hockey

1.Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by try
ing to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.
2.Field hockey is played on gravel, natural grass, sand-based or water-based art
ificial turf, with a small, hard ball.
3.The game is popular among both males and females in many parts of the world, p
articularly in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
4.The governing body is the 116-member International Hockey Federation (FIH). Me
n's field hockey has been played at each summer Olympic Games since 1908 (except
1912 and 1924), while women's field hockey has been played at the Summer Olympi
c Games since 1980.
5.Modern field hockey sticks are J-shaped and constructed of a composite of wood
, glass fibre or carbon fibre (sometimes both) and have a curved hook at the pla
ying end, a flat surface on the playing side and curved surface on the rear side
.
baseball
1.Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each
2.The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a s
eries of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond
3.Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher
of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring run
s by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team ca
n stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means
.
4.The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team recor
ds three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine inni
ngs make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the g
ame wins.
5.Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being pl
ayed in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game and the related rounder
s were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the moder
n version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was wi
dely recognized as the national sport of the United States.

soccer
1.Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played
between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is the world's mos
t popular sport
2.The game is played on a rectangular field of grass or green artificial turf, w
ith a goal in the middle of each of the short ends.
3.The object of the game is to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal.
In general play, the goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball
with their hands or arms, while the field players typically use their feet to k
ick the ball into position, occasionally using their torso or head to intercept
a ball in midair
4.The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score
is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into
 extra time and/or a penalty shootout, depending on the format of the competitio
n.
5.The Laws of the Game, published in England by the Football Association in 1863
, remain the basis for the way the sport is played today. Association football i
s governed internationally by FIFA, which organises the FIFA World Cup every fou
r years
cricket
1.Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport. Many variations exist, with its most pop
ular form played on an oval-shaped outdoor arena known as a cricket field at the
centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard (20.12 m) long pitch that is the focus
of the game
2.At either end of the pitch, 22 yards (20 m) apart, are placed the wickets. The
se serve as a target for the bowling (aka fielding) side and are defended by the
batting side which seeks to accumulate runs
3.A game (or match) is contested between two teams of eleven players each. One t
eam bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls an
d fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the ba
tting team
4.A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running
to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being di
smissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the end of an innings.
5.There are also variations in the length of a game of cricket. In professional
cricket this ranges from a limit of 20 overs per side (Twenty20) to a game playe
d over 5 days (Test cricket, which is the highest level of the game.
6The innings (ending with 's' in both singular and plural form) is the term used
for the collective performance of the batting side.
[28] In theory, all eleven members of the batting side take a turn to bat but, f
or various reasons, an "innings" can end before they all do so.
7.Depending on the form of the match being played, there are different rules tha
t govern how a game is won, lost, drawn or tied
8.The rules of two-innings games are known as the Laws of Cricket and maintained
by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC
); additional Standard Playing Conditions for Test matches and One Day Internati
onals augment these laws
9.Cricket was first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th c
entury. By the end of the 18th century, it had developed to the point where it h
ad become the national sport of England
10.The game on the field is regulated by two umpires, one of whom stands behind
the wicket at the bowler's end, the other in a position called "square leg", a p
osition 15 20 metres to the side of the "on strike" batsman

Cycling
1.Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport
, recreation, or for sport
2.Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists[2] or bicyclists.[3] Apart from ordina
ry two-wheeled bicycles, cycling also includes riding unicycles, tricycles, quad
racycles, and other similar human-powered vehicles (HPVs).
3.Shortly after the introduction of bicycles, competitions developed independent
ly in many parts of the world. Early races involving boneshaker style bicycles w
ere predictably fraught with injuries
4.Large races became popular during the 1890s "Golden Age of Cycling", with even
ts across Europe, and in the U.S. and Japan as well
5.As the bicycle evolved its various forms, different racing formats developed.
Road races may involve both team and individual competition, and are contested i
n various ways.They range from the one-day road race, criterium, and time trial
to multi-stage .