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Cricket World Cup 2007
- Thread starter Petebass
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PS - I shall be cheering on the Windies this afternoon!!
Well - just to complete the circle, I'll have to go for Ireland.
(Even tho they don't stand a chance)
It should be a great game - they say the pitch is very hard and bouncy at the Viv Richards ground - should be a high scoring game!
Well neither is Cricket - there are hundreds of aspects not covered by that description - spin bowling googlies and chinamen,Duckworth/Lewis method,silly point and other fielding positions,powerplays,5 runs for hitting a helmet...etc etc
OK - I'll pay that.
Some of the "newer" stuff in cricket like powerplays and the duckworth\lewis stuff can be a bit intriguing.......
At least Indoor Cricket has simple rules!
I can remember a number of times trying to explain the technicalities of playing either sport - and I have to admit - they got NOTHING on Rugby Union.
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I think it's because cricket is so much a "side on game" ( batting and bowling - you have to be side on in body position )
That's something that's learned at an early age in cricket and so hard to grasp if you're an "outsider" looking in. It doesn't come naturally whereas standing face on to throw, pitch and bat a ball is natural.....
...what do you think?
Mo
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Up until recently, I thought Aussie did well to manage the fitness of their players...but now....I get the feeling whatever they had seems to be slipping.
NZ always has a long list of the walking wounded and talk abounded about us finding out the "Aussie secret"
Mo
Can you please continue to cheer on our opposition. It seems to make us play betterPS - I shall be cheering on the Windies this afternoon!!
Windies looked good in the first few overs, but then strange things started happening. First Lara gets rid of second slip even though Gilly and Hayden were scratching around and looking like they'd edge it. They got rid of Gilly but Haydo was hanging around at 1 from 20 balls looking like he would be out any minute. Instead of piling the pressure on, the windies started bowling short to Ponting (never a good idea) and started bowling wides, effectively releasing the pressure valve, allowing Haydo to dig in and the pitch to flatten and dry out. He ended up with 158 off only 143 balls. He should have been out for under 10........
Windies fielded well though! Gee they've improved their fielding since I last saw them play. It's a shame it's raining. Australia hasn't been defending big totals all that well lately so it's still a contest. We'll have to wait till tomorrow to see how it pans out.
Can someone please post a link that explains the game to someone who is not familiar with it?
It looks like a cool sport, it's more entertaining than baseball imo and I'd like to bowl a cricket ball one day, as I have some kind of natural talent to throw very far and very hard with a ball...
It looks like a cool sport, it's more entertaining than baseball imo and I'd like to bowl a cricket ball one day, as I have some kind of natural talent to throw very far and very hard with a ball...
I think it's easier to catch when you're wearing a glove that's bigger than your head, especially when your used to catching with bare hands
And when you're batting, every ball is a full toss
It just seemed so easy to hit. Sure there's some movement in the air, but there's no movement off the pitch to deal with. I'll never make it as a pitcher but the guys with the good fielding/throwing arms did very well as pitchers.
Mind you, we were'nt playing at an elite level. But for guys who'd never played before, us ex-xricketers were keeping up and often beating guys who'd been playing baseball for years.
Maybe state here:-
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In principle it's the same as baseball in that the team that scores the most runs wins. This World cup is based on the "Limited overs" format, which basically means the game has been shortened into 1 day instead of the traditional 5 Days, and each team bats only once instead of the traditional Twice. Keep that in mind when reading up.
The best way to learn cricket is to watch it. Whenever something happens you don't understand, ask questions here and we'll do our best to answer them.
Yep that's correct except the most number of people out in an innings will be will be 10. So 287/10 means 287 runs and 10 people are out.
In some countries (ie Australia), the score is displayed the other way around as 10/287. Either way, the score is the high number, the number out is the lower one.
Thats kinda hard - just pretend it's baseball with two bases - and only 11 batters - that only bat once. Once you're out, you're not comin back. You can only get out by getting caught, having your wickets broken (by various things) by a bowler, or when out of your crease line (like getting tagged off your base in baseball) or if your legs are hit by the ball, and the umpire judges that the ball wouldve hit the wickets. If you get hit by the ball - you don't get to walk a base.
There is no strikes - only the wickets.
The bowler has to bowl with a straight arm from roughly behind the crease line at the opposite end. A legal delivery may only bounce once or not at all, and cannot go above head height. It must also be bowled close to the stumps/wickets. Each 'Over' or turn for the bowler last 6 balls - unless they have to bowl extra for wides - no balls etc.
Well - i'm sure i missed plenty - but thats a start.
smo
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Petebass's reference link above is excellent for explaining cricket.
Watching a few games with someone to explain it to you as it goes along would have you understanding it relatively quickly.
It looks complicated but actually once you get a grasp of the spirit of the game, it's quite simple and everything falls into place.
Mo
Actually I thought they missed a lot of opportunities - so I was watching just after Ponting was run out and there were at least 4 other opportunities in quick succession where the TV replay showed that the Batsmen were out of their ground on a quick single, but the fielder couldn't hit the stumps!
Hayden in particular was very lucky, as several times he was out by a metre when on a fairly low score!
Also - he misjudged the spinners on a few occasions and one looked an easy catch but the fielder just lost it and it went inches over his head, when he should have caught it! So it was given a 4 (corrected from 6 after TV replay) but should have been caught easily!
I fell asleep on the couch not long after Ponting got out. Prior to that, they looked sharp. It's a shame they let it slide.
Cool game - great to fall asleep to.
The one i was amazed of (just heard) was a Sri Lankan bowler, Lasith Malinga, who scored 4 successive wickets - in 4 balls against the number 1 ranked team in the world - South Africa. Whoa!
What made this more amazing for me was the fact that at the start of his hat-trick, South Africa only needed 4 runs for victory. SA did win the match - but only by one wicket - after the '5th' ball immediately after the 4 wickets missed the stumps by mere millimetres!
That guy should be cast in bronze and stood erect for all to see - what a legend!
The one i was amazed of (just heard) was a Sri Lankan bowler, Lasith Malinga, who scored 4 successive wickets - in 4 balls against the number 1 ranked team in the world - South Africa. Whoa!
What made this more amazing for me was the fact that at the start of his hat-trick, South Africa only needed 4 runs for victory. SA did win the match - but only by one wicket - after the '5th' ball immediately after the 4 wickets missed the stumps by mere millimetres!
That guy should be cast in bronze and stood erect for all to see - what a legend!
