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Anonymous
Certainly old bean. I'd be delighted
At the moment their are three formats of Cricket (i'll stick with international). You've got test cricket, which consists of 5 days play usually with 90 to 100 overs (6 balls bowled by a bowler towards one end) in a days plays. see the current India versus Australia match for a current example.
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/indvaus2008/engine/current/match/345671.html
During these 5 days of play one team will attempt to take 20 of the opposing teams wickets. As each side has two innings each, and 10 wickets in hand).
As you an see from the above scorecard. India made 613 for 7 (Declared). A Deceleration is made when there can be no more advantage gained from batting on, with India wanting to try and boll out Austraila twice, as you can see this didn't really work. Aus in their reply made 577 all out, and at the end of the 4th days play put India into bat again where they lost two wickets to leave them on 43 for 2. The fifth and final day of this test match will see India simply bat out the day, as they can't win, they can only draw, whereas Australia can force a result by taking the remaining 8 wickets.
This sort of thing doesn't happen a great deal, the surface of the pitch in India is quite slow especially at Dehli, so the Batsman generally have a good slow wicket to easily pick shots, and thus high totals are common. On the other hand you have a pitch like Old Trafford in Manchester, where the wicket (the strip in where the batsman stand) visibly deteriorates the more it is played on, so therefore spin bowling come into play on the 4th and 5th days etc
Essentially that's how a test match works
One day internationals are based on the same principles as Test matches only with 50 overs per side, and 10 wickets apiece.
And then you've got the bastardized 20/20. which pretty much speaks for itself.
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