American REACTS to Cricket for the FIRST Time!
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Welcome to my channel! In these videos I react to sports with my American framework. I love sports like football and soccer and rugby. I also dabble in cricket. I react to things I think are cool!
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Just to let you know there are 3 formats of the game. Test cricket is the version that lasts up to 5 days. The version in this video is called T20 (20 overs for each team to bat) and lasts about 3 hours and when you watch good teams its the most exciting
Don’t forget ODI cricket
ODC being 50 overs for each team lasting a day.
In test cricket each batter gets two chances to bat, with two innings.
Teams have unlimited overs (within a five day time limit) to bat. Opposition must get all batters out.
If the bowling team fails to get the opponent batting in the 4th innings all out the match ends in a draw.
If the bowling team fails to bowl out the opposition in the first three innings this opposition will declare when they feel they have enough runs, voluntarily ending their innings, because to force a win you need enough time to bowl the opposition out.
A lot of test matches end in a draw.
T20 is a great format to get into- as mentioned current World Cup is One Dayer.
Finally cricket is a game of risk and variability as you don’t want to lose your wicket but conditions are variable - the ball hits the ground which is different each time and gets worse as does the ball which is seldom changed.
So it may be easier if you wait a while then try hitting or it may be easier when ball is harder.
T10?
Wicket has 3 meanings in Cricket. They play on the wicket (the pitch), the wickets are the wooden poles at either end (also called the stumps), and getting someone out is also called "taking a wicket".
In baseball, runs are everything, but in cricket, outs are everything.
You are right to be confused. Wicket is used to mean an out (the bowler took a wicket). It is also the wooden sticks that the players defend (the wicket is made of 3 stumps and 2 bails) and it also can refer to the entire central area of the field that is the dirt looking strip where the batsmen and bowlers are located (the groundmen have prepared a very nice wicket for todays match). Usually its clear in context what is meant by wicket when you understand the game.
Full tosses are useless balls in cricket , apart from a Yorker which is a shoe crusher , dot ball is not scored off ,
Cannot recommend enough ‘Cricket Explained for Baseball Fans’ by Sports Explained - he also did a short follow up video. Think I’ve recommended that before, have definitely recommended his Rugby one. Much better narrative structure and explanation. I think this is what most people mean when they recommend for Cricket Explained for Americans
It’s absolutely the best video out there on cricket from an American perspective (as is his rugby one).
I concur - it will definitely fill in some blanks: th-cam.com/video/EWpbtLIxYBk/w-d-xo.html
I agree it's a good video for baseball fans who don't know about cricket.
Well , it couldn't be any worse than AFL explained , what a mish mash , of the Greatest and oldest codified game on earth , AFL , is 120 mins of furious , non stop , difficult such a big ground , taxing , true attrition , it's a shitful vid , cheers
@@Ducatiratiare you talking about the Ninh Explains one (Sports Explained hasn't done an AFL one)
@vaudevilleUK there is an A F L EXPLAINED , IT'S BLOODY AWEFUL , and it sounds like a Robot , sorta , b u t I t s. s. h. o c k. i. n. g
3:07
That dude who's gone out , He's done for the day 🤣🤣
The format of cricket in that video is T20 cricket (twenty overs each) and a match only takes a couple of hours. The 2024 T20 World Cup is actually happening in the US.
The World Cup that is underway at the moment is the ODI World Cup (One Day International) - that is 50 overs eaxh, with the matches usually taking 6ish hours.
The other formats are variations of those. There's one called The Hundred where each team gets 100 pitches (or bowls in cricket).
The type that takes 5 days is a Test Match, where there is unlimited overs. So you basically keep going until everyone is out. So there's less pressure for batters to go for risky balls because they're not that bothered about dot balls.
I grew up in the US and moved to London. I joined a cricket team (ladies). We played 30 overs (180 'pitches' per team). I was the first batter a lot of times. There were times when I would get ZERO runs because I would not get any runs even if I didn't get out first ball. You don't have to run with each pitch, even if you hit it. It's a fun game!
Key thing to remember is that it’s kind of the reverse of baseball. In baseball outs are easy and runs are hard, in cricket runs are easy and outs are hard. And the overs has a similar rhythm to an individual at bat in baseball but it’s the bowler (pitcher) that changes rather than the batter
let us see how easy it is to hit a ball bowled at you at 150km an hour at you ,,,, no it is not easy to play this game.
@@SirHumphrey498 He's not saying cricket is easy. He's saying that relative to each game runs are easier to get than outs in cricket over baseball, which is demonstrably true, as the average number of runs in a cricket game is much higher than a baseball game.
@@dansharp2860 yeah I thought that much was clear too :D
So what the video didn't mention is the different Formats of Cricket, the 5 Day version you know of is called 'Test Cricket', in the UK, these games a played at County level in the County Championship, but don't worry about that, the main Test Matches are Internationals played between countries, they play for world ranking as well as a few special 'Series' between specific nations, the big one being 'The Ashes Test Series' between England and Australia, a Best of 5 Test Match series every ~18 months. Test format is 5 days, each team gets 2 Innings with the bat (there are some nuances that mean this isn't always the case but don't worry about that.) if neither team has won by the end of the 5th day, it ends in a tie. Then there is 'One Day' Games, this is the format the World Cup uses, 50 Overs each (300 balls), there is always a winner (if the second team doesn't catch the first teams score/are all out, they lose), this usually lasts ~8 hours. Then there is the most widely watched (and newest) format, Twenty 20 (T20 for short), each team only gets 20 Overs (120 balls), same as one day, there is always a winner. There are multiple Leagues around the world for T20, the Indian Premier League is huge, watched by millions. Theres the T20 Blast league in the UK, Caribbean Premier League etc. This is more of a 'Franchise' game that you would be used to in the States. In the UK, T20 Blast is broken up into the same Counties that play Test Matches, but they go by 'fun' names for lack of a better expression (my team Nottinghamshire County Cricket go by 'Notts Outlaws' for instance, being from the home of Robin Hood). This Format usually lasts around 4 Hours.
