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I'm looking at a score, 275/10 & 153/4 to 382/10. Can anyone translate that?
Oh, and another question, since games can run several days, sometimes longer than a week, how do you remember who's playing?
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Well, there is no rugby on, and watching some bloke bat the ball once and get in 10 runs is more interesting than watching the bowler... ah pitcher standing there fidgeting and spitting on the ground.
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I'm looking at a score, 275/10 & 153/4 to 382/10. Can anyone translate that?
Oh, and another question, since games can run several days, sometimes longer than a week, how do you remember who's playing?
275 for 10 means 275 runs scored for the loss of 10 wickets (all out).
153 for 4 is the second innings and they scored 153 for the loss of 4 wickets.
The 382 for 10 means the other team scored 382 all out.
As for knowing the difference in the teams, c'mon GB, both teams wear white but have different coloured trim around their collars! 
Cricket is as confusing for the rest of the world as baseball is to us 'foreigners'.
Imagine how easy it is for the guys in the US to follow a baseball game, that's how easy it is for normal people in the rest of the world to follow cricket.
It's what you're bought up with I guess.
Anyway, the rules of cricket are dead easy ...
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 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? Piece of cake.
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Euro 08 not exciting enough . well in my limited knowledge of cricket ,i would say yhe larger numbers are the number of runs and the smaller of the numbers ,could be the number of wickets taken or the number of guys that got the runs (probably from those little cress sarnies at tea )
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As for knowing the difference in the teams, c'mon GB, both teams wear white but have different coloured trim around their collars!
So, what did they do when there was only black and white TV? 
Anyway, thanks for explaining the ins and outs of the game.
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Lost in the myths of time was a snooker commentary, 'Whispering' Ted Lowe genuinely said .... " ... for those viewers watching in black and white, the pink ball is just behind the green ... "
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Anyway, the rules of cricket are dead easy ...
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 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? Piece of cake.
Good Lord Mr. Funkletrumpet,
Who penned those rules? Abbott & "Who's on First, What's on second" Costello 
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Anyway, the rules of cricket are dead easy ...
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 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? Piece of cake.
 
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Who penned those rules? Abbott & "Who's on First, What's on second" Costello
Yeah but go on, anyone who knows how to play cricket tell me I'm wrong.
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Now explain LBW(leg before wicket), and how it doesn't have to actually hit your leg for an LBW to be called, or that if the ball hits your glove while holding the bat, the glove is actually considered part of the bat under those circumstances. Nope, that's not confusing at all.  So how do you fancy England's chances against the All Blacks in rugby next weekend? I watched New Zealand vs Ireland, and I don't think I've ever seen Dan Carter have a worse game than he did against the Irish.
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Yeah but they'll be playing England so they will no doubt up their game and get a cricket score against us. Did you see what I did there? Quote:
Now explain LBW(leg before wicket), and how it doesn't have to actually hit your leg for an LBW to be called..
You got me there!
I don't follow enough cricket to know that one.
I thought it had to hit your leg pad to be LBW.
The reason for the law is to stop players looking like they are playing the ball when in fact they are just shoving their leg in the way to stop the ball hitting the wicket.
The umpire has to take all sorts of stuff into account where the ball pitches, over the wicket bowlers (left and right hand to left or right hand batsmen).
There's also 'bat onto pad' where if it hits the bat before the pad, it's not LBW.
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or that if the ball hits your glove while holding the bat, the glove is actually considered part of the bat under those circumstances.
Yep, that's correct.
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Anyway, the rules of cricket are dead easy ...
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 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.
Well im glad we got that cleared up
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Imagine how easy it is for the guys in the US to follow a baseball game, that's how easy it is for normal people in the rest of the world to follow cricket.
I used to thik cricket was THE most boring game around, But then i discovered Baseball. Oh my, you think Cricket is slow. Let me tell ya, i won some tickets to go and watch the Atlanta Braves play  sure glad i didn't pay for those tickets.
But never mind all. The summer will be over soon and we can get back to normality when the footie season starts. Thats soccer to you Americans. 
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So..... what's a wicket? 
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Cricket? heck it took me 2 yrs to figure out the scoring in tennis.
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So..... what's a wicket?
Thats one of those little round wire things in Croquet aint it?
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
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And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
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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.
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in"...
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So..... what's a wicket?
The Wicket....more commonly known as The Stumps.
Glad to have been of help Would go into more detail, but its time for Tea. Did anyone mention that in Cricket one stops play in the afternoon for tea. Such a civilized game...
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Cricket???? I thought that those were those little black hopping insects that little-uns chase around the yard, kinda like grasshoppers!!! Maybe the big number is the number of Crickets, and the little number is the mason jars they are stuffed in??? Mark
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Reminds me of an episode of "I Love Lucy that I saw last week on TVLand, where Fred and Ricky were teaching Lucy and Ethel how to play golf - great visual comedy, too much to try and explain.
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So..... what's a wicket?
Thats a leggo kind of a thing. 2 short sticks standing up with a longer one in the middle. Then you drop a small board with holes in over the tops and stick a wood knob on the middle one to hold it all together. Then some dude throws a ball at you and tries to knock it all down.
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So..... what's a wicket?
Thats one of those little round wire things in Croquet aint it?
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I used to thik cricket was THE most boring game around, But then i discovered Baseball.
Oh yeah, does this ever happen in cricket??
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One thing I like about cricket that is different in baseball. In baseball when you hit a home run the batter sits down in the dugout. In cricket if the batter hits it over the fence etc then he is still there till the bowler can get him out.
Could be there a while when in great form and add a lot of runs.
Ah what a great game.
Go the West Indies.
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Ok...now then..what is a "Sticky Wicket"?
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That's one that fits together so tightly that it's hard to knock down. My grandfather once made one in his cabinet shop that was even hard to kick apart as a joke. Should have seen the bowler's face when tge ball bounced off! 
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Argh, the modern Wicket. We were not rich enough to afford such high fuluting stuff when we were kids. We would hammer three sticks of wood into the ground. That one there is one of those modern spring loaded things. Well that progress for ya.
Incidently, the nobblily bits on top are called the Bails or is it Bales?
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Actually that is a set of stumps with bails..... yes bails...... balls I here you say??? yes that is what is bowled at the stumps....... by the bowlers on the team that is out but not in, and defended by the batsmen that are as FT points out, out and not out and are in until they are out and then go in unless they stay out because they are not out and therefore don't have to go in the wicket is actually the complete playing area i.e. the two sets of stumps 22 yards apart and approx 2 yards wide Not really interested in cricket just quiet in the office today!!! FT I can't see what the issue is............its all very clear really  PS.... sticky wicket? ? bad playing surface, the actual 22 yards.
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