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Mokshaguy390
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Cricket World Cup
#6710853 - 03/25/07 08:19 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Who here watches/follows cricket? For those of you that do, is any one else astounded by the way it's turning out? I for one am amazed by it.
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Madtowntripper
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I am utterly dumbfounded by cricket.
I really just dont understand the rules...at all.
I've watched it. I've read the rulebook. I've met cricket players.
I do not get it. At all.
It's tricky, because superficially it looks like baseball. Which is my favorite sport, by far. I mean...They have a ball, a pitcher, and a guy with something like a bat.
But nooooo.
There are "wickets" and "Rollers" and other weird shit.
Cricket is an enigma.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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undergrounder
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Im dumbfoundingly bored by how long its taking tbh...
Ireland was a nice surprise but unfortunately shown up after getting through to the 8s.
My bet is on Australia to win it against New Zealand or Sri Lanka in the final. After getting smashed by NZ and suprisingly beaten by England in the One-day tri-series they've been dominating and won't look back until they've retained the cup.
Cricket's not that hard a concept, its the weird terms, fielding positions and minutae of bowling styles and techniques that trip people up. As far as the general one-day (world cup) rules go:
Two teams, (like baseball), but each team has a turn batting and a turn fielding (One innings each)
The basic setup for play is a bowler (pitcher), bowls (pitches) balls at a batsman who stands about a bus length away. A second batter is waiting up near the bowler getting ready to run if the batsman hits the ball (a bit like a previous batter waiting at first base). A wicket keeper (catcher) catches the ball if the batsman misses it. Around them are fielders who collect the balls the batter hits and try to stop runs.
The batter stands in front of a collection of 3 sticks called the 'wicket' (instead of a plate in baseball) and the bowler bowls (like a pitcher) the ball at the wicket, trying to hit it and get the batter out (a bit like a strike, except once you hit the wicket even once the batter is out). It's the job of the bowler to try and hit the wicket or at least try and get the batter caught in the outfield or something (similar to trying to get 3 strikes).
The batter on the other hand tries to protect his wicket with his bat and at the same time tries to score 'runs' (like baseball) by hitting the ball into the field and running up and down a straight line (as opposed to running around 4 points of a diamond) before the fielding team can collect the ball and throw it back (like baseball). As he does so, he swaps places with the second batter and for the next ball this new batter has to hit it while the previous guy waits up the other end.
Rinse, repeat and that's basically it. Once one team is all out (10 batters are out) or they run out of time the other team has a go. The winner is the team with the most runs after both teams have batted. This is usually Australia.
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Madtowntripper
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-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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