EDIT: Also, yes, 'The Wicket', is the thing they're stood at, made of 3 vertical 'Stumps' with 2 horizontal 'Bails' resting on top. 'A Wicket' is also the term used for getting someone out, you might see someone get out and hear commentators say something like 'Oh what a brilliant Wicket!' or 'Finally got him, they (fielding team) badly needed that Wicket'. There's lots of different ways you can be 'Out', the main one being 'Bowled', the bowler hits the Wicket directly and removes the Bails from the Stumps, could be direct hit, could slice off the bat and go behind, doesn't matter, you're out. The next, and most Common, is being 'Caught out', you swing, ball goes flying, fielder catches it before it hits the ground, or the ball just nicks the Bat and goes behind and is caught by the 'Wicket Keeper' whose stood behind the wickets. Then there's 'Run Out', you hit the ball into play, go for a run but the fielding team throws it back to the Wicket before you make the safety line (the Crease), the ball must remove the Bails from the Stumps, these can often be very impressive to watch for the coordination between the Fielders. There's also 'Stumped Out', you come forward out of your Crease to try to hit a ball which is bowled short, miss it, the ball goes to the Wicket Keeper and he pushes the Bails off with the Ball before you can return to your Crease (watch some MS Dhoni highlights for this one). Finally, there is 'Leg Before Wicket', this is quite hard to explain, but, you swing and miss, but the ball hits your leg, if it is deemed that the ball would have gone on to hit the Stumps if your leg wasn't there, you are out. This is a Decision the Umpire has to make in the moment, and Fielding Teams will 'Appeal' to him (Bowler, Wicket Keeper, close Fielders will commonly raise their hands and shout 'HOW'S THAT!?' to the Umpire to try and persuade him).
Correction; County cricket is 4 days. Only Test cricket is 5 days.
Another correction: in Test cricket, if both sides each have completed their two turns to bat (ie two innings each) and are “all out” with the total scores (1st and 2nd innings totalled) for both teams being equal, that’s a “tie” and is a very rare event. If however the match runs out of time (after 5 days) and the total of runs scored so far (in both first and second innings combined) by second side batting in their second innings has not reached their opponent’s total score (already made by that opponent in that opponent’s two innings already completed and remembering that time has run out for the match and the team batting in their second innings are not “all out” and thus have “saved their innings” and are not “all out”, the match is a “draw”.
In other words, the match has run out of time without a “result”, no-one has won, as in order to win a match in Test cricket, you need to get the other side out twice for fewer runs than your own team has achieved. A “draw” is not by any means a rare event, unfortunately. This is one of the main reasons that the shorter forms of the game of cricket (ODI or One Day Internationals and T20 limited overs cricket were developed). Results, excitement and shorter game time all guaranteed, just what Luke’s Sports Academy asked for.
You make me wanna check out cricket. You’re my favorite sports creator on TH-cam
Happy to see a supportive father of his son
Check It Out Mate , It May Be Time Taking But It's Definitely Exciting
A wicket DOES have a Double Meaning. It is the 3 stumps that you defend and the term used when a Batsman is out means his team has lost a wicket. He was talking about a One Inning game of 20 Overs per team (i.e. 120 Pitches) and in that version, you are out just once but in the 5 Day matches (between Countries only) there are 2 innings each so 2 opportunities to bat, in theory. These are played in Summer and usually are either a 3 or 5-match Series of games. After each over the FIELDERS not the Barsmen change ends so bowl the next "over" from the opposite side. You understand 1,2, 3, or 6 runs. If the ball reaches the boundaries and DOES bounce first then it is 4 runs.
I would say it has three meanings. As well as referring to the batsman's "life" and the arrangement of stumps and bails, as you mentioned, it also is used to refer to the pitch such as in "going down the wicket" to a spinner, a bowler "running on the wicket" or the wonderful expression "sticky wicket"
That the term wicket refferes to;
1) the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either ends of the pitch
2) the dismissal of a batter
3) the cricket pitch itself
must be very confusing to people not familiar to the game trying to follow the commentary.
@@RobinEvans1234 Thanks Robin.
Cricket is the second best game after football.
Spot On, Old Chap.
Laura mera
American football right?
I prefer it the other way round
Cricket and rugby are close. Both are amazing and entertaining.
There is a rope around the ground just in front of the fences, it's called the boundary. If a ball hit by the batter crosses the boundary without bouncing on the ground in the air its a 6, if it bounces before crossing the boundary, its a 4.
Also the 3 wooden stumps both sides of the pitch are called wickets. But the term wicket is also referred as an out. If the bowler hits the wicket it is also an out.
Cricket is a very intricate sport, you need to invest a bit of time to understand it fully, but it's really interesting and entertaining if you really understand the sports. It's the most mentally demanding outfield sport. In a traditional test match they play a combined of 40 hours spanning five days. 8 hours each day with 2 breaks of 30 minutes. And during the whole 40 hours at least 13 of the players need to be on their toes. And the fun part is that if a team plays better in the first 4 days, and plays casually for the first 30 minutes of the 5th day, they can lose the match.
It's also probably the only outfield sport where the decisions of the captains of each team is very important, and there are particular powers in the hands of the captain which he has to exercise perfectly throughout the game to grind out the result.
It doesn't seem to be a very physical sport but the batters can actually get major injuries by the ball. The ball is made of cork and covered by a thin layer of leather. And it's really hard. And a bowler(pitcher) can legally throw the ball at any body parts of the batter. There are bowlers in every team who bowls(pitches) constantly around 80-90 miles an hour.
You can start with T20. It lasts about 3.5-4 hour max. Once you get the basics then go for the test. T20 is 100m dash and Test is Endurance race. Best of luck.
