Cricket guide for foreigners

[Pralaya]

Test match cricket is the best form of cricket. The others are irrelevant.

 

In your opinion.

 

Not all agree with it though. Definitely not me. I prefer ODIs and T20s to entertain me.

[wotfan4472]

I agree with Ratwort's remark, even though our team always seems to put out their pilot lights or spends more time using their latex stallions:P  But Test cricket is at the top of this sport. Just do not include run outs!

Was my grandfather's pet hate when it came to Tests.

[Lilbaz]

Anyway, england won the ashes! (about 2 weeks ago even though we're still playing).

[suchmadness]

A game of cricket was the only live game at which I fell asleep. I was 15 then mind you, not 115. A wonderful game.I remember the rhytmic movement of the audience's jaws working on the chips and the stoic applause once every 5 hours or so.

After five hours this audience member laughed rather uproariously.

 

Well done!

 

So true...

 

[WWWwombat]

I watched cricket when I was in England.  It wasn't that hard for me to understand, because I grew up playing baseball.

 

I remember when I found out about the rule against throwing I was astonished because bending and extending the elbow is a key part of a baseball pitcher's action.  Of course, baseball pitchers don't get running starts, can't actually "pitch" the ball (if a pitch hits the ground it's a ball), and scuffing or applying any foreign substance to the ball will get you thrown out of a game.

[WWWwombat]

And baseball games, which have 9 innings (unless the game is tied) usually last between 3 and 4 hours and many Americans complain that they're too slow and boring.  So yeah lol.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

they are.

[WWWwombat]

Some are, some aren't.  The good games can be more exciting than any other sport imo.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

of course.

 

I can't understand any sports except basketball, and boxing, really. oh, and hockey. cause it's a lot like boxing but with sticks and men skating like princesses.

[Pralaya]

And baseball games, which have 9 innings (unless the game is tied) usually last between 3 and 4 hours and many Americans complain that they're too slow and boring.  So yeah lol.

 

 3 and 4 hours? lol. Too less ;)

[WWWwombat]

Doesn't Twenty20 last about that long?

[Pralaya]

Yeah, but quite a few cricket fans consider T20 too short

[suchmadness]

I'm not a cricket fan but I considered T20 too short after watching too many test crickets. Don't ask why I forced myself to sit there during long hot summer when really I'd rather watch ants' trails and making up stories about their little lives.

 

Also it's not cricket if you clap during those 'duck' moments, especially when it's the team you are supporting who got bowled out.

 

Really it's the only time I ever perk up, during the 'eagles' and the ducks and the sixes moments in the game.

[suchmadness]

You also can't watch cricket without beers I found.

I really enjoy drinking Tooheys extra dry while watching Test matches.

I'm still not a fan xD

[suchmadness]

Can someone please enlighten me as to the purpose of rubbing the ball against the crotch?

 

Is it to endow some sort of mystical power to the ball, as in one ball to another so to speak?

 

Is it for aerodynamic reason?

 

Why the crotch???

 

I find this practise on the part of the bowlers to be disconcertingly titillating. Slightly.

[SinisterDeath]

Its probably a regulation against using limbs to clean the ball. <_<

[suchmadness]

Hah judging by the quality of your answer you think I'm being facetious but I can assure I'm genuinely intrigued.

 

Questions like this tend to occupy my thoughts during those long bouts of cricket.

 

For example has anyone noticed how phallocentric the whole game is or is it just me being a girl and all?

[Lilbaz]

cricketers rub one side of the ball so its shiny and keep the other side roughed up so then if a bowlers action is right it can 'swing' through the air. The spit makes the shiny side slightly heavier and move through the air easier (aerodynamics). When the ball is bowled with the seam up/down, the ball swings toward the side of the dull side of the ball.

 

From wiki answers.

 

I think it's just to titilate suchmadness.

[SinisterDeath]

 

cricketers rub one side of the ball so its shiny and keep the other side roughed up so then if a bowlers action is right it can 'swing' through the air. The spit makes the shiny side slightly heavier and move through the air easier (aerodynamics). When the ball is bowled with the seam up/down, the ball swings toward the side of the dull side of the ball.

 

From wiki answers.

 

I think it's just to titilate suchmadness.

 

Doesn't the ball fly through the air to slow for any of that to take affect?

[suchmadness]

cricketers rub one side of the ball so its shiny and keep the other side roughed up so then if a bowlers action is right it can 'swing' through the air. The spit makes the shiny side slightly heavier and move through the air easier (aerodynamics). When the ball is bowled with the seam up/down, the ball swings toward the side of the dull side of the ball.

 

From wiki answers.

 

I think it's just to titilate suchmadness.

I thought so.

 

And I don't deserve the eye rolling that I get when I asked this kind of questions either. It keeps me amused at least.

[Lilbaz]

 

cricketers rub one side of the ball so its shiny and keep the other side roughed up so then if a bowlers action is right it can 'swing' through the air. The spit makes the shiny side slightly heavier and move through the air easier (aerodynamics). When the ball is bowled with the seam up/down, the ball swings toward the side of the dull side of the ball.

 

From wiki answers.

 

I think it's just to titilate suchmadness.

I thought so.

 

And I don't deserve the eye rolling that I get when I asked this kind of questions either. It keeps me amused at least.

 

 

Eye rolling was not my reaction. 

[suchmadness]

 

 

cricketers rub one side of the ball so its shiny and keep the other side roughed up so then if a bowlers action is right it can 'swing' through the air. The spit makes the shiny side slightly heavier and move through the air easier (aerodynamics). When the ball is bowled with the seam up/down, the ball swings toward the side of the dull side of the ball.

 

From wiki answers.

 

I think it's just to titilate suchmadness.

 

Doesn't the ball fly through the air to slow for any of that to take affect?

 

 

I know right???

 

Even the wiki answers is incredibly suggestive don't you think?

 

 

 

 

cricketers rub one side of the ball so its shiny and keep the other side roughed up so then if a bowlers action is right it can 'swing' through the air. The spit makes the shiny side slightly heavier and move through the air easier (aerodynamics). When the ball is bowled with the seam up/down, the ball swings toward the side of the dull side of the ball.

 

From wiki answers.

 

I think it's just to titilate suchmadness.

I thought so.

 

And I don't deserve the eye rolling that I get when I asked this kind of questions either. It keeps me amused at least.

 

 

Eye rolling was not my reaction. 

 

 

Erm just wondering whether I care what your reaction is hello internet stranger.

 

Thanks for answering me at least.

[Lilbaz]

Just teasing. 

[Lilbaz]

Englands women have also won the ashes.

[Pralaya]

Hey England, don't invent a game you cannot win !!