There was a story about West Indes legendary batsman Viv Richards who came out to bat and was receiving the delivery from a rookie. He missed the entire ball on the first ball and the rookie sarcastically said "If you don't know what the ball looks like, it's red with white stitches. On the next delivery Vivi Richards put all his might into it and knocked it clear out of the grounds. He then said back to the rookie "You know what it looks like, now go and find it".
I loved the fact he'd swagger out . Bat in hand, soft cap on his head. Somone asked him why rhi didn't wear a helmet and he replied " I've got a big piece of wood". Guess what he didn't need it
"Six and out" is a common rule in children's cricket because of the inconvenience of having to go and find the ball. Especially if you're playing near houses with grumpy neighbours (with Beware of the Dog type security) who don't appreciate your play as much as you do.
with me and my brothers 6 and out was to lower the amount of broken windows, fetching the ball wasn't an issue because you were batting it was one of the brothers that had to go fetch the ball, however a broken window would bring about collective punishment
@@chrisharris1522 For us getting the ball was hard depending on the fence you hit it over. We played in the front yard and across the road was a small farm with an electric fence, and another neighbour had two rottweilers. You learned to pick your shots the hard way.
@@bsg20239 It is correct. Kookaburra might make all the gear, but the question asked was why did the commenter say that Carl Rackeman and his daughter were nearly kookaburrerd ? Answer.......because THE BALL was made by Kookaburra and is called a kookaburra.
There's a famous English (sic) court case, where some new people moved to a village and sued to stop cricket balls coming through their windows. The great Law Lord Tom Denning ruled that these "Johhny Come Latelys" couldn't stop a centuries old tradition.
Yeah Ryan, you are correct about the games going indefinitely. They were called Timeless Test matches (1877-1939). In 1939 the final test match of the South Africa v England series was abandoned on the twelfth day so the England team could board their ship back home. That rule had to be changed to limit how many days a match could go for, which has been the format for Test cricket since post WW2. Cheers from Down Under.
Part of the reason that there is no "standard" is that for every cricket ground, there are a number of "pitches" in the centre - whereby in this context, the "pitch" is the small area that the wickets and batsmen stand and run in. Because the pitch and crease can be damaged by use - especially in long-form first-class or test matches over multiple days, they need to have alternative pitches to play on so that the groundsmen can work to restore the "used" pitches. This means that sometimes your pitch might be right in the centre of the ground, but on other occasions you could be more to one side of the ground than the other.
And of course some English grounds are established only for cricket and, being ancient, can be weird shapes, eg the Oval. Then at the other end you have the Melbourne Cricket Ground where the size of the playing field is 160m end to end in one direction and 125m in the other, to suit Australian Rules Football (and with the stands built to hold 100,000 people, you're not going to get a ball out of the "ground"
The wicket changes due the detriation of the pitch after the match is completed, so the boundary changes too. A wicket could dead center of the stadium, and the next match could off center. That's why most cricket grounds are oval in shape to accommodate the change in wicket and boundaries.
Not sure why it's hard to believe there's no set distance? You understand Baseball and already know that there's some stadiums where it's shorter or longer to score a home run. Wait until you hear about the St Lawrence Lime Tree at Canterbury, a 90ft high tree that was inside the boundary and you had to clear the tree to score a six because the ground rules said if the ball touched any of the branches it was automatically a four.
Ryan, the cricket pitch is moved as the ground erodes away, so there’s no exact measurement from pitch to boundary. There will be one pitch in use while the others are growing back and being maintained. Google cricket pitches.
In international cricket matches though, they will try and have a centre pitch prepared. Club games will usually get the edge pitches and I've even seen two games going on at the same time with overlapping boundaries.
@@utha2665but if the centre pitch is crap they'll move it. There is no way a dodgy pitch would be acceptable. Why? Because if you knew you'd pick three spinners and destroy the last side batting
The expression, "nearly wore," would be what you would say if something nearly hit you, you would say, "he wore it," if it did hit him. You can also use that expression to mean take responsibility for. The "Kookaburra," is a reference to the ball. Kookaburra is a sporting goods manufacturing brand, and Australian top level balls are all made by Kookaburra. So they often say, "the Kookaburra," when referring to the ball. So "nearly wore the Kookaburra" means they were almost hit by the ball. There may have been some copywrite issues with the actual hit. The footage shown was actually commentators recalling the event some years later.
Whilst visiting a former school roomie in Wales during my summer break from uni, we went to watch the 1st class county cricket match between Notts and Glamorgan, at Singleton Park in Abertawe. We were privilaged to see Sir Gary Sobers, the Barbadian and West Indies all-rounder score six 6s in one over (six balls), the first time this was ever done in first class cricket.
My house backs onto a local cricket ground. we have a 12' catch fence at the bottom of our garden but balls come over fairly regularly. About once every 3 years they do some damage. I admit the glass top garden table was a dumb purchase.... The deal is the club NEVER admits liability but ALWAYS pays for the repairs. I get to watch for free so I'm good with that.
Ryan, you have reacted to a youtube video explaining how the game of AFL (Australian Football League) is played. It mentioned that the Grand Finals are played at the MCG or Melbourne Cricket Ground. AFL is a Winter sport and Cricket is a Summer sport. Cricket batters have at times hit cricket balls on top of the stadium roofs or even beyond during the many games played there over the Summer seasons. The MCG is one of the most prestigious Cricket grounds in the World, of which there are many large Cricket Stadiums, far more than the number of NFL stadiums, and usually of higher quality and quantity of seating and facilities for spectators.
The Southern Hemisphere play with Kookaburra balls, including the West Indies. The rest of the world play with The Duke ball. Kookaburra obvs is an Australian brand & made because of the name & The Duke ball is made in England
The comentator re car is a former nz test cricket called ian smith who many regard as one of the best wicket keepers in the game and a handy lower order batsman😂
Every cricket ground is a slightly different size and shape. Same as baseball. BTW have you considered posting these cricket reactions on your Australian channel? Would be very popular there.
@@continental_drift well for starters this channel has 90k subscribers compared to 75k on the Aus channel. I highly doubt 83% of his subscribers on this 'UK and Europe' channel are Australians.
The cricket pitch being used is one of many pitches that are in various stages of preparation for use in up coming matches. This is one of the reasons boundary distances varies so much. Another reason for boundary variations is that cricket grounds can be built in areas that can restrict the size and shape of the oval. 3 cricket grounds are known to have a tree growing on the field of play.
Boundaries can vary in size depending on the ground it is played on. Eden Park for example is one of the smallest grounds and the MCG is one of the largest if not the largest ground.
