Cricket Explained by an Uninformed American
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- I try to explain a game which I have spent the last two or three days trying to figure out: Cricket, the game of the British Empire (or Dominion or whatever they're calling it nowadays).
Most of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence played cricket. A cricket player invented baseball, a simpler and (at the time) quicker game - baseball was like playing checkers, whereas cricket was like playing chess.
Except that the modern rules of baseball are actually more complex than those of cricket, but on the surface baseball is rather simpler.
You are correct. Australian rules football is also played on an oval field. That's because it's played on cricket grounds.
Interesting side note, the first international cricket match was between the USA and Canada, played at the St. George's Cricket Club, NY in 1884.
Sweet man thats what I was going tp type but ypu've done it better.
Yeah T20 should be the right format to get a good foot in the door.
@@filthymcnasty5625 NO to many quirks in the rules, power plays etc. Test match simplest , purest. There is more opportunity to see the bowlers consistency, variation and game craft which is lost in t20. T20 favours the bat to much and gives the wrong impression imo
Yeah unfortunately thats the way its going.
@@monkeyfunk8371 That's the biggest reason I don't like t20s as much as I did initially. I feel too many 6s, big scores, runs fest will make all of it less exciting if they become regular. It's similar to how 4s aren't as exciting, a 6 in few overs isn't enough & everyone seems to want double centuries in limited overs.
Now I enjoy watching Bowlers Spin, Swing & Bounce the Balls more than I did before but thanks to dead pitches it's getting rare. Test Cricket is the only format where you can't have flat tracks.
You are spot on. It is evident that you have done some in depth research. So congrats.
It s a fantastic game, cricket. I wonder why Americans haven't picked up the shortest version of the game. You can also find some Americans reacting to this sport on RUclips. I am sure your video would be of immense help to the people who do not understand the game. Good work.
Cheers.
Thank you. I think that baseball and cricket, while very different games, occupy the same place in the American mindset and baseball is far too intertwined in American history and nostalgia for cricket to gain ground. As you state, once I understood the rules it was fun to watch. However, I grew up in a family that lived and died by how well the Cincinnati Reds were doing. I just learned of the existence of the Perth Scorchers in the last year. Sadly, in this kind of dynamic cricket isn't going to easily gain traction here.
Sadly, I agree that even short-form cricket would be much for Americans to embrace. I just learned about the three authorized forms of cricket today. Until about 30 years ago, only the Test format existed - and 5 days is a hard sell here.
Still, I have found the sport to be more complicated than I'd realized. I suppose it didn't catch on here partly because of its early association with the well-to-do, although baseball also has its connections with gentleman amateurs.
Bottom line : now I see cricket as a simple game with tremendous possibilities.
It is not just the bat to be safe , any part of the body in the crease.
They put the bat out in front because it extends your reach to safety
Great video! Two things across the top are bails. Helmets are a relatively new piece of equipment. For most of the history cricket, they were never worn. But the West Indies team became dominant primarily because of fast bowlers; and so that might have indirectly influenced their introduction.
The modern helmets came in largely with Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket, they had existed previously, but it was through him and the Polo helmet company that approached him that they became practical, and mandated by him after a player took a 95mph ball to the head in one of his games.
Cricket balls are harder than baseballs, and have a nasty seam too.
Plenty of players have been hurt over the years. Sadly one died a few years ago even with the helmet, after he was caught between the rim and the face guard.
This is probably the best video I've seen for explaining cricket (to Americans). There are a few inaccuracies but overall you've done a good job.
I've seen some videos that try to explain cricket in under 10 minutes but personally I think they rush out an overload of information and jargon much too quickly and I really enjoyed the presentation here.
The Indian international team is 'on tour' in England this summer ... they've already played a 3 match series of 20 Over cricket (which India won 2-1), then they played a 3 match series of 50 over cricket (England won 2-1) and next they'll play a 5 match Test series (5 Day matches). The cricket has been great with some fabulous performances from both sides at times ... probably the best 2 teams in the world right now and if you can catch an hour long highlights show on TV for a day's play you can quickly fill in some of the blanks.
6:24 Aussie Rules apparently started as a way to keep Australian Cricketers fit during off season (heard Ian Chapell say that on TV once) & Football was probably their favourite, so may be that's why it's also played on an Oval (Cricket allowing 360° Batting area so circular field becomes a requirement) & Rugby Union or League & Aussie Rules therefore aren't played at the same time as Cricket. MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) is probably the home of Aussie Rules.
