@@NoProtocol I cannot count how many times that I have laughed at something that you said, or a video you've shown. I am very happy to return the favor.
Just in the Caribbean alone cricket playing nations are Grenada, Trinidad, guyana, st kitts, st Vincent, st lucia, dominca, Antigua, Jamaica, barbados, cayman islands, bermuda, bvi, bahamas, belize, panama ect.
Cricket is a summer sport. Its huge here in Australia. The Melbourne cricket ground holds about 100, 000 people. I played when I was young. Had heaps of fun.
I played from age 11 until early this year age 58. Arthiritis has got the better of me but its a great game and I am missing it already after watching my old club last week. Sadly you cant play forever, the cheese and kisses is happy to have me back on saturdays for chores.
Trust me: you are ready to watch cricket after seeing this video. I learned all that I know about cricket from watching cricket. I never had any formal introduction. It's not that hard to get a sense of the rules just from watching a few games.
Cricket is popular in many countries but the biggest nations are England, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West indies, Zimbabwe and South Africa. If you like a quicker game then T20 is the version for you that usually lasts a maximum of a few hours.
@@vogel2280 The Netherlands beat South Africa a couple of days ago, so basically, no. The US didn't "invent" baseball, it's based on an older version that was played in England in the mid-1800's that was bought to the US by immigrants. Formula One is very different to Indy Cars, its worldwide appeal and success for one, as Indy Cars are a domestic series like American "football". Cricket is the second biggest sport in the world after proper football.
@@vogel2280if you want something better than Indy cars, check out the Australian Supercars at Bathurst...an unbelievable race track and an endurance race.
@@vogel2280you mean the former British colonies? We can't continue to look back at history and judge those people based upon today and our thinking. Not saying I agree but why even bring something like that into a discussion about a sport that is loved by tons of people within the Indian and Middle Eastern countries ? My friends from that part of the world don't even mention colonization when speaking about cricket. Come on now. Just enjoy the video and the sport. Not everything has to be about history and our judgment therein. I value your opinion but this is a cool channel and this is a cool video. Can't we just chill and enjoy the video rather than all the other things? 🙏🏼🙏✌️🤞
The main cricket playing nations are England Australia India South Africa New Zealand Pakistan Sri Lanka West Indies Bangladesh Ireland Netherlands Zimbabwe and a few others.
@@shaanbranford352 Yes, maybe it's worth clarifying that the West Indies isn't a country, but is a cricket team made up from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Sint Maarten, Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Nepal is another emerging cricketing nation !! Nepal holds the record of "most records broken in one international match" with Mongolia in Asian games last month!! They broke 12 records in one match!! 50 runs in 9 balls, 100 runs in 34 balls, highest score in T20 - 314, Highest victory margin of 273, most sixes in one inning of 26 sixes etc!!
This video and the original one were both really great. I will just add one thing that might help with understanding the flow of a game: the fundamental tension in cricket is the tradeoff between scoring runs and not getting out (from a batter's perspective), or between restricting run scoring and getting people out (from a bowler's perspective). Usually, one comes at the expense of the other, and the correct strategy at any given time depends on the match situation. For batters: you can bat aggressively and score a lot of runs quickly, but you run the risk of getting out. Or, you can bat conservatively and reduce your risk of getting out, but you may not be able to score as quickly. Which one is the right approach at any given time depends on how much time is left and how many people are already out, because an innings ends when either the time is up (number of overs) or 10 of the players are out. For bowlers: it's similar. You can bowl conservatively and focus on restricting run scoring but may not get anyone out in the process. Or, you can bowl aggressively and try to get people out, but if you mess up you may give up a lot of runs.
Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the world. Cricket is the second most popular! That is undoubtedly due to it’s popularity in India and Pakistan, which boosts the audience size significantly. They have an incredible passion for the sport.
Its an emotion in this part of the world 🔥 You should watch any India Vs Pakistan match live as a bucket list item in your life. The atmosphere is always electric with 1.6 billion people all glued to any screens nearby!
Cricket isn't at all close to the second most popular sport in the world (that is probably basketball); but yes, given that the subcontinent countries are big fans, it certainly is more popular than you might think given how few countries play it at test level.
Yes, the MCG is a big one and the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, holds 132,000 (according to the Wikipedia page for the current Wold Cup). Those two seem to be the only ones that hold over 100,000, but there are several that hold 50,000+, mostly in India and Australia.
@@RedBaron44135K people were seated in recent in IND vs PAK match just like a week ago, look it up in youtube plus there's the food courts, vendors, security and various other people too all in all the stadium would've must been close to 150k people
@@leohickey4953 The MCG once had 121,000 to a VFL football Grand Final but most of it was standing room back then. They reduced the capacity to add more seating.
@@iankearns774 I could easily believe that, Ian. Most of the high attendance stats for (association) football grounds in the UK date from times when most people were standing on terraces, but safety rules have enforced them to switch to all seating these days, with roughly half the capacity of the old days. Not sure how I would cope with standing up all day for the cricket though 🤨.
As a lifelong cricket fan, I love when Americans or people from countries where it's not popular, are interested to learn about it! There are several rules and intricacies that the video didn't go into (for good reason!), but the person did a really good job of explaining the basics! If you get really interested in this, I would encourage you to watch IPL, the most exciting T20 cricket league (it's franchise cricket, with clubs)! Also, to compare this to the longest format, i.e., test cricket (the one that goes on for 5 days), you should watch the Ashes series - an intense rivalry between Australia and England that has been going on for decades!
Decades? The ashes have been played for over a century with the first ever askes testmatch being played in 1877! The story behind the oldest international sporting rivalry is worth a video of its own. Fun fact: the very first international game of cricket was played between USA and Canada, who'd have thought! Strange but true!
@@peterlongland6862 True - I stand corrected. Ashes has been played for over a century, and remains the greatest rivalry in cricket. And I just found out about the fun fact during the T20 World Cup 2024 which was played in USA & West Indies. Certainly strange, but very interesting!
@@jayantchonkar634 Yes and I am not sure what our American friends thought of it. Fun fact the very first internation game of cricket was between (drum roll)........................ USA V Canada!
4:46 With a wide or no-ball not only is one run added to the score as an extra, but the ball must be bowled again. This is so there is no advantage to the fielding team for bowling an unfair or unplayable ball. 15:13 Countries where cricket is very popular and which have top level teams (India has the biggest fan base by far); England, Ireland, West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, South Africa. Other countries aspiring to top level status include; Scotland, Netherlands, USA, Canada, UAE, Namibia etc (apologies for missing some out). Major League Cricket (MLC) has started in the USA and cricket is one of the fastest growing sports in the US, off the back of immigrants wanting to play it. 17:47 He's wrong when using the term professional. Pro cricket has been around since it first became organised (see County Cricket in England). What he appears to be confusing are the many innovations of the game, those first innovations were often referred to as the pyjama game, or 50 overs one day cricket played at night under lights, which required the use of a white ball (rather like a baseball), black sight screens, and teams wearing bright identifiable colours. Kerry Packer (Australia media mogul) popularised this version of the game with his World Series Cricket format which started in 1977. Since then, many other variations have been tried, too many to list here, suffice to say these are types of cricket, but pro players have always been around.
The thing about the test match is, you can't win one without bowling the opposition out twice, no matter how many runs you score. You might have scored 600 runs in your first innings, and bowled the opposition out for 150, then added 200 in your second innings for a total of 800 vs 150 runs. The opposition then comes in for their second innings, but if you can't knock over those opposition wickets before the match runs out of time, then that's a draw. Test matches are a balancing act between staying in to get loads of runs and when to 'declare' -- declaring is where the batting side decides to end their innings early, with wickets to spare, so as to give themselves enough time to win the match. And now I've written a wall of text. Darn it.
Born and raised in the Caribbean so cricket was a must play sport. if a ball that reaches the boundary airborne or rolling BUT hits the grass first before its 4 runs, if a ball goes anywhere over or hits the boundary while airborne the entire time is 6 runs.... a no-ball is 1 free run immediately and that ball bowled does not count as a ball bowled and the next ball bowled is a free hit meaning person batting can not out... There is also T10 10 overs, ODI 6-7hrs, T20 4-5hrs, T102-3hrs.... if the target is 222 that means the other team scored 221 a team needs only 1 more run to win.... the person batting batting only gets a run/runs if the ball come off the bat otherwise the team will still get the runs meaning team total runs but would not count as player personal runs.
This is a pretty good video that does exactly what it sets out to do - explains cricket to baseball fans. First Class cricket is the pure game. At international level it's called Test cricket (they wear whites). Yes, it is planned as a 5-day schedule with 2 innings for each team. It's epic; a long game of strategy, but it's the ultimate. As a kid, I hated it,... Dad watched it. So long, so boring... But now, I just love it!!! The Ashes Series (Aus vs England) is my fave💜 In the mid-1970s they launched the 1-day 50 over game, called One Day Internationals (ODIs). So exciting! They wore coloured uniforms & it was much more fast paced. Changed cricket: bringing in more fans and impacted back on Test cricket with faster pace, improved fielding & faster scoring. Later came T20, the shorter 20-overs per team version. I'm not a fan of this version. I love the fielding, but the batting is just crash & bash. No nuance. Just baseball-style wallops. And all the Americanised fanfare that goes with it - music, lights, fireworks...🤮🤯 Bastardisation of a great game. But, I understand that some people love it.
Always nice to see someone new interested in cricket, especially in the US where the population is so big there’s bound to be a lot of undiscovered cricketing talent. Hopefully the new Major League Cricket tournament, which was held in Texas in July and featured I think 8 city based teams from around the US, might grow the game there. How long cricket matches go in for obviously depends a lot on the format. As the video mentioned first class and Test cricket lasts for up to 5 days, though a very one sided match or one where rain stopped a lot of play can be over early on the third day. Most people probably don’t watch every minute of the whole thing, but it’s something you might just follow by having the radio tuned to a sports station calling the game or having the TV on while you’re doing other stuff and sitting down to watch it periodically. They often schedule it so that two days are the weekend and people have more time. That can still be hard though and the action is slower and evolves as the surface on the pitch is worn down by all the running on it etc, so limited overs cricket is perhaps a better place to start. As the name suggests One Day Internationals, or ODIs, last for one day, though again any that are really one sided are going to finish early. The men’s Cricket ODI World Cup is on right now actually. Finally there’s the T20 or Twenty20 format. A T20 game lasts about 3 hours, more or less, making it a great entry to the game and also easier for people with busy lives to just fit in. There are a number of T20 competitions around the world, with it being very popular in India, arguably the most cricket crazy country in the world and with the largest sporting stadium of any kind built for it, as well as South Africa, Australia and now the USA, with its Minor and Major League Cricket competitions (go Super Kings). We English invented cricket so of course where it’s popular is mostly in countries we’ve… ah, sort of invaded a bit at various points in the past. So other than the UK, but mostly England and Wales, there’s India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sei Lanka, South Africa, the West Indies, Zimbabwe, Australia, and New Zealand, though it’s also growing in popularity elsewhere. Ireland and Afghanistan play at the elite Test level, and the current World Cup features the Netherlands. Who have shown everyone that they absolutely belong there by beating South Africa a few days ago. I hope you get to watch a few games and see if you like it. T20 might even be short enough that there are whole games, or at least highlights reels, on TH-cam.
This was a good video in terms of explaining the basic rules to an American who is familiar with baseball, but it wasn't the fun part. It'd be like watching a video about basketball where all they talk about is traveling, technical fouls and double dribbles. Without mention of fast breaks, 3 pointers or dunks. I grew up with this game since I was a child, it's really not that complicated. It's quite intuitive.. but I can see how it would be complicated if you aren't familiar with it. NFL is way more complicated (compared to Rugby). American sports are very stop start, and have timeouts. Most Australian sports are very flowing without breaks but cricket does have small breaks every 6 balls (after an over). But it's long.. T20 is 2-3 hours, ODI is 7-8 hours. Test matches are 7-8 hours for 5 days straight. It's strategic and but also tests endurance. A test match is sort of like a season of a TV show.. there's ups and downs but there's also certain moments where things get really intense.. and then a climax at the end.
Well said though "vlimax at the end unless The Aussies don't bowl the last ball underarm to prevent any chance of New Zealand gaining the 6 runs required off the last ball. Not their finest hour. lol South East London,England
@@IsleofskyeAussie cricket enthusiast here. I AGREE! I never respected Australia’s then-captain Greg Chappell after he ordered his younger brother team mate Trevor to do that. DISGUSTING. In fact that was as bad as some of the Australian players’ ball tampering efforts in the South Africa Test Match (though by no means unique to them and to just that match) and as just bad as Bairstowe’s carry-on after he was dismissed legitimately at the Lord’s Test Match or the even worse behaviour of the now ex-Lord’s Members to Australian players at the following lunch break, after they had left the field and as they were heading to their meal break. And we won’t mention Bodyline of the 1930s, will we! For a supposedly gentleman’s game, there is sometimes less than gentlemanly behaviour exhibited on and off the field.
