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[Ex-California]

All I know is that cricket goes for days and the score is like 1000-900

[SuburbanFarmer]

Nobody knows what the fuck you’re talking about

I'm here to help. What don't you understand?

I have absolutely no idea what the rules are. I downloaded a primer once, and was horrified.

[Speaker to Animals]

All I know is that cricket goes for days and the score is like 1000-900

It pretty much ends when the butt-fucking starts from what I can tell. It's the gayest sport ever played.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

False.

[Speaker to Animals]

False.

Just because you can find video of gay men playing volleyball doesn't mean that sport is gayer than cricket.

You could just show squids doing anything, or actors playing squids, and anything literally looks gay as shit because squids are doing it. Foul ball, Iceman.

[Montegriffo]

Nobody knows what the fuck you’re talking about

I'm here to help. What don't you understand?

I have absolutely no idea what the rules are. I downloaded a primer once, and was horrified.

It's pretty simple, the batsmen score by hitting the ball over the boundry. If it goes over without hitting the ground it's a 6. If it hits the ground first it's a 4. You can also score by running between the wickets before the fielders can knock the stumps off.
You get a batsman out by bowling him out (knocking the wicket over), catching him out, stumping him as he is running between the wickets or hitting his legs if they are in front of the wicket (LBW or leg before wicket)
A bowler gets 6 balls (an over) then another bowler bowls from the opposite end (there are 2 wickets). There are basically 2 kinds of bowlers. Fast bowlers who bowl at around 90 mph who can also make the ball swerve in flight (swing bowling) and spin bowlers who put massive amounts of spin on the ball so it bounces and changes direction so the batsman can't hit it cleanly.
This is the most famous spin bowling ball of all time. The ball lands behind the batsmans feet and changes direction to hit the wicket. The batsman had no idea where it was going.

[Montegriffo]

All I know is that cricket goes for days and the score is like 1000-900

It pretty much ends when the butt-fucking starts from what I can tell. It's the gayest sport ever played.

Nah you must be thinking of ice dancing or gymnastics. They are the gayest sports of all time.

[Montegriffo]

There's a reason the batsman wear helmets, cricketers die.

A bouncer is a ball that comes in at head height at around 90 mph

[SuburbanFarmer]

I'm here to help. What don't you understand?

I have absolutely no idea what the rules are. I downloaded a primer once, and was horrified.

It's pretty simple, the batsmen score by hitting the ball over the boundry. If it goes over without hitting the ground it's a 6. If it hits the ground first it's a 4. You can also score by running between the wickets before the fielders can knock the stumps off.
You get a batsman out by bowling him out (knocking the wicket over), catching him out, stumping him as he is running between the wickets or hitting his legs if they are in front of the wicket (LBW or leg before wicket)
A bowler gets 6 balls (an over) then another bowler bowls from the opposite end (there are 2 wickets).

Ok, so one team is batting, the other is fielding, like baseball? How many outs do they get?

What does it mean to “knock the stumps off”?

“Catching him out” means catching the ball in flight?

“Hitting his legs”, with the ball?

[Montegriffo]

I have absolutely no idea what the rules are. I downloaded a primer once, and was horrified.

It's pretty simple, the batsmen score by hitting the ball over the boundry. If it goes over without hitting the ground it's a 6. If it hits the ground first it's a 4. You can also score by running between the wickets before the fielders can knock the stumps off.
You get a batsman out by bowling him out (knocking the wicket over), catching him out, stumping him as he is running between the wickets or hitting his legs if they are in front of the wicket (LBW or leg before wicket)
A bowler gets 6 balls (an over) then another bowler bowls from the opposite end (there are 2 wickets).

Ok, so one team is batting, the other is fielding, like baseball? How many outs do they get?

What does it mean to “knock the stumps off”?

“Catching him out” means catching the ball in flight?

“Hitting his legs”, with the ball?

Ok, there are 11 players but they go out 2 at a time (one each end) so you get 10 outs (wickets) the best batsmen come out first (the openers) and the weakest batsmen, usually the specialist bowlers come out last (the tail end). If you are good at both batting and bowling you are known as an ''all rounder''. Genuine all rounders are rare with the best ones occurring only once or twice in a generation.
The stumps (or wicket) are what the bowler is targeting. If the batsman hits a ball and it doesn't make the boundry he can run between the wickets. Think of it like running around the bases. If the fielders can hit the stumps before either batsman gets back to one of the wickets into the ''base'' or crease as it's known the batsman running to that end is out, this is known as a ''run out''. The wickets are a chain or 22 yards apart. You have to knock the bails off the top of the stumps.


The hitting his legs thing is to stop the batsman just blocking the stumps with his legs when the bowler (pitcher) bowls at them. It is often a contentious decision because the umpire (referee) has to first decide whether the ball hit the leg and then judge that it would have hit the stumps if it hadn't hit the leg all with the ball travelling at 90 mph.
A catch is the same as in baseball, ie if the ball makes contact of any kind with the bat and is caught before it bounces.

An over(6 balls) is bowled at each end then another bowler gets 6 balls from the opposite end rinse and repeat. If the batsmen run once between the wickets then the other batsman faces the next ball. If you hit a 4 or a 6 or run an even number of times the same batsman faces the next ball.