33:44 It's a Draw. It's a Tie only when they've time to play but the team Batting last has lost all its Wickets so can't continue while the total scores are level.
I was hoping you'd mention Cricket's history in US (& also Canada) coz it did catch on in these 2 countries probably much before many of the big Cricket nations of today. The first modern day sport event in the world was a US vs CAN Cricket match in 1844 (probably attended by thousands) which went on for a few days, so it seems Americans weren't against that either. It was big in late 1700s, throughout 1800s & even early 1900s. But baseball being promoted as an American born sport (which it isn't) & Cricket being a British import & remnant of British imperial past affected its popularity. Still I'd say the biggest blow was the "geniuses" of icc who didn't allow countries outside British Empire to become its member, that surely killed Cricket in US (& many other countries) where till then competitive Cricket was still taking place. Membership opened only in 1960s for countries outside the Commonwealth (that's what they're calling it nowadays) & 1965 saw some new members like US, but it was probably a bit late. Now the struggle to revive once great American Cricket keeps going on & I'd regrettably say it has been a big waste of money, resources, time & energy which could've been better spent in multiple countries in the same region & achieved better results in many of those countries.
Very good effort at describing cricket for people who know nothing of cricket. Much better than I could do for baseball. The reason your image showed the batsmen as striker and non striker is only one is being bowled at. Therefore only that one can strike the ball. An interesting point about cricket is the captain is the most powerful captain of any sport. They decide where the fielders stand, no coaches shouting from the sidelines to help them. They also decide who bowls and whether they spin or fast bowl.
Baseball is all about brute strength but cricket needs skill and strategy.
I find it interesting that you call the bowling side the defense, i very much see it as attack. Having said that both batting and bowling are both played offessivley and defensivley depending on the match situation. Often in matches the first few overs are very testing for the batsmen as a bad start could be fatal.
You probably know this by now, but......
The 2 elements on top of the wicket stumps are called BAILS.
And you did correct it, but the correct name is BATSMAN.
Other than that, this was a really great explanation of the game.
In most cricketting countries, it starts with kids, playing in the park.
They use whatever materials are available. An old bottle crate as a wicket. A tennis ball. A home made bat.
And they just bowl and bat for fun.
If you can get a group of friends together, get a cheap bat, a ball and have a game in the park, you will love the game.
The LAWS are tricky. Don't worry about them tok much to begin with.
Enjoy. Have fun.
Best from England.
On safe. I think that info is mistaken. The most efficient way is to ground your bat but if even your toe is across the line, you are technically safe.
The bowler does not HAVE to bounce the ball before it reaches the batsman. They generally do bounce it because that is what works in cricket. They can bowl what is known as a full toss as long as it is not above the height of the batsman's waist when it reaches him.
Any part of your body touching the ground across the batters crease, including a bat held by the batsman counts as in. As long as you are holding the bat you can run across and be safe, but you usually reach out the bat because it means less distance to cover.
It is not compulsory to pitch the ball. Full tosses are legal but are quite likely to be smashed to the boundary so are rarely used.
You can hit the ball a second time if you are defending your wicket. Say you play the ball onto the ground with the bat and it runs back towards your stumps you can use the bat (or your foot, but not your hand) to stop it. You are not allowed to hit the ball twice to score runs.
Very accurate description of the game. Thumbs up!
Nice summery .
Top of the stumps are called bells
Runs are achieved not only crossing opposite crease line by bat but any part of body including bat. That's why batsman run putting bat forward to reach the crease early.
And you cant pass the boundary rope and jump or even touch the rope and jump to save boundaries or catch. you have to be within boundary as your jumping spot and filed in air to do so on a outside boundary rope situation.
bails not bells
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That shot is called a ramp shot; you see it a lot in shorter versions of cricket. Where the batsman, often pre meditated, will ramp the ball back over his shoulder like a scoop shot. The shorter version of cricket has generated a lot of creative trick shots to get quick runs. Controversial is the "switch hit" where the batsman changes from right handed to left handed etc which some people say should be illegal because it's unfair to the bowler.
Most cricket grounds tend to be oval rather than round. In fact in Australia they are often generically known as 'ovals' The largest ground in England and one of the most iconic in the world the Kennington Oval, in south London, is simply known to cricket lovers as 'The Oval'
Before you go any further please understand that the 'bowlers' (equivalent of pitchers) in cricket do not 'throw' the ball; they are not allowed to throw the ball at the batsmen. Bowling is done with a straight or near to straight arm all the way through the bowling action. A throw involves a bent arm that straightens at the end of the action like a pitcher.
