Or a tie. As far as I know, it is the only sport in the world, where a draw and a tie are different results. A draw being if the limited overs/timeframe have expired without a definitive winner being decided. And a tie, is where the responding team matches the starting teams score, and loses their final wicket. This is obviously a very rare occurrence, but still qualifies as a different result than a draw.
The best reaction I had from an American friend who I took to a cricket game who couldnt believe the players went a. off the pitch for lunch b. off the pitch for tea c. off the pitch for bad light d. off the pitch for rain e. home every night for four nights On top of that they had a drinks break morning and afternoon for five days. and at the end of it all it was a draw....
My favourite thing about cricket is that you can turn the TV on to see what is happening and the screen just has a chyron saying "Tea break". That, and the fact that you didn't know who was winning until the end.
Wait... for tea? I guess I kind understand needing food, sleep, light and good weather if you're playing for days, but hang out breaks? lol How do you stay focused on the game if you're off having tea and probably talking about other things?
What you really need to know about cricket is that you can take a snooze during the game and if anything exciting happens the crowd usually lets you know.
These videos don’t really mention one of the most important things and that is that the bowler (pitcher) bounces the ball so the batsman has to read that bounce. The pitch is natural turf so the bounce is very unpredictable, and the ball swings a lot in the air and has a big seam in it which makes it deviate when it bounces. Because games last so long the weather changes throughout a game and that affects the ball and pitch too. Because the fielding captains can put their fielders pretty much wherever they want they get their bowlers to bowl in a certain way to exploit the very specific conditions (pitches in India are totally different to pitches in Australia) and the batters weaknesses. That’s why most true cricket fans prefer the 5 day version, the tactics that come into play, watching a fielding captain try for hours or even days to get a batter out, the batter adjusting to the conditions and forcing the opposing captain to reset the field and bowl differently, a ball that bounces half way down the pitch is usually hit out to the sides, a ball pitched up near the batters toes is usually hit straight back down the ground, it takes perfect execution from the bowler the force the batter to play to the field the captain has set. It’s a very strategic game
If both teams are wearing white it’s the 5 day game (for international teams, shorter for domestic), teams wear couloured uniforms for the shorter formats
@@indianmynah I do recall something like that. I guess it was a 5 day game between India at Australia. I would follow it on the local news. It took a few days to realize it was the same game and not a series.
You are absolutely correct, it IS a very strategic game and an important part of the strategy is changing the bowlers according to their specialised bowling skils. For an example of this, compare the bowling of Glen McGrath and Shane Warne (and yes, of course I'm an Australian )
All you need to know about cricket is that it's England's lasting gift to its former colonies, and now they ALL are better at it than we are 🙄. The sport is better than any other for instilling fair play and respect for your opponent. It's just a shame that's never influenced the Aussies 😁
Thanks for taking a look at this wonderful game. I loved your comment about the 5 day game, "Do they go to bed?" One of the most dramatic events was the 3rd Test Match between England and Australia in 1981. The Australians were miles in front and at one stage the odds of an England victory were 500/1 - yet they came back to win. The story is available on YT.
It's simple - 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
Don't foget sometimes when the guy goes out to be in he can also think he's out but turns out he's still in. Sometimes they are out tho and try to be in but are deemed out. Other than that you are spot in, out. on.
You're doing really well if you've never seen cricket before. Yes, they do sleep between days in Test. A day is usually 6 hours of play: A 2 hour morning session, Lunch, Two hours after lunch, then Tea, then a final two hour session.
A day is 6 hours (3 lots of 2 hours) as mentioned, or until 90 overs have been bowled, if the 6 hours of play haven't been sufficient to bowl 90 overs. Typically 15 overs are bowled in an hour, so 2 hours gives 30 overs; 90 overs bowled each day. However, the "typical 15 overs" has become 12 or 13 overs, so the last 2 hour session can be extended by up to an hour to make up the 90 overs required. Providing playing conditions are considered 'safe'. Cricket isn't played in heavy rain, or in bad light as the batsman cannot make out the ball to properly defend themselves.
Eh, that sounds like you don't understand the nuances of baseball. It's simpler than cricket, but Chess isn't cerebral because it's overly complicated. It's just complicated enough to allow the strategy to dictate the game, but simple enough so anyone can play it. That's baseball. Cricket seems to have less room for one vs one strategy within the game, based on the amount of people active in each play. That said, it doesn't seem more or less like Chess than baseball. Honestly, it seems like the personality types who love cricket are the same types who like baseball in the states. Hell, people use the same chess comparison in the US when they explain why they prefer baseball to other things. 🤣
I've seen a lot of these American reacts to cricket videos and it's so refreshing to see someone with a good understanding of sports watch and actually try to understand by self translating into what they know.. Instead of what a lot of Americans do by just going "OMG this is confusing and I don't know what that word is so I won't try to learn." Others are commenting with a lot of information but one thing I will say, or warn you about, is that cricket videos on TH-cam are notorious for copyright issues. I've seen a few react channels stop doing cricket because they keep having issues like copyright strikes.
Thank boss, I try my best to understand! Most of my content is hit with copyright... Its just the nature of reacting to sports I guess :/ I can still post them but no monetization.
@@MenkeYT Is boss an American thing, too? I usually hear South London 'roadmen' use that, and despite also being British they're the type to watch cricket like 'what the actual fuck is this'
Menke, the first "rule" is that they are, officially, The Laws of Cricket, not the "rules" of cricket. They have been the Laws of Cricket since 1788 (there were earlier drafts).
And that is a clue about the arcane terminology used by cricketers all over the world.It is like another language..... Byes,boxes,bags,bowlers,balls,bats,bails, backward-square,crease, cut-shot, cover, cover-point, covers, extra-cover, declare, delivery, drive, drop, dibbly-dobbley, and on and on and on! It is a GREAT game. Think= a combination of tai chi and baseball with a rock-hard ball!
I'm British and this sounds like a spoof .g. 'Britishised baseball' or some shit, though I know cricket and rounders preceded baseball. Honestly all these little cricket facts sound like jokes.
You multiply the number of balls bowled by the number of balls faced and divide that figure by the average age of the batting side *minus* the number of spanners in a toolkit
I like the way you are trying to understand games from other countries. keep it up and thank you. hope you enjoy cricket it is a very interesting game with lots of strategy.
It’s 10 outs rather than 11 because you have to have two batsmen on the field at any one time. If 10 of your 11 players are out, you only have one on the field.
You mentioned the timetable for a five-day Test match. Play usually starts at about 11am and there is a 40-minute lunch break at around 1pm. Play resumes at about 1:40 and continues until about 3:30-3:35pm, when there is a tea interval (this is an English game, after all!). Play resumes again and runs until about 6:30pm, or until the light fades, when the umpire may end play early. On the final day, play may be slightly extended, if there is light and if there is a strong chance that an additional half-hour will allow a decisive outcome. For one-day matches, there is usually a single tea interval between the two innings. Particularly on the amateur/village cricket circuit, the "Cricket Tea" is an important social tradition.
Actually, the final day is the one day that play cannot be extended. An extra half hour can be claimed on any day other than the last day to try and force a result. Notwithstanding this, all attempts must be made to ensure that the minimum number of overs is bowled each day (90 in a test match).
@@ImTheMousse ICC Test Match Playing Conditions 3.2 Extra Time The umpires may decide to play 30 minutes (a minimum of eight overs) extra time at the end of any day (other than the last day) if requested by either captain if, in the umpires opinion, it would bring about a definite result on that day (this is in addition to the maximum one hour's extra time provided for in 3.1 (a) (iii) above). If the umpires do not believe a result can be achieved no extra time shall be allowed.
It's not "About" 11 o'clock. It is on the dot: even if 11 fielders, 2 batsmen, and 2 umpires are out there all in position at 10.58 it cannot begin until the match clock clicks to 11.00. What are you one of those rebel types?
You seem to be picking up both cricket and AFL rules & concepts a lot quicker than I've seen on "American reaction" videos from many other youtubers - well done! Most of the questions you've had on both sports (which have already been covered by commenters I think) are just technical nitty-gritty details of rules and playing techniques, and cricket has a lot more technicalities than AFL. Thumbs up from this born & bred Aussie!
