Read the following text and answer the questions: Cricket is an English game. People from most other countries think it is very, very slow, but the En…

Read the following text and answer the questions: Cricket is an English game. People from most other countries think it is very, very slow, but the English think it is exciting. There are two teams with eleven players on each team in a cricket match. They play outdoors on a field. They play around two wickets. A wicket is three sticks in the ground with two sticks across them at the top. The wickets are twenty meters apart. One player is a bowler who throws a ball at the other wicket. Another player is a batsman who holds a stick called a bat. Cricket became a major sport in the 1700s.