Next video u should react to Australian Football AFL reckon you’ll enjoy
Keep a lookout 👀 in the near future
@@lukessportsacademy th-cam.com/video/ZXFP5Bjq7TA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=H9FNY2nuGH0KgSIJ watch this guy also don’t watch the recent what is AFL video made by the AFL themselves it’s cringe and cheesy unless u can handle it There’s a older one from 12 years ago
@@lukessportsacademy A wicket DOES have a Double Meaning. It is the 3 stumps that you defend and the term used when a Batsman is out means his team has lost a wicket. He was talking about a One Inning game of 20 Overs per team (i.e. 120 Pitches) and in that version, you are out just once but in the 5 Day matches (between Countries only) there are 2 innings each so 2 opportunities to bat, in theory. These are played in Summer and usually are either a 3 or 5-match Series of games. After each over the FIELDERS not the Barsmen change ends so bowl the next "over" from the opposite side. You understand 1,2, 3, or 6 runs. If the ball reaches the boundaries and DOES bounce first then it is 4 runs.
@lukessportsacademy How are you sir? I have found a very good cricket video for you to react to that will help clear all confusion and your questions about the sport game called cricket. Look Up a cricket video called Cricket explained for Baseball fans (by youtuber Sports explained). TH-camr sports explained for the cricket video is the original youtuber that will explain it all clear to you.
he explained it pretty well, just watch some highlights of a T20 game you'll get the interest (because T20 is the shortest format, so you can expect the players to hit big and long shots)
It was a total mess so confusing and boring. Never let an American explain anything as so poor at explaining anything.
When I was at Uni in the late 90s, I took my American roommate to watch all 5 days of a Test. He genuinely couldn't understand how a game can last 5 days yet end in a draw!
skill
The wicket is the set of sticks the batsman is essentially defending when he's up to bat (there's a set at each and of the pitch). One of the ways to get a batsman out is for the bowler to bowl down the wicket with his delivery (pitch). This is basically like striking a batter out. So this is a batsman's first duty, i.e., to stop the bowler knocking down his wicket. There are other ways to get out, of course, like getting caught out etc. But when a batsman is put out, in one of the various ways, he is said to have then 'lost his wicket' and the bowler/fielding side has 'taken the wicket'. That's why there is more than one use of the term 'wicket'. Hope this helps! 👍
You have a good grasp of it. A dot ball is just a wasted scoring opportunity. When you are trying to scaore as many runs as possible, they all add up. However a wicket (an out) is the main aim of the fielding team.
As you mentioned there are various formats of Cricket. T20 games take about 4 hours, ODI games take about 8 hours, Test Matches, take up to 5 days.
There was recently an American cricket league playing T20 games called Major League Cricket. Keep an eye out for it next year.
Wicket can mean various things in cricket:
1. It can refer to the pitch they are playing on.
2. It can mean the physical wicket (made up of stumps and bails) that the batsman is trying to protect.
3. I can just mean an "out" (which I guess is the same result as failing to protect point 2 above).
You may like watching some highlight videos, such as best run-outs, best catches, biggest shots.
To be fair that's one of the most informative breakdowns iv seen, you obviously won't learn the intricacies of the game without properly watching, but the terminology is all there, also interesting to see that was Max Chu batting there, he plays for an amateur club down the road from me in the summer here in England and smashes runs for fun!
Baseball+logic = cricket 🏏
Wicket is an often used term with many uses.
1, A wicket is a single piece of wood uses as a target to be hit by the ball.
2. A wicket is also the strip of land between two sets of three wickets placed adjacent with two caps or bails.
If a ball from the bowler hits and disturbs a bail, the batsman is deemed out, bowled by the bowler.
If the batsman hits the ball, he has the option to run from one end to the other, provided the non sticking batsman runs from the other end, in tandem.
They can run a total of six runs per ball, however this is extremely rare.
If the batsman hits the ball and it clears the boundary rope, without hitting the ground he scored six runs with one stroke. If it crosses the rope but has touched the ground the batsman has scored four runs.
If a fielder catches the ball before it hits the ground the batsman is out and leaves the field, credited with the runs he has amassed.
Occasionally the ball, when bowled will hit a batsman pad, which then passes the fielders, and crosses the boundary this becomes four extra runs, added to the teams score as leg byes. If the ball evades the fielder and the pads it is a bye and is credited as whatever value gets run by the batsmen.
It's a very simple game with very complex rules.
Cricket is played on an oval shaped field. The area in the middle is called the pitch, at each end of the pitch there is a set of wickets; the wickets comprise of 3 stumps with 2 bails sitting atop, the bowler(pitcher) aims to dislodge either or both bails. In front of each wicket there is a line drawn across the pitch, called a crease; while the batsmen are between the wicket and the crease, they are safe. Each team comprises of 11 players and 1 emergency. The bowling team endeavours to get 10 players out, that is known as an Innings. Once one team has had there innings at the bat, they then become the fielding team; and the first fielding team now become the batting team.
The game your watching is a limited over game. So both side can play in the day
5 day matches are test cricket!
The wickets are the sticks in the ground at each end of the pitch, batters protect the wickets bowlers try to knock them over. Bails are smaller sticks that sit on top of the wickets knock them off within the rules and you have the wicket of the person who was defending said wicket and is considered out.
The one major thing missing from the video is any action at the wicket itself; the three sticks with two smaller stick balancing on top. This physical target is one of the best things about cricket (IMO). If the bowler (pitcher) hits it, the batter is out. The wicket keeper behind can also catch the ball and stump him out by putting the ball on the wicket when the batter is outside the safe zone, or the fielders can even catch the ball and throw it at the wicket to get the batter out (again if he's outside his line). It doesn't happen too often but when it does it's high drama. :D
You need to watch more cricket videos. It's a great game. From entertainment side and also the tactical side. There is a lot more to cricket than in this video.
4:38 in a limited overs competition, like the one in this example, a dot ball becomes more significant the closer you get to the end of the game, when you’re chasing a total e.g. at the end of that over, they have to get 10 runs off the last 6 balls.