Probably a good point for you is that ONLY the wicket keeper wears gloves ( the guy behind the stumps ). All the fielding players catch the ball bare handed..... and it feckin hurts if you catch it wrong...... many fingers get broken.
As someone will probably tell you, the first ever international cricket match was in 1844 between the United States and Canada. It was played over 2 days in New York City. Canada won. Cricket used to be popular in the USA but was largely replaced by Baseball at the time of the Civil War. Press reports early in the war mainly refer to soldiers playing cricket behind the lines, later in the war it was mostly baseball. Baseball grew out of the same tradition as another English game, rounders, which in Britain survives mainly as a children's game, played in primary schools but rarely in secondary schools. There are no professional rounders players and if there are organised national leagues, I have not heard of them. I don't know if a promising British rounders player has ever emigrated to the USA to be able to have a career in baseball. The death of American cricket did not occur across the country immediately. The game continued to be popular in the Philadelphia area until shortly before the First World War. Teams of Philadelphians made two tours of the British Isles around the beginning of the twentieth century, playing against County sides. Had North America remained a force in international cricket for longer, I suspect its influence would have made the game more commercial and less traditional earlier.
@@paulmk2290 accordingly to Wikipedia, the first international rugby match was in 1872, between England and Scotland, following a series of games 1870-72 in London between England and what was effectively London Scottish, although in principle open to any Scots player willing to travel to London. However, Wikipedia is not infallible, if you have evidence of an earlier North American game.
A few things I've not seen mentioned in the comments: 1) The Sub is quite different from other games, in that they are only meant to be temporary replacements in the field. They are not allowed to bat or bowl, and if they do anything of note in the game (such as making a catch), then they don't even get their name recorded in the score sheet (it simply says 'caught [by] sub'). 2) A day in test cricket is three sessions (each session being 2 hours). It is expected that 90 overs will be bowled in that time. If at the end of the third session less than 90 overs have been bowled that day, then the session can be extended by half-an-hour to try and reach 90 overs for the day. 3) There is one other way of getting out that wasn't in the list. If a batsman is injured during the game they can 'retire', and the next batsman comes in to play. If they recover before the rest of the team is out then they can return to continue batting. However, a player can also just decide they don't want to bat anymore for any reason, but in that case they are marked 'retired out', and they cannot return to bat until the next innings.
TEST CRICKET is unbelievable. Mate watch the Boxing Day test 5 days Cricket is battle of everything, tactics, strategy, stamina(try bowing for 6- 8 hrs in 40c) and trying to outwit you opponent There is so much to this game and is more than the pajama game (One Dayers) you just watched Someone told me that it has the highest statics in the world. Seriously it would take days trying to explain this game. Ya gonna become an Aussie yet.
The purists love test cricket, I used to like it initially but since I started following football which is like 10 years back, I only started watching T20and one day. These days I don't even watch those, I haven't watched a game since the last year's IPL It's still a great sport though
Cricket is a game for people who really love stats and spreadsheets. Over a five-day match you can really chart the course of each team's run rate, how much they need to score to stay competitive, etc. Each individual ball might not be too exciting, but it's the accumulation of dozens of plays that slowly add up over time. To give a sense of the scale of a test match, Brian Lara once scored 400 runs in a single innings. That's a LOT of balls to face one after another.
The art of Test Cricket seems to have been lost. I hate Geoff Boycott, but he knew how to play Test Cricket as a batsman! I saw him slogging once, in 1984, playing for Yorkshire against Northants. He got a couple of 4’s, and he only ran one of his teammates out!
@Matthew Shepherd i know ,bt looking at the history of cricket don't you think England should have won more World Cups. Cricket is their invention .btw it's really sad to see that popularity of cricket is declining in UK. ECB needs to find out something.
OMG, sooo happy you're taking my advice and going Cricket video's! I'm looking forward to watching them and giving you some input on the rules. Congrats on the Subs too, going off like a frog in a sock (Aussie colloquialism)! Puff puff my bro!
@@constitutionalistcitizenry8395 But if you build it they will come...there's no brownie points to be had with just Aussies commenting...you gotta target the sub continentals to boost your ratings..
There are wickets at both ends. Let’s imagine Glenn and Brett are bowling. Glenn bowls 6 balls from one end. Then everyone swaps. Brett bowls 6 balls from the other end. Then they swap and Glenn bowls again. If one of them gets tired they could replace the bowler with Shane and keep going. Most teams have 4 or 5 bowlers (bowlers are like pitchers) Games go for 5 days from 11am to 6pm with 2 long breaks called lunch break and tea break. As well as a short drinks break every hour. Don’t be put off by the long games it’s sort of like a baseball playoff series where you play the same team 5 times in a row except they keep score like it’s one game. If they did that in baseball and had 45 innings a side imagine the excitement when it gets close and imagine how disciplined the teams would have to be to not ruin their match with a bad day.
@@Isleofskye another rested bowler would replace Brett. Depending on the format, It's up to the captain's discretion when bowlers are changed, but he/she often consults the bowler/s and senior players. Eg: in 20/20 or ODI matches, bowlers can only bowl a set maximum amount of overs, but in test matches long bowling "spells" are common. Also, if a bowler is changed at one end, eg: if Glenn replaces Shane, the captain may or may not elect to keep Brett bowling at the other end.
Hi Mike. Thanks but you have made this 66-year-old Londoner who used to watch Surrey County Cricket Club play while having Latin lessons on the roof of my Grammar School opposite feel very guilty especially as you have been kind enough to give an explanation. :) It was my London Sense Of Humour when all typical Aussie names were used so I wondered what the next one would be ! I go back to watching Aussie Wicket-Keeper: Wally Grout b4 Rodney Marsh, my friend...:) Richie Benaud: Best Commentator ever . After school we paid ONE Penny or 1 Cent to watch THe Tea-Time session for Surrey games....
"I'm trying to understand it. I'm confused." Yet you did a great job comprehending most of it.👍 Can't wait to watch your reaction vids. Cheers from Down Under 🏏🇦🇺
Another way you can get out is if you mistakenly think you are out and walk over the boundary line. If a player walks off the pitch because he thought he was out, but in fact wasnt, He is considered out because he ''walked''.
Then there are the fielding positions. There's short leg, silly mid on, silly mid off, short slip, long leg..........and loads more. Don't ask me where they all are on the field. I'm just a simple female hearing all this as background noise.
silly positions are close to the bat/batsman this is dangerous involving potential broken fingers, heads, noses other assorted body parts. mostly set though with slow bowlers and how they spin the ball to cause it to travel so it cannt be read and then it pitches a short distance off the bat to the catcher
As a matter of interest, most games and sports originate or were first formalised in Britain. This includes Baseball. The first reference to Baseball appears in a book in 1744. It’s still played in England but by children and it’s now called rounders. Finally, cricket is the most played sport in the world.
Mimi Kurtz. You may be right, but in terms of ordinary people actually playing a sport, I think more play cricket. India being a big reason. One point two billion people.
Having no baseball or cricket background (I'm French, sorrry !), my opinion is that cricket is more fun to watch because the batsman may hit the ball in any direction, and sometimes the ball flies behind him to the shortest length of the oval. It's incredible to see what they can do with the flat surface of the bat. I discovered cricket last year with the world cup (congrats to the great English team) and I love watching the highlights of any international test match. I apologize to my American friends, but I find baseball more complicated to follow, and most of the time quite boring.
the white line in the crease that he is talking about. being inside the crease and touching the ground is safe. The bat is considered a part of the batsman, so they are safe if they are outside of the crease but their bat is inside and touching the ground. If you think of the wicket as north and south, one bowler must bowl six good (legal) balls from the north and the next bowler will bowl from the south. the fielders will adjust accordingly. T20 = 20 overs bowled by each side One Day / Day-Night match = 50 overs bowled by each team Test Cricket = 5 day maximum; each day is 6 hours or ninety overs (a team would once be penalised for slowing down play but they are looking at way to extend the day). The fielding team has to get out the other team twice or score more runs, depending on who bats first. Because it has a maximum of 5 days, this could still end in a draw.
