Mate its cricket season here in Australia we are playing India it's 28 deg Celsius I have a tinny in my hand watching it on the telly. I'm in heaven. 😊
ENG (is short for England) and their progressive score is 2 (wickets or outs) for 145 runs (at this point in their innings).. England are batting (2 players in the middle with bats & pads) and the fielders and bowler etc are the Aussies. "Vince & Root" are the names of the two batsmen and their individual score is listed next to their name. The "*" indicates who is facing the bowler (pitcher). Hazelwood is the name of the bowler and his progressive stats for this game are displayer. All players wear "white" in the TEST version of the game (which can last up to 5 days)
"why are they all wearing white, how are you supposed to tell them apart?" ryan they're all on the same team apart from the two guys holding cricket bats and the umpire.
Yep, one team bowls and fields, while the 2 batters are from the opposite team. Also traditional uniforms for cricket were originally all white. Similar to original tennis game uniforms were all white. Also you queried the batter that hesitated to run. She didn’t think the hit warranted a safe single run, so hesitated. However, the opposite batter ran, forcing the hitter to try to run. The two batters are expected to consider whether the hit warrants a single run or more before moving so as not to jeopardise their safety.
Umpires. There are always two, the square leg and the bowler's end. We don't talk about the 3rd Umpire up in his booth with the slow-motion screens and Snicko.
Years agoI saw a skit as a kid (80's era) a great skit about a wife that had never been to the cricket before and the husband was explaining it.. one part(and it was all hilarious and went for a while) "Where's he going?" "He's going in" "But I thought he just got in" "He did. But then he got out for a duck. So now he has to go in. " Well that not very team spirited of him to go out just because someone got him duck.. there's on 2 against 11 and that doesn't seem fair any way" (Man goes on to explain a duck etc)
Ryan, there's no such thing as a "double play" in cricket, like there is in baseball. As soon as one batter is out, the play ends, until a new batter comes in to replace them and the bowler bowls again. In the play that you thought was a "double play", where the bowler caught the ball and then threw it at the stumps, the batter had actually hit the ball downwards into the ground, and the bowler caught it on the bounce. So the catch didn't count as an "out" - if it had, the bowler wouldn't have bothered throwing the ball at the stumps. Either way, it was an incredible piece of athleticism from the bowler.
Just about every suburb and country town has cricket and football teams. Once you leave high school there are many opportunities to continue playing team sports. It doesn’t matter what level you are there is always a team for you.
You are correct about playing from a young age. In the 70's I was a P.E. teacher in high school in Australia and we had several US PE teachers come out on an exchange scheme. All superb athletes, great basketball players etc but when playing cricket not one of them could master the bowling action. It was so funny to watch.
I’m a girl and I played mixed indoor cricket in my 20’s for years and I could never master bowling, but apparently my dad in his younger days bowled a mean googly. Mixed cricket was bloody dangerous, got hit in the boob with a bat which left a huge bruise, and copped a ball to the eye and got a shiner and had to see a specialist. The guys just would belt it while girls are fielding and we’d just try to get out of the way. It really was lethal. Mind you, I played indoor netball in my 30’s and some of those girls were as rough as bags, it they would be sent off. One hit my sister and it was nearly a brawl, not a good look when I worked at the local police station 😂
The white kit is usually reserved for the longer game in cricket, like the 5 day Test matches are played between different countries. The shorter versions like ODI (One day cricket match) and even shorter versions known as T20 (lt takes roughly 3 hrs to complete a game) are played in colourful kit.
The green cap is a traditional Aussie hat more commonly known as the 'Baggy Green', they are given to players when inaugurated into the test squad, they are all numbered and receiving one is a big deal, you only get one for your whole test career. You'll see some that are well faded and worn out on players that have been around a long time.
Actually iirc these days they get a new one each Test, but they only every wear the first one because tradition. Originally yes, the Cricket Board would not extend the money to issue more than one.
I used to be the Junior Co-Ordinator for the local cricket team, and as I had never played as a junior, I got to play my first cricket match with my son playing his first Senior match. I was 52. So everyone can play if they want to
The one you thought was a "double out", the ball was hit directly into the ground and bounced up to be where he "caught" it, so it wasn't a catch for an out. It's often very difficult at first view to see if a ball bounced or not when they hit it, and it's colloquially known as a "crowd catch", at least here in Australia it is. Because the spectators will think it's a catch while the players out on the field know it actually bounced first off the bat.
@@bobhawke7373 Aussie commentators often call it that because the crowd goes up like it was a catch and then they realise when none of the players celebrate and settle down again. Heard it hundreds of times from commentators over here.
@@bobhawke7373 As @Johnnysoccer said, but it's only called a crowd catch if the crowd does actually go up thinking it is out. But you're right, it is a bump ball.
This is why cricketers spend so much time throwing at a tiny target wqhile running and diving. It is an incredible skill that is earned over years of practice. And it is why great cricket moments stay in the memory for decades. It literally is AWESOME. It is also why cricket is one of the oldest games in the world, played since medieval times when the stumps were literally tree stumps and the ball and bat were homemade from wood. Because it is so old there are so many ancient terms, like the saying "The crease belongs to the field."
She hesitated to run because there is no obligation to run if you hit the ball. You only run when you think you can make it, in this case the non striker believed there was the chance of a run and began running and the striker hesitated. Had she begun to run straight away she may well have made it.
Come to Australia, virtually every suburb, town or country district has a cricket team, mostly with various grades from juniors to several "open grades". Numbers are dropping however there are still a lot around !
@@barhat961 The costs don't help. It was $300 a season to play grade when I still did and that was more than ten years ago. Plus pads, bats, helmets, whites - it all adds up.
As a lefty myself, all I can say in justification of our brilliance is "If the right side of the brain, controls the left side of the body, only left handers are in their right mind".
Thanks for bring back my love for the game, it had been lost... My Grandfather was a score keeper for the Adelaide Cricket Club until about 1970 - Great memories X
Us kids used to play cricket in the street, & we still play at family bbqs, Christmas etc you don’t necessarily have to have the exact cricket pitch to play, any old oval, or space will do🤗
I used to annoy the kids in school as I am ambidextrous... I could bat both left and right... could kick a football both as well... come in handy when playing pool 😂
Actually that is quite common in baseball. So Americans won’t be surprised by that. Multiple MLB all star Shohei Ohtani pitches right handed and bats left handed. Ohtani is a very rare “2 way player” (like an allrounder in cricket, who is both a top batter and a top pitcher) in American Baseball, the first in almost 100 years to excel in both. In baseball there’s also some batters who are “switch-hitters”, who bat right handed when facing a lefty pitcher, and left handed against a right handed pitcher.
@@SS-sk3hbmy husband is a pool shark because of that. He'll play someone right handed then ask if they wanna put money on the next game. They agree then he plays left handed!
you can tell the teams apart because 2 have bats, one has (generally) no hat (the bowler/ Hazlewood), and everyone else is standing in the middle of no where
I like how quick you grasp the concepts of cricket. It's not an easy game to understand, kind of lie anyone outside america trying to understand gridiron I reckon. Love your enthusiasm
Australia hired a baseball coach from the US to coach their team on feilding, throwing and catching, so your comparisons aren't too far off. Many of the skills are transferable.
I've heard the Chapell brothers who were cricket royalty during the 1970s and 80s were top baseball players in their younger days before choosing cricket. If they'd been American they'd be baseball champions but being Aussie it was cricket of course.
My brother and his mates spent hours on the couch watching cricket. I asked 'Why do you watch this sport, it's like watching paint dry', 20 years later, now I understand why.
Remember the left-handed fielders are also batters. When a bowler has to keep changing their delivery tactics because 1 bowl is to a right-handed batsman and if they run 1 or 3, then the next delivery is to a left-handed batsman. Not all the time (as it depends who’s batting) but lefties are a higher average in cricket.