@@DeepThought9999 You, clearly, know your cricket, my friend. For the last 50 years, I have only been an occasional "highlights" fan, just seeing the days play, for example, in an Ashes Test Match but my Grammar School between 1965-71 used to, literally, be next to and overlook The Oval cricket ground, where, I'm sure you know Surrey play their Home games and the 5th Test in a series,is always played. We used to pay 1 NEW PENCE and watch the last session of the day, sometimes. :) Good Luck.
Speaking as someone who knows a little about baseball but has played cricket to the village cricket level that was not a bad explanation, certainly a grounding of the basics and appreciation of some of the terms (just don't, to start, get fixated on the fielding positions!!!!). Test matches (those 5 day 'marathons') are often derided for being long, slow and boring and whilst they are not all end-of-your-seat rivetting at all times, there is a definite slow burn involved with a lot of them whereby the tension ratchets up as the end of the last day hoves into view with the final batting side still adrift of a winning total and/or only a few wickets shy of being all out. As others have alluded to, the T20 games are faster-paced, with the batsmen more willing to 'slog' to drive the scoring rate as high as possible which adds to the overall excitement of the game, and only being a maximum of 20 overs (120 pitches for the baseball affiiandoes) for each side only lasts a few hours or so. One small difference between cricket and baseball is that there can be, in cricket, three different outcomes for a game played to completion: a win, a draw, or a tie (yes, those last two are actually different); other results can happen depending on the state of the game!
It's funny that test cricket gets derided for being long, slow and boring, yet four day golf tournaments that epitomise slow and boring escape similar criticism.
It is the tension of a team fighting for a win (or a draw) as time runs out that leads to the greatest moments in cricket. Such as the 1981 or 2019 tests at Headingly between England and Australia.
One *major* flaw with this video, which is mostly very good and clear (if a little brief at times), is about the question of professionalism. It is simply not true to say cricket has only recently become a professional sport; it's been so for probably around a century. It's true that until recently very few players would get rich from cricket, but they were still earning a living from it. It would have been nice to have a little explanation of the different types of shots a batter might play, and different styles of bowling, but maybe you'll get that from another video. Anyway, I enjoy your reactions (new subscriber) - you have a very melodious speaking voice!
It really wasn't until the 1980's that test cricket became professional. A century ago, the 1920's and later, Australian players often couldn't afford to leave work for a long sea voyage and tour in England for many months.
@@deaddoll1361Incorrect. Firstly professional cricket is over 200 years old, older than test cricket. When test cricket started it was normal for the top sides to have a mixture of professionals and amateurs/gentlemen. It was the amateurs who couldn't afford to tour for months. The professionals got paid so they tended to dominate. The distinction was largely abolished in England in the 1960s but it was in the 1980s that media competition led to higher pay, though still tiny compared to what todays players can get.
I think you are misunderstanding the context of "professional" in the US. For example, in the US, WWE is called "pro wrestling", and the Olympic style wrestling is either just called "wrestling" or even "amateur wrestling". Why? I am not sure. Probably marketing. Anything that is league-based with players being bought and sold is called "pro". So when they say "pro cricket is new", they're saying that IPL-style cricket is new. Which is true.
I'm Australian and when I was living in LA I tried explaining to my American friends that a Cricket Test match is scheduled to be played over 5 days. Shock horror! That's rubbish they said - come to an NFL game and see how a game should be played. And it was great - for the whole 11 MINUTES of the game where the ball was actually in play!!! Which means that the Offense and Defence players had about 5 minutes each.
Yeah that’s the problem I have with NFL and rugby, they just blow the whistle as soon as someone touches the ground, then they all walk around get their breath back and have a drink 😂. The games like Basketball and Soccer (how I’ve always said it I’m Aussie) are much more well done with pacing, sure in Soccer they don’t score often, but it makes the game so much more tense as there is always the threat and also the big celebration moments.
@@matt.2708 You need to check out Aussie Rules Football. 4 quarters, each 20mins + extra time (so 25-30mins usually), and therefore about 2hrs of play - fantastic, ast-paced, energetic game.
All these videos explaining cricket talk about the game being played over 5 days and this seems to set off alarm bells in some people's heads. They need to specify that this is 6-8 hours per day over 5 days (!) and that there are rest periods (lunch and tea break) on each day. Additionally they need to explain that traditionally cricket is a game that is played when good lighting (aka the sun) is available (there are actually some people who think that a match lasting 5 days is 24 hours a day for 5 days). and good weather too. It is only recently that cricket, especially test matches, have been played under lights...
Yes - bring on a sticky wicket = in a difficulty situation. There is also ‘Pulling up stumps’ = they died and ‘Had a good innings’ = they died at at a ripe old age. Also ‘plays with a straight bat’ = they are honest and reliable. ‘Bowled him/her a Googly’ = foxed them by doing something unexpected or impossible to counter.
A sticky wicket is a cricket pitch where it has been raining but is now drying. On such wickets the ball can turn much more than normal, at a faster speed than one that is just wet. It can be very difficult to bat on such a wicket, but a delight for a spin bowler. They are very rare in professional cricket nowadays as the wickets are covered between innings. As a very poor amateur spin bowler I was once taken off to allow the other team a chance on such a wicket. "being on a sticky wicket" comes from the batsman's point of view.
The bowling would be a whole video in itself. You might be interested in watching a video on shane warne was the best spin bowler in the world for a number of years. Regarded as one of the best of all time.
@@NoProtocol basically using fingers (fingerspinner) or wrist ( leg-spinner) to impart spin on the ball to make it move when it hits the pitch. In the similar way to how a baseball pitcher makes a ball move in the air by altering their grip. Spin or slow bowling is done at a much slower rate then fast bowling for example and involves a lot of deception of the batsmen in the various delivery options. Warne was a leg-spinner. Spin is quite a artform when done well. Have been enjoying your videos for a while cheers.
@@matthewcharles5867 Ooo fun! I keep forgetting about the bounce. Now I want to see how much a trajectory can get tweaked with some brief traction, as well as any Magnus effect.
The “P2” stands for powerplay 2. In limited overs cricket (in this case ODI) you are restricted on how many fielders you are allowed outside the 30 yard circle. Between overs 11 and 40 a maximum of 4 fielders are allowed outside the 30-yard circle. P3: Powerplay 3. In the final 10 overs (41-50) a maximum of 5 fielders will be allowed to field outside the 30-yard circle. And P1, only two are allowed. If a team is timed out / takes too long to bowl an over they can be penalised by having to bring another fielder back inside the 30 yard circle. So in P3 when they have 5 fielders outside the circle, they can be forced to bring one back inside (like in P2), giving the batting team an advantage to score boundaries or sixes.
The best part of cricket is where they get down on all fours, make chirping sounds and try to avoid getting stepped on.... Oh, wait.... I think that's a different sport. LOL
its mainly big in South Asia and England along with Australia, New Zealand, Caribbean, Canada, Zimbabwe to name a few, the only South American country its big in would be Guyana which used to be a British overseas territory
Two basic things he failed to highlight are, 1. Only the wicket keeper wears gloves. All the other players field bare handed. The ball is as hard as baseball, but it is slightly heavier, and 2. When you bowl, the ball is meant to bounce before the batsman. A ball that doesn't bounce and is above waist height, is NoBall and the batsman can't get out. Making the ball bounce adds a very important element to bowling as it allows the bower to move the ball sideways off the pitch.
New Zealand, Australia, England, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, West Indies and Zimbabwe are countries that have historically been the largest cricket playing nations!
I dig the decoration in the background. Both the tree sculpture and seascape painting evoke familiar memories. I had a family member who used to paint in a similar style; and another relative who made metal bonsai trees with twisted wire for the trunk and branches.
One of the really big differences between cricket and baseball is the fact that the bowler bowls at the ground in front of the batter, rather than entirely through the air. Bear in mind that a good fast bowler bowls at virtually the same speed as a pitcher, but the ball can move move sideways when it bounces, and can bounce at different heights. This gives the batter a tiny split second to adjust, and is why there are more injuries in cricket. It's also an allowable ploy in cricket for the bowler to bowl directly at the line of the batter's body. (This wasn't always the case. You might find it interesting to Google 'Body line series' and read about the repercussions of what happened in Australia in the 1930s.)
It was legal then (or they wouldn't have been able to do it), it was just considered dirty play (it was specifically aimed at neutralizing one particularly unbeatable player -- Australian batsman Don Bradman). It's less legal, if more common, now -- don't remember the exact rules, but you're only allowed to bowl a limited number of bouncers at the batsman, and can get suspended for overdoing it, and there are limitations on field placement to make it less effective.
@@nac5901 1 bouncer per over in T20, 2 per over in longer forms. Any more than that and the bowler will be removed and not be allowed to bowl again in that inning
It's hilarious to me that in the wake of of the '32-'33 Ashes tour, the MCC basically all but sneered at the Australians... but when the West Indies, already known for aggressive bowling, saw the whole Bodyline business, went 'oh, you can do that? Fantastic!' And went on to use it against England in a Test Match in 1933... and suddenly the MCC decided Bodyline might not be such a good thing after all. I guess it's different when the boot's on the other foot.
Guyana is probably the only country in South America but when they play nationally they are called West Indies along with other carribean nations like Jamica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Antigua, St Kitts. There is a popular league called the Carribean premier league. They are also trying to enter North America the next T20 word cup will held next year jointly co-hosted by USA and carribean nations. Also cricket has been included in the 2028 Olympics to be held in Los Angels.
to be honest, i was a member at durham cricket, as brits we like a drink, most of it about the drink, the atmosphere, if your side live watching in the stands, apart from the big screen, you cant really see the ball, you might see abit of dust as it hits the floor, batsman plays the ball, a second later you hear it, sitting behind the wickets gives much better advantage of seeing the ball live, still a wonderful game, fun crowd, and just a goos day out, as its all day match in general
@@i67x Still to be a pom, u dont have to follow, but u should at least know how the game works. Also its still the 2nd or 3rd most followed sport in the uk
My favorite schoolyard game was wallball (there are different variations but I'll try to explain from my memory: you throw a ball against a wall but if it hits the ground BEFORE it hits the wall, you must immediately run to touch the wall before another person throws said ball against the wall to get you out, rinse and repeat until there is a winner) I remember we kids thew so many tennis balls over the school roof, we would have to wait until the next day for the groundskeeper to fish them out in order to play again 😅
There's a saying in my country. "The only thing that rain stops, is Cricket." As per where cricket is one of the biggest sports: Caribbean and Guyana, if you're in South America.
@@NoProtocol India is without doubt the most important country for cricket now. In England its largely only popular with the upper classes but its almost religion like, in what is now the most populous country....
@@QuackAttack Apparently so. British Bulldog got banned in UK schoolyards because it usually ended in blood and tears. Was banned at my school, so we played Kabaddi instead - which eventually also got banned for the same reasons.
Playing backyard cricket is a rite of passage for many Aussie kids - if you hit the ball over the fence it's counted as SIX-AND-OUT, plus it's the batting team's responsibility to fetch the ball from the neighbour's yard! We used to play with a cut-down fence paling with electrical tape for the handle of the bat, and bowling would be with a tennis ball, sometimes likewise half-covered in electrical tape. A fantastic TV miniseries about cricket is "Bodyline". It was filmed in 1984 about a notorious series of test matches between England and Australia in the 1930s. The main Australian batsman depicted, Donald Bradman, only passed away in 2001; he is widely regarded as our greatest sportsperson, high praise in the field of stars that makes up Australian sportspeople.
We don't have backyards in India, I mean not many homes have them. But we do have streets in the neighbourhood or wide open fields (plots of land) or parks where we played cricket when we were children. Breaking the windows of the neighbours was very common when we played on the streets and you can imagine, that brought troubles for us but we were eventually forgiven since we were children. We do invented our own rules (like you did) since spaces where we played were limited by area. In our version, that would be "out" with no runs scored, if hit over the fence. Cricket is very huge in India and borderline madness. If you have to define India, it cannot be done without mentioning "cricket". Religion comes first in India, followed by Cricket. In fact, cricket unites us all from different religions and communities. And the reason why it is so huge here is because everyone can watch it. Otherwise, owing to the huge diversity of India, not a single element is common for the entire country, except that all of it was once ruled by British. Cricket unites us all Indians as a country, speaking different Languages or coming from different communities or religions.
Just to be clear, In cricket the pitch refers to the whole area of the playing field. The wicket refers to the small rectangular part of the pitch along which the bowler bowls. The five pieces of wood that the bowler bowls at are called the wicket. If the bowler’s ball results in a dismissal of the batsman the bowler is said to have taken a wicket. If a team wins the game with say three batsmen yet to play then they’ve won by three wickets. Hope this clears things up.
Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston, England in 1994, which is the only quintuple-hundred in first-class cricket history. As captain, Lara led the West Indies team to win the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, the first time the team won any major ICC trophy since winning the 1979 Cricket World Cup. Lara also holds the record for the highest individual score in a Test innings after scoring 400 not out at Antigua during the 4th test against England in 2004. Lara also held, for 18 years, the record of scoring the highest number of runs in a single over, 6 balls/deliveries of a Test match when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003. The Brian Lara Stadium, in Trinidad and Tobago, opened in 2017, was named in his honour. Lara was also a talented football player in his youth and often played with his close friends Dwight Yorke, Shaka Hislop and Russell Latapy while growing up together in Trinidad.[citation needed] Yorke, Hislop and Latapy would go on to play for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[citation needed] Wikipedia.
A Test match will typically go for 5 days from 10am in the morning until 5pm each day - a One Day match will typically go from 10am in the morning until 6pm at night while a 20/20 match will go for around 3 hours - These numbers can vary greatly depending on how well both teams play
5:56 When a batter gets out, the next player comes in to bat. However, once a batter is at the crease, they cannot go back unless they are out. If a batter gets injured during the game, they can leave the field without being out. They can return to bat if they feel able again. However, to resume batting, the current batsman must get out, and the injured player must come back before all the other players on their team have finished their innings.
T20 lasts about 3 hours. Each innings takes about 80 mins with a break between innings. One important change relatively recently is the introduction of floodlights to cricket which means that day/night or just night games are common - in fact the ball's colour is changed from the traditional red to white. You will frequently hear limited overs cricket being described as "white ball" cricket.
Cricket is the major summer sport, and Aussie Rules Football is the major winter sport in Australia. I recommend watching What Is AFL Aussie Rules Explained, and the companion video is A Beginners Guide to Australian Rules Football; these are from the Official AFL Channel, this is a unique game the likes of which you have ever seen.
Good video. Great choice. IMO you don't need to take notes, re-watch this or do more research. Just watch two or three cricket matches. I think they can be very long and by the time you watch a couple you'll understand it, you'll know Cricket "laws." Cricket doesn't have rules, it has laws. I'm sure there's some history behind that.
One of the absolute MAJOR differences between Baseball and Cricket that these videos never mention is that in cricket the ball they use is never changed for a new one aside from some exceptional circumstances. So no new ball every other pitch like in baseball. Add to this if a ball is replaced during a game because the old one is virtually unusable or out of shape it must be replaced with a ball of similar usage, not a new one. The condition of the ball and the way it passes through the air is a major part of what makes cricket... cricket. Similarly with the pitch itself, in the longer (test match) game the pitch itself will age, dry out, crack and all sorts of shenanigans. Given that in cricket the bowler bounces the ball to the batter this can result in all sorts of variations that would not be expected from a flat grass length. And before anyone says anything yes in test matches the old ball is replaced by a new ball after 80 overs but that is the only circumstances that a brand new ball replaces an old one.
After 80 overs that ball is a long way from being new. If a ball becomes damaged, it can be replaced, but not with a new one. Whether it's test or limited over cricket, the umpire will have a collection of balls stored off-field from matches where one side lost early, and they'll try to match the damaged ball as closely as possible. In one day and T20 games, where a ball is expected to last the shorter duration, there's the problem of lost balls that are hit onto spectator stand roofs or out of the ground entirely.
It was good fun watching this video having played both sports myself at school. Just a side note there is currently a one day world cup being played in India between the top 10 best teams in the world.
The cricket world cup is currently being contested in India, if you are lucky you may catch one of these games. This is an exellent video, you have all you need to enjoy a game.
About the length of games…. 1st Class Test Cricket: goes for 4 innings 2 for each side, an innings in test match usually takes around a day to a day and a half. A single day of play in a test usually takes around 5-7 hours depending on things like how quickly the game plays out, lighting, rain etc etc. 50 over ODI: usually plays out in around 6 hours. 20 over T20: usually takes around 2 hours.
A couple of important things that weren't mentioned. He said if the bowler delivers a wide or no ball, the batting side gets one run, this is the default, although runs can still be scored from a wide or no ball, so it is not limited to one run, but most importantly the bowler must bowl that ball again, so although runs have been scored, it doesn't count as the bowler having bowled. Therefore there can be more than six balls in an over. The other slightly less important thing that wasn't mentioned is that when the over ends and they change bowlers, the other bowler bowls from the other end. This is important for various reasons. One end could be advantageous to different bowlers at different times, i.e. it could be slightly downhill one end, over time as the wicket gets scuffed there could be areas that if bowled into make batting more difficult, etc. It also means that if a bowler wants to change ends, there must be two overs between them bowling from one end and the other. This doesn't happen that often, moreso in test cricket.
8:58 I don't know how to compare pitching (bowling) in cricket to softball. Cricket pitching is very different and extremely techniques-oriented, unlike softball. In cricket, you are not allowed to throw(chuck) the ball. There are certain angles the pitchers should not exceed while delivering the ball. So, throw bowling is illicit in cricket. f the umpire deems that the ball has been thrown, they will call a no-ball, which means the batsman cannot be given out from that delivery. *An Illegal Bowling Action is where a player is throwing rather than bowling the ball. This is defined by the ICC(International Cricket Council) as being where the player's elbow extends by an amount of more than 15 degrees between their arm reaching the horizontal and the ball being released* .
A great book about baseball at the turn of the 20th century is "The Glory of Their Times" by Lawrence Ritter. It's a collection of interviews with the players themselves and one thing they often mention is how baseball had already changed from their time to how it was in the 1960s when they were being interviewed.
If I had to explain the biggest difference cricket to baseball is cricket is, for the most part, a 1 mistake batting game. You make a mistake and unless a fielder drops the ball your innings is over. This can happen first ball or after 400. For that reason the batters wicket tends to be a very valuable resource. Sure you have 10 of them but once you lose about 6 you're generally into the bowlers who have less skill with the bat. A top order batter will average between 40 and 60 in first class cricket but 50 is considered a very good average. Only one batter in history with more than 2000 runs has a much higher average score and that is Sir Donald Bradman who averaged 99.94 in test cricket. The value you put on your wicket depends on the game. Batters will take a lot more risk in a 20/20 because they have 10 wickets to lose and only 20 overs to face. Conversely in a test match it's unlimited overs so particularly if your batting first on a good pitch with the sun out you'd want to get between 350 and 450. That's another huge difference - the wicket is a hard bit of turf and it weathers as the match goes on. So in a test match which can go five days the wicket may deteriorate a lot on the 4th and 5th day favouring the team batting first. OTOH if you bat first and the wicket is green and conditions are overcast the ball will move around in the air and seam and bounce a lot more. So it's more like a game of chess. Long form cricket is very strategic - if you want to watch cricket start with the 20/20s which use artificial things like field restrictions to encourage batters to hit the ball in the air. So there are usually lots of 6's and 4's, often a bunch of wickets ajd the whole things over in just over 3 hours. Then watch an exciting 50 over international where the result is close and if you like that you can try a Test match but you can sort of tune in and tune out of a test match. Cricket is played in nearly all the former English colonies (and some surrounding countries) and in most of those countries it's the major summer sport. So England and the UK, Australia, India, South Africa, New Zealand, West Indies, Bangladesh, Netherlands, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Ireland, Canada. It's also played in the US but it's not a major sport. A baseball team has 9 players compared to 11 on a cricket team.
As a South African I love cricket. This video was pretty well done with easy to understand explanations. I think you should watch a game if you can. Perhaps an ODI or a T20 game to begin with as the longer format may move a little slowly (given your dislike of the slow baseball games).
5:56 Batters come to the ground one after another when one gets out but batter can't go back unless he is out. If a batter get injured he can go back without getting out and he can return if feels able to bat again but to return current batsman have to get out and he have return before his sides all players come and gone.
Hi, The explanation was pretty good. He was a bit out with regards to Professional verses Amateur. Most international players are Professionals and have been since the 1970's, maybe earlier. The big 'ruckus' about 1 day game happened in 1977-1979, due to a professional 'league' set up by Kerry Packer, set up for his TV channel in Oz. This probably lead to the IPL (Indian Premier League) which has Local Indian players but many Guest International players, its worth watching, most international teams allow their players to take part.
It’s a good video but I think in order to understand cricket you can simplify it a bit more by focusing on the interaction between batsman and bowler and their motivation during each ball. Once you understand that, everything else like fielding positions and overs comes after.
A Test Match goes for a maximum of 5 days… but there are breaks for Lunch and ‘Tea’ each day. These games can finish early in less than 5 days… and there is often a ‘rest day’ within the 5 days too. A 50 Overs match goes all day… but unlike a Test which starts at 10am, it won’t start until say 2pm and continues into the evening. They are also known as ‘Day/Night matches’. The T20 Matches are in evening, and a much faster because of the shorter number of overs. Australia and England have been playing Test Matches (known as ‘The Ashes’… look up the history of the Ashes, and why it has that name) since 1882. England, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka are the main nations that play…. But there are some other minor nations who play. The cricket ball is slightly smaller, but heavier and much harder than a baseball (there are videos you can find to learn how cricket balls are made), and except for the Wicketkeeper, no one on the fielding team wears gloves. They catch the ball, bare handed.
There are 2 school-yard sports that used to be very popular in India - Kabaddi and Kho-kho. Both have lost popularity to international sports, but man, they are fantastic!
Nine players on the field, as you correctly laid them out: pitcher, catcher, first base, second base, shortstop, third base, left field, center field, right field. There will be two non-players as well: the first and third base coaches, stationed in foul territory near their respective bases, for the batting team. There are new rules in MLB this year, including a pitch clock. The pitcher has 15 seconds to deliver a pitch; 20 seconds with men on base. The batter must be in the box and facing the pitcher at 8 seconds. A clock violation on the pitcher means a ball; by the hitter, a strike. Games were not as long on average this year, overall. And the video mentioned a shift; the shift was banned as of this year.
Cricket has a similar time violation, times depend on the type of cricket, Test, 1st class, One Day (50 or 60 overs) or T20, I assume there is a similar rule for latest format which is 100, which is 100 balls in groups of 5 rather than overs of 6.
@@stephenlee5929 Yep, the Hundred also has a cutoff time, but Tests don't (because they don't have fielding limitations). For anybody wondering - failure to bowl the overs within a calculated time limit incurs the penalty of reducing the number of fielders allowed on the boundary for the rest of the inning. Might not sound like much, but it opens up more opportunities for a big hit.
That's a pretty good explanation. There's a lot more that he didn't get into as well such as the details of bowling style and batting style. There are different types of bowlers for example, different fun techniques for throwing (pitching) the ball and there are many batting techniques used for specific deliveries. Offensive techniques and defensive techniques. It's a very in depth game and can be difficult to get into initially but very rewarding when you understand everything that's going on.
If you want to watch an exciting rugby match you can’t do better than the recent World Cup quarter finals in France where France played against the World Cup holders South Africa in a dynamic point scoring extravaganza. Seriously it had passion, power, drama, and pride with fans loving every moment.
@@NoProtocol...espn + is showing the 45 game "tournament"...most games start 2 or 3 am cst....but they have on demand play and short highlight programs of the games...fyi...these games last about 7 or 8 hours....the T20 matches imo, are better, they have a higher score rate... and last about 3 hrs...I think a far superior game than baseball, again imho 😬
@@NoProtocol You have plenty of time; first game was two weeks ago (NZ vs England; NZ won), last game is scheduled for the 12th of November, semi-finals on the 15th and 16th, final on the 19th.
Regarding the "P2"...it shows the powerplay. In cricket, we have 3 powerplays. Powerplays are nothing but restrictions on the fielding team. If you see on the ground, there will be a 30-yard circle (marked by circular discs) between the pitch and the boundary. In the first powerplay (overs from 1-10), no more than 2 fielders are allowed outside the 30 yard circle. In the 2nd Powerplay (overs from 11th to 40th) no more than 4 fielders are allowed and in the 3rd powerplay (from over 41-50) no more than 5 fielders are allowed.
i dont want to complicate it for you, but at 4.15 you see them run wicket to wicket, they may have the chance to take 2 runs, but sometimes take one run, to keep the best batter on strike, more chance of runs, and the less batter not getting out, thus keep there game going
It's an ok attempt at explaining cricket for baseball fans, but thought he missed an opportunity of explaining that the wicket is an equivalent of a strike zone/plate combined which would instantly click for a baseball fan, so pitchers/bowlers/fielders aim for the wicket to get batters out. The wicket (stumps/bails) also help to obviate the sometimes arbitrary decisions of baseball umpires in determining strikes/balls and safe/out calls which so frequently result in much shouting, hat tossing and chest bumping we're all familiar with. The LBW rule is to prevent a batter crowding the plate which, given there's no free run for being hit by a pitch in cricket, results in a potential out rather than a potential run. Unlike baseball, there isn't a pitcher's bullpen and bowlers can't be switched in/out at the will of the coach, the bowlers of each over are selected by the captain from any of the 11 fielding players. This is a major difference between the sports on the management side and makes the team selection very important in cricket, as different bowlers will be better in different conditions and/or against particular batsmen. Selecting too few bowlers in a cricket team will result in difficulty taking wickets and selecting too few batsmen results in difficulty scoring runs. Always an endless discussion argument prior to and after each game for dedicated fans to get rabid about!! ;) I'll add further items if they occur to me.