@RonnyDonny13 ...but only for so long. If a side does not bowl their allotment of 90 overs in a day (without good reason) the captain of the fielding side can be fined.
Aussie Rules Football was made as a sport for the Cricketers to play in the winter. Also, yes, they do go to sleep. They play for around 6 hours a day.
As I've said in a previous comment ... It is really hard to understand the game of cricket intuitively unless you've grown up with it ... formats can be confusing etc ... rather than get assailed and muddled with TMI ... it would be good if you could find something on the origins and history of the game ... its basic modern (1800's +) standard format is TEST cricket - all other formats have been developed and have descended from that. As its name suggests "Test" cricket is designed to test the individual players, the teamwork and cohesion of the teams, skill levels, endurance levels, tactical/critical thinking etc etc - "winning" is a secondary function (although still important!) think THAT way and your more likely to pick up on the nuances of the game.. The game has a 5 day time LIMIT but can finish earlier with 2 complete innings from either side. There are 4 possible outcomes ... a win to side A, a win to side B, a Draw (the allotted time elapses without all innings being completed) ... or in rare cases ... a Tie (where all 4 of the innings are completed within the allotted timeframe - but scores are level).
The joy of cricket. (Living in a country with a minimum of four week paid vacation). Spending five days drinking with your mates. Occasionally watching the sport on the field.
Kudos for taking the time to get an understanding of cricket. I remember being told to watch cricket with my grandad way back in the day and the commentators talked about what the players had for lunch. Never wanted to watch cricket (rounders) again. FYI: Rounders is/was a game that we used to play as kids in the street, similar to cricket but more fun
Some of the best matches, but mainly because the interest is so high, back in the day WI v Aus in one dayers, when Viv was still about. These days, I'd have to agree, the test series in England was so very tight, England has a great team and Aus some of the most outstanding individual players in the world. Having said that Broad is about No 1 bowler for me, a Mcgrath of his day. It's hard to rank many batsmen higher than Warner, Smith and Lamburshae though. hmmm I enjoy the ashes, love it when the Barmy Army comes down.
I didn't mind playing cricket in school but when my Dad would watch it on TV, good God Almighty it was literally coma inducing! You didn't dare turn the channel over or the TV off either 'cos this would immediately cause him to wake up and shout at you "I WAS WATCHING THAT!!!" Oh, yeah, through closed eyes? I thought, before going to my room or out on my bike.
This explanation was a little confusing in places. At the end of the Over, the new Bowler bowls the balls from the other end. This affects how the Batsmen work. If you have two Batsmen at the Crease, one of whom is less talented, they will attempt to make sure that the better Batsman is facing the next Bowler. Having written the above sentence, I have realised it's a fools errand to try to explain Cricket, it is incredibly complicated in every way. But if you keep watching you will learn heaps more. My favourite form Cricket is Test Cricket. Five days of Tactics, Strategy and drama. A true 'Test' of endurance. A Cricket Day is usually 10am until 6pm (the end of Play every day is called 'Stumps'), but more often nowadays they have to complete a certain number of Overs. So a Test is at least 40 hours (!) of Play. These days most folks are more into shorter forms of the game, but oldies like me love a Test above all else. It's a commitment to follow, but well worth the effort.
Well said! For our US friends, years ago BBC2 televised (for free) ball-by-ball of the whole of a 5-day test. No ads on TV or round the ground, everyone in whites. P B H May or Ted Dexter the upper-class captains and fiery bowler Fred Trueman rolling up his sleeve after every delivery. I never could understand why he didn't wear short-sleeved shirts. Happy days!
playing cricket is amazing. watching it on a summer day in a small village green is nice time to spend your time while downing a few pints and a ploughman's lunch
Pls react to top 10 swing deliveries (bowled by fast bowler around 140 to 160 kmph) and top 10 spin deliveries (bowled by spin bowler around 80 to 100kmph)
Also look out for declaration and follow on in test cricket, makes it much more interesting and complicated. But that also makes test cricket so much better than the shorter versions.
Cricket, and particularly Test cricket - played over 5 days - is one of the most most mentally and physically challenging sports. Cricket is physically demanding, requires intense concentration and at least two skill sets by every player, although a team can afford to carry the masters of one particular skill. but only one or two of them. It's well worth the time to understand just how mentally, physically and tactically strong a player has to be to play around 6 hours a day for 5 days in summer heat.
I'm English and that was a fun refresher of the laws of cricket. I didn't know the rare ways of getting out. That's a great trivia quiz question. It's a fun game to play on a Sunday in the park with mates and beers. Bowling is a dark art to itself. The ball is strange and has a seam that divides the ball surface, which means if one side is polished and the other left rough the ball will actually turn predictably when it bounces. This is called swing bowling. It is a very tactical game with endless possibilities for a strategy which makes it very interesting to explore. Bring fielders in close? Put pressure on the batsmen to play long and get caught? Put fielders wide to stop long shots, bowl fast and hard, bowl spinners? Bowl fast then really slow? Bowl fast then spin then slow with close fielders?
Nah those are not the "real" rules of Cricket. The real rules of Cricket are as follows: You have two sides, once out in the field, and one in(side). 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 out those coming in. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When both sides have been in and out, including the not outs, the winner is declared...if there is one! Howzat!
Test matches usually start on a thursday and finish on a monday. I think games start at 11am (ish?) and finish at 6 or 7pm (I think). There are breaks for lunch and tea. There is no requirement for the players to sleep at the ground. They probably go to a hotel for the night or similar.
I think as Australians we chose this sport because it has the longest drinking time of any other game...a 1 dayer (1 day) is a short game , a test match...1 week
Regarding the long format Test, yes they do stop, it is a very civilised game. You start between 9-10:30, have lunch, afternoon tea and stop play (helpfully also called stumps) around 6. All timings may vary due to various reasons that are unimportant at the moment.
Congratulations, bruh.. you're about to have every Indian cricket fan and his dog invade your channel... Not chasing views by any chance, are ya? :P :D :D
The more you learn about cricket the more fascinating it becomes. there are so many nuances and in the five day game, the situational changes that develop make for riveting viewing. It is like war and politics all rolled into one. On the other hand,the one day and limited over games distill everything into a more intense experience that can be highly addictive. I would describe the five day game as like sipping and savouring a fine wine while the shorter versions are the metaphorical equivalent of smoking crack cocaine. Both highly emjoyable in their own different ways but without the disadvantages of pickling your liver or addling your brain.
the writer Tom Clancy once described it as baseball on valium! when asked if he had ever worked out the rules, his reply was 'why spoil it with rules?'! he referenced it in the novel Patriot Games!!
Sorry, there 's always a pedant somewhere and right now it's me. Wiley would be pronounced "Why-lee", and so the joke is lost. The name is Willey - "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey". In other words, the bowler is Michael Holding and the batsman is Peter Willey. But the story is apocryphal.
Oh boy you are in for a ride mate , so many people/teams so many highlights to react to, From an Aussie check out Shane Warne and Sechan Tendulkar , check out some 20/20 highlights aswell ,
Or, as the Australians call it, A wrong ,un. Then again, if the bowler is left handed, and bowls a googley / wrong ,un it is known as a CHINAMAN!! Simple game is cricket.
Nice reaction. I love cricket. My grandparents babysat me in the summer watching test cricket for 5 days. Over the five days, they play 11am til 6pm, with 40 mins for lunch and 20mins for tea. They should bowl 90 overs a day, and play can ve extended if they bowl slowly or it breaks cos its raining.
I lived 4 yrs in the UK, so I got a good dose of cricket, which I learned to enjoy. Many compare it to baseball, but really, apart from a few aspects, it's quite different. One way it IS like baseball is that it is a game of stats. When you watch on TV, the commentators are filling time with 1000s of stats!