Most sports in Australia are played socially or professionally outside the school system. Local community associations, regional or state competitions and at the upper levels national or international games like, cricket, rugby, basketball, netball etc. On the whole, in Australia the state "team colours" are: Victoria "Navy Blue" (with white or silver trim), NSW "Sky Blue" (with navy trim), Qld "Maroon", SA "Red, Royal Blue & Yellow", Tas "Green & Gold", WA "Black & Gold" Allan Boarder was Australia Cricket Captain (84-94), he also played baseball in his school years. Many baseball fielding techniques were introduced to Aussie Cricket because of "AB" which we see today.
An American baseball coach called Mike Young who was working in Australia was brought into the national programme to improve fielding and throwing skills. It lifted Australia well above the other nations, soon copied of course.
"Why did she hesitate" Its often a judgement call to run or stay safe, especially if its in close you are almost daring them to try and get you out... Watching them after they are done its easy to say, oh but if they both started they would have made it but its a quick decision that has to be made and stuck to
Part of the reason Australia was so dominant in the late 90s and early 2000s was their ability to hit the stumps side-on from 50m away while coming out of a roll/slide. Really made a difference in the number of successful run-outs.
My son is in his 50’s and has played from a young boy as a batsman/fast bowler. He now plays in the Seniors and was President of his Club for around 10 years securing the local Federal politician’s support for a grant to provide new Club rooms with separate change areas for both males and females to encourage girls to play for the Club. Even one of the granddaughters played in her teens.
It's England vs Aus, the names at the bottom are the English batsmen, the astrix shows who's facing the bowler and Hazelwood is the Aussie bowler who has 0 wickets for 44 runs.
Two of the best fielders in cricket history, in my opinion, were Jonty Rhodes (South Africa) and Ricky Ponting (Australia). Again in my opinion the greatest all-rounder - batting/bowling/fielding - was Jacques Kallis (South Africa) followed by Imran Khan (Pakistan).
Heh Ryan, a happy day to you! 😁 Comon Aussies! The All White's are Test matches, the Coloured ones are 20 overs per side/1 day! Purple is Tasmania! The batsman must have some part of the bat inside the crease/over the line! Both batsmen must run, or none! Every region has a cricket team, even for mature aged, and soccer teams too! Kids start in local teams at age six! 💚💛
Mate I know others will have said this but it’s always amazed me how in the States unless you turn pro your sport career is done by college and you can’t even play local organised sport! If you were in Australia right now you could go down to your local cricket club, sign up, pay your fees and play a competitive match this Saturday. And lots of people do it well into their 60s too.
In the UK college and university sports exist but are nothing major. In the States you can be playing in a stadium that seats over a 100 thousand people but come the end of college you may never play American football again. If you look at all of the media-popular sports in the UK you'll find amateur leagues for those sports everywhere.
You're taught that the striker (the player that hits the ball) will call 'Yes', 'Wait' or 'No' if they hit the ball infront of the stumps as they can see the trajectory of the ball after it gets hit but if the ball is hit behind the line of the stumps then the non-striker (the other batter) makes the call as they have the most immediate vision of where the ball is going. 'Yes' means run, 'Wait' means don't get yet until we see if a nearby fielder gets the ball or if it makes it past them, 'No' means don't run. NEVER say 'Go' because it sounds like 'No' and often confuses the other player. The batters will often scream these words very loud, especially early in their batting time to help get some nerves out while they're getting settled in. You'll often hear their calls louder than the commentary for this reason. Many run outs are caused by one of the two batters not following these lessons and essentially leaving the other player dry. Others are caused by players knowing these lessons but gambling that they can run faster than the fielder can collect the ball and throw it OR that they don't expect them to be accurate with the throw. It's not a very common way to get out in 5 day cricket (white uniforms) as players know that they have a long time to score runs over the days. 1 day games (50 overs and coloured uniforms) and T20 games (20 overs and coloured uniforms) have a larger number of run outs as batters are pressured to score quickly and will try to take risky runs. Thank you for attending my Ted talk.
You crack me up mate lol Some of the things you say are hillarious. I don't want to sound mean but when you get things hilariously wrong like the batters and bowlers names on the score board it makes me laugh aloud, in a nice way, not mocking. I would be just as lost if I was watching Gridiron and trying to do a reaction video. For a yank you do get a lot right about cricket, I was impressed you knew what the crease was, it's only a small thing but it makes me want to hug you knowing you like my country enough to do videos about our sports and other aspects the country I love and everything that makes us Aussies, Keep up the great work, I never miss one of your videos.
Good on you Ryan. Love that you are enjoying this. We have a few types of cricket matches - test cricket (played in white over 4 days - very serious :)), and then different versions of limited over matches- 20 overs, 50 overs. In the limited over matches, the players wear coloured uniforms.
good thing about cricket, as long as you are able physically play, there's a local team that will have you, there's quite a lot of old guys playing too
After Xmas day playing Santa in 40 degrees heat for all the kids, there’s nothing better than watching the Boxing Day Test match (The grandkids call it Pa’s day) on TV with an Eski full of Stubbies. I’m drooling in anticipation already. Hope YOUR Xmas is as great too.
Just in case someone hasn't helped out. Vince and Root are the surnames of the two batters currently at the crease. The first number is how many runs they've scored if there's a second number there in ( ), that's how many balls they've faced in scoring those runs. The other name, Hazlewood is where they put the surname of the bowler, the 0 is how many wickets he has generated directly off his bowling (bowled, caught, etc., but not including runouts), the number after the / is the runs he has conceded in getting those wickets. So for this, he has not gotten any wickets and has been hit for 44 runs so far. ENG is for England, that's the team batting. The 2 numbers there are wickets lost/runs scored. Each time gets 10 wickets, once they lose 10 they are all out and they swap over, or game ends depending on some variables. Just to help out on the details on the screen at the start of the video (before I watched it, you may work it out during yet), but thought I'd give you a quick rundown as I didn't see another comment like that in the top of the comments section yet.
Anywhere in the world that there are Indians there is cricket, great to see you appreciating aspects of the game. In test cricket, the 5 day version where they wear white, it's a game of cat and mouse for long periods of time but at any ball something amazing can happen. And once you appreciate it on that level you can move on to loving a tensely fought out draw where neither side wins but it has been gripping watching the bowling side get that last wicket.
Batter's names with the number of runs that they have, The Asterix shows who is receiving the bowl. The white play is the test match form (5 days of play), the colour uniforms the shorter form.
All white gear is worn by both teams during Test Matches. The traditional 5 day International event, which is only played at International level. The traditional Red ball is also used for Cricket Test Matches. In our modern era there is now Day/Night Test Matches there is a Pink ball used only for these Test fixtures. Coloured uniforms are used for One Day Internationals (50 overs per side) and T20 (20 overs per side). White balls are used for these events. One Day cricket and T20's are played both Internationally and Domestically.
For the US viewers. When fielding, you make sure you 'back up' the fielder opposite you on the other side of the stumps. In other words, if a teammate is fielding say 10 metres over on the other side of the stumps and he/she was to throw at the stumps to try to round out a batter, your job on your side of the stumps is to make sure you are behind the direction of the ball so that if it misses the stumps and goes straight through, you are there to stop it. This is what gives fielders the confidence to throw so hard and take the chance to hit such a narrow target. If you do not back up a thrower than a miss can carry through to the boundary on the other side and cost the fielding team 4 runs. Top line infielders spend hundreds of hours in fielding practice, practicing throwing down the stumps. If you want a great highlights reel for run-outs, take a look at these guys; Jonty Rhodes (SA), Allan Border (Aus) and Mark Waugh (Aus). And yes, the bat, or some part of the batter, has to be grounded over the line in order to be 'in'. That bowler who appeared to catch the ball than turn and throw down the stumps for that run out didn't actually 'catch' the ball as it was hit straight into the ground by the batter then it went up. The bowler merely grabbed it out of the air and then ran out the batter at the other end. Note that there are no double plays in cricket, you can only get one player out in any given sequence of play.
i used to play competitive cricket when i was younger. as a fielder once you have the ball in hand and the stumps lined up the release become almost automatic. only after the ball is released do you start thinking about the surroundings... my fav fielding spot was silly mid on .... reaction time in that location is critical, quick to intercept and just as quick to get it to the keeper or stumps....