Ryan a test match these days goes for a maximum 5 days for men 4 for women. Back in the early 1900’s they had “timeless tests” basically they played until there was a winner. So two innings each and the highest total wins. The rumour has it that a test in South Africa was going on forever and the visiting team had to leave the country because the boat they were getting to go home was going to set sail. It was then decided to make the tests 5 days. Also the fact that one team had scored 900 runs in one innings in a match had a bit to do with the change of rules. But yes “timeless tests” were a thing a century ago.
England was only 40 runs short of winning when they abandoned the match. There would have been a result the next morning. The highest team innings score was 5/645 by England not 900. The only 900+ innings scores were Eng 1938 at the Oval against Aus winning in 4 days, and Sri Lanka 1997 at Colombo against Ind resulting in a 5 day draw.
The Aussies sure love their cricket. That last one left me frustrated too, I wanted to see the swing at the ball, it must have been awesome, 🙇♀️ although timing is a huge part of the technique. Ah well, we can just imagine how good it was I guess!! 🙋♀️🇬🇧 😂
The kookaburra is the brand of the ball. They were talking about it on "The Cricket Show" which is the panel show they have between lunch breaks on TV in Australia. They may not have shown the whole thing on the show in the first place.
No, the grounds are all different and can vary a surprising amount. Mostly they’re more oval than round, though not necessarily a symmetrical oval, but then you’ve got grounds like Lord’s in London which is kind of square with rounded corners. And Lord’s is seen as the home of cricket. As for “wore the Kookaburra,” Kookaburra is the main brand of cricket ball in Australia, so the commentator was saying the ball might’ve landed on someone’s head as they walked in.
The other thing with regard to boundary distance that can seem bonkers is that with different wickets/pitches that can be used on the same ground, it depends which one is used and can result in a much shorter boundary on one side with a longer one on the other. This can change between consecutive games on the same ground as usually you won’t want to use the same pitch!
Every field is different. Also depends where the 'pitch' is as you use different ones as the season progresses [they get worn]. So some boundaries are 'short' and others 'long'. There is no set distance for the field size.
Ryan it is so nice to see another fan of cricket. Consider looking up Herchell Gibs hitting six sixes in an over, the 360 degree nan. AB de Villiers, Spinbowling from Shane Warne, and the most popular cricketer of his time, Virat Kholi.
By the way there is no one standard for grounds is because every ground is considered unique. Visitors are always expected to play according to the local rules. That's why Australian cricket rules are different from English or Indian cricket rules. I still remember one famous field in New Zealand had a tree. You hit the tree, you don't get an automatic four. Great bowlers and batshmen adjust to not just the field, but the exact pitch they're playing that day. There used to be an hour-long radio show before every match about the ground conditions.
Also Kookaburra is the brand of a top-of-the-line Australian cricket equipment manufacturer. As far as I know, Kookaburra balls are the ones used across the world in all top-flight matches. Its also the name of an endemic Australian kingfisher from which the brand got its name :)
The longest test match took 10 days (9 days of play), and was due to be "timeless", but the visiting England team had to catch their boat home (from a tour of South Africa). This was in 1939.
The playing surface of a cricket wicket is not normally in the centre but is central. A new wicket is cut for each game in order that imperfections from previous games do not interfere with the current one ( players spicked shoes, ball bounces etc). You can often see previous wicket as the ground is lighter or has less grass than its surroundings. Also cricket grounds are neither the same size or necessarily the same shape. The premise is both teams are playing in the same ground and have to deal with the same conditions.
the problem measuring distance is the stadiums are not all the same size and it's an oval not a circle so some areas are longer than others, and the boundary size isnt all the same either.
Cricket grounds vary in size and shaped - also the wickets/crease (where the batters stand) also varies game to game to avoid wear and tear on the grass.
Cricket fields are different sizes, just like baseball. Similarly, as batting is from both ends (alternating after each over), the distances can vary. Add to that, there's usually multiple pitches side by side in different states of readiness - remember the pitch is grass too, but mowed very short, rolled flat, and subject to higher traffic causing wear and tear. So subsequent matches will use different pitches, but the boundaries generally are static. So for example hitting to the south end may be up to a 22 yard difference depending on the orientation of the pitch (usually never changes per field), and which end you're at (alternates each over). Then another 20 odd tmyaeds from the far left pitch to the far right one. Tests will aim for one of the central pitches. So add all that up and no there is no set distance for a six.
Longest Test Match,,(Wikipedia) The last timeless Test was the Fifth Test between England and South Africa at Durban in 1939,[13] which was abandoned as a draw after nine days of play spread over twelve days, otherwise the England team would have missed the boat for home.[14] This match had started on 3 March. South Africa had set a target of 696 for England to win. By the time England had to leave to catch their boat home, on 14 March, England had reached 654 for 5 (the highest ever first-class fourth innings score).[15] This is the longest Test cricket match on record.
Cricket grounds vary in size and shape (some almost circular, some quite elliptical), believe it or not. The record for the longest test match is 9 days. They are limited to 5 days now. Kookaburra is the brand of the cricket balls used in Australia (the #1 was by Brett Lee at the Gabba - Woolloongabba in Brisbane). Yes, 6 and out is a common rule in backyard cricket because if you hit it over the fence into the neighbour's yard, there's a fair chance that you won't get the ball back. Another one is if it bounces off a wall, you have to catch it with one hand for it to be out.
Cricket grounds vary in size, with the biggest being used for the test cricket, and other top games. A village pitch would be much smaller than, say, Lord's in London
The longest Test match was 3 - 14 Mar 1939 between England and South Africa played at Durban, South Africa. There were 10 playing days plus two Sundays which were rest days with no play. The match was abandoned as a draw because the boat that the English team was booked on was due to go. Had play continued the most likely outcome was one more day's play with England winning.
Fun fact the reason why the boundary is a rope is bc in the 80’s the Aussie’s and S. Africans developed their fielding to grab the ball on the slide then push off the fence to field it back into the infield unfortunately this ended up in a few too many broken legs and that is when they introduced the rope
I'm just here to watch Ryan bang his head on the camera! Cricket boundaries vary according to the ground and the format. In the European Cricket T10 series the boundaries are so small that a Dutch player scored 157 runs in 10 overs. To put that into perspective that's an average total score in T20 played by the best nations in the world!
The boundaries can be varied by the use of ropes but the grounds are usually oval so the length is much further than the width. Trent bridge in England is 111metres in width but the Melbourne cricket ground is 133 metres in width -remember these will mean the shortest 'sixes' at these grounds will be around 55 and 66 metres (it also depends which pitch they are using)
The unlimited time games were called untimed tests. Mostly rain extended the games and practicality finally finished them (e.g. teams would miss the boat home).
