Can Australia do it for the 10th time?

[Kim]

Well - it's the only sport I know that can last for 5 days - produce a draw (no result) - but still have been a really great game!!!

(OK - maybe it's not for everybody! )

 

[Jamdiver]

Well. There is a short version:

The game is played by two groups.
The first group is in and the second group goes out.
Some of the group which is in, go out.
The group that is out, tries to get the group that is in, out.
When one of the group that is in, is out, he goes in and the
next one goes out.
Then when all of the first group (except one) that is in, is out,
the second group that is out goes in.
The first group now goes out and tries to get the second group,
who now are in, out.

Only when both groups have been in and out twice is there a
conclusion.

and there is a long version:
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm



It's easy really.....even kids play it!

Kim, don't forget to mention how the former 'colonies' regularly whip England at their own game.
Cough, cough..., The current West Indies team isn't included in this list though

 

[MikeC]

There is a modified version of the game. I think each side gets only 100 overs. Someone started a US cricket league last year that used that format. They also modified the rules with a time limit and rain delay provisions.

I was hired to work a telecast and we learned some stuff but not enough. The director had a hard time dealing with a crew that was a bunch of cricket rookies. It was a bit different then any other sport. Not really boring. I would have trouble watching a match that lasted several days.

What really sucked was the attendance. the game was played on a Friday evening about 20 miles outside of DC and there was maybe 600 people in the stands. One would think that you would advertise to the foreign nationals in DC!!! Maybe they like the traditional game and not the Yankee game??

 

[H2Andy]

Can Australia do it for the 10th time?

is the Pope German?

Australia is invincible right now, and England ain't that hot


cricket:

you got two teams. each team gets two innings of ten outs each.

the batter doesn't have to swing at the ball (i.e. there are no "balls")

if a fly is hit and is caught, that's an out

if the batter swings and hits the ball, he trades place with the batter across
the pitch from him. that's one run. they can keep scoring runs by switching
places across the pitch long as it is safe to do so. if a runner is tagged outside
the "bases", he's out. the batters don't have to run if they don't want to.

if the bowler (pitcher) throws the ball and hits the "stumps" (sticks on the
ground next to the batter), the batter is out.

if the ball is hit on the ground over the boundry marker, that's 4 runs.

if the ball is hit on a fly over the boundry marker, that's 6 runs.

once a team gets 10 outs, the innings is over and the teams switch
places. at the end of two innings per team (four innings total),
whichever team has more runs win.

if they don't get to finish the four innings after five days, it's a draw

(that's the "test" or long version)

 

[Azza]

There is a modified version of the game. I think each side gets only 100 overs.

You would be thinking of "One Day Cricket".
Each team gets 50 overs (An over is 6 balls) instead of playing until the whole team is out.

Try this site, http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm

 

[H2Andy]

well, on day two of the first test, Australia leads by 314 runs with 3 outs
to go in the second innings.

assuming no more runs (yeah, right), England will have to score 315 runs to win

can they do it?

yeah, right

(i am an england fan, and have the shirt to prove it)