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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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