I'm not sure how much closer I am to understanding cricket, but it's a start. You may also find rally car racing interesting. It's up there on the scale of wild to watch.
I am an Aussie and the cricket grounds across the country can hold 100,000 people as the biggest stadium in Melbourne. Perth holds 60,000 Adelaide, 54,000 Brisbane and Sydney hold about 45,000. There are a few other stadiums also that are used. There is a stadium with a roof that opens or closes in Melbourne also , the only place in the world that has had cricket played with a roof closed.. its great for if it rains because in cricket, when it rains then the players can't continue to play in the rain. There is also games that start in the afternoon and continues to night with light towers that are used
Great video. By the end my mind started fracturing with possible "sport comparison explanation" videos. I got stumped on explaining American football to new Swift Kelce fans, but think it would be amazing and hilarious. My favorite playground games were capture the flag and king of the hill. Though, not playground, during my freshmen orientation we played Assassin. The dorm was the playground and it was a paranoid, ice-breaking blast.
Well done on trying to understand a new game. Technically the sticks (stumps/wicket) can be hit,eg. ball hits stumps softly, but if the bails do not come off then the batter is NOT out !
Internarional Cricket matches are five days in duration for one game, one result, win or lose. Domestic test matches are usually shorter at only three days long. Test matches are except in very rare instances only played during the hours of daylight, generally from mid-morning to late afternoon but any of the teams playing can appeal to the umpire about the light, although it probably only makes sense for the batting team to appeal. One day cricket like the professional fifty over game are usually day-night matches where due to television commitments for viewer numbers the game might start after lunch and end some time during prime tv viewing. Professional twenty over cricket is usually played in the evening as it is prime tv viewing time. Cricket stadiums for professional games have to have an impressive array of lighting towers to be suitable for tv coverage. These stadiums have the capacity to give out so much light that they can probably be seen from space. These sports stadiums need so much power for their lighting systems to function that most of them have a direct hotline to the powerstations supplying that city network to inform them when they are turning on or turning off the lighting so that the powerstations have enough spinning reserve power to handle the extra load.
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in the field goes out and when he's out comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. 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, there are men still in and not out. There are men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter if they're in or out. When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished
In Australia, i played cricket for school, plus for a kocal league. At school, we played a brutal game called brandings, your friends stood against a wall on a bench seat, we soaked tennis balls in water and pelted the guys on the wall, if hit, they joined the guys throwing, until only 1 kid is left, called branding sd your body is covered in red welts from the ball
Love your content, this was a great one... I've been watching cricket for years... Please don't read a "rule book", it will get you no where... If you understand about 60% of this video just start watching a match on TV... It will be confusing at first but as you learn it gets better and better.... The Caribbean T20 is a great place to start... Even if you're a bit lost, the atmosphere in the crowd is extremely entertaining.... It's one big party.. LOL.. Take care.
An important thing to understand which doesn't come across in any of the explain videos, is that alternate overs (6 balls) are bowled from opposite ends. Because cameras are placed in identical positions at each end this is often overlooked unless you study the buildings or advertising. Grounds differ in so many ways, pitches, hardness, grass, slope, wind direction all play their part. Fast bowlers, of necessity end their run up with a couple of paces on the wicket. These rough foot holes become useful for spin bowlers later in the game as they can cause bounce and spin to become erratic and deceive the batsmen. Dirt starts to crack up depending on heat from the sun, or a damp atmosphere incites swing, where the ball bends in or out during travel. Day Night matches are susceptible to this change over time. The tactical decisions made by the Captain are taken as these conditions dictate. The ball deteriorates over time, losing its hardness and bounce, so teams shine one side of this older ball to assist movement in the air, either in towards, or away from the batsman. So much cat and mouse involved.
Couple of corrections, clarifications on what the narrator said in this video: - regarding professionalism; he implied that only club/franchise games are played between professional players. This isn’t the case. Most Test match playing nations have professional players too and in fact, similar to football (the soccer type! 😜) it’s actually the same players who play in the franchise games and those international matches. It’s by virtue of their performances for teams/clubs/franchises that players will get selected for their national team in the various international match formats (ODIs, Test matches and T20 Internationals); - on the section about scoring when he explained the “target” on the bottom of the screen he got it wrong. He said this is what the opposition team had scored. This isn’t the case. As you have to score at least 1 more run than your opponent to beat them the “target” on this score summary is always what your opponent scored +1 as it represents the minimum you must score in order to win the game. Overall this is a very good video I’ve seen multiple times before. I’m someone who comes at this from the opposite end of the spectrum; I’m English and was brought up on cricket from before I could walk (my mother was pretty obsessed with the sport). I still love cricket. In my late teens and early twenties I got introduced to watching baseball and fell in love with that sport too. Now the two sports are the ones I watch more than any others. I think one of the reasons I love these sports (I’ll watch almost any sport to be fair) is that there’s a lot of statistical analysis that is inherent to the sport in terms of assessing player and team performance, and I also love maths 😉 Just to add, you asked how long a game of cricket typically runs for and he didn’t really get into specifics on the video. The shortest form, the T20, with the twenty overs per team, is quite similar to a baseball game in length. Each team’s innings of 20 overs will probably take a little under an hour and half to complete, so that’s just under 3 hours of total play time, with a fairly brief break for the swap over inbetween innings, so the whole thing from start to end is probably around three and a half hours. An ODI, with the 50 overs per side, will take around three and a half hours for EACH team’s innings, will have a slightly longer break inbetween the innings and is probably going to be around 8 hours of total play on the (as the name suggests) one day taken to complete the game. Then the Test matches he mentioned… up to 5 consecutive days of play for each match, and there is 6 hours of play scheduled for each day (but could be up to 7 if the bowling team hasn’t bowled their overs fast enough because there’s a defined number of overs the team should bowl in the day; this is so the bowling team, if they’re losing the match, can’t really just slow things up to try to run out of time in the match, which is still possible sometimes despite 5 days of play being allocated). So in a Test match there will typically be 30-35 hours of play in total if the match goes on for the full 5 days. And just to add to that, the two teams will typically play Test matches in “series”, which are just like in baseball, a number of consecutive matches between the same two opponents. These series are up to 5 matches in length, so when this is the case two teams could be playing up to 25 days of cricket against each other over the course of a number of weeks (Test matches in a series are generally played maximum of one per week to give players necessary rest time before the next match) just to decide who the ultimate winner of the series is; overall series wins are much more important than individual match wins within the series and trophies get awarded on the series result not after each individual match.
PS. If you’re still interested to know more about cricket and get into it further I’d suggest watching a few matches, starting with the shortest T20, rather than reading the laws of the game. The laws are very ‘dry’, pretty long, aren’t really set out to help guide someone trying to learn the game (they’re more about establishing detailed rules on how to address specific eventualities from the perspective of the officials and come across quite legalistic in style) and will use terminology that in of itself is quite sport-specific.
Cricket codes: Test (my favorite, unlimited Overs), ODI (One Day International, 50 Overs), T20 (Twenty-Twenty, 20 Overs per side). Complex sport, but I love itl.
A T20 match is played over 2hrs and 40mins. An ODI is played upto 7hrs. Test Cricket is played upto 5 days with each days play over 6hrs. An average score for a T20 match is 166 for 6. An average score for an ODI match is 260 to 279. An average score for a Test Match in the First Innings is 343 and the Second Innings is 304.
Interesting fact Afghanistan has just beaten England the previous world champions in the World Cup cricket this is massive as only a few years ago many of the Afghan players were refugees and the team had no backers, no money behind them. I’m English but it is inspiring, there is a tv programme made some years ago showing the Afghan team starting out. This game is massive in India , Pakistan less so now in England, and The West Indies in particular which were the most exciting to watch when I was a kid.
The West Indies were my favourite team as a kid in the late 70's-80's they had so many great players compared to the woeful Australian teams of the 80's. Funny how the current Australian team has gone full circle and is as bad now as those 80's squads.
Yes, the pitch does look like a long jump landing spot, but it's hard as a rock the turf on the pitch is very careful looked after, so it is hard for the ball to bounce off with very few divits and that doesn't just break up to quickly. Cricket is a summer sport, and Rugby League and Rugby Union and AFL are winter sports. I remember playing Rugby League as a kid. I played in the middle, so you were always getting tackled on the rock hard Cricket pitch. The start and end of the season were worse as the pitch was at its hardest.
Cricket is generally played by countries of the Commonwealth of Nations(British), also some European countries have teams. There are 12 full time Cricket nations :- Australia,Afghanistan, Bangladesh, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. The first ever International Cricket Match was between the US and Canada in 1844, and was played at the grounds of the St George's Cricket Club in New York. Since 1965 the US was admitted as an Associate Members of the International Cricket Conference, and a US National Cricket Team competes in World Cup plus will compete in the 2028 LA Olympics.
Skills technicalities Nd conditions makes cricket so beautiful diverse and peflrfect game...That's why I like it so much.... Variations and variety 😊 Every place at everyvanue you will find diffrent situations and match conditions in cricket....It is significant Nd adorable
Best way to understand cricket is to play it. Use a tennis ball instead of the traditional cricket ball because the latter is really hard and will damage body and property if you aren't prepared. If the bowler bowls the ball and doesn't bounce it, it's called a full toss! Other ways a batter can be out he didn't mention: - hitting his/her partner's wicket. - hitting the ball twice with one swing. - taking too long to get to the crease (1 minute limit). The wicket keeper usually has another fielder behind him to pick up "slips!" Thanks to technology there are now sensors on the stumps and cameras to capture what the human eye would miss. A bowler's arm cannot bend while bowling otherwise he'll be penalised for "bowling action." The two types of cricket he mentioned are T20 (is more for parties and quick enjoyment) and test matches are more about endurance. Put together a team and take to the field. That should make an interesting TH-cam video. Unisex match, limited limited overs (5 overs per side). Countries where crickets is huge: India, Pakistan, West Indies (Caribbean), South Africa, Australia, England, Sri Lanka, and a lot more getting into it like America, Afghanistan (I think), even Japan.
It does not matter if you are the batter or bowler, there is no rest for the wicket.
This one made me laugh out loud
@@NoProtocol I cannot count how many times that I have laughed at something that you said, or a video you've shown. I am very happy to return the favor.
Haha. Perfect.
@@NoProtocolI just have to say, you are one of the prettiest women I've ever seen! Your hair and skin is beautiful!
Sometimes these bad puns leave me stumped.
Just in the Caribbean alone cricket playing nations are Grenada, Trinidad, guyana, st kitts, st Vincent, st lucia, dominca, Antigua, Jamaica, barbados, cayman islands, bermuda, bvi, bahamas, belize, panama ect.
We love the west indies and miss your presence in the worldcup (also dont mind the peace of mind ya’ll had some beasts) 🔥🔥
@@domtoretto4116 we'll comeback stronger in 2024💪🏾
@@kitarokun6564 love you bro and hope we will qualify and have a great outing ❤ 🇳🇦
@@AcricketLoverEaglessupporter same to you family 💪🏾 god bless you.
Is cricket very popural in west indies??they watch cricket?
Cricket is a summer sport. Its huge here in Australia. The Melbourne cricket ground holds about 100, 000 people. I played when I was young. Had heaps of fun.
Melbourne is my fav ground
I played from age 11 until early this year age 58. Arthiritis has got the better of me but its a great game and I am missing it already after watching my old club last week. Sadly you cant play forever, the cheese and kisses is happy to have me back on saturdays for chores.
Melbourne Cricket Ground is such a beauty ❤ 😍
The women's cricket final had more than 80000 fans in Australia in 2019
Lol yeah Cricket is an awesome game. And much like in Australia it is a game that we pretty much grow up with here in South Africa.
Trust me: you are ready to watch cricket after seeing this video. I learned all that I know about cricket from watching cricket. I never had any formal introduction. It's not that hard to get a sense of the rules just from watching a few games.
Cricket is popular in many countries but the biggest nations are England, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West indies, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
If you like a quicker game then T20 is the version for you that usually lasts a maximum of a few hours.
@@vogel2280 The Netherlands beat South Africa a couple of days ago, so basically, no. The US didn't "invent" baseball, it's based on an older version that was played in England in the mid-1800's that was bought to the US by immigrants. Formula One is very different to Indy Cars, its worldwide appeal and success for one, as Indy Cars are a domestic series like American "football". Cricket is the second biggest sport in the world after proper football.
@@vogel2280if you want something better than Indy cars, check out the Australian Supercars at Bathurst...an unbelievable race track and an endurance race.
@@vogel2280you mean the former British colonies? We can't continue to look back at history and judge those people based upon today and our thinking. Not saying I agree but why even bring something like that into a discussion about a sport that is loved by tons of people within the Indian and Middle Eastern countries ? My friends from that part of the world don't even mention colonization when speaking about cricket. Come on now. Just enjoy the video and the sport. Not everything has to be about history and our judgment therein. I value your opinion but this is a cool channel and this is a cool video. Can't we just chill and enjoy the video rather than all the other things? 🙏🏼🙏✌️🤞
@@vogel2280 interestingly the first ever international cricket match was played between usa n Canada.
