For everyone who is wondering, this is how to play cricket.
There are two sides, one out in the field the other one in bat.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes 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 that's 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 in goes out and goes in.
There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
Simple.
Very good...
ReplyDeleteA game is measured using a useful device called an over, and all games, no matter how short, are not over until several overs are over. Most games require many overs before they can be considered over.
During an over, the bowler must not bowl under or else the ball is called a no ball, and the ball that was under must be rebowled as over. After a successive series of balls bowled over, the over is then deemed by the umpire to be over.
Sometimes a bowler, in the course of his over, will step over the mark. In this case, the ball that was bowled over is not deemed to be part of the over, and, like the ball bowled under, has to be bowled over again.
It is only when six balls in the over have not been bowled over or under that the umpire is able to pronounce 'over', which means that the bolwers turn is now over.
Sometimes in the course of an over, a batsman is able to get under the ball, and hit it over the boundary. If he is able to get under and hit over enough during the over, it could well be over for the bowler at the end of (but not before) the over.
As you say, simple.
Over and out.
Mal W