Cricket is played between two teams. While one team is on the field, 2 players from the opposite team are on the pitch. These two are called batsmen. One of the batsmen is the striker while the other batsman is on the opposite end of the striker. The striker is the one who hits the ball, tries to defend the wicket.

A player from the fielding team, called bowler, will throw the ball at the striker. This action is called bowling. It is important that the bowler throws the ball over his shoulder; otherwise he will be called out. The bowler throws the ball so that it will hit the ground in front of the wicket and will jump of the ground.

While one fielder is bowler, another fielder is wicket-keeper. The wicket-keeper stands behind the striker and tries to catch the balls the striker is missing. The wicket-keeper wears webbed gloves, to protect his hands and help him catch the ball.

The wicket-keeper and bowler are elected by the team captain. The team captain is responsible for the strategies of the game. He tells every player his/her position. However, a bowler can only bowl a certain amount of balls/overs per inning. Therefore the position of the bowler changes during the inning. However, the batsman remains until the fielding team managed to get him out.

During the game, the batsmen try to score as many runs as possible. A run is scored when both batsmen arrive at their opposite wicket. The fielding team is responsible for bowling the ball against the striker and to get the batsmen out. There are several ways of getting them out. They are explained later on. If the fielding team managed to get a batsman out, a new batsman will come to replace him. This goes on, until the fielding team managed to get 10 batsmen out. Notice there will be batsman left, as there are always 11 players. However he/she will not have a partner and therefore the fielding team will get the position of the batting team and the batting team will become the fielding team.

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According to the United States Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (US-SGMA), those English immigrants who had settled in New York spent their free time playing cricket, and managed to popularise the sport up and down the East Coast colonies by the late 1700s.

Up the coast in Boston, cricket was also played by English immigrants, notably those who considered themselves as gentry.

But Boston had begun quite early on to acquire both a plebean and an Irish flavor. The game of rounders, an earlier form of cricket which seems to have been favored by the Irish, as well as by English children in the 16th century, became the game of choice among the youth.

The Boston cricketers of the time encouraged "rounders" as a secondary diversion, and even allowed it to be played in their cricket fields by those who preferred an alternative to the more formal sport of cricket.

So "early baseball", i.e. " US rounders", grew up in the USA under cricket's benign umbrella, and stayed that way for about the first hundred years of its existence.