The funniest thing I've picked up from watching Americans watching our great sports whether it be cricket or footy is that they are all gobsmacked at a player pulling off play like a bowler fielding his own ball and hitting the stumps for a runout (jofra archer as 1 example at 8:40) I guess they are so used to how role driven their sports are, particularly baseball and nfl. A pitcher-pitches. A catcher-catches. A QB-throws and a receiver-receives. In cricket. A bowler can run after a ball and field it himself, something Americans probably think only out fielders should do. Same thing a wicket keeper (crickets "catcher") Cricket ground are massive and when there's only a 11 players trying to cover it bowlers and keepers sometimes do have to run 30-40m to field the ball
So the reason it said Hazelwood (and other Aussie names) instead of Aus, is because we're fielding, so it'll always just show the bowlers name, in that first case Hazelwood. The all white is Test cricket, which is basically the highest ranked cricket. The games are scheduled for 5 days (though usually finish in 3 or 4), and sometimes the Queen would show up, it used to be a fancy affair, thus the white. 2 or 3 years on and I still love your enthusiasm for our amazing country!
When all white is being worn it means it's a Test Match, which is the oldest version of cricket and is played over several days. When they wear colors it means it's a Day Match, a version that was introduced in the later part of the 20th century to have a result by the end of day. The way you tell which players are in which team when they all wear white is that the players holding bats are from one team and everyone else are on the other team. Like in baseball where the batter and those on a base are one team and everyone else on the field are on the other team.
Cricket tragic here. I used to go with my grandpa and uncle to the Boxing Day Test Match in Melbourne from the age of 5. When I watched on telly I kept my own scoreboard on a writing pad from the age of 8. There is nothing like being at the MCG, especially seeing Lillee, Thompson and Marsh back in the day. The atmosphere was amazing!
In Australia if you want to join a sports club and play with a team you generally can, there are loads of amateur leagues. I have a colleague who's like 30 stone with a Hernia and still plays cricket every week during the season.
Great work pal. A lot of your assumptions are absolutely correct. To answer your question about wearing white. This is in a traditional 5 day test match. The colours are worn in shorter forms of the game (one type goes for about 7 hours and another more modern is done in about 3).
Cricket teams like to have a few lefties on their side as when there is both a left and a right handed batsman out on the pitch the bowler needs to constantly change his tactics when bowling to each left or right hand batsman as they each change ends and the fielders need to keep changing position which can help mess them up for a chance at a catch. Test match cricket can be either as boring as watching the grass grow or very super exiting when things get down to the wire and also very fascinating with some of the very rare events that can take place during a match.
Hey mate, I just chucked this in an earlier video, but here is a little rundown of Aussie sport, with a big section on Cricket. Definitely heaps of topics to check out. Note these are my perceptions only, as a born and bred Aussie (feel free to fact check): - Rugby League (Footy/NRL/League) - Generally the most popular sport in NSW and especially QLD, as the teams are mostly located in these 2 states (there is also a heated rivalry between these 2 states due to this, culminating in the "State of Origin" series). League was originally invented in England as an adaptation of Rugby Union but the Aussie NRL is now considered the pinnacle of Rugby League in the world. Sometimes referred to as Australian Rugby by the US (leads to a lot of confusion with AFL). This year and next year the NRL season has been kicked off in Vegas to try and get some US interest (check out Russel Crowes's US promo video). - Rugby Union (Rugby/Union/Footy) - Your traditionalists footy, hard, tough. It is less popular in Australia though than the other "Footies", mostly because our National team has been less competitive in recent years compared to England, France, New Zealand, South Africa etc. Your older generations are more likely to watch this, especially first generation Aussies with a lot of European/UK heratige. - Australian Rules (Footy/AFL) - Most popular sport in VIC, SA and WA. Constant battle with NRL for most watched in Aus (typically AFL fills out stadiums more, but NRL gets more streams from home). A little bit limited in exposure due to an understable lack of international competitions. - Football (Commonly called Soccer due to US influence, but the term "Football" is gaining more traction lately due to continued European/UK immigration and lots of Aussies watching European Football leagues online. - Cricket (just Cricket) - This is actually our official national sport, most aussies grow up watching this on summer holidays, particularly the boxing day test, so it has quite a nostalgic aussie feel, although a large chunk of the younger population find it too "boring" (comparable to Baseball in the US maybe?), for some others it's just playing in the background or on the radio while you go about your summer fun. For more active families, "backyard cricket" is a popular pastime; just playing in the backyard with siblings, friends or family, or more iconically at the beach or out the front of of your house on the street, using wheelie bins for wickets and rushing them back when a car comes through. A lot of the excitement comes from smashing our Pommy overlords (England) in the Ashes, although matches against India can also be very competitive. Generally Aus and India are the best 2 cricket nations in the world. Probably the most widespread national presence of all the sports. There are also 3 main forms of the sport: 5 Day Test Matches (long, tough, traditional); T20 (twenty Overs for each team, fast exciting, a little more gimmicky, better to bring kids to because it isnt so long, still 3 or so hours though); ODI (One Day International, a middle ground between the long Tests and short T20's) - Honourable mentions for popular Aussie sports - Netball, Hockey, Basketball, Touch footy, Tennis, Swimming, Surfing.
Hey Ryan - at the beginning of this video, in the first clip - I can explain the scoring info at the bottom of the screen for you Hazelwood is the Bowler, he has caused 2 batsmen to be dismissed, for a total of 59 runs scored against him England are in bat - they have scored a total of 145 runs for the loss of two wickets (eg 2 batsmen caught, bowled or run out) Vince has scored 83 runs, and his current partner, Root, has scored 7 runs so far After 6 deliveries (called an "Over"), Hazelwood (Australia) will be swapped out for a different Aussie bowler I hope this helps BTW - in Test matches (held over 5 days) the players wear traditional cricket 'whites' - but they do wear different caps 😃 In the shorter T20 series, teams wear coloured uniforms, and can wear commercial sponsors logos
Totally agree with your statement about team sports. It is difficult after high school. Hard work finding someone to kick a football or soccer ball. Currently working hard to consistently play some tennis
You generally have a couple of left-handers on any cricket team, they're useful, especially as one of the Openers. But its also because it takes half a second to switch hands and with a run-out every moment counts, so you throw it left-handed if that's the hand the ball is caught in.
Cricket is a genuine World Series , the number of country’s that play it and the number of millions who play it , from children to adults in local leagues , most high schools in australia had a cricket team that played a local league
Ryan if you want to play cricket, you could show up to any suburban/town's cricket club just about anywhere in the Commonwealth and they'd find a spot for you. I stopped playing cricket at 48 and only then 'cause my knees gave up. Serious sports, in at least Aus, NZ and the UK, are played by local clubs and not in schools. Yes there are interschool competitions but the weekend sports clubs are where it all happens and the kids serious about their sports come up through the club system in age brackets into adulthood in various graded competitions.
