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What is Over in Cricket?

A set of six legal deliveries bowled from one end of the pitch by a single bowler. After each over, the bowling switches to the other end with a different bowler, and the field adjusts around the new striker. Wides and no-balls do not count towards the six.

Example: Eighteen runs came off the final over of the innings.

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