Mate its cricket season here in Australia we are playing India it's 28 deg Celsius I have a tinny in my hand watching it on the telly. I'm in heaven. 😊
"why are they all wearing white, how are you supposed to tell them apart?" ryan they're all on the same team apart from the two guys holding cricket bats and the umpire.
Yep, one team bowls and fields, while the 2 batters are from the opposite team. Also traditional uniforms for cricket were originally all white. Similar to original tennis game uniforms were all white. Also you queried the batter that hesitated to run. She didn’t think the hit warranted a safe single run, so hesitated. However, the opposite batter ran, forcing the hitter to try to run. The two batters are expected to consider whether the hit warrants a single run or more before moving so as not to jeopardise their safety.
Umpires. There are always two, the square leg and the bowler's end. We don't talk about the 3rd Umpire up in his booth with the slow-motion screens and Snicko.
Years agoI saw a skit as a kid (80's era) a great skit about a wife that had never been to the cricket before and the husband was explaining it.. one part(and it was all hilarious and went for a while) "Where's he going?" "He's going in" "But I thought he just got in" "He did. But then he got out for a duck. So now he has to go in. " Well that not very team spirited of him to go out just because someone got him duck.. there's on 2 against 11 and that doesn't seem fair any way" (Man goes on to explain a duck etc)
ENG (is short for England) and their progressive score is 2 (wickets or outs) for 145 runs (at this point in their innings).. England are batting (2 players in the middle with bats & pads) and the fielders and bowler etc are the Aussies. "Vince & Root" are the names of the two batsmen and their individual score is listed next to their name. The "*" indicates who is facing the bowler (pitcher). Hazelwood is the name of the bowler and his progressive stats for this game are displayer. All players wear "white" in the TEST version of the game (which can last up to 5 days)
Just about every suburb and country town has cricket and football teams. Once you leave high school there are many opportunities to continue playing team sports. It doesn’t matter what level you are there is always a team for you.
You are correct about playing from a young age. In the 70's I was a P.E. teacher in high school in Australia and we had several US PE teachers come out on an exchange scheme. All superb athletes, great basketball players etc but when playing cricket not one of them could master the bowling action. It was so funny to watch.
As a lefty myself, all I can say in justification of our brilliance is "If the right side of the brain, controls the left side of the body, only left handers are in their right mind".
The green cap is a traditional Aussie hat more commonly known as the 'Baggy Green', they are given to players when inaugurated into the test squad, they are all numbered and receiving one is a big deal, you only get one for your whole test career. You'll see some that are well faded and worn out on players that have been around a long time.
Actually iirc these days they get a new one each Test, but they only every wear the first one because tradition. Originally yes, the Cricket Board would not extend the money to issue more than one.
I used to be the Junior Co-Ordinator for the local cricket team, and as I had never played as a junior, I got to play my first cricket match with my son playing his first Senior match. I was 52. So everyone can play if they want to
Come to Australia, virtually every suburb, town or country district has a cricket team, mostly with various grades from juniors to several "open grades". Numbers are dropping however there are still a lot around !
Thanks for bring back my love for the game, it had been lost... My Grandfather was a score keeper for the Adelaide Cricket Club until about 1970 - Great memories X
I used to annoy the kids in school as I am ambidextrous... I could bat both left and right... could kick a football both as well... come in handy when playing pool 😂
Actually that is quite common in baseball. So Americans won’t be surprised by that. Multiple MLB all star Shohei Ohtani pitches right handed and bats left handed. Ohtani is a very rare “2 way player” (like an allrounder in cricket, who is both a top batter and a top pitcher) in American Baseball, the first in almost 100 years to excel in both. In baseball there’s also some batters who are “switch-hitters”, who bat right handed when facing a lefty pitcher, and left handed against a right handed pitcher.
@@SS-sk3hbmy husband is a pool shark because of that. He'll play someone right handed then ask if they wanna put money on the next game. They agree then he plays left handed!
