Cricket

[Not Shawn Hunter]

Any of you understand the rules of cricket?
I watched like 10 minutes of a game on TV and no idea wtf was going on

Normally if you watch a sport you can figure out the rules:

football/rugby - run with the ball to a goal area

basketball - put the ball in the hoop (you can tell cuz this happens every 20 seconds in a basketball game )

soccer - put the ball in the goal

hockey - put the puck into the goal

boxing - knock the other guy out

golf - put the ball in the hole

baseball - ok, baseball might be a little more complicated for someone who has never seen it before


I was confused as **** during this cricket game. The announcers were cracking me up tho with their British speak. Overuse of the word "brilliant" and ending every sentence in a question. "He's a brilliant player, isn't he?" "He's got a good chance, hasn't he?" "That ball is flying through the air, isn't it?" Then I turned it off.

[Mr. Tuxedo]

Somewhat similar to baseball, just need to understand the concept of overs and small nuances.

I watched for a few minutes with a friend. Whenever something happened, he explained what was going on and how the scoring worked. Picked it up easily.

[George WB]

Cricket's 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 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!

[Jaxon]

^ uh....wat

[Biased]

They throw the ball at the thing, some guy tries to hit it... Something else happens... No ****ing clue really.

[Matthew]

3 sticks behind the batter.

Pitching team has to try to hit the sticks.

Batter hits the ball.

Intent is to hit it into the ground/line drive, or far enough/in a direction that it can't be caught.

An out is when the ball is caught before it hits the ground like baseball.

If he obstructs the wickets (3 posts behind him) he can be considered dismissed, or if it hits his leg before hitting what would be a wicket, or if his bat hits the wicket, or if the pitcher (bowler) hits the wicket straightaway [hard to do].

[Hulk]

Imagine baseball, but the ball bouncing at you

[Apricky]

It's like crowding the plate and intentionally walking/sending a message, but in cricket the pitcher actually wins if he hits the batter and it was going to hit the wicket.

[Aaron]

I just remembered an interview with some guy and he said "I go out and throw it as hard as I can straight at him. My goal is to break his leg."

[Livesindaw00ds]

i'm sure there are more indepth rules but as far as I can tell: bowl ball, aim for wickets... hit the guy or the wickets, they're out, if they hit it in the air, hope your team catches it to get them out, if it's on the ground, try to get the ball back in while they're running back and forth between the wickets to score points to get them out, if the ball leaves the park, they score points... get everyone on the other team out, then it's your turn to hit, repeat

[Andrew]

The popped collar on a polo came from cricket players trying to keep the sun off their back, and was adopted by other people as a fashion style.

Oddly enough, when British people do it it's not douchey.

But with bros do it at the bar, it's douchey.

[Hulk]

Why do the matches last so long?

[Mr. White]

I could never figure this game out!

[Charlie B Goode]

I think the explanations in here only confuse me more.