V-Ball Cricket is a short game based on cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

. It is played with tennis ball

Tennis ball

A tennis ball is a ball designed for the sport of tennis,approximately 6.7 cm in diameter. Tennis balls are generally bright green, but in recreational play can be virtually any color. Tennis balls are covered in a fibrous fluffy felt which modifies their aerodynamic properties...

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Rules of V-Ball

V-Ball is played on a V shaped pitch

Cricket pitch

In the game of cricket, the cricket pitch consists of the central strip of the cricket field between the wickets - 1 chain or 22 yards long and 10 feet wide. The surface is very flat and normally covered with extremely short grass though this grass is soon removed by wear at the ends of the...

. stump

Stump (cricket)

Stump is a term used in the sport of cricket where it has three different meanings:# part of the wicket# a manner of dismissing a batsman# the end of the day's play .-Part of the wicket:...

s are positioned at the point of the V. The V itself is usually marked out using cones. A stump or cone is positioned in line with and short distance away from the stumps.

The aim of the game is for the batting

Batting (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...

 team to score run

Run (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...

s by hitting the ball within the V and running around the stump or cone. V-Ball is a form of continuous cricket: The bowler can bowl as soon as the ball is returned to him. The bowler bowls underarm from a mark about 10 yards from the stumps. Batsmen can be dismissed in the following ways:

• Bowled
• Caught
• If the ball's first bounce is outside of the V
• Missing the ball 3 times (3 strikes)
• Deliberately using the legs to defend the stumps

The 3 strikes rule can be played as 3 consecutive misses or as 3 misses in total. The 3 misses-in-total version keeps the game shorter.

A 'first ball grace' rule means that a batsman can't be out first ball.

Aims of V-Ball

Hitting the ball square of the wicket

Wicket

In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch...

 comes easily to youngsters learning the game. Hitting the ball straight, or "in the V" is technique that needs to be practiced. V-Ball is a fun way to practice hitting straight. The angle of the V is typically set to 90 degrees, as in baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, but for more experienced cricketers it can be a tighter angle. Often the bowler is a neutral coach.