@@vogel2280 baseball is actually a rebrand of the British game "rounders"... A girls game in the uk
You wondered if the oval allows for more seating. Yes. There is even a stadium in India that holds 137,000!
The main cricket playing nations are England Australia India South Africa New Zealand Pakistan Sri Lanka West Indies Bangladesh Ireland Netherlands Zimbabwe and a few others.
I'm pretending you only mentioned one insanely diverse country named after its people rather than realizing you didn't use any commas.
West indies
It seems like the sun never sets on the cricket empire.
@@shaanbranford352 Yes, maybe it's worth clarifying that the West Indies isn't a country, but is a cricket team made up from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Sint Maarten, Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Nepal is another emerging cricketing nation !! Nepal holds the record of "most records broken in one international match" with Mongolia in Asian games last month!! They broke 12 records in one match!! 50 runs in 9 balls, 100 runs in 34 balls, highest score in T20 - 314, Highest victory margin of 273, most sixes in one inning of 26 sixes etc!!
This video and the original one were both really great. I will just add one thing that might help with understanding the flow of a game: the fundamental tension in cricket is the tradeoff between scoring runs and not getting out (from a batter's perspective), or between restricting run scoring and getting people out (from a bowler's perspective). Usually, one comes at the expense of the other, and the correct strategy at any given time depends on the match situation.
For batters: you can bat aggressively and score a lot of runs quickly, but you run the risk of getting out. Or, you can bat conservatively and reduce your risk of getting out, but you may not be able to score as quickly. Which one is the right approach at any given time depends on how much time is left and how many people are already out, because an innings ends when either the time is up (number of overs) or 10 of the players are out.
For bowlers: it's similar. You can bowl conservatively and focus on restricting run scoring but may not get anyone out in the process. Or, you can bowl aggressively and try to get people out, but if you mess up you may give up a lot of runs.
Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the world. Cricket is the second most popular! That is undoubtedly due to it’s popularity in India and Pakistan, which boosts the audience size significantly. They have an incredible passion for the sport.
Its an emotion in this part of the world 🔥 You should watch any India Vs Pakistan match live as a bucket list item in your life. The atmosphere is always electric with 1.6 billion people all glued to any screens nearby!
Cricket isn't at all close to the second most popular sport in the world (that is probably basketball); but yes, given that the subcontinent countries are big fans, it certainly is more popular than you might think given how few countries play it at test level.
@@nzcamel3No disrespect, but if you don't know about something then you shouldn't talk about it
@@MageshNagarajan pot, meet kettle.
@@nzcamel3 If you say so 😏
I think India and Australia (Melbourne Cricket Ground) have like 100,000 seater stadiums for cricket.
Yes. Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat India is currently the largest stadium in the world. It's a 132K seater and it's a cricket ground
Yes, the MCG is a big one and the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, holds 132,000 (according to the Wikipedia page for the current Wold Cup). Those two seem to be the only ones that hold over 100,000, but there are several that hold 50,000+, mostly in India and Australia.
@@RedBaron44135K people were seated in recent in IND vs PAK match just like a week ago, look it up in youtube plus there's the food courts, vendors, security and various other people too all in all the stadium would've must been close to 150k people
@@leohickey4953 The MCG once had 121,000 to a VFL football Grand Final but most of it was standing room back then. They reduced the capacity to add more seating.
@@iankearns774 I could easily believe that, Ian. Most of the high attendance stats for (association) football grounds in the UK date from times when most people were standing on terraces, but safety rules have enforced them to switch to all seating these days, with roughly half the capacity of the old days. Not sure how I would cope with standing up all day for the cricket though 🤨.
As a lifelong cricket fan, I love when Americans or people from countries where it's not popular, are interested to learn about it! There are several rules and intricacies that the video didn't go into (for good reason!), but the person did a really good job of explaining the basics! If you get really interested in this, I would encourage you to watch IPL, the most exciting T20 cricket league (it's franchise cricket, with clubs)! Also, to compare this to the longest format, i.e., test cricket (the one that goes on for 5 days), you should watch the Ashes series - an intense rivalry between Australia and England that has been going on for decades!
Decades? The ashes have been played for over a century with the first ever askes testmatch being played in 1877! The story behind the oldest international sporting rivalry is worth a video of its own.
Fun fact: the very first international game of cricket was played between USA and Canada, who'd have thought! Strange but true!
@@peterlongland6862 True - I stand corrected. Ashes has been played for over a century, and remains the greatest rivalry in cricket. And I just found out about the fun fact during the T20 World Cup 2024 which was played in USA & West Indies. Certainly strange, but very interesting!
@@jayantchonkar634 Yes and I am not sure what our American friends thought of it. Fun fact the very first internation game of cricket was between (drum roll)........................ USA V Canada!
4:46 With a wide or no-ball not only is one run added to the score as an extra, but the ball must be bowled again. This is so there is no advantage to the fielding team for bowling an unfair or unplayable ball.
15:13 Countries where cricket is very popular and which have top level teams (India has the biggest fan base by far); England, Ireland, West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, South Africa. Other countries aspiring to top level status include; Scotland, Netherlands, USA, Canada, UAE, Namibia etc (apologies for missing some out). Major League Cricket (MLC) has started in the USA and cricket is one of the fastest growing sports in the US, off the back of immigrants wanting to play it.
17:47 He's wrong when using the term professional. Pro cricket has been around since it first became organised (see County Cricket in England). What he appears to be confusing are the many innovations of the game, those first innovations were often referred to as the pyjama game, or 50 overs one day cricket played at night under lights, which required the use of a white ball (rather like a baseball), black sight screens, and teams wearing bright identifiable colours. Kerry Packer (Australia media mogul) popularised this version of the game with his World Series Cricket format which started in 1977. Since then, many other variations have been tried, too many to list here, suffice to say these are types of cricket, but pro players have always been around.
British Bulldog. A truly epic and fast paced version of ‘It’ or ‘Tag’. Best played on uneven and broken concrete, flag stones, tarmac etc etc.
The thing about the test match is, you can't win one without bowling the opposition out twice, no matter how many runs you score. You might have scored 600 runs in your first innings, and bowled the opposition out for 150, then added 200 in your second innings for a total of 800 vs 150 runs. The opposition then comes in for their second innings, but if you can't knock over those opposition wickets before the match runs out of time, then that's a draw. Test matches are a balancing act between staying in to get loads of runs and when to 'declare' -- declaring is where the batting side decides to end their innings early, with wickets to spare, so as to give themselves enough time to win the match. And now I've written a wall of text. Darn it.
Born and raised in the Caribbean so cricket was a must play sport. if a ball that reaches the boundary airborne or rolling BUT hits the grass first before its 4 runs, if a ball goes anywhere over or hits the boundary while airborne the entire time is 6 runs.... a no-ball is 1 free run immediately and that ball bowled does not count as a ball bowled and the next ball bowled is a free hit meaning person batting can not out... There is also T10 10 overs, ODI 6-7hrs, T20 4-5hrs, T102-3hrs.... if the target is 222 that means the other team scored 221 a team needs only 1 more run to win.... the person batting batting only gets a run/runs if the ball come off the bat otherwise the team will still get the runs meaning team total runs but would not count as player personal runs.
Yeah, they keep changing the rules to "make it more exciting", but really just making it less like cricket.
This is a pretty good video that does exactly what it sets out to do - explains cricket to baseball fans.
First Class cricket is the pure game. At international level it's called Test cricket (they wear whites). Yes, it is planned as a 5-day schedule with 2 innings for each team. It's epic; a long game of strategy, but it's the ultimate. As a kid, I hated it,... Dad watched it. So long, so boring... But now, I just love it!!! The Ashes Series (Aus vs England) is my fave💜
In the mid-1970s they launched the 1-day 50 over game, called One Day Internationals (ODIs). So exciting! They wore coloured uniforms & it was much more fast paced. Changed cricket: bringing in more fans and impacted back on Test cricket with faster pace, improved fielding & faster scoring.
Later came T20, the shorter 20-overs per team version. I'm not a fan of this version. I love the fielding, but the batting is just crash & bash. No nuance. Just baseball-style wallops. And all the Americanised fanfare that goes with it - music, lights, fireworks...🤮🤯 Bastardisation of a great game.
But, I understand that some people love it.
Always nice to see someone new interested in cricket, especially in the US where the population is so big there’s bound to be a lot of undiscovered cricketing talent. Hopefully the new Major League Cricket tournament, which was held in Texas in July and featured I think 8 city based teams from around the US, might grow the game there.
How long cricket matches go in for obviously depends a lot on the format. As the video mentioned first class and Test cricket lasts for up to 5 days, though a very one sided match or one where rain stopped a lot of play can be over early on the third day. Most people probably don’t watch every minute of the whole thing, but it’s something you might just follow by having the radio tuned to a sports station calling the game or having the TV on while you’re doing other stuff and sitting down to watch it periodically. They often schedule it so that two days are the weekend and people have more time.
That can still be hard though and the action is slower and evolves as the surface on the pitch is worn down by all the running on it etc, so limited overs cricket is perhaps a better place to start. As the name suggests One Day Internationals, or ODIs, last for one day, though again any that are really one sided are going to finish early. The men’s Cricket ODI World Cup is on right now actually.
Finally there’s the T20 or Twenty20 format. A T20 game lasts about 3 hours, more or less, making it a great entry to the game and also easier for people with busy lives to just fit in. There are a number of T20 competitions around the world, with it being very popular in India, arguably the most cricket crazy country in the world and with the largest sporting stadium of any kind built for it, as well as South Africa, Australia and now the USA, with its Minor and Major League Cricket competitions (go Super Kings).
We English invented cricket so of course where it’s popular is mostly in countries we’ve… ah, sort of invaded a bit at various points in the past. So other than the UK, but mostly England and Wales, there’s India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sei Lanka, South Africa, the West Indies, Zimbabwe, Australia, and New Zealand, though it’s also growing in popularity elsewhere. Ireland and Afghanistan play at the elite Test level, and the current World Cup features the Netherlands. Who have shown everyone that they absolutely belong there by beating South Africa a few days ago.
I hope you get to watch a few games and see if you like it. T20 might even be short enough that there are whole games, or at least highlights reels, on TH-cam.
This was a good video in terms of explaining the basic rules to an American who is familiar with baseball, but it wasn't the fun part. It'd be like watching a video about basketball where all they talk about is traveling, technical fouls and double dribbles. Without mention of fast breaks, 3 pointers or dunks. I grew up with this game since I was a child, it's really not that complicated. It's quite intuitive.. but I can see how it would be complicated if you aren't familiar with it. NFL is way more complicated (compared to Rugby). American sports are very stop start, and have timeouts. Most Australian sports are very flowing without breaks but cricket does have small breaks every 6 balls (after an over). But it's long.. T20 is 2-3 hours, ODI is 7-8 hours. Test matches are 7-8 hours for 5 days straight. It's strategic and but also tests endurance. A test match is sort of like a season of a TV show.. there's ups and downs but there's also certain moments where things get really intense.. and then a climax at the end.
Well said though "vlimax at the end unless The Aussies don't bowl the last ball underarm to prevent any chance of New Zealand gaining the 6 runs required off the last ball. Not their finest hour. lol
South East London,England
@@IsleofskyeAussie cricket enthusiast here. I AGREE! I never respected Australia’s then-captain Greg Chappell after he ordered his younger brother team mate Trevor to do that. DISGUSTING. In fact that was as bad as some of the Australian players’ ball tampering efforts in the South Africa Test Match (though by no means unique to them and to just that match) and as just bad as Bairstowe’s carry-on after he was dismissed legitimately at the Lord’s Test Match or the even worse behaviour of the now ex-Lord’s Members to Australian players at the following lunch break, after they had left the field and as they were heading to their meal break. And we won’t mention Bodyline of the 1930s, will we! For a supposedly gentleman’s game, there is sometimes less than gentlemanly behaviour exhibited on and off the field.
@@DeepThought9999 You, clearly, know your cricket, my friend.
For the last 50 years, I have only been an occasional "highlights" fan, just seeing the days play, for example, in an Ashes Test Match but my Grammar School between 1965-71 used to, literally, be next to and overlook The Oval cricket ground, where, I'm sure you know Surrey play their Home games and the 5th Test in a series,is always played. We used to pay 1 NEW PENCE and watch the last session of the day, sometimes. :) Good Luck.
Speaking as someone who knows a little about baseball but has played cricket to the village cricket level that was not a bad explanation, certainly a grounding of the basics and appreciation of some of the terms (just don't, to start, get fixated on the fielding positions!!!!).
Test matches (those 5 day 'marathons') are often derided for being long, slow and boring and whilst they are not all end-of-your-seat rivetting at all times, there is a definite slow burn involved with a lot of them whereby the tension ratchets up as the end of the last day hoves into view with the final batting side still adrift of a winning total and/or only a few wickets shy of being all out.
As others have alluded to, the T20 games are faster-paced, with the batsmen more willing to 'slog' to drive the scoring rate as high as possible which adds to the overall excitement of the game, and only being a maximum of 20 overs (120 pitches for the baseball affiiandoes) for each side only lasts a few hours or so.
