Cricket is a premier global bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 11 players, renowned for its deep strategic complexity and varied formats. Emerging from the rural pastures of 16th-century England, it has evolved into the world's second most popular spectator sport, boasting over 2.5 billion fans across continents.

A cricket game is staged on an oval field, at the center of which lies a 22-yard rectangular strip called the . The objective is simple: score more runs than the opposition. A comprehensive study of weather impact on ODI cricket