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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Cardinal Ximenez on January 22, 2009, 05:08:28 pm
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As an American, I can understand most parts of British culture, but the one thing that still confuses me is Cricket.
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My limited perspective suggests that it is some sort of zany combination of baseball, soccer and quidditch. Some guy bowls the ball at a goal, then another guy hits it with a stick, and then they run back and forth for some reason while other people catch the ball.
So I have a few questions for those knowledgeable:
1. What the hell is going on?
2. Do you get the same feeling from seeing, say, American Football?
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cba to explain cricket but basically it's the worst possible sport in the world to watch on tv etc and really fantastic to play on a sunny day no lie
also american football isn't that confusing to us I don't think, it's pretty similar to rugby except they do all that STOP START STOP START shit for ad breaks that makes it totally unwatchable. I don't understand why they wear helmets/all that armor tho
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imagine getting clotheslined by two 8 foot tall, 350lb mutants coming in at you in opposite directions while you're running at full speed
they are getting injuries/ surgeries all the time and that's with the armour on
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imagine getting clotheslined by two 8 foot tall, 350lb mutants coming in at you in opposite directions while you're running at full speed
We have a phrase for that kind of behaviour. "it's just not cricket"
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We have a phrase for that kind of behaviour. "it's just not cricket"
alternative answer: rugby
mark is right though, cricket is a game better played in the park than professionally!
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mark is right though, cricket is a game better played in the park than professionally!
I ALSO agree, it's HORRIBLE to watch professional cricket, but I remember when I used to play it back in school... so many good times!
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Holy shit I was wondering this same thing yesterday, yesterday was the first time I had really seen anything where people were playing cricket (lol grange hill) and I couldn't figure out what was going on.
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Cricket I guess could be compared to baseball. It's fairly simple. You have two teams, which get 2 innings in fielding and batting. Their are two batsmen playing at a time and their aim is to get as many runs as possible. This is achieved by hitting the ball as far as possible and to run to each end of the wickets. If a fielder stumps out the wickets whilst no one is in the square (area of safety), then the batsman is out. The batsman take turn in batting according to where they end up after running. Hitting it out of the boundary with it hitting the floor is 4 runs, hitting it out of the boundary without it touching the ground earns 6 runs.
Other ways for the batsmen to be out are catching the ball, bowling the ball to hit the stumps/wickets, or if the ball hits the player's leg, the umpire (referee) will judge whether the ball would have hit the wickets had his leg not been there. This is called Leg before wicket, or LBW.
In Test Cricket the batting teams innings lasts until their last batsmen is out. They can sometimes go on for a few days at a time. After this they become the fielders and vice verser.
In one day cricket, each team has a set number of bowls to make as much runs as possible. The games are quicker and the batsmen will usually take more risks as they race against time.
Anyway, yeah that's basically it. The team with most runs wins.
I pretty much never follow cricket and am surprised I still remember the rules. It's a gentleman's game.
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I would never watch it but when I played it last summer it was really fun. We alternated the roles of batting, bowling and catching so the variety was really nice. I live in England now and even though I don't know anyone who plays it regularly there does seem to be a fascination with it from foreigners - the tourists walking by took pictures of us as we played.
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mark is british ahahahaha
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Lyndon, what's a wicket and how do you stump it out. And who cant be in the safety square? the fielder or the batsman?
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mark is british ahahahaha
Where did you think I was from eric of "nerbraska"
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I ALSO agree, it's HORRIBLE to watch professional cricket, but I remember when I used to play it back in school... so many good times!
this exactly applies to baseball for me!
