Minnesota State Mankato’s Cricket Club will host an interstate, 14-team cricket tournament – biggest in the Midwest – Friday through Sunday, Oct. 9-11.
The tournament begins at 4:30 p.m. Friday in Myers Field House. Semifinals will be played at 6 and 8 p.m. Sunday, with the final match starting at 10 p.m. Tournament contests are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public, and all games will be in the field house.
Teams from North Dakota State, South Dakota State, Winona State, St. Cloud State, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Cricket League, Eagan Cricket Club, Minnesota State Mankato Alumni and St. Cloud Alumni, as well as six local teams, will participate.
In 2007 a group of Minnesota State Mankato international students organized the university’s first cricket tournament, and it quickly became the region’s biggest. The Minnesota State Mankato team is defending tournament champion, winning the last three major area tournaments (April in Mankato, August in Minneapolis and October in St. Cloud).
Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport between two teams, usually with 11 players each. The match is played on a grass field with a flat surface (“pitch”) in the middle. At each end of the pitch is a set of three parallel wooden stakes (“stumps”) and two crosspieces (“bails”), which together comprise the “wickets.”
A player bowls a hard, fist-sized leather ball from one wicket toward the other. The batsman from the opposing team defends the wicket from the ball with a wooden bat, while other members of the bowler’s team stand in various positions around the field. The match is won by the team that scores more runs.
Loved by millions in Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and Central America, modern cricket originated in England and is popular in present and former states of the Commonwealth. It is the nation’s most popular sport in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and is a major pastime in England, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Bermuda and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean.
The tournament is sponsored by Campus Recreation, Student Allocation Committee, the International Student Association, David Cowan (Facilities Services) and Mike Levine (Pepsi vendor). Those who need more information may contact Amer Mushtaq at amer.mushtaq@mnsu.edu or Irfan Bangash at bangash.irfan@gmail.com.
Minnesota State University, Mankato, a comprehensive, doctoral university with 14,950 students and two satellite sites, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, which comprises 32 institutions across the state.
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