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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven gamers each on a area at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each finish, every comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The game proceeds when a participant on the fielding team, referred to as the bowler, "bowls" the ball from one finish of the pitch in course of the wicket at the different finish, with an "over" being accomplished as quickly as they have legally done so six times. The batting side has one participant at each finish of the pitch, with the player at the opposite finish of the pitch from the bowler aiming to strike the ball with a bat. The batting facet scores runs both when the ball reaches the boundary of the field, or when the 2 batters swap ends of the pitch, which results in one run. The fielding facet's aim is to prevent run-scoring and dismiss every batter (so they are "out", and are mentioned to have "lost their wicket&