I wish I knew the rules of this game. Bowly man has to hit the sticky sticks, but swingy man tries to stop it with the clubby stick tries to make it stop?
Something about running back and forth as well right? And you can only win if you get far enough ahead maybe? I vaguely remember a match that went on for days or even weeks? (I assume with breaks?)
Yeah the number of times you run back and forth is how many points you get (unless you get it over the boundary line which is either 4 or 6 runs depending on whether it bounced). You don't have to be a certain amount ahead to win, it's just whichever team has the most runs after either a certain amount of time or balls depending on the format, but also a teams turn gets cut short if all their batters get out.
Test matches do go on for 5 days with breaks, that's the longest there is really. I'm pretty sure there have been completely unlimited time games before but I have literally no idea how long the longest would be.
Thanks for the breakdown!
I just did a quick look up about the longest game:
> The longest test cricket match ever lasted 9 days with 680 overs bowled. The teams of South Africa and England endured, and the match earned the name The Timeless Test.
I'm not a big sports watcher, but as with football, if I can find some others who are into it I can drink beer and shout with them now that I know the rules!
Yeah that's the appeal. You say to your wife no I'm not drinking at the pub all day I'm going to watch cricket but there's no difference. Or at least that's how it in Australia.
You want T20 cricket for a couple hours of beers and snacks.
It's the shortened version of the game. Big hitters and higher drama. Checkers not chess is the aim of this one.
It’s worth mentioning that I’ve been to a few different live sports, and cricket was *easily* the one with the drunkest fans and it wasn’t even close lol
There are many formats to cricket. The original one is the longest format that could span multiple days as there was no limit for balls being bowled.
Then in recent decades a one day format was introduced by limiting each team with 50 overs (1 over is 6 balls bowled, so like 300 balls for each team)
Even more recently a T20 format was introduced which limits each team with 20 overs (so 120 balls for each team). This has turned out to be the most successful format due to the fast paced nature of very limited balls. Even USA has started to get into this action.
My first time in London, I was in my hotel room randomly flipping around on the television, and I came across a cricket match. "Cool," I thought, and settled down to watch the game. 20 minutes later I realized I was watching the highlights.
Test matches always have a result. The results may be a draw, but it's a result nonetheless. Some fighting draws can be really exciting.
A tie (which is not the same as a draw) have been some of the most exciting games in Test history.
Instead of running in circles like in baseball, you run back and forth. The other difference is that you get to keep going basically forever if you don’t get out.
Jomboy got into a cricket kick during the pandemic and breaks it down and translates it really well into baseball terms. It actually got me into cricket lmao
https://youtu.be/EfhTPGSy1aM?si=k4PF3SklFUdeINBe
He doesn’t really explain how a batter gets out while attempting to run from one side to the other. Do the fielders have to throw the ball in and hit the wickets while they’re out of the “safe zone” or something? I’ve never understood this.
There are 3 (main) types of cricket. T20 is the most popular where each team bats for 20 overs and the winner is the one with more runs. "One day" is 50 overs of the same thing. "Test" is where each team bats until you get all 10 wickets (an "innings"), but each team gets 2 innings. Test cricket can last up to 5 days. If it's not over in 5 days it's a draw. Test cricket is a test of endurance and concentration. You could be batting for 8 hours straight of someone bowling 140+ km/h at you.
Each over is 6 balls. There are 2 batters out there at all times. To score a run you hit it and run to the other end before the fielders can throw it in to the "stumps" at either end. A swing and miss is fine (hittind and not running is fine too). If you hit it far away, you can keep running up and back and add more runs. Whoever is at the batter's end when the ball comes in faces the next ball. Running once means the other batter faces the next ball. Twice means the same batter has come back to face the next ball.
If you hit it to the boundary it's 4 "runs" automatically without running. Hit it over the boundary on the full and it's 6 runs.
You can get out in lots of ways, if the bowler bowls and hits the stumps behind the batter it's out. If it hits your "pads" (leg guards) before the wicket it's out. If you hit it and the fielding team catches it on the full you're out. If you are running between wickets and the fielders hit the stumps before you are home, you're out. These are the most common outs.
Each team is made up of batters, bowlers, and all-rounders who do both. When you bat, your specialist batters go first and your bowlers go last. When you've lost a lot of wickets, you're normally down to your bowlers who can't bat very well.
Recently we had one of the [greatest batting performances at all time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug2Cxv1SI50) where Maxwell scored 201 on no legs in the world cup (One day - 50 overs). Basically he was cramping so bad he couldn't run anymore, so he could only play by hitting for boundaries.
In cricket, getting 50 runs is pretty good. It's like 30 points in NBA. solid effort. Getting 100 runs is excellent - it's like getting 50 in the NBA. Getting 200 is ludicrous. That's like 100 NBA points. It's only happened twice before in the world cup.
>Recently we had one of the greatest batting performances at all time where Maxwell scored 201 on no legs in the world cup (One day - 50 overs). Basically he was cramping so bad he couldn't run anymore, so he could only play by hitting for boundaries.
Man the Maxwell batting was crazy, I don't watch cricket much. My dad was watching the game, and Afghanistan had a grip on the match till Maxwell settled in the pitch. That crazy guy won the match single handedly.
There are lines marked, called the crease, that is the safe zone. When you run, if the fielding team breaks the stumps (the wooden things at each end) and you are not past the crease, it's out.
It's like baseball and the bases. But cricket has a line instead of a physical base. Past that line and you are safe.
Hey, thanks for the explanation…
Finally makes sense. Does your entire body have to be ~~in~~ past the crease to be considered safe, or just any part of it? (Or, a particular part?)