Before Test Matches were limited to 5 days, a game could have continued indefinitely until both sides had played two innings (an innings ending when all batsmen are "out"). There's an old Australian movie from the 30's(?) with a pair of batters scoring a couple of hundred runs when one hits the ball into a well, with the fielding team spending hours trying to retrieve it. They run for so long until one becomes exhausted, so his fellow batter puts him into a wheelbarrow and carts him up and down the pitch to keep scoring runs. It was a fun bit of farce, but parodied the idea that a game could have gone on forever. 😂
There were a few "timeless tests" up to the 1930s. The last was in 1939 and it wasn't really timeless as England's ship home from South Africa was leaving and the game was a draw after 9 days play over 12 days. The object was to avoid games being ruined by the weather and sides just batting out time for a draw. The last problem rarely occurs nowadays. Most tests nowadays do finish within the allotted 5 days, even of some time is lost to bad light or rain. Even the currently strongest test countries (India, Australia and England) usually get results in games between them. Cricket grounds are all sorts of shapes and sizes and the pitch you're playing on may not be in the middle of the square, so it's common to have a shorter boundary on one side than on the other. A uniform 75m boundary is optimal, but rare. It's the same for both teams. What may not be the same for both teams is how fast or slow the outfield is. A wee shower may not hold up play for long (or even at all in club cricket) but the damp outfield afterwards is going to be slower. Not so many fielders required back to defend the boundary, more in the slips or other close positions to make sarky remarks at the batters and - who knows - maybe even take a catch. Tests (internationals) are up to 5 days. First-class domestic cricket is 4 days. The rest is junk in pyjamas, in my view. The Kookaburra is an Aussie make of ball (apart from being an Aussie bird) They have artificial machine-made centres. They don't swing as much as the the more traditional English Dukes balls. 6 = out is for when it goes in Mrs Snodgrass's garden or when you break a school window. At least it used to be.
Test Matches (where the players wear white clothing) go for 5 days, but they also come in a series of 3 or 5 games, so potentially a test match series could go for a month ( or more with days off in between games) before a winner is decided. Cricket "Ovals" come in different shapes and sizes, the size that you "googled" would have been the average (pretty much) there is no set size (or even shape).
Cricket grounds vary in size just like a ballpark/baseball park does in the US. Therefore just like the distance to score a home run varies so does that to score a six.
Yep the timeless tests from the 1930s theoretically could go on forever. IIRC the last one was in South Africa in 1938 and it still ended in a draw after 9? days (because the English team had to catch the next boat home)
The longest Test match played was between Australia and England that went for 10 days and only finished because the Australian team had to catch their ship home
The best line in cricket history was said by W.G Grace one of England’s Famous crickets greatest cricketers he was bowled and Grace picked up the bails and said they’ve come to see me bat not you bowl and he continued batting
The last used footage was from Cricket Australia, they are notorious for not allowing folks to use cricket footage. Some of the best cricket in the world is played on our grounds but you wouldn't know it from TH-cam. Therefore, most TH-camrs get to see cricket from India and England, mostly. Grounds around the world vary in size. and the length of the boundaries depend which pitch is being used in the middle (up to 3 pitches are on the major cricket grounds around the world)
With the distance from the pitch to the boundary, there's no standard - both teams play on the same pitch so it's an equal playing field no matter the distances.
"Nearly wore the Kookaburra." means he nearly hit/killed a Kookaburra bird. If you "Wear" something, it hits you. For example, if you wear a coat, the object is all over you.
There is no standard size and dimensions for a cricket field. It could be oval or circular or even irregular in shape. With the introduction of ropes inside the fence, boundaries are significantly shorter than they once were, so more sixes tend to be hit now than was traditionally the case. A six on the MCG is a very big hit. Some other grounds, not necessarily so. A six might be anything from 50 or 60 metres, up to 90 metres or more, depending on the ground and the direction in which the ball is hit.
the Melbourne Cricket ground oval is around 4 and a half acres in size, and is the 11th largest cricket ground in the world. That should give you an idea of how far the ball has to go to be hit out of the ground. The damage to cars shows how dangerous it would be to wear a kookaburra on the head. Distance is a result of speed of delivery, mass and speed of the bat, and the hardness and weight of the ball. A ball bowled at 90 to 100mph can gain a lot of speed off the bat when hit from the center bottom third of the bat.
Oops! Looks like you spent too much time and effort playing sports (well) but you gave insufficient time (or attention) to spelling lessons. Try using the following: • breaking (brakes are things used while “braking” to slow you down before you crash into other things and break them); • mum’s (an apostrophe is needed to indicate possession of the window, rather than having multiple “mums”); • banned (a “band” is a group of people formed to play music or alternatively it can be a thin strap used to link one object to another to hold them both in place relative to each other or it is used to impart motion from one object to another if the band between the linked objects is circular and therefore endless). You’re welcome. (you’re is a contraction of “you are”)
The reason for the variable distance to the boundary in cricket is that the game actually started in harvested crop fields or village greens of varying sizes in England. Subsequently, when people started making grounds exclusively for cricket, they simply laid the boundary depending on the amount of land they were able to acquire for the facility. This was generally not a problem since both teams have to clobber the ball the same distance to get a six in any given match. An issue does arise if the ground is unusually small such as the one in Singapore where Sanath Jayasuriya cloutedthe then fastest 50 in just 17 balls back in 1996. th-cam.com/video/sI-eWCLtebY/w-d-xo.html. The length of a cricket match was restricted to 5 days after 1939. This was after a match between England and South Africa that lasted an eye-popping 14 days!!! Everyone decided this was isane and rightly so and this was also probably the beggining of the "drawn match" in cricket. Before that, I surmise that teams battled grimly on until a result was acheived.
Cricket grounds are not of uniform size or shape. As it happens, the same applies to baseball grounds. When the land was originally acquired it would be a matter of what ground was available, and subsequently as seating stands were constructed that would have often impingedvon the available area and the shape. Even on individual grounds the boundaries can vary in length according to where the actual 'pitch' is positioned on the cricket 'square' (or table). If the pitch being used is in the centre of the square the boundaries will be roughly the same on each side, but if the pitch is over to one side of the square, then there would be a short boundary one side and a long one on the other side; it is all part of the game. Another variant is that it has become common practise to shorten the boundaries in 'limited overs' games to encourage six-hitting. In the Laws of Cricket, it does not specify the size of grounds, but recommends it should be played on as large an area as is available. Some small town or village grounds can be very small with local rules regarding runs scored from boundaries.
