Oh Man…thts soo simple…
-the LBW law → Even my 6 year old cousin knows it perfectly… 
Muralithran → The man is legal. If he gets prodigious spin, its not by chucking. If he had a faster ball it would ve been a different case. Law should be taken in the context .
Duckworth lewis → remeber log tables?? 
Cricket is a huge sport in maybe 7 or 8 countries, that too mostly at the international level only. League matches don’t draw the crowds, don’t generate much publicity, and don’t generate much loyalty either.
I am failing to understand how this is very complicated !! :dubious: First and foremost if you write the rules of any modern game it would look like greek. If you’re batsman this would make perfect sense . What i am meaning to tell you is that , give it a chance…If aussies are perfecting the game imagine americans really getting in to it…it would be a big boost with all tht investment money. Imagine wating for the start NCA Super bat series…
These guys would probably find that useful…
True. Club criket hardly generate any interest…but talk abt internationals…! I am not sure of the europe, usa or au but in asia the whole country stops for a day atleast if there is a oneday match playing. If your coming to sri lanka or india to get some work done , check the match calendar . everybody glues to the TV. nobody will pay u any attention. 
Having said that I would love if somebody start ice hockey or American football here…
Not this one, thankfully. 
But if I should ever get to visit Sri Lanka or India, I shall now know how to pick a time when everything wil be quiet.
That’s because nothing’s happening for most of the time, so you have to amuse yourself somehow: “And it’s interesting to note, Keith, that this is the third-best scoring partnership for a fourth wicket stand with two left-handed batsmen since Smith partnered Jones at Edgbaston back in 1954.”
Couldn’t agree more about American sports. though: baseball is cricket with all of the tedium and none of the subtlety; basketball is a game played by circus freaks for an audience who get bored if there are less than 2 points scored every minute; and American football? Take off the pads, helmets and tight pants, play with the same team for 90 minutes, stop stopping every 2 minutes, and I might take it seriously.
Now that’s just a complete load of bullshit. Just because you don’t understand baseball doesn’t mean it lacks subtlety. A good baseball game is like watching a strategic balet. I don’t get cricket but at least I can appreciate that there’s a lot to appreciate about it.
All professional sports are played by freaks. You’re talking about a job where being in the 99.999th percentile in a small set of physical abilities is the prime requirement.
Yeah. American football is fucking stupid.
Brit checking in here to say that you are talking bollocks. Baseball is a great game and full of subtlety. Like cricket, you have to understand the game to a certain level to get a feeling for the subtlety. I suggest you read Men at Work by George Will in which players talk about how they play the game.
Never mind those complicated versions of what cricket is about, here’s a simpler version.
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he is out. When they are all out, the side that’s been out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not 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. There are two men called umpires who are all out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
See how easy it all is?
Since when are Brett Lee and MacGill in the Test side? When was the last time Lee played a Test, rather than being 12 th man? And Bracken? Dream on. Katich is a West Australian playing for NSW but I guess he lives in Sydney.
I know that Sydneysiders like to claim they are the centre of the Universe, but you really should check your facts.
I can follow cricket as it is played, largely because of the similarities to baseball. The scoring is as if baseball gave you points for every base you reached.
You’ve got a bowler (like a pitcher) who tries to get a ball past the batsman (batter). If the ball hits the wicket the batsman is out, like a really small strike zone but you only get one strike.
If the batsman hits it and it is caught on the fly, he’s out.
If it hits the ground, he can run to the other wicket (ie. base) if he wishes.
If it leaves the park, it counts for six on the fly (like a home run) or four on the bounce (like a ground rule double).
He can be run out if he doesn’t get to the wicket before the ball. (Like being tagged or forced out in baseball)
Leg before wicket (LBW) is like leaning into the strike zone to get hit by the pitch.
The other guy running complicates things slightly, but it really isn’t that hard to pick up the rhythm. Whoever ends up opposite the bowler, bats.
I was trying to follow the India vs. Pakistan scores via the web, and I didn’t understand the 5 day test. One of their matches ended up a draw despite the scores not looking very close. What was the deal with that?
I don’t know which match you’re referring to of course but even if the scores are completely uneven
e.g
England 700 for 2 (dec) and 650 for 1 (dec) and Australia 99 all out and 100 for 9 then that would be a draw.
I know that is an unlikely score (Australia probably wouldn’t score that many runs) but you do have to bowl out the other side out twice to win.
Except in 1 day games where the rules are different.
Thank goodness there aren’t any Aussie members of this message board otherwise I might be in trouble.
Ooh, this pisses me off. Deep breaths, it’s Friday afternoon . . .
. . . OK, here we go. In WC2002 we beat Mexico. 2-0, it wasn’t that close. They’re not the “only decent team in our group” (CONCACAF); it’s insulting to say that. We American soccer fans HATE Mexico. We would only grudgingly concede they’re maybe our equals, although we’ve learned to say “2-0!” in Spanish if they argue too loudly.
Yeah, I can’t wait for Germany. We owe the hosts a little somethin’-somethin’ for knocking us out last time around.
I’m sorry, what was this thread about again?
Basically, it’s a draw if there isn’t an outright win. Such draws don’t have much meaning, unless they’re part of a test series. If it’s five matches, and (for example) Australia have won the first two, a draw for the third match dramatically changes things.
I don’t think there is a lack of subtlety in strategy or a lack of finesse in planning in Baseball. It is certainly a tedious game, just as Cricket would seem to an ‘outsider’. Having said that, the one place where Cricket definitely scores big over Baseball is the sheer beauty of the sport. Watching a Gavaskar straight-drive, Gilchrist or Lara square-cut or a Tendulkar cover-drive - sheer poetry. Ganguly in his prime playing on the off, or Gower in his prime. You will never find that in the brute force of Baseball. I haven’t in four years of watching it (never followed it, but watch on the telly sometimes).
Your explanation of the LBW law is ‘that your 6 year old cousin knows it’? :rolleyes:
As for a ‘legal delivery’, perhaps you could explain more about why Muralithran is legal, and what ‘context’ the law should be taken in.
Don’t forget to explain ‘spin’, ‘chucking’ and why ‘speed of delivery’ matters. Give reasons for Muralithran being suspended from international cricket, then reinstated. And why all this is ‘so simple’.
Yes I do remember log tables. And they were not as simple as ‘counting from 1 to 10’.
In league play does a draw determine how many points are earned ?
To clarify matters (!) : if both scores end up the same then it is a tie.
If they just run out of time then it is a draw.