"What a beautiful sport - so cool!" Right on, Ryan. And you can play cricket in the U.S. If it's anything like parts of the Australian scene, there will be leagues of older players still wanting to get out there, have a bowl and a bat, and wind down following an afternoon of fun with a tinnie or two. Every chance there will be such a team in your neighbourhood - check it out, and give it a go! 😃😃
Warms my heart when I see someone watch cricket for the first time. It's a technically difficult game, but once you have the basics down, it's sooo addictive. Your getting the rules really well. With run outs, if the bails are even slightly lifted off the stump before the bat or any part of the player is planted over the line, it's out. In the Big Bash (Twenty-Twenty) matches they have lights in the stumps and bails, if the lights flash before you or your bat is over the line (and touching the ground) your out, back in the shed. You need to talk to your team mate and not leave them stranded in these situations. The reason the female batter hesitated is, because she's just come out of striking the ball motion and could see the ball hadn't beat the fielder and knew it was too risky to run, but her team mate already called it and ran (I'm thinking she called it as they were running out of balls to chase down the other teams score and had to run on every ball or something?). Love your videos. Thank you for sharing. Cricket is played at any age, there are many teams for all ages right through to 50 year olds. There is a small contingency growing in the U.S. you guys won some surprising games at the Twenty-Twenty World Cup which was in the U.S. earlier this year.
We got a couple of options for sports to play in winter (mostly variations of football) but cricket is pretty much an exclusive sport in summer (I am the odd one out I played baseball in my youth). Cricket has a bit in common with baseball but it is also completely different. Unlike baseball you don't have to run, but if you do (or you leave the crease) you need to make the crease (bat is ok as long as its on the ground and *over* the line), if the other team knocks the bails off (with the ball - there is some technicalities but stick with that as its 99.999% of run outs) before you make the ground you are out and it is important because you only have 10 wickets (or outs in baseball terminology so a whole cricket game is like 3 innings of baseball outs wise). Run outs are a devastating way to get out in cricket.
I am happy you try to understand cricket before commenting on it. It is a great sport. This season is great because India and Pakistan are touring Australia. Traditionally, India and Pakistan don't get on, and everyone like to try and beat Australia so it makes for some great cricket.
Batters sometimes hesitate when running, leading to a mix-up between the 2, and someone is left scrambling to get back in. Usually, it is the batter on strike (the one facing the delivery being bowled) who calls the non-striker to run, or not.
The best cricket fielders are ambidextrous meaning they can throw both left and right handed accurately.. if you like check out indoor cricket Australia 🇦🇺
I can't recall who pioneered this, but these days they train to do this by putting a single stump in the ground, surrounded by a ring of balls. The idea is you run around the stump while picking up a ball and then immediately throw it at the stump at the same time. The accuracy this imparts is phenomenal.
One of the major differences between US sport and the rest of the world. Australia in particular is that sport is not based around schools or universities. In fact in general playing for your school is something most of us consider quite lame. Instead it is based around where you live. I live in a small town in NSW, Bendemeer, which coincidentally is where Josh Hazelwood comes from. He began playing for the town in under age cricket teams (sort of like Little League) and then progressed through talent to regional teams, then onto state teams and finally into the national team. Because we organise our sports like this there is generally a wide range of ages playing from under 8's all the way through to over 40's and 50's. Personally I played from Under 10's right through to over 40's. I never made it to state or national sides but I did play at the level below state for a few seasons.
Australia was one of the first countries to bring an American baseball fielding coach over in the early 2000s. It really changed to dynamics of fielding and particularly throwing power and speed. The other teams have caught up now but Australia was a notch above in the field for a hot minute
8:15 She hesitated because she hit it directly to a fielder, but her patner ran anyway. In general if you hit a ball in front of aquare its the strikers call, and its the non strikers call when you hit it behind square (an imaginary perpendicular line from the batsman)
What the score board is saying is that England (ENG) is currently batting and Australia (AUS) is bowling/ fielding. Hazelwood is the guy bowling, it shows you how many wickets (people he's got out) and how many runs England has scored from his bowling. The English people batting are Root and Vince, and it shows you how many runs each has scored so far.
Being left handed is an advantage in cricket because if you have a left hander and right hander batting together the bowler has to change their rhythm every time Batsman change end. It makes bowling much harder. So selectors like to have a mix in a team. Also white kit signifies a Test level match. That is 5 day matches country verse country. Once upon a time all teams wore white.
fun to watch a compilation like this but remember, between those exciting moments you can be waiting for a whole lot of 'almost nothing' for a very long time, and you're likely to be getting a refill or a snack when it happens LOL. Test matches go on for up to 5 days!
Pitching in baseball is really just optimised throwing, so yeah it makes sense that throwing in cricket looks pretty similar. Bowling in cricket is different because you aren't allowed to bend your elbow, or more precisely you're not allowed to straighten your elbow during the delivery stride.
Cricket is a summer game where test matches can last for five days with players standing in the heat of the day, hence the white attire, to diminish the heat absorption of the costume.
Interestingly enough it was a baseball coach, Mike Young, who was brought on to the Australian cricket team to improve the standard of fielding. It led to a huge improvement in fielding that then spread to more focus on fielding in teams around the world.
Both my brother and father played cricket, from young ages, and my father was a referee...We were brought up with it, as well as Rugby League, which my father also refereed....He was also a life member of South Sydney Football Club.
Mate its cricket season here in Australia we are playing India it's 28 deg Celsius I have a tinny in my hand watching it on the telly. I'm in heaven. 😊
Reckon you're gonna thrash us this series. How did we become so shit all of a sudden...
@@arbabasukalsar4361 get rid of some of the old players and we'll become magically great again.
Sounds like a bloody good arvo there enjoy it mate
36 c in Melbourne 😮
Josh got Kohli out pretty quickly, looks like being an interesting match.
I love, respect and admire that you are giving understanding cricket a fair go! Keep it up, love your stuff!
ENG (is short for England) and their progressive score is 2 (wickets or outs) for 145 runs (at this point in their innings).. England are batting (2 players in the middle with bats & pads) and the fielders and bowler etc are the Aussies. "Vince & Root" are the names of the two batsmen and their individual score is listed next to their name. The "*" indicates who is facing the bowler (pitcher). Hazelwood is the name of the bowler and his progressive stats for this game are displayer. All players wear "white" in the TEST version of the game (which can last up to 5 days)
I was about to give a brief description, but I tend to get a bit wordy and you beat me to it. I'm not going to repeat old mate.
Can look for Indian players, australia and India is goated in cricket
"why are they all wearing white, how are you supposed to tell them apart?"
ryan they're all on the same team apart from the two guys holding cricket bats and the umpire.
Yep, one team bowls and fields, while the 2 batters are from the opposite team. Also traditional uniforms for cricket were originally all white. Similar to original tennis game uniforms were all white.
Also you queried the batter that hesitated to run. She didn’t think the hit warranted a safe single run, so hesitated. However, the opposite batter ran, forcing the hitter to try to run. The two batters are expected to consider whether the hit warrants a single run or more before moving so as not to jeopardise their safety.
Umpires. There are always two, the square leg and the bowler's end.
We don't talk about the 3rd Umpire up in his booth with the slow-motion screens and Snicko.
😂😂😂
Years agoI saw a skit as a kid (80's era) a great skit about a wife that had never been to the cricket before and the husband was explaining it.. one part(and it was all hilarious and went for a while)
"Where's he going?"
"He's going in"
"But I thought he just got in"
"He did. But then he got out for a duck. So now he has to go in. "
Well that not very team spirited of him to go out just because someone got him duck.. there's on 2 against 11 and that doesn't seem fair any way"
(Man goes on to explain a duck etc)
Cricket: fun to watch, fun to play 😁
Ryan, there's no such thing as a "double play" in cricket, like there is in baseball. As soon as one batter is out, the play ends, until a new batter comes in to replace them and the bowler bowls again. In the play that you thought was a "double play", where the bowler caught the ball and then threw it at the stumps, the batter had actually hit the ball downwards into the ground, and the bowler caught it on the bounce. So the catch didn't count as an "out" - if it had, the bowler wouldn't have bothered throwing the ball at the stumps. Either way, it was an incredible piece of athleticism from the bowler.