You crack me up mate lol Some of the things you say are hillarious. I don't want to sound mean but when you get things hilariously wrong like the batters and bowlers names on the score board it makes me laugh aloud, in a nice way, not mocking. I would be just as lost if I was watching Gridiron and trying to do a reaction video. For a yank you do get a lot right about cricket, I was impressed you knew what the crease was, it's only a small thing but it makes me want to hug you knowing you like my country enough to do videos about our sports and other aspects the country I love and everything that makes us Aussies, Keep up the great work, I never miss one of your videos.
Us kids used to play cricket in the street, & we still play at family bbqs, Christmas etc you don’t necessarily have to have the exact cricket pitch to play, any old oval, or space will do🤗
The one you thought was a "double out", the ball was hit directly into the ground and bounced up to be where he "caught" it, so it wasn't a catch for an out. It's often very difficult at first view to see if a ball bounced or not when they hit it, and it's colloquially known as a "crowd catch", at least here in Australia it is. Because the spectators will think it's a catch while the players out on the field know it actually bounced first off the bat.
@@bobhawke7373 Aussie commentators often call it that because the crowd goes up like it was a catch and then they realise when none of the players celebrate and settle down again. Heard it hundreds of times from commentators over here.
@@bobhawke7373 As @Johnnysoccer said, but it's only called a crowd catch if the crowd does actually go up thinking it is out. But you're right, it is a bump ball.
Hey mate, I just chucked this in an earlier video, but here is a little rundown of Aussie sport, with a big section on Cricket. Definitely heaps of topics to check out. Note these are my perceptions only, as a born and bred Aussie (feel free to fact check): - Rugby League (Footy/NRL/League) - Generally the most popular sport in NSW and especially QLD, as the teams are mostly located in these 2 states (there is also a heated rivalry between these 2 states due to this, culminating in the "State of Origin" series). League was originally invented in England as an adaptation of Rugby Union but the Aussie NRL is now considered the pinnacle of Rugby League in the world. Sometimes referred to as Australian Rugby by the US (leads to a lot of confusion with AFL). This year and next year the NRL season has been kicked off in Vegas to try and get some US interest (check out Russel Crowes's US promo video). - Rugby Union (Rugby/Union/Footy) - Your traditionalists footy, hard, tough. It is less popular in Australia though than the other "Footies", mostly because our National team has been less competitive in recent years compared to England, France, New Zealand, South Africa etc. Your older generations are more likely to watch this, especially first generation Aussies with a lot of European/UK heratige. - Australian Rules (Footy/AFL) - Most popular sport in VIC, SA and WA. Constant battle with NRL for most watched in Aus (typically AFL fills out stadiums more, but NRL gets more streams from home). A little bit limited in exposure due to an understable lack of international competitions. - Football (Commonly called Soccer due to US influence, but the term "Football" is gaining more traction lately due to continued European/UK immigration and lots of Aussies watching European Football leagues online. - Cricket (just Cricket) - This is actually our official national sport, most aussies grow up watching this on summer holidays, particularly the boxing day test, so it has quite a nostalgic aussie feel, although a large chunk of the younger population find it too "boring" (comparable to Baseball in the US maybe?), for some others it's just playing in the background or on the radio while you go about your summer fun. For more active families, "backyard cricket" is a popular pastime; just playing in the backyard with siblings, friends or family, or more iconically at the beach or out the front of of your house on the street, using wheelie bins for wickets and rushing them back when a car comes through. A lot of the excitement comes from smashing our Pommy overlords (England) in the Ashes, although matches against India can also be very competitive. Generally Aus and India are the best 2 cricket nations in the world. Probably the most widespread national presence of all the sports. There are also 3 main forms of the sport: 5 Day Test Matches (long, tough, traditional); T20 (twenty Overs for each team, fast exciting, a little more gimmicky, better to bring kids to because it isnt so long, still 3 or so hours though); ODI (One Day International, a middle ground between the long Tests and short T20's) - Honourable mentions for popular Aussie sports - Netball, Hockey, Basketball, Touch footy, Tennis, Swimming, Surfing.
