MY SPORTS WRITING EDITION 3.

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Greetings to All

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I hope that you all be well by the grace and mercy of Almighty Allah. I warmly welcome you in my this Publication that is actually the participation in this steem4bloggers community in the contest organized by @sportsnixon.

Name of the sports discipline that is in the previous image?

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The name of the sports discipline that is shown in the above picture is Cricket. Cricket is one of the most popular and most played sports discipline in the whole world and their are many countries that are very much popular in this sports.

Cricket is played internationally as well as at the national level in different areas of the world. Especially our subcontinent Asia is very much popular in this sports. There are many international teams from all the countries that like playing cricket.

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Tell us about this sport and what are its rules?

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Cricket is a very popular game that is played in a ground which is called as cricket ground. The ground could be in the oval shape, square or the circular shape. There are total 11 players in one team and at least 2 teams can play a cricket match at a time. There are different leaves and tournaments that are organised at national and international levels of the world.

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This is game is played with the help of different sports items like balls and bats, gloves and wickets, helmets etc. There are three sub categories of players in this game which are bowlers batsman and the wicket keeper. All the players of this game are fielders as well.

There are different rules that has been introduced in this game and different areas follow different rules. But the general rule is that the two teams play cricket match at a time and the team which scores more won the game. The scores could be in the form of singles, doubles, triples, fours or sixes.

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Since when has it been practiced?

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This sports game is one of the most popular games in the world right now. The cricket had been initiated from England in the late 16th century but it became popular at the end of the 18th century. Since then cricket has become one of the most popular game and there are different tournaments and leagues that are arranged in different parts of the world.

The most popular country where this sport is played?

Although, this game was started from England but now the Asian countries including Pakistan and India are the most popular countries where this sport is practised on the daily base. There are also to separate teams of these two countries Pakistan and India.

Both of these countries arrange different tournaments and leagues within their country where they promote cricket and find out new players to add them in their international teams so that they can perform well in the largest event in cricket known as Cricket World Cup.

Do you like this contest called sports writing?

Yes, I liked this contest very much. I really like this episode of the contest because I am in big fan of cricket. The theme of the contest is very much interesting and we can get a knowledge about different sports that are played in different parts of the world with the help of this sports contest. I would like to see more contest like this and different sports discipline could be seen in this contest.

I would like to invite @steemdoctor1,@yenny47,@precious123 to participate in the contest.

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@mateenfatima