Encyclopedia Dubuque
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CRICKET
CRICKET. Cricket, a bat-and-ball team sport, has many variations with its most popular form played on an oval-shaped outdoor arena known as a cricket field. At the center is a rectangular 22-yard (20.12 m) long pitch that is the focus of the game.
A game (or match) is played between two teams of eleven players each. One team bats and will try to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. When the batting team has used all its remaining batsmen within the available overs, the roles reverse and it is now the fielding team's turn to bat and try to outscore the opposition.
On Saturday, August 7, 2010 the ribbon-cutting was held for the new city-owned Dubuque Cricket Field located at 3999 Pennsylvania Ave. in Usha Park behind DUPACO COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION. The Dubuque Cricket Club President was Girish Radhakrishnan.