Does cricket even have a point or is it just a bunch of guys standing in a field?
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yes it does. Try n watch sum games n you'll understand by urself. If u can understant baseball..u can understand cricket too.
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Cricket is a team sport. The team which scores the most amount of runs, and gets the other team out, wins. Nothing simpler.\n\nThere are two forms of the game:\n\n1) Test cricket—which takes place over five days. Think of it as akin to the novel with all the running dramas, climaxes, anti-climaxes, intrigues and counter-intrigues of that artform. Test cricket is the original and only true form of cricket.\n\n2) Pyjama or One-Day cricket—the shortened form. It is to test cricket as a bad TV advertisment (wheredyagedit?) is to a superb film. Loud, noisy, predictable, wholly lacking in subtlety and eye-jarringly colourful. To be watched only if there is no test cricket available.\n\nFor obvious reasons, I will largely be discussing test cricket.\n\nCricket is played on an oval. A large expanse of green grass usually surrounded by a white picket fence. The grass is kept at a specific height by the groundsman. In the centre of the oval is the cricket pitch (or wicket) which is a strip of paler grass. The wicket (or cricket pitch) is also carefully presided over by the groundsman, but once the game begins grass is left to grow and the wicket to deteriorate. Thus the conditions for playing change over the five days of a test. The condition of the oval and pitch has a large effect on whether the cricket played on it will be high or low-scoring. Some afficionados argue that the groundsman is the most important person in cricket. I think this is going a tad too far.\n\nAt either end of the cricket pitch (or wicket) are the stumps (or wicket). The stumps are a wooden constuction of three stakes (Buffy would have plenty of weapons available should she have to deal with a nest of vampires while attending a cricket match) impaled in the ground, with two smaller pieces of wood, known as the bails, balanced on top. In front of these stumps (or wicket) at either end is a white painted line which marks the crease.\n\nTwo teams of twelve people play (though the position of the twelfth man is that of gofer. They don't actually play unless one of the fielders needs to leave the oval for a short amount of time). The two teams take turns fielding and batting. In test cricket each team has two innings. In pyjama (or one-day) cricket they have one innings each.\n\nThe team batting has the job of protecting the stumps (or wicket) and trying to score runs. Two batsmen at a time are on the field (unless one of the batsmen is injured in which case they have a runner and there are three batsmen on the field). One batsman is at either end of the cricket pitch (or wicket) defending the stumps (or wicket) and trying to score runs.\n\nRuns are scored by hitting the ball (made of cork covered with red leather) with a cricket bat (traditionally made of willow—thus the expression "the glorious sound of leather on willow" which sound dirty if you're thinking of a certain character from Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and running up and down the cricket pitch (or wicket). Although only one batsmen can hit the ball at any one time, both must run and get safely behind their crease. If the ball is hit all the way to the boundary (typically a thick white rope, not the fence) it is deemed to be four runs. If it is hit over the boundary it is six runs. The batsmen need not run for these boundaries.\n\nOnce a batsmen has run safely from one end of the cricket pitch (or wicket) to the other they have scored one run for themselves and also for their team. The batsman who is facing the bowling is said to be on strike. You do not have to hit each ball. You do not have to run if you do hit the ball. Hitting the ball to the boundary is the most efficient way of making runs because you accumulate runs faster and you don't have to exhaust yourself running.\n\nGetting fifty runs is good for an individual batsman, getting one hundred (or a century) is better, and getting more still is even better. The most amount of individual runs ever was 380 scored by the A
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cricket\nin progress. The beige strip is the cricket pitch. The people wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires.]] Cricket is a team game played between two teams of eleven players each. It originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular participatory and spectator sport. Cricket is a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean. The length of the game (a game can last over six or more hours a day for up to five days), numerous intervals for lunch and tea and rich terminology help confuse those not familiar with the sport. For its fans, the sport and the intense rivalries between the top cricketing nations provide passionate entertainment that has occasionally given rise to diplomatic outrage. \nObjective and summary\nCricket is a bat and ball sport. The objective of the game is to score more runs (points) than the opposing team. A match is divided into innings. During an innings, one team bats while the other team bowls and fields. (Note: when referring to "a team's innings," one usually means that team's turn to bat.) Games may be played over one or two innings. For some one innings matches each team's innings may be restricted to a set number of fair deliveries to be bowled by the opposing team. The team batting first aims to set a target score for the opposition and the team batting second chases the target. The bowling team tries to limit the runs scored by the batting team and at the same time to get the opposition players out, an event which is described as 'taking a wicket'. Each player continues to bat until he is out; once he is out, he may not bat again in that innings. The team batting always has two batsmen on the field; once ten of the eleven players of the batting team have been dismissed (i.e. ten wickets have been taken) the innings comes to an end. The winner is the team which has scored the most runs. If the team batting last loses, they are said to have lost the match by m run(s), where m is the difference in scores between the teams. If the team batting last wins they are said to have won the match by n wickets, where n is the number of additional wicket(s) the opposing team needed to take to bring the innings to an end. If both teams score the same number of runs, and the team batting last has completed its last innings, the match is a tie. If the match cannot be completed before the allotted time for the match expires, the result is a draw. If the match has only single innings per side, with a set number of deliveries, and the match is abandoned without completion due to an impossibility of continuing the play, because of bad weather, unruly crowd or any such unlikely event or situation, the result is declared as No-Result. See also: Result \nLaws of cricket\nMain article: Laws of cricket The game is played in accordance with 42 laws of cricket, which have been developed by the Marylebone Cricket Club in discussion with the main cricketing nations. Teams may agree to alter some of the rules for particular games. Other rules supplement the main laws and change them to deal with particular circumstances. In particular, there are a number of modifications to the playing structure and fielding position rules that apply to one innings games that are restricted to a set number of fair deliveries. \nPlayers and officials\nMain articles: Cricketer, Umpire Each team consists of eleven players. Depending on his primary skills, a player may be classified as a specialist batsman or bowler. A balanced team usually has five or six specialist batsmen and four or five specialist bowlers. A player who excels in both fields is known as an all-rounder. One player of the team that is currently bowling takes up the role of a
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IS THIS CRICKET RILATED QUESTION????????????ARE YOU MAD?\nTHIS IS NOT A FOOTBALL CATAGRY> THIS IS A CRICKET CATAGORY.
