| Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| Cricket |
 Today I have been learning about cricket. OK, I should have been working, but when a colleague is prepared to sit there and draw you very simple - very amusing! - diagrams to explain bowling, batting and running, you just need to sit back and enjoy the show.
So I know know what a wicket is: it's the patch in the middle of the field where the batsmen stand at each end by the wickets (also known as stumps, because there are just too many wickets!)
A delivery is basically a bowl. The bowler bowls the ball - the delivery - and the batsman needs to hit it. If he hits it outside the boundary he scores a 6, if it bounces first a 4. If he thinks it's not going to go out, he needs to run (as does batsman number 2), and get back to his wicket - stump - before the ball gets back. If he runs, he can't score more than 4 (if the ball bounces within the boundary). If the ball hits the stumps, he's out. And the other team (the fielding team) have gained a wicket! See, I told you there were too many wickets.
Then of course you have overs and innings! An over consists of 6 deliveries (bowls), and an innings is effectively a teams 'turn' at batting. In a one-day match each team gets to bowl a maximum of 50 overs (that's 300 deliveries), and after each over they swap ends, so the other batsman gets a go. Unless of course there's been lots of running and it could be the same batsman!
There always have to be 2 batsmen at the wicket, and there are 10 wickets per team - 11 batsmen, though, because there has to be 2 at each wicket.
Next I get to learn about five-day test matches. And perhaps can learn about terms such as some more 'lingo', such as googling (which I did in order to find that term!), popping and what on earth the crease is!
And then, if I'm ever in a pub and a young, good-looking, Christian guy who's into cricket happens to sit at my table, I can impress him with my outstanding knowledge of the beautiful game. |
posted by Calia77 @ 10:43 pm  |
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Well, I guess it is important to be prepared in all things. I can't say I understand anything about cricket, though my dad watches it often. And after reading your post, I'm still pretty foggy, but I guess I'm not so motivated!
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Well, I guess it is important to be prepared in all things. I can't say I understand anything about cricket, though my dad watches it often. And after reading your post, I'm still pretty foggy, but I guess I'm not so motivated!