Furthermore if you told a bowler that he was a 'thrower' (or 'chucker') he would not not take it kindly at all and you could probably expect him to tell you to 'go forth and multiply' as it were.
It's not just the bat it's any part of the body should cross the line and should be in contact with the ground.
LBW is an out if the ball hits the pad and the umpire thinks it would have gone on to hit the wicket - not just if it hits the pad.
It is more complex than that but I won’t bore you by going on to explain that.
The first ever international cricket match was between usa and canada 😂
Handling the ball is the other out that very, very occasionally shows up, as rare as a perfect game, but if the batsman intentionally uses his/her hand to divert the ball away from the wicket, its Out by Handling The Ball.
Although if you are swinging at the ball with your bat and it glances off your glove, that counts as bat, and you can be caught out, but otherwise its legal.
Also for LBW to be Out the Umpire has to determine that it would have hit the wicket if the leg hadn't been in the way.
First of all pretty good effort trying to explain the game. Just FYI the Defense or defenders as you call them are referred to as fielders. The two little og=bjects on top of the stumps are called bails.
Presently in the world today on an international level thereare three forms of cricket :
1) the Test match which is the traditional form of the game played over five days and between two countries e.g. at present India is playing a 5-match Test series vs England. Players usually wear all white and the ball used is a red ball. Recently playing matches over a day-night period was introduced and there they use a pink ball for the night sessions. Though it is five days and matches can end in a draw with no clear winner, there have also been many occasions where matches finish in four, three and even two days. Each team has a maximum of two innings
2) The One-Day International or ODI. Again played between two countries. As the name suggests it is played over the couse of one day and each team has one inning of 50 overs or 300 balls ("pitches"). Teams wear coloured clothing and a white ball is used.
3) The most recent innovation is the T20 or Twenty -Twenty. In this format teams also wear coloured clothing, use a white ball and have one inning each consisting of just 20 overs (120 "pitches"). It is fast paced, usually finishing in 3-4 hours.
With respect to getting out, one you left out is "hitwicket". The batsman is out if while striking the ball, any part of the batsman - foot, arm, leg, his bat oreven his headwear breaks the wicket. Other obscure methods of getting out are if the batsman intentionally obstructs the fielding side and if the batsman uses his hand to knock the ball away from hitting his stumps.(called "handled the ball")
I hope this helps add to your understanding of the game.
dont forget retired hurt
@@richard-yz6cz But that retired hurt batsman is not out and is allowed to return to the crease to bat on later, to complete his innings but his return must be in the same innings in which he retired hurt.
Cricket is not just a game its an emotion..
Isn't baseball just a slightly modified form of the game Rounders that I remember playing at Junior school? The baseball bat is the same shape but a lot longer. The idea of running round bases is the same. I've never seen Rounders played anywhere else.,
In reality, most grounds a oval rather than circle and the pitch is invariably not in the centre.
Yes. The weirdest oval shape used to be The Adelaide Oval. It had an extreme oval shape in the old days. If the batsman hit the ball down field into a corner he could run 5 because no fielder could throw it back himself; a relay throw was needed. Because some fielders threw their shoulders out trying, the ropes were brought in.
Cricket is baseball with chess. There is a lot of strategy involved.
Australian rules pitch appears round coz they play it on a cricket pitch....the game is played in a rectangle....similar to playing cricket on a baseball pitch
We do not refer to attack and defence in cricket as you do in American sport. There is a fielding side and a batting side and either can attack or defend according to the match circumstances.
Batsmen DO NOT score POINTS; they score RUNS and only runs!
This is incorrect.
A TIE = when the scores are level at the end of the maximum number of overs
A DRAW = the maximum number of overs in the game have been bowled and the team batting still has wickets left but has not reached the total to win
So ties and draws are not the same
Before the Origin of Baseball Cricket was in USA , in 1700 & 1800 & the Ground is on which today ur Baseball Stadium is situated
Yes. I don't think anyone would deny that the two major sports in the United States found their inspiration in other sports: Baseball from Cricket; Football from Rugby
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Geoff Boycott en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Boycott heartily agrees with you that it can take a long time to get a batsman out.
Some people in the caribbean lol its a religion on the big islands they compete as the west indies
You can't start to catch on or beyond the rope
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bails.
Cricket balls are leather over cork.
Ties are rare in tests. It requires the scores to be even with the batting team all out.
