How to reach the Sicilian defense?
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The simple answer is that you must be playing with black pieces, you can only play sicilian defense if white plays e4 on the first move. Then you can play c5 and this is called siclian defense.
move the King’s pawn two squares (1. e4) then, Black should respond by moving the light-squared Bishop’s pawn also two squares (1… c5).