What Are Innings And Overs in cricket ?

Answer 1

Innings are only used in test matches of cricket. This means that a whole team bats and either when they all get out or the team retires this means a end of an innings. Then the other team do the same. If you want to win outright at least one team has to bat the full 2 innings and Whoever has the most runs with both the innings put together wins the test match.

Overs are spells of bowling where a single bowler has to bowl 6 good balls. They usually come on and bowl 3 or 4 overs in one days and up to 20 overs in a test match- this is in one spell of bowling then they have a break and two more bowlers bowl.

Answer 2

INNINGS:
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In cricket, a team's innings usually lasts until 10 of the 11 batsmen in the team are out, leaving the not out batsman without a partner and thus unable to continue, or until another event intervenes (such as the captain of the team declaring the innings closed for tactical reasons; or the time allotted for the entire game expiring).

In First-class cricket and Test cricket, each side has two innings. In one-day cricket and other abbreviated forms of the game, an innings lasts only for a set period or for a certain number of overs (typically 50).

An individual innings usually lasts until the batsman is given out, or until the end of the team innings. Although batsmen bat together in pairs, this combination is never called an innings: it is a partnership or a stand.

OVER:
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In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it shall be completed by a teammate.

An over must consist of six legal deliveries. No balls and wides do not count toward the six-ball tally. The captain of the fielding team decides which bowler will bowl any given over (subject to the restriction that no bowler may bowl two overs in succession).

At the completion of each over, the direction of bowling reverses, so that the new bowler will approach the batter from the opposite end of the pitch. No bowler is allowed to bowl consecutive overs. Generally, the captain will appoint two bowlers to alternate overs from opposite ends of the pitch, until one tires or becomes ineffective, at which point the captain will replace that bowler with another. The period of time during which a bowler is part of such a pair is known as a spell.

In one-day cricket, bowlers are restricted to the total number of overs they may bowl in a match, and the length of the game is determined by the total number of overs bowled (usually 40 or 50 per innings). In Test and county cricket, teams are usually required to bowl a minimum number of overs per day to prevent spoiling of the game by a slow over rate.