Just about every suburb and country town has cricket and football teams. Once you leave high school there are many opportunities to continue playing team sports. It doesn’t matter what level you are there is always a team for you.
My grandchild has just started little athletics this season , her mum did it too
You are correct about playing from a young age. In the 70's I was a P.E. teacher in high school in Australia and we had several US PE teachers come out on an exchange scheme. All superb athletes, great basketball players etc but when playing cricket not one of them could master the bowling action. It was so funny to watch.
I'm Australian and played Teaball then baseball when young , you're correct I couldn't bowl except extreme slow pace
I’m a girl and I played mixed indoor cricket in my 20’s for years and I could never master bowling, but apparently my dad in his younger days bowled a mean googly. Mixed cricket was bloody dangerous, got hit in the boob with a bat which left a huge bruise, and copped a ball to the eye and got a shiner and had to see a specialist. The guys just would belt it while girls are fielding and we’d just try to get out of the way. It really was lethal. Mind you, I played indoor netball in my 30’s and some of those girls were as rough as bags, it they would be sent off. One hit my sister and it was nearly a brawl, not a good look when I worked at the local police station 😂
The white kit is usually reserved for the longer game in cricket, like the 5 day Test matches are played between different countries. The shorter versions like ODI (One day cricket match) and even shorter versions known as T20 (lt takes roughly 3 hrs to complete a game) are played in colourful kit.
Shoutout to the Indianapolis Cricket Club who won the Midwest t20 competition last year
As an Aussie it's great to see Americans playing cricket! I was absolutely rooting for you guys during the T20 World cup!
The green cap is a traditional Aussie hat more commonly known as the 'Baggy Green', they are given to players when inaugurated into the test squad, they are all numbered and receiving one is a big deal, you only get one for your whole test career. You'll see some that are well faded and worn out on players that have been around a long time.
Got a free pocket under the edge to store sandpaper too 👍
@@necessaryevil3428 Vicious lol
@@mikk4309 😁
Ah, one of the moral winners has spoken.
Actually iirc these days they get a new one each Test, but they only every wear the first one because tradition.
Originally yes, the Cricket Board would not extend the money to issue more than one.
Wow the women's game is superbly skillfull nowadays. I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Good choice of clips, Ryan.
I used to be the Junior Co-Ordinator for the local cricket team, and as I had never played as a junior, I got to play my first cricket match with my son playing his first Senior match. I was 52. So everyone can play if they want to
The one you thought was a "double out", the ball was hit directly into the ground and bounced up to be where he "caught" it, so it wasn't a catch for an out. It's often very difficult at first view to see if a ball bounced or not when they hit it, and it's colloquially known as a "crowd catch", at least here in Australia it is. Because the spectators will think it's a catch while the players out on the field know it actually bounced first off the bat.
Never ever heard it called a crowd catch. Only ever heard it referred to as a bump ball.
@@bobhawke7373 Aussie commentators often call it that because the crowd goes up like it was a catch and then they realise when none of the players celebrate and settle down again. Heard it hundreds of times from commentators over here.
@@bobhawke7373 As @Johnnysoccer said, but it's only called a crowd catch if the crowd does actually go up thinking it is out. But you're right, it is a bump ball.
This is why cricketers spend so much time throwing at a tiny target wqhile running and diving. It is an incredible skill that is earned over years of practice. And it is why great cricket moments stay in the memory for decades. It literally is AWESOME. It is also why cricket is one of the oldest games in the world, played since medieval times when the stumps were literally tree stumps and the ball and bat were homemade from wood.
Because it is so old there are so many ancient terms, like the saying "The crease belongs to the field."
She hesitated to run because there is no obligation to run if you hit the ball. You only run when you think you can make it, in this case the non striker believed there was the chance of a run and began running and the striker hesitated. Had she begun to run straight away she may well have made it.
9:13 the batter hit the ball into the ground and the ball bounced back up. Lots of people get confused on whether it is caught out or not.
Yeah, you tell there's top spin from it being driven into the turf.
Yeah, unlike baseball there are no double plays in cricket
Come to Australia, virtually every suburb, town or country district has a cricket team, mostly with various grades from juniors to several "open grades". Numbers are dropping however
there are still a lot around !
Why numbers are dropping?
@@barhat961Screens and other (non) activities distracting younger potential players and age for the older ones.
@@barhat961 Youngsters are less sports orientated. Those that are have many alternatives, often seen as "sexier".
@@barhat961 The costs don't help. It was $300 a season to play grade when I still did and that was more than ten years ago. Plus pads, bats, helmets, whites - it all adds up.
@@walover165try indoor cricket. Costs about $20 a game, plus $10 for a box.
As a lefty myself, all I can say in justification of our brilliance is "If the right side of the brain, controls the left side of the body, only left handers are in their right mind".
As a fellow lefty I approve your explanation! 👍🏻
Though with cricket or softball I do catch & throw left handed.
But I bat right-handed! 😄🤯 🏏
another fellow lefty here 👍
@@mika72.-Bois in softball I can bat both lol
Thanks for bring back my love for the game, it had been lost... My Grandfather was a score keeper for the Adelaide Cricket Club until about 1970 - Great memories X
Us kids used to play cricket in the street, & we still play at family bbqs, Christmas etc you don’t necessarily have to have the exact cricket pitch to play, any old oval, or space will do🤗
Wheelie bin stumps sonnnnn
@@JustAGuyWithThoughts Or just a deck chair. And automatic wickie of course.
And the classic 6 and out.
I miss Christmas day cricket with grandpa, the uncles aunts and all the cousins,
It'll blow your mind to know that there are some players that bat left handed and throw right handed (and vice versa) 🤯
I'm one of them! I bat right handed but bowl and throw left handed. Don't ask me why, I was just born with some wires crossed 😅
I used to annoy the kids in school as I am ambidextrous... I could bat both left and right... could kick a football both as well... come in handy when playing pool 😂
Actually that is quite common in baseball. So Americans won’t be surprised by that. Multiple MLB all star Shohei Ohtani pitches right handed and bats left handed. Ohtani is a very rare “2 way player” (like an allrounder in cricket, who is both a top batter and a top pitcher) in American Baseball, the first in almost 100 years to excel in both.
In baseball there’s also some batters who are “switch-hitters”, who bat right handed when facing a lefty pitcher, and left handed against a right handed pitcher.
@@SS-sk3hbmy husband is a pool shark because of that. He'll play someone right handed then ask if they wanna put money on the next game. They agree then he plays left handed!
@SS-sk3hb my brother and my son are the same. My brother would switch sides with each over to annoy bowlers
you can tell the teams apart because 2 have bats, one has (generally) no hat (the bowler/ Hazlewood), and everyone else is standing in the middle of no where
I like how quick you grasp the concepts of cricket. It's not an easy game to understand, kind of lie anyone outside america trying to understand gridiron I reckon. Love your enthusiasm
Australia hired a baseball coach from the US to coach their team on feilding, throwing and catching, so your comparisons aren't too far off. Many of the skills are transferable.
I've heard the Chapell brothers who were cricket royalty during the 1970s and 80s were top baseball players in their younger days before choosing cricket. If they'd been American they'd be baseball champions but being Aussie it was cricket of course.
My brother and his mates spent hours on the couch watching cricket. I asked 'Why do you watch this sport, it's like watching paint dry', 20 years later, now I understand why.
Remember the left-handed fielders are also batters. When a bowler has to keep changing their delivery tactics because 1 bowl is to a right-handed batsman and if they run 1 or 3, then the next delivery is to a left-handed batsman. Not all the time (as it depends who’s batting) but lefties are a higher average in cricket.