never played cricket, it was exclusive for the brown kids >
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ok you have a small especially flat mown bit of ground called the pitch (that's the yellow rectangle on the diagram). There are wickets at either end of the pitch. wickets are 3 wooden posts (stumps) shoved in the ground with 2 smaller bits of wood (bails) balanced horizontally between them. Two batsmen of the team that is batting are in play at once, each standing by a wicket. The other team are fielders. One of the fielders bowls (throws) the ball in a crazy little explosion of movements, his aim is to knock over the wicket which the batsman tries to defend by hitting the ball away - if he knocks it over the batsman he's bowling at is out. Another fielder is standing behind the wicket as a backstop. When the ball is hit the 2 batsmen have to run between the wickets crossing over in the middle as many times as they think they can without a wicket being put in danger because as long as they're not in their "crease" (small area by each wicket) a fielder can collect the ball and knock the bails off the wicket. if a fielder catches after it's been hit without it bouncing that batsman is out. If the ball is hit out of the boundaries without bouncing it's worth 6 runs without running and 4 if it does bounce.
there's more to it than that (most of the extra stuff involves Cucumber Sandwiches) but that's the basics
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mark is british ahahahaha
did you honestly not know that?
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Anyway, yeah that's basically it. The team with most runs wins.
not necessarily but fuck lets not get into that.
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People go crazy for cricket, man. Everybody watches cricket on TV here or try to go to the games. I used to play a lot when I was little. Nice memories of playing cricket at the beach. Cricket rules and baseball sucks because all you need to play cricket is a little space, a bat, a ball and something to use as a wicket (we used all sorts of shit, from like chairs to just sticking branches into the sand). And the rules are very simple. If you're playing it casual, it can be as short or long as you want and with any number of people (all you need is a batsman, bowler, couple of fielders and a wicketkeeper). I was always a good batsman but a real pie thrower when it came to bowling. I used to LBW too much, though.
Fun times like when kids used to soak the ball and you would hit it and it would spray water in your face.
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To sum up cricket in a few words: Bat, hard ball, not a spectator sport.
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Nah, you could use a wind ball too. I never liked using the cork balls. You ever had a fiery full toss or haul a cherry beamer at you? That shit ain't funny.
(Yeah I'm a pussy and bad childhood experience of getting a fuckin ball in my face..... I prefer to play with windballs heh)
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phew, at least we know where we are with football, right?
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oh wait football can be hilariously complicated (http://snopes.com/sports/soccer/barbados.asp) too:
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(Yeah I'm a pussy and bad childhood experience of getting a fuckin ball in my face..... I prefer to play with windballs heh)
I tried to catch a fucking GOLFBALL when I was younger and it hit me just under the eye. God that was HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE...
Just to help you guys grasp how intelligent I really am, I tried to shove a whole creme egg in my mouth when i was younger, just for it to get stuck in my mouth and my Dad had to crack it open with a spoon... I was (and still am) such a shit child.
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Yeah, watching Cricket is a disgrace but it's a laugh to play.
Topped only by rounders. The mans game.
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man if you dont understand cricket youre really dumb. its a really simple game.
Do you get the same feeling from seeing, say, American Football?
no because we're not fucking retarded
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Cricket is the most boring sport in the world, some games are like 3 days in hell.
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I was never interested in Cricket either. Granted, I can see it as fun to play in the park when I'm bored or something, or even on the beach sometimes, but for the most part I never really got how it could become a professional sport. Oh well.
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Do you get the same feeling from seeing, say, American Football?
No, when I watch American Football I wonder why they need so much padding. I wonder what would happen to them if they tried to run around for more than 5 seconds in a row. I wonder what would happen to them if they played a real sport like Rugby Union. I wonder why one guy is getting paid so much money to kick the ball three, maybe four, times in the whole game. What I don't wonder about is why it isn't popular in more countries, because that is freaking obvious.
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not necessarily but fuck lets not get into that.
I don't see how else the team can win. Unless you mean if the team gets enough runs to make it impossible for the other team to win, but this is the same thing really
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if a match with a time limit (one-day international etc.) is stopped for any reason (poor weather for instance) while the chasing team are batting then play can't be resumed at another time, so the Duckworth-Lewis method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckworth-Lewis_method) is used to determine whether the chasing team could have won the match in the remaining overs. It's a complicated calculation of run-rate, balls remaining and wickets that have already been taken, but the long and the short of it is a team with fewer runs can be awarded the victory with this method if they were maintaining a good run-rate before play is stopped.
this happened (http://cricketnext.in.com/news/new-zealand-win-series-on-dl-method/37443-13.html) very recently! the series was tied 1-1 so the last one-day international was the decider. new zealand batted second and by the 35th over had 211 runs for 5 wickets, when rain stopped play. using the D/L method it was decided that they were over the required run-rate to beat the west indies' score of 293, so new zealand were awarded the victory and thus won the series 2-1.
by the time you have finished working this out the entire crowd has fallen asleep. this is why cricket is not a great spectator sport!