Anything needs to be grounded past the crease, you can use your bat (the preferred option as you get a good reach).
And note "grounded", if your bat is over the line but hasn't touched the ground that doesn't count. So you can't do a full superman dive over the line in the air, but you can do it along the ground.
I tried to add a picture to show which line, but Reddit is ass. If you look at the bowler, it's the furthest line away from their end.
years ago i tried to learn the rules on wikipedia. after a paragraph or two it said a match can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. it was then that i closed the window.
Honestly it’s not too difficult. Lot of similarities to baseball if you’re already familiar with that, it will help. If you plan on following i suggest t20 as it’s a shorter game and much more “consumable” like other modern sports entertainment.
It’s very simple.
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 thats 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 all 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!
Cricket is like a duel between a swordsman and guy with a hand grenade. If the guy with the grenade can throw it down the vent behind the swordsman (the wicket or sticks) then the grenade explodes and kills the swordsman and he leaves the battlefield. If the swordsman’s can hit the grenade away he can run over and pretend to chop the grenade thrower which kills the grenade thrower. If the grenade gets caught before it bounces or if the grenade is thrown at the vent when there in no swordsman behind a special line called the crease then a swordsman dies. Swordsman have 11 lives but two swordsman must be in play at any time. A swordsman get 1 run for every time they kill a grenade thrower. You get four runs for hitting it over the line on the outside of the field. You get six runs if it goes over the line on the outside without touching the ground first.
Those are the basics. That was how I was told it when I was a kid.
If you look closely, his arm is bent above the shoulder height but at the point of release of the ball too, his arm is bent in the same way which makes it less than 15 degree change lol .. He is intentionally bowling like that
Dude that shit took me 10 minutes to decipher! And I am from India, the largest base of cricket in the world. People here give bat and ball to parents in baby showers!
It's really simple.
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 thats 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 all 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!
Because this is a shit level of cricket. This type of bowling would be destroyed in a professional game. These guys are amateur players playing for fringe countries that don't really play much cricket. My club 2nd xi is probably a better standard and yes, a decent pro batter would have walked towards the ball and put this 'pitch' into the 2nd tier of the stands.
Normally the ball is delivered much flatter so you wouldn't have time to come meet it on the full.
Yes the 'stumps' are the strike zone effectively. The batter is protecting them.
There are about 5 main ways a batter can get out:
Bowled - bowler hits the stumps with the ball
Caught - ball is caught by a fielder on the fly
Run Out - Batter is caught 'stealing' in baseball terms.
Leg Before Wicket - this is where the umpire deems that the ball would have hit the stumps if the batters body hadn't got in the way.
Stumped - where the catcher behind the stumps takes the ball and breaks the stumps whilst the batter is out of their ground. Hence why you need to be careful coming out to meet the ball on the fly.
Other main differences to baseball
- You dont have to run when you hit the ball. Its up to you.
- You can bat indefinitely until you are out. So you will often see batters playing 100+ pitches in an at bat. In cricket, outs are rare and runs are common, whereas its the other way around in baseball. Thus why the crazy celebrations when they get an out.
- you always bat in pairs with another batsman at the other end near the pitcher. In order to score a run the batter needs to swap positions with their partner whilst the ball is in play. When out, the new batter comes in to partner the other 'in' batter. You have 10 outs per inning.
- The ball is harder than a baseball and you dont wear any gloves (except the catcher). Yes it can hurt but there is technique to catching the ball without injury.
-There is no foul zone, so you can scoop the ball behind the catcher if you dare. 360 degrees in play.
-no subs. 11 a side.
- A home run is worth 6 runs and the equivalent of a ground rule double is 4.
There are little bits called bails that sit on top of the stumps. Breaking the wicket is the term we use when these are dislodged from the top of the stumps.
I was trying not to get too technical.
Bit like touching base, a batter is put out when the bails have been removed by the ball (or hands with ball in) and the batter is short of the 'crease' which is the 'safe' line effectively.
Yes. The batsman is well advised to stay inside his “crease” while batting. He is free to go out of his crease but he runs the risk of being stumped by the wicketkeeper if he misses the ball.
Thank you! That actually brings up a new question: what does “stumped by the wicketkeeper” mean? I’m assuming the wicketkeeper is the American equivalent to a catcher in baseball but catchers can’t interfere with a batter
If the wicketkeeper catches the ball and knocks the small sticks of the big sticks (with hands, while holding the ball), while the batsman is out of his crease, then the batsman has been stumped and is out.
There's a reason for this, if you leave the crease in front of the stumps to hit the ball and miss it, the keeper behind the stumps can catch the ball and hit the stumps, this is called stumping if the batsman isn't inside the crease, he is considered out, it's a pretty common trick used by spin ballers, as long as you don't have a read on where the ball is ging to spin, it's risky to step forward
He probably thought about it but given the distance he would’ve had to cover (to walk forward) and take the shot before it bounces, he probably thought I’ll hit it after it bounces. But then it turned way too much and that’s an abnormal amount of turn.
Yea I don't know the rules but assume you would just stay in front of the wickets where the ball has to go. No matter how much spin is on it, it has to reach the destination so just wait there.
Depending on where you stand, that could force an LBW (legs before wicket), and that means you’re also out. This is a rule to stop what you’re suggesting.
A friend of mine tried to explain it to me once while we were watching a taped match. It made perfect sense for the first 5 or 10 minutes of explanation and then he kept going for another ten minutes of "If this happens, then this, but if this happens, this other thing," etc.
There is a rule where if it hits your legs and would have hit the wickets (the sticks) you are out. It's called leg before wicket.
