Its simply not cricket!

[99.94]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

On my to-do list: Find some explanation of cricket rules and terminology, so I can appreciate the BBC sport report ("one hundred eleven for three", "five overs", "friendlies" ...). I can see that baseball probably evolved from cricket, and there's some connection between cricket and croquet, but ...

Ha! You forgot maidens and ducks. A lifetime might be too short... .

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by 99.94

Ha! You forgot maidens and ducks. A lifetime might be too short... .

... in which case, I move it to my things-to-do-in-an-alternate-lifetime list, between "BASE jumping" and "learning Sanskrit".

[xilman]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

On my to-do list: Find some explanation of cricket rules and terminology, so I can appreciate the BBC sport report ("one hundred eleven for three", "five overs", "friendlies" ...). I can see that baseball probably evolved from cricket, and there's some connection between cricket and croquet, but ...

Ok, here you are:

The Rules of Cricket

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!


Hope this helps.

Paul

[davieddy]

I think you are quoting. Wherefrom?

[Patrick123]

So basically after they finished all their innings, do they all go on an outing?