JanieDough
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Can some one please explain this game to me and all the other yanks here? 
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Peter Parka
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Can some one please explain this game to me and all the other yanks here?
Its a bit like baseball except it goes on for several days and people only watch it so they can sit around getting pissed all day in a socially acceptable way.:thumbup
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JanieDough
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Its a bit like baseball except it goes on for several days and people only watch it so they can sit around getting pissed all day in a socially acceptable way.:thumbup
THAT part I know!!!
you took all the fun out of it!! :mad
THAT part I know!!!
you took all the fun out of it!! :mad
aww im sorry. If you want to you can punish me
JanieDough
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no you don't give head, so I'm good.
Peter Parka
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You have two sides, one out in the field and 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 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!
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Giving head up here means giving a BJ so your right I dont lol
But I do give lip tho
TGLucario475
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^This^Its a bit like baseball except it goes on for several days and people only watch it so they can sit around getting pissed all day in a socially acceptable way.:thumbup
cam elle toe
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AND then....after all that...it can still be called a draw.:willy_nilly:
cam elle toe
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Test matches ARE boring...but I don't mind the one dayers and 20/20
Cricket can be a boring game, but it can also be seriously exciting, especially the one day tests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9STtcwo0xE
Tried playing it in public school in gym class, but we lost interest in it
Tried playing it in public school in gym class, but we lost interest in it
BlackCherry
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There are quite a few pick-up leagues here...one plays in the park close to my house. I'm starting to catch on but still a headscratcher to me as to how you can still score points even when you don't hit the ball. I get it that if it doesn't hit the wicket and you don't hit the ball there are still points...I just find that odd.
JanieDough
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wait so it seriously just lasts for days???
is it similar to baseball - with bases and outs, etc. What are the sticks coming out of the ground for?
is it similar to baseball - with bases and outs, etc. What are the sticks coming out of the ground for?
yes, days and days and days.
the sticks are the wicket: if the bowler manages to hit them, knocking the bale off the top, the batsman is out, or the batsman running towards them if it's mid-play. If the batsman accidentally hits them, he's also out.
you have 2 batsman in at a time, one at each end. The bowler bowls the ball, the batsman hits it, both batsman run.
THAT part I know!!!
you took all the fun out of it!! :mad
You have two teams, four umpires (when the game started in the 19th century it was 3)
One bats, the other field and bowl against the batting team
They each have 10 wickets in order to stay in (in the case of the opposing side' to get the whole team out)
There is a pre-determined amount of overs to bowl. Each Over consists of six balls in which the bowler tries their best either not to let the opponent (the batting side) either score or to get out
Batting side: Score as much by hitting the ball, made from leather, hit with a bat made from willow..(the rules apparently). If the player skies the ball, and it doesn't touch the ground beyond the boundary, that it is a SIX, if the player hits the ball, but touches the ground before going beyond the boundary, it is a FOUR (only on those two occasions does the opposing teams fan hold up a placard with either a 6 or a 4 written on it (unwritten rule)
Whoever has the most runs wins, if either sides fail to come to a conclusion a)5 days series: a draw b) one day game: they use some stranger run rate rule: think it is call the Lewis-Duckworth rule (don't quote me)
Don't know much about county cricket, but I think it is similar in some aspects
Hope you had your fun, Jane:thumbup
In a school league match back at secondary school I came on as the first batsman and was still in at the end. Scored over half the teams runs, as well as taking 5 wickets. I got man of the match.
my life has only been downhill since that moment.
Cricket is a beautiful game.
my life has only been downhill since that moment.
Cricket is a beautiful game.
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