Write an essay on the topic 'cricket'.

Such questions need to be attempted on your own to test your creative writing skills. However, these points might help you elaborate:

-a popular game played between two teams of eleven players each

-umpires help take decisions and deciding result

-batsmen, bowlers and wicket keeper

-originally intended as gentleman's game over five days in England

-developed new versions of fifty over and twenty over games

-cricketing gear includes bat, ball, gloves, pads and wickets with bails

-over the years has gained in popularity and star status for its known players

-greats include Bradman, Richards,Tendulkar, Hadlee, Dhoni and innumerable others

- a way of life in India, every colony has its own team of cricket players and lovers

-it is a uniting force in the country