First Class Cricket ( can last up to 4 days in England) and Test Cricket ( Up to 5 days worldwide): Each day is split into 3 sessions, Morning, Afternoon and Evening sessions. Generally play starts at 11 am, and lunch is usually take around 1 o'clock. After between 45 mins and an hour for lunch, they go back on the field until tea is taken at about 4 o'clock, After about half an hour for tea play resumes until about 6 o'clock when play ends (also known as "Stumps") The next day play resumes from where it left off. Play almost never ends at 6 though. If play has progressed slowly, if there have been delays for rain or bad light, some time may be made up at the end of the day.
Test cricket, play usually starts at 10am, first sessions is 9.30am til 11.40am, the lunch is called for 30 mins. 12.10pm til about 2.20pm is middle session, tea break taken 2.20pm til 3pm, then final session of a day's play is usually 3pm til 5pm approximately. The aim is to get 90 overs in a days play
11 players - 10 wickets to be “all out” since a batsman cannot bat alone. 6 bowls (closest simile would be a baseball pitch) to an “over” called that because once you’ve bowled 6 your stint is over; then the batsmen remain at whichever end they were at, and the fielding team repositions to then bowl (with a different bowler, as one bowler cannot bowl two consecutive overs) from the other end. In a Test Match (5-day variant) the games will generally start around 10am, play until it’s too dark to play safely generally around 6pm; the end of the day is called “stumps” because it’s the time that they pull the stumps out of the ground. Watch any of the highlights from the Big Bash League; my home states been the strongest team over the years, the Perth Scorchers are the most successful BBL team having won 3 times, come second twice, and third twice out of the nine seasons played.
Frank B once your stint bowling is over that’s it, it’s an Over. They change how many balls you bowl, but they’re not gonna change all the terminology. Really not that hard to work out.
One correction I would like to make in that video. Hit Wicket - is when the batsman hits his wickets (and knocks out the bails) with his bat or any part of his body. The only way to get your partner batsman out is if the ball grazes the bowler's (or pitcher's) body and hits the opposite wickets while that batsman is outside the crease. Essentially, a form of a run-out.
5:20 There is actually another way to be out/dismissed which wasn't mentioned - a batsman can just declare himself out to let someone else have a bat. This usually only happens in practice/friendly matches, but yes a batsman can just walk off and he will be declared as 'retired out'.
FYI for test cricket lasting about 5 days, play starts at a fixed time but will not start until the light level reaches a certain point (so players on both sides can see what is happening) and the days ends the same way, at a fixed time or when light level drops too low. There are also stops for drinks and lunch so play will stop for a while during the day. Play is also stopped due to bad weather, normally rain and if this happens too much adjustments can be made to the runs made in previous innings to balance the end result so the team rained off can still win.
Apologies if this has been mentioned in another comment.....I thought the cricket video was very good but like another similar video it fails to mention that when a batsman hits the ball he or she isn't obliged to run. This is because he or she knows that they would be run out instantly or this could be for a tactical purpose at the end of an over.
Yes. An example of a tactical reason is that a weaker batsman may choose not to run so that his teammate will get to bat at the beginning of the next over. It's important that the partnership (the two batsmen) be on the same page about their strategy.
In Test Cricket, play typically starts around 10am, and goes through until about 6pm, which is called "Stumps". In those 8 hours, there is a half-hour or hour taken off for lunch, and a half-hour taken off for "tea", which is traditionally around 4pm. There is also a couple of 10-15 minute intervals for "Drinks", where-by the 12th man of both sides bring refreshments onto the field. *They do not play for the full 120 hours of the 5 scheduled days.*
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Cricket,is the only game in the world, that lasts five whole days, and still end in a draw!!
And that’s beautiful
thats why its awesome haha
@Granpa Joe or chill at home with tms on the radio
Or a tie. As far as I know, it is the only sport in the world, where a draw and a tie are different results. A draw being if the limited overs/timeframe have expired without a definitive winner being decided. And a tie, is where the responding team matches the starting teams score, and loses their final wicket. This is obviously a very rare occurrence, but still qualifies as a different result than a draw.
Meals are involved. Lunch and Tee. For the audience do not forget the beer tent.
The best reaction I had from an American friend who I took to a cricket game who couldnt believe the players went
a. off the pitch for lunch
b. off the pitch for tea
c. off the pitch for bad light
d. off the pitch for rain
e. home every night for four nights
On top of that they had a drinks break morning and afternoon for five days.
and at the end of it all it was a draw....
paul, you have learnt your lesson. Never ever take a Yank to a cricket game again.
My favourite thing about cricket is that you can turn the TV on to see what is happening and the screen just has a chyron saying "Tea break".
That, and the fact that you didn't know who was winning until the end.
Wait... for tea? I guess I kind understand needing food, sleep, light and good weather if you're playing for days, but hang out breaks? lol How do you stay focused on the game if you're off having tea and probably talking about other things?
@@MrKeychange Tea is the same as Dinner. He doesn't mean the drink.
@@fletch397 ah
What you really need to know about cricket is that you can take a snooze during the game and if anything exciting happens the crowd usually lets you know.
A lot like baseball then...
That is so true
And that includes the players!
These videos don’t really mention one of the most important things and that is that the bowler (pitcher) bounces the ball so the batsman has to read that bounce. The pitch is natural turf so the bounce is very unpredictable, and the ball swings a lot in the air and has a big seam in it which makes it deviate when it bounces. Because games last so long the weather changes throughout a game and that affects the ball and pitch too. Because the fielding captains can put their fielders pretty much wherever they want they get their bowlers to bowl in a certain way to exploit the very specific conditions (pitches in India are totally different to pitches in Australia) and the batters weaknesses. That’s why most true cricket fans prefer the 5 day version, the tactics that come into play, watching a fielding captain try for hours or even days to get a batter out, the batter adjusting to the conditions and forcing the opposing captain to reset the field and bowl differently, a ball that bounces half way down the pitch is usually hit out to the sides, a ball pitched up near the batters toes is usually hit straight back down the ground, it takes perfect execution from the bowler the force the batter to play to the field the captain has set. It’s a very strategic game
When traveling, I could never figure how long the match was going on. If it was day one or day five.
If both teams are wearing white it’s the 5 day game (for international teams, shorter for domestic), teams wear couloured uniforms for the shorter formats
@@indianmynah I do recall something like that. I guess it was a 5 day game between India at Australia. I would follow it on the local news. It took a few days to realize it was the same game and not a series.
Beautifully explained
You are absolutely correct, it IS a very strategic game and an important part of the strategy is changing the bowlers according to their specialised bowling skils. For an example of this, compare the bowling of Glen McGrath and Shane Warne (and yes, of course I'm an Australian )
All you need to know about cricket is that it's England's lasting gift to its former colonies, and now they ALL are better at it than we are 🙄. The sport is better than any other for instilling fair play and respect for your opponent. It's just a shame that's never influenced the Aussies 😁
@illuminOz How's the sandpaper business doing in lockdown, convict?
Zargon the Magnificent , Bet you’re sorry that you started this one off?
Hahahhahahaha 😂, lmao 😹
Not all of them! And generally we can still beat them more often than not in England
Low blow mate cmon
Thanks for taking a look at this wonderful game. I loved your comment about the 5 day game, "Do they go to bed?" One of the most dramatic events was the 3rd Test Match between England and Australia in 1981. The Australians were miles in front and at one stage the odds of an England victory were 500/1 - yet they came back to win. The story is available on YT.
It's simple -
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
Classic explanation of Test Cricket👍
Don't foget sometimes when the guy goes out to be in he can also think he's out but turns out he's still in. Sometimes they are out tho and try to be in but are deemed out. Other than that you are spot in, out. on.
Classic 😁🇬🇧
This guys channel needs to be bigger....so more people can read this you tube classic comment. Absolutely genius...i salute you.
Oh John, you stole my thunder...😭
You're doing really well if you've never seen cricket before. Yes, they do sleep between days in Test. A day is usually 6 hours of play: A 2 hour morning session, Lunch, Two hours after lunch, then Tea, then a final two hour session.