The 2 limited overs versions of the game are either 50 overs a side or 20 overs a side, both lasting a day or less. Test cricket, some say the highest form, is up to 5 days, with up to 2 innings per side, depending on how well either of the sides bat.
1:20 - The wickets are the 3 poles on each end in the safe zone. Later in the video at around this time stamp:
9:30 - You hear that an out is also a wicket. That is basically because to get an out you have to either catch the ball before it hits the ground after the batter hits it, or hit the 3 poles (That being the wickets) behind the batter. so that is why an out is called a wicket. If the Bowler hits the batter's legs without the batter touching the ball with the bat, and the empire judges that the ball would have hit the wicket if the batter was not there, that is also a wicket.
3:10 - In the 5 day variant he will get a second chance after both teams have batted through once. So a 5 day game is a 2 inning game in terms of baseball. This however is a 20 over variant, which is a 1 inning game and takes about an hour or 2 to complete.
4:30 - Yes, in a limited over game like this 20/20 match, which is a 20 over match, an over being 6 pitches, called balls., each dot ball is a missed opportunity, but you would rather have that than a wicket. Unless it is the last ball and the last run of the match to win, then a dot ball and a out is the same thing.
6:57 - I suggest looking for the 20/20 variants of the game which only takes about 2 hours to complete.
There is also a 50 over variant called a one day match which takes all day.
Ps: When they say the batter is standing at the wicket, he is standing in front of the 3 poles, inside the safe zone called a crease.
Wicket can be interchangeable which makes it more confusing.
The wicket: can be the brown area on the ground where the bowler bowls the ball at the batsmen (I prefer the term Pitch for this area)
The wickets: are the 3 vertical pieces of wood placed close together at each end of the pitch, the 2 horizontal pieces of wood are called the bails
A wicket: is the term given when a batsman is given out i.e. "The last wicket fell to a fantastic catch"
There's a world cup happening in America for 20-over cricket next year too, so this is a good time to get your head around the rules, and play for a bit, see what the hypest teams are, etc.
the biggest misconception of cricket is its of 5 days.
It isnt.
there are 3 formats, "Test matches" being 5 days, which are not frequent nowadays due to the low viewership.
ODIs (One Day Internationals) are the main ones, played over the course of about a max of 8 hrs and the smallest is T20s which are 20 over matches, less than 3-4 hrs.
Mostly people play and watch t20s and ODIs.
The 5 day ones arent watched much.
Those are just the ICC international matches; there are many other "formats" (but short games like T-20 or T-10 aren't really cricket)
Thankyou Jomboy for helping promote the Gentleman's game, CRICKET.
Test cricket (red ball) - up to 5 days, ODI (One day international) (white ball) - 50 overs, T20 (Twenty-twenty) (white ball) - 20 overs.
The game being used is a 20 overs game, that is each team faces 20 overs; the team that makes the most runs wins, this type of Cricket is called T20. Cricket can also be played with 50 over games, and is called One Day or 50/50. The longest and oldest form of Cricket is Test Cricket, and can take up to 5 days; in that time each team has the ability to bat twice, these are called innings.
A wicket is an out, but the same term is used to refer to the pitch, the 22 yard rectangular part where they bowl (pitch) and bat upon. Yeah, we also call the wicket a pitch, in order to confuse the yanks. The game you watched is a 20 over (120 pitches, deliveries, bowls + plus extra bowls if the delivery is wide or the bowler steps over his line) which lasts about 3.5 hours. The 50 over game lasts 1 day (around 9 hours). Tests last up to 5 days (max) and requires each team to bat out 2 times with as many overs (set of 6 pitches) as are required in that time. The 20 over matches are probably the easiest way for a newbie to be introduced to the sport, which is second only to Soccer in International popularity as a sport.
One of the best video explaining cricket
Wicket is a confusing term. It refers to outs, to the three stumps in the ground at each end (which is probably where the out term came from because if the bowler hits your wicket you're out bowled) and it can also refer to the strip of grass they're playing on but that is now more commonly called the pitch.
I know almost nothing about cricket as well eventhough some of my family members are obsessed with it lol. Looking forward to learning about it with you.
Cricket is nothing like baseball except that there is a bat and ball involved! I get so mad when people try to compare the two. Firstly the field is the 'cricket ground', the strip in the middle where the players stand and run is the 'pitch'. Secondly, The wickets are the 2 sets of 3 stumps with BALES (not bails) on them. Finally, The terms for the players (proper terminology, that is, are bowlers, batsmen, fielders, wicket keepers, umpires. I learned the game by watching it (the 5 day tests) for a long time. I am over 70. The more exciting 1 day game and then the T20 came along much later. But watch and learn for yourself, don't rely on others to teach you as it can be misleading.
Use of term wicket in cricket: When a player gets out his team loose 1 wicket out of 10 wickets bcz 11 players are in each team, and they always play in pair if 10 gets out which means if they lost 10 wickets the remaining one can't bat alone, therefore there innings end there, wickets is also the term used for the 3 wooden sticks on each end which are more technically called stumps
The basic rules of cricket can be summarised as follows:
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 is 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 them out, and when he is out he goes in and the next batter 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!
I really can't understand why so many people get so confused.... 😀
You should watch cricket explained for baseball fans. That is a much better video to understand cricket as a game.
"Wicket" has 3 meanings (I think) firstly, it's the actual apparatus at either end, made up of 3 "Stumps" and 2 'Bails" that's the "Wicket" also the word "Wicket" can be used in parlance to describe the actual playing surface. "It's a hot day and the "Wicket" is dry and cracked", or "there's been lots of rain and the Wicket is green and soft". Wicket is also used when a Batsman is "out" (He lost his "Wicket" for 50 runs)....... oh yeah, it's also used to describe how many Batsmen any particular Bowler got out (He got 3 "wickets" for 50 runs) So the term "Wicket" describes the apparatus itself and the Batsmen using it.
