In cricket, two teams of eleven players compete in a bat-and-ball

match on a field that has a 22-yard (20-meter) pitch in the middle.

Each team's wicket is made up of two bails balanced on three stumps.
One member of the fielding team, the bowler, bowls the ball towards
the striker's wicket from the other end of the pitch while two
members of the batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in
front of either wicket. In order for the batting team to score one
run for each exchange, the striker's objective is to hit the bowled
ball and then trade places with the nonstriker. Runs are also scored
when the ball is unlawfully bowled or when it reaches or crosses the
field's boundary.

By hitting hitters (allowing them to be declared "out"), the fielding

team attempts to stop runs from being scored. A wicket can be hit
with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of it, or
it can be bowled, which occurs when the ball strikes the striker's
wicket and knocks out the bails. Alternatively, the ball can be
dismissed by the fielding side catching it after it is struck by the
bat but before it hits the ground.