One small difference between cricket and baseball is that there can be, in cricket, three different outcomes for a game played to completion: a win, a draw, or a tie (yes, those last two are actually different); other results can happen depending on the state of the game!
It's funny that test cricket gets derided for being long, slow and boring, yet four day golf tournaments that epitomise slow and boring escape similar criticism.
@@deaddoll1361 Maybe the gradual change in scenery gives a superficial sense of progress?
@@deaddoll1361 Fair comment, and not a thing I tend to think about as I don't really follow golf - but true naytheless!
@@ravenward626 What about the grass growing (and being rolled back flat) with a test match then, hmm? 😉
It is the tension of a team fighting for a win (or a draw) as time runs out that leads to the greatest moments in cricket. Such as the 1981 or 2019 tests at Headingly between England and Australia.
One *major* flaw with this video, which is mostly very good and clear (if a little brief at times), is about the question of professionalism. It is simply not true to say cricket has only recently become a professional sport; it's been so for probably around a century. It's true that until recently very few players would get rich from cricket, but they were still earning a living from it. It would have been nice to have a little explanation of the different types of shots a batter might play, and different styles of bowling, but maybe you'll get that from another video. Anyway, I enjoy your reactions (new subscriber) - you have a very melodious speaking voice!
It really wasn't until the 1980's that test cricket became professional. A century ago, the 1920's and later, Australian players often couldn't afford to leave work for a long sea voyage and tour in England for many months.
@@deaddoll1361Incorrect. Firstly professional cricket is over 200 years old, older than test cricket. When test cricket started it was normal for the top sides to have a mixture of professionals and amateurs/gentlemen. It was the amateurs who couldn't afford to tour for months. The professionals got paid so they tended to dominate. The distinction was largely abolished in England in the 1960s but it was in the 1980s that media competition led to higher pay, though still tiny compared to what todays players can get.
I think you are misunderstanding the context of "professional" in the US. For example, in the US, WWE is called "pro wrestling", and the Olympic style wrestling is either just called "wrestling" or even "amateur wrestling". Why? I am not sure. Probably marketing. Anything that is league-based with players being bought and sold is called "pro". So when they say "pro cricket is new", they're saying that IPL-style cricket is new. Which is true.
I'm Australian and when I was living in LA I tried explaining to my American friends that a Cricket Test match is scheduled to be played over 5 days. Shock horror! That's rubbish they said - come to an NFL game and see how a game should be played. And it was great - for the whole 11 MINUTES of the game where the ball was actually in play!!! Which means that the Offense and Defence players had about 5 minutes each.
Yeah that’s the problem I have with NFL and rugby, they just blow the whistle as soon as someone touches the ground, then they all walk around get their breath back and have a drink 😂. The games like Basketball and Soccer (how I’ve always said it I’m Aussie) are much more well done with pacing, sure in Soccer they don’t score often, but it makes the game so much more tense as there is always the threat and also the big celebration moments.
@@matt.2708 You need to check out Aussie Rules Football. 4 quarters, each 20mins + extra time (so 25-30mins usually), and therefore about 2hrs of play - fantastic, ast-paced, energetic game.
Bloody oath. When you're used to AFL, NFL seems like an hour and a half of advertising occasionally interrupted by brief snatches of football.
All these videos explaining cricket talk about the game being played over 5 days and this seems to set off alarm bells in some people's heads. They need to specify that this is 6-8 hours per day over 5 days (!) and that there are rest periods (lunch and tea break) on each day. Additionally they need to explain that traditionally cricket is a game that is played when good lighting (aka the sun) is available (there are actually some people who think that a match lasting 5 days is 24 hours a day for 5 days). and good weather too. It is only recently that cricket, especially test matches, have been played under lights...
3:41 Wait a sec! Is this where "being in a sticky wicket" comes from?
Yes - bring on a sticky wicket = in a difficulty situation. There is also ‘Pulling up stumps’ = they died and ‘Had a good innings’ = they died at at a ripe old age. Also ‘plays with a straight bat’ = they are honest and reliable. ‘Bowled him/her a Googly’ = foxed them by doing something unexpected or impossible to counter.
A sticky wicket is a cricket pitch where it has been raining but is now drying. On such wickets the ball can turn much more than normal, at a faster speed than one that is just wet. It can be very difficult to bat on such a wicket, but a delight for a spin bowler. They are very rare in professional cricket nowadays as the wickets are covered between innings. As a very poor amateur spin bowler I was once taken off to allow the other team a chance on such a wicket.
"being on a sticky wicket" comes from the batsman's point of view.
The bowling would be a whole video in itself. You might be interested in watching a video on shane warne was the best spin bowler in the world for a number of years. Regarded as one of the best of all time.
Right after I look up what a spin bowler is
@@NoProtocol basically using fingers (fingerspinner) or wrist ( leg-spinner) to impart spin on the ball to make it move when it hits the pitch. In the similar way to how a baseball pitcher makes a ball move in the air by altering their grip.
Spin or slow bowling is done at a much slower rate then fast bowling for example and involves a lot of deception of the batsmen in the various delivery options. Warne was a leg-spinner. Spin is quite a artform when done well. Have been enjoying your videos for a while cheers.
Also Shane Warne Australia’s most popular sport person ever, and effectively had the same celebrity status as Michael Jordan in the 90s.
@@matthewcharles5867 Ooo fun! I keep forgetting about the bounce. Now I want to see how much a trajectory can get tweaked with some brief traction, as well as any Magnus effect.
@@ravenward626 Google Shane Warne's Ball of The Century! THAT is how much the trajectory can be tweaked...
The “P2” stands for powerplay 2. In limited overs cricket (in this case ODI) you are restricted on how many fielders you are allowed outside the 30 yard circle. Between overs 11 and 40 a maximum of 4 fielders are allowed outside the 30-yard circle. P3: Powerplay 3. In the final 10 overs (41-50) a maximum of 5 fielders will be allowed to field outside the 30-yard circle. And P1, only two are allowed. If a team is timed out / takes too long to bowl an over they can be penalised by having to bring another fielder back inside the 30 yard circle. So in P3 when they have 5 fielders outside the circle, they can be forced to bring one back inside (like in P2), giving the batting team an advantage to score boundaries or sixes.
Less than a minute in and I understand cricket as well as I understand American Football. Let's go play!
The best part of cricket is where they get down on all fours, make chirping sounds and try to avoid getting stepped on.... Oh, wait.... I think that's a different sport. LOL
its mainly big in South Asia and England along with Australia, New Zealand, Caribbean, Canada, Zimbabwe to name a few, the only South American country its big in would be Guyana which used to be a British overseas territory
Two basic things he failed to highlight are,
1. Only the wicket keeper wears gloves. All the other players field bare handed. The ball is as hard as baseball, but it is slightly heavier, and
2. When you bowl, the ball is meant to bounce before the batsman.
A ball that doesn't bounce and is above waist height, is NoBall and the batsman can't get out.
Making the ball bounce adds a very important element to bowling as it allows the bower to move the ball sideways off the pitch.
Also speed up or slow down, and bounce to different heights.
New Zealand, Australia, England, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, West Indies and Zimbabwe are countries that have historically been the largest cricket playing nations!
I dig the decoration in the background. Both the tree sculpture and seascape painting evoke familiar memories. I had a family member who used to paint in a similar style; and another relative who made metal bonsai trees with twisted wire for the trunk and branches.
One of the really big differences between cricket and baseball is the fact that the bowler bowls at the ground in front of the batter, rather than entirely through the air. Bear in mind that a good fast bowler bowls at virtually the same speed as a pitcher, but the ball can move move sideways when it bounces, and can bounce at different heights. This gives the batter a tiny split second to adjust, and is why there are more injuries in cricket. It's also an allowable ploy in cricket for the bowler to bowl directly at the line of the batter's body. (This wasn't always the case. You might find it interesting to Google 'Body line series' and read about the repercussions of what happened in Australia in the 1930s.)
It was legal then (or they wouldn't have been able to do it), it was just considered dirty play (it was specifically aimed at neutralizing one particularly unbeatable player -- Australian batsman Don Bradman). It's less legal, if more common, now -- don't remember the exact rules, but you're only allowed to bowl a limited number of bouncers at the batsman, and can get suspended for overdoing it, and there are limitations on field placement to make it less effective.
@@nac5901 1 bouncer per over in T20, 2 per over in longer forms. Any more than that and the bowler will be removed and not be allowed to bowl again in that inning
It's hilarious to me that in the wake of of the '32-'33 Ashes tour, the MCC basically all but sneered at the Australians... but when the West Indies, already known for aggressive bowling, saw the whole Bodyline business, went 'oh, you can do that? Fantastic!' And went on to use it against England in a Test Match in 1933... and suddenly the MCC decided Bodyline might not be such a good thing after all. I guess it's different when the boot's on the other foot.
Guyana is probably the only country in South America but when they play nationally they are called West Indies along with other carribean nations like Jamica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Antigua, St Kitts. There is a popular league called the Carribean premier league. They are also trying to enter North America the next T20 word cup will held next year jointly co-hosted by USA and carribean nations. Also cricket has been included in the 2028 Olympics to be held in Los Angels.
to be honest, i was a member at durham cricket, as brits we like a drink, most of it about the drink, the atmosphere, if your side live watching in the stands, apart from the big screen, you cant really see the ball, you might see abit of dust as it hits the floor, batsman plays the ball, a second later you hear it, sitting behind the wickets gives much better advantage of seeing the ball live, still a wonderful game, fun crowd, and just a goos day out, as its all day match in general
So true. Any bowling in the 80mph+ range you've got no chance of seeing it, no matter how drunk you get.
Live in the UK all my life and have never bothered to learn about overs and scoring. This old dog learned a new trick 👍
Hand in your citizenship card 😂
@@shmick6079Might have to!
Mate if that's the case, change your profile pic
@@l.sdesilva3218 Most British people don't follow cricket, so I'll keep my profile pic in solidarity with the majority.
@@i67x Still to be a pom, u dont have to follow, but u should at least know how the game works. Also its still the 2nd or 3rd most followed sport in the uk
Noticed he didn't talk about the types of bowling compared to the types of pitches in baseball
He only had a limited time he couldn't talk about everything give the poor man a break you Collingwood supporter 😂
@@andoncroft5154 lol... 30 sec mention could suffice no?
@@rowanjunno way that's enough to explain even pace bowling
Cricket is big in Commonwealth countries. Countries formally conquered/ruled by England. The sport was invented in England
My favorite schoolyard game was wallball (there are different variations but I'll try to explain from my memory: you throw a ball against a wall but if it hits the ground BEFORE it hits the wall, you must immediately run to touch the wall before another person throws said ball against the wall to get you out, rinse and repeat until there is a winner)
I remember we kids thew so many tennis balls over the school roof, we would have to wait until the next day for the groundskeeper to fish them out in order to play again 😅
I wonder if this wallball is similar to handball, which I never played but just thinking of the name game me some sort of nostalgia
@@NoProtocol Yeah, I think you're right about that... I guess we just called it wallball (for obvious reasons)
Makes sense to me
There's a saying in my country.
"The only thing that rain stops, is Cricket."
As per where cricket is one of the biggest sports:
Caribbean and Guyana, if you're in South America.
One great cricketer, Clive Lloyd came from Guyana...is that local? He captained the West Indies.
India has a cricket stadium with a capacity of 132,000 and Australia has one thats over 100,000 too.... so yeah, they're a bit bigger.😂
lol just a bit
@@NoProtocol India is without doubt the most important country for cricket now. In England its largely only popular with the upper classes but its almost religion like, in what is now the most populous country....
British Bulldog - although it got banned in most schools
I had to search what this was, I hadn’t heard of it!
Reminds me of Red Rover (which we played here in the States)... I wonder if they are related in some way 🤔
@@QuackAttack Apparently so. British Bulldog got banned in UK schoolyards because it usually ended in blood and tears. Was banned at my school, so we played Kabaddi instead - which eventually also got banned for the same reasons.
@@tycarne7850 and we wonder why guys are so soft and soy infused today. Literally everything boys enjoy is declared bad, thus banned.
Playing backyard cricket is a rite of passage for many Aussie kids - if you hit the ball over the fence it's counted as SIX-AND-OUT, plus it's the batting team's responsibility to fetch the ball from the neighbour's yard! We used to play with a cut-down fence paling with electrical tape for the handle of the bat, and bowling would be with a tennis ball, sometimes likewise half-covered in electrical tape.
A fantastic TV miniseries about cricket is "Bodyline". It was filmed in 1984 about a notorious series of test matches between England and Australia in the 1930s. The main Australian batsman depicted, Donald Bradman, only passed away in 2001; he is widely regarded as our greatest sportsperson, high praise in the field of stars that makes up Australian sportspeople.
