Cricket (sport)

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport originating on the planet Earth.

Cricket is played with a wooden bat and hard red ball, on a large grassy oval. Batsmen wear distinctive padded leg guards.

Originating in pre-industrial England, the game spreads to most of that planet during Earth's pre-space-flight period. Cricket is the most popular game in regions like South Asia and Australasia, and second only to soccer planet-wide.

By the 23rd century diplomatic exchanges has spread cricket to other Federation worlds—there are Andorian and Carnelian players on the team of the USS Mumbai. Cricketers practise their skills in cricket nets erected in spare cago bays. (TOSS strip #6 "Nets")