You described a draw when time runs out and the batting team has wickets left and not got the runs to win
Cricket is way of life
A way of life and a philosophy: hence the term “it isn’t cricket”. That means that cricket exemplifies fair play and respect for your opponents and match officials. For example, if a fielder runs out a batsman who has had his path obstructed by a member of the fielding side, that is considered by many to be unfair ant “not cricket”. As an Australian, it seems to me that unfortunately we seem to be leading the charge towards less “sporting” or “cricket” behaviour.
impressive...
A few mistakes but not a bad attempt.
Cricket is 2nd popular sports in the world
Close. The one place you were completely wrong is where you said "it doesn't matter if your foot passes the line, your bat has to". Your foot or bat has to touch the ground after the line or your out. If your whole body passes the line but never touches the ground you're out as well.
Thank you for the elucidation.
Wrong if you jump over the line and are behind the crease line your safe
But you are right about the bat any part of your body can get over not just the bat
@@godgaming5718 No, either you or your bad must be grounded behind the crease at the time that the wicket was broken (bail removed/dislodged and fallen off) for you to be safe.
@@godgaming5718 bat
Why do you talk about offence and defence? - that has nothing to do with cricket.
They are runs not points.
Once you get a taste of cricket it will be very difficult to not to watch it especially T20 format.
It's called The Commonwealth
LET ME TELL U SOMETHING IF U DO NOT KNOW CRICKET IS THE #2 SPORT IN THE WORLD THEM EVEN HAVE A WORLD CUP SO IT IS NOT 1 OR 2 PPL THAT JUST PLAY IT
Cricket is the second most popular team sports in world after soccer, it has 2.5 billion viewers world wide, it's more popular than any American and European team sports except soccer, it has 105 member nations, IPL is a Cricket tournament which has more market value than NBA despite the fact that Dollars has higher value which makes it even more valuable than NBA, recently it's TRP ratings surpassed highest TRP ratings ever taken on Olympic games, it has legitimate chance to create problems for the FIFA's market, Cricket is the only team sports that can do that, so if certain Caucasian people don't know about Cricket then it's their discredit not the other way around, infact it is only showing that the name of this planet is Earth not Caucasian world which is why Cricket so popular despite certain Caucasian population's knowledge, and Caucasian population are the minority on earth ,baseball has come from Cricket not the other way around, Cricket is more interesting and enjoyable and more athletical sports than baseball,
Yes, I realize that cricket is a big deal in several countries. That's why I spent some time trying to figure it out and have been watching it some on the "Willow" channel. Yes, I know that baseball developed from cricket, although they've grown apart so that the points of emphasis are different in each making each interesting to watch for different reasons. Cricket's not a threat to FIFA; nothing's a threat to FIFA except possibly its own corruption. Cricket's major problem is that while it has a massive fan base that fan base is very localized. Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world solely because it is the national sport of India (1.4 billion people). Not knowing about cricket has nothing to do with ethnicity; it's just about what was on the TV or at the local stadium as you grew up. After all, it is a game invented by Brits.
@@minorleaguematters1681 oh! Yeah, it is, as the population of sub continent grows more and more with times
And also another myth about FIFA, stadium doesn't always filled with spectators specially in UK where it is hyped up most, go watch soccer in Nottinghamshire club
Cricket is not discovered by British
British discovered the version of Cricket that used to exist in Victorian era, we changed it later, it's completely different now, it's an Indian sports now, there are three formats of Cricket, both the two new formats were brain child of Indians, it will officially show you MCC which is located in London but it's creative members are Indians, American sports are only popular in America not outside, let me give an example of Cricket then you will understand, a normal size Cricket ground has atleast 20-30-40000 people, a big size Cricket stadium has 100000+ people capacity, neither soccer, nor basketball, nor Baseball have that amount of human capacity so that's a major factor which don't count by other people from non cricket background
Pretty soon the population of subcontinent will become 40% of world's population whereas Europe's population is decreasing day by day, you get my point 😉
Uninformed is about the only thing you got right. Your whole explanation is full of inaccuracies and fallicies. For christ's sake it is called runs when the batsmen run( how surprising) They do not score points.
Now now greenie, no need to get nasty. Remember that he is aiming the video at Americans and so uses American terminology with which the audience is likely to be familiar. Yes the terminology grates with me too (also Australian) but you and I are not the target audience. Same thing with “throws” for “bowls”, “catcher” for “wicketkeeper” and many, many others. Give him gentle tips and time to learn.