Protective Equipment
inches). It weighs between 155.9 grams to 163 grams.
Protective Equipment
In cricket, batsmen, wicketkeepers, and some close-in fielders wear various protective equipment. They mainly include helmets, leg pads, gloves, jockstraps, and certain guards are among the key protective equipment.
In football, the players wear stockings, shin guards, sliding shorts, mouth guards, protective cups, knee and elbow pads, padded soccer pants, soccer gloves, and protective headgear, on top of the soccer jersey, shorts, and shoes.
The basic soccer equipment: Image credit
5 – Playing and Scoring Formats
A typical football match is played in two halves of 45 minutes each. At the end of each half, a few minutes of stoppage time (injury time) is added. The team that posts the most goals at the end of the match wins the match.
If both the teams have equal goals at the end, then depending on the rules of the competition, the result can be decided by the extra time of 30 minutes or a penalty shoot-out. It’s typically the game of attack versus defense, or attacker’s kick shot or shot versus goalkeeper’s dive and save.
Cricket is all about runs and wickets, bowlers versus batsmen. Here, bowlers deliver balls to the batsman to get him out or restrain him from scoring runs, while the opponent batsmen try to hit the balls and score runs.
In limited-over formats (50 overs in One-Day matches/20 overs in Twenty-20 matches), the team batting first posts some runs called as the target. If the other side achieves the target in the designated overs, then they win the match.
In the case of Test matches, both the sides bat twice, and play for five days. There is no limitation in terms of overs.
Unlike football, only the bowling side has all their 11 players on the field in cricket, and only two batsmen stay on the field from the batting side. Other players and substitutes follow the game from the dressing room or the dugout.
6 – The Rule of Substitutes
You must have noticed a substitute player in football scoring a goal, goalkeeping, or even captaining the side. In FIFA 2014 world cup final, Mario Gotze who was brought in as a substitute in the 88th minute scored the world championship-winning goal in the 113th minute.
In cricket, substitutes are not allowed to bowl, bat, wicket keep or captain the side. They can only field and replace an injured player. The original player can return to the game as soon as recovered from the injury.
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