Thread: Cricket....

So what exactly are the ways to get an out?

Do pitchers try to hit the batters on purpose sometimes?

Do batters charge the mound and fight the pitcher with the benches being cleared and a big brawl occurs?

Do the players chew tobacco, spit, and eat sunflower seeds?

What role do the coaches play in the game?

What's the usual clothing?

Do you have cups to protect the kiwis and spiked shoes?

Is cricket considered a sport for the upper class?

Do you have a 200th inning stretch? (baseball has a seventh inning stetch)

Do people eat foods in the stands?

Do you have cricket hooligans?

Whats the ball made of?

thats all for now:


Justin

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

So what exactly are the ways to get an out?

Do pitchers try to hit the batters on purpose sometimes?

YES SOMETIMES

Do batters charge the mound and fight the pitcher with the benches being cleared and a big brawl occurs?

NO NEVER, TOO GENTLEMANLY

Do the players chew tobacco, spit, and eat sunflower seeds?

CHEW GUM THAT'S ALL

What role do the coaches play in the game?

NONE FROM THE SPECTATORS PERSPECTIVE, BUT I'M SURE OFF THE FIELD PLENTY

What's the usual clothing?

FOR THE TEST MATCHES ALL WHITE OR CREAM, FOR THE ONE DAYERS MULTI COLOURED, USUALLY REPRESENTING THE COUNTRIES COLOURS

Do you have cups to protect the kiwis and spiked shoes?

YOU BET CALLED PROTECTORS, AND HELMETS WITH FACE GUARDS, CHEST PROTECTORS, ARM GUARDS, GLOVES, LEG PADS, SPIKED SHOES WHEN BATTING OR BOWLING MOSTLY

Is cricket considered a sport for the upper class?

IN ENGLAND YES THE OLD SCHOOL TIE THING THAT'S WHY THEY CAN'T WIN, FOR EVERY OTHER COUNTRY NO

Do you have a 200th inning stretch? (baseball has a seventh inning stetch)

NOT SURE WHAT THAT IS?

Do people eat foods in the stands?

YES THEY DO AND COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF THE AMBER FLUID

Do you have cricket hooligans?

YES THEY ARE MAINLY IN BAY 13 AT THE MCG

Whats the ball made of?

Equipment
Cricket Ball:
Hard, cork and string ball, covered with leather. A bit like a baseball (in size and hardness), but the leather covering is thicker and joined in two hemispheres, not in a tennis ball pattern. The seam is thus like an equator, and the stitching is raised slightly. The circumference is between 224 and 229 millimetres (8.81 to 9.00 inches), and the ball weighs between 156 and 163 grams (5.5 to 5.75 ounces). Traditionally the ball is dyed red, with the stitching left white. Nowadays white balls are also used, for visibility in games played at night under artificial lighting.
Cricket Bat:
Blade made of willow, flat on one side, humped on the other for strength, attached to a sturdy cane handle. The blade has a maximum width of 108 millimetres (4.25 inches) and the whole bat has a maximum length of 965 millimetres (38 inches).
Wickets:
There are two wickets - wooden structures made up of a set of three stumps topped by a pair of bails. These are described below.
Stumps:
Three wooden posts, 25 millimetres (1 inch) in diameter and 813 millimetres (32 inches) high. They have have spikes extending from their bottom end and are hammered into the ground in an evenly spaced row, with the outside edges of the outermost stumps 228 millimetres (9 inches) apart. This means they are just close enough together that a cricket ball cannot pass between them.
Bails:
Two wooden crosspieces which sit in grooves atop the adjacent pairs of stumps.

thats all for now:


Justin

CHEERS
JOHN

I start a thread to explain cricket... and an Aussie does it for me!

Now thats team work!

John... could you now go and explain the rules to Vaughn et al...

they seem to be struggling somewhat...

A few questions.

How do you get an out other than the bowler hitting the wicket defended by the batsman?


How do you score a run? Is it a trip to the other wicket or a total round trip or something else entirely?

How long does a game usually last?

Here goes:

Originally Posted by Wildtim

A few questions.

How do you get an out other than the bowler hitting the wicket defended by the batsman?

There are 10 ways a batsman can be out:

Caught
Bowled
Leg before wicket
Run-out
Stumped
Handled the ball
Timed out
Double hit
Hit wicket
Obstructing the field



How do you score a run? Is it a trip to the other wicket or a total round trip or something else entirely?

There are 2 batsmen on the pitch at any one time. 1 run is scored when eah batsmen runs to the opposite wicket. For a run to be counted BOTH batsmen must run.

