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In today's world sports can provide the much needed entertainment and relaxation of mind, as every aspect of life seems to be full of anxiety, pressure, restlessness, tension and all those things. Cricket is one of those sports! This sport can be included among the five most popular ones namely Soccer, Lawn Tennis, Formula 1, Golf and the other is Cricket. Well all these games are full of excitement and wonderful instances. So let us talk about Cricket here.

Place of Origin:

As we all can keep our fingers crossed thinking when and where this beautiful game must have originated, the first place that comes to our mind is somewhere in Europe because the European had established their strongholds over many countries in Asia and Africa for such a long time that their cultural impacts can still be seen! The Americans do not play cricket very keenly because they have a very similar game of their liking called Baseball. If we point out some local games of any community then a very long list can be made of the whole world. Cricket is one of these local games of United Kingdom which has three parts namely Scotland, The Great Britain and England which are further divided among counties. This term county is associated with cricket, which makes it county cricket. Although a debate is on as some people believe that the ancient Vikens used to play a game several decades back that was pretty similar to cricket. As today cricket was nonexistent entity, so the believe the birth of cricket took place from the Vikens and not from the Normans which were the original English people.

Charm of Cricket:

This game has come out of ages from a local game to an international one. The reason why this game has become so much popular is not one. While thinking of these reasons we must keep in mind the fact that this game is liked mostly by those people who have been ruled over by the English people. So this is one of the wonderful aspects associated with this game. Now, let's take a U-turn from the game and think about human mind. Generally human mind likes and dislikes! Something new every moment is its basic need. Well it can't stop even for a while where something or the other is not happening at all. It likes something very unpredictable, uncertain and unknown and of funny nature of course. Cricket has all these ingredients to provide a suitable entertainment to the mind. That is why it is being liked by all sorts of people, be they are poor, rich, young, old, male, female and it goes on like that.

Forms of Cricket:

Previously cricket was played virtually at one level only and that was First Class Cricket. In the olden days cricket was a game of Kings, Lords, Princes and all those rich category people. The international form of First Class Cricket is described as Test Cricket. In Test Cricket a single test match is played in five days. Both the teams have to bat twice in these five days. Previously there used to be a rest day after two days of play, which now has been excluded so previously it was more or less a six days game. Now with the advent of One-day cricket a new chapter has been added in the history of cricket. This form of cricket is of one day only as the very name indicates. Each side has to bat 50 over. One-day cricket is more result oriented. But the players of yester years still think that real cricket is test cricket.

Professional Cricket:

For many people cricket has become their way of life. These people include the players, the umpires, the management people, the organizers, the groundsmen, the media people, the corporate sector, the sponsors and the list is endless. Each one of these people gets benefited by each other in one way or the other. For example, the players are paid for every match they play by the management people who in turn get paid by the media people for giving them the telecast rights. The media collects the money from the sponsors and the corporate sector, and the process continues. Previously cricket was played for entertainment and fun only. Now along with these two aspects much more professionalism has come. If we can imagine the game's progress in terms of reaching out to the masses; then, we wonder cricket from the streets of England went to the international arena, and has gone farther and farther to the streets of those countries where it was thought of to be a game of Kings and Princes!

Well, where its next destination would be, we can keep guessing with our fingers crossed.