![]() ![]() The ball arrives with the batsmen at 95 miles per hour. Unlike in Gridiron, no joke substitutions are allowed. The West Indies, India, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Pakistan are also quite handy. ![]() England plays Australia every two years for the Ashes, which is essentially the World Cup of cricket. The only colonials who don’t play cricket are Americans. Players die. Countries that play cricket are generally former British colonies.The reason for the weird scoring is there’s no point knowing how many runs a team has without knowing how many players it took to get it. Knocking it to the edge of the playing area gets 4. Knocking it out the ground gets an automatic 6. It turns out that it’s remarkably simple: the reason fans watching last weekend’s match were pleased with 450/5 is because the first number is how many runs they got (450), the second is the number of players caught ‘out’ to achieve it (5). Weird scoring system. Perhaps the most puzzling thing about cricket is its seemingly incomprehensible scoring system.Each time he does this, he scores a run, and the team with the most runs wins. But, rather than go for a home run, he attempts to swap sides with his team mate, who is opposite (next to the bowler). The opposing team bowls, and the player hits the ball as far as he can. Cricket is not that dissimilar to baseball. ![]()
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