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I don't know how it is in other parts of the world but in the West Indies, people watch cricket religiously. Ironically, W.I.'s team sucks ass but people still watch.
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I'm still confused.
Baseball is so much easier.
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What's there to be confused about?
You have batsmen on opposites sides. A bowler bowls a ball. The batsman hits the ball. The batsmen make runs up and down the pitch before the fielders try to get the ball and hit the wicket with it, or you're out. Or if the ball is caught by a fielder, you're out.
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In my experience, cricket is a pretty terribly boring sport and exists largely as an excuse for boring upper-middle-class people to get drunk. It's baseball that takes too long (more time for cheap beer).
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From what I've seen of the sport, it's a lot more watchable than baseball or soccer is for me, but American football is probably the only sport I really enjoy watching, aside from the occasional hockey game.
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asdf 'soccer' is the most watched sport in the world you're crazy
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Can there be a filter for soccer. Any 'soccer' on this forum becomes 'football'
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all you soccers will be footballs
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It's so boring to watch though :(
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Soccer is one of the only sports I've ever enjoyed watching on TV. I generally don't like watching sports so it's not like I do this often but the few times I've ended up watching sports on TV, this was the one I liked watching. I can't stand watching football, I can't stand watching baseball, and I can't stand watching basketball.
The other one is curling just because I have never seen more angry people doing such a non-angry sport. Curling isn't on TV very often but the time that I did see it on it was just the angriest Canadian woman taking things way too seriously.
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hockey's the best let's just face it........
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I went to a few hockey games when I was little but I can barely remember it. I don't even think that hockey team still exists anymore.
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I like watching snooker on tv a lot I'm soooooo boring
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It's so boring to watch though :(
I don't know who you were watching but football is usually one of the more exciting sports! fair enough the US game is basically awful so maybe you haven't seen it played well, but this is a really strange thing to say.
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Those Americans... and their 'soccer'...
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face it pokers the best sport heh
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I don't know who you were watching but football is usually one of the more exciting sports! fair enough the US game is basically awful so maybe you haven't seen it played well, but this is a really strange thing to say.
Well it isn't really strange because that is kind of the general claim by Americans. It's kind of reinforced by not being on any big name network frequently and not having a lot of money hyping it. And even then the Beckham deal hasn't done a whole lot for the game either. The only time I'll hear any serious talk about soccer is when the world cup will role around World Cup.
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face it pokers the best sport heh
*strip pokers
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*strip pokers
*strip candyland
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strip battleships mate
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you sunk my battleship :naughty:
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This is where a sexually frustrated mod comes around and warns all for dicking around in general. I... I just don't find it funny... I must warn WARN THEM ALL
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(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/52348/lmao.PNG)
just... lol
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No, when I watch American Football I wonder why they need so much padding. I wonder what would happen to them if they tried to run around for more than 5 seconds in a row. I wonder what would happen to them if they played a real sport like Rugby Union. I wonder why one guy is getting paid so much money to kick the ball three, maybe four, times in the whole game. What I don't wonder about is why it isn't popular in more countries, because that is freaking obvious.
ARRGH!!! AMERICA!!! :mad: :mad: :fogetangry:
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america invented aids and american football and the bible
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an the nuclear bomb....keep it up buddy....
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edit: *nuculer
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sorry, only listing bad things they invented here.
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ARRGH!!! AMERICA!!! :mad: :mad: :fogetangry:
My fav part is when he kind of mixed his metaphor and implied running with heavy equipment means you're a weaker athlete.