Definition Of Cricket.... for Aliens.

Britishraj

One of the most F.A.Q. during your travels in India is related to cricket. For the benifit of those who have no knowledge of the game, now as they say its 'time to brush up on your Shakespeare' so to speak.

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side thats in, goes out. And when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out,and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man goes out and goes in, and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men are out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including the two men called umpires who stay out all the time.
Anyone for cricket?

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the opoponax

Is there a cricket "season" per se, as there is with American sports like baseball, basketball, football, and hockey? Or do pro games occur year round?

How feasible is it to see a cricket match at one of the big ovals like Eden Garden? Is that like trying to score tickets to the Yankees vs. Red Sox game in New York, or something that the average traveler can just wake up one morning and set out to do?

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iwanttogoback

cricket is a summer game. however, as it is played internationally and teams come from both hemispheres there are games at the international level being played at least half the year.

can't help with your question about getting tickets in india i'm afraid.

the best description of cricket i have ever read comes from bill bryson's book on australia 'down under':

"After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind) I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry. It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game. It is the only sport that incorporates meal breaks. It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players -- more if they are moderately restless. It is the only competitive activity of any type, other than perhaps baking, in which you can dress in white from head to toe and be as clean at the end of the day as you were at the beginning.

Imagine a form of baseball in which the pitcher, after each delivery, collects the ball from the catcher and walks slowly with it to center field; and that there, after a minute's pause to collect himself, he turns and runs full tilt toward the pitcher's mound before hurling the ball at the ankles of a man who stands before him wearing a riding hat, heavy gloves of the sort used to to handle radio-active isotopes, and a mattress strapped to each leg. Imagine moreover that if this batsman fails to hit the ball in a way that heartens him sufficiently to try to waddle forty feet with mattress's strapped to his legs, he is under no formal compunction to run; he may stand there all day, and, as a rule, does. If by some miracle he is coaxed into making a misstroke that leads to his being put out, all the fielders throw up their arms in triumph and have a hug. Then tea is called and every one retires happily to a distant pavilion to fortify for the next siege. Now imagine all this going on for so long that by the time the match concludes autumn has crept in and all your library books are overdue. There you have cricket.

The mystery of cricket is not that Australians play it well, but that they play it at all. It has always seemed to me a game much too restrained for the rough-and-tumble Australian temperament. Australians much prefer games in which brawny men in scanty clothing bloody each other's noses. I am quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished over night and the development of cricket was left in Australian hands, within a generation the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other. And the thing is, it would be a much better game for it."

PeakXV

There is seemingly no end to a game/match ..... and in India, seemingly no end to the season.

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New-South-Welshman

The way I like it.

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Brisso

Five days and no result ... invented by the British of course ...

New-South-Welshman

Every sport can be boring as batsh*t or exciting as hell. Cricket is just one of those games where you have to think ahead several hours before for a game plan, and I am talking about test cricket here. People mostly don't like something because they don't understand it. As a child I couldn't stand American football, but now I watch the odd game on ESPN and I am starting to learn it.

Brisso

I understand it - still bores me shitless

shashank.aggarwal

And mastered by Aussies ...

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