An Explanation of Cricket (2009)

Post by rgovind » Tue, Sep 08, 2015, 9:46 PM UTC

danieltillett wrote: post #19

praneshp wrote: post #4

> "The most infamous event in cricket was the 1932-33 English tour of Australia " Many fans of the game would likely disagree; personally, a couple of match fixing scandals and the underarm delivery vs New Zealand were worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkQRERykq5M

I have always wondered why we have not had a repeat of the underarm delivery [1], but just done by bowling overarm very, very slowly. As far as I know there is no rule in how fast the ball has to be bowled and if you bowled very slowly the ball would reach the batsman rolling along the ground. 1. For those that don't know the history of the underarm delivery, in a match between Australia and New Zealand the final bal…

Post by hefty » Tue, Sep 08, 2015, 9:56 PM UTC

mrspeaker wrote: post #17

bvm wrote: post #10

Test cricket (international matches played over five days) is a truly wonderful experience that I urge everyone to try and watch* at least once. When you try and explain that the most engaging of matches can end in a draw, after all that time, you rarely succeed on winning over sceptics, but find a friend that is willing to sit and watch for a few days and try it out. *or listen to, it's equally at home on the radio,…

Test cricket is the ONLY cricket... none of this one-day nonsense ;) Once you know the rules (easy* ) and start to understand the strategy (hard) then test cricket is fascinating and pretty exciting! * The easy rules are easy, then there about a thousand weird rules that hark back to ol' England. You take "tea" for example. Though my favourite is that if a ball is damaged or goes missing in the middle of a game, they…

Post by CuttlefishXXX » Tue, Sep 08, 2015, 10:28 PM UTC

bmsleight_ wrote: post #5

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 thats 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 whe…

Post by stevoski » Tue, Sep 08, 2015, 10:39 PM UTC

praneshp wrote: post #4

> "The most infamous event in cricket was the 1932-33 English tour of Australia " Many fans of the game would likely disagree; personally, a couple of match fixing scandals and the underarm delivery vs New Zealand were worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkQRERykq5M

Post by j_lev » Tue, Sep 08, 2015, 10:46 PM UTC

redindian75 wrote: post #28

j_lev wrote: post #24

Cricket is a great example of where disruption created a larger pie for the incumbent. Kerry Packer popularised the One Day International at a time where the (five day) Tests were on their last legs, which in turn re-ignighted interest in the Tests. Cricket has experienced no other disruption prior or since.

what about the latest craze T20? It's a multibillion dollar industry! Tho I am too much of a purist to watch it often, Its far more monetarily successful than the last disruption. Its tailor made for 2000s generation who dont want to sit thro a whole day to enjoy cricket