Yeah theres no standard for boundary length, making grounds like north sydney oval really small and the mcg really big (atleast square boundaries are massive)
The number one six was by Brett Lee playing for Australia in a Test match against the West Indies at the Gabba in Brisbane in 2005. Here is a video which shows him hitting the six - th-cam.com/video/5XOagk6LVQs/w-d-xo.html. The bowler was Daren Powell - a fast medium pace bowler.
Very weird. They showed the end results of the hits but not the hits themselves! Brett Lee was the batsman in two of those, including the last one. He was known more as a bowler, but when batting, he could hit the ball a very long way.
The longest test cricket match ever lasted 9 days with 680 overs bowled (4080 balls). The teams of South Africa and England endured, and the match earned the name The Timeless Test (1939). A match between India and South Africa in Cape Town in 2023 ended in all but 107 overs (642 balls), making it the shortest ever in history. Currently a test match lasts up to 5 days. There is no set field size in cricket, except for minimums and maximums (obviously). That is why they can only give you an average radius. The kookaburra is the brand of the ball itself.
#3 (and #1 I think?) came from Brett Lee, who's much better known as a bowler. He's the guy who used to bowl consistently around 100 mph (160+ km/h), ball after ball after ball. And I say "the guy" because no one else has done that in the 30+ years since we got good speed tracking. Shaoib Akhtar has possibly bowled an individual delivery slightly faster than Brett Lee's fastest, and don't get me wrong Akhtar was also frighteningly quick, but he couldn't sustain that pace like Lee could. Shaun Tait could bowl individual deliveries as fast as Lee sometimes, but again couldn't sustain it. And that's literally the end of the list - those are the only three bowlers to break 100 mph at all in the modern era, full stop. Mitchell Starc came close (99.7 mph), and no one else is even in the conversation. There are definitely plenty of Brett Lee videos if you want to react to one - there's one showing a very quick over (just 6 deliveries in a row at ~100mph), and there's compilations of bouncers and wickets and whatever you like. Fair warning though, if you go for a compilation with a name like "Brett Lee injuring batsmen" then you're gonna get exactly that - genuinely lovely guy, but jeez he was dangerous to face.
Don’t say fast pitch - that means the grass strip they are playing on is dry and cut short grass that has been heavy rolled. Fast ball is what you mean and it is a term you already know from fastball in baseball.
You don't bat In the middle of a cricket field. If you hit the ball backwards the boundary is the length of the pitch shorter than if you hit it back towards the bowler. It's not the same distance from the batsman all the way around.
There is no fixed distance for the boundary in cricket, because each cricket ground is unique in shape & size. So the boundaries are set by the management of each particular ground. It may be nearer in some parts of the circuit around the batsman than in others, because it does not have to be a perfect circle, but the shape is according to the preference of the management. Cricket used to be played in the grounds of Scarborough Castle, but had to move when people began batting the ball out of the grounds & down the 200 foot cliff into the sea below. Cookaburrah is an Australian cricket ball maker name. There is no standard boundary in Cricket because all grounds are of different shapes according to when & where they were developed, & many are not circular. The boundaries are movable as they are defined by ropes etc, & both sides in a match have to have a go in both positions, fielding & batting, it is the same for each side. The longest Test games do not go beyond the 5 day maximum, but a result is usual before this. The team that has scored most at the end of the 5 days if it comes to that, will be declared will be the winner, even if all their batters have not taken their turn. Test series usually consist of 5 games, so it's the best out of 5 that win the series. It is not too unusual for matches to end in a draw, but a 5 match series has to produce a winning side. T 20 & T 50 games are restricted by the time it takes to bowl the set number of balls. T 20 means each side gets to bowl 20 overs, that is 20 x 6 bowls. T 50 has 50 x 6 bowls per side. These games are played faster than Test cricket, because each side is trying to make as many runs as possible within the limited number of bowls, while the fielding team is trying to get them out to restrict their score. When they change the former fielding team is trying to beat the other teams score without their own batters getting out. The former batting team, now fielding, is trying to get the batters out before they can catch up with the first teams score. In most matches each side has 2 innings , but this may be restricted in limited overs games to just one each.
Every ground in the world is a different size and shape to the others.. There's no standard - one of the infinite variables in cricket. The top-class balls in Aus are made by Kookaburra.
Here is the full video of that last six which was hit by Brett Lee. That was during a test match against the West Indies at the Gabba (Queensland's premier cricket ground). Brett Lee was an Austrailan fast bowler having been recorded as bowling over 100 mph: th-cam.com/video/udbtf0lxKCo/w-d-xo.html
There was a story about West Indes legendary batsman Viv Richards who came out to bat and was receiving the delivery from a rookie. He missed the entire ball on the first ball and the rookie sarcastically said "If you don't know what the ball looks like, it's red with white stitches. On the next delivery Vivi Richards put all his might into it and knocked it clear out of the grounds. He then said back to the rookie "You know what it looks like, now go and find it".
The way I heard it, it was not a rookie, it was Merv Hughes.
Loved Viv when he played!!!
Merv was a good sledger!! But with King no chance!😂😂
I loved the fact he'd swagger out . Bat in hand, soft cap on his head. Somone asked him why rhi didn't wear a helmet and he replied " I've got a big piece of wood". Guess what he didn't need it
"Six and out" is a common rule in children's cricket because of the inconvenience of having to go and find the ball. Especially if you're playing near houses with grumpy neighbours (with Beware of the Dog type security) who don't appreciate your play as much as you do.
Yep, backyard rules. six and out, and you have to go get the ball too.
with me and my brothers 6 and out was to lower the amount of broken windows, fetching the ball wasn't an issue because you were batting it was one of the brothers that had to go fetch the ball, however a broken window would bring about collective punishment
@@chrisharris1522 For us getting the ball was hard depending on the fence you hit it over. We played in the front yard and across the road was a small farm with an electric fence, and another neighbour had two rottweilers. You learned to pick your shots the hard way.
A Kookaburra is the brand of the Ball. To wear a Kookaburra is to be hit by the ball.
First time I have heard that
Yeah that's not correct kookaburra make bats and all equipment
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It is correct.
Kookaburra might make all the gear, but the question asked was why did the commenter say that Carl Rackeman and his daughter were nearly kookaburrerd ?
Answer.......because THE BALL was made by Kookaburra and is called a kookaburra.
And bat 😊
There's a famous English (sic) court case, where some new people moved to a village and sued to stop cricket balls coming through their windows. The great Law Lord Tom Denning ruled that these "Johhny Come Latelys" couldn't stop a centuries old tradition.
