Alastair Cook Exclusive Interview
“I was disappointed, I was in really good form. Obviously selection didn’t go my way, and I have to try and score some runs to try and put my name back in the hat.”
Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport. Many variations exist, with its most popular form played on an oval-shaped outdoor arena known as a cricket field at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard (20.12 m) long pitch that is the focus of the game. A game (or match) is contested between two teams of eleven players each. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the end of an innings.
“I was disappointed, I was in really good form. Obviously selection didn’t go my way, and I have to try and score some runs to try and put my name back in the hat.”
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