Cricket Thread

[RosettaStoned]

Oh, this is a real thread. Whole time I thought it was a joke....

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

Oh, this is a real thread. Whole time I thought it was a joke....

Did you know Cricket is actually one of the most popular sports in the world? They love that shit everywhere but North America.

 

[Archer]

Oh, this is a real thread. Whole time I thought it was a joke....

Cricket is actually a big sport in placed like England , Austrailia , India , Pakistan and such

The Ashes is the biggest series in cricket which is played between England and the Aussies

I guess Matt decided to make the thread because there is a few English and Australian people on this site

 

[Archer]

Wtf is going on in this thread? lol

Am I high???

Read my post to RS

Wasnt expecting you guys to understand it

 

[Archer]

So what happened today?

England needed to bat out the day to draw the game and Australia needed to bowl us out to win . England went like 70-5 and then Collingwood batted for like 5hours until he went out . England`s last two batters saved the game for us . If we had lost one more wicket in that last hour we would have lost the game.

So its 0-0 going to the 2nd test

 

[Vinsane]

Question: Can anyone give me the a simple description of the game of cricket? I understand it's like American Baseball? And I've seen footage of cricket, but I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking at. Just a simple version, like you describing soccer (ex, 11 v. 11, strikers, forwards, wings, defenders, goalie, etc.) and how exactly is it scored?

 

[Archer]

Question: Can anyone give me the a simple description of the game of cricket? I understand it's like American Baseball? And I've seen footage of cricket, but I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking at. Just a simple version, like you describing soccer (ex, 11 v. 11, strikers, forwards, wings, defenders, goalie, etc.) and how exactly is it scored?

11 v 11

One team is bowling/feilding and the other is Batting

How this is decided is via a coin toss

There is 3 different forms , Test Match , One Day and 20-20 but we will just talk Test match since thats what the Ashes is

Its scheduled for 5 days , all in a row . From about 11am till 6pm for all 5days

Both teams get to bat 2 times , you get 10 wickets . To get a wicket the bowling team needs to either hit the stumps on a delivry or catch you in the feild without the ball bouncing . There is also LBWs where the ball would have hit the stumps but the Batsmans pads has blocked the ball doing so . This is obviously to avoid batsman just using thier pads on every delivery that is straight on . You score runs many ways , you can hit it into the feild and run for one , two , 3 and even sometimes four . This is just simply hitting it into an open space and running from one end to the other . You can also hit the ball to what they call the "Boundry" which is just a rope going around the pitch . If it hits them ropes while bouncing or rolling it is a 4 automaticly . If it goes over the ropes with no bounce its a six automaticly

So obviously now you can see how runs are accumlated and same for wickets .

You must have two batsmen in at one time . But once you are out thats it until the 2nd time round your team gets to bat unlike Baseball where you can bat 2-3 times in a night . There is no real positions but there is different types of players , I will try explain .

For Batting you have

1 and 2 - Opening Batsmen - Pretty obvious , they open the teams batting
3-4 - Are the upper order batsmen . Number 3 and 4 are normally a teams most skillfull bastman
5-7 - Are the Middle Order - Normally guys who can bat well but not as skilfful as the guys above
8-11 - Are the Lower Order/Tailend - These guys are normally Bowlers , guys who specify in getting the other teams batsmen out . These guys are not expected to score much for the batting

When feilding there is just positions like , Slip , Mid off - Mid On . There is many so I will just leave that there

For Bowling we have different types of bowlers

Fast Bowlers - These guys are normally pretty lightning quick , they can bowl up from 90-100 MPH (Ask Matt for the KPH lol)
Spin Bowler - Normally around 45-65 MPH but they spin the ball which can deceive a batter . Strangly enough a good spin bowler normally takes more wickets than a good Fast Bowler
Medium Pacers - These guys are normally just contain bowlers , they bowl pretty straight and make it hard to score quickly .

As for the Feilding positions un-like in Baseball they are very inter-changble in cricket . At any moment you can change his feilding position/place

To win you have to bowl the other team out two times while having more runs scored in total basicly .

I know this is a long explanation but I wanted to make it like this so anybody with any questions can see

Hopefully this either helped or confused the shit outta you

 

[RosettaStoned]

Cricket sucks.

 

[Archer]

So what happened today?

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid28704514001?bctid=29221815001

Quick 50 second recap of the first test

 

[Archer]

typical english tactics. send out a fuckin physio for no reason and act all confused about it

Is it typical for Aussies to bitch this much?

I remember when our sub ran out Ponting in 2005 , he moaned SOOOO MUCH

Just bowl our 2 shittiest batters out , its not hard

It was a smart ploy to waste time , similar to how teams bitch about the light when they are losing wickets . Austrailia did that in 2005 aswell lol

Dont be mad cause Monty = God

 

[Archer]

lol i know i was kinda kidding, they did well i have to say

our bowlers are young so theyll learn from it

I think Hauritz was just tired , by the end he was bowling horrible deliverys that looked due to tiredness .

Its hard to bowl 37overs on that flat pitch

And I know you were joking , i will expect more excuses when we win 4-0 though

 

[Archer]

unless u guys magically take 20 wickets idk bout that guarantee lol

:sheep:

 

[davie]

Useful posts as always from RS, criticising what he doesn't understand.

England were lucky and used gamesmanship to draw that first test. Neither team's bowling attack looks great. Australia's batting looks better than England's.

I'm watching a masterclass right now from Younus Khan (joke, although he and Mohammad Yousuf are 2 and 1 in the ICC Test Batting rankings). Pakistan are 129-1, still trailing after only 90 from their first innings to which Sri Lanka replied with 240.

 

[RosettaStoned]

Useful posts as always from RS, criticising what he doesn't understand.

I don't care to understand more than I do. It's boring to watch, and an absurdly dumb premise for a sport.

 

[Archer]

I don't care to understand more than I do. It's boring to watch, and an absurdly dumb premise for a sport.

Its not doing bad in terms of popularity for such a dumb sport . Seeing as this dumb sport is more popular than most sports on the planet

But than again some people think Soccer is dumb , and that happens to be the most popular sport in the world

 

[kyhadley]

What happened thats being bitched about? (I'm still learning)

 

[Archer]

not just aussies who are pissed http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25780309-5009880,00.html

Jason Gillespie said on Sky Sports News " I remember when we had to save a test in India and I pretended my shoe was untied and took 10 minutes to fasten it . You have to gain whatever advantage you can"

And lets move on to a non within the "spirit" of the game thing the Aussies have done

The opposition needed 3 to win off one ball and what does the aussie do

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Clips from 1981 , entitled the "Most disgraceful moment in cricket history"

Can somebody find the pot calling kettle black gif for me ?

 

[Archer]

i admit that was bad but it was a different generation to now where sportsmanship is higher on the list

i can understand the gloves coming out but not the physio, noone was injured and it was stupid

England basically just gave us even more motivation to win this series

They spilt liquid on the gloves first time , Why dont you beleive us?

 

[Archer]

Looks like Harmison wont get in the team again

Hes basicly just in the 14man squad as a replacment for Flintoff who is expected to be fit

I hate English Selectors

 

[Archer]

there not playing 2 spinners again are they?

Onions will probably come in for Panesar