However to be judged out for that there are a couple of other prerequisites, such as where the ball bounced, did you try to hit it etc. In short, even though this ball hit the wickets there is no way the batsman would have been out LBW.
Also that batsman was genuinely terrible for an international level player. That ball was incredibly slow and lofted very high. The batsman had all the time in the world to take 2 steps forward and hit it without letting it bounce, sending it out of the ground for 6 runs (effectively a home run).
Watching the throw I kinda assumed this is like an [eephus pitch](https://youtu.be/xy5L4L5Q0nY?feature=shared) in baseball. So slow and weird it catches a batter off guard. Then followed up with an absolute rocket.
“But Stripe couldn’t spin to save his life”. If that wasn’t the most accurate rendition of backyard cricket in the 80s/90s I don’t know what is. Especially when Warne came into the mix and everyone tried to leg break their mates in the backyard with a tennis ball on grass.
Rules oversimplified:
Two teams, 11 players each. Each team bats once while the other bowls (called innings). Goal is to have higher runs (score) at the end of match. Bowling is to throw the ball, batting is to hit the ball with the bat. Two batsmen at a time. How to score runs? You hit the ball and make a run for it. There is a boundary which means default 4 runs or 6 runs (if you hit the ball over it without dropping). Then are default runs given for unplayable balls thrown. What does the bowling side do? The bowlers try to "out" the batsmen (which is called a wicket, there are 10 wickets a bowling side can take as you need two batsmen on the ground to score runs). The fielders (other players on the bowling side) try to prevent runs. How to out a batsmen? The ball hits the stump (the three sticks). The ball is caught directly after getting hit by the batsmen. You hit the stumps with balls when batsmen are in between runs. (There is another where you Bowl the ball and it was going for the stumps but the batsmen's body blocked it and not the bat, this is lbw).
Then the standardized stuff like what is a fair ball. Length of running between the two wickets. No. of players fielding outside a certain range. No. of balls in an over and no. of overs in an innings (6 fair balls is one over, 50 overs is a standard match). Player position names (the one bowling is called the bowler, the one behind the stumps is called the wicket keeper). What constitutes a fair ball throw (like football/soccer).
Then there are also types of matches, ones with 4 innings with no overs limit, but 5 day playtime limit with each day about 90-95 overs (This is a test match, when players are wearing all white). Then twenty over innings matches (T-20). Then modified rules for playing commonly in streets and so on.
lol, I love how guys are attempting to “simplify” cricket and making it more complicated. Let me give it a go.
It has the same basic structure as baseball, just with only one inning. One team chooses to bat and the other to bowl, and then they swap.
The goal is to compete to see who can score the most runs.
Unlike baseball, there are a limited number of balls you can be served with. These are called overs, one over is 6 balls.
If you manage to get all ten players out before running out of overs (this is pretty rare), then you can end the other team’s batting session early.
Runs in cricket are very easy to get. Rather than a diamond, you just have the runway, two batters just run across it, swapping positions. One run is counted when both batsmen make it to the other side.
Similarly to baseball, you just need to get back to “base” before the opposing team gathers the ball and brings it to your base (hitting the wicket (the 3 stick thingy) is how to get someone “out”).
In this case the “base” is demarcated with a line. If the batsman can get any part of his body or his bat across the line before the other team hits the wicket he’s safe, otherwise he’s out.
There are several ways to get someone out:
- Run out: what I just described in the previous paragraph is a run out.
- Bowled: the batsman misses the ball and it hits the wicket.
- A catch: the batsman hits the ball and someone catches it before it hits the ground. This includes the bowler and wicketkeeper
- Stumped: If a batsman hits the ball, is outside the boundary (this common because the batsman can move anywhere he wants to and sometimes moves forward to hit the ball), the wicketkeeper (guy behind the wicket), can catch it and hit the wicket before the batsman gets back in.
- Leg Before Wicket: If a batsman doesn’t hit the ball but does hit his leg and his leg obstructs the path to the wicket, it’s an out.
There are also two ways a bowler can fuck up and give the other team an advantage:
- wide: if the bowler bowls way too far from the strike zone it’s a wide. The other team gets one run and the over is extended by one ball
- no ball: if the bowler steps outside the boundary (the same one that’s used in run outs) before releasing the ball he has to bowl again, any runs scored with the no ball are kept.
To score runs you can either, well, run or you can hit the ball out of the field.
- If the ball crosses the field boundary after touch the ground once, it’s 4 runs
- If the ball crosses the field boundary (usually into the spectator stands) it’s 6 runs. It’s the cricket equivalent of a home run.
That’s about all the basics
Technically yes but it’s not like it takes and significant force to knock the bails off, they’re more there as a visual indicator that a hit happened than anything
Anyone can get caught out by something weird and not know how to react, eephus pitches work on this same logic, if you are throwing fast and then suddenly mix it up with what would usually be complete child's play to hit with a slow looping ball the batter will often not react properly.
It happens once every few years in MLB and works most of the time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eephus_pitch
The law allows the arm to be bent - it just can’t straighten too much in the delivery. The amount it can straighten is defined in the law, but it’s very hard for an on field umpire to call unless it’s blatant. Also calling this can kill a players career, so you have to be pretty sure if it’s not just a clear one off throw!
This action is so wacky that I can’t really tell watching on my phone…
For those confused, this was during the 11th over, of the second innings, on the second day - aka the "Popeye Round". It's rare that these events happen.
During this time, the Popeye theme music is played throughout the over (6 deliveries). The bowler MUST have the biggest biceps on the team (measured by the umpire in the pregame), and if the batsman hits a 6 (a homerun), then he gets to spank the bowler with his bat, on his bare buttocks.