Most sports in Australia are played socially or professionally outside the school system. Local community associations, regional or state competitions and at the upper levels national or international games like, cricket, rugby, basketball, netball etc. On the whole, in Australia the state "team colours" are: Victoria "Navy Blue" (with white or silver trim), NSW "Sky Blue" (with navy trim), Qld "Maroon", SA "Red, Royal Blue & Yellow", Tas "Green & Gold", WA "Black & Gold"
Allan Boarder was Australia Cricket Captain (84-94), he also played baseball in his school years. Many baseball fielding techniques were introduced to Aussie Cricket because of "AB" which we see today.
Yes. Allan Border also had an extreme leg flex in his batting technique. Very baseballish.
An American baseball coach called Mike Young who was working in Australia was brought into the national programme to improve fielding and throwing skills. It lifted Australia well above the other nations, soon copied of course.
"Why did she hesitate" Its often a judgement call to run or stay safe, especially if its in close you are almost daring them to try and get you out... Watching them after they are done its easy to say, oh but if they both started they would have made it but its a quick decision that has to be made and stuck to
Part of the reason Australia was so dominant in the late 90s and early 2000s was their ability to hit the stumps side-on from 50m away while coming out of a roll/slide. Really made a difference in the number of successful run-outs.
My son is in his 50’s and has played from a young boy as a batsman/fast bowler. He now plays in the Seniors and was President of his Club for around 10 years securing the local Federal politician’s support for a grant to provide new Club rooms with separate change areas for both males and females to encourage girls to play for the Club. Even one of the granddaughters played in her teens.
It's England vs Aus, the names at the bottom are the English batsmen, the astrix shows who's facing the bowler and Hazelwood is the Aussie bowler who has 0 wickets for 44 runs.
This bloke is challenged !
Two of the best fielders in cricket history, in my opinion, were Jonty Rhodes (South Africa) and Ricky Ponting (Australia). Again in my opinion the greatest all-rounder - batting/bowling/fielding - was Jacques Kallis (South Africa) followed by Imran Khan (Pakistan).
Heh Ryan, a happy day to you! 😁 Comon Aussies! The All White's are Test matches, the Coloured ones are 20 overs per side/1 day! Purple is Tasmania! The batsman must have some part of the bat inside the crease/over the line! Both batsmen must run, or none! Every region has a cricket team, even for mature aged, and soccer teams too! Kids start in local teams at age six! 💚💛
Love your reactions Ryan 😎 and this is why the Bluey cricket episode means a lot to us 🤙🇦🇺
Mate I know others will have said this but it’s always amazed me how in the States unless you turn pro your sport career is done by college and you can’t even play local organised sport! If you were in Australia right now you could go down to your local cricket club, sign up, pay your fees and play a competitive match this Saturday. And lots of people do it well into their 60s too.
In the UK college and university sports exist but are nothing major. In the States you can be playing in a stadium that seats over a 100 thousand people but come the end of college you may never play American football again. If you look at all of the media-popular sports in the UK you'll find amateur leagues for those sports everywhere.
You're taught that the striker (the player that hits the ball) will call 'Yes', 'Wait' or 'No' if they hit the ball infront of the stumps as they can see the trajectory of the ball after it gets hit but if the ball is hit behind the line of the stumps then the non-striker (the other batter) makes the call as they have the most immediate vision of where the ball is going.
'Yes' means run, 'Wait' means don't get yet until we see if a nearby fielder gets the ball or if it makes it past them, 'No' means don't run. NEVER say 'Go' because it sounds like 'No' and often confuses the other player.
The batters will often scream these words very loud, especially early in their batting time to help get some nerves out while they're getting settled in. You'll often hear their calls louder than the commentary for this reason.
Many run outs are caused by one of the two batters not following these lessons and essentially leaving the other player dry. Others are caused by players knowing these lessons but gambling that they can run faster than the fielder can collect the ball and throw it OR that they don't expect them to be accurate with the throw.
It's not a very common way to get out in 5 day cricket (white uniforms) as players know that they have a long time to score runs over the days. 1 day games (50 overs and coloured uniforms) and T20 games (20 overs and coloured uniforms) have a larger number of run outs as batters are pressured to score quickly and will try to take risky runs.
Thank you for attending my Ted talk.
You crack me up mate lol Some of the things you say are hillarious. I don't want to sound mean but when you get things hilariously wrong like the batters and bowlers names on the score board it makes me laugh aloud, in a nice way, not mocking. I would be just as lost if I was watching Gridiron and trying to do a reaction video. For a yank you do get a lot right about cricket, I was impressed you knew what the crease was, it's only a small thing but it makes me want to hug you knowing you like my country enough to do videos about our sports and other aspects the country I love and everything that makes us Aussies, Keep up the great work, I never miss one of your videos.
Good on you Ryan. Love that you are enjoying this. We have a few types of cricket matches - test cricket (played in white over 4 days - very serious :)), and then different versions of limited over matches- 20 overs, 50 overs. In the limited over matches, the players wear coloured uniforms.
test cricket is played over 5 days and is the traditional game where as the 1 day games are more for the entertainment value
good thing about cricket, as long as you are able physically play, there's a local team that will have you, there's quite a lot of old guys playing too
Ryan you are fun bloke to watch making efforts and enjoy our sport! Love it.💜
Enjoyed watching the direct hits! Glad to see that you enjoyed them too!
After Xmas day playing Santa in 40 degrees heat for all the kids, there’s nothing better than watching the Boxing Day Test match (The grandkids call it Pa’s day) on TV with an Eski full of Stubbies. I’m drooling in anticipation already. Hope YOUR Xmas is as great too.
G'day Ryan, for your information Australia about 15 years ago got an American baseball fielding coach inn. Totally changed cricket world wide.
You're right about the throwing technique - cricketers have learned to throw baseball style, which is why they've got so good at it!
Bless you for your cricket efforts. Very much appreciated. Test match series of Aust vs India starts today. Should be epic.
I know of no other sport where the hand-eye coordination of players is so good. Hitting the wicket from the side is amazing
Just in case someone hasn't helped out.
Vince and Root are the surnames of the two batters currently at the crease. The first number is how many runs they've scored if there's a second number there in ( ), that's how many balls they've faced in scoring those runs. The other name, Hazlewood is where they put the surname of the bowler, the 0 is how many wickets he has generated directly off his bowling (bowled, caught, etc., but not including runouts), the number after the / is the runs he has conceded in getting those wickets. So for this, he has not gotten any wickets and has been hit for 44 runs so far.
ENG is for England, that's the team batting. The 2 numbers there are wickets lost/runs scored. Each time gets 10 wickets, once they lose 10 they are all out and they swap over, or game ends depending on some variables.
Just to help out on the details on the screen at the start of the video (before I watched it, you may work it out during yet), but thought I'd give you a quick rundown as I didn't see another comment like that in the top of the comments section yet.
They practice the run outs. Fielding drills nearly always include trying to hit a single stump from various angles.
Run Outs can be more exciting even than Bowl Outs because you can see the ball going in, whereas Bowl Outs happen so fast you can blink and miss them.
Hi Ryan, love your enthusiasm. I recommend you watch Cricket explained for Baseball Fans - I think you would find it really helpful.
Anywhere in the world that there are Indians there is cricket, great to see you appreciating aspects of the game. In test cricket, the 5 day version where they wear white, it's a game of cat and mouse for long periods of time but at any ball something amazing can happen. And once you appreciate it on that level you can move on to loving a tensely fought out draw where neither side wins but it has been gripping watching the bowling side get that last wicket.
This is hard .Watching your channel on my Laptop & watching a cricket Test match between Australia & India on TV.
me too! ☺
Really boring match
Really? Boring? 150 & 104?
Batter's names with the number of runs that they have, The Asterix shows who is receiving the bowl.
The white play is the test match form (5 days of play), the colour uniforms the shorter form.
