whats the difference between hockey and cricket?
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Hockey and Cricket are nothing alike. Cricket has more in common with Baseball, but instead of running around bases, you run back and forth between the bails. The pitcher is trying to knock down the bails behind the batter. It's kind of dumb.
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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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i'll agree with you, soccer and tennis, though i like field hockey too... i guess u can say it's similar to soccer.
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Cricket can take days to finish, but as far as pace goes - curling.  I fell in love with the sport after the Olympics, but when you have a sport that allows you 1 hour of "discussion time", how much action can you have?!
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Even though hockey is our national game,cricket is more popular.This is bcos cricket is more interesting.I think its time we changd our national game to cricket.
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The difference is that MLB is a real sport;\n\nrounders is just a throw away game.
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Ice hockey in every way.  Playing or watching.  Street and ring hockey is just not fast enough, or tough enough.  Grass hockey is just too boring due to the large surface and again, lack of speed.
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Field hockey is one of those sports that you'll enjoy more by playing, as opposed to watching it.\n\nI played it as a kid, it's fun because of its' technical rules, which helps to make it a level playing field between average and good players.\n\nAnd it's not so dangerous, the rules are made in such a way, that it protects/prevents players from violent or dangerous play.
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Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players on each side. It is a bat-and-ball game played on a roughly elliptical grass field, in the centre of which is a hard, flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a pitch.\n\nA player from one team (the bowler) propels a hard, fist-sized leather ball from one set of wooden stumps, called a wicket, towards the other. A player from the opposing team (the batsman) attempts to defend the wicket from the ball with a wooden cricket bat. Another batsman (the partner of the defending player) stands in an inactive role near the bowler's wicket.\n\nIf the batsman hits the ball with his bat, he may run to the other wicket, exchanging places with his partner. This scores a run. While the batting team attempts to score as many runs as it can, members of the bowling team gather the ball and return it to either wicket. If the ball, that is thrown by a fielder strikes a wicket while the nearest batsman is still running, the batsman is out, or "dismissed." Batsmen can also be out by other means, such as failing to defend the bowled ball from hitting the wicket, or hitting a catch to a fielder.\n\nOnce out, a batsman is replaced by the next batsman in the team. As there must always be two batsmen on the field, if and when the tenth batsman is out, the team's turn to bat (innings) is over, and the other team may bat while the first team takes the field. The innings may also be restricted to a certain number of balls. This is determined before the match, as is whether each team has one or two innings. At the end of the match, the winner is the team that has scored the most runs. However, the game may run out of time before it is finished, in which case it is a draw, even if one team is overwhelmingly winning at that point. This is sometimes surprising to those not familiar with the game, but it does add interest to one-sided games by giving the inferior team the incentive to try to achieve a draw even if they cannot win.\n\nCricket has been an established team sport for several centuries. It originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the present and former members of the Commonwealth. In some countries in South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular sport. Cricket is also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are collectively known in cricketing parlance as the West Indies. It is also a prominent minor sport in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Israel, Nepal, and Argentina (see also: International Cricket Council).\n\nThe length of the game — a match can last six or more hours a day for up to five days in one form of the game — the numerous intervals for lunch and tea, and the rich terminology are notable aspects which can often confuse those not familiar with the sport. For its fans, the sport and the intense rivalries between top cricketing nations provide passionate entertainment and outstanding sporting achievements. It has even occasionally given rise to diplomatic outrage, the most infamous being the Bodyline series played between England and Australia.
