Thread 150108756

Why is this sport so complicated? I've literally never met anyone who understands the rules.

well you're american, you've never met anyone who understand a 24 hour clock either

>>150108756 (OP)
even esteemed experts in /cric/ don't understand its intricate laws. just go and assess it yourself, they are in there watching something called as the HUNDIE
lmoa

>>150108808
>cric
>Even once

>>150108918
you're wiser than I am, my guy.

>>150108756 (OP)
It's like baseball, but for white people

>>150108756 (OP)
filtered

>>150108756 (OP)
A wise man once said you gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket

>>150108756 (OP)
Really? The QRD I got for this sounded a lot more simple than any one I could come up with for baseball. I think people just get weirded out more by the jargon than the actual objectives.

>>150110332
cricket and baseball aren’t similar and it’s really stupid to try to understand cricket from a baseball perspective

>>150110332
A lot of silly terms, in which you don't really need to know.

The first cricket game I watched without looking up any rules looked like this.

>>150109888
>for white people
it seems like mostly indians and pakis play cricket. do young people give a shit about cricket or is it mostly a boomer game like baseball?

it's incredibly simple. reading the score is a bit confusing at first but the gameplay is simple as hell, more so than baseball

>You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

>Each man that’s in the side that’s in the field goes out and when he’s out comes in and the next man goes in until he’s 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.

>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 there are men still in and not out.

>There are men called umpires who stay out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out.

>Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter whether they’re in or out.

>When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished.

>>150110358
You need this knowledge to listen on the radio

literally every non-basketball american sport is more complicated

all you need to know is play starts at 11am until 7pm for 5 days straight and 30% of the time it's called a draw. also if it rains for 2 minutes, play will stop, the players will go inside, they'll wait around for 20 minutes before deciding that they'll inspect the pitch, which will be scheduled for 30 minutes' time, and then 50 minutes after it stopped raining they'll deem the pitch to be good enough to resume play which they'll schedule for another 30 minutes

>>150110389
There are twelve test nations in cricket.
>england
>australia
>south africa
>zimbabwe
>new zealand
>sri lanka
>pakistan
>india
>ireland
>bangladesh
>afghanistan
>west indies

All of these are considered major cricketing nations, as you can see they represent most of the so-called “races” of the world and also most of the major religions, it is also the only sport which is played at the elite level across all of the worlds continents and it is also the sport with the most nuclear nations at the elite level

>>150110580
Play also stops for lunch and afternoon tea. It’s a civilised sport

>>150110596
>it is also the only sport which is played at the elite level across all of the worlds continents
there are no sudacas, rugby has Argentina

>>150110608
West Indies includes Guyana. If you didn’t know what the West Indies is you could look it up or just ask

>>150110608
Oh yeah and rugby has zero elite rugby nations anywhere in Asia

>>150110623
japan are much better in rugby than fucking zimbabwe and ireland are in cricket

>>150110639
Japan are not tier one in rugby and your argument is stupid because you don’t even need to count every cricket nation only the best ones; Australia, India, South Africa, England, West Indies.

Japan are nowhere near elite if they were in 6 nations they’d get their arses beaten by everyone including Italy every single year

>>150110596
>anglosphere (the gay ones anyway)
>south asia

also cricket is missing yellow anyway. The clear best 4 baseball nations are majority white (USA), black (Dominican Republic), yellow (Japan), and brown (Venezuela). 4 very different countries with relatively little historic or cultural connections besides baseball.Cricket countries easily have more in common with each other on average, besides the new guys Afghanistan they're all in the Commonwealth. The 7 or 8 best cricket countries are either majority white (incuding the cricket playing population of south africa) or majority brown.

>>150110836
Yellow is a meme, east asians are white. There are none with literal yellow skin.

>>150108756 (OP)
The basic rules are acessibke but there are complicated crazy rules and if you abstract from the rules the whole thing looks kinda crazy
There was a humor sketch about that

>>150110836
Racialism is retarded and you’re a retard for following it. If it had any credibility God wouldn’t have made Hitler lose

>>150111190
cricket isn't diverse bro, it's a little club of former english colonies. And frankly at this point it's only especially popular in South Asia.

>>150108756 (OP)
That's the beauty of it

we dont want low IQ individuals watching our sport

>>150112101
x

>>150108756 (OP)
because the British invented it to distract and confuse the Indians while they stole all their land and tea. For its purpose, the most nonsensical the better

>>150109888
95% of cricket fans and players are some variant of jeet. meanwhile baseball is almost exclusively played by whites and white-adjacents like Koreans and Japanese.
>muh Dominicans, much Cubans
how many of them actually are there? there are more people in the city of Tokyo than there are in the entire country of DR.

>>150112101
where is my fucking puck

A baseball weighs the same as a woman's cricket ball.

>>150110553
Toe be fair cricket is very nice to listne to on the radio.

How do bongs not feel second hand embarrassment playing a sport beloved by only street shitters?

>>150110596
Jeets aren't people, and neither are any other "South Asians" for that matter.

I thought the West Bindies weren't elite at test anymore? More of a T20 team no?

>>150115394
>>150115421
see >>150112101

>>150115455
>>150111190
>>150110679
>>150110623
>>150110596
Gtfo of my country street shitter, before you murder and rape some innocent woman.

>>150108808
>called as
they weren't kidding about the chicano thing, huh

>>150110679
>west indies in the top tier
it's not the 70s anymore

>>150110596
Antarctica is a continent

>>150115773
there are 2 """""Irish""""" in here, one is a jeet and the one whining about racism on 4chan is Uberinho

>>150115648
He's actually an Australian, I think he impregnated one of your women tho so your cück anger is perfectly valid.

