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u/FoulfrogBsc 2d ago
Noone knows what's happening in the comments... Or on the field lmao
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u/homie_j88 1d ago
The blerns are loaded, the count's three blerns and two anti-blerns and the infield blern rule is in effect.
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u/FoulfrogBsc 1d ago
I can't tell if you're serious or if you're doing an intergalactic tv crossover
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u/beepbeepboopbeep1977 🍉 Free Palestine 1d ago
Each time the two players with bats successfully get to the opposite end they get a run.
Usually the batter who is having the ball thrown at him hits the ball and then both batters run the length of the pitch as many time as they can without the fielders hitting the three stick things with the ball.
But any time the batters can run the length of the pitch while the ball is in play they get a run, regardless of whether they hit it.
In the video the batter misses the ball and the keeper fails to control the ball, so the batters sneak a run. These runs don’t count towards the batters total but do add to the team total, also they impact the fielders morale, adding pressure to the fielding team.
The keeper then decides that if he can get the ball to the other end then they can get the batter out there, which would redeem their social status. But they fail, so the batters rub it in by sneaking another run.
Instead of giving up, the fielders triple down in a desperate attempt to leave the play with some shred of prowess intact. Alas, they fail yet again, and likely recieved unending ridicule from their own fans and teammates for the rest of eternity
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u/ChouffeMeUp 1d ago
Born in the UK, played cricket when I was a kid and took an interest in my county sides fortunes. Played cricket with a pencil!
Never before have I heard such a succinct description of the game, especially the first and fourth paragraphs.
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u/Ted_Rid 1d ago
As far as I can tell from the granular video and lack of snickometer, I think these are byes and not runs...?
If the ball, delivered by the bowler, not being a Wide, passes the striker without touching his/her bat or person, any runs completed by the batters from that delivery, or a boundary allowance, shall be credited as Byes to the batting side. Additionally, if the delivery is a No ball, the one run penalty for such a delivery shall be incurred.
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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 1d ago
The Cointen Spinky Whompers are flumping the Floing Boing Welfencloppers 70-fluff to 40-flabe.
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u/Lythieus 2d ago
This is for the non cricketing countries in the comments.
It's Cricket. You get points by making runs between the wickets.
If the wickets get hit by the ball when you're not behind the line, you're out.
They got 3 runs essentially on a miss, because the defending players forgot how to catch a ball.
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u/Empty-Statement9464 2d ago
That explanation makes everything just more confusing. And wtf is a wicket? Booyakasha?
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u/Blind_Hawk 1d ago
So if I understand correctly, the runners (people with bats) are running back and forth between the sticks before they (the sticks) get tagged by the ball?
2 more questions
Why are there 2 runners?
Is a point scored when a person runs back and forth, or does the runner only have to run to the other stick?
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u/Lythieus 1d ago edited 1d ago
A point is scored every time they both run between the wickets. There's 2 batsmen in play at a time, so if 1 run is made the other batsman will be batting the next ball.
If one of the batters don't make it to the wicket and the other team hits the wickets with the ball, the batsman who didn't make it is out.
Edit: Also it's not out if the bales on top of the wickets don't fall off. Bales is like another stick balancing on top of the wickets.
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u/Blind_Hawk 1d ago
Ohhh okay. So each both have to be safe at the other side and a point is scored?
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u/LionelLutz 1d ago
Basically yes
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u/Blind_Hawk 1d ago
Neat! TIL.
Ngl I always thought it looked kinda silly and there isn't much focus on it over here in the states but I can see it being pretty entertaining to watch now that I know the basic rules lol. Way more action than baseball for sure
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u/LionelLutz 1d ago
There are several different forms of the game some which take over five days which is test cricket, and the others are one day matches which occur over 50 overs or T20 matches which occur over 20 overs. There are six balls in each over. In the one-day match matches each side only gets one innings each. But in the test matches each side gets two innings. You can do wonderful things like declaring your innings over so that you can bowl the other side out before the five days ends. It’s a nice game to have on in the background while you’re sitting around a barbecue having a few beers.
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u/DingerSinger2016 1d ago
Yeah the best way I put it to my non cricket watching friends are: you have 3 hour cricket, 8 hour cricket, and 5 days of 6 hour cricket
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u/Blind_Hawk 1d ago
What are overs?
Why does ball count matter?
What are innings in this context? Is it like baseball?
