I am TRYING to understand Cricket... but I DONT GET IT!! Would SOMEBODY out there PLEASE help me?? :)?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

What is that you do not understand, Is it the rules of the game or something very specific like how many players can play like general kind of things?

1. It is team game
2. There are two teams at any given point of time to play against each other
3. Each team can field 11 players at one time.
4. One team will bat first and the other will bowl first
5. That is decided based on a toss of a coin
6. The captains are allowed to take the toss
7. The captain who wins the toss gets the right to opt for either bat first or bowl first
8. Each team must have a captain, and a wicket keeper, but they can have a vice-captain or not.
9. The captains runs the affairs of the team on-field like which player should bowl now or who should be sent out to bat or even take some issues with the umpire(equivalent to refree's in football).
10. Only two batsman can play in the middle of the field at any point of time.
11. Only one batsman can be given out at a time
12. Only one bowler can bowl at a time.
13. A bowler can bowl only six balls continuously, until a ball is called a wide ball or a no-ball or declared a dead-ball. In all these cases he needs to bowl an additional ball. Each ball bowled is called a delivery. Therefore, there a six deliveries at a time. And this is called one over.
14. There are two types of officially recognized games internationally.
15. One is called a 5-day match or Test match. And another is called a one day game or 50 over match.
16. There is no restriction as to how many overs (6-deliveries) a bowler can bowl. But he or she can bowl only one over and then should be called to bowl after another bowler gets his / her turn to bowl.
17. A bowler is restricted to only 10 overs in a 50 over match.
18. There is a new form of 20 overs match is being held very recently. But that is not yet officially recognized.
19. Some times a 50 over match is reduced to a 30 overs or 40 overs or 48 overs etc., due to rain disruption or other disruptions such as fog etc.
20. Apart from a bowler and a wicket keeper all the remaining 9 players are fielded in specific points in the field. These players are called fielders. And the captain along with the bowler usually decides who would be placed where. They will not place the fielders any where they like. The positions are called standard fielding positions.
21. A batsman crossing the pitch once after hitting the ball and finishes his run takes a single run, if he crosses the pitch twice it is counted for a 2 run and so on.
22. A ball hit to cross the rope at the end of the field is called either a boundary or a sixer. A boundary is a 4 run and a sixer gives him six runs.
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hmmmm.... tired writing this now, okay bye...

Answer 3

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each. A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a pitch. At each end of the pitch is a construction of three parallel wooden stakes (known as stumps) driven vertically into the ground, with two small crosspieces (known as bails) laid across the top of them. This wooden structure is called a wicket.

The bowler, a player from the fielding team, hurls a hard, fist-sized, cork-centred, leather-covered ball from the vicinity of one wicket towards the other. The ball usually bounces once before reaching the batsman, a player from the opposing team. In defence of the wicket, the batsman plays the ball with a wooden cricket bat. Meanwhile, the other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the batted ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman, if he or she does not get out (for example if the bowled ball hits the wicket, or if a fielder catches the ball off the bat before it bounces), may run between the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the non-striker), who has been waiting near the bowler's wicket. Each completed exchange of ends scores one run, and the match is won by the team that scores more runs.

Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years. It originated in its modern form in England and is most popular in the present and former members of the Commonwealth. Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world. More than a hundred cricket-playing nations are recognised by the International Cricket Council.[4] In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is the most popular sport. It 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. There are also well-established amateur club competitions in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Kenya, Nepal and Argentina, among others.

Answer 4

I have tried to explain it to my son-in-law who is french, but he cannot understand how a game can last for up to five days and even then it could end up as a draw. I have taken him to see first class cricket and tried to explain the finer points of this wonderful game but I think after some 13 years we may just be getting there.

However he was impressed when I told him that France were the current Olympic silver medalist in cricket but I did not tell him that this was in 1900.

Answer 5

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each. A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a pitch. At each end of the pitch is a construction of three parallel wooden stakes (known as stumps) driven vertically into the ground, with two small crosspieces (known as bails) laid across the top of them. This wooden structure is called a wicket.

The bowler, a player from the fielding team, hurls a hard, fist-sized, cork-centred, leather-covered ball from the vicinity of one wicket towards the other. The ball usually bounces once before reaching the batsman, a player from the opposing team. In defence of the wicket, the batsman plays the ball with a wooden cricket bat. Meanwhile, the other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the batted ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman, if he or she does not get out (for example if the bowled ball hits the wicket, or if a fielder catches the ball off the bat before it bounces), may run between the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the non-striker), who has been waiting near the bowler's wicket. Each completed exchange of ends scores one run, and the match is won by the team that scores more runs.

