ANYONE who understands cricket
 

Ever since we've gotten cable, we've been watching Fox Soccer Channel, and thus Fox Sports World Report. They always show cricket highlights, and for a week we've been watching, and we just don't get it.

1) How many "innings" are there in a typical day?

2) Why do matches last five frickin days?

3) If the batter hits it, it bounces on the field, then rolls out of the oval, how many runs is that?

4) How many bowls does a better get?

5) Does everyone on the team bowl, or is there a designated bowler (ie, MLB pitcher)

6) If the batter hits it, and it just rolls into the field of play, but not far enough to start running and scoring, then what happens?

7) What if you and the other guy keep scoring runs, but end up at the other side of where you were batting?

8) When the umpire (or whatever) raises his pointer finger in the air, what does that mean?

isn't it a bug??? LOL :D :p

Sorry, couldn't resist........

Try Wikipedia: Cricket.

BTW, matches don't always last five days -- that's just a possibility. And you have to expect things to take a while when you take breaks for luncheon, tea, etc. ;)

A little off topic but I saw the ea sports games preview for the upcoming season and saw that Cricket has a game but was disapointed that it won't be released in North america.

Playing the rugby game was confusing enough at first:eek:

I heard the cricket game wasn't all that fun - I was intrigued by it, but I don't know if I'd actually buy it.

ETA: As an aside, a brother from my (and KSigRC's) chapter was on the junior national rugby team for Kenya.

Also...I had just posed in the rugby thread, and for some reason posted rugby instead of cricket.

He was on the cricket team, actually, wasn't he?

Yeah, no idea why I did that. I haven't had a beer in about 18 hours.

This thread is so funny because a British friend of mine was trying to explain cricket to me the other day...I still don't really understand it...haha

Why spoil it by trying to understand it?