Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnji.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!abnji!jca From: jca@abnji.UUCP (james armstrong) Newsgroups: net.sport,net.tv.drwho Subject: Rules of Cricket (Short Summary) Message-ID: <170@abnji.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 08:12:45 EST Article-I.D.: abnji.170 Posted: Thu Jan 10 08:12:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 00:19:27 EST Organization: ATTIS, NJ Lines: 54 Xref: watmath net.sport:363 net.tv.drwho:742 Cricket is a fascinating game, loosely based on the first major interstellar war... There are two sides of 11 players, one side is batting, one is in the field. Two players may bat at a given time, they do not change until one is out. The side batting bats until 10 wickets fall, ie they have no more players to bat, or until they "declare." A declaration means that you are finished batting and will let the other side have a go. As cricket is limited by time, this is sometimes necessary to avoid a draw due to time running out. Two wickets are set up about 60 feet apart, one batsman stands at each. A run is scored when the two batsmen cross and reach the wicket before it is broken. If a batsman is not back before the wicket is broken, he is run out. A bowler bowls an over of six balls from one end of the field to the opposite wicket, then another bowls from the opposite side. These bowlers will normally bowl at least 10 overs each before there is a change... that is not a rule. When there is a change, the bowler assumes a position in the field. He may return to bowling later in the match. How you are out: run out (explained earlier) caught: When a ball you hit is caught in the air. bowled: When the bowler breaks the wicket you are guarding leg before wicket (lbw): When the ball hits your leg, without hitting your bat first, and the umpire judges that if the ball was unimpeded you would have been bowled. You are not allowed to defend the wicket with just your leg, you must use your bat. stumped: When you do not hit the ball, leave the safety of the crease around the wicket, and the wicketkeeper breaks the wicket (rare) First one side bats, then the other side bats. Each sides batting is called an innings (singular). After both sides have had an innings, then the first side will bat again, unless they built up a very large lead, when they can tell the other side to "follow on." You need to be leading by 200 runs or more in order to do that. How to win: Score more runs than your opponent. Full details of the official rules will follow, I do not have my Wisden's with me. JCA Oh ar oh ar! I zupport Zomerzet! -- Before he leaves the camp he stops He scans the world outside And where there used to be some shops Is where the snipers sometimes hide He left his home the week before He thought he'd be like the police But now he finds he is at war When we're supposed to keep the peace