A day is 6 hours (3 lots of 2 hours) as mentioned, or until 90 overs have been bowled, if the 6 hours of play haven't been sufficient to bowl 90 overs. Typically 15 overs are bowled in an hour, so 2 hours gives 30 overs; 90 overs bowled each day. However, the "typical 15 overs" has become 12 or 13 overs, so the last 2 hour session can be extended by up to an hour to make up the 90 overs required. Providing playing conditions are considered 'safe'. Cricket isn't played in heavy rain, or in bad light as the batsman cannot make out the ball to properly defend themselves.
Jesus Christ just play rounders and be done with it lol
@@SobrietyandSolace or French cricket!
The first thing to know is, there are NO rules. There are LAWS.
They're rules because they can be broken
@@rewrose2838 No rules. In cricket, they are LAWS. Look it up.
@@richardsevern2973 Correct, only laws - no rules
lol Very good point!
Basically, if you think of Baseball as checkers, then Cricket would be Chess.
postal chess.
Cricket to most Americans is mastermind....At least they can't change the name of it , .
@@alanpercival6428 The great American game of Crocket where balls are Bowie'd
Dude, that's like poetry.
Eh, that sounds like you don't understand the nuances of baseball. It's simpler than cricket, but Chess isn't cerebral because it's overly complicated. It's just complicated enough to allow the strategy to dictate the game, but simple enough so anyone can play it. That's baseball.
Cricket seems to have less room for one vs one strategy within the game, based on the amount of people active in each play.
That said, it doesn't seem more or less like Chess than baseball. Honestly, it seems like the personality types who love cricket are the same types who like baseball in the states.
Hell, people use the same chess comparison in the US when they explain why they prefer baseball to other things. 🤣
We don't like cricket , we love it
Dreadlock Holiday
Play the song! ‘Dreadlock Holiday’ We don’t like Cricket, we love it!
10cc ?
@@annconlon4468 Yes!
Look for ‘The 12th Man’...
Matthew Kelly I like what you say.
I've seen a lot of these American reacts to cricket videos and it's so refreshing to see someone with a good understanding of sports watch and actually try to understand by self translating into what they know.. Instead of what a lot of Americans do by just going "OMG this is confusing and I don't know what that word is so I won't try to learn."
Others are commenting with a lot of information but one thing I will say, or warn you about, is that cricket videos on TH-cam are notorious for copyright issues. I've seen a few react channels stop doing cricket because they keep having issues like copyright strikes.
Thank boss, I try my best to understand! Most of my content is hit with copyright... Its just the nature of reacting to sports I guess :/ I can still post them but no monetization.
@@MenkeYT Is boss an American thing, too? I usually hear South London 'roadmen' use that, and despite also being British they're the type to watch cricket like 'what the actual fuck is this'
Menke, the first "rule" is that they are, officially, The Laws of Cricket, not the "rules" of cricket. They have been the Laws of Cricket since 1788 (there were earlier drafts).
And that is a clue about the arcane terminology used by cricketers all over the world.It is like another language.....
Byes,boxes,bags,bowlers,balls,bats,bails, backward-square,crease, cut-shot, cover, cover-point, covers, extra-cover, declare, delivery, drive, drop, dibbly-dobbley, and on and on and on! It is a GREAT game.
Think= a combination of tai chi and baseball with a rock-hard ball!
Most sports of British origin tend to have laws of the game as opposed to rules.
@@Moamanly "...with a rock-hard ball!" that's coming at you in excess of 80 miles an hour from a distance of 22 yards!
I'm British and this sounds like a spoof .g. 'Britishised baseball' or some shit, though I know cricket and rounders preceded baseball. Honestly all these little cricket facts sound like jokes.
yep in Australia we watch cricket in the summer, and AFL/Aussie rules football in winter (tho some will watch rugby)
No one watches thugby
M James *rugby
bro everyone watches rugby league
Rugby fan 👋🏽
Depends, if you live in Victoria you are most likely to watch AFL but if you live in NSW and QLD most likely rugby.
@@Moz976 yes but AFL is our NATIONAL game, whereas only NSW and QLD find rugby entertaining lol
Wait until you hear about the Duckworth-Lewis system to decide who wins!
Where is the haha button
ha ha ha you blow their minds with that,
You multiply the number of balls bowled by the number of balls faced and divide that figure by the average age of the batting side *minus* the number of spanners in a toolkit
@@drjohnsmith5282 A Sidchrome tool kit
TomBot22 ,Superb comment!.....faf.
I like the way you are trying to understand games from other countries. keep it up and thank you. hope you enjoy cricket it is a very interesting game with lots of strategy.
This is the only game I have ever witnessed a commentator saying it was going to end in a draw... with two days to go.
That’s because of a weather forecast.
And the uninitiated may confuse a draw with a tie
Hello, it so nice to see America learning how to play sport in the civilized world....................
Savage
Ruthless
🤣👍 so true
big oof
😂
It’s 10 outs rather than 11 because you have to have two batsmen on the field at any one time. If 10 of your 11 players are out, you only have one on the field.
"Out" is not, never has been, and hopefully never will be, a noun in the game of cricket.
You mentioned the timetable for a five-day Test match. Play usually starts at about 11am and there is a 40-minute lunch break at around 1pm. Play resumes at about 1:40 and continues until about 3:30-3:35pm, when there is a tea interval (this is an English game, after all!). Play resumes again and runs until about 6:30pm, or until the light fades, when the umpire may end play early. On the final day, play may be slightly extended, if there is light and if there is a strong chance that an additional half-hour will allow a decisive outcome. For one-day matches, there is usually a single tea interval between the two innings. Particularly on the amateur/village cricket circuit, the "Cricket Tea" is an important social tradition.
Actually, the final day is the one day that play cannot be extended. An extra half hour can be claimed on any day other than the last day to try and force a result. Notwithstanding this, all attempts must be made to ensure that the minimum number of overs is bowled each day (90 in a test match).
@@mercifulzeus01 fairly sure you can get an extra half hour on the final day if a result is likely
@@ImTheMousse ICC Test Match Playing Conditions 3.2 Extra Time
The umpires may decide to play 30 minutes (a minimum of eight overs) extra time at the end of any day (other than the last day) if requested by either captain if, in the umpires opinion, it would bring about a definite result on that day (this is in addition to the maximum one hour's extra time provided for in 3.1 (a) (iii) above). If the umpires do not believe a result can be achieved no extra time shall be allowed.
It's not "About" 11 o'clock. It is on the dot: even if 11 fielders, 2 batsmen, and 2 umpires are out there all in position at 10.58 it cannot begin until the match clock clicks to 11.00.
What are you one of those rebel types?
@@ImTheMousse no way!
now u know how the Brits feel watching your football
Great reaction mate! Keep reacting to cricket. There's a massive TH-cam fanbase for cricket!!!
You seem to be picking up both cricket and AFL rules & concepts a lot quicker than I've seen on "American reaction" videos from many other youtubers - well done! Most of the questions you've had on both sports (which have already been covered by commenters I think) are just technical nitty-gritty details of rules and playing techniques, and cricket has a lot more technicalities than AFL. Thumbs up from this born & bred Aussie!
Just watched your vid, you've done very well. Smart man.
Probably a good point for you is that ONLY the wicket keeper wears gloves ( the guy behind the stumps ). All the fielding players catch the ball bare handed..... and it feckin hurts if you catch it wrong...... many fingers get broken.
And Split Webbing !!
As someone will probably tell you, the first ever international cricket match was in 1844 between the United States and Canada. It was played over 2 days in New York City. Canada won.
Cricket used to be popular in the USA but was largely replaced by Baseball at the time of the Civil War. Press reports early in the war mainly refer to soldiers playing cricket behind the lines, later in the war it was mostly baseball. Baseball grew out of the same tradition as another English game, rounders, which in Britain survives mainly as a children's game, played in primary schools but rarely in secondary schools. There are no professional rounders players and if there are organised national leagues, I have not heard of them. I don't know if a promising British rounders player has ever emigrated to the USA to be able to have a career in baseball.
The death of American cricket did not occur across the country immediately. The game continued to be popular in the Philadelphia area until shortly before the First World War. Teams of Philadelphians made two tours of the British Isles around the beginning of the twentieth century, playing against County sides.
Had North America remained a force in international cricket for longer, I suspect its influence would have made the game more commercial and less traditional earlier.
