Robin Williams once described it as "Baseball on valium".
2 teams
12 players each, although one is kinda like a reserve
One team bats one team bowls/fields.
Each batsmen stays in until he is out.
The only ways he can get out is by either being caught like in baseball or if the bowler knocks the bails off the top of the wicket.
The wicket is 3 stumps(sticks) that stick into the ground with another stick balancing on the top(the bails).
The batsmen has to try and protect his wicket because once hes gone, unlike in baseball, thats it, he doesn't get another chance.
There are 2 batsmen in at once and the score is counted by the runs they score.
Each time the batsmen hits the ball he can run, he doesn't have to though. When he runs the other batsmen must run with him to score 1 run.
If they hit the ball to the boundary its 4 runs and they dont have to run and if they hit it over the fence its worth 6.
The aim for the bowling team is to get all of the batsmen out without them scoring many runs.
There are 2 diff games with diff rules. One day games they have 50 overs per side.
An over is every 6 balls that the bowler bowls.
They bowl 50 and the batting team has to try and score as many runs as possible in that time. Once the 50 is gone, they swap.
Whoever has the most runs at the end of the game wins.
Test Match cricket is a little more complicated. It can last 5 days and each team should play 2 innings each. So they bat twice and bowl twice.
Same idea as the other game but for the bowling team to be allowed to start their batting, they MUST get all the other team out first. It doesnt go on overs. They must bowl them all out to be able to swap and have their go at batting.
Its still all about scoring runs though.
A score you might see looking like this
5/200 or as th rest of the silly world does it 200/5 which is WRONG
It means that the batting team has lost 5 wickets(5 batsmen are out) and they have scored 200 runs.
Generally if its a team like say England you will prolly see a score like 7/80 whereas Australia is more likly to be something like 2/240
Thats not even half of it but did u really even want to know all that? Confused?
Main thing you need to know about cricket, crzy...
AUSTRALIA ARE THE WORLD CHAMPIONS AND THE BEST TEAM ABOVE THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MUWUWUAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!
[This message has been edited by zooropamanda (edited 02-20-2002).]