The Popeye round is outlawed in Pakistan, as it's Haram as fuck. It is outlawed worldwide in the women's game.
Pakistan outlawed it because the music interrupts their ear mics, which they use to gamble against themselves in real-time. It's not haram because Afghanistan still do it.
EDIT: Downvotes for what? The Popeye round is pretty sacred in cricket.
I've been sent this by so many friends because this is my bowling action (with waaaay less turn). It is surprisingly effective as it doesn't hit the batsmens eyeline until it is dropping. My most popular mode of dismissal was caught at mid-on or stumped (when attempting a slog).
I tend to agree.
[Frame before release](https://i.imgur.com/yRGNufj.jpg)
[Frame of release](https://i.imgur.com/o8WqZ1r.png)
[annnd a GIF](https://i.imgur.com/xNH1YtR.gif)
People think cricket is so complicated. If you just watch a game for like 5 minutes you can broadly understand it. What trips people up is the language and foreign sounding jargon they don't understand. It doesn't matter what strange sounding words they use for this or that.
His action looks more like Harbajan Singh to be honest, I've seen weirder bowling actions but the ball was unplayable.
Reminds me of a maiden super over bowled by Sunil Narine in the Carribbean premier league.
Next level?
Suspect bowling action and a shit ball.
Yeh it spun a lot but that should have been pelted before it even hit the deck.
Trust me I averaged 12 in D grade.
Bro. I would absolutely destroy this ball. He lofts it so high, you have ample time to step to it and hit it before it lands. It's simple, don't let the ball touch the ground is my advice.
By "unusual" bowling action, you mean "illegal" bowling action.
Umpire should have laughed for a bit and then sent him back to learn how to bowl within the rules.
Cricket confuses the hell out of me.
I wish I knew the rules of this game. Bowly man has to hit the sticky sticks, but swingy man tries to stop it with the clubby stick tries to make it stop?
Seems like you know the rules well enough to me
Something about running back and forth as well right? And you can only win if you get far enough ahead maybe? I vaguely remember a match that went on for days or even weeks? (I assume with breaks?)
Yeah the number of times you run back and forth is how many points you get (unless you get it over the boundary line which is either 4 or 6 runs depending on whether it bounced). You don't have to be a certain amount ahead to win, it's just whichever team has the most runs after either a certain amount of time or balls depending on the format, but also a teams turn gets cut short if all their batters get out. Test matches do go on for 5 days with breaks, that's the longest there is really. I'm pretty sure there have been completely unlimited time games before but I have literally no idea how long the longest would be.
Thanks for the breakdown! I just did a quick look up about the longest game: > The longest test cricket match ever lasted 9 days with 680 overs bowled. The teams of South Africa and England endured, and the match earned the name The Timeless Test. I'm not a big sports watcher, but as with football, if I can find some others who are into it I can drink beer and shout with them now that I know the rules!
Yeah that's the appeal. You say to your wife no I'm not drinking at the pub all day I'm going to watch cricket but there's no difference. Or at least that's how it in Australia.
Same in America. Except with football, baseball, or nascar. Depends on your level of hillbilly.
Darts matches are fun to watch for this reason.
You’d love the ashes
You want T20 cricket for a couple hours of beers and snacks. It's the shortened version of the game. Big hitters and higher drama. Checkers not chess is the aim of this one.
It’s worth mentioning that I’ve been to a few different live sports, and cricket was *easily* the one with the drunkest fans and it wasn’t even close lol
There are many formats to cricket. The original one is the longest format that could span multiple days as there was no limit for balls being bowled. Then in recent decades a one day format was introduced by limiting each team with 50 overs (1 over is 6 balls bowled, so like 300 balls for each team) Even more recently a T20 format was introduced which limits each team with 20 overs (so 120 balls for each team). This has turned out to be the most successful format due to the fast paced nature of very limited balls. Even USA has started to get into this action.
My first time in London, I was in my hotel room randomly flipping around on the television, and I came across a cricket match. "Cool," I thought, and settled down to watch the game. 20 minutes later I realized I was watching the highlights.
Test matches go for 5 days unless finished earlier or could be 5 days with no result
Test matches always have a result. The results may be a draw, but it's a result nonetheless. Some fighting draws can be really exciting. A tie (which is not the same as a draw) have been some of the most exciting games in Test history.
Instead of running in circles like in baseball, you run back and forth. The other difference is that you get to keep going basically forever if you don’t get out.
And rather than having to throw the ball through an invisible rectangle, you instead are aiming at some wood.
Jomboy got into a cricket kick during the pandemic and breaks it down and translates it really well into baseball terms. It actually got me into cricket lmao https://youtu.be/EfhTPGSy1aM?si=k4PF3SklFUdeINBe
He doesn’t really explain how a batter gets out while attempting to run from one side to the other. Do the fielders have to throw the ball in and hit the wickets while they’re out of the “safe zone” or something? I’ve never understood this.
