Beginner's Guide to Cricket?
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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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Dude.... Jus gimmee your e mail address and i can mail you the latest ICC Laws of Cricket.... Else for a longer way you may try to log on to www.lords.org .... The laws are available in a downloadable PDF format..
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http://cricinfo.com\nhttp://cricmaian.com
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try cricinfo.com or cricbuzz.com \n\nwe lost :(
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Dear Sir, You should not have posted this question in cricket. Best of luck and stop playing cricket and study well. Its all cricket in your mind.... Pick up book and study no one else will he pl you will have to help yourself friend :)
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Try these:\n\nhttp://www.indiancricket.net/\n\nhttp://www.planetcricket.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7373\n\nhttp://www.indiagrid.com/cgi-bin/forums.cgi?dmmy=ok&cat=frm&subcatid=spo
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1. Take any action which is comfortable for you\n2. For bowling a good line and lenght, first go the other end from where the batsmean is batting, and from there, think that u r the batsman, and think of a spot on the crease on which if the bowlwr bowls, it would be difficult to play for u.\n3. As u r a beginer at that level, put a coin on that spot\n4. Now, mark ur run-up, and now, just easily run towards the crease, do the action which u prefer, and just concentrate on the coin and try to bowl on it.\n5. Do this about 15-20 times, till u can easily bowl on that coin.\n6. If u have chosen a good spot, a batsman will always have difficulty when u r bowling on it. Also, if u want bounce, have a high arm action (like farveez mahroof, wasim akram, irfan pathan), and if u want just pace, have a low arm action (munaf patel, brett-lee, shoaib akhta), and if u wanna swing the ball, while bowling move only the WRIST in the direction where u want the swing.\n7. If u follow tese steps just like as i have told, u will urself see the change in u, and u will become a successfull pace bowler\n8. Trust me, my brother gave me all these tips, and now he himself has problems playing my bowling now. My bowling has improved to a big extent.
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http://www.stanford.edu/~shanker/cricket.htm \n\nhttp://waheguruson.com/index.php?act=idx...\nwaheguruson.com/\nwww.ZIPPYVIDEOS.COM \nmusicnmovies.com\nmuftonline.cp,\nindia-forums.com\nwww.cit.mrt.ac.lk\nhttp://www.startv.com/feed.html?id=b45cf...\nwww.wwitv.com\ncricket4u.net \ntnlcricket.com\nespnstar.com\niccchampionstrophy.com\nworldcup.com\nin.sports.yahoo.com/sportz/vid...\nDD.NIC.IN\nhttp://incricket.net/\nwww.sifysports.com\nhttp://www.crictube.com/ \nespnstar.com\nincricket.net\nTHEN GO 2\n\nif you want to watch the Intgernational Cricket Matches live online, you can see the same in www.espnstar.com.\n\nTo see cricked on the internet, please follow the folowing steps:\n\n1) Open website www.espnstar.com.\n2) Once the website opens, you will find a small box\nat the right hand corner with Heading LIVE OF TUBE.\n3) In that box, the match which will be going on will be\nindicated.\n4) If you want to see only the score, click on the Score Board.\n5) If you want to see ball by ball coverage, please click on LIVE\nFLASH CRICKET CENTRE..\n6) A new Window ON LINE CRICKET CENTRE will be opened.\n7) Click on CLICK TO ENTER\n8) Another window will bne opened, where you willfind the\nmatch which is live will be indicated.\n9) Click on the scoreboard of the match you want to see.\n10) New window will be opened, where you can see ball by ball\ncoverage of the match \n\nMYDESIONLINE.IN\nvideo.google.com\nhttp://masalastuff.forumco.com/forum.asp...
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try these \n\nhttp://www.icc-cricket.com \n\nhttp://www.cricinfo.com\n\nhttp://www.cricketworld.com/
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Football (NOT SOCCER), and Basketball, but i would love to learn hoe to play cricket
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I am not very much aware about it. But u can try these links:\n\nhttp://kaajal.cjb.net\nhttp://cricketindia.cjb.net
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Not enough room here.\n\nGo to http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Cricket to get the lowdown.
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Try www.stickcricket.com
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Try some cricket related websites u surely got it. All the Best!!!
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Great links for your cricket craze....\n\nHave fun there.
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http://stanjames.teamtalk.com/StanJames/Ashes_Popup\nhttp://www.cricketworld.com/radio/
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http://www.cricket-secrets.jims-info.com/