Watching CRICKET Explained for Baseball Fans.. and kind of getting it. 

It does not matter if you are the batter or bowler, there is no rest for the wicket.

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.

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.

You wondered if the oval allows for more seating. Yes. There is even a stadium in India that holds 137,000!

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.

I think India and Australia (Melbourne Cricket Ground) have like 100,000 seater stadiums for cricket.

We are in the middle of the Cricket World Cup right now (for the 50 over, one day international version of the game). It's taking place in India. Nations competing are, India, England, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Netherlands and Bangladesh.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Less than a minute in and I understand cricket as well as I understand American Football. Let's go play!

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

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 RU-vid.

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.

3:41 Wait a sec! Is this where "being in a sticky wicket" comes from?

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 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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

Noticed he didn't talk about the types of bowling compared to the types of pitches in baseball

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

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 👍

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.

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)

British Bulldog - although it got banned in most schools

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.

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.

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 😅

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.

He left out one of the biggest and most Major differences...in cricket vs Baseball..they don't use any "Catchers Mitts", like in Baseball,,they catch it with their bare hands.. and that really stings and hurts when you play it for the first time...but after a while you man up and get used to it.. I played that game as a child years ago as a child lol.

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.

great video, enjoyed your curiosity about the sport, think you got most of it fairly well, got yourself a new subscriber

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.

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

Live in the UK all my life and have never bothered to learn about overs and scoring. This old dog learned a new trick 👍

The same channel's explainer for Rugby is excellent - well worth watching!

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).

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

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.

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.

American Cricket fan here who grew up playing and watching Baseball.

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.😂

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Felt he underplayed the number of runs batters can get, 100 is not that rare. Batters can stay in play continously for hours and even in some occasions days. Does depend on the format of the game. In Test Match you play for 5 days and a Test series is most often 5 matches. So you can play the same team for 25 days and it still ends in a draw. And that is why we love cricket. 😅

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 World Cup (50 over match) is presently being played in India, 10 counties taking part.

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

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.

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.

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.

One great cricketer, Clive Lloyd came from Guyana...is that local? He captained the West Indies.

Overs start from opposite ends with the other bowler, to the batsman occupying the non-playing crease at the end of the previous over.

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 !

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.

at 6.00 you had it right, best batter at the crease, i used to play for oxford back in the day, i was wicket keeper and opening batsman, i was athletic which helped keep wicket, i was a great safety player, hard to get out, but being small guy, i did not have the big hit, my job at bat, was to push a single, and keep the big hitters at bat, if i was at bad, and i oushed for 2, we would take a single, keep the hitters at bat

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

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

Cricket is big in Commonwealth countries. Countries formally conquered/ruled by England. The sport was invented in England

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.

You were wondering if cricket was played in South America, and the answer is yes! Guyana is part of the West Indies" confederation who play as one team in international competition. The West Indies were the dominant team in the world in the late 70s and 80s.

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.

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.

Something not mentioned was a limitation in Limited overs matches, such that any bowler may only bowl one fifth of the overs in the limit, i.e. 50 overs match each bowler is limited to 10 overs, this means a team must use at least 5 bowlers, they may use more. This makes a player who can both bat and bowl very useful (called an all-rounder). note all players are available to bat.

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.

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

You were correct in counting the positions for fielding players (as opposed to the hitting team) on a baseball team . . . 9.

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.

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.

enjoyed the reaction video. Cricket is one my favourite sports and is played in summer. Played cricket at school but wasn't great at it. I prefer the long form test cricket over T20 but I am in the minority. Duration of matches: T20 match is 3-4 hours. 50 overs ODI is one day x 7 hours. Test matches are 5 days x 7 hours each = 35 hours (most times the matches finishes earlier than 35 hours). For another cricket video I would try to find something about Shane Warne. He was an amazing leg spin bowler and played between 1992-2007.

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 RU-vid 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.

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.

A player was timed out today. The first time that has happened in the history of international cricket. The old fashioned sense of propriety was abandoned right then. Heated arguments ensued and the losing side (Sri Lanka) refused to shake hands with the winning side (Bangladesh). Timed out. The batsman took more than the 2 minutes allotted time to get to the wicket after the last batsmen was out.

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

OG video gave me ptsd flashbacks of my school teacher puking out dense information without any cohesion or context for the amateurs😂 (your reaction is great tho)

The new stadium at Ahmedabad in India is the largest stadium in the world actually in regular use for sport (cricket), and has a capacity of a little over 130,000. The MCG in Melbourne Australia also has a 100,000 capacity, for cricket and Aussie Rules.

Best schoolyard game for me as a child, was a game called British Bulldog. It's now banned in British schools.

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.

There is at least one country in South America where cricket is a big deal: Guyana. However, this may not be generally well-known to non-fans of cricket, because Guyana and 14 other Caribbean countries/territories compete collectively as the "West Indies" in international matches. West Indies won the first two men's one-day international world cups in 1975 and 1979, and their men's test cricket team was practically unbeatable from the 1970s to the mid-1990s. Many of the greatest players in history are from there!

In cricket there are so many rules it takes minimum 1 hour to explain all the rules.these are basic rules now you are watching

Cricket is big in England Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies and India. Other countries that play cricket internationally are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ireland and Zimbabwe.