Claim: Cricket has players.

In the sport of cricket , the crease is a certain area demarcated by white lines painted or chalked on the field of play , and pursuant to the rules of cricket they help determine legal play in different ways for the fielding and batting side . They define the area within which the batsmen and bowlers operate . The term crease may refer to any of the lines themselves , particularly the popping crease , or to the region that they demark . Law 9 of the Laws of Cricket governs the size and position of the crease markings , and defines the actual line as the back edge of the width of the marked line on the grass , i.e. , the edge nearest to the wicket at that end .   Four creases -LRB- one popping crease , one bowling crease , and two return creases -RRB- are drawn at each end of the pitch , around the two sets of stumps . The batsmen generally play in and run between the areas defined by the creases at each end of the pitch . The bowling creases lie 22 yards -LRB- 66 feet or 20.12 m -RRB- away , and marks the other end of the pitch . For the fielding side , the crease defines whether there is a no ball because a fielder has encroached on the pitch or the wicket-keeper has moved in front of the wicket before he is permitted to do so . In addition , historically part of the bowler 's back foot in the delivery stride was required to fall behind the bowling crease to avoid a delivery being a no ball . This rule was replaced by a requirement that part of the bowler 's front foot in the delivery stride must fall behind the popping crease -LRB- see below -RRB- .