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OK over the past few days I've tried to watch the cricket on channel 4, I really have! But I just don't have a clue what's going on, I feel I'm being denied something great! :crazyeyes
So could somebody please explain to me the basic rules and gameplay of cricket? I thought the idea was the winning team was the one with the most runs after all their players have been batted out, but then I hear all about wickets and so on!
PLEASE HELP ME!
So could somebody please explain to me the basic rules and gameplay of cricket? I thought the idea was the winning team was the one with the most runs after all their players have been batted out, but then I hear all about wickets and so on!
PLEASE HELP ME!
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You did say cricket right? :rolleyes: :eek:
Basically, it's 2 innings each team (if necessary) and whoever has either the most runs at the end of the two innings or has batsmen still to come when the opponents are bowled out is the winner. For example, today England were bowled out in their second innings, still 90-odd runs short of SA's first innings total. Therefore it made no sense for SA to bat again as England hadn't reached their score. SA won. Is that simple enough?
Basically for a test match - To win the match you have to bowl a team out twice.
Because in a test, you can fail to get the runs needed to win the test but if the other team can't get you out then it ends in a draw.
e.g.
S.A. (first innings) 500 all out
England (first innings) 400 all out
S.A. (second innings) 300 all out (England NEED 401 to win)
England (second innings) 300 for 6
(England haven't reached the target but S.A. haven't bowled them out twice so its a draw)
There is really too many rules to write out on here but that is basically it for a test match.
i used to play it a fair bit at school, and got coaching from a test player, i regret giving it up, and my enjoyment has certainly come back since becoming a member at worcestershire county cricket club
and plus, there arent many better excuses for sitting in the sun all day drinking beer