The area where the batsman is facing a ball, at both ends, is called the batting crease. A wicket is the 3 stumps in the ground that the batter defends. If a ball delivery hits the stumps the batsman is giving out and the fielding team take 1 wicket. If a ball delivery is missed by the bat and hits the batters leg pads, depending on the line of the ball it is also given as a wicket and is called and LBW "Leg Before Wicket".
Think of Test Cricket (5 day cricket) as a series in Baseball, but it just happens to be classed as one game. The length of play in a single day is not far off a double header
There are different types of formats test last for 5day's
ODI (one day international) for 6 or 7hour's
T20 3hour's only (popular one)
All three formats have different world cup's
Wicket=out. Wicket=any one of the three sticks the batsman is defending (or all of them together are a wicket). Wicket is sometimes also used to refer to the playing surface. And the super-smooth grass playing surface between the two ends is, confusingly for baseball fans, referred to as a pitch.
Dot balls build pressure on the batting team to score in limited overs cricket (20 over games and 50 over games) you need to score quickly with the limited balls you get so the batter will do something dumb and try and play a shot he shouldn’t and get himself out. Not such a problem in test cricket where you have all day. Dot balls can be good in test cricket to wear the bowler down and create bad bowling to allow easier shots especially as the ball gets older.
Good review and the original also did a great job for a non traditional cricket audience to follow (he was up front about interchanging baseball terminology so they could follow).
A T20 match lasts about 3 hours, in which each team bats for 20 Overs(unless you lose 10 batsmen first) then fields for 20 Overs. An ODI match lasts about 7 hours, in which each team bats for 50 Overs(unless you lose 10 batsmen first) then field for 50 Overs. First Class/Test matches can last up to 5 days(around 6 hours per day), in which each team will bat in four alternating Innings(two per team) and 90 Overs must be bowled per day; teams alternate between batting and fielding, and an Innings is completed when a team loses 10 batsmen OR the reach a high enough score and declare that Innings. The team with the most number of runs at completion of the match, is the winner.
Just need to point out that an over contains 6 legal deliveries. What that means is, if you bowl an illegal delivery it doesn't count towards the over and you have to go back and bowl it again.
An illegal delivery is a no ball, a wide ball, a beamer or a ball that doesn't bounce, a leg bye (hits the batsmen on the body) or and this is very rare but has happened in a game, the bowler gets called on chucking which is a call by the umpire regarding the illegal action of the bowlers arm.
One of the longest overs was bowled by the legendary Curtly Ambrose. He kept overstepping the crease in a One Day match in Australia and his over consisted of 15 deliveries.
Typically a ball that doesnt bounce is called a full toss, if its above waist height then its a beamer which is an illegal delivery (and a no ball). Not sure why you think a leg bye is an illegal delivery, its when the batsmen's body is hit and a run or runs are taken. It has nothing to do with the delivery being bowled and doesnt result in the ball needing to be bowled again
In the middle of the Oval is a rectangular shape called The Pitch, at each end of the pitch are a set of wickets which comprise of three wooden Stumps in the ground with two wooden Bails resting on top of the stumps; in front of each wicket is a line called the Popping Crease, which provides the safe area for the batsmen to run to. When a batsman is OUT it is called Taking a Wicket.
The first definition of "wicket" is the arrangement of three vertical wooden stumps ('poles') with two small wooden cross pieces (bails) on the top which are at at each end of the pitch behind the batsmen. The batsman's aim is to prevent the ball from hitting that 'wicket' AND try to score runs whilst doing it. If the bowler (pitcher) hits the wicket the batsman is out.
However the term 'wicket' is also used as a metaphor for when a batsman gets out, 'he has lost his wicket' and the fielding team 'has taken a wicket' To end the batting team's innings the fielding side have to 'take 10 wickets'.
One thing you didn't catch about the length of games is that this match is a very shortened format of cricket. This is restricted to each side being limited to batting for only 20 overs. It's called a T20 game and would normally last for around three hours or so. The key to this format is to take more risks to score as quickly as you can to reach a total the chasing team cannot reach in the available overs. If you take too many risks against good bowling and fielding it can backfire on you as you lose 'wickets' too quickly and end up short of a defendable score.
As a very experience follower of the game there were two things that caught my eye looking at the scorecard. One was, obviously, the 62 runs scored by Broom who held the innings together but 'run rate' is a vital matter in these short games and you will see that Johnson scored 25 from only 13 balls. Without his effort the batsmen at the end would probably have been chasing too many in too few balls.
BTW in cricket it is always 'innings' plural, never 'inning' singular.
WICKETs are the 3 wooden sticks batsman is standing in front of. The goal of the batsman is to guard them while scoring runs. If it directly hits them it is out. Bowled out. So usually when a batsman gets out even if its catch. People use the term wicket is lost.
Youre absolutely right, a dot ball is just a waster opportunity to score for the batting team. Not getting out (protecting your wicket) is the batters main goal. Though in short formats of cricket like this too many dot balls can quickly add up to defeat.
The sticks on either side of the pitch are the physical wickets. And figuratively the 10 batsmen are 10 “wickets” for the bowling side, so that’s why each out is considered a wicket. The place where the batsmen are safe at is called a crease. “They are at the crease”.
Now, you can get a batsman out in a few ways:
1. Bowled: This is equivalent to a strike where the pitcher hits the physical wicket that the batsman is defending during the pitch.
2. Caught Out: This is when the batsman hits the ball and is either caught by the wicket keeper ( who stands behind the wickets) or the pitcher or any of the 8 fielders on the ground.
3. Run out: This is when the physical wickets are hit during a run before the batman reaches the crease.
4. LBW(Leg Before Wicket): This is when a batsman who is facing the pitcher blocks the ball from the pitcher with anything other than the bat. (usually its the legs .. so lbw). The condition however is the trajectory of the ball should’ve been so that had the batter not used his leg to block, it would’ve hit the physical wickets behind the batter.