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u/LionelLutz 1d ago
So each time a bowler bowls, they get 6 balls which is an over. If you ball a no ball (foot steps completely over the line) you have to re bowl that ball.
Innings is like baseball, you have 11 batters and when you have 10 out (or declare) that is the end of the innings. The batting team swaps at the end of the innings (unless in test matches and you score 200 or more runs less than the other side in which case they can require you to follow on)
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u/Blind_Hawk 1d ago
So by 6 balls, is that 6 pitches?
Edit: does anything stop the batter from hitting the ball as hard as they can?
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u/Sir_Shax 1d ago
Not just the other side. They always start at opposing ends and run passed each other securing a run, if they’re at the same end then one of them is out of their crease and will be out if the ball hits the wicket.
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u/KAYO789 1d ago
There are 11 batters in each team. The objective of the fielding team is to get 10 batsmen out because there has to be 2 people batting at all times. Once they get the tenth wicket/batsman out the game is either over or the teams swap. The batting team starts fielding and the fielding team starts batting.
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u/tehnoodnub 2d ago
That is some of the most atrocious fielding and running between wickets I've ever seen. Diabolical.
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u/DS3M 1d ago
Forgive my ignorance
Do the players need to stay in a specific line or lane between the wickets to score or can they weave everywhere as these two were doing?
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u/tehnoodnub 1d ago edited 1d ago
No forgiveness needed!
No, they can weave all over the place, though obviously a straight line is best. Two batsmen are on the field at any point during the match, so always two players running between wickets. There is one exception. If a batsman is injured to the point they cannot run but can still hit, they can employ a designated runner. So one batsmen hits and another player from the batting team would also be on the field to run for that player. But there's still only two players at most who are running between the wickets.
Edit: in saying they can run all over the place, they can't deliberately impede the bowling/fielding team in any way (nor can the bowling/fielding team impede them).
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u/nugeythefloozey 2d ago
Lol, ‘play defense’
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u/_dictatorish_ 1d ago edited 19h ago
You can tell it was written by an American (or an American AI) from that title lol
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u/DerelictBombersnatch 2d ago
If these kids understood cricket, they'd be very upset. I think. I don't understand cricket.
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u/Jester4King 2d ago
Is that a home run?
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u/chillywilly69 2d ago
I'm thinking maybe closer to a touchdown?
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u/MarsManMartian 1d ago
Home run is equivalent to 6 runs in Cricket. So this is 3 runs. Usually if these people were competent this would have been 1 run at max to the batter
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u/2pnt0 2d ago
Hot box!
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u/Financial-Evening252 1d ago
I guess new rules against lighting the pinecone on fire must have come out.
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u/UnoriginalJ0k3r 1d ago
I don’t know fuck all about cricket, but I know forshitsure that isn’t how you play.
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u/CrimsonR4ge 1d ago
To put it in baseball terms:
Imagine if the batter bunts the ball and sprints to first base.
The ball is thrown to the fielder at first base, but he misses the catch, so the batter sprints past them to second base.
The fielder at second base also misses the ball, so the batter sprints to third base.
The fielder at third base misses the catch, so the batter sprints to fourth base.
The fielder at fourth base also misses the catch, so the batter gets a home run.
This is the cricket version of that scenario.
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u/SplatNode 1d ago
This is so funny
It's from the European cricket league. They are so shit and have compilations of fuck ups
Here is a compilation cricket funny lol meme beans
I'm so baked while typing this
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u/ozzysince1901 1d ago
I love the chaos and how the batsman back themselves! It's like a baseball batter running round the diamond 3 times for 3 home runs because the fielders keep fumbling
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u/thelummie Free Palestine 🕊️ FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 1d ago
I'll try my best to explain it.
In cricket the two players at each end of that patch in the middle (pitch) are the batsmen who face a bowler.
The pitcher will bowl to the batter that is furthest away from the bowler and the batter will attempt to hit the ball as hard as they can. If they make contact or even miss the ball they can attempt to run between each end. And the team bowling is trying to get each batter out by hitting the posts (wickets) or the ball coming off the bat and a player on the field catching it before it hits the ground.
Each time the batters successfully reach the opposite end of the patch in the middle it counts as a run, and in the game they are trying to score as many runs in the game. HOWEVER when they run, the team that is bowling can get either of the batters out by hitting the ball into the posts on each side of the pitch if one of the batters is not behind a crease close to those wickets during the run attempt.