Yeah Ryan, you are correct about the games going indefinitely. They were called Timeless Test matches (1877-1939). In 1939 the final test match of the South Africa v England series was abandoned on the twelfth day so the England team could board their ship back home. That rule had to be changed to limit how many days a match could go for, which has been the format for Test cricket since post WW2. Cheers from Down Under.
I genuinely appreciate your passion for a sport that is not native to yours. You will really enjoy cricket.💯
Part of the reason that there is no "standard" is that for every cricket ground, there are a number of "pitches" in the centre - whereby in this context, the "pitch" is the small area that the wickets and batsmen stand and run in. Because the pitch and crease can be damaged by use - especially in long-form first-class or test matches over multiple days, they need to have alternative pitches to play on so that the groundsmen can work to restore the "used" pitches. This means that sometimes your pitch might be right in the centre of the ground, but on other occasions you could be more to one side of the ground than the other.
And of course some English grounds are established only for cricket and, being ancient, can be weird shapes, eg the Oval. Then at the other end you have the Melbourne Cricket Ground where the size of the playing field is 160m end to end in one direction and 125m in the other, to suit Australian Rules Football (and with the stands built to hold 100,000 people, you're not going to get a ball out of the "ground"
The wicket changes due the detriation of the pitch after the match is completed, so the boundary changes too. A wicket could dead center of the stadium, and the next match could off center. That's why most cricket grounds are oval in shape to accommodate the change in wicket and boundaries.
Not sure why it's hard to believe there's no set distance? You understand Baseball and already know that there's some stadiums where it's shorter or longer to score a home run. Wait until you hear about the St Lawrence Lime Tree at Canterbury, a 90ft high tree that was inside the boundary and you had to clear the tree to score a six because the ground rules said if the ball touched any of the branches it was automatically a four.
Ryan, the cricket pitch is moved as the ground erodes away, so there’s no exact measurement from pitch to boundary. There will be one pitch in use while the others are growing back and being maintained. Google cricket pitches.
and every ground is a different size, and they're not round so every direction the boundary is a different distance away
In international cricket matches though, they will try and have a centre pitch prepared. Club games will usually get the edge pitches and I've even seen two games going on at the same time with overlapping boundaries.
@@utha2665but if the centre pitch is crap they'll move it. There is no way a dodgy pitch would be acceptable. Why? Because if you knew you'd pick three spinners and destroy the last side batting
The expression, "nearly wore," would be what you would say if something nearly hit you, you would say, "he wore it," if it did hit him. You can also use that expression to mean take responsibility for. The "Kookaburra," is a reference to the ball. Kookaburra is a sporting goods manufacturing brand, and Australian top level balls are all made by Kookaburra. So they often say, "the Kookaburra," when referring to the ball. So "nearly wore the Kookaburra" means they were almost hit by the ball. There may have been some copywrite issues with the actual hit. The footage shown was actually commentators recalling the event some years later.
Whilst visiting a former school roomie in Wales during my summer break from uni, we went to watch the 1st class county cricket match between Notts and Glamorgan, at Singleton Park in Abertawe. We were privilaged to see Sir Gary Sobers, the Barbadian and West Indies all-rounder score six 6s in one over (six balls), the first time this was ever done in first class cricket.
It occurred at the St. Helen's Cricket and Football Ground, not at Singleton Park, which is a public park (near where I live!) about half a mile away.
Up until the 80s or 90s, 5 day test matches had a rest day on the 4th day (usually a Sunday).
My house backs onto a local cricket ground. we have a 12' catch fence at the bottom of our garden but balls come over fairly regularly. About once every 3 years they do some damage. I admit the glass top garden table was a dumb purchase.... The deal is the club NEVER admits liability but ALWAYS pays for the repairs. I get to watch for free so I'm good with that.
Grounds have different shapes. So it is dependent upon where the ball goes out
Eden Park in Auckland is hilariously small. Great for hitting sixes down the ground
Came here to say this! Very different story to the MCG
Ryan, you have reacted to a youtube video explaining how the game of AFL (Australian Football League) is played. It mentioned that the Grand Finals are played at the MCG or Melbourne Cricket Ground. AFL is a Winter sport and Cricket is a Summer sport. Cricket batters have at times hit cricket balls on top of the stadium roofs or even beyond during the many games played there over the Summer seasons. The MCG is one of the most prestigious Cricket grounds in the World, of which there are many large Cricket Stadiums, far more than the number of NFL stadiums, and usually of higher quality and quantity of seating and facilities for spectators.
Kookaburrasport make a wide range of sports equipment, including cricket balls, so he was saying they were almost hit by a Kookaburra brand ball.
The Southern Hemisphere play with Kookaburra balls, including the West Indies. The rest of the world play with The Duke ball. Kookaburra obvs is an Australian brand & made because of the name & The Duke ball is made in England
The comentator re car is a former nz test cricket called ian smith who many regard as one of the best wicket keepers in the game and a handy lower order batsman😂
Every cricket ground is a slightly different size and shape. Same as baseball. BTW have you considered posting these cricket reactions on your Australian channel? Would be very popular there.
What makes you we're not here already?
@@continental_drift well for starters this channel has 90k subscribers compared to 75k on the Aus channel. I highly doubt 83% of his subscribers on this 'UK and Europe' channel are Australians.
In loving your reactions
The cricket pitch being used is one of many pitches that are in various stages of preparation for use in up coming matches. This is one of the reasons boundary distances varies so
much. Another reason for boundary variations is that cricket grounds can be built in areas that can restrict the size and shape of the oval. 3 cricket grounds are known to have a tree growing on the field of play.
Boundaries can vary in size depending on the ground it is played on. Eden Park for example is one of the smallest grounds and the MCG is one of the largest if not the largest ground.
The size of the boundaries forms part of the characteristics of the individual ground, along with the pitch and the prevailing weather conditions
Ryan a test match these days goes for a maximum 5 days for men 4 for women.
Back in the early 1900’s they had “timeless tests” basically they played until there was a winner. So two innings each and the highest total wins.
The rumour has it that a test in South Africa was going on forever and the visiting team had to leave the country because the boat they were getting to go home was going to set sail. It was then decided to make the tests 5 days. Also the fact that one team had scored 900 runs in one innings in a match had a bit to do with the change of rules. But yes “timeless tests” were a thing a century ago.
England was only 40 runs short of winning when they abandoned the match. There would have been a result the next morning. The highest team innings score was 5/645 by England not 900. The only 900+ innings scores were Eng 1938 at the Oval against Aus winning in 4 days, and Sri Lanka 1997 at Colombo against Ind resulting in a 5 day draw.
