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Cricket Cricket For Dummies Cheat Sheet

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Cricket is basically a simple sport. Each team takes its turn to bat (scoring runs) and bowl (getting the opposition batsmen out). The team with the most runs at the end wins. Unless the game is drawn, of course. Like any sport that’s been around for a while, cricket has its own laws, legend and language.

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