This decision is usually made by the Umpire who stands opposite the batter.
Coming to the question of formats, there are 3 commonly played ones:
1. Twenty-Twenty (T20): Its the shortest format and most exciting of the 3, with 20 overs for each team in the game.
(The 20 overs for each team is called an innings so these matches have 2 innings per game).
2. One Day International (ODI): It was the popular version before the T20 was introduced. It has 50 overs per team in the game.
3. Test Cricket: This is the version that goes on for 5 days. Two innings are played per team. There is no limit on the overs. Its how early one side can get the all the players on the opposite side out.
Team 1 (1st innings and 3rd innings), Team 2 (2nd innings and 4th innings).
Usually the team that bats is considered having the innings.
So there is a coin toss before a match starts to decide who bats/bowls first.
The test match is the one people picture when the think of cricket where all the players wear all whites and play. This the oldest format of cricket.
This format tests the technique of the batters and bowlers to the limit, hence Test Match.
Cricket rules are hard to understand without the American guy attempting to explain the rules. 🤣
The wicket are the three poles which are called stumps and the bails rest on top of the stumps. A wicket also means a batter is out. As the presenter said an over consists of six pitches but if the bowler bowls a foul bowl which are called wides or a no ball then the bowler has to bowl again. A wide is a ball that is considered too far for the batter to hit. A no ball is where the bowler oversteps the bowling line or if it is considered too high for the batter to hit. If a no ball or a wide is bowled then an extra run is added to the batting total. So if a bowler bowled 4 dot balls a wide and a no ball then the bowler would have to bowl 8 deliveries instead of six.
Wicket is where batter is standing. So... think this way..
Batter is no longer standing at wicket once he/she is out. So... when bowler took wicket means he/she got batter out and same batter will not be standing at the wicket anymore, hence took a wicket (as a metaphor).
A WICKET is basically the 3 pieces of wood stuck in the ground at either end of the batting pitch. Each of the 3 sticks individually is called a STUMP & the 3 stumps together held by 2 horizontal prices of wood atop them, is called a WICKET.
Now, when a ball is bowled at the Batsman and he misses to hit it & the ball hits the 3 stumps/Wicket, it means the batsman has been 'BOWLED OUT'. This is one of the ways of getting a Batsman declared out. It also means the batting side has now lost "A WICKET". In 1 game (such as the one in the video), each side bats for 1 innings of 20 overs (20 overs * 6 balls/pitches per over = 120 balls/pitches). This is known as T20 or Twenty20 cricket & is the shortest format of the game lasting a total of 3-4 hours. In 1 innings, there are a total of 10 wickets that a team can lose while batting, before the team is declared ALL OUT. So in essence there are 10 OUTS or 10 WICKETS for each side. Once all the 10 Batsmen are declared OUT, the batting side is done. 1st innings is over. Then comes the team that was initally bowling. In the 2nd innings, this team now has to bat & their target is to surpass the runs scored by the batting side in the 1st innings, in order to win the match.
There are multiple ways of a batsman getting out, one such way shown in the video is the batsman flicking the ball in the air and the ball being caught by a fielder while its in the air (basically ball must be caught before it touches the ground). That is what is called being CATCH OUT. It also means that a WICKET is down for the batting side or that they have lost a WICKET. Lose all 10 wickets & you are done. Think of it this way, each time a batsman stands in front of the Wicket/3 Stumps to bat, he is there not only to score runs, but also to guard those 3 stumps from being hit with the ball. He is basically trying to score runs while also protecting "THE WICKET'. In case, he gets out by any one of the numeruous techniques in Cricket, he has now LOST HIS WICKET. There are many other ways of losing a wicket/being out, such as BEING CAUGHT BEHIND, BEING RUN OUT, BEING LBWed, HIT WICKET, OBSTRUCTING THE FIELD etc.
Feel free to ask any questions.
A wicket has multiple meanings. 1. An out. 2. the pieces of wood ( stumps andbails) that pitchers try to hit. 3. The 22 yard long patch of ground where the batter and pitchers stand and run.
The no 11 for otago Duffy We had his brother as an overseas player a few years ago. He was a batsmen and such a nice bloke and brought his fiancé pver to. Man could he hit a ball
The biggest hurdle can be the terminology. Yeah, the term "wicket" can have multiple meanings. The most obvious is connected to the "out" term of baseball, the batman (or woman) then LOSES their "wicket" and the bowler TAKES their "wicket". Wicket is a term that also applies to the pitch, specifically the rectangular highlighted area between the batters. That whole area is often also referred to as the "wicket", you can have good "wickets" for batting on and good "wickets" for bowling on. It takes a bit of getting used to haha
Wickets - Originally the set of sticks pounded into the ground. (Itself made up of stumps and bails).
Over time, it has also come to mean an Out. (because the original way of getting an out was to hit the wickets).
Sometimes it is loosely used to mean the general batting/safe zone behind the crease (aka the line).
If you think of it this way it helps : the batsman is there to protect his wicket (the stumps) Therefore if he’s out he’s lost his wicket. The bowler has taken a wicket. The other function of the batsman is ,of course, to score runs.
There are three formats of cricket.
20-20 where each side bats and bowls for 20 overs. No bowler (pitcher) can bowl more than 4 overs. The side which scores more runs than the opponents wins.
Limited Overs Cricket, known as One Day International Cricket if it is played between national teams. Here each teams bats and bowls for 50 overs and bowlers are only allowed to bowl a maximum of ten overs.
Finally there is Test Cricket which is an international game which lasts for five days. The playing time on each day lasts for six hours with breaks for lunch and tea. To win a Test Match you have to bowl the opposition out twice and score more runs than they do.There are no restrictions on the number of overs a bowler can bowl. I prefer this form of cricket because the initiative shifts from one team to the other as play progresses. I don't think that anybody watches the game for the whole 30 hours, the cost would be prohibitive for a start!