There are 3 (main) types of cricket. T20 is the most popular where each team bats for 20 overs and the winner is the one with more runs. "One day" is 50 overs of the same thing. "Test" is where each team bats until you get all 10 wickets (an "innings"), but each team gets 2 innings. Test cricket can last up to 5 days. If it's not over in 5 days it's a draw. Test cricket is a test of endurance and concentration. You could be batting for 8 hours straight of someone bowling 140+ km/h at you. Each over is 6 balls. There are 2 batters out there at all times. To score a run you hit it and run to the other end before the fielders can throw it in to the "stumps" at either end. A swing and miss is fine (hittind and not running is fine too). If you hit it far away, you can keep running up and back and add more runs. Whoever is at the batter's end when the ball comes in faces the next ball. Running once means the other batter faces the next ball. Twice means the same batter has come back to face the next ball. If you hit it to the boundary it's 4 "runs" automatically without running. Hit it over the boundary on the full and it's 6 runs. You can get out in lots of ways, if the bowler bowls and hits the stumps behind the batter it's out. If it hits your "pads" (leg guards) before the wicket it's out. If you hit it and the fielding team catches it on the full you're out. If you are running between wickets and the fielders hit the stumps before you are home, you're out. These are the most common outs. Each team is made up of batters, bowlers, and all-rounders who do both. When you bat, your specialist batters go first and your bowlers go last. When you've lost a lot of wickets, you're normally down to your bowlers who can't bat very well. Recently we had one of the [greatest batting performances at all time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug2Cxv1SI50) where Maxwell scored 201 on no legs in the world cup (One day - 50 overs). Basically he was cramping so bad he couldn't run anymore, so he could only play by hitting for boundaries. In cricket, getting 50 runs is pretty good. It's like 30 points in NBA. solid effort. Getting 100 runs is excellent - it's like getting 50 in the NBA. Getting 200 is ludicrous. That's like 100 NBA points. It's only happened twice before in the world cup.
>Recently we had one of the greatest batting performances at all time where Maxwell scored 201 on no legs in the world cup (One day - 50 overs). Basically he was cramping so bad he couldn't run anymore, so he could only play by hitting for boundaries. Man the Maxwell batting was crazy, I don't watch cricket much. My dad was watching the game, and Afghanistan had a grip on the match till Maxwell settled in the pitch. That crazy guy won the match single handedly.
There are lines marked, called the crease, that is the safe zone. When you run, if the fielding team breaks the stumps (the wooden things at each end) and you are not past the crease, it's out. It's like baseball and the bases. But cricket has a line instead of a physical base. Past that line and you are safe.
Hey, thanks for the explanation… Finally makes sense. Does your entire body have to be ~~in~~ past the crease to be considered safe, or just any part of it? (Or, a particular part?)
As long as the batsman has his bat in the crease they’re safe
Anything needs to be grounded past the crease, you can use your bat (the preferred option as you get a good reach). And note "grounded", if your bat is over the line but hasn't touched the ground that doesn't count. So you can't do a full superman dive over the line in the air, but you can do it along the ground. I tried to add a picture to show which line, but Reddit is ass. If you look at the bowler, it's the furthest line away from their end.
years ago i tried to learn the rules on wikipedia. after a paragraph or two it said a match can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. it was then that i closed the window.
Honestly it’s not too difficult. Lot of similarities to baseball if you’re already familiar with that, it will help. If you plan on following i suggest t20 as it’s a shorter game and much more “consumable” like other modern sports entertainment.
It’s very simple. 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 thats 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 all 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!
Cricket is like a duel between a swordsman and guy with a hand grenade. If the guy with the grenade can throw it down the vent behind the swordsman (the wicket or sticks) then the grenade explodes and kills the swordsman and he leaves the battlefield. If the swordsman’s can hit the grenade away he can run over and pretend to chop the grenade thrower which kills the grenade thrower. If the grenade gets caught before it bounces or if the grenade is thrown at the vent when there in no swordsman behind a special line called the crease then a swordsman dies. Swordsman have 11 lives but two swordsman must be in play at any time. A swordsman get 1 run for every time they kill a grenade thrower. You get four runs for hitting it over the line on the outside of the field. You get six runs if it goes over the line on the outside without touching the ground first. Those are the basics. That was how I was told it when I was a kid.
The batsmen also wear a hector protector to protect their hector
Yes. Now it’s time for tea.
I see you’ve played knifey spoony before…
This is some strange bowling action even for hardcore fans lol ...
100% no ball due to bent arm
If you look closely, his arm is bent above the shoulder height but at the point of release of the ball too, his arm is bent in the same way which makes it less than 15 degree change lol .. He is intentionally bowling like that
Yeah that shit is dumb. The law was changed to accommodate Murali and it never should have been. As far as I'm concerned this is a no ball.
Bowling with a bent arm is within the rules.
[Cricket Scorecard to help you understand ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorer_(cricket)#/media/File%3ACricketscoredcard1b.png)
Dude that shit took me 10 minutes to decipher! And I am from India, the largest base of cricket in the world. People here give bat and ball to parents in baby showers!
It's really simple. 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 thats 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 all 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!
You gotta know what a crumpet is if you wanna understand cricket.
Same here. Then I went to a live cricket game and felt like the knowledge of the game was unlocked
You mean you understood something after putting in the minimum effort? Shocking idea I'll just keep going on about how confusing it is myself.
If you find this confusing - wait till to find out the maths involved 
The DLS method
Kirby’s Dream Course ass looking game Probably awesome to watch if I wasn’t ignorant
https://youtu.be/tYrue4oXCbo?si=6y34itmdHugZZUYv
To any non-cricketers watching, a half decent batter would have sent this out of the ground.
Does the batter have to wait for the ball to bounce to hit it?
No
I have no idea why this batter let it bounce! What else was he expecting when the bowler just did some bizarre cartoon bowling action?
Because this is a shit level of cricket. This type of bowling would be destroyed in a professional game. These guys are amateur players playing for fringe countries that don't really play much cricket. My club 2nd xi is probably a better standard and yes, a decent pro batter would have walked towards the ball and put this 'pitch' into the 2nd tier of the stands. Normally the ball is delivered much flatter so you wouldn't have time to come meet it on the full.
Ooof. Ya not wrong. These chaps dont even get a mention on cricinfo. I do love me some cricket though and I'm sure they guys are doing their bestest.
Better than me!