Bodyline? You mean Fast Leg Theory. You Aussies whined so much, because your darling Bradman couldn't take it, that they changed the rules. 😁😁
We don't have backyards in India, I mean not many homes have them. But we do have streets in the neighbourhood or wide open fields (plots of land) or parks where we played cricket when we were children. Breaking the windows of the neighbours was very common when we played on the streets and you can imagine, that brought troubles for us but we were eventually forgiven since we were children. We do invented our own rules (like you did) since spaces where we played were limited by area. In our version, that would be "out" with no runs scored, if hit over the fence. Cricket is very huge in India and borderline madness. If you have to define India, it cannot be done without mentioning "cricket". Religion comes first in India, followed by Cricket. In fact, cricket unites us all from different religions and communities.
And the reason why it is so huge here is because everyone can watch it. Otherwise, owing to the huge diversity of India, not a single element is common for the entire country, except that all of it was once ruled by British. Cricket unites us all Indians as a country, speaking different Languages or coming from different communities or religions.
Just to be clear, In cricket the pitch refers to the whole area of the playing field. The wicket refers to the small rectangular part of the pitch along which the bowler bowls. The five pieces of wood that the bowler bowls at are called the wicket. If the bowler’s ball results in a dismissal of the batsman the bowler is said to have taken a wicket. If a team wins the game with say three batsmen yet to play then they’ve won by three wickets. Hope this clears things up.
Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston, England in 1994, which is the only quintuple-hundred in first-class cricket history. As captain, Lara led the West Indies team to win the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, the first time the team won any major ICC trophy since winning the 1979 Cricket World Cup.
Lara also holds the record for the highest individual score in a Test innings after scoring 400 not out at Antigua during the 4th test against England in 2004.
Lara also held, for 18 years, the record of scoring the highest number of runs in a single over, 6 balls/deliveries of a Test match when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.
The Brian Lara Stadium, in Trinidad and Tobago, opened in 2017, was named in his honour.
Lara was also a talented football player in his youth and often played with his close friends Dwight Yorke, Shaka Hislop and Russell Latapy while growing up together in Trinidad.[citation needed] Yorke, Hislop and Latapy would go on to play for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[citation needed] Wikipedia.
A Test match will typically go for 5 days from 10am in the morning until 5pm each day - a One Day match will typically go from 10am in the morning until 6pm at night while a 20/20 match will go for around 3 hours - These numbers can vary greatly depending on how well both teams play
5:56 When a batter gets out, the next player comes in to bat. However, once a batter is at the crease, they cannot go back unless they are out. If a batter gets injured during the game, they can leave the field without being out. They can return to bat if they feel able again. However, to resume batting, the current batsman must get out, and the injured player must come back before all the other players on their team have finished their innings.
They can retire out too.
American Cricket fan here who grew up playing and watching Baseball.
T20 lasts about 3 hours. Each innings takes about 80 mins with a break between innings. One important change relatively recently is the introduction of floodlights to cricket which means that day/night or just night games are common - in fact the ball's colour is changed from the traditional red to white. You will frequently hear limited overs cricket being described as "white ball" cricket.
T20 3/4 hours
OdI 8/11 hours
Test upto 5 days
Cricket is the major summer sport, and Aussie Rules Football is the major winter sport in Australia. I recommend watching What Is AFL Aussie Rules Explained, and the companion video is A Beginners Guide to Australian Rules Football; these are from the Official AFL Channel, this is a unique game the likes of which you have ever seen.
Good video. Great choice. IMO you don't need to take notes, re-watch this or do more research. Just watch two or three cricket matches. I think they can be very long and by the time you watch a couple you'll understand it, you'll know Cricket "laws." Cricket doesn't have rules, it has laws. I'm sure there's some history behind that.
One of the absolute MAJOR differences between Baseball and Cricket that these videos never mention is that in cricket the ball they use is never changed for a new one aside from some exceptional circumstances. So no new ball every other pitch like in baseball. Add to this if a ball is replaced during a game because the old one is virtually unusable or out of shape it must be replaced with a ball of similar usage, not a new one. The condition of the ball and the way it passes through the air is a major part of what makes cricket... cricket. Similarly with the pitch itself, in the longer (test match) game the pitch itself will age, dry out, crack and all sorts of shenanigans. Given that in cricket the bowler bounces the ball to the batter this can result in all sorts of variations that would not be expected from a flat grass length. And before anyone says anything yes in test matches the old ball is replaced by a new ball after 80 overs but that is the only circumstances that a brand new ball replaces an old one.
After 80 overs that ball is a long way from being new. If a ball becomes damaged, it can be replaced, but not with a new one. Whether it's test or limited over cricket, the umpire will have a collection of balls stored off-field from matches where one side lost early, and they'll try to match the damaged ball as closely as possible. In one day and T20 games, where a ball is expected to last the shorter duration, there's the problem of lost balls that are hit onto spectator stand roofs or out of the ground entirely.
The same channel's explainer for Rugby is excellent - well worth watching!
It was good fun watching this video having played both sports myself at school. Just a side note there is currently a one day world cup being played in India between the top 10 best teams in the world.
The cricket world cup is currently being contested in India, if you are lucky you may catch one of these games. This is an exellent video, you have all you need to enjoy a game.
About the length of games….
1st Class Test Cricket: goes for 4 innings 2 for each side, an innings in test match usually takes around a day to a day and a half.
A single day of play in a test usually takes around 5-7 hours depending on things like how quickly the game plays out, lighting, rain etc etc.
50 over ODI: usually plays out in around 6 hours.
20 over T20: usually takes around 2 hours.
A couple of important things that weren't mentioned. He said if the bowler delivers a wide or no ball, the batting side gets one run, this is the default, although runs can still be scored from a wide or no ball, so it is not limited to one run, but most importantly the bowler must bowl that ball again, so although runs have been scored, it doesn't count as the bowler having bowled. Therefore there can be more than six balls in an over.
The other slightly less important thing that wasn't mentioned is that when the over ends and they change bowlers, the other bowler bowls from the other end. This is important for various reasons. One end could be advantageous to different bowlers at different times, i.e. it could be slightly downhill one end, over time as the wicket gets scuffed there could be areas that if bowled into make batting more difficult, etc. It also means that if a bowler wants to change ends, there must be two overs between them bowling from one end and the other. This doesn't happen that often, moreso in test cricket.
8:58 I don't know how to compare pitching (bowling) in cricket to softball. Cricket pitching is very different and extremely techniques-oriented, unlike softball. In cricket, you are not allowed to throw(chuck) the ball. There are certain angles the pitchers should not exceed while delivering the ball. So, throw bowling is illicit in cricket. f the umpire deems that the ball has been thrown, they will call a no-ball, which means the batsman cannot be given out from that delivery.
*An Illegal Bowling Action is where a player is throwing rather than bowling the ball. This is defined by the ICC(International Cricket Council) as being where the player's elbow extends by an amount of more than 15 degrees between their arm reaching the horizontal and the ball being released* .
A great book about baseball at the turn of the 20th century is "The Glory of Their Times" by Lawrence Ritter. It's a collection of interviews with the players themselves and one thing they often mention is how baseball had already changed from their time to how it was in the 1960s when they were being interviewed.
If I had to explain the biggest difference cricket to baseball is cricket is, for the most part, a 1 mistake batting game. You make a mistake and unless a fielder drops the ball your innings is over. This can happen first ball or after 400. For that reason the batters wicket tends to be a very valuable resource. Sure you have 10 of them but once you lose about 6 you're generally into the bowlers who have less skill with the bat. A top order batter will average between 40 and 60 in first class cricket but 50 is considered a very good average. Only one batter in history with more than 2000 runs has a much higher average score and that is Sir Donald Bradman who averaged 99.94 in test cricket. The value you put on your wicket depends on the game. Batters will take a lot more risk in a 20/20 because they have 10 wickets to lose and only 20 overs to face. Conversely in a test match it's unlimited overs so particularly if your batting first on a good pitch with the sun out you'd want to get between 350 and 450. That's another huge difference - the wicket is a hard bit of turf and it weathers as the match goes on. So in a test match which can go five days the wicket may deteriorate a lot on the 4th and 5th day favouring the team batting first. OTOH if you bat first and the wicket is green and conditions are overcast the ball will move around in the air and seam and bounce a lot more. So it's more like a game of chess. Long form cricket is very strategic - if you want to watch cricket start with the 20/20s which use artificial things like field restrictions to encourage batters to hit the ball in the air. So there are usually lots of 6's and 4's, often a bunch of wickets ajd the whole things over in just over 3 hours. Then watch an exciting 50 over international where the result is close and if you like that you can try a Test match but you can sort of tune in and tune out of a test match. Cricket is played in nearly all the former English colonies (and some surrounding countries) and in most of those countries it's the major summer sport. So England and the UK, Australia, India, South Africa, New Zealand, West Indies, Bangladesh, Netherlands, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Ireland, Canada. It's also played in the US but it's not a major sport. A baseball team has 9 players compared to 11 on a cricket team.
As a South African I love cricket. This video was pretty well done with easy to understand explanations. I think you should watch a game if you can. Perhaps an ODI or a T20 game to begin with as the longer format may move a little slowly (given your dislike of the slow baseball games).
5:56 Batters come to the ground one after another when one gets out but batter can't go back unless he is out. If a batter get injured he can go back without getting out and he can return if feels able to bat again but to return current batsman have to get out and he have return before his sides all players come and gone.
Hi, The explanation was pretty good.
He was a bit out with regards to Professional verses Amateur.
Most international players are Professionals and have been since the 1970's, maybe earlier.
The big 'ruckus' about 1 day game happened in 1977-1979, due to a professional 'league' set up by Kerry Packer, set up for his TV channel in Oz.
This probably lead to the IPL (Indian Premier League) which has Local Indian players but many Guest International players, its worth watching, most international teams allow their players to take part.
It’s a good video but I think in order to understand cricket you can simplify it a bit more by focusing on the interaction between batsman and bowler and their motivation during each ball. Once you understand that, everything else like fielding positions and overs comes after.
Great stuff as always. The very same channel has done Rugby Explained for American Football fans (and a follow up cricket one with a bit more detail)
A Test Match goes for a maximum of 5 days… but there are breaks for Lunch and ‘Tea’ each day. These games can finish early in less than 5 days… and there is often a ‘rest day’ within the 5 days too. A 50 Overs match goes all day… but unlike a Test which starts at 10am, it won’t start until say 2pm and continues into the evening. They are also known as ‘Day/Night matches’. The T20 Matches are in evening, and a much faster because of the shorter number of overs. Australia and England have been playing Test Matches (known as ‘The Ashes’… look up the history of the Ashes, and why it has that name) since 1882. England, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka are the main nations that play…. But there are some other minor nations who play.
The cricket ball is slightly smaller, but heavier and much harder than a baseball (there are videos you can find to learn how cricket balls are made), and except for the Wicketkeeper, no one on the fielding team wears gloves. They catch the ball, bare handed.
The best playground sport in the UK was probably Bulldog, which I imagine wouldn’t be allowed these days.
Im not sure why but the pace and rhythm at which you speak is so soothing... Among other reasons i will be subscribing to your channel 👍
Cricket played in the old British Empire countries, of which there are many!
There are 2 school-yard sports that used to be very popular in India - Kabaddi and Kho-kho. Both have lost popularity to international sports, but man, they are fantastic!
Nine players on the field, as you correctly laid them out: pitcher, catcher, first base, second base, shortstop, third base, left field, center field, right field. There will be two non-players as well: the first and third base coaches, stationed in foul territory near their respective bases, for the batting team. There are new rules in MLB this year, including a pitch clock. The pitcher has 15 seconds to deliver a pitch; 20 seconds with men on base. The batter must be in the box and facing the pitcher at 8 seconds. A clock violation on the pitcher means a ball; by the hitter, a strike. Games were not as long on average this year, overall. And the video mentioned a shift; the shift was banned as of this year.
Cricket has a similar time violation, times depend on the type of cricket, Test, 1st class, One Day (50 or 60 overs) or T20, I assume there is a similar rule for latest format which is 100, which is 100 balls in groups of 5 rather than overs of 6.
@@stephenlee5929 Yep, the Hundred also has a cutoff time, but Tests don't (because they don't have fielding limitations).
For anybody wondering - failure to bowl the overs within a calculated time limit incurs the penalty of reducing the number of fielders allowed on the boundary for the rest of the inning. Might not sound like much, but it opens up more opportunities for a big hit.
Overs start from opposite ends with the other bowler, to the batsman occupying the non-playing crease at the end of the previous over.
That's a pretty good explanation. There's a lot more that he didn't get into as well such as the details of bowling style and batting style. There are different types of bowlers for example, different fun techniques for throwing (pitching) the ball and there are many batting techniques used for specific deliveries. Offensive techniques and defensive techniques. It's a very in depth game and can be difficult to get into initially but very rewarding when you understand everything that's going on.
If you want to watch an exciting rugby match you can’t do better than the recent World Cup quarter finals in France where France played against the World Cup holders South Africa in a dynamic point scoring extravaganza. Seriously it had passion, power, drama, and pride with fans loving every moment.
That game nearly killed me ❤🔥
Cricket World Cup (50 over match) is presently being played in India, 10 counties taking part.
