In cricket, an innings is declared finished if: Cricket is a team sport played between two groups of eleven players each. ... An innings, or inning, is a segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which a side takes its turn to bat. ...

1. Sufficient wickets are taken – all but one of the batsmen are out (dismissed)
2. A team chasing a given target number of runs to win manages to do so
3. A set number of overs are bowled
4. A captain declares his innings closed
5. Match Referee may forfeit the game

An innings also ends if the game finishes as a draw. In the sport of cricket, a dismissal occurs when the batsman is out (also known as taking a wicket) // Ways of getting out A batsman can be dismissed in a number of ways, the most common being bowled, caught, leg before wicket (LBW), stumped and run out. ...

Taking wickets

When the bowling team has dismissed all but one of the batsmen the innings is said to be over. The batting team is said to be 'all out'. Cricket batsman A batsman in the sport of cricket is a player whose speciality in the game is batting. ...

For example, in most games, each side has 11 players, so 10 wickets need to be taken to bowl a side out.

There is an exception to this rule if one or more batsmen are too injured or ill to bat. In such cases, when only one batsman remains not out and capable of batting, the innings is over.

Overs bowled

In some games, each team is allocated a set number of overs and its innings is closed once they have been bowled (subject to the innings not ending by another method beforehand).

A restriction can be imposed in a one-innings game, or in the first innings of a two innings game.

Where such a restriction is imposed in a one-innings game, it is said to be a limited overs match. An example of this is an ODI match, where each team can bat for only 50 consecutive overs. Once the 50 overs are up, and the team has not been bowled out, the innings is closed. If rain intervenes so that all the allocated overs cannot be bowled in the time available for the game, the overs restriction may be modified so that the game may be completed in the time that remains. A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country. ... In the sport of cricket an over is a series of six consecutive balls bowled by a single bowler. ...

Declaration

If the captain of the batting team feels that his team has amassed a sufficiently large score, he, or the batsmen at the crease deputising for him, may end his team's innings voluntarily by declaring. This option does not apply to limited overs matches. Declarations allow the declaring side to use all the remaining time to attempt to gain the wickets necessary for victory.

See also:Declaration and forfeiture In the sport of cricket a declaration occurs when a captain declares his teams innings closed and a forfeiture is when a captain choosing to forfeit an innings. ...

Achieving the target

If the initial batting team has set a target –and the team which bats last manages to achieve the target, the innings is ended with a win for the team chasing.

Forfeiture

In the event of the match being disrupted by unruly fans of the host team, the Match Referee may cede the match to the visiting team, if they are in a vantage position. This has happened once so far in the Cricket World Cup 1996 semifinal, when the India-Sri Lanka match was abandoned and Sri Lanka were declared the winners. The ICC Cricket World Cup is the world championship of one-day cricket, a tournament held quadrenially between all Test-playing nations, as well as several representatives from other cricket-playing nations who qualify through a series of qualifying matches. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...