard, made of cork and string, and covered with
leather. The leather covering is joined in two
hemispheres. The seam is thus like an equator,
and the stitching is raised slightly. The
circumference is between 22.4 and 22.9 cms (8.81
to 9.00 inches), and the ball weighs between 156
and 163 grams (5.5 to 5.75 ounces).
Traditionally the ball is dyed red, with the
stitching left white. |
The Bat
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The
blade is made of willow, flat on one side,
humped on the other for strength, attached to a
sturdy cane handle. The blade has a maximum
width of 108 millimetres (4.25 inches) and the
whole bat has a maximum length of 965
millimetres (38 inches). |
Stumps  |
Three
wooden posts, 25 millimetres (1 inch) in
diameter and 813 millimetres (32 inches) high.
They have spikes extending from their bottom end
and are hammered into the ground in an evenly
spaced row, with the outside edges of the
outermost stumps 22.86 cms (9 inches) apart -
close enough together that a cricket ball cannot
pass between them. |
Bails
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The
bails are two wooden crosspieces which sit in
grooves on the top of adjacent pairs of stumps.
Each bail is 11.1 cms in length. |
Pitch
Diagram 
The
Different Playing Shots
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