i dont understand cricket HELP?

[bagel118]

How do you score cricket . i need your help

[That's me]

I will try to explain test cricket in simpler ways...

Two teams A and B.
Each team will bat two times so there are 4 innings.

Assume Team A decides to bat first so team B will have to bowl first.

Team A will send two batsman to bat and Team B has all 11 players in field to bowl at those batsmans and prevent them from making runs. So now both batsman from team A will start to accumulate runs. When a batsman gets out, another one will go in. Since, we have 11 player in each side, 10 batsman out means end of innings. Lets say team A scored 210 runs.

Now Team B goes into bat and Team A to bowl. Team B will again start to accumulate runs until 10 batsman are out. Lets say team B scored 230 runs. Hence, team B leads by 20 runs in 1st innings.

Now, for second innings Team A will go to bat again and will start making runs until they lose 10 batsman. Lets say, team A in 2nd innings scored 250 runs. Now, since team B had 20 runs lead from 1st innings, the target for team B to score to win the match will be 231.

Now, team B will start to bat and chase down that 231 run target. If team B are able to make all 231 runs without losing all 10 wickets then team B wins the match, otherwise if team A makes all 10 batsman out from team B before they score those 231 runs then team A wins the match.

Now, last thing... Test matches are played for 5 days. So, if team B is not able to make all 231 runs within 5 days of play and has not lost all 10 wickets means that the match is DRAW.

phew... that was hard....

i hope now u will understand a bit of test cricket.

[roadhunter]

You aren't alone. This will help:
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm

[vambo the fourth]

Nobody understands cricket, they just pretend to, like the Emperor's New Clothes story.

[Rowan]

I wouldn't bother if I was you, very dull game.

[tino67]

no girly mits for catching, no free walks when u are hit with a ball..

i think thats about it

[Eagle1969]

It's a great game.

It's a game that sad people who like football do not understand. There are several websites which explain the game.

The more you watch it the more you'll understand. This sport is by far a better one than soccer.

[vakayil k]

To score a run, a striker must run to the opposite end of the pitch, while his non-striking partner runs to his end. To register a run, both runners must touch the ground behind the crease with either their bats or their bodies (the batsmen carry their bats as they run). If the striker hits the ball well enough, the batsmen may double back to score two or more runs. However, no rule requires the batsman to run upon striking the ball. The decision to attempt a run is ideally made by the batsman who has the better view of the ball's position, and this is communicated by calling: "yes", "no" and "wait" are often heard. The batsmen swap ends every time an odd number of runs are scored.

If a fielder knocks the bails off the stumps with the ball while no part of the batsman is grounded behind the popping crease, the batsman nearer the broken wicket is run out. The batsman may ground the bat, provided he or she is holding it.

f the ball reaches the boundary, then runs are automatically scored: six if the ball goes over the boundary without touching the ground, four if it touched the ground. These are scored instead of any runs the batsmen may have already run (unless they have run more, which is unlikely), and they return to the ends at which they started.

[Avondrow]

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 that's 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 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 been 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.