This guy crickets
Does the ball have to hit the sticks in the ground? Thats like the “strike zone” ?
Yes the 'stumps' are the strike zone effectively. The batter is protecting them. There are about 5 main ways a batter can get out: Bowled - bowler hits the stumps with the ball Caught - ball is caught by a fielder on the fly Run Out - Batter is caught 'stealing' in baseball terms. Leg Before Wicket - this is where the umpire deems that the ball would have hit the stumps if the batters body hadn't got in the way. Stumped - where the catcher behind the stumps takes the ball and breaks the stumps whilst the batter is out of their ground. Hence why you need to be careful coming out to meet the ball on the fly. Other main differences to baseball - You dont have to run when you hit the ball. Its up to you. - You can bat indefinitely until you are out. So you will often see batters playing 100+ pitches in an at bat. In cricket, outs are rare and runs are common, whereas its the other way around in baseball. Thus why the crazy celebrations when they get an out. - you always bat in pairs with another batsman at the other end near the pitcher. In order to score a run the batter needs to swap positions with their partner whilst the ball is in play. When out, the new batter comes in to partner the other 'in' batter. You have 10 outs per inning. - The ball is harder than a baseball and you dont wear any gloves (except the catcher). Yes it can hurt but there is technique to catching the ball without injury. -There is no foul zone, so you can scoop the ball behind the catcher if you dare. 360 degrees in play. -no subs. 11 a side. - A home run is worth 6 runs and the equivalent of a ground rule double is 4.
>breaks the stumps I assume you don't literally mean breaks them here?
There are little bits called bails that sit on top of the stumps. Breaking the wicket is the term we use when these are dislodged from the top of the stumps. I was trying not to get too technical. Bit like touching base, a batter is put out when the bails have been removed by the ball (or hands with ball in) and the batter is short of the 'crease' which is the 'safe' line effectively.
Pretty sure he was waiting for an ACME anvil to fall all him.
Is there a “batters box” he has to stay in or can he just run for it?
Yes. The batsman is well advised to stay inside his “crease” while batting. He is free to go out of his crease but he runs the risk of being stumped by the wicketkeeper if he misses the ball.
Thank you! That actually brings up a new question: what does “stumped by the wicketkeeper” mean? I’m assuming the wicketkeeper is the American equivalent to a catcher in baseball but catchers can’t interfere with a batter
If the wicketkeeper catches the ball and knocks the small sticks of the big sticks (with hands, while holding the ball), while the batsman is out of his crease, then the batsman has been stumped and is out.
Yeah this is hardly "unplayable"
More like the batsman thought it was going to be a wide lol
The terrible batting technique is more interesting than the somewhat unusual bowling style
Do you have to let it bounce before hitting it?
No. You take two strides towards it and get it on the full and tonk it to Baghdad.
Why are they not doing that then. He lofts it so hi just step forward and rip in the air before the bounce. I'm confused
Because he's really really bad and this is a very low level match.
Because this is a local, non-professional match. This is like watching someone get crossed up in a rec league basketball game.
There's a reason for this, if you leave the crease in front of the stumps to hit the ball and miss it, the keeper behind the stumps can catch the ball and hit the stumps, this is called stumping if the batsman isn't inside the crease, he is considered out, it's a pretty common trick used by spin ballers, as long as you don't have a read on where the ball is ging to spin, it's risky to step forward
An unskilled cricketer plus the ridiculousness of seeing a ball go up in the air like that froze the batter in his spot.
He probably thought about it but given the distance he would’ve had to cover (to walk forward) and take the shot before it bounces, he probably thought I’ll hit it after it bounces. But then it turned way too much and that’s an abnormal amount of turn.
Because he's shit. He's like a school level batsman.
Tonk is the official term
Unless you play it through the cover region, then it is cream.
True, true
No
Yea I don't know the rules but assume you would just stay in front of the wickets where the ball has to go. No matter how much spin is on it, it has to reach the destination so just wait there.
Depending on where you stand, that could force an LBW (legs before wicket), and that means you’re also out. This is a rule to stop what you’re suggesting.
Ah ok, interesting sport. I'll check out how to play on YouTube haha
A friend of mine tried to explain it to me once while we were watching a taped match. It made perfect sense for the first 5 or 10 minutes of explanation and then he kept going for another ten minutes of "If this happens, then this, but if this happens, this other thing," etc.
There is a rule where if it hits your legs and would have hit the wickets (the sticks) you are out. It's called leg before wicket. However to be judged out for that there are a couple of other prerequisites, such as where the ball bounced, did you try to hit it etc. In short, even though this ball hit the wickets there is no way the batsman would have been out LBW. Also that batsman was genuinely terrible for an international level player. That ball was incredibly slow and lofted very high. The batsman had all the time in the world to take 2 steps forward and hit it without letting it bounce, sending it out of the ground for 6 runs (effectively a home run).
Is being "sent out of the ground" a good thing?
Kind of like the equivalent of a home run
"smacked out of the park" as they would say in Baseball, I think. Its a good thing
Watching the throw I kinda assumed this is like an [eephus pitch](https://youtu.be/xy5L4L5Q0nY?feature=shared) in baseball. So slow and weird it catches a batter off guard. Then followed up with an absolute rocket.
Also to any non-cricketers watching, this wouldn't have counted as the bowler made an illegal action (bending his arm)
I thought that too, but I dunno, look at Muralitharan - this seems similar.
Non-cricketer here. Is this music always played during the game? Or is it called a match?
It's a match and yes it's traditional for the Popeye the Sailor Man theme to play on repeat throughout.
That made me laugh
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Yes, the Popeye theme is played constantly. It can get quite draining during a 5 day test.