Heh Ryan, a happy day to you! 😁 Comon Aussies! The All White's are Test matches, the Coloured ones are 20 overs per side/1 day! Purple is Tasmania! The batsman must have some part of the bat inside the crease/over the line! Both batsmen must run, or none! Every region has a cricket team, even for mature aged, and soccer teams too! Kids start in local teams at age six! 💚💛
you can tell the teams apart because 2 have bats, one has (generally) no hat (the bowler/ Hazlewood), and everyone else is standing in the middle of no where
Australia hired a baseball coach from the US to coach their team on feilding, throwing and catching, so your comparisons aren't too far off. Many of the skills are transferable.
I've heard the Chapell brothers who were cricket royalty during the 1970s and 80s were top baseball players in their younger days before choosing cricket. If they'd been American they'd be baseball champions but being Aussie it was cricket of course.
It's England vs Aus, the names at the bottom are the English batsmen, the astrix shows who's facing the bowler and Hazelwood is the Aussie bowler who has 0 wickets for 44 runs.
"Why did she hesitate" Its often a judgement call to run or stay safe, especially if its in close you are almost daring them to try and get you out... Watching them after they are done its easy to say, oh but if they both started they would have made it but its a quick decision that has to be made and stuck to
Most sports in Australia are played socially or professionally outside the school system. Local community associations, regional or state competitions and at the upper levels national or international games like, cricket, rugby, basketball, netball etc. On the whole, in Australia the state "team colours" are: Victoria "Navy Blue" (with white or silver trim), NSW "Sky Blue" (with navy trim), Qld "Maroon", SA "Red, Royal Blue & Yellow", Tas "Green & Gold", WA "Black & Gold" Allan Boarder was Australia Cricket Captain (84-94), he also played baseball in his school years. Many baseball fielding techniques were introduced to Aussie Cricket because of "AB" which we see today.
My son is in his 50’s and has played from a young boy as a batsman/fast bowler. He now plays in the Seniors and was President of his Club for around 10 years securing the local Federal politician’s support for a grant to provide new Club rooms with separate change areas for both males and females to encourage girls to play for the Club. Even one of the granddaughters played in her teens.
good thing about cricket, as long as you are able physically play, there's a local team that will have you, there's quite a lot of old guys playing too
You're taught that the striker (the player that hits the ball) will call 'Yes', 'Wait' or 'No' if they hit the ball infront of the stumps as they can see the trajectory of the ball after it gets hit but if the ball is hit behind the line of the stumps then the non-striker (the other batter) makes the call as they have the most immediate vision of where the ball is going. 'Yes' means run, 'Wait' means don't get yet until we see if a nearby fielder gets the ball or if it makes it past them, 'No' means don't run. NEVER say 'Go' because it sounds like 'No' and often confuses the other player. The batters will often scream these words very loud, especially early in their batting time to help get some nerves out while they're getting settled in. You'll often hear their calls louder than the commentary for this reason. Many run outs are caused by one of the two batters not following these lessons and essentially leaving the other player dry. Others are caused by players knowing these lessons but gambling that they can run faster than the fielder can collect the ball and throw it OR that they don't expect them to be accurate with the throw. It's not a very common way to get out in 5 day cricket (white uniforms) as players know that they have a long time to score runs over the days. 1 day games (50 overs and coloured uniforms) and T20 games (20 overs and coloured uniforms) have a larger number of run outs as batters are pressured to score quickly and will try to take risky runs. Thank you for attending my Ted talk.
Remember the left-handed fielders are also batters. When a bowler has to keep changing their delivery tactics because 1 bowl is to a right-handed batsman and if they run 1 or 3, then the next delivery is to a left-handed batsman. Not all the time (as it depends who’s batting) but lefties are a higher average in cricket.
