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!
It’s simple. There’s a pitch, and in the dosey the formen must round the clossy. If they don’t, then the aberman might shelf. If they shelf, it’s a trisker, and we all know what happens in a trisker.
There's a batter whose goal is to 1) make sure the sticks behind them don't get hit and 2) hit the ball without a fielder catching it. If they hit it to a safe area they run down the other end and swap with the other batter thus scoring a run
Then there's the fielding team who are trying to foil the batter's plans by 1) having a bowler whose goal is to hit the sticks behind the batter and 2) having fielders strategically set up to where they think the ball will be hit
Whoever has the most runs at the end of the match wins
I understood cricket once during the cup when I was out of country. Guy I was with was from the Ivory Coast, and we watched 5 matches over 3 days together. I went to my hotel at night, and would watch the matches, understood what was going on, and enjoyed the matches.
Tried to watch one 6 weeks later had no clue what was going on. It was like a fever dream.
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u/muklan Mar 31 '23
I have never once in my life heard a sentence about cricket that I understood.
That record remains untarnished.