It's great to see more and more Americans exploring cricket - it's truly a great game!
Plus the first ever international cricket match was between the US and Canada in 1844, at the St George's Cricket club in New York - so it's a bit of a mystery why cricket is such a surprise to north americans...
You should try the IPL (India Premier League), it's 20/20, fast action, great crowds, a real show!
And this year saw the launch of Major League Cricket in the US, so here's hoping it really catches on!
FWIW, that "first" (it wasn't actually) game between the US and Canada became an irregularly-played continuing match (now series) between the two, the Auty Cup (last played in 2017, which the US won).
The simplest way I can put it is, the batting team are trying to score as many runs as possible and the fielding team are trying to get all the batters out as quickly as possible. The World Cup going on at the minute is 50 overs each. So the team that bat first will bat until all 50 overs are complete or until all 10 batsman are out. Teams will often elect to field first so they know what they’re chasing when they’re batting. Then when it’s the fielders turn to to bat, they’ll once again bat until all 50 overs are complete or all 10 batsman are out, but also until they’ve caught the oppositions runs target or until they can’t catch. So say they get to the last over, they need 40 runs but the max they can get is 36. It’s an interesting game that can go from a bit tedious to unbelievable entertainment in the space of one ball. Like all sport once you understand what’s happening and why, it’s brilliant to watch.
Something I’ve just remembered to say about the score card at the end. If both teams are all out, the team with the most runs are declared winners by however many runs. So 373/10 beat 271/10 by 102 runs. If the team catch the runs then they’re declared winners by however many wickets. So 381/6 beat 379/10 by 4 wickets.
A wicket is another term for out, it’s more used in terms of the ball hits the stumps and the stumps are the thing’s behind the batter
Wicket: (1) the three sticks in the ground; (2) the brown strip of ground in the middle of the field around which all play is centred (also called the pitch); (3) when a batter gets out (called fall of wicket / the batting team has "lost a wicket").
The wicket is the set of three stumps and bails at each end of the 22 yard strip . You hit them when you bowl the batsman is out . To confuse matters the playing pitch is called the wicket . Also if the bowler hits the wicket it's called a wicket too . Easy to understand so far . There are many different versions of cricket , firstly at the top of the game are 5 day Test matches with 2 innings each . Then the 4 day First class games also 2 innings each . Then 50 over each team one innings each . These can also be 40 overs each . Then comes 20 over each side games called T20 which takes about 3.5 hours . Then a new competition where only 10 overs per side are used called T10 . There are other versions with 6 a side being popular .
Each team consist of 11 players which are specialists, Batsman(batter or hitter), bowlers(pitchers) and the Wicket Keeper(catcher). A team needs at least 5 people that can bowl(pitch), who each can bowl a maximum of a 1/5th of the overs, 4 for T20 and 10 for ODI (one day Internationals).
The same people who field also have to bat, so the bowlers(pitchers) also have to bat, this is why taking wickets(Outs) is important because you are getting out they best players to score "Runs".
So the example in the video when the team was 7 wickets down the 2 batsmen (Chu and McKenize) are specialist bowlers, but are still professional cricketers and can hit Sixes(Home Runs).
There are subsitutions but that is only allowed if there is an injury.
Good time to get into cricket. Officially an Olympic sport for LA2028
6:58 The format you're watching is called T20, it's already short, takes about 3 hrs.
9:30 Some terminologies have more than 1 meaning, that is to say they're used to refer to more than just 1 thing in the game. Wicket means the wooden Stumps & the fall of Wicket i.e. getting Out. The playing area is called the Pitch, the Wicket or rarely the Square.
In 1939 South Africa and England played a match which lasted 10 days - and still had no winner (a draw). England had to get over 700 runs to win and were over 600 with wickets to spare when the match was ended because the English team's ship had to leave the harbour. They don't make them like that any more!
Wickets are the 3 stumps at each end. The batsman has to protect his wicket because if the bowler hits the wicket the batsman is out. This is where an out gets called a wicked.
If you just watch a few T20 matches you'll get the key themes quickly enough. But remember, T20 and 1 day internationals (50 over games) are artificially limited games. Both have fielding restrictions for a set number of overs, bowlers are limited to 4 overs in T20's and 10 overs in ODIs which means you can't stack your teams with specialist batters. Generally these are batter's games. They're designed to encourage big hitting, lofted shots and high scoring per over. If you ever progress to Test cricket there are no such artificial limits. Each team can bat twice and it's normally a much more balanced contest between bat and ball. There are 4 basic types of cricketers - specialist bowlers (Probably your 9, 10 and 11 batters, your all rounders who bat and bowl (very valuable), your wicketkeeper (the only fielder allowed to wear gloves) who catches the ball behind the stumps and can generally bat a bit, and the specialist batters whose job it is to score the bulk of the runs.
Hey Luke, very interesting video. I would like to inform you that the ICC (International Cricket Council) is the governing body of international cricket much like FIFA is for soccer. The current ICC World Cup that is going on in India is the 50-over format World Cup. Next year, the ICC is organizing the 20-over Cricket World Cup in the United States! It would be amazing if US gets big on cricket.
It's 75yrds from the bowlers pitch to the wicket. So the runners are running 75 yards from one end to the other. A dot ball is a run that the batting team won't get. If they are chasing 20 runs to win, every dot ball is very costly. Remember there are only so many balls bowled, depending on which format of the game they are playing. The only game that is played over a number of days it Test Cricket, there are also limited over games. Those games are played over a few hours & are a faster game.
Wicket has many meanings.
The pitch itself ( mown grass ) is called a wicket, a cricket wicket .
The stumps and bails are The Wicket .
The batsman protects 2 wickets.....the stumps themselves, and his session at bat.
When he is out, then he has LOST his wicket.
The bowler is always trying to take the batsman's wicket ( get him out ).
In short matches wickets dont count......runs win the game.
