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How do you play cricket? What is cricket? Is it like rugby?

Nick Gandy, England

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Sportplan TeamAdministrator, United Kingdom

Hi James,

Where to start? Well being an Englishman we would have thought you would be well versed with the laws of cricket. For a general overview of the game the video below is a good starting point:

For a more detailed write up of the rules we can only recommend you search online - Wikipedia has a good outline of the Laws of Cricket which you might like to read.

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