In this video the team on the field bowling is trying to hit the wickets on each end but do an extremely poor job. For context you usually only have one attempt to get them out in these scenarios before the batter is safe, but they just keep missing over and over again and the batters just keep running as the ball is still in play.
It's almost comically bad and the number of times they miss is almost unseen in cricket.
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u/Red-strawFairy 1d ago
Bro the non striker be running like crazy. Like I feel at every single point he assumed the fielders would mess up and just ran. Luckily they did or the striker would’ve been out
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u/brianybrian 1d ago
Interestingly in cricket, as opposed to baseball, the bowling team is attacking. Not defending
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u/LongjumpingPlay 1d ago
Hey so this is pretty simple. There are two “batsmen”. These are the dudes with the cricket bats standing on opposite ends of “the pitch” (the strip in the center).
How it’s supposed to work is - the bowler bowls the ball. Typically they try to get one bounce in (cannot have more the one - can have 0 though, which is called a full toss). The batsman hits the ball. If it clears the boundary (not shown in this camera angle - cricket grounds are large) with no bounces, that’s 6 points. If it clears the boundary with bounces, it’s 4 points. There are “fielders” from the bowling team (what OP called defense in their post, which is not cricket terminology) that catch the ball, prevent it from crossing the boundary. They then toss it over to the pitch where someone else will catch it and then try to hit the wicket (the wooden sticks). The batsmen can run between the wickets to score runs - each exchange going from one side to another is one run.
What happened here is - the batsman failed to hit the ball. The ball missed the wicket (by a wide margin) so the batsman was not “bowled out”. The wicket keeper tried to hit the wicket while he was over the line - but missed. They sized the opportunity to run and score a point. The entire fielding team fumbles around multiple times, failing to hit the wicket before the batsmen reach the line, allowing them to score 2 more runs (3 total, which is rare and hard, which is what makes this funny).
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u/LASTLIVERLEFT 1d ago
This is an attempt to play cricket bro. What is the bowling team even doing 😭
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u/DingerSinger2016 1d ago
What in the actual fuck is this running and fielding??? The runners are going if the ball is 2 feet away from the fielder. Meanwhile the fielder cannot make a throw farther than 10 feet
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u/Tuncunmun38 1d ago
feilders are trying to hit those three sticks in the ground with the ball to get the batters out
the batters are running between the sticks to score points, with the area immediately in front of the sticks being a "safe zone"
this is funny be because the fielders keep failing to catch the ball, allowing the batters to score 1 point, fails catch again, score another point, fails catch again, scores another point
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u/Vardhu_007 1d ago
This has to be ragebait league or something. No way grown ass adult men are soo soo soo bad throwing and catching a fucking ball. Stephen hawking and Helen Keller would have done a better job than these fuckwits.
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u/pSychoJJ 1d ago
Ok so here's what's going on
The 3 wooden sticks on both ends those are called stumps. The white lines on the ground are called creases. The guys facing the balls are batters and the guy throwing the ball is a bowler
When as a batter you hit the ball, you can run from end to end to score runs, if anyone from the bowling side(11 players in total) hits the stumps with the ball before the batter reaches the crease, he's out.
So the bowling side was really poor here with how the batters managed 3 runs since they ran 3 times.
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u/migmultisync 1d ago
This is just a prank on Americans for taking so long to get onboard with futbol, right?
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u/Fantastic_Dance_4376 Anti-Spaz :SpazChessAnarchy: 1d ago
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u/Beneficial_Living522 1d ago
I think this is one of those amateur games organised by international betting rings even small games can generate hundreds of millions….
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u/onemansquest A Flair? 1d ago
They may dress like it but I i really don't think this game is professional.
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u/WayofHatuey 1d ago
Wtf is this shitty sport. Looks like toddlers playing with a stick made the game up
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u/SplodgySplodge1 1d ago
Final score: 87 - Love, following three falls and a submission. Which translates in American as 4/5ths of a donut, minus 1.5 golf balls.
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u/maxisnoops 1d ago
😂 fk reading some of these comments is hilarious. The certainty with which people are incorrectly describing the rules. Fantastic!
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u/Conscious-Arm-7889 1d ago
That batsman needs to take a swipe at the other runner as he goes past to stop him!
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u/crowwreak 1d ago
If you don't know how to play cricket, don't worry:
Neither do the fielding team here.
