Hari Gidwani is associated with cricket in Bihar. He is a former Indian cricketer who played for Bihar from 1983 to 1991. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler. He was born on 15 January 1963 in Patna, Bihar. He made his first-class debut for Bihar in 1983 against Bengal. He played 59 first-class matches for Bihar, scoring 2,657 runs at an average of 27.25. He also took 101 wickets at an average of 30.65. He made his List A debut for Bihar in 1985 against Orissa. He played 42 List A matches for Bihar, scoring 1,225 runs at an average of 27.41. He also took 45 wickets at an average of 30.42. He retired from cricket in 1991.
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the bowler, “bowls” (propels) the ball from one end of the pitch towards the wicket at the other end. The batting side has one player at each end of the pitch, with the player at the opposite end of the pitch from the bowler aiming to strike the ball with a bat. The batting side scores runs when either the bowler unfairly bowls the ball to either side of the wicket (unfairly throwing the ball is called a “wide”), when either the ball reaches the boundary of the field, or when the bowler unfairly bowls the ball twice in one over (an over is six balls bowled by the same bowler). The fielding side’s aim is to prevent run-scoring and dismiss each player (so they are “out”, and are said to have “lost their wicket”). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the wicket and dislodges the bails, being caught, when a fielder catches the ball after it has been hit by the bat, being run out, when the fielder hits the wicket with the ball before the batter reaches the crease at the opposite end of the pitch, and being stumped, when the wicket-keeper hits the wicket with the ball before the batter reaches the crease at the opposite end of the pitch. When ten batsmen are dismissed, the innings ends. The team that scores the most runs wins the match.
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