The Aussies sure love their cricket. That last one left me frustrated too, I wanted to see the swing at the ball, it must have been awesome, 🙇♀️
although timing is a huge part of the technique.
Ah well, we can just imagine how good it was I guess!! 🙋♀️🇬🇧 😂
The kookaburra is the brand of the ball. They were talking about it on "The Cricket Show" which is the panel show they have between lunch breaks on TV in Australia. They may not have shown the whole thing on the show in the first place.
No, the grounds are all different and can vary a surprising amount. Mostly they’re more oval than round, though not necessarily a symmetrical oval, but then you’ve got grounds like Lord’s in London which is kind of square with rounded corners. And Lord’s is seen as the home of cricket.
As for “wore the Kookaburra,” Kookaburra is the main brand of cricket ball in Australia, so the commentator was saying the ball might’ve landed on someone’s head as they walked in.
The other thing with regard to boundary distance that can seem bonkers is that with different wickets/pitches that can be used on the same ground, it depends which one is used and can result in a much shorter boundary on one side with a longer one on the other. This can change between consecutive games on the same ground as usually you won’t want to use the same pitch!
Every field is different. Also depends where the 'pitch' is as you use different ones as the season progresses [they get worn].
So some boundaries are 'short' and others 'long'. There is no set distance for the field size.
Ryan it is so nice to see another fan of cricket. Consider looking up Herchell Gibs hitting six sixes in an over, the 360 degree nan. AB de Villiers, Spinbowling from Shane Warne, and the most popular cricketer of his time, Virat Kholi.
By the way there is no one standard for grounds is because every ground is considered unique. Visitors are always expected to play according to the local rules. That's why Australian cricket rules are different from English or Indian cricket rules. I still remember one famous field in New Zealand had a tree. You hit the tree, you don't get an automatic four. Great bowlers and batshmen adjust to not just the field, but the exact pitch they're playing that day. There used to be an hour-long radio show before every match about the ground conditions.
Also Kookaburra is the brand of a top-of-the-line Australian cricket equipment manufacturer. As far as I know, Kookaburra balls are the ones used across the world in all top-flight matches. Its also the name of an endemic Australian kingfisher from which the brand got its name :)
Not true the English have a different ball😊
@@petermoller8337 Mostly Kookaburra
The longest test match took 10 days (9 days of play), and was due to be "timeless", but the visiting England team had to catch their boat home (from a tour of South Africa). This was in 1939.
The playing surface of a cricket wicket is not normally in the centre but is central. A new wicket is cut for each game in order that imperfections from previous games do not interfere with the current one ( players spicked shoes, ball bounces etc).
You can often see previous wicket as the ground is lighter or has less grass than its surroundings. Also cricket grounds are neither the same size or necessarily the same shape. The premise is both teams are playing in the same ground and have to deal with the same conditions.
the problem measuring distance is the stadiums are not all the same size and it's an oval not a circle so some areas are longer than others, and the boundary size isnt all the same either.
Cricket grounds vary in size and shaped - also the wickets/crease (where the batters stand) also varies game to game to avoid wear and tear on the grass.
Cricket fields are different sizes, just like baseball. Similarly, as batting is from both ends (alternating after each over), the distances can vary. Add to that, there's usually multiple pitches side by side in different states of readiness - remember the pitch is grass too, but mowed very short, rolled flat, and subject to higher traffic causing wear and tear. So subsequent matches will use different pitches, but the boundaries generally are static. So for example hitting to the south end may be up to a 22 yard difference depending on the orientation of the pitch (usually never changes per field), and which end you're at (alternates each over). Then another 20 odd tmyaeds from the far left pitch to the far right one. Tests will aim for one of the central pitches. So add all that up and no there is no set distance for a six.
Longest Test Match,,(Wikipedia)
The last timeless Test was the Fifth Test between England and South Africa at Durban in 1939,[13] which was abandoned as a draw after nine days of play spread over twelve days, otherwise the England team would have missed the boat for home.[14] This match had started on 3 March. South Africa had set a target of 696 for England to win. By the time England had to leave to catch their boat home, on 14 March, England had reached 654 for 5 (the highest ever first-class fourth innings score).[15] This is the longest Test cricket match on record.
The boundary is the end of the field. If the balls goes to end of the field it's 4 runs. Once the ball goes over the border it's 6 runs
Cricket grounds vary in size and shape (some almost circular, some quite elliptical), believe it or not. The record for the longest test match is 9 days. They are limited to 5 days now. Kookaburra is the brand of the cricket balls used in Australia (the #1 was by Brett Lee at the Gabba - Woolloongabba in Brisbane). Yes, 6 and out is a common rule in backyard cricket because if you hit it over the fence into the neighbour's yard, there's a fair chance that you won't get the ball back. Another one is if it bounces off a wall, you have to catch it with one hand for it to be out.
Cricket grounds vary in size, with the biggest being used for the test cricket, and other top games.
A village pitch would be much smaller than, say, Lord's in London
The longest Test match was 3 - 14 Mar 1939 between England and South Africa played at Durban, South Africa. There were 10 playing days plus two Sundays which were rest days with no play. The match was abandoned as a draw because the boat that the English team was booked on was due to go. Had play continued the most likely outcome was one more day's play with England winning.
Fun fact the reason why the boundary is a rope is bc in the 80’s the Aussie’s and S. Africans developed their fielding to grab the ball on the slide then push off the fence to field it back into the infield unfortunately this ended up in a few too many broken legs and that is when they introduced the rope
I'm just here to watch Ryan bang his head on the camera! Cricket boundaries vary according to the ground and the format. In the European Cricket T10 series the boundaries are so small that a Dutch player scored 157 runs in 10 overs. To put that into perspective that's an average total score in T20 played by the best nations in the world!
The boundaries can be varied by the use of ropes but the grounds are usually oval so the length is much further than the width. Trent bridge in England is 111metres in width but the Melbourne cricket ground is 133 metres in width -remember these will mean the shortest 'sixes' at these grounds will be around 55 and 66 metres (it also depends which pitch they are using)
The unlimited time games were called untimed tests. Mostly rain extended the games and practicality finally finished them (e.g. teams would miss the boat home).
Before Test Matches were limited to 5 days, a game could have continued indefinitely until both sides had played two innings (an innings ending when all batsmen are "out"). There's an old Australian movie from the 30's(?) with a pair of batters scoring a couple of hundred runs when one hits the ball into a well, with the fielding team spending hours trying to retrieve it. They run for so long until one becomes exhausted, so his fellow batter puts him into a wheelbarrow and carts him up and down the pitch to keep scoring runs. It was a fun bit of farce, but parodied the idea that a game could have gone on forever. 😂
Ryan you need to watch an entire match. A ODI( one day international) would be a good one to watch.