All white gear is worn by both teams during Test Matches. The traditional 5 day International event, which is only played at International level. The traditional Red ball is also used for Cricket Test Matches. In our modern era there is now Day/Night Test Matches there is a Pink ball used only for these Test fixtures. Coloured uniforms are used for One Day Internationals (50 overs per side) and T20 (20 overs per side). White balls are used for these events. One Day cricket and T20's are played both Internationally and Domestically.
For the US viewers. When fielding, you make sure you 'back up' the fielder opposite you on the other side of the stumps. In other words, if a teammate is fielding say 10 metres over on the other side of the stumps and he/she was to throw at the stumps to try to round out a batter, your job on your side of the stumps is to make sure you are behind the direction of the ball so that if it misses the stumps and goes straight through, you are there to stop it. This is what gives fielders the confidence to throw so hard and take the chance to hit such a narrow target. If you do not back up a thrower than a miss can carry through to the boundary on the other side and cost the fielding team 4 runs.
Top line infielders spend hundreds of hours in fielding practice, practicing throwing down the stumps. If you want a great highlights reel for run-outs, take a look at these guys; Jonty Rhodes (SA), Allan Border (Aus) and Mark Waugh (Aus).
And yes, the bat, or some part of the batter, has to be grounded over the line in order to be 'in'.
That bowler who appeared to catch the ball than turn and throw down the stumps for that run out didn't actually 'catch' the ball as it was hit straight into the ground by the batter then it went up. The bowler merely grabbed it out of the air and then ran out the batter at the other end. Note that there are no double plays in cricket, you can only get one player out in any given sequence of play.
i used to play competitive cricket when i was younger. as a fielder once you have the ball in hand and the stumps lined up the release become almost automatic. only after the ball is released do you start thinking about the surroundings... my fav fielding spot was silly mid on .... reaction time in that location is critical, quick to intercept and just as quick to get it to the keeper or stumps....
12:16 is the worst kind of out - to be run out because of a miscommunication with your batting partner.
The funniest thing I've picked up from watching Americans watching our great sports whether it be cricket or footy is that they are all gobsmacked at a player pulling off play like a bowler fielding his own ball and hitting the stumps for a runout (jofra archer as 1 example at 8:40)
I guess they are so used to how role driven their sports are, particularly baseball and nfl. A pitcher-pitches. A catcher-catches. A QB-throws and a receiver-receives.
In cricket. A bowler can run after a ball and field it himself, something Americans probably think only out fielders should do. Same thing a wicket keeper (crickets "catcher")
Cricket ground are massive and when there's only a 11 players trying to cover it bowlers and keepers sometimes do have to run 30-40m to field the ball
In cricket , stumping is something what wicketkeeper's do, the only person behind the stumps with the gloves
So the reason it said Hazelwood (and other Aussie names) instead of Aus, is because we're fielding, so it'll always just show the bowlers name, in that first case Hazelwood.
The all white is Test cricket, which is basically the highest ranked cricket. The games are scheduled for 5 days (though usually finish in 3 or 4), and sometimes the Queen would show up, it used to be a fancy affair, thus the white.
2 or 3 years on and I still love your enthusiasm for our amazing country!
When all white is being worn it means it's a Test Match, which is the oldest version of cricket and is played over several days.
When they wear colors it means it's a Day Match, a version that was introduced in the later part of the 20th century to have a result by the end of day.
The way you tell which players are in which team when they all wear white is that the players holding bats are from one team and everyone else are on the other team. Like in baseball where the batter and those on a base are one team and everyone else on the field are on the other team.
Cricket tragic here. I used to go with my grandpa and uncle to the Boxing Day Test Match in Melbourne from the age of 5. When I watched on telly I kept my own scoreboard on a writing pad from the age of 8. There is nothing like being at the MCG, especially seeing Lillee, Thompson and Marsh back in the day. The atmosphere was amazing!
In Australia if you want to join a sports club and play with a team you generally can, there are loads of amateur leagues.
I have a colleague who's like 30 stone with a Hernia and still plays cricket every week during the season.
The Australian team has employed baseball coaches to assist with their fielding for a long time. Hence the similarity in the throwing actions.
Great work pal. A lot of your assumptions are absolutely correct. To answer your question about wearing white. This is in a traditional 5 day test match. The colours are worn in shorter forms of the game (one type goes for about 7 hours and another more modern is done in about 3).
Love the light up stumps looks great!
If you want to see nuts at cricket, go watch Viv Richards' team; mesmerizing.
Cricket teams like to have a few lefties on their side as when there is both a left and a right handed batsman out on the pitch the bowler needs to constantly change his tactics when bowling to each left or right hand batsman as they each change ends and the fielders need to keep changing position which can help mess them up for a chance at a catch.
Test match cricket can be either as boring as watching the grass grow or very super exiting when things get down to the wire and also very fascinating with some of the very rare events that can take place during a match.
The all white are the 5 day test matches, the coloured gear is either 1 day cricket or state matches
Hey mate, I just chucked this in an earlier video, but here is a little rundown of Aussie sport, with a big section on Cricket. Definitely heaps of topics to check out.
Note these are my perceptions only, as a born and bred Aussie (feel free to fact check):
- Rugby League (Footy/NRL/League) - Generally the most popular sport in NSW and especially QLD, as the teams are mostly located in these 2 states (there is also a heated rivalry between these 2 states due to this, culminating in the "State of Origin" series). League was originally invented in England as an adaptation of Rugby Union but the Aussie NRL is now considered the pinnacle of Rugby League in the world. Sometimes referred to as Australian Rugby by the US (leads to a lot of confusion with AFL). This year and next year the NRL season has been kicked off in Vegas to try and get some US interest (check out Russel Crowes's US promo video).
- Rugby Union (Rugby/Union/Footy) - Your traditionalists footy, hard, tough. It is less popular in Australia though than the other "Footies", mostly because our National team has been less competitive in recent years compared to England, France, New Zealand, South Africa etc. Your older generations are more likely to watch this, especially first generation Aussies with a lot of European/UK heratige.
- Australian Rules (Footy/AFL) - Most popular sport in VIC, SA and WA. Constant battle with NRL for most watched in Aus (typically AFL fills out stadiums more, but NRL gets more streams from home). A little bit limited in exposure due to an understable lack of international competitions.
- Football (Commonly called Soccer due to US influence, but the term "Football" is gaining more traction lately due to continued European/UK immigration and lots of Aussies watching European Football leagues online.
- Cricket (just Cricket) - This is actually our official national sport, most aussies grow up watching this on summer holidays, particularly the boxing day test, so it has quite a nostalgic aussie feel, although a large chunk of the younger population find it too "boring" (comparable to Baseball in the US maybe?), for some others it's just playing in the background or on the radio while you go about your summer fun. For more active families, "backyard cricket" is a popular pastime; just playing in the backyard with siblings, friends or family, or more iconically at the beach or out the front of of your house on the street, using wheelie bins for wickets and rushing them back when a car comes through. A lot of the excitement comes from smashing our Pommy overlords (England) in the Ashes, although matches against India can also be very competitive. Generally Aus and India are the best 2 cricket nations in the world. Probably the most widespread national presence of all the sports. There are also 3 main forms of the sport: 5 Day Test Matches (long, tough, traditional); T20 (twenty Overs for each team, fast exciting, a little more gimmicky, better to bring kids to because it isnt so long, still 3 or so hours though); ODI (One Day International, a middle ground between the long Tests and short T20's)
- Honourable mentions for popular Aussie sports - Netball, Hockey, Basketball, Touch footy, Tennis, Swimming, Surfing.
Hockey is Field Hockey. If Ice Hockey is been commented on it is always termed "Ice Hockey".
@mika72.-Bois yep thanks mate! Field hockey for sure; forgot ice hockey existed for a sec...
