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laxkid7 t1_isya1ob wrote

The more i hear about cricket the more confused i get

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AzLibDem t1_isyln53 wrote

It's just baseball with two bases, you can hit in any direction, and you keep hitting until you're out.

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honestparfait t1_it24eqi wrote

Also the value of runs and wickets / outs are somewhat reversed

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AzLibDem t1_it2dh6k wrote

Sure, there a lot of different details, but my point is that it's really not that hard to figure out the basics.

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TerrenceJesus8 t1_it27ise wrote

Yup, it’s actually pretty fun to watch once you know how it works

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CaptainGoose t1_isyd844 wrote

It's a version of the game called T20. Each team has 20 overs (1 over is 6 pitches) to score as high as they can.

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biscuitslayer77 t1_isyjg1m wrote

This doesn't help us lmao

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Squints1234567 t1_isyjml3 wrote

When explaining provides less clarity

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CaptainGoose t1_isyl5jf wrote

Sorry, I'm a tad drunk.

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lemonloaff t1_isyxi7q wrote

It was clear. I had two Englishmen explain Cricket to me in 15 minutes and I understood just fine. People in North America like to meme about how hard Cricket is to understand because they just don't care to understand.

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CaptainGoose t1_isyxw11 wrote

I think Jomboy has a decent video for the baseball fans - I actually watch him for baseball.

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Squints1234567 t1_iszqnjd wrote

As I was browsing the comments, looking for explanations as I was generally curious.

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chrisb993 t1_isypw0k wrote

In baseballese

Instead of measuring the game in terms of innings which only end with 3 outs, they measure the length of a game in terms of pitches so that a game takes a lot less time. Each team has, say 50 pitches to score as many runs as possible. If you score a run, you get to carry on batting, but if you're out, you're out for the whole of the innings. If your whole team is out before the 50 pitches are up, too bad.

At the end of the 50 pitch/all out inning, the other team have a maximum of 50 pitches to try and score more runs than you did. If they beat your score in 50 pitches or less they win, if they don't, you win.

If you're tied (and it's a knockout match so you need to find a winner), you go to a mini inning each of, say, 5 pitches. If it's still a draw, pluck up some arbitrary rule such as 'most home runs' to split them (and run away from any New Zealanders).

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MrCunninghawk t1_isyy3qd wrote

Each team gets a turn to bat. When batting, they have 20 "overs" worth of balls to score off of. Each over is 6 balls. The bowler Wil bowl the ball 6 times in an attempt get the batsman out, while the batsman will attempt to hit the ball and score runs.

The batting team needs to post a high score between their collective batsmen. They have 20 overs and 10 outs to do this. If the bowling team gets all the batsmen out, that is also the end of the batting teams "innings".

It is then the job of the team batting second to chase the score and surpass it within, you guessed it, 20 overs and 10 outs.

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biscuitslayer77 t1_isyyap5 wrote

Why do these games take like 10 hours?

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XraftcoHD t1_isyz0ry wrote

They don't, this is T20 which lasts like 3 hours

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MrCunninghawk t1_isz2gzq wrote

This is a version called T-20, 20 overs. So it doesn't take as long as "One day" cricket, which has 50 overs an innings.

This is more like 3 hours

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biscuitslayer77 t1_iszbncw wrote

Why on gods earth would someone want to play THAT long?

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MrCunninghawk t1_iszexer wrote

Bro that's nothing, there is also the OG form of cricket. "Test" match. Which goes for days and days.

How long does the average baseball game take? I feel like it's quite long. Same with NFL, every superb owl I've watched as been like the whole afternoon. When we watch MMA PPV's that's like most of the day if u start with the early prelims.

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broke-collegekid t1_it02xi7 wrote

So each team gets 120 potential swings at the ball to get as many hits (which I assume equals points scored) as possible?

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AzLibDem t1_it0mhxl wrote

Yes, plus if the ball makes it to the boundary of the field, it's four runs scored; if it goes over the boundary without hitting the ground, it's six.

Campher scored 72 off 32 balls, so more than two runs per ball on average.

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PooperJackson t1_isyx0cr wrote

Most of the things you said were real words so no complaints here.

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servantoflegba t1_isyvxs0 wrote

I swear, that headline sounds like complete gibberish if you know nil about cricket (me)

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AzLibDem t1_it0ltvm wrote

>Curtis Campher scores 72 not out and leads Irish victory over Scotland in Irelands highest ever run case

Curtis Campher scores 72 runs to win the game and score a record for Ireland.

"not out" = the batsmen continue to be at bat until being "out", which happens if the ball is caught in the air, the wicket is broken, or they are forced out while running.

Since he finished the game without that happening, he was "not out".

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servantoflegba t1_it1jzrf wrote

I kinda figured the meaning, doesn’t change the fact the original headline sounds like a stroke

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onepageresumeguy t1_it85nu1 wrote

More like you can't comprehend basic language.

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servantoflegba t1_ita089a wrote

Lol the sentence only makes sense that d you interpret “not out” as a word/term as well as “run case”

This becomes natural if you dive into a hobby or niche, but makes no sense outside of it.

Also.. I did. manage to figure it out. And no, English is not my native tongue.

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onepageresumeguy t1_itavvdt wrote

I just noticed the "case" Lol it's actually chase... The guy made a typo

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RavingMalwaay t1_it1et5p wrote

Crazy how many people here have apparently never heard of the worlds second most popular sport

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Risc_Terilia OP t1_it1f1p5 wrote

What I think is more crazy is how interested they think everyone will be in how little they understand about it.