Really? Those two countries also played the first Rugby international.
@@paulmk2290 accordingly to Wikipedia, the first international rugby match was in 1872, between England and Scotland, following a series of games 1870-72 in London between England and what was effectively London Scottish, although in principle open to any Scots player willing to travel to London. However, Wikipedia is not infallible, if you have evidence of an earlier North American game.
Well explained, there are a few more complications like scoring methods in case of bad weather
A few things I've not seen mentioned in the comments:
1) The Sub is quite different from other games, in that they are only meant to be temporary replacements in the field. They are not allowed to bat or bowl, and if they do anything of note in the game (such as making a catch), then they don't even get their name recorded in the score sheet (it simply says 'caught [by] sub').
2) A day in test cricket is three sessions (each session being 2 hours). It is expected that 90 overs will be bowled in that time. If at the end of the third session less than 90 overs have been bowled that day, then the session can be extended by half-an-hour to try and reach 90 overs for the day.
3) There is one other way of getting out that wasn't in the list. If a batsman is injured during the game they can 'retire', and the next batsman comes in to play. If they recover before the rest of the team is out then they can return to continue batting.
However, a player can also just decide they don't want to bat anymore for any reason, but in that case they are marked 'retired out', and they cannot return to bat until the next innings.
Fraggle Fraggle, the man can hardly understand the basics, why do you confuse him more, hey?
Subs can bat or ball now, if a player is concussed.
TEST CRICKET is unbelievable.
Mate watch the Boxing Day test 5 days
Cricket is battle of everything, tactics, strategy, stamina(try bowing for 6- 8 hrs in 40c) and trying to outwit you opponent
There is so much to this game and is more than the pajama game (One Dayers) you just watched
Someone told me that it has the highest statics in the world.
Seriously it would take days trying to explain this game.
Ya gonna become an Aussie yet.
The purists love test cricket, I used to like it initially but since I started following football which is like 10 years back, I only started watching T20and one day. These days I don't even watch those, I haven't watched a game since the last year's IPL
It's still a great sport though
When I was explaining a 5 day test match to the Americans they could not believe after 5 days you could have a draw.
The game is like two giant snakes locked in battle feinting, slamming, faking. As you said, wearing pyjamas takes the fun out of it.
For him to become an Aussie, you'd have to explain the uses of sandpaper and where to store it
At thG bro!
Cricket is a game for people who really love stats and spreadsheets. Over a five-day match you can really chart the course of each team's run rate, how much they need to score to stay competitive, etc. Each individual ball might not be too exciting, but it's the accumulation of dozens of plays that slowly add up over time.
To give a sense of the scale of a test match, Brian Lara once scored 400 runs in a single innings. That's a LOT of balls to face one after another.
Currently, West Indies and England are playing test cricket against each other. They're up to Day 4.
The young WI side shows potential, but both sides keep trying to win within 60 overs, rather at times , not lose and bat for a day.
The art of Test Cricket seems to have been lost. I hate Geoff Boycott, but he knew how to play Test Cricket as a batsman! I saw him slogging once, in 1984, playing for Yorkshire against Northants. He got a couple of 4’s, and he only ran one of his teammates out!
But netball comes from basketball
I really enjoy your videos. I like that you're not ragging on our sports and a generally trying to understand. Thank you.
Best team game in world .... 🇬🇧
India and Australia r better than England
@Matthew Shepherd i know ,bt looking at the history of cricket don't you think England should have won more World Cups. Cricket is their invention .btw it's really sad to see that popularity of cricket is declining in UK. ECB needs to find out something.
@Matthew Shepherd well thats because afl is more popular in Australia than rugby
OMG, sooo happy you're taking my advice and going Cricket video's! I'm looking forward to watching them and giving you some input on the rules. Congrats on the Subs too, going off like a frog in a sock (Aussie colloquialism)! Puff puff my bro!
Frog in a sock hahaha thanks boss
Roughly a days Test play is from 10:30am to 5:30pm
This would include lunch between 12:30 and 1:00 and afternoon tea for 15 mins around 3:30
That's in australia
In england and other parts of the world its different
Nominally 6 hours of play in 3 sessions of 2 hours
1 session break of 40 minutes and 1 of 20 minutes
@@waynec3563 Yup. Lunch is 40 mins, tea is 20 mins.
And here come the Indians 😂
🤣✌
lol
And not the ones from Cleveland
Indians hvnt discovered this channel as yet I guess coz I see more Aussie here than Indians..
@@constitutionalistcitizenry8395 But if you build it they will come...there's no brownie points to be had with just Aussies commenting...you gotta target the sub continentals to boost your ratings..
There are wickets at both ends.
Let’s imagine Glenn and Brett are bowling. Glenn bowls 6 balls from one end. Then everyone swaps. Brett bowls 6 balls from the other end. Then they swap and Glenn bowls again. If one of them gets tired they could replace the bowler with Shane and keep going. Most teams have 4 or 5 bowlers (bowlers are like pitchers)
Games go for 5 days from 11am to 6pm with 2 long breaks called lunch break and tea break. As well as a short drinks break every hour.
Don’t be put off by the long games it’s sort of like a baseball playoff series where you play the same team 5 times in a row except they keep score like it’s one game. If they did that in baseball and had 45 innings a side imagine the excitement when it gets close and imagine how disciplined the teams would have to be to not ruin their match with a bad day.
Glenn, Brett & Shane ...nice examples of bowlers! Dont forget Dennis, Jeff or Merv lol
Mike Lilley I could have gone with Wasim Waqar and Saqlain but that might have confused him a bit
I'm confused.
If Shane replaces a tired Glenn then who replaces Brett ?
@@Isleofskye another rested bowler would replace Brett. Depending on the format, It's up to the captain's discretion when bowlers are changed, but he/she often consults the bowler/s and senior players. Eg: in 20/20 or ODI matches, bowlers can only bowl a set maximum amount of overs, but in test matches long bowling "spells" are common. Also, if a bowler is changed at one end, eg: if Glenn replaces Shane, the captain may or may not elect to keep Brett bowling at the other end.
Hi Mike. Thanks but you have made this 66-year-old Londoner who used to watch Surrey County Cricket Club play while having Latin lessons on the roof of my Grammar School opposite feel very guilty especially as you have been kind enough to give an explanation. :) It was my London Sense Of Humour when all typical Aussie names were used so I wondered what the next one would be ! I go back to watching Aussie Wicket-Keeper: Wally Grout b4 Rodney Marsh, my friend...:)
Richie Benaud: Best Commentator ever . After school we paid ONE Penny or 1 Cent to watch THe Tea-Time session for Surrey games....
"I'm trying to understand it. I'm confused."
Yet you did a great job comprehending most of it.👍 Can't wait to watch your reaction vids. Cheers from Down Under 🏏🇦🇺
“These cricket rules are pretty complicated.”
Infield fly rule: “Am I a joke to you?”
I love cricket! These are the basics! Hope you enjoy your new Cricket matches. Test cricket though is the hardest to get into though!
whatch out for a googly...and the twelfth man !!
Another way you can get out is if you mistakenly think you are out and walk over the boundary line. If a player walks off the pitch because he thought he was out, but in fact wasnt, He is considered out because he ''walked''.
Complete nonsense
@@marknewbold2583 No, It's not.
Then there are the fielding positions. There's short leg, silly mid on, silly mid off, short slip, long leg..........and loads more.
Don't ask me where they all are on the field. I'm just a simple female hearing all this as background noise.
silly positions are close to the bat/batsman this is dangerous involving potential broken fingers, heads, noses other assorted body parts. mostly set though with slow bowlers and how they spin the ball to cause it to travel so it cannt be read and then it pitches a short distance off the bat to the catcher
@@highpath4776 I had thought that "Solly Modon" was a player on a visiting team.
That's something I shall never manage to live down, not ever.
As a matter of interest, most games and sports originate or were first formalised in Britain.
This includes Baseball. The first reference to Baseball appears in a book in 1744. It’s still played in England but by children and it’s now called rounders.
Finally, cricket is the most played sport in the world.
I think the most played sport has to be soccer.