Hey Ryan - at the beginning of this video, in the first clip - I can explain the scoring info at the bottom of the screen for you
Hazelwood is the Bowler, he has caused 2 batsmen to be dismissed, for a total of 59 runs scored against him
England are in bat - they have scored a total of 145 runs for the loss of two wickets (eg 2 batsmen caught, bowled or run out)
Vince has scored 83 runs, and his current partner, Root, has scored 7 runs so far
After 6 deliveries (called an "Over"), Hazelwood (Australia) will be swapped out for a different Aussie bowler
I hope this helps
BTW - in Test matches (held over 5 days) the players wear traditional cricket 'whites' - but they do wear different caps
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In the shorter T20 series, teams wear coloured uniforms, and can wear commercial sponsors logos
Totally agree with your statement about team sports. It is difficult after high school. Hard work finding someone to kick a football or soccer ball. Currently working hard to consistently play some tennis
You generally have a couple of left-handers on any cricket team, they're useful, especially as one of the Openers. But its also because it takes half a second to switch hands and with a run-out every moment counts, so you throw it left-handed if that's the hand the ball is caught in.
Cricket is a genuine World Series , the number of country’s that play it and the number of millions who play it , from children to adults in local leagues , most high schools in australia had a cricket team that played a local league
A direct hit of the wicket is like essentially throwing it to a baseman in baseball before the batsman get to the base.
Ryan if you want to play cricket, you could show up to any suburban/town's cricket club just about anywhere in the Commonwealth and they'd find a spot for you. I stopped playing cricket at 48 and only then 'cause my knees gave up. Serious sports, in at least Aus, NZ and the UK, are played by local clubs and not in schools. Yes there are interschool competitions but the weekend sports clubs are where it all happens and the kids serious about their sports come up through the club system in age brackets into adulthood in various graded competitions.
Well said.
"What a beautiful sport - so cool!" Right on, Ryan. And you can play cricket in the U.S. If it's anything like parts of the Australian scene, there will be leagues of older players still wanting to get out there, have a bowl and a bat, and wind down following an afternoon of fun with a tinnie or two. Every chance there will be such a team in your neighbourhood - check it out, and give it a go! 😃😃
Warms my heart when I see someone watch cricket for the first time. It's a technically difficult game, but once you have the basics down, it's sooo addictive. Your getting the rules really well. With run outs, if the bails are even slightly lifted off the stump before the bat or any part of the player is planted over the line, it's out. In the Big Bash (Twenty-Twenty) matches they have lights in the stumps and bails, if the lights flash before you or your bat is over the line (and touching the ground) your out, back in the shed. You need to talk to your team mate and not leave them stranded in these situations. The reason the female batter hesitated is, because she's just come out of striking the ball motion and could see the ball hadn't beat the fielder and knew it was too risky to run, but her team mate already called it and ran (I'm thinking she called it as they were running out of balls to chase down the other teams score and had to run on every ball or something?). Love your videos. Thank you for sharing. Cricket is played at any age, there are many teams for all ages right through to 50 year olds. There is a small contingency growing in the U.S. you guys won some surprising games at the Twenty-Twenty World Cup which was in the U.S. earlier this year.
We got a couple of options for sports to play in winter (mostly variations of football) but cricket is pretty much an exclusive sport in summer (I am the odd one out I played baseball in my youth). Cricket has a bit in common with baseball but it is also completely different. Unlike baseball you don't have to run, but if you do (or you leave the crease) you need to make the crease (bat is ok as long as its on the ground and *over* the line), if the other team knocks the bails off (with the ball - there is some technicalities but stick with that as its 99.999% of run outs) before you make the ground you are out and it is important because you only have 10 wickets (or outs in baseball terminology so a whole cricket game is like 3 innings of baseball outs wise). Run outs are a devastating way to get out in cricket.
I am happy you try to understand cricket before commenting on it. It is a great sport. This season is great because India and Pakistan are touring Australia. Traditionally, India and Pakistan don't get on, and everyone like to try and beat Australia so it makes for some great cricket.
6:18 Check out Major League Cricket in the US; the game is available in the US.
Get yourself and family down here in summer mate, and I'll gladly treat y'all to tickets at a cricket match at the SCG.
Take it, Ry!
That’ll be fun.
Oh btw have a look at some caught and bowled footage, and remember that the ball is screaming back at the bowler at a bloody rapid pace.
Yes, C&B, the hardest catch because of the speed.
Batters sometimes hesitate when running, leading to a mix-up between the 2, and someone is left scrambling to get back in. Usually, it is the batter on strike (the one facing the delivery being bowled) who calls the non-striker to run, or not.
The best cricket fielders are ambidextrous meaning they can throw both left and right handed accurately.. if you like check out indoor cricket Australia 🇦🇺
I can't recall who pioneered this, but these days they train to do this by putting a single stump in the ground, surrounded by a ring of balls. The idea is you run around the stump while picking up a ball and then immediately throw it at the stump at the same time. The accuracy this imparts is phenomenal.
My six year old grandson started playing last season. They use a shorter wicket and are learning the rudiments of the game.
One of the major differences between US sport and the rest of the world. Australia in particular is that sport is not based around schools or universities. In fact in general playing for your school is something most of us consider quite lame. Instead it is based around where you live. I live in a small town in NSW, Bendemeer, which coincidentally is where Josh Hazelwood comes from. He began playing for the town in under age cricket teams (sort of like Little League) and then progressed through talent to regional teams, then onto state teams and finally into the national team. Because we organise our sports like this there is generally a wide range of ages playing from under 8's all the way through to over 40's and 50's. Personally I played from Under 10's right through to over 40's. I never made it to state or national sides but I did play at the level below state for a few seasons.
Many years ago, I knew a really good cricketer who couldn’t get onto the NSW team because he refused to advertise beer. NSW’s loss.
Australia was one of the first countries to bring an American baseball fielding coach over in the early 2000s. It really changed to dynamics of fielding and particularly throwing power and speed.
The other teams have caught up now but Australia was a notch above in the field for a hot minute
8:15 She hesitated because she hit it directly to a fielder, but her patner ran anyway. In general if you hit a ball in front of aquare its the strikers call, and its the non strikers call when you hit it behind square (an imaginary perpendicular line from the batsman)
It is a beautiful sport so easy yet so difficult to explain, its the game god play in summer
What the score board is saying is that England (ENG) is currently batting and Australia (AUS) is bowling/ fielding. Hazelwood is the guy bowling, it shows you how many wickets (people he's got out) and how many runs England has scored from his bowling. The English people batting are Root and Vince, and it shows you how many runs each has scored so far.
Being left handed is an advantage in cricket because if you have a left hander and right hander batting together the bowler has to change their rhythm every time Batsman change end. It makes bowling much harder. So selectors like to have a mix in a team. Also white kit signifies a Test level match. That is 5 day matches country verse country. Once upon a time all teams wore white.
fun to watch a compilation like this but remember, between those exciting moments you can be waiting for a whole lot of 'almost nothing' for a very long time, and you're likely to be getting a refill or a snack when it happens LOL. Test matches go on for up to 5 days!
I'd recommend watching the Jonty Rhodes superman runout and best of Jonty Rhodes. A legendary fielder.
Pitching in baseball is really just optimised throwing, so yeah it makes sense that throwing in cricket looks pretty similar. Bowling in cricket is different because you aren't allowed to bend your elbow, or more precisely you're not allowed to straighten your elbow during the delivery stride.
Cricket is a summer game where test matches can last for five days with players standing in the heat of the day, hence the white attire, to diminish the heat absorption of the costume.
never too old for cricket mate, any pub team would take you, most small towns will have a team to fit you on
Interestingly enough it was a baseball coach, Mike Young, who was brought on to the Australian cricket team to improve the standard of fielding. It led to a huge improvement in fielding that then spread to more focus on fielding in teams around the world.
Both my brother and father played cricket, from young ages, and my father was a referee...We were brought up with it, as well as Rugby League, which my father also refereed....He was also a life member of South Sydney Football Club.