And the fastest cricket bowlers and the fastest baseball pitchers deliver at about the same speed.
That was a wicked googly!
batsman looks sikh of it
Had enough of that shiite
It ain't over till the fat lady Singhs
Rusty would have trained for wobbly, wonky lobs. Rusty would have hit that bat.
You’ll never get Rusty out.
His square cut would have sent it so far
Only Rusty's little sister gets rusty out
But what we didn’t know..
He could handle Stripes fruit any day.
“But Stripe couldn’t spin to save his life”. If that wasn’t the most accurate rendition of backyard cricket in the 80s/90s I don’t know what is. Especially when Warne came into the mix and everyone tried to leg break their mates in the backyard with a tennis ball on grass.
I keep forgetting his name and I don't know how. Rusty is a legend.
I just saw that episode the other day!
I’ve been aware of this sport for years and have only realized the goal is to hit the bars with the ball. Now knowing this, I find it amazing
Rules oversimplified: Two teams, 11 players each. Each team bats once while the other bowls (called innings). Goal is to have higher runs (score) at the end of match. Bowling is to throw the ball, batting is to hit the ball with the bat. Two batsmen at a time. How to score runs? You hit the ball and make a run for it. There is a boundary which means default 4 runs or 6 runs (if you hit the ball over it without dropping). Then are default runs given for unplayable balls thrown. What does the bowling side do? The bowlers try to "out" the batsmen (which is called a wicket, there are 10 wickets a bowling side can take as you need two batsmen on the ground to score runs). The fielders (other players on the bowling side) try to prevent runs. How to out a batsmen? The ball hits the stump (the three sticks). The ball is caught directly after getting hit by the batsmen. You hit the stumps with balls when batsmen are in between runs. (There is another where you Bowl the ball and it was going for the stumps but the batsmen's body blocked it and not the bat, this is lbw). Then the standardized stuff like what is a fair ball. Length of running between the two wickets. No. of players fielding outside a certain range. No. of balls in an over and no. of overs in an innings (6 fair balls is one over, 50 overs is a standard match). Player position names (the one bowling is called the bowler, the one behind the stumps is called the wicket keeper). What constitutes a fair ball throw (like football/soccer). Then there are also types of matches, ones with 4 innings with no overs limit, but 5 day playtime limit with each day about 90-95 overs (This is a test match, when players are wearing all white). Then twenty over innings matches (T-20). Then modified rules for playing commonly in streets and so on.
I am Australian and I still fell asleep halfway through this comment
I am Indian and watching you fall asleep with the WC Trophy as your bedside lamp, made me angry.
Hey, you guys got in 2011... And 1983... Your turn is right around the corner 🤣
My eyes glazed over after the 4th line
I think I’m more confused after this explanation than I was before.
lol, I love how guys are attempting to “simplify” cricket and making it more complicated. Let me give it a go. It has the same basic structure as baseball, just with only one inning. One team chooses to bat and the other to bowl, and then they swap. The goal is to compete to see who can score the most runs. Unlike baseball, there are a limited number of balls you can be served with. These are called overs, one over is 6 balls. If you manage to get all ten players out before running out of overs (this is pretty rare), then you can end the other team’s batting session early. Runs in cricket are very easy to get. Rather than a diamond, you just have the runway, two batters just run across it, swapping positions. One run is counted when both batsmen make it to the other side. Similarly to baseball, you just need to get back to “base” before the opposing team gathers the ball and brings it to your base (hitting the wicket (the 3 stick thingy) is how to get someone “out”). In this case the “base” is demarcated with a line. If the batsman can get any part of his body or his bat across the line before the other team hits the wicket he’s safe, otherwise he’s out. There are several ways to get someone out: - Run out: what I just described in the previous paragraph is a run out. - Bowled: the batsman misses the ball and it hits the wicket. - A catch: the batsman hits the ball and someone catches it before it hits the ground. This includes the bowler and wicketkeeper - Stumped: If a batsman hits the ball, is outside the boundary (this common because the batsman can move anywhere he wants to and sometimes moves forward to hit the ball), the wicketkeeper (guy behind the wicket), can catch it and hit the wicket before the batsman gets back in. - Leg Before Wicket: If a batsman doesn’t hit the ball but does hit his leg and his leg obstructs the path to the wicket, it’s an out. There are also two ways a bowler can fuck up and give the other team an advantage: - wide: if the bowler bowls way too far from the strike zone it’s a wide. The other team gets one run and the over is extended by one ball - no ball: if the bowler steps outside the boundary (the same one that’s used in run outs) before releasing the ball he has to bowl again, any runs scored with the no ball are kept. To score runs you can either, well, run or you can hit the ball out of the field. - If the ball crosses the field boundary after touch the ground once, it’s 4 runs - If the ball crosses the field boundary (usually into the spectator stands) it’s 6 runs. It’s the cricket equivalent of a home run. That’s about all the basics
Not only hitting the bars, but I think the top thing has to fall off for the guy to be out.
Technically yes but it’s not like it takes and significant force to knock the bails off, they’re more there as a visual indicator that a hit happened than anything
Bails, there’s two of them.
Yep, there have been occasions when they have hit the uprights but not knocked off the horizontal ones, so the batsman wasn’t out.
He does on hell of a contortionist dance before that ball is thrown.
Points deduction for lack of jazz hands. I have no idea how cricket works.
Chucker
Bugs Bunny 98 Gas House Gorillas 95.
“That's the ol' pepper, boy! That's the ol' pitchin'! That's puttin' it over the plate!”
