I'm a new viewer to cricket...can sum1 explain 2 me the scoring.?

Question

'm an american and i'm used to american sports, but i want to impress my bf by knowing a little abt cricket. I do enjoy watching the game. Let me know!!!!!

Answer 1

The aim of the batsmen is to score as many runs as possible. A run is scored when both batsmen successfully move to their respective opposite ends of the wicket (or the ball goes over the boundary rope). (The batsmen will usually only attempt to score runs after the striker has hit the ball, but this is not necessary). The aim of the bowler's team is to get each batsman out (this is a wicket, or a dismissal). Dismissals are achieved in a variety of ways. The most direct way is for the bowler to evade the batsman's guard and successfully hit his stumps with the ball, dislodging the bails on top. While the batsmen are attempting a run, the fielders will attempt to knock the bails off either set of stumps with the ball before the batsman nearest to that set of stumps passes the crease with his bat. Other ways for the fielding side to dismiss a batsman include catching a struck ball before it touches the ground. Once the batsmen are not attempting to score any more runs, the ball is "dead" and is bowled again (each attempt at bowling the ball is a ball or a delivery).

Once out, a batsman is replaced by the next batsman in the team's lineup. The innings (singular) of the batting team will end when the tenth batsman is given out, since there always must be two batsmen on the field. When this happens, the team is said to be all out. At the end of an innings, the two teams exchange roles, the fielding team becoming the batting team and vice versa.

The game is divided into overs of six (legal) balls. At the end of an over, the batting and bowling ends will be swapped, and the bowler replaced by another member of the fielding side. The fielding positions (sometimes) and the two umpires also change positions at this time.

The winning team will be the team that scores the most runs at the end of a match. Different varieties of the game have different restrictions on the number of overs, the number of innings, and the number of balls in each. A draw is not an uncommon result and can occur if the team that is last to bat fails to match the required total of runs, or the bowling team fails to take 10 wickets, before a specified time lim


For a good deatiled explanation go to:
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm

Answer 2

Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a bat and ball game which is played on a roughly oval grass field, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 20.12 m (22 yards) long, called a pitch. At each end of the pitch is a set of wooden stumps, called a wicket. Note that, rather confusingly, the pitch itself is also often referred to as the wicket. A player from the fielding team (the bowler) propels a hard, fist-sized cork-centred leather ball from one wicket towards the other. The ball usually bounces once before reaching a player from the opposing team (the batsman), who defends the wicket from the ball with a wooden cricket bat. The batsman may then run between the wickets, exchanging ends with another batsman (the "non-striker"), who has been standing in an inactive role near the bowler's wicket, to score runs. The remainder of the bowlers' team stand in various positions around the oval as fielders.

Cricket has been an established team sport for several centuries. It originated in its modern form in England and is popular mainly in the present and former members of the Commonwealth. In some countries in South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular sport. Cricket is also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are collectively known in cricketing parlance as the West Indies.

For more details about cricket such as Laws of Cricket, Batting, Bowling, Scoring runs etc., please check the following website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket

Answer 3

6 runs is when the ball goes over the boundary without touching the ground once (similar to home run in baseball)

4 is when the ball crosses the boundary with bouncing at least once

1 run is given when the two batsman run to the opposite end of the crease. When the batsman return to their previous position, 2 runs are awarded (running back and forth).

There are some oddities also. When the ball is wide or a no ball, the batting team gets 1 run automatically.

Basically that is it.

Answer 4

Like in baseball a homer is six runs, touching the fence is four runs, each time the batsman hits and reaches the opposite wicket it's a single run. He can keep reaching back and forth for four times but no more. Scoring fifty runs is called half century and a hundred runs is called a century. The team scoring more runs wins. The bowler's task is to prevent the batsmen from scoring runs and getting them out with least possible runs on the board.

Answer 5

it is tough 2 explain scoring without pencil and paper but still i ll try...
(1)every cross over d batters make they get one run
(2)if d ball goes rollin to d boundry line its four runs..
(3)and if d ball goes over d boundry line without rolling its a six ...
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Answer 6

I did not see playing cricket in America. LMAO.

Answer 7

TYPE YOUR SEARCH IN THE GOOGLE TOOLBAR OR USE GOOGLE.COM. YOU CAN GET ALL THE INFORMATION FROM IT'S ORIGIN TO THIS DATE.

Answer 8

There may be something of use here.