Mimi Kurtz. You may be right, but in terms of ordinary people actually playing a sport, I think more play cricket.
India being a big reason. One point two billion people.
Having no baseball or cricket background (I'm French, sorrry !), my opinion is that cricket is more fun to watch because the batsman may hit the ball in any direction, and sometimes the ball flies behind him to the shortest length of the oval. It's incredible to see what they can do with the flat surface of the bat. I discovered cricket last year with the world cup (congrats to the great English team) and I love watching the highlights of any international test match. I apologize to my American friends, but I find baseball more complicated to follow, and most of the time quite boring.
The World Cup final was remarkable - the most dramatic ends to any sporting event I have ever seen
merci!!! from Aus
the white line in the crease that he is talking about. being inside the crease and touching the ground is safe. The bat is considered a part of the batsman, so they are safe if they are outside of the crease but their bat is inside and touching the ground. If you think of the wicket as north and south, one bowler must bowl six good (legal) balls from the north and the next bowler will bowl from the south. the fielders will adjust accordingly.
T20 = 20 overs bowled by each side
One Day / Day-Night match = 50 overs bowled by each team
Test Cricket = 5 day maximum; each day is 6 hours or ninety overs (a team would once be penalised for slowing down play but they are looking at way to extend the day). The fielding team has to get out the other team twice or score more runs, depending on who bats first. Because it has a maximum of 5 days, this could still end in a draw.
Keep at at it you’ll get to love the game 👍
strange as it seems Menke, you have the best understanding of Cricket i have seen for a first timer.
They generally play about 6 hours a day for Tests. Three sessions of two hours: first session, lunch, second session, tea break, final session
@RonnyDonny13 ...but only for so long. If a side does not bowl their allotment of 90 overs in a day (without good reason) the captain of the fielding side can be fined.
seriously love this reaction vid, great stuff
Lol. "Do they go to bed?" I don't think there are many humans that can play non-stop for 5 days without sleep.
Incidentally I've been awake for 5 days
Baseball is cricket really simplified.
9:48 in test cricket it is usually 90 overs a day
Aussie Rules Football was made as a sport for the Cricketers to play in the winter. Also, yes, they do go to sleep. They play for around 6 hours a day.
see Marngrook
As I've said in a previous comment ... It is really hard to understand the game of cricket intuitively unless you've grown up with it ... formats can be confusing etc ... rather than get assailed and muddled with TMI ... it would be good if you could find something on the origins and history of the game ... its basic modern (1800's +) standard format is TEST cricket - all other formats have been developed and have descended from that. As its name suggests "Test" cricket is designed to test the individual players, the teamwork and cohesion of the teams, skill levels, endurance levels, tactical/critical thinking etc etc - "winning" is a secondary function (although still important!) think THAT way and your more likely to pick up on the nuances of the game.. The game has a 5 day time LIMIT but can finish earlier with 2 complete innings from either side. There are 4 possible outcomes ... a win to side A, a win to side B, a Draw (the allotted time elapses without all innings being completed) ... or in rare cases ... a Tie (where all 4 of the innings are completed within the allotted timeframe - but scores are level).
I umpired a cricket game in Dawson City, Yukon today. Yes, even in the remote north, we play cricket!
The joy of cricket. (Living in a country with a minimum of four week paid vacation). Spending five days drinking with your mates. Occasionally watching the sport on the field.
Kudos for taking the time to get an understanding of cricket.
I remember being told to watch cricket with my grandad way back in the day and the commentators talked about what the players had for lunch. Never wanted to watch cricket (rounders) again.
FYI: Rounders is/was a game that we used to play as kids in the street, similar to cricket but more fun
rounders is a game similar to baseball
The best test matches have got to be the 'Ashes ' test between England🏴 and Australia 🇦🇺 👍
Yep, five tests and it’ll probably blow his mind when he sees the ‘trophy’
I was going to say to watch the ashes.
Some of the best matches, but mainly because the interest is so high, back in the day WI v Aus in one dayers, when Viv was still about. These days, I'd have to agree, the test series in England was so very tight, England has a great team and Aus some of the most outstanding individual players in the world. Having said that Broad is about No 1 bowler for me, a Mcgrath of his day. It's hard to rank many batsmen higher than Warner, Smith and Lamburshae though. hmmm I enjoy the ashes, love it when the Barmy Army comes down.
I didn't mind playing cricket in school but when my Dad would watch it on TV, good God Almighty it was literally coma inducing! You didn't dare turn the channel over or the TV off either 'cos this would immediately cause him to wake up and shout at you "I WAS WATCHING THAT!!!" Oh, yeah, through closed eyes? I thought, before going to my room or out on my bike.
Cognitive dissonance hearing the phrase Leg Before Wicket in an American accent :-)
Hot Summer nigh watching last hour of a good one-dayer.......priceless.
This explanation was a little confusing in places. At the end of the Over, the new Bowler bowls the balls from the other end. This affects how the Batsmen work. If you have two Batsmen at the Crease, one of whom is less talented, they will attempt to make sure that the better Batsman is facing the next Bowler.
Having written the above sentence, I have realised it's a fools errand to try to explain Cricket, it is incredibly complicated in every way. But if you keep watching you will learn heaps more. My favourite form Cricket is Test Cricket. Five days of Tactics, Strategy and drama. A true 'Test' of endurance.
A Cricket Day is usually 10am until 6pm (the end of Play every day is called 'Stumps'), but more often nowadays they have to complete a certain number of Overs. So a Test is at least 40 hours (!) of Play. These days most folks are more into shorter forms of the game, but oldies like me love a Test above all else. It's a commitment to follow, but well worth the effort.
Well said! For our US friends, years ago BBC2 televised (for free) ball-by-ball of the whole of a 5-day test. No ads on TV or round the ground, everyone in whites. P B H May or Ted Dexter the upper-class captains and fiery bowler Fred Trueman rolling up his sleeve after every delivery. I never could understand why he didn't wear short-sleeved shirts. Happy days!
30 hours - it should be 6 hours a day if teams are sticking to the required rate of 15 overs per hour. Inevitably they don't.
playing cricket is amazing. watching it on a summer day in a small village green is nice time to spend your time while downing a few pints and a ploughman's lunch
I imagine crickets crying on a pivotal cricket moment, people not realizing what’s going on
During the test match there is also a lunch break and a tea break which divide the game for the day in 3 session per day
Three two hour sessions.
Pls react to top 10 swing deliveries (bowled by fast bowler around 140 to 160 kmph) and top 10 spin deliveries (bowled by spin bowler around 80 to 100kmph)
I highly recommend Shane Warne to Mike Gatting!
Also look out for declaration and follow on in test cricket, makes it much more interesting and complicated. But that also makes test cricket so much better than the shorter versions.
I’m English and you know as much as me and I’ve played it 😂
Cricket, and particularly Test cricket - played over 5 days - is one of the most most mentally and physically challenging sports. Cricket is physically demanding, requires intense concentration and at least two skill sets by every player, although a team can afford to carry the masters of one particular skill. but only one or two of them. It's well worth the time to understand just how mentally, physically and tactically strong a player has to be to play around 6 hours a day for 5 days in summer heat.
Cricket was the only sport I was ever any good at, at school. Wait till you learn the fielding positions..... hehe.
Some of the fielding positions are silly.
@@kevinmould6979 that was a real silly point from you
Steven Donovan I dunno, the point seemed a bit backward.
@@Paldasan i think we need a third man on this
Steven Donovan I think that's fair. I know a man with a short leg who could help out.
I'm English and that was a fun refresher of the laws of cricket. I didn't know the rare ways of getting out. That's a great trivia quiz question. It's a fun game to play on a Sunday in the park with mates and beers. Bowling is a dark art to itself. The ball is strange and has a seam that divides the ball surface, which means if one side is polished and the other left rough the ball will actually turn predictably when it bounces. This is called swing bowling. It is a very tactical game with endless possibilities for a strategy which makes it very interesting to explore. Bring fielders in close? Put pressure on the batsmen to play long and get caught? Put fielders wide to stop long shots, bowl fast and hard, bowl spinners? Bowl fast then really slow? Bowl fast then spin then slow with close fielders?