I will have to search this to see if I can catch a match before it ends (:
@@NoProtocol...espn + is showing the 45 game "tournament"...most games start 2 or 3 am cst....but they have on demand play and short highlight programs of the games...fyi...these games last about 7 or 8 hours....the T20 matches imo, are better, they have a higher score rate... and last about 3 hrs...I think a far superior game than baseball, again imho 😬
@@NoProtocol You have plenty of time; first game was two weeks ago (NZ vs England; NZ won), last game is scheduled for the 12th of November, semi-finals on the 15th and 16th, final on the 19th.
Regarding the "P2"...it shows the powerplay. In cricket, we have 3 powerplays. Powerplays are nothing but restrictions on the fielding team. If you see on the ground, there will be a 30-yard circle (marked by circular discs) between the pitch and the boundary. In the first powerplay (overs from 1-10), no more than 2 fielders are allowed outside the 30 yard circle. In the 2nd Powerplay (overs from 11th to 40th) no more than 4 fielders are allowed and in the 3rd powerplay (from over 41-50) no more than 5 fielders are allowed.
i dont want to complicate it for you, but at 4.15 you see them run wicket to wicket, they may have the chance to take 2 runs, but sometimes take one run, to keep the best batter on strike, more chance of runs, and the less batter not getting out, thus keep there game going
Great explanation. Cricket is absolutely more interesting than baseball.
Also, baseball came from cricket.
Who told you that baseball came from cricket?? where are you from tho
It's an ok attempt at explaining cricket for baseball fans, but thought he missed an opportunity of explaining that the wicket is an equivalent of a strike zone/plate combined which would instantly click for a baseball fan, so pitchers/bowlers/fielders aim for the wicket to get batters out. The wicket (stumps/bails) also help to obviate the sometimes arbitrary decisions of baseball umpires in determining strikes/balls and safe/out calls which so frequently result in much shouting, hat tossing and chest bumping we're all familiar with.
The LBW rule is to prevent a batter crowding the plate which, given there's no free run for being hit by a pitch in cricket, results in a potential out rather than a potential run.
Unlike baseball, there isn't a pitcher's bullpen and bowlers can't be switched in/out at the will of the coach, the bowlers of each over are selected by the captain from any of the 11 fielding players. This is a major difference between the sports on the management side and makes the team selection very important in cricket, as different bowlers will be better in different conditions and/or against particular batsmen. Selecting too few bowlers in a cricket team will result in difficulty taking wickets and selecting too few batsmen results in difficulty scoring runs. Always an endless discussion argument prior to and after each game for dedicated fans to get rabid about!! ;)
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I'm not sure how much closer I am to understanding cricket, but it's a start. You may also find rally car racing interesting. It's up there on the scale of wild to watch.
I’ve never been very interested in rally car racing but I also haven’t seen it, I’m willing to give it a go!
I am an Aussie and the cricket grounds across the country can hold 100,000 people as the biggest stadium in Melbourne.
Perth holds 60,000
Adelaide, 54,000
Brisbane and Sydney hold about 45,000. There are a few other stadiums also that are used.
There is a stadium with a roof that opens or closes in Melbourne also , the only place in the world that has had cricket played with a roof closed.. its great for if it rains because in cricket, when it rains then the players can't continue to play in the rain.
There is also games that start in the afternoon and continues to night with light towers that are used
Great video.
By the end my mind started fracturing with possible "sport comparison explanation" videos. I got stumped on explaining American football to new Swift Kelce fans, but think it would be amazing and hilarious.
My favorite playground games were capture the flag and king of the hill. Though, not playground, during my freshmen orientation we played Assassin. The dorm was the playground and it was a paranoid, ice-breaking blast.
Well done on trying to understand a new game. Technically the sticks (stumps/wicket) can be hit,eg. ball hits stumps softly, but if the bails do not come off then the batter is NOT out !
1:22 can someone remind me what foursquare is? I don’t recall a childhood game of that name.
Internarional Cricket matches are five days in duration for one game, one result, win or lose. Domestic test matches are usually shorter at only three days long. Test matches are except in very rare instances only played during the hours of daylight, generally from mid-morning to late afternoon but any of the teams playing can appeal to the umpire about the light, although it probably only makes sense for the batting team to appeal.
One day cricket like the professional fifty over game are usually day-night matches where due to television commitments for viewer numbers the game might start after lunch and end some time during prime tv viewing. Professional twenty over cricket is usually played in the evening as it is prime tv viewing time. Cricket stadiums for professional games have to have an impressive array of lighting towers to be suitable for tv coverage. These stadiums have the capacity to give out so much light that they can probably be seen from space. These sports stadiums need so much power for their lighting systems to function that most of them have a direct hotline to the powerstations supplying that city network to inform them when they are turning on or turning off the lighting so that the powerstations have enough spinning reserve power to handle the extra load.
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in the field goes out and when he's out comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
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, there are men still in and not out.
There are men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter if they're in or out.
When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished
In Australia, i played cricket for school, plus for a kocal league. At school, we played a brutal game called brandings, your friends stood against a wall on a bench seat, we soaked tennis balls in water and pelted the guys on the wall, if hit, they joined the guys throwing, until only 1 kid is left, called branding sd your body is covered in red welts from the ball
Love your content, this was a great one... I've been watching cricket for years... Please don't read a "rule book", it will get you no where... If you understand about 60% of this video just start watching a match on TV... It will be confusing at first but as you learn it gets better and better.... The Caribbean T20 is a great place to start... Even if you're a bit lost, the atmosphere in the crowd is extremely entertaining.... It's one big party.. LOL.. Take care.
An important thing to understand which doesn't come across in any of the explain videos, is that alternate overs (6 balls) are bowled from opposite ends. Because cameras are placed in identical positions at each end this is often overlooked unless you study the buildings or advertising.
Grounds differ in so many ways, pitches, hardness, grass, slope, wind direction all play their part. Fast bowlers, of necessity end their run up with a couple of paces on the wicket. These rough foot holes become useful for spin bowlers later in the game as they can cause bounce and spin to become erratic and deceive the batsmen. Dirt starts to crack up depending on heat from the sun, or a damp atmosphere incites swing, where the ball bends in or out during travel. Day Night matches are susceptible to this change over time. The tactical decisions made by the Captain are taken as these conditions dictate. The ball deteriorates over time, losing its hardness and bounce, so teams shine one side of this older ball to assist movement in the air, either in towards, or away from the batsman. So much cat and mouse involved.
Bull rush is a game played in new Zealand . Its hard to explain but its basically just a game of tackling each other
Best schoolyard game for me as a child, was a game called British Bulldog. It's now banned in British schools.
Couple of corrections, clarifications on what the narrator said in this video:
- regarding professionalism; he implied that only club/franchise games are played between professional players. This isn’t the case. Most Test match playing nations have professional players too and in fact, similar to football (the soccer type! 😜) it’s actually the same players who play in the franchise games and those international matches. It’s by virtue of their performances for teams/clubs/franchises that players will get selected for their national team in the various international match formats (ODIs, Test matches and T20 Internationals);
- on the section about scoring when he explained the “target” on the bottom of the screen he got it wrong. He said this is what the opposition team had scored. This isn’t the case. As you have to score at least 1 more run than your opponent to beat them the “target” on this score summary is always what your opponent scored +1 as it represents the minimum you must score in order to win the game.
Overall this is a very good video I’ve seen multiple times before. I’m someone who comes at this from the opposite end of the spectrum; I’m English and was brought up on cricket from before I could walk (my mother was pretty obsessed with the sport). I still love cricket. In my late teens and early twenties I got introduced to watching baseball and fell in love with that sport too. Now the two sports are the ones I watch more than any others.
I think one of the reasons I love these sports (I’ll watch almost any sport to be fair) is that there’s a lot of statistical analysis that is inherent to the sport in terms of assessing player and team performance, and I also love maths 😉
Just to add, you asked how long a game of cricket typically runs for and he didn’t really get into specifics on the video. The shortest form, the T20, with the twenty overs per team, is quite similar to a baseball game in length. Each team’s innings of 20 overs will probably take a little under an hour and half to complete, so that’s just under 3 hours of total play time, with a fairly brief break for the swap over inbetween innings, so the whole thing from start to end is probably around three and a half hours. An ODI, with the 50 overs per side, will take around three and a half hours for EACH team’s innings, will have a slightly longer break inbetween the innings and is probably going to be around 8 hours of total play on the (as the name suggests) one day taken to complete the game. Then the Test matches he mentioned… up to 5 consecutive days of play for each match, and there is 6 hours of play scheduled for each day (but could be up to 7 if the bowling team hasn’t bowled their overs fast enough because there’s a defined number of overs the team should bowl in the day; this is so the bowling team, if they’re losing the match, can’t really just slow things up to try to run out of time in the match, which is still possible sometimes despite 5 days of play being allocated). So in a Test match there will typically be 30-35 hours of play in total if the match goes on for the full 5 days. And just to add to that, the two teams will typically play Test matches in “series”, which are just like in baseball, a number of consecutive matches between the same two opponents. These series are up to 5 matches in length, so when this is the case two teams could be playing up to 25 days of cricket against each other over the course of a number of weeks (Test matches in a series are generally played maximum of one per week to give players necessary rest time before the next match) just to decide who the ultimate winner of the series is; overall series wins are much more important than individual match wins within the series and trophies get awarded on the series result not after each individual match.
PS. If you’re still interested to know more about cricket and get into it further I’d suggest watching a few matches, starting with the shortest T20, rather than reading the laws of the game. The laws are very ‘dry’, pretty long, aren’t really set out to help guide someone trying to learn the game (they’re more about establishing detailed rules on how to address specific eventualities from the perspective of the officials and come across quite legalistic in style) and will use terminology that in of itself is quite sport-specific.
Cricket codes: Test (my favorite, unlimited Overs), ODI (One Day International, 50 Overs), T20 (Twenty-Twenty, 20 Overs per side). Complex sport, but I love itl.
A T20 match is played over 2hrs and 40mins. An ODI is played upto 7hrs. Test Cricket is played upto 5 days with each days play over 6hrs. An average score for a T20 match is 166 for 6. An average score for an ODI match is 260 to 279. An average score for a Test Match in the First Innings is 343 and the Second Innings is 304.
Odi match goes around 8hrs &t20 match finishes around 4hrs
Interesting fact Afghanistan has just beaten England the previous world champions in the World Cup cricket this is massive as only a few years ago many of the Afghan players were refugees and the team had no backers, no money behind them. I’m English but it is inspiring, there is a tv programme made some years ago showing the Afghan team starting out. This game is massive in India , Pakistan less so now in England, and The West Indies in particular which were the most exciting to watch when I was a kid.
The West Indies were my favourite team as a kid in the late 70's-80's they had so many great players compared to the woeful Australian teams of the 80's. Funny how the current Australian team has gone full circle and is as bad now as those 80's squads.
Yes, the pitch does look like a long jump landing spot, but it's hard as a rock the turf on the pitch is very careful looked after, so it is hard for the ball to bounce off with very few divits and that doesn't just break up to quickly. Cricket is a summer sport, and Rugby League and Rugby Union and AFL are winter sports. I remember playing Rugby League as a kid. I played in the middle, so you were always getting tackled on the rock hard Cricket pitch. The start and end of the season were worse as the pitch was at its hardest.
Cricket is generally played by countries of the Commonwealth of Nations(British), also some European countries have teams. There are 12 full time Cricket nations :- Australia,Afghanistan, Bangladesh, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. The first ever International Cricket Match was between the US and Canada in 1844, and was played at the grounds of the St George's Cricket Club in New York. Since 1965 the US was admitted as an Associate Members of the International Cricket Conference, and a US National Cricket Team competes in World Cup plus will compete in the 2028 LA Olympics.
Skills technicalities Nd conditions makes cricket so beautiful diverse and peflrfect game...That's why I like it so much.... Variations and variety 😊
Every place at everyvanue you will find diffrent situations and match conditions in cricket....It is significant Nd adorable
Best way to understand cricket is to play it. Use a tennis ball instead of the traditional cricket ball because the latter is really hard and will damage body and property if you aren't prepared.
If the bowler bowls the ball and doesn't bounce it, it's called a full toss! Other ways a batter can be out he didn't mention:
- hitting his/her partner's wicket.
- hitting the ball twice with one swing.
- taking too long to get to the crease (1 minute limit).
The wicket keeper usually has another fielder behind him to pick up "slips!"
Thanks to technology there are now sensors on the stumps and cameras to capture what the human eye would miss.
A bowler's arm cannot bend while bowling otherwise he'll be penalised for "bowling action."
The two types of cricket he mentioned are T20 (is more for parties and quick enjoyment) and test matches are more about endurance.
Put together a team and take to the field. That should make an interesting TH-cam video. Unisex match, limited limited overs (5 overs per side).
Countries where crickets is huge: India, Pakistan, West Indies (Caribbean), South Africa, Australia, England, Sri Lanka, and a lot more getting into it like America, Afghanistan (I think), even Japan.