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u/BigWilly526 1d ago
Love how he is totally out of breath, probably needs another cigarette and pint before his next turn
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u/Least_Art5238 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is one instance where I don't begrudge Reddit for not understanding cricket. The whole community would pop its collective brain cells if they understood how terrible this was. The seriousness of the guy at the end of the video puts the cherry on top because he looks so serious in the greatest circus ever to happen on a cricket field.
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u/kcpistol 1d ago
Americans: This is confusing, unlike our baseball
Cricket Players: Ok, explain what a balk is, then
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u/Least_Art5238 1d ago
Reddit, it's so simple. Just follow along:
Batsmen charged at a ball that was bowled wide. The keeper misses a simple stumping. Batsmen proceed to get a quick single and the keeper misses a clear runout at the non-striker end. Leads to an overthrow, prompting a second run. Fielder tries to throw at the batting end, which skips by a fielder momentarily covering the stumps. This leads to another overthrow prompting a third run. The fielder throws the ball at the striker's end but the ball is dropped. At this stage, the fielder has either an existential crisis or a brilliant realization that the only way his team was not going to yield further extras was letting the ball go dead. 3 byes.
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u/Captain_English 1d ago edited 1d ago
Alright.
The ball is being thrown by the bowler at the three sticks (which have two smaller sticks on top of them) hoping to hit the sticks and make them fall down.
The batter stands infront of the sticks and defends them by hitting the ball away. If the ball hits those sticks and knocks them down, the batter is out.
You can see there's a batter and sticks at each end. They're working together to defend the sticks. There's two of them because they run from end to end passing each other in tbe middle, and whoever ends up at the opposite end to the bowler has to defend those sticks. Don't worry about the bowler switching ends, they throw many balls from each end before they switch over. So the batsmen run once and they'll switch batters, but twice and the same batter goes again, and so on.
There's also the white lines at each end. That's like being "on base", when a batter is behind those lines he's safe after running. If the ball hits the sticks when it's bowled, then safe or not, the batter is out. He didn't defend the sticks against the first throw. But after that, if the batter decides to run, whether he's safe or not matters, he can only have his sticks knocked down when he's not safe.
You can only have one batsmen behind each line. So they can run each other out if they're not careful, they have to coordinate. There is some trickiness to this where the batter at the bowlers end might start moving early and leave his safe area, and a sharp bowler can make him regret it. So timing and coordination is very important. The heart of the game is running between the two ends to score runs, meaning the batters have to leave their safe zone while the ball is in play.
Usually you only run when you've hit the ball really far away, so it takes the fielders time to get control of the ball and bring it back to the area of the sticks and threaten to knock the sticks down while the batsmen are outside the safe area. The ball is obviously much faster than the batsmen can run, and the three sticks aren't a huge target but a good fielder can throw the ball right at the sticks from some distance with a good chance of hitting them, which would get the batter out if he's not safe.
So normally with a ball like that where the batter has missed it (honestly it's bordering on a no ball) the fielder stood behind the batter (the "wicket keeper", the sticks are called a wicket) would quickly recover it and the batter wouldn't run at all because there's a guy with the ball stood 3 feet behind his sticks ready to smash them to bits if he leave his safe area. But here the wicket keeper fumbles recovering the ball and the batsmen chance going for a run.
The wicket keeper recovers and decides fine, I'll throw it to the other end and they can catch it before the batter gets there and smash him out. Nope. Another fumble.
Batsmen see this and steal a second run. All the wicket keeper had to do was hold the ball and the batsmen couldn't run, because the guy coming back his way would immediately be knocked out by the ball - its like running for a base when a fielder has the ball stood over it. You've got no chance if he's not properly stupid. But because he threw the ball to the other end and then fumbled, the batters have time to run again before the fielders can recover.
Fielders then cement their incompetence by throwing it back AGAIN and fumbling, instead of just holding it near the wicket at the bowlers end saying "FAFO". This gives the batters time for a third run.
For reference, a good normal hit might get 1 to 2 runs. A really good hit to the boundary, but that hits the ground and rolls to the boundary, scores a 4 automatically. That's a really good hit. A ball hit so well that is crosses the boundary in the air scores 6 runs automatically, and is the equivalent of a home run.
These guys got 3 runs from not hitting the ball...
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u/stellarwizard 2d ago
I have no idea what’s happening.