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Today, I decided I wanted to learn how Cricket works.

I spent an hour or two reading the rules and watching highlights and instructional videos.

I still have no idea how this fucking sport works.
>> Anonymous
its simple, one person throws the ball, the other team hit the ball then everybody breaks for cucumber sandwiches
>> Anonymous
>>444169

>its simple, one person throws the ball, the other team hit the ball then everybody breaks for cucumber sandwiches

I know UK faggots lurk in these parts.

Teach me Cricket.
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>> Anonymous
>>444175
fuck you im irish, but if you want to know:
the defending team (batting) have 2 players on the field only; one at each stump. they keep batting until they are put out or 50 overs have been bowled (one day cricket). there are 6 balls per over, fuck it i couldnt be arsed

tl;dr you're better off
>> Anonymous
>>444193
gayest
sport
ever
>> 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.
>> Anonymous
While that is generally how a game works, cricket also have fucktons of nuance that go into a game (field placings, Bowling changes, pressure from the fielding team, differing modes of acceleration and technique from the batsman (for example, when to attack spin or slower bowlers, or when to leave the quicks). Basically a massive amount of tactical preparation before and during a game.

tl;dr. Cricket is awesome. Their is also so much more to the rule etc etc. But whatever watch some stuff on youtube.

Also. Where you from op?
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>>444231
It makes perfect sense!
>> Anonymous
>>444232

>Also. Where you from op?

Philadelphia.

Cricket has been getting a solid amount of press lately, and it annoyed me that I knew so little about the sport.
>> Anonymous
only way you will learn is by watching it
>> Anonymous
>>444235

Well, what don't you understand?

>>444238

Yeah that will be because for this guy called Allan Stanford. There is this tournament being played in Antigua called 20/20 for 20. So it's the 20 over format, only the winner tonight will win 20 million dollars, it's between England and some West Indians under the name of Stanford Superstars. The whole things is really distasteful to a lot of cricket purists, and Stanford has pretty much came out and said he's only doing it to get more of an audience in America.

20/20 is seen as quite a glitzy and fast version of test cricket, so there is quite an active effort on the part of some people to make cricket more popular elsewhere other than Asia, England SA, Australia etc etc
>> Anonymous
>>444247

I want to see it succeed in America (sans the eccentric billionaire).

I want more viable international sports that aren't soccer.
>> Anonymous
Only way you'll learn is by watching or playing it.

I'm English and i have a faint grasp of cricket and that's only because i live next to a cricket club and even then i only go there 'cause the beer is cheap.
>> Anonymous
OP here.

Where is the "heart" of the sport at this point? Is it still an English sport for the most part? I know it has a solid base in England, but how popular is it there?
>> Anonymous
South Africans and Indians rule cricket now. They even destroy the british.
>> Anonymous
im>>444193
i only know cricket from the world cup last year where ireland beat pakistan and their manager was murdered
>> Anonymous
>>444252

I think if there is interest and enough money behind it, then I don't see why not. I think Canada have a team, they played in the world cup, iirc. even Hong Kong have one, lol.

>>444241

This would help alot. check myp2p.eu to see if the Stanford game is on tonight. Although bear in mind it is only a minute representation of cricket as a whole, and while enjoyable on a certain level, the greater depth of text cricket is where it's at ;)
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>> Anonymous
>>444265

a recent IPL held in India was a massive turning point in cricket. Basically in was a huge franchise that pitted cities in India against each other, representation of those cities in mega rich Indians bough players from all around the cricket world in order for them to play in this 20/20 tournament, except the English lol, who banned their players from going. Basically money played a huge part in this, and the need to attract more people to watch the game. So this was seen as a switch from the traditional test cricket to the more exciting shorter from.

While it's early days yet, obviously cricket is that bit more popular than it was, with someone like Stanford willing to hold this sort of huge money making matches. (The winner of tonight's match will have the biggest payout in any sporting match, like ever)
>> Anonymous
>>444265

Also about the England part. Yes it is still popular, sort of. The recent Ashes (test series held against Australia, really old rivalry centered around the ashes, an urn into which was placed the charred remains of some stumps which proclaimed the death of English cricket. lulz) held here, had sell out crowds and all that Jazz, and the standard of cricket was delicious. So yes, there is still bucketloads of interest here. Only because of 20/20 it's starting to leave the (at heart) traditionalist English a bit behind everyone else.
>> Anonymous
>>444292
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