My Favourite Game Cricket

My favorite game is cricket. It is an outdoor game. It is played between two

teams. Each team contains 11 players. There are many forms of this game
like test match, one day match and twenty-twenty. The "test match" is the
longest form of the cricket match. A "test match" is played between
domestic as well as international teams.

The team that makes more runs, that team will be the winner. In this game,
there are two-part first is batting and the second is bowling or fielding. The
team who won the toss that team decides what they want to do first,
bowling or batting. Fielding team does bowling to the batsman. Matches
contain over and each over contains 6 balls.

Overs depend on the form of a match that what type of it, "One Day" or
"Twenty-Twenty". The "One Day" match's overs may vary sometime, but in
"Twenty-Twenty" it is always of 20 overs. All Indians adore cricket.

 Cricket is the most popular outdoor game in the world.

 Amongst all the outdoor games, cricket is my favourite and I

love to play this game.

 It is the most watched sport in India and people have an

emotional connect towards it.

 This sport is played by using a bat and a ball between two teams
of 11 members each.

 Every team has its own set of batsmen, bowlers and fielders.

 My favourite cricketer is Virat Kohli and I love the way he plays

the game and leads the entire team.
  I love to play cricket with my friends, after school, on the
playground nearby.

 My team members always allow me to bat first as I can score

runs quickly.

 My parents have enrolled me to a cricket training centre to

motivate and boost my passion in the sport.

 My aim in life is to become a renowned cricketer and play for the

Indian cricket team and represent my nation on the international
platform.

Playing outdoor games are vital for the physical education and growth of
children. It increases their activity power and makes them more vigilant in
body and mind. For this reason, many educational institutions encourage
drill sessions and extra-curricular activities like sports in their curriculum.

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MS Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( pronunciation (help·info) born 7 July 1981), is a
former Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national
team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2017 and in Test cricket from
2008 to 2014. Under his captaincy, India won the inaugural 2007 ICC
World Twenty20, the 2010 and 2016 Asia Cups, the 2011 ICC Cricket
World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. A right-handed middle-
order batsman and wicket-keeper, Dhoni is one of the highest run scorers
in One Day Internationals (ODIs) with more than 10,000 runs scored and is
considered an effective "finisher" in limited-overs formats. [2][3][4] He is widely
regarded as one of the greatest wicket-keeper batsmen and captains in the
history of the game.[5] He was also the first wicket-keeper to effect
100 stumpings in ODI cricket.[6]

Dhoni made his ODI debut on 23 December 2004 against Bangladesh, and

played his first Test a year later against Sri Lanka. He has been the
recipient of many awards, including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award
in 2008 and 2009 (the first player to win the award twice), the Rajiv Gandhi
Khel Ratna award in 2007, the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian
honour, in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian
honour, in 2018.[7] Dhoni was named as the captain of the ICC World Test
XI in 2009, 2010 and 2013. He has also been selected a record 8 times
in ICC World ODI XI teams, 5 times as captain. The Indian Territorial
Army conferred the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel[8] to Dhoni on 1
November 2011. He is the second Indian cricketer after Kapil Dev to
receive this honour.

Dhoni also holds numerous captaincy records such as the most wins by an
Indian captain in ODIs and T20Is, and most back-to-back wins by an Indian
captain in ODIs. He took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007
and led the team to its first-ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and
New Zealand. In June 2013, when India defeated England in the final of the
Champions Trophy in England, Dhoni became the first captain to win all
three ICC limited-overs trophies (World Cup, Champions Trophy and
the World Twenty20). After taking up the Test captaincy in 2008, he led the
team to series wins in New Zealand and the West Indies, and the Border-
Gavaskar Trophy in 2008, 2010 and 2013. In 2009, Dhoni also led the
Indian team to number one position for the first time in the ICC Test
rankings.

In 2013, under Dhoni's captaincy, India became the first team in more than
40 years to whitewash Australia in a Test series. In the Indian Premier
League, he captained the Chennai Super Kings to victory at
the 2010, 2011 and 2018 seasons, along with wins in
the 2010 and 2014 editions of Champions League Twenty20. In
2011, Time magazine included Dhoni in its annual Time 100 list as one of
the "Most Influential People in the World." [9] Dhoni holds the post of Vice-
President of India Cements Ltd., after resigning from Air India. India
Cements is the owner of the Indian Premier League team Chennai Super
Kings, and Dhoni has been its captain since the first IPL season. [10][11] He
announced his retirement from Tests on 30 December 2014. [12]

In 2012, SportsPro rated Dhoni as the sixteenth most marketable athlete in

the world.[13] He is the co-owner of Indian Super League team Chennaiyin
FC.[14] In June 2015, Forbes ranked Dhoni at 23rd in the list of highest paid
athletes in the world, estimating his earnings at US$31 million.[15] In 2016, a
biopic M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story was made on his life and his cricket
career up to the Indian team's win at the 2011 Cricket World Cup.