There were a few "timeless tests" up to the 1930s. The last was in 1939 and it wasn't really timeless as England's ship home from South Africa was leaving and the game was a draw after 9 days play over 12 days. The object was to avoid games being ruined by the weather and sides just batting out time for a draw. The last problem rarely occurs nowadays. Most tests nowadays do finish within the allotted 5 days, even of some time is lost to bad light or rain. Even the currently strongest test countries (India, Australia and England) usually get results in games between them.
Cricket grounds are all sorts of shapes and sizes and the pitch you're playing on may not be in the middle of the square, so it's common to have a shorter boundary on one side than on the other. A uniform 75m boundary is optimal, but rare. It's the same for both teams. What may not be the same for both teams is how fast or slow the outfield is. A wee shower may not hold up play for long (or even at all in club cricket) but the damp outfield afterwards is going to be slower. Not so many fielders required back to defend the boundary, more in the slips or other close positions to make sarky remarks at the batters and - who knows - maybe even take a catch.
Tests (internationals) are up to 5 days. First-class domestic cricket is 4 days. The rest is junk in pyjamas, in my view.
The Kookaburra is an Aussie make of ball (apart from being an Aussie bird) They have artificial machine-made centres. They don't swing as much as the the more traditional English Dukes balls.
6 = out is for when it goes in Mrs Snodgrass's garden or when you break a school window. At least it used to be.
Test Matches (where the players wear white clothing) go for 5 days, but they also come in a series of 3 or 5 games, so potentially a test match series could go for a month ( or more with days off in between games) before a winner is decided.
Cricket "Ovals" come in different shapes and sizes, the size that you "googled" would have been the average (pretty much) there is no set size (or even shape).
Cricket grounds vary in size just like a ballpark/baseball park does in the US. Therefore just like the distance to score a home run varies so does that to score a six.
Different grounds are varying sizes. In Adelaide the boundary square if the wicket is short compared to the MCG which is more oval shaped
Yep the timeless tests from the 1930s theoretically could go on forever. IIRC the last one was in South Africa in 1938 and it still ended in a draw after 9? days (because the English team had to catch the next boat home)
Cricket is played in multi-purpose stadia, typically cricket/Australian rules football AFL. Therefore there is some variatio in size.
The boundary is determined by the size and shape of the ground . Some grounds are bigger than others.
It's called a " bowl or ball" NOT a " pitch !!
The pitch being the mown & rolled bit that the ball is bowled along.
In many country grounds, the pitch is cement. Much easier to maintain.
The longest Test match played was between Australia and England that went for 10 days and only finished because the Australian team had to catch their ship home
One landed in the committee room at Lord's yesterday. Luckily the window was open...
The best line in cricket history was said by W.G Grace one of England’s Famous crickets greatest cricketers he was bowled and Grace picked up the bails and said they’ve come to see me bat not you bowl and he continued batting
The last used footage was from Cricket Australia, they are notorious for not allowing folks to use cricket footage. Some of the best cricket in the world is played on our grounds but you wouldn't know it from TH-cam. Therefore, most TH-camrs get to see cricket from India and England, mostly. Grounds around the world vary in size. and the length of the boundaries depend which pitch is being used in the middle (up to 3 pitches are on the major cricket grounds around the world)
With the distance from the pitch to the boundary, there's no standard - both teams play on the same pitch so it's an equal playing field no matter the distances.
"Nearly wore the Kookaburra." means he nearly hit/killed a Kookaburra bird.
If you "Wear" something, it hits you. For example, if you wear a coat, the object is all over you.
There is no standard size and dimensions for a cricket field. It could be oval or circular or even irregular in shape. With the introduction of ropes inside the fence, boundaries are significantly shorter than they once were, so more sixes tend to be hit now than was traditionally the case. A six on the MCG is a very big hit. Some other grounds, not necessarily so. A six might be anything from 50 or 60 metres, up to 90 metres or more, depending on the ground and the direction in which the ball is hit.
the Melbourne Cricket ground oval is around 4 and a half acres in size, and is the 11th largest cricket ground in the world. That should give you an idea of how far the ball has to go to be hit out of the ground.
The damage to cars shows how dangerous it would be to wear a kookaburra on the head. Distance is a result of speed of delivery, mass and speed of the bat, and the hardness and weight of the ball.
A ball bowled at 90 to 100mph can gain a lot of speed off the bat when hit from the center bottom third of the bat.
Cricket balls are harder than baseballs.
They are like hockey balls. Real hockey balls.
#3 was a bowler aka pitcher , who are not known for the batting
I don't see why varying size for a cricket ground should be so surprising as the outfield at Baseball stadiums can also be different shapes and sizes.
In backyard cricket, over the fence was 6 and out.
G'day Ryan, after braking 5 of mums windows l was band from back yard Cricket 🏏🏏🏏
Oops! Looks like you spent too much time and effort playing sports (well) but you gave insufficient time (or attention) to spelling lessons.
Try using the following:
• breaking (brakes are things used while “braking” to slow you down before you crash into other things and break them);
• mum’s (an apostrophe is needed to indicate possession of the window, rather than having multiple “mums”);
• banned (a “band” is a group of people formed to play music or alternatively it can be a thin strap used to link one object to another to hold them both in place relative to each other or it is used to impart motion from one object to another if the band between the linked objects is circular and therefore endless).
You’re welcome. (you’re is a contraction of “you are”)
@@DeepThought9999I would have added that it is normal practice to write 'backyard' as the noun, rather than "back yard."
@@DeepThought9999You can find other big sixes in larger stadiums.
I think from memory it was about 10 days and they had to leave before it finished to catch their boat back to england.
The reason for the variable distance to the boundary in cricket is that the game actually started in harvested crop fields or village greens of varying sizes in England. Subsequently, when people started making grounds exclusively for cricket, they simply laid the boundary depending on the amount of land they were able to acquire for the facility. This was generally not a problem since both teams have to clobber the ball the same distance to get a six in any given match. An issue does arise if the ground is unusually small such as the one in Singapore where Sanath Jayasuriya cloutedthe then fastest 50 in just 17 balls back in 1996. th-cam.com/video/sI-eWCLtebY/w-d-xo.html.
The length of a cricket match was restricted to 5 days after 1939. This was after a match between England and South Africa that lasted an eye-popping 14 days!!! Everyone decided this was isane and rightly so and this was also probably the beggining of the "drawn match" in cricket. Before that, I surmise that teams battled grimly on until a result was acheived.
