Question: Cricket

BamaNation · Mar 26, 2019

This is actually sports, but Is more about how we think about and communicate when talking about things that seem obvious to us...

The morning we arrived in London (we lived there 2000-2002) in August 2000, there was a major cricket tournament on TV. I stayed awake for hours trying to understand the rules and traditions. I was fascinated and totally confused all at once. I still like watching the major competitions occasionally but still don’t understand the rules well. I also don’t understand the vocabulary. To wit, the quote below is from ESPN today:

”Running in to deliver the penultimate delivery of his final over, Ashwin stopped after entering his delivery stride. Buttler didn't have his eye on the bowler and slipped out of the crease. As soon as he saw that, Ashwin simply turned around and broke the stumps at the non-strikers' end with the batsman out of his crease. The decision was sent up to the third umpire, who didn't need much time to send Buttler on his way.”

http://www.espn.com/cricket/story/_/id/26357499/drama-jaipur-jos-buttler-mankaded-r-ashwin

care to interpret?

sounds like he did the equivalent of a bat flip or slow HR trot in baseball

TIDE-HSV · Mar 26, 2019

BamaNation said:
This is actually sports, but Is more about how we think about and communicate when talking about things that seem obvious to us...

The morning we arrived in London (we lived there 2000-2002) in August 2000, there was a major cricket tournament on TV. I stayed awake for hours trying to understand the rules and traditions. I was fascinated and totally confused all at once. I still like watching the major competitions occasionally but still don’t understand the rules well. I also don’t understand the vocabulary. To wit, the quote below is from ESPN today:

”Running in to deliver the penultimate delivery of his final over, Ashwin stopped after entering his delivery stride. Buttler didn't have his eye on the bowler and slipped out of the crease. As soon as he saw that, Ashwin simply turned around and broke the stumps at the non-strikers' end with the batsman out of his crease. The decision was sent up to the third umpire, who didn't need much time to send Buttler on his way.”

http://www.espn.com/cricket/story/_/id/26357499/drama-jaipur-jos-buttler-mankaded-r-ashwin

care to interpret?

sounds like he did the equivalent of a bat flip or slow HR trot in baseball

I'm just glad we simplified it to baseball, which can be crashingly boring. I understand cricket wins, even in that wicket...

DzynKingRTR · Mar 26, 2019

Cricket is easy to understand if you know the rules.

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

GrayTide · Mar 26, 2019

Sounds complicated, think I will stick with curling.

Go Bama · Mar 26, 2019

DzynKingRTR said:
Cricket is easy to understand if you know the rules.

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

crimsonaudio · Mar 26, 2019

BamaNation said:
care to interpret?

I can't - nor do I care to learn, LOL.

Bazza · Mar 26, 2019

Of course, it's the official national summer sport in Oz with rugby the same for winter.

I don't know much about how it is played but just know of it's popularity down under.

They're so bloody competitive down there (in EVERYTHING they do!) you'd think they were somehow linked with Alabama upstream in their ancestry!

From Wiki:

The 2015 Cricket World Cup was jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14 February to 29 March 2015. Fourteen teams played 49 matches in 14 venues, with Australia staging 26 games at grounds in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Australia defeated New Zealand by 7 wickets to win their fifth ICC Cricket World Cup in front of a record crowd of 93,013. The winning captain Michael Clarke, retired from ODIs with immediate effect after the final match.

BamaNation · Mar 27, 2019

A corollary to this is the madness of trying to decipher ANY sports story in a British / Aussie paper or website. Even those where one knows something about said sport. No logical flow to the paragraphs.

NationalTitles18 · Mar 27, 2019

BamaNation said:
A corollary to this is the madness of trying to decipher ANY sports story in a British / Aussie paper or website. Even those where one knows something about said sport. No logical flow to the paragraphs.

And yet our sportscasters try to follow their model by referring to the singular as the plural and we allow it. (slightly blue font)

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