cricket- whats that about then?

Question

and does anyone really care?

tsk...how very dare you!

vakayil k, for your information england is NOT cricket crazy!(the very idea!)

Answer 1

They make good fish bait for bream.

Answer 2

There are many cricket crazy peoples in countries like Australia, England, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies, South Africa, New Zeland etc. and they really care for the game. For your information Indian Cricket Board is the most richest Cricket Board in the world.

Answer 3

Cricket - A game between two teams of approximately eleven players, but the twelfth man occasionally takes part too. Each side has a twelfth man, so the second team's twelfth man is referred to as the 39th man, or simple Harry Lime ('cos it rhymes with thirty-nine).
(I can keep this up for ages, people, go read a book if you get bored).
One team (or side as we say over here) is in and the other side is out. The team that is out is in the field. The objective of the side that is out in the field is to get the other side out so that they can be in the field.
The people in the field are referred to as "fielders" and their job is to keep the field clear of litter, spit on the grass a bit because we have water-restrictions at the moment, but most importantly to scare wild birds off the field. When the birds are safe, the umpire will incant the magic word, "play" and one of the men in a specialised fielding position will hurl a misslile at one of the other men hiding behind a thing we call "the popping crease". Then the fielders will all watch the missile, or ball, safely fly over their heads into the crowd of spectators who have come because there's nothing better to do in England and they might get on the telly holding a piece of cardboard that says "Hello Mum".
The side that's "in" can carry weapons. These weapons are in the form of large wooden clubs, coloquially referred to as bat, hence the word "batsman" (not to be confused with Bat-Man - he's American).
Batsmen wear huge amounts of body-armour, which is why we refer to them as "the defence". The team that's out but in the field is referred to as "the attack". The attack wears no armour - it is a testosterone rite-of-passage type thing that foreigners would not understand. Or, if you prefer, men are stupid (cricket is a single-gender game girls can play, but only with other girls - it's a logistics issue to do with the after-match bath/shower problems that mixed-sex teams could cause).
In an internationally recognised game, there are generally three scorers - they watch the umpires for the secret signals which indicate what score they have chosen to award, depending on their mood and the weather. For example - the common signal for a score of "six" is for the ump to hold both arms straight up in the air over his head - If correct, the crowd will ratify this by performing a St. John's Wood wave - woefully hijacked by a spanish-speaking country and now better known as a "Mexican Wave" (what? at Lord's? never, I jolly well say).
When all the scorers have removed their shoes and socks and counted as high as they can, If the team that is in still has at least two wickets standing (oh, what am a saying here? you can perform simple arithmetic can't you? - the highest possible score is OBVIOUSLY 743). If you get to 743 you have to stop and give the other side a turn. Stopping while you're still in and deliberately choose to go out is called "to declare". (The Aussies did that yesterday).
Occasionally, seeing as a single game of cricket takes five days to complete, A golf-cart type thing will ride onto the bird-free field and bring all the players "drinks". This is in fact just an excuse for the spectators to decide whether they want to queue up outside the bar or the public conveniences - in one end, out the other.

(this is just the beginning - stay tuned. If I get any encouragement from you guys we can delve into the vaguaries of leg-before-wicket and when is a wide not a wide)

Answer 4

Yes people do. It's actually a great game to sit and watch on a lovely summer's day. It's not in the least bit complicated either. Sure, it has a language all of it's own, but you don't really need to know that to understand the basics of people need to score more runs than their opposing team and they are out if their wicket, which they are meant to be protecting is hit by the ball or their shot is caught mid air by an opposing fielder. Basically, that's it.

Answer 5

Yes...over half of the world's population.
Are you American?What's it with a lot of fat men wrestling over a football..which is not really a ball.
Cricket is the greatest team sport.

Answer 6

Very funny

Answer 7

its about the boring english getting hammerd by the aussies! yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay rock on australia

Answer 8

Is it about men with big bats playing with their balls?
l dont know

Answer 9

I don't,Cant stand sport.

Answer 10

not really, hate the sport