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Answer 6

Well done, the person that wrote the looong answer about it. but simply the two captains go into the middle of the pitch, and toos a coin. Whoever wins the toss gets to choose to bat, or to bowl. Then they go back to the changing rooms, pavilion, whatever you want to call it, and tell there team what they are doing. Then the batting team have to get ready, by putting their pads on, while the fielding and bowling team go out into the middle and the captain places the field. There are so many positions in the cricket field, I won't tell you them. Then, when both batsmen are ready to bat, they too go out to the middle. By this time, the field should be set, and the umpires should be out and ready. Then, the batsmen ask for either "middle" or "leg" or "off". These are the stumps. Pretend there is a straight line right through the pitch. If the batsmen is a right handed batsmen, then the off side is the right side. And the leg side is the left side. But if the batsmen is left handed then the off side is the left side, and the leg side is the right side. When the batsmen ask for middle, off, or leg. Middle is they would like to mark where middle stump is on the pitch. so they ask the umpire, and he helps them find it. "off" is just the same, but they are asking for off stump. And the same with "Leg". Then the umpire asks the bowler if he is a right handed bowler, or a left. If he answers right, then the umpire will ask over the wicket, and around the wicket! Right arm around the wicket means that the bowlers bowling arm is furthest away from the stumps at the bowlers end (Right side of the wicket). Right arm over the stumps means that the bowlers bowling arm is bowling over the wicket (Left side of the wicket). His arm is nearest to the wicket. But the bowler is a left handed bowler then it is simply the other way around. Left arm around the wicket means the bowler is bowling left side of the stumps and left arm over the wicket is bowling from the right side of the wickets!
Right now we can play the game. The umpire tells the batsmen Right arm over, left arm over, right arm around, left arm around. Then when the bowler bowls, he has to think about not putting his front foot over the popping crease, the line in from the wickets. If he does it is a no-ball. then the bowler has to bowl the ball again and the batting team get an extra run. Also he has to think about "line and length". He has to think now to bowl it wide of the stumps. Also if the ball bounces above the batsmens shoulder, that is classed as a wide, or a no ball. If the bowler bowls the ball and the ball hits the wickets then the batsmen is out, unless it is a no-ball. The batsman can not get out, unless they are run out on a no-ball. The batsmen can get out either Caught out, when the ball is bowled, and the batsman hits it in the air, then a fielder catches it. Caught and bowled is bowled by the bowler and caught by the bowler. Run out is when the batsman is not in the crease and the fielder or bowler hits the stumps

Answer 7

Yes I can help.
I was stumped too (points for the pun please) and was looking for a noddy's guide - and some one suggested the CBBC Newsround guides - link below.

Snippet on the very basics from the easy to understand guide follows:

There are 11 players in a cricket team. One team bats, the other fields. Then they swap over.
A player called a bowler carries the ball towards two sets of wooden sticks called stumps, which are 22 yards apart at either end of a piece of ground called the wicket.

The bowler's job is to let go of the ball and try and direct it towards one set of stumps, hoping it will hit them and knock tiny pieces of wood, called bails, off the top of them.

A player from the opposing team, called a batsman, stands to one side of the set of the stumps the bowler is aiming at, waiting for them to deliver the ball.

The batsman tries to stop the ball hitting the stumps, using a piece of wood called a bat.

That's it...

Answer 8

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each. A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a pitch. At each end of the pitch is a construction of three parallel wooden stakes (known as stumps) driven vertically into the ground, with two small crosspieces (known as bails) laid across the top of them. This wooden structure is called a wicket.

The bowler, a player from the fielding team, hurls a hard, fist-sized, cork-centred, leather-covered ball from the vicinity of one wicket towards the other. The ball usually bounces once before reaching the batsman, a player from the opposing team. In defence of the wicket, the batsman plays the ball with a wooden cricket bat. Meanwhile, the other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the batted ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman, if he or she does not get out (for example if the bowled ball hits the wicket, or if a fielder catches the ball off the bat before it bounces), may run between the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the non-striker), who has been waiting near the bowler's wicket. Each completed exchange of ends scores one run, and the match is won by the team that scores more runs.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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Answer 11

Get hold of a book called "What is a Googly?"

Cant remember the author but you'll find it on Amazon.

My cricket mad ex bought it for me and it really helped me to understand the rules, now I really enjoy cricket!!!