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Ofcourse... cricket there is no game intresting as the cricket is,,,,football is also a good game but i prefer circket to watch and i enjoy it very much
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Ice hockey is played with two teams having six players on each side on the ice at a time.  Each team has five skaters and one goaltender, who stands guarding a net at each end (a red line called the goal line).  \n\nThe object of the game is to gain possession of the puck (a disc of vulcanized rubber that's deceptively small and alarmingly hard when you get smacked with it (inevitably on the two inches of your body that aren't currently covered by padding)), and work with your team to get the puck into the other team's net.\n\nMuch like in other games like soccer and basketball, the strategy of the game is two-part:  offense and defense.  The five skaters on the ice are designated as either forwards (offense) or defense (defense), with two of each of those (right wing, left wing and right defense and left defense (usually you say right or left D)).  The fifth skater is a center, whose job is to cover both ends, assisting with defense in front of the net, and driving plays coming out on offense.\n\nThere are far too many rules in hockey to cover here.  They have to do with everything from the face-off -- where the puck is dropped by the ref where play stopped or at center ice -- to what kind of contact is illegal versus legal -- you can push and shove in front of the net but you can't whack somebody with your stick, for example -- to what can be done where on the ice, which is divided up by lines.\n\nThe lines are what really differentiate regulation hockey from "pond" hockey, which is hockey in its simplest (and some might argue purest and most fun) form.  The lines are the goal line where the net is, and the two blue lines, which form a "neutral" zone in the center of the ice.  The zone where your goalie is, behind the blue line closest to you, is "your" zone.  After you cross the neutral zone over the other blue line, you're in enemy territory (aka "their zone" or for real, the offensive side (and believe me, some teams are move offensive than others)).\n\nIf you think the lines are confusing now, just wait until you hear this next part.  Ready?  Coming out of your zone, you can do anything you want with the puck.  Go back, forth, across the blue line, up and down the blue line, anything you want.\n\nBut when you get to "their" blue line, the puck carrier has to cross first.\n\nThis is apparently the single most difficult rule to understand in hockey, for players and spectators alike.  So let me explain it again.\n\nIf you're coming out of your zone towards the offensive zone, the person with the puck *has* to cross the far blue line first.  If anyone else does, they're "offsides" and play stops and everyone gets all crabby and if you're the one who blew a really good play by getting your skate ahead of your linemate who had the puck, you're all embarassed and some girl in the stands is going "wait, why did they stop play, now?" and it's just bad all around.\n\nThat's just one rule that has to do with the lines.  There are others.  Icing, which is basically just an excuse for the ref to blow a whistle after you've sprinted end to end, and then gloat while you limp wheezing to the faceoff.  There's also a rule called a two line pass rule, which is basically an offsides rule and everyone ignores it anyway.\n\nThere are also rules about what you can and can't do around and with the goalie, most of which you get thumped by the goalie for doing anyway, and if not the goalie his or her enforcer.  Not that I'm speaking from experience.\n\nEvery time you get the puck in the net (their net, not yours) you get a point.  Regulation games are played in three 20 minute periods, which usually wind up being longer on account of all the time people spend between whistles arguing their case with the refs.\n\nHockey is played with sticks, and there's rules around what you can and can't do with your stick (e
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why doesnt hockey have one simmilar to basketball?
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Check this:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey
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field hockey, not sure but i think ice hockey as well
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Before I got to the United States, I had seen only highlights of baseball games on TV.  All that music and fanfare had me believing baseball is paced like football, with lots of action.  Imagine my surprise when first watching an entire baseball game, to discover it has almost the leisurely, gentlemanly pace of cricket.  These two sports are said to have common origins in the English game of rounders, and they do invite comparison - the one choosing to run up and down on a single line, the other taking it to two dimensions and running around an entire square (or "diamond").\n\n\nIt's time we faced that all-important question: \nWhich is the "better" sport, baseball or cricket?\nSports fans - it's up to you to decide!\n\n\nWhen making your choice consider these factors:\n\nwhich sport is more fun to watch? \nwhich sport attracts the best fans? \nwhich sport generates the most interesting statistics? \nwhich sport requires more skill to play
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here is my opinion on it.  with hockey, the longer you play the harder and harder it is to maintain a level of excellence.  very few people can play hockey really well.  while the same is true for soccer, i think it is to a lesser degree.  i would chose soccer.
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Nowadays, cricket is becoming a lousy sport. Now people don't think of cricket of a sport, but as if it is a religion which can be named as 'Cricketism' . It is not played like a proper game like football where the manager of a team should choose the players very carefully so that the team wins. But now politics is an important thing going on in cricket. And I think that my country, India, is causing such a problem like the harrassment of former captain Sourav Ganguly. They can keep a pitch which the home team loves so that the away team loses. So the home team wins just like that and get points from ICC which is the International Cricket Council. It is not like football where anything can happen and the pitch of the stadium is just like any other grass pitch of a football game. So the game can't be predictable. Who plays the game better wins. But in cricket, the home team plays in its strength and the away team plays in its weakness. You may also see that though Bangladesh loses to Australia in home, they play better than they play in Australia. But you see in football. Anything can happen. See, Barcelona has defeated AC Milan in an away game but drew in a home game or it can happen as Arsenal has defeated Villareal at Highbury but has drew at Villareal's stadium. Even my Physical Education teacher says that cricket is a lousy game these days. Only 20 countries play cricket. But , games like football and tennis are popular in almost all the countries. Cricket is not a sport in the Olympics. These are the side effects of cricket. So, whenever says to me what is your favourite sport, I say football instead of cricket. And you see, its just a waste of time. Can you believe it, for five days the same match is going to be played. And that is not a delay. How funny.