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Some players are expert in each batting and bowling, or as either or these in addition to wicket-keeping, so are termed all-rounders. Bowlers are classified based on their style, typically as quick bowlers, seam bowlers or spinners. Batters are categorized in accordance with whether or not they are right-handed or left-handed. Although there may be variations in sport format, in contrast with skilled cricket, the Laws are all the time noticed and club/school matches are therefore formal and aggressive events. The sport has quite a few casual variants similar to French cricket. The wicket-keeper (sometimes referred to as simply the "keeper") is a specialist fielder subject to varied guidelines inside the Laws about his equipment and demeanour. Cricket is a bat-and-ball game performed between two teams of 11 gamers every on a subject on the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, every comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The game...