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cricket...cricket...cricket...  there are no legitimate, Legal, moral arguements for this  stuff)
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BEST OF THE TWO GOT THE PRIDE.\n\nITS A BITTER TRUTH.INDIAN TEAM IS NOT STRONGEST AS YOU THINK.\n\nENJOY THE CRICKET WITH 3RD PERSON ATTITUDE.\nYOU WILL FIND MORE TRUTHS ANT CHEATS.
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NO.\nITS TOO TOUGH.\nAUSSIES HAVE TO FACE VERY STRONG CONTENDERS THIS TIME.\nS.A. IS ONE OF THEM WHICH HAS MANY WORLD CLASS ALL-ROUNDERS.\nWHICH IS THE ESSENTIAL ONE TO WIN ODI'S NOW A DAYS.
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It's good to see Sehwag and Kaif performing. Other batsmen have spent a lot of time on Indian pitches, and Sehwag and Kaif have not. I guess they are adapting faster then the others. There isn't a problem in the team. The games were all close. Middle order batting needs some finetuning. The rest is fine.
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Cricket is a sport normally played by two teams of 11 men each. It originated in Britain and spread throughout many of its colonies. It is a bat and ball game similar to baseball in many respects.\n\nCricket has innings. Instead of pitchers, it has bowlers who bowl the ball to the batsmen. There are two bowlers bowling from either end in overs where they deliver 6 balls to the batsmen. There are two batsmen who aim to score runs of the bowlers. The batsmen in cricket can score runs by hitting the ball. There are 11 fielders including bowlers who field all over the park. When the bowler isn't bowling, he is a fieldsman like his teammate. An innings ends when ten batsman have been given out by the umpire. There are several ways a batsman can be given out:\n\n* bowled when a ball from the bowler hits the stumps (three wooden sticks) and disturbs the bails (two pieces of wood sitting in groves on top of the stumps);\n\n* caught out similar to baseball;\n\n* leg before wicket where the ball hits the batsman's body before his bat and where the umpire considers it would have bowled him out if it hadn't hit his body;\n\n* run out which is similar to being thrown out in baseball before reaching a base.\n\nThere are now three types of cricket:\n\n* traditional cricket where the games last several days and both batting teams have two innings of undefined duration;\n\n* one day cricket which consists of one innings of fifty overs each; and\n\n* twenty-twenty where each innings is 20 overs each and each innings lasts for no longer than one and a half hours.
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Aussies too good, 40 odd to16 about I guess. Scotland not up to this one but still better than Englands efforts in the ashes!
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IF THE CRICKET PLAYED TRUELY, ONLY AUSSIS CAN LOVE IT.\nICC DISTIBUTES THE VICTORIES, THE RECORDS TO ALL NATIONS TO MAKE CRICKET LOVED BY ALL.\nALL OF YOU WILL REALISE THIS ONEDAY.
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It is just for memory. Sometimes all the players of the winning team sign the stumps and give them to fans. At other times they just keep them. If an individual players performs well, the stumps are for his good performance so he gets to keep them.
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This is the first time the members of parliament have raised their concern over cricket issues and they are justified. I believe the cricketers doing duty in S.Africa have protested against this saying that parliament should concern themselves with more important issues. What can be more important than cricket for this cricket crazy nation ? There is also this slowly creeping loss of faith in superstar Sachin who was worshipped like a demi god. Chappell should start counting the marbles left in his pocket. Dravid needs stronger men with him and at the moment there are only men with strong bank balances and weak knees around. BCCI and selectors have finally taken a stiff stand. Kudos to them for this !
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Man, why do you want to post that dumb question in the Cricket group?
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why'd you put this in cricket? i dont know how to help you.
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IF IT IS A RAHUL DRAVID CENTURY, ITS AQUIRED.\nIF IT IS A SEHWAG CENTURY ITS A (FIELDING)TEAM WORK.
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While the idea is not too bad, unfortunately there are not that much countries cpable of competing in international level.  ICC are trying to develop cricket in the Associated Member countries.  In the coming world cup only 16 teams will be playing.  If ICC mnage to develop the gme in another 8 coun tries by 2011, your suggestion may materialise, who knows?