In Test Match cricket, you must take 20 wickets to win the game......and make more runs.
So......if you make 100 more runs but do not get the other side out twice ( 20 wickets ) , it is a drawn game.
If you get them out twice, but dont make more runs, it is a drawn game.
If the game ends with both teams on the same number of runs, that is NOT a drawn game.....that is a tied game, and wickets mean NOTHING .
If there's anyone in here NOT from a cricketing background, I'm about to confuse you even more.
The first class format, the test matches are technically NOT just played by national teams, each of the big cricketing nations have a first class series, here in Oz its called Sheffield Shield, which is the location competion which each state in oz has a team, the player from the national team will play every so often.
All the big nations that play test matches will have their own domestic competitions, when its summer, in that part of the world.
And yes some of the big name players in test cricket do play in the different domestic series around the world.
For instance in England its called county cricket.
Players play in the different domestic series to hone their skills because yes each format is different & has different rules, the basic foundation of the game is all the same.
One difference is in test cricket a player can be in batting for a day and a half, where T20 & 50 over cricket, no chance.
Hope this helps, but I'm guessing I've probably confused someone even more.
there are 3 wickets"
the pitch (what you called the board ) that they are playing on is also called the wicket.
the three vertical sticks ("stumps") behind the batsman (that the bowler aims at (oversimplified)) are also called the batsman's wicket.
an out is called a wicket in cricket.
Didn't mention that if the ball crosses the boundary but bounces first it's 4 runs as opposed to 6 if it clears the boundary
9:52 wicket is: 1) an out; 2) the combination of stumps and bails at each end; 3) the whole pitch between the stumps.
American cricket fan here. Wicket means different things, depending on context.
The wickets are the 3 sticks on each side and they use the term wicket as an out because its the same outcome as a wicket when they catch the ball while its in the air or when they throw it at the wicket before they make it back to the line
This match is T 20 (or Twenty/Twenty) format, where each team has twenty overs to either get as many runs as they can, or restrict the other team to fewer runs. Usually lasts an afternoon or evening.
the batsmans is defending his wicket (the three posts with bails across the top) - if the bowlers team get the batsman out, they are said to have 'taken his wicket'
sometimes the ball will physically hit the wicket, knocking the bails to the floor, or the batsman can be caught out, or he can be run out by his partner - where both of them end up running to the same end of the crease
Think of the wicket (as in the poles in the ground) as belonging to the batter. The bowler is attacking it, and the batter is defending it. If the batter is got 'out', the bowler has taken his wicket. And, yes, the poles in the ground are aka 'stumps', and the grass they're standing on is aka the wicket...
in this format there will be 5 bowlers who will get 4 overs each ( 20) each team bats once and fields once, highest score wins.
The cricket world cup is currently going on, I would recommend that you watch it. It's getting spicy and from here on out will only get spicier as three teams, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and New Zealand, are all playing their final group stage matches to determine which one of them joins India, South Africa, and Australia in the Semi-Finals.
The term wicket is used in four general ways. "The wicket" is a general term for the pitch including both sets of stumps. "hit the wickets", the bowler bowled the ball in such a manner that the batter missed his strike and the ball hit the wickets. "Wikets" a set of three stumps with two bails on top. One could also "take a wicket" any way in which the fielding side gets an out, there are 11 way's to get out in cricket. Hope this helps.
You should do a part 2 for cricket, a follow up on this one
You're said to lose your wicket when you're out, as when the ball hits the wicket you're out.
The wickets, are the 3 sticks in the ground. The wicket is also the stretch of ground the bowl on. And when you get someone out is called a wicket.
Wicket - is: The tree stumps at each end. If those stumps are broken either by cough 'the pitcher' direct from the pitch then it is classed as an out or wicket. If the stumps are thrown down by a fielder while the batsman is OUTSIDE of the white line in front of the wicket, that is also an out. (or 'Run out' Usual for catches on the Full in the field. Batsmen can also be out by breaking their own Wicket in error, (Hit Wicket) almighty swing miss the ball completely whack the Stumps = out.
This sort of game T20 (20 overs or 120 balls) is an afternoon game. There are lots of different formats the 5 Day version is called a TEST. because it is. Both sides get 2 opportunities to bat.
This is aT20 (Twenty-20) over match where each tteam only gets 20 overs each and the match only lasts for 3 hours.
What you need to know about cricket , is that , Fundamentally, Batting is completely different to Baseball , in Baseball you hit thru a strike zone , but not so in cricket as you must face every ball , and two Opening batsmen , will Open (start) the innings , Opener's, and they must basically make runs , and stay in , so everyball you must put your body. Behind the line of the balls , 6 balls per over , rotate the strike , score a signal get to non strikers end , body gets hit alot some days when its bouncing irregularity, cutting off the seam , or a crack on a good batting length , so ball shyness becomes a reality , whack , on fingers holding bat , hurts , get hit in the head , i never wore a helmet , bad habits , so the wicket ( pitch )is playing difficult , we are 4 wickets (batsmen)down for not many runs , so protect the wickets (stumps) when you bat ,and don't lose your wicket ( dont go out ) and play inside the line , so , know where your stumps are , if it missing , bouncing too high , just leave them , so a lot of batsmen move away from the ball , so not to get hit by ball , but if not eyes behind the direction it coming It'll hit you A thick edge , flys into your face , batting in cricket is deadly , so be realistic , some blokes bowl fast real fast , it understang ball shyness and dealing with it cheers
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Key thing to know Is that the Batsman is defending the Wicket from the Bowler, also key to understand is the financial dominance of India across all formats of the game. Keeping in US friendly terms, India are a significant majority of the TV market for Cricket which gives them a lot of power in the game. The Indian Premier League is their T20 competition and similar to US Sports it operates a Franchise system.
There is a brand new version of the game called The 100. So each team only bowls 100 balls (20 overs of 5 balls an over). So that is a very fast paced game