>>150116473
SAAAAAAAAR

>>150116377
delet

>>150116435
I disagree

>>150108802
lmao

>>150108756 (OP)
It's extremely easy it's all about the wickets

>>150108756 (OP)
>I've literally never met anyone who understands the rules.
I'm jealous of your ability to avoid indians.

>>150108802
KEK. mutts call it military clock. Hahahaha

so sick of immigrants in our countries
when will they leave?

>>150126088
bit racist dont you think

You gotta knock down the wickets it's like baseball in this sense where knocking down a wicket (wooden post) is a strike

>>150126123
They used to call me the Wicket Man in high school

I think this partial contributor, in his series on explaining the sports of the world, does an excellent job on clearing up the confusion on cricket
>>150121390

>>150109918
>A cricket batter could be out on the first pitch, but would still keep batting until someone puts him "out"
I'm even more confused now.

>>150119197
I like those stumps.

>>150126091
racism is normal and actually essential to a healthy society
anyone who isn't racist is usually stupid

>>150109888
good morning saar please do not redeem toilet paper

>>150110332
It's a simple game, but there's a lot of detail. The ways to get out for example. LBW is the main meme here.

>>150109918
good, but
1) why is there no image of the field and what a wicket even is or looks like?
2)The "So! in the batting makes no sense. a batter is out but keeps batting?!
3) teatime instead of half time is hilarious
4) the teams positioning would be interesting, because I don't see when and why a batter would feel safe to run or not

can anons share some cricket highlights to help understand the game?

Ashes soon.

cricket always feels like a meme sport you'd see in a TV show to make fun of actual sports
>>150108802
genuinely baffles me how few of my co-workers can read a 24 hour clock, I picked that shit up in like 3rd grade

>>150129648
First off I want to say that pic >>150109918 was dogshit yank crap because it refers to bowlers as "pitchers" which is something nobody, literally no one, does. Besides teams play with multiple bowlers not just two, theoretically any player on a side can bowl an over. But to answer you questions:
>1
You can see the wickets in the OP at either end of the pitch, a chain (22 yards) apart. They consist of three stumps with two "bails" on top.
>2
I'm not sure what it means by that, if you're out you are out.
>3
In a full game of cricket the match starts at 11 o'clock then breaks at 1 o'clock for "Lunch" and then at 3:40 for "tea" which is a 20 minute break, and then the final session is played (there's supposed to be a minimum number of overs bowled a day.
Most games you would see at club level however are limited overs and they'll have a break when the first innings is over before the second is played.
>4
Yes its tactical. A bowler and the bowling side are looking to make the batsman play shots into the areas he wants him to play, to either restrict his scoring and with the hopes of getting him out; and so the batsman will have to look to score runs in gaps in the field and also try and force the bowler into changing his bowling so he can score where he wants.
Most obvious example of this if you watch some cricket is that seam bowlers (fasts and swing) will bowl outside the off-stump (or around "top of off") into an area called "the corridor of uncertainty" due to the batsman having to determine whether to leave or play a shot, and if he does play getting him to edge the ball to the wicket-keeper or a slip, or get out LBW.

The tactical play differs, quite significantly in some cases, between the three formats of the game.

>>150108756 (OP)
Running back and forth is gay. Running around the bases is based, hence the name.

>>150131269
This guy is close to it he's scratching the surface of cricket

>>150130775
The only cool thing about cricket is you can throw "at" the batter.

>>150131287
>Running around the bases is based, hence the name.
Rounders?

>>150131316
They play with their dildos? That's hardcore.

>>150131301
Bowling isn’t throwing but yes within limits you can

>>150131316
>gay little english bats

>>150131403
Damn, she looks like she's about to hit a 400ft home run.

>>150108756 (OP)
Just imagine lil nigga this: baseball but you keep running up and down 1st and 2nd base. There is only 1 inning and instead of 3 outs its 10. The team with the most points wins

>>150108756 (OP)
People explaining how the game is played sounds like this:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByF6Vg-KoGw

>>150131386
kek.

>>150131386
Holy shit get it together ranjesh you blew that pop fly.

>>150131386
>European Cricket Series

>>150131386
At least a Little League home run has to end at four bases, this humiliation can go on forever

>>150131386
no way this is real lol

A cricket ball weighs about the same as a baseball. Why do the batters wear all sorts of pads and full face helmets?

>>150108756 (OP)
if indians play it then it's not complicated

>>150137722
Cricket balls are hard like a rock, no squish to it whatsoever.

>>150137931
gay

>>150137722
A number of players have died after being struck in the head with a cricket ball. It's probably happened in baseball too.

>>150138368
A bird died once

>>150138477
Birds have a habit of getting in the way.

>>150137722
Getting hit in cricket is far far more common than in baseball. Like, you cant stand in front of home plate blocking the pitch over the plate to the catcher kek

>>150138368
there's been more deaths by being struck by a cricket ball in the head since the introduction of the helmet lmao.

I've watched a couple games and it seemed fucking boring more than complicated.

Indians hit a ball for 10 hours and both teams score 200 points.

>>150137722
>Why do the batters wear all sorts of pads and full face helmets?
Same reason a catcher in baseball wears all that. The ball is coming straight at them.

>>150129648
for 2, I've got to think that's a typo or sloppy wording. Grammatically, and from a game point of view if explaining to a Baseball fan, it makes more sense to say "A batsman COULD be out first ball, or he COULD stay at bat until etc etc"

>>150131403
Pesapallo?