The rules sound far more complicated than they really are!
The Mellow voice of “Richie Benaud “ Nothing Better , “ inches off the ground, nice one that “ R I P great man
Nah those are not the "real" rules of Cricket. The real rules of Cricket are as follows:
You have two sides, once out in the field, and one in(side).
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 out those coming in.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When both sides have been in and out,
including the not outs,
the winner is declared...if there is one!
Howzat!
@@tonyroy8123 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 you just be a millennial ... NO sense of humour!
Test matches usually start on a thursday and finish on a monday. I think games start at 11am (ish?) and finish at 6 or 7pm (I think). There are breaks for lunch and tea. There is no requirement for the players to sleep at the ground. They probably go to a hotel for the night or similar.
I think as Australians we chose this sport because it has the longest drinking time of any other game...a 1 dayer (1 day) is a short game , a test match...1 week
That doesn’t explain why it’s so popular in Pakistan....
@@jerry2357 what other sports do Pakistan win at?
FEAR NO BEER
Hockey
Regarding the long format Test, yes they do stop, it is a very civilised game. You start between 9-10:30, have lunch, afternoon tea and stop play (helpfully also called stumps) around 6. All timings may vary due to various reasons that are unimportant at the moment.
Congratulations, bruh.. you're about to have every Indian cricket fan and his dog invade your channel... Not chasing views by any chance, are ya? :P :D :D
It definitely isn't a silly move. It's all about exposure.
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Before watching, I assumed he was. But he seemed genuine. I'll give him a pass.
@@eiypo You severely over-estimate the number of English who follow the sport...English Football (FA) ranks much higher.
@Tiny Boy What is a "foreign" TH-camr
The more you learn about cricket the more fascinating it becomes. there are so many nuances and in the five day game, the situational changes that develop make for riveting viewing. It is like war and politics all rolled into one.
On the other hand,the one day and limited over games distill everything into a more intense experience that can be highly addictive.
I would describe the five day game as like sipping and savouring a fine wine while the shorter versions are the metaphorical equivalent of smoking crack cocaine. Both highly emjoyable in their own different ways but without the disadvantages of pickling your liver or addling your brain.
Watch Mitch Johnson Thunderbolt great channel
Thats A Good Cricket explained Video. Do More Cricket Stuff.
It is Rocket Science for Americans
In case you hve forgotten they were very good at that.
the writer Tom Clancy once described it as baseball on valium! when asked if he had ever worked out the rules, his reply was 'why spoil it with rules?'!
he referenced it in the novel Patriot Games!!
We play baseball in the UK. Except we call it "rounders", and it's played by little kids. God knows how that came about.
You know it is a nightmare for the commentators when the bowler is called Holding and the batsman is called Wiley (an in joke for all cricket lovers).
Sorry, there 's always a pedant somewhere and right now it's me. Wiley would be pronounced "Why-lee", and so the joke is lost. The name is Willey - "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey". In other words, the bowler is Michael Holding and the batsman is Peter Willey. But the story is apocryphal.
Oh boy you are in for a ride mate , so many people/teams so many highlights to react to, From an Aussie check out Shane Warne and Sechan Tendulkar , check out some 20/20 highlights aswell ,
Oh don’t forget about the “Googley” not Google but called a “Googley”
Or, as the Australians call it, A wrong ,un. Then again, if the bowler is left handed, and bowls a googley / wrong ,un it is known as a CHINAMAN!! Simple game is cricket.
Nice reaction. I love cricket. My grandparents babysat me in the summer watching test cricket for 5 days. Over the five days, they play 11am til 6pm, with 40 mins for lunch and 20mins for tea. They should bowl 90 overs a day, and play can ve extended if they bowl slowly or it breaks cos its raining.
Once you get hooked on cricket, you'll want to come to England.
Really if he wants a spectacle then he should see how the Indian's watch a match. Its a carnival, they LOVE cricket its great.
I lived 4 yrs in the UK, so I got a good dose of cricket, which I learned to enjoy. Many compare it to baseball, but really, apart from a few aspects, it's quite different. One way it IS like baseball is that it is a game of stats. When you watch on TV, the commentators are filling time with 1000s of stats!
First Class Cricket ( can last up to 4 days in England) and Test Cricket ( Up to 5 days worldwide): Each day is split into 3 sessions, Morning, Afternoon and Evening sessions. Generally play starts at 11 am, and lunch is usually take around 1 o'clock. After between 45 mins and an hour for lunch, they go back on the field until tea is taken at about 4 o'clock, After about half an hour for tea play resumes until about 6 o'clock when play ends (also known as "Stumps") The next day play resumes from where it left off.
Play almost never ends at 6 though. If play has progressed slowly, if there have been delays for rain or bad light, some time may be made up at the end of the day.
Test cricket, play usually starts at 10am, first sessions is 9.30am til 11.40am, the lunch is called for 30 mins. 12.10pm til about 2.20pm is middle session, tea break taken 2.20pm til 3pm, then final session of a day's play is usually 3pm til 5pm approximately. The aim is to get 90 overs in a days play
11 players - 10 wickets to be “all out” since a batsman cannot bat alone.
6 bowls (closest simile would be a baseball pitch) to an “over” called that because once you’ve bowled 6 your stint is over; then the batsmen remain at whichever end they were at, and the fielding team repositions to then bowl (with a different bowler, as one bowler cannot bowl two consecutive overs) from the other end.
In a Test Match (5-day variant) the games will generally start around 10am, play until it’s too dark to play safely generally around 6pm; the end of the day is called “stumps” because it’s the time that they pull the stumps out of the ground.
Watch any of the highlights from the Big Bash League; my home states been the strongest team over the years, the Perth Scorchers are the most successful BBL team having won 3 times, come second twice, and third twice out of the nine seasons played.
" called that because once you’ve bowled 6 your stint is over"...so explain why it was called an over when we used to have eight ball overs.
Frank B once your stint bowling is over that’s it, it’s an Over. They change how many balls you bowl, but they’re not gonna change all the terminology. Really not that hard to work out.
Check out some top 10 catches/run out vids for cricket.Some of the fielding is awesome to watch.
One correction I would like to make in that video. Hit Wicket - is when the batsman hits his wickets (and knocks out the bails) with his bat or any part of his body. The only way to get your partner batsman out is if the ball grazes the bowler's (or pitcher's) body and hits the opposite wickets while that batsman is outside the crease. Essentially, a form of a run-out.
5:20 There is actually another way to be out/dismissed which wasn't mentioned - a batsman can just declare himself out to let someone else have a bat. This usually only happens in practice/friendly matches, but yes a batsman can just walk off and he will be declared as 'retired out'.
A team's captain can also declare the whole side as out.
When I use to travel for international business. The only thing I learned is it's the same game going on when I arrive and when I flew out.
FYI for test cricket lasting about 5 days, play starts at a fixed time but will not start until the light level reaches a certain point (so players on both sides can see what is happening) and the days ends the same way, at a fixed time or when light level drops too low. There are also stops for drinks and lunch so play will stop for a while during the day. Play is also stopped due to bad weather, normally rain and if this happens too much adjustments can be made to the runs made in previous innings to balance the end result so the team rained off can still win.
Apologies if this has been mentioned in another comment.....I thought the cricket video was very good but like another similar video it fails to mention that when a batsman hits the ball he or she isn't obliged to run.
This is because he or she knows that they would be run out instantly or this could be for a tactical purpose at the end of an over.
Yes. An example of a tactical reason is that a weaker batsman may choose not to run so that his teammate will get to bat at the beginning of the next over. It's important that the partnership (the two batsmen) be on the same page about their strategy.
In Test Cricket, play typically starts around 10am, and goes through until about 6pm, which is called "Stumps". In those 8 hours, there is a half-hour or hour taken off for lunch, and a half-hour taken off for "tea", which is traditionally around 4pm. There is also a couple of 10-15 minute intervals for "Drinks", where-by the 12th man of both sides bring refreshments onto the field. *They do not play for the full 120 hours of the 5 scheduled days.*