<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Characteristics </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Team members </Th> <Td> 2 teams of 6 - 15 </Td> </Tr> <P> Rounders (Irish: cluiche corr) is a bat - and - ball game played between two teams . Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather - cased ball with a rounded end wooden, plastic or metal bat . The players score by running around the four bases on the field . </P> <P> Played in England since Tudor times, it is referenced in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket - Book where it was called baseball . The game is popular among British and Irish school children, particularly among girls . As of 2015 it is played by seven million children in the UK . </P>

How many bases must be completed in a game of rounders to score a point