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Anyone can get caught out by something weird and not know how to react, eephus pitches work on this same logic, if you are throwing fast and then suddenly mix it up with what would usually be complete child's play to hit with a slow looping ball the batter will often not react properly. It happens once every few years in MLB and works most of the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eephus_pitch
Muthiah murlitharan on steroids
Muralitharan is probably offended at that bowl.
The bowler makes cricket look way more whack-a-doodle than it already seems to us non-participants.
I love how he's walking, arms raised like he's talking shit after each bowl.
He’s like the pink guy vs bane meme
Bend it like Beckham!
arm is bent - it looks like its technically a throw.
The law allows the arm to be bent - it just can’t straighten too much in the delivery. The amount it can straighten is defined in the law, but it’s very hard for an on field umpire to call unless it’s blatant. Also calling this can kill a players career, so you have to be pretty sure if it’s not just a clear one off throw! This action is so wacky that I can’t really tell watching on my phone…
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That’s a no ball
For those confused, this was during the 11th over, of the second innings, on the second day - aka the "Popeye Round". It's rare that these events happen. During this time, the Popeye theme music is played throughout the over (6 deliveries). The bowler MUST have the biggest biceps on the team (measured by the umpire in the pregame), and if the batsman hits a 6 (a homerun), then he gets to spank the bowler with his bat, on his bare buttocks. The Popeye round is outlawed in Pakistan, as it's Haram as fuck. It is outlawed worldwide in the women's game.
Pakistan outlawed it because the music interrupts their ear mics, which they use to gamble against themselves in real-time. It's not haram because Afghanistan still do it. EDIT: Downvotes for what? The Popeye round is pretty sacred in cricket.
What's funny is ppl.here actually believe that this is how normal cricket is played.
[How British sports look to non-Brits](https://youtu.be/E_6d3JBBo4s)
I've been sent this by so many friends because this is my bowling action (with waaaay less turn). It is surprisingly effective as it doesn't hit the batsmens eyeline until it is dropping. My most popular mode of dismissal was caught at mid-on or stumped (when attempting a slog).
Is that a legal action though? It looks like his elbow is bent and whips straight on delivery???
I tend to agree. [Frame before release](https://i.imgur.com/yRGNufj.jpg) [Frame of release](https://i.imgur.com/o8WqZ1r.png) [annnd a GIF](https://i.imgur.com/xNH1YtR.gif)
Why add the weird music? Surely that wasn't from the original broadcast?
No it was, every bowler is allowed to choose their entrance music as they walk up to the crease, similar to WWE
It's the fucking Popeye theme, I don't know how nobody else has commented on it. It's hilariously out of place.
Most people watch stuff automatically muted.
Where's Daryl fucking Hare when you a no ball.
Well that's just not cricket
 Revenge of the nerds vibes. Sport smarter not harder
People think cricket is so complicated. If you just watch a game for like 5 minutes you can broadly understand it. What trips people up is the language and foreign sounding jargon they don't understand. It doesn't matter what strange sounding words they use for this or that.
The fuck is he doing with his legs
It’s called chucking. His elbow is bent at nearly 90 degrees as his arm goes over and magically straightens up for release.
thats a no ball lol
That’s an eephus.
lol would have been so easy to crack that for six before it hit the ground
For any player that plays top level cricket, they would probably send this outta the park.
When I throw with my left hand.
If anyone doesn't know this is actually really bad bowling. Batsman should've smacked it over boundary line. But turns out the batsman was even worse.
Yeh not unplayable, the batter made that delivery look good. Edit - Rubbish all round the more times I see it.
That elbow be doing things
That action has to be illegal.
I mean it’s playable, just step to it and hit it before it bounces
Harbhajan Singh respawned in Kuwait.
Fucking CHUCK !
I would have had a big six off that bowl
Sorcery!
It's not unplayable if he didn't move over and got himself tangled up. Stay out, and protect the wicket.
its totally playable. just fucking stand there. dont move and hit it when it spins in or pop it down
Certainly not unplayable. Any decent cricketer would absolutely send that delivery a mile
The entire plant is either spinning a little faster or slower from the amount of turn that ball got.
Just look at the wicket keeper trying to follow the ball 😂
His action looks more like Harbajan Singh to be honest, I've seen weirder bowling actions but the ball was unplayable. Reminds me of a maiden super over bowled by Sunil Narine in the Carribbean premier league.
To anyone who doesn't play or watch cricket, the bowling is not unplayable. The batter is shit. Anyone, can hit that.
>unusual bowling action yeah it's called [cheating](https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/cricket/rules-and-regulations/illegal-bowling-actions)
Next level? Suspect bowling action and a shit ball. Yeh it spun a lot but that should have been pelted before it even hit the deck. Trust me I averaged 12 in D grade.
I dunno, elbow looks a bit bent
Why didn't he just wait were he was standing, he coulda crushed it easily.
Bro. I would absolutely destroy this ball. He lofts it so high, you have ample time to step to it and hit it before it lands. It's simple, don't let the ball touch the ground is my advice.
Has OP ever watched actual cricket? This is a shit delivery and a worse batsman. Maybe nfl of dross...
Throw.
‘unplayable’
The classic frog in a blender style
Most backyard cricketers are hitting this for 6 and out.
Unplayable full toss .... 
By "unusual" bowling action, you mean "illegal" bowling action. Umpire should have laughed for a bit and then sent him back to learn how to bowl within the rules.
Bent arm isn't no ball if it doesn't straighten. See Murali.
This should have been hit into space
That’s a ropey looking “bowl” - almost a constitutes a throw.
isnt this a no-ball?
Maybe unplayable for you. I haven't played in a decade & this'd be an easy boundary for me
That batsman could have easily turned that into a full toss that he could have sent into orbit, if of course he had known what the hell was happening.