Also:

6 runs can be scored if the ball crosses the 'boundry' (a line marked at the edge of the playing field) without touching the ground. 4 runs will be scored if the ball touched the ground before crossing the line

How long does a game usually last?

The current world cup is made up of One Day Internationals (ODI). These last (suprisingly!) for one day. The games are limited to 50 overs per innings. (1 over = 6 deliveries). Each team has 1 innings.

Test cricket lasts 5 days and each team has two innings. Thereare no limits to overs.

Hope this helps!
Tristan

PS:
for explanations of the ways of getting out see here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...nt/default.stm

In cricket, batsmen are much harder to get out.

Unless they're English.

In six hours of play, you would expect to see an average of about 8 batsmen get out.

Unless they're English.

When I was 9 and about to be sent to the UK having been born in Hong Kong, I'll never forget my Dad sitting me down and saying "Son, you're going to England. You need to support a football team and understand cricket."

Well, I've been one of those die-hard Man Utd fans since then (one who was only born 7500 miles away from Old Trafford, so a bona fide one ), but I never properly understood cricket. It is without doubt the most obscure, mixed-up, bizarre game I've witnessed. Not only are the rules impenetrable, the scoring appears random and gargantuan, the equipment is bordering on sexual deviancy (willow bats that look like paddles for kinky bedroom games, red leather balls, all manner of padding with straps that, when put together, look like a gimp suit), and the terminology is just, well, bizarre.

• What is a Googly?
• What is a Chinaman (a term I objected to even at the age of 9!)?
• Where on the field is 'silly mid-off' and 'silly mid-on'? (That's just plain silly!)
• Why is a position called slip? And if you stand there, will you?
• And why do you turn into a Duck if you're out without scoring. And did you know you could do worse by becoming a Golden Duck?
• And how the hell has bowling the ball evolved into a move that resembles Forrest Gump trying to fly?
• There are countless hours of debate over whether a particular bowling action is illegal or not. Some Indian spin bowlers appear to want to redefine the bizarre action into something a human body cannot feasibly implement.
• The umpires are old, doddering, octagenarian men with large waists and probably short-sighted as hell. Oh, and they have to carry the players' jumpers for them like a big clotheshorse.
• Some cricket grounds have a tree right bang in the middle (e.g. Canterbury). What happens if you hit the tree? Well, you score 5. Normally you score 4 if you smash it out of the boundary, 6 if it does so without touching the ground, so I guess 5 is a fudge? You also get 5 if it hits other obstacles like a jumper a player has taken off if hot (see 'Umpires carrying jumpers' above).
• The Australians are unbeatable usually. Boring!
• Endless days of rubbing linseed oil into the bat and tapping it with a ball. Just sitting there. Tapping. And. Tapping.
• The bats can be Scoops or Double Scoops or Jumbos which school children constantly argue over which is better.
• If you are a spectator you better take the better half of a whole week off work to watch it.
• And then you sit there from dawn to dusk, with some sandwiches, lots of beer, and all the papers to read and do the crossword, or just talk with your neighbours, in fact do anything except watch apparently.
• And don't EVER try to play it or you will break fingers and get knocked unconscious.
• Oh, and for those thinking it's a bat and ball game, just to really confuse you it is perfectly legal to kick the ball.

As for England's performance.... I went to Lords to watch Day 2 of the Test match against South Africa about 3 years ago. The whole day nothing happened. Seriously. Nothing.

No-one one was even out until nearly 5.00 pm. The WHOLE day! Just some South African guy running up and down, endlessly, scoring some gargantuan number of runs. It was truly like watching paint dry.

The next day England were batting and SA took 8 wickets during play. I was at work.

I don't know why we bother.

OK I'm freakin confused. Baseball anyone?


The idea of batters running if they want, hitting if they want, watching TV if they want, playing cards if they want, is really foreign to me (but I'm trying). You can hit the ball anywhere? So the batter is really trying to defend the - what do you call it ?-- the sticks thing ? ---right but at the same time is trying to score runs.


In baseball the whole offense is based on the concept of a fair ball that forces runners to run. But here, all balls are fair and the runners aren't forced to run?

Jiminy Cricket !!! It's tough but I'm getting there.

Is it considered a game of leisure? Nothing seems forced.

So the batter's out if he obstructs a good pitch?
A batter's out if a ball is caught in the air?
Can you throw batter's out at the bases(?)


By the way "the seventh inning stretch in baseball is just a customary routine of people in the stands getting up and stretching, getting the last food and beer, between the halves of the seventh inning, before the end of the game (9th inning).

Justin

Here's an excellant cricket summary for all those interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9STt...elated&search=