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xaanthar t1_it25xd9 wrote

Not understanding cricket is basically a reddit meme at this point

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YOBlob t1_it25tyf wrote

Tbf it's only a major sport in like <10 countries. Just happens that 3 of those countries make up 1.8 billion people.

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RavingMalwaay t1_it26gha wrote

Its a major sport in all primarily anglophone countries except the US and Canada. I get Reddit is an American website so obviously there are gonna be more Americans than others but still its a little annoying for half the comments in every single post about Cricket (and Rugby) to just be people talking about how they dont know what the sport is

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YOBlob t1_it29etv wrote

>Its a major sport in all primarily anglophone countries except the US and Canada

And Scotland and Ireland. In the Anglophone world it's pretty much confined to Wales, certain regions of England, Australia, and New Zealand. Not really a huge surprise that a relatively niche sport is confusing to people seeing it for the first time.

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RavingMalwaay t1_it42hd4 wrote

ITs still pretty popular in Scotland and Ireland, just not close to their other major sports. Don't forget South Africa and the West Indies as well. By comparison, something like American football is very very niche, but you don't see people littering the comments of any post about it with non-americans asking how it works...

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YOBlob t1_it528td wrote

American football is honestly much less niche than cricket globally. Pick a random person in the world and I reckon there's a better chance they can tell you what a touchdown is than a wicket.

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Huge-Physics5491 t1_it5x7y1 wrote

Given a quarter of the world lives in South Asia, you're just super wrong

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SerBronn7 t1_it6i0bh wrote

American football is only played in one country.

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YOBlob t1_it6r44v wrote

In cultural terms, I mean. Like if you said "the quarterback threw a touchdown pass" to a random person in the world, there's a good chance they'll know what you mean. If you said "the batsman was bowled LBW" odds are they'll think you're having a stroke.

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Galaxyy_G t1_itavrwy wrote

So you took a generic term and compare it to a more specific term lol, maybe compare it to 'the batter got bowled out with only 5 runs' and I think most people would understand it.

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OldIndianMonk t1_itq95tz wrote

I saw yesterday one dude claiming how NFL is much bigger than the soccer World Cup because his friends and neighbors don’t watch it!

Superbowl(the final game) brings in 100m views. Cricket and Soccer matches bring in views in the billions.

Americans are funny, man!

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YOBlob t1_itc1lrx wrote

I don't think most people in the world would, no. Hence the confusion any time there's a cricket post on r/sports.

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MitchyJohno t1_ite4hh6 wrote

You realise r/sports is not a good representation of the world right?

Of course an American dominated site is going to understand American football more than cricket.

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YOBlob t1_itffuuo wrote

Most of the world doesn't understand cricket.

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MitchyJohno t1_itfyhsp wrote

Most of the world doesn't understand nfl. What's your point?

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YOBlob t1_itjkmeb wrote

My point is that most of the world doesn't understand cricket, so people should stop getting buttmad every time there are confused comments on cricket posts on r/sports. I don't know why that's apparently such a controversial position.

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MitchyJohno t1_itkjlp8 wrote

If that's your point you should have communicated it better as saying nfl is less niche than cricket is wrong or at least debatable.

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YOBlob t1_itkmhzj wrote

Not my problem if you can't read.

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DeadassYeeted t1_iu6lxox wrote

You literally said NFL is less niche than cricket though

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anish1996 t1_itbeoy2 wrote

In some parts of the world maybe but then you are restricting the definition of the 'world' to just certain parts and disregarding others. I can tell you with certainty not more than 0.01% of the 1.6 billion people in South Asia know what a touchown or quarterback is. And most of them do know what an LBW is.

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siper2194 t1_isz1khm wrote

This was honestly insane. Exhilarating final overs and a crazy comeback for Ireland

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d0rtamur t1_isyxl0w wrote

Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's 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 stay 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

(This isn’t mine - but one from 2007 and 2011)

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tommypopz t1_iszvu1b wrote

Man I really thought we had it in the bag. Gonna be a straight shootout with Zimbabwe, but we do make it if it rains all day 👀

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GamerA_S t1_it6mzpe wrote

Ireland have always being my favourite associate team Idk why but i always enjoy there game

My associate teams favourite teams will be

1.ireland 2.afghanistan 3.netherlands

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bigdaddi_renjit t1_itfzxfr wrote

Campher making a reputation of "Hero Batting"

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JudgeJuryJncos t1_isyyy8f wrote

I understand all these words but I don't understand

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Aussiechimp t1_iszzp9q wrote

A guy scored 72 runs without getting out as Ireland beat Scotland. What's the hard bit?

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mcq316 t1_isz75kl wrote

I’ve thought, for my 40-ish years using it, that I had a solid grasp of the English language. 5 minutes reading the comments here and I’m not sure I know what any word means anymore. I certainly don’t understand what those words mean in context to each other.

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akashn08 t1_itkkg2m wrote

I also feel the same when I see a post about American football or even baseball. But I understand that these are sports popular in a different part of the world. So I just don’t post my ignorance in the comments.

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grinbearnz t1_iszymrg wrote

Would love to be able filter out cricket news. Anyone know how?

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Galaxyy_G t1_itaty8y wrote

Place your finger on your screen, and pull it down, not that hard is it?

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akashn08 t1_itkkmab wrote

Cope. You’ll see even more cricket news as the t20 World Cup has just started.

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grinbearnz t1_itkl2ka wrote

Yawn. Not at all. Cricket is still a boring sport. Point me towards the designated sitting street please.

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akashn08 t1_itkmbqb wrote

Yeah the designated shitting area is hard to find. People sometimes even forget to include it in world maps.

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