Cricket is a globally popular bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of eleven players. Originating in England, it's a major sport across Commonwealth...
International cricket is primarily played in three formats: Test cricket (multi-day matches), One Day Internationals (ODIs, 50 overs per side), and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is, 20 overs per side).
A standard cricket team consists of eleven players. Substitutes are allowed for fielding injured players, but they cannot bat or bowl.
The objective is for one team to score more runs than the opposing team. Teams take turns batting to score runs while the other team bowls and fields to get batsmen out.
The Ashes is a historic Test cricket series contested biennially between England and Australia. It is one of the oldest and most fiercely competitive rivalries in the sport, dating back to 1882.