Can someone explain cricket?

[renard_ruse]

What's with all these different types of games, test, one day, limited overs, 20/20? WTF is all that?

 

[Bad_Doggie]

What's with all these different types of games, test, one day, limited overs, 20/20? WTF is all that?

Not in a way that you'd understand it no.

For that I'd need a box of wax crayons and a heap of patience neither of which I have.


Woof!

 

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[Exquisition]

What's with all these different types of games, test, one day, limited overs, 20/20? WTF is all that?

I'll explain it so it's nice and simple:

The Ins & Outs Of Cricket

There are two sides, one out in the field the other one in.

Each man that's in 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 that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are 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.

 

[fair_warning]

Cricket
(adj.)
describes the period of time required for paint to dry.

One Day - water based paint
Test match - Solvent based paint

 

[ohdownunder]

a test match is over 5 days, each team has 2 innings to get as many runs as possible
a one day match or limited overs is 50 overs where the 2 teams score as many runs as they can with slightly different rules
twenty20 is 20 overs each, a much shorter and faster more exciting type of game, where both teams basically try to get runs as quickly as possible in the 20 overs with again different types of rules

cricket is just like baseball, you basically have to watch it and get into it to appreciate it

 

[mercury14]

cricket is just like baseball, you basically have to drink like seven beers to appreciate it

Fixed your post.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

that's like playing golf an baseball at the same time lol

 

[mercury14]

Cricket bores me. Aussie rules football was better.

 

[fair_warning]

Cricket bores me. Aussie rules football was better.

Srsly, I actually don't mind a good one day match. As far as a test match is concerned - I prefer the edited highlights (about 3 minutes) of the 5 days of play. Otherwise, see my post above about paint drying.

 

[ishtat]

Cricket bores me. Aussie rules football was better.

Aussie Rules football (developed from Gaelic (Irish) football) is similar to and almost as tedious as basketball, except that it's played on a pitch 250 metres long and you kick the ball rather than throw it.

International cricket is good because of the cultural conflicts . The top teams are South Africa, West Indies, (Caribbean), England, Australia, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Thus Boers play African Blacks who play white Australians who play Hindu Indians who play Moslem Pakistanis (when they are not fighting wars) and Sri Lankans who fight each other, and they all hate the English as the ex colonial power.

Cricket as a game offers an unusually high opportunity of humiliating your opponent as well as winning, and that is one of the great fascinations of it.

 

[Exquisition]

Srsly, I actually don't mind a good one day match. As far as a test match is concerned - I prefer the edited highlights (about 3 minutes) of the 5 days of play. Otherwise, see my post above about paint drying.

If you think Test cricket is like watching paint dry then I suspect you do not understand the intricacies of the game.

 

[kbate]

Cricket is a game played by those nations who want to have a game that Americans don't understand.

Other than that, you need know nothing about it. It isn't played in any nation that matters in the modern world.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

Cricket is a game played by those nations who want to have a game that Americans don't understand.

Other than that, you need know nothing about it. It isn't played in any nation that matters in the modern world.

thanks for sharing

 

[knot_sweet]

I'll explain it so it's nice and simple:

The Ins & Outs Of Cricket

There are two sides, one out in the field the other one in.

*snipped *

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.

The comically awful part about that post was that I can follow what he's talking about easily enough.

That said, I prefer 20 20 cricket. Hard, fast, smack the crap out of it cricket. Sure, it doesn't have the strategy of Test cricket, but it's a lot better entertainment value.

 

[Sean]

Cricket is a game played by those nations who want to have a game that Americans don't understand.

In that case, noughts and crosses would suffice.

 

[Sean]

As to the OP, if you find cricket boring, you don't understand what you're seeing.

 

[kbate]

In that case, noughts and crosses would suffice.

Ah, a game which allows a Brit to excel. Excellent.

 

[torchthebitch]

It isn't played in any nation that matters in the modern world.

India and Pakistan.

 

[kbate]

India and Pakistan.

They matter?

 

[oggbashan]

 

[cjh]

Cricket
(adj.)
describes the period of time required for paint to dry.

One Day - water based paint
Test match - Solvent based paint

Heh.

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[torchthebitch]

They matter?

To the US, yes. Mind you I'm hardly surprised we Europeans have to explain US foreign policy to Americans and their famed disinterest in the rest of the world.

 

[trysail]

I missed my true calling. I'd have been a world class bowler. Any sport that has a googly can't be all bad.