Regarding the incredulity about boundary length, look at baseball. No stadium is uniform, they all differ.
Cricket grounds are not of uniform size or shape. As it happens, the same applies to baseball grounds. When the land was originally acquired it would be a matter of what ground was available, and subsequently as seating stands were constructed that would have often impingedvon the available area and the shape. Even on individual grounds the boundaries can vary in length according to where the actual 'pitch' is positioned on the cricket 'square' (or table). If the pitch being used is in the centre of the square the boundaries will be roughly the same on each side, but if the pitch is over to one side of the square, then there would be a short boundary one side and a long one on the other side; it is all part of the game. Another variant is that it has become common practise to shorten the boundaries in 'limited overs' games to encourage six-hitting. In the Laws of Cricket, it does not specify the size of grounds, but recommends it should be played on as large an area as is available. Some small town or village grounds can be very small with local rules regarding runs scored from boundaries.
Yeah theres no standard for boundary length, making grounds like north sydney oval really small and the mcg really big (atleast square boundaries are massive)
65 miles, the fact the ball landed in a coal wagon is neither here nor there
Cricket ground next door to bowling green, , eventually the bowling green hoisted the white flag in “Surrender “😂
The number one six was by Brett Lee playing for Australia in a Test match against the West Indies at the Gabba in Brisbane in 2005. Here is a video which shows him hitting the six - th-cam.com/video/5XOagk6LVQs/w-d-xo.html. The bowler was Daren Powell - a fast medium pace bowler.
1:41 every field is different
Should understand this as baseball fields are also very inconsistent
have a look at the Size of the MCG , i think it is the biggest
Very weird. They showed the end results of the hits but not the hits themselves! Brett Lee was the batsman in two of those, including the last one. He was known more as a bowler, but when batting, he could hit the ball a very long way.
The fact that Afridi was bowled out and then got the revenge on Free hit 😂
The longest test cricket match ever lasted 9 days with 680 overs bowled (4080 balls). The teams of South Africa and England endured, and the match earned the name The Timeless Test (1939). A match between India and South Africa in Cape Town in 2023 ended in all but 107 overs (642 balls), making it the shortest ever in history. Currently a test match lasts up to 5 days. There is no set field size in cricket, except for minimums and maximums (obviously). That is why they can only give you an average radius. The kookaburra is the brand of the ball itself.
And the timeless test ended as a draw, because of one of the teams (I think South Africa) had to get to their boat on time.
In cricket, as an audience, you can not keep the ball, you need to return it back to the field!
I seem to remember there was a cricket tree on one cricket pitch.
#3 (and #1 I think?) came from Brett Lee, who's much better known as a bowler. He's the guy who used to bowl consistently around 100 mph (160+ km/h), ball after ball after ball. And I say "the guy" because no one else has done that in the 30+ years since we got good speed tracking.
Shaoib Akhtar has possibly bowled an individual delivery slightly faster than Brett Lee's fastest, and don't get me wrong Akhtar was also frighteningly quick, but he couldn't sustain that pace like Lee could. Shaun Tait could bowl individual deliveries as fast as Lee sometimes, but again couldn't sustain it. And that's literally the end of the list - those are the only three bowlers to break 100 mph at all in the modern era, full stop. Mitchell Starc came close (99.7 mph), and no one else is even in the conversation.
There are definitely plenty of Brett Lee videos if you want to react to one - there's one showing a very quick over (just 6 deliveries in a row at ~100mph), and there's compilations of bouncers and wickets and whatever you like. Fair warning though, if you go for a compilation with a name like "Brett Lee injuring batsmen" then you're gonna get exactly that - genuinely lovely guy, but jeez he was dangerous to face.
The longest game ever 10 days in 1939 between South Africa and England. It ended in a draw. One game 9 days, one 8 days, three 7 days
The 158m is hit by shahid afridi to a bowler of south africa named Maclaren
Don’t say fast pitch - that means the grass strip they are playing on is dry and cut short grass that has been heavy rolled. Fast ball is what you mean and it is a term you already know from fastball in baseball.
Five days max nowadays. Used to be no limit back in the very early days of the game.
You don't bat In the middle of a cricket field. If you hit the ball backwards the boundary is the length of the pitch shorter than if you hit it back towards the bowler. It's not the same distance from the batsman all the way around.
There is no fixed distance for the boundary in cricket, because each cricket ground is unique in shape & size. So the boundaries are set by the management of each particular ground. It may be nearer in some parts of the circuit around the batsman than in others, because it does not have to be a perfect circle, but the shape is according to the preference of the management. Cricket used to be played in the grounds of Scarborough Castle, but had to move when people began batting the ball out of the grounds & down the 200 foot cliff into the sea below. Cookaburrah is an Australian cricket ball maker name. There is no standard boundary in Cricket because all grounds are of different shapes according to when & where they were developed, & many are not circular.
The boundaries are movable as they are defined by ropes etc, & both sides in a match have to have a go in both positions, fielding & batting, it is the same for each side. The longest Test games do not go beyond the 5 day maximum, but a result is usual before this. The team that has scored most at the end of the 5 days if it comes to that, will be declared will be the winner, even if all their batters have not taken their turn. Test series usually consist of 5 games, so it's the best out of 5 that win the series. It is not too unusual for matches to end in a draw, but a 5 match series has to produce a winning side. T 20 & T 50 games are restricted by the time it takes to bowl the set number of balls. T 20 means each side gets to bowl 20 overs, that is 20 x 6 bowls. T 50 has 50 x 6 bowls per side. These games are played faster than Test cricket, because each side is trying to make as many runs as possible within the limited number of bowls, while the fielding team is trying to get them out to restrict their score. When they change the former fielding team is trying to beat the other teams score without their own batters getting out. The former batting team, now fielding, is trying to get the batters out before they can catch up with the first teams score. In most matches each side has 2 innings , but this may be restricted in limited overs games to just one each.
But the distance between pitcher and the batsman is always a standard with a 100 mph ball on your face
where was the monster hit by mark Waugh at the waca that hit the commentary box window
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Every ground in the world is a different size and shape to the others.. There's no standard - one of the infinite variables in cricket. The top-class balls in Aus are made by Kookaburra.
Here is the full video of that last six which was hit by Brett Lee. That was during a test match against the West Indies at the Gabba (Queensland's premier cricket ground). Brett Lee was an Austrailan fast bowler having been recorded as bowling over 100 mph: th-cam.com/video/udbtf0lxKCo/w-d-xo.html
Cookaburra is a type of cricket ball
Love the flags in the thumbnail 🙄
Why are you surprised of the varying sizes of cricket grounds. Baseball arenas are also inconsistent in size.