Answer the question of the person above

[Son of the King]

Hitting a ball with a stick and being lucky.

Is cricket interesting?

[comrade_general]

I honestly have no idea.

Have you ever played cricket?

[Son of the King]

Not properly, and definitely not well.

Do Americans play cricket?

[comrade_general]

No.

Do Britons play baseball?

[Son of the King]

Not that I'm aware of .

How does baseball work?

[comrade_general]

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players who take turns batting and baserunning.

The offense attempts to score more runs than its opponents by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher with a bat and moving counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third and home plate. A run is scored when the runner advances around the bases and returns to home plate.

Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance on a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning, and nine innings a game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.



This isn't the stupid question/answer game.

So how does cricket work then?

[Clockwork]

11 players per team, all fielders are played at once. There are 2 batsmen one at each end of a 22 yard strip with wooden posts (wickets). The bowler uses an overarm throw to knock the ball into the post and remove the batsman at that post from play. The batsmen try and hit the ball into the crowd (possibly not their direct aim) doing so without the ball bouncing scores a 6 (6 points, yay) with bouncing/rolling on the ground it's a 4.

If the ball is hit the batsmen have to run at least once across the batting strip (scoring one point for each one way run of the player batting at that time) and in that time can be either caught if trajectory allows or the ball can be picked up and thrown at the post and thus removed from play.

A bowler gets 6 throws then they switch, called an over professional games range from 20 overs to 5 day long test matches. If a games is 20 overs long and nobody goes out, then it'll just be those 2 people batting for the entire team. Test matches, everyone bats.

That's the basics, different bowl and bat styles and when it's beneficial for a teammate to go out, that sort of thing that honestly I'm not too well versed in.

Trivia: If a batsman is taken out on the first ball it's called a duck, if the first batsman coming up to play is taken out first ball, it's a golden duck.

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