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Someone explain cricket to me Anonymous
Hopeless Amerifag here. Can someone explain cricket to me? The (limited) highlights I've watched seem interesting, but I can't even read the wikipedia article and understand how it is played. When I sometimes read articles about results, I am beyond clueless (I don't know what the score even is...I see things that are like 104-2, and I don't even know if that is a close match or whatever.) I can see it being hard to explain though- I'd never really thought about how hard it would be to explain baseball to someone who is unfamiliar, and it is probably like that.

Also, why does it seem like only international matches get any press? Is domestic cricket something that anybody follows? I've never even heard of a club.
>> Anonymous
Instead of cricket, why not learn a foreign language? And not just some boring one that everybody knows, learn like Hungarian or something. Then you'd be a certified badass. I bet it's harder than Cricket.
>> Anonymous
cbf explaining all but ur 104 is runs (scoring like points) and the 2 is wickets (like strike outs) u can get out (a wicket) heaps of ways like knowing over the wooden things behind the batsmen (guy with bat) cought run out (inbetween the crease, a line that u must stand behind to be safe but cross at the other end of the pitch to get runs) i dunno look up cricket for dummies or somthing
>> Anonymous
>>412772
anyone who isn't a chav want to try to answer this?
>> Commissioner Red !5gFoSxriW2
All you need to know about cricket:

Cricket matches last, on average, days.

DAYS. Not hours, DAYS.
>> Anonymous
Its like baseball.
Except higher scoring
>> Anonymous
Cricket was here, Baseball is a fag.
>> Anonymous
>>413399
Right then:
2 teams: 11 players each
In 5 day cricket there are a maximum of 4 full innings, each side gets to bat and bowl twice

there is a coin toss to determine who bowls or bats first, the batting team stays batting until 'got out' by the bowling team through a variety of methods (eg. making the ball hit the wooden stumps or a fielder or wicket keeper(dude with huge gloves) catches them out)
once 10 of the batting players are 'out; the innings is over an the teams swap.and whoever gets the highest total run score at the end wins
>> Anonymous
>>413415

explain the fielding positions and lbw
>> Anonymous
>>413421
If the ball was going to hit the wicket if it wasn't blocked by the bowlers leg (controversial and needs to be properly done by ''hawk-eye' rather than umpire

the fielding positions are just tactics to defend where the batter likes to hit it too,
>> Anonymous
For inventing the game and language, you English fuckers sure are illiterate.

Look, here is how Cricket works. It's like baseball, except that with one strike (if the ball knocks off the wicket) you're out. Otherwise, you can hit the ball wherever you want. There's no foul territory. There are two bases, and you run back and forth between them as many times as you can, with your teammate doing the same from the opposite base. If a fielder hits your wicket before you reach the base, you're out (essentially, all plays are force plays). The usual pop out or fly out pertain as well. Since you have to have two guys in play at all times (one for each base) the inning is over once ten of the eleven guys on your team are out.

There are myriad other stupid rules but those are the basics it takes to understand Cricket if you know baseball.
>> Anonymous
"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's
on the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the
next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side
that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to
get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both
sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including
those who are not out, that is the end of the game!"
>> Anonymous
Club cricket is a joke - most players in australia who make test squads go to India to ply their trade, it's quite lucrative business and the clubs haev a big following there
>> Anonymous
I'm an American and i think cricket is sweet. But if it's not baseball/football/basketball you don't here about it here, period. This is sad, I think my fellow Americans could really get into Rugby, Cricket, and Hurling if we weren't so busy shitdicking around with foooootballlll
>> Anonymous
>>414490
Why do you hate America?


jk
>> Anonymous
I just went to wiki and read about it.

Sounds fucking fun as hell.
>> Anonymous
I've learned a bit about Cricket from watching some Indian students play at the intramural fields near my university. I'm curious as to whether I'd be able to hit the ball after it's bounced off the ground. Maybe one day I'll get the nerve to ask to play with them.
>> Aussie !!l+bA5F1/wqx
>>414845
There are generally 3 types of cricket:
20/20 cricket
One Day Cricket
Test Match Cricket

Watch 20/20 cricket. THAT is fun as hell. It's 20 overs (an over is 6 bowls (pitches)) for each team. It's basically trying to smack the shit out of the ball whenever possible, but still holding back a little bit so that you don't get out straight away.
One Day matches are bearable to watch, and they last for 50 overs for each team.
Test matches can last for up to 5 days, with sides just tapping the ball back if they know they won't win. Once the 5 days are up and no winner determined, it's a draw.

There's currently a test match going on between Australia and India.
>> Aussie !!l+bA5F1/wqx
>>414855
You NEED a cup.

It can also be played with a tennis ball for good fun. Easier to put spin on the ball if you're bowling (pitching) if that's the case.
You can alternatively bring a sturdy wicket (referring to what the ball is bounced off, not the base) to the beach and just hammer the stumps into the sand.