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batter is the wicket. It comprises three stumps (wooden posts) topped by a pair of bails (wooden crosspieces that sit atop the stumps).
Rhymes with cricket... Behind the
Stumped yet? So are the players. When a batsman misses the ball and steps out of his crease in play, the wicket-keeper can grab the ball and break the wicket before the batsman gets back into his crease. Being stumped is just one of 10 ways of getting out in the game.
Sobab Bhatti is team wicketkeeper. The wicket-keeper is the only member of the fielding side permitted to wear gloves and external leg guards.
There’s bowling too? Move over pitchers and catchers. In cricket, these positions on the fielding team are called bowlers and wicket-keepers.
200 members.
club now boasts approximately
bership of 15 to 20 players, the
Beginning with modest mem-
State, Texas A&M and Harvard.
club beat teams from Penn
National Championship, the
2013 American College Cricket
during the quarterfinals of the
itself. Finishing in the top eight
is already making a name for
plex. And yet the young team
lot at UB’s Governor’s Com-
empty residence hall parking
Most of the time they play in an
without much of a playing field.
its games with little fanfare and
2011, the UB Cricket Club plays
play cricket. Formed officially in
you never heard of. And they
They might be the best UB team