Mate I know others will have said this but it’s always amazed me how in the States unless you turn pro your sport career is done by college and you can’t even play local organised sport! If you were in Australia right now you could go down to your local cricket club, sign up, pay your fees and play a competitive match this Saturday. And lots of people do it well into their 60s too.
In the UK college and university sports exist but are nothing major. In the States you can be playing in a stadium that seats over a 100 thousand people but come the end of college you may never play American football again. If you look at all of the media-popular sports in the UK you'll find amateur leagues for those sports everywhere.
My brother and his mates spent hours on the couch watching cricket. I asked 'Why do you watch this sport, it's like watching paint dry', 20 years later, now I understand why.
Part of the reason Australia was so dominant in the late 90s and early 2000s was their ability to hit the stumps side-on from 50m away while coming out of a roll/slide. Really made a difference in the number of successful run-outs.
Good on you Ryan. Love that you are enjoying this. We have a few types of cricket matches - test cricket (played in white over 4 days - very serious :)), and then different versions of limited over matches- 20 overs, 50 overs. In the limited over matches, the players wear coloured uniforms.
This is why cricketers spend so much time throwing at a tiny target wqhile running and diving. It is an incredible skill that is earned over years of practice. And it is why great cricket moments stay in the memory for decades. It literally is AWESOME. It is also why cricket is one of the oldest games in the world, played since medieval times when the stumps were literally tree stumps and the ball and bat were homemade from wood. Because it is so old there are so many ancient terms, like the saying "The crease belongs to the field."
She hesitated to run because there is no obligation to run if you hit the ball. You only run when you think you can make it, in this case the non striker believed there was the chance of a run and began running and the striker hesitated. Had she begun to run straight away she may well have made it.
Test Cricket (the highest and oldest level of cricket) is 5 days long and both teams wear white. It's only in One Day International (ODI) or Twenty-20 cricket where they wear colours.
In Australia if you want to join a sports club and play with a team you generally can, there are loads of amateur leagues. I have a colleague who's like 30 stone with a Hernia and still plays cricket every week during the season.
Yeah that last one was the Pat Cummins one i mentioned in the last video. He'd been in the field for almost six hours and bowled 20 overs then did that.
Just in case someone hasn't helped out. Vince and Root are the surnames of the two batters currently at the crease. The first number is how many runs they've scored if there's a second number there in ( ), that's how many balls they've faced in scoring those runs. The other name, Hazlewood is where they put the surname of the bowler, the 0 is how many wickets he has generated directly off his bowling (bowled, caught, etc., but not including runouts), the number after the / is the runs he has conceded in getting those wickets. So for this, he has not gotten any wickets and has been hit for 44 runs so far. ENG is for England, that's the team batting. The 2 numbers there are wickets lost/runs scored. Each time gets 10 wickets, once they lose 10 they are all out and they swap over, or game ends depending on some variables. Just to help out on the details on the screen at the start of the video (before I watched it, you may work it out during yet), but thought I'd give you a quick rundown as I didn't see another comment like that in the top of the comments section yet.
What the score board is saying is that England (ENG) is currently batting and Australia (AUS) is bowling/ fielding. Hazelwood is the guy bowling, it shows you how many wickets (people he's got out) and how many runs England has scored from his bowling. The English people batting are Root and Vince, and it shows you how many runs each has scored so far.
The funniest thing I've picked up from watching Americans watching our great sports whether it be cricket or footy is that they are all gobsmacked at a player pulling off play like a bowler fielding his own ball and hitting the stumps for a runout (jofra archer as 1 example at 8:40) I guess they are so used to how role driven their sports are, particularly baseball and nfl. A pitcher-pitches. A catcher-catches. A QB-throws and a receiver-receives. In cricket. A bowler can run after a ball and field it himself, something Americans probably think only out fielders should do. Same thing a wicket keeper (crickets "catcher") Cricket ground are massive and when there's only a 11 players trying to cover it bowlers and keepers sometimes do have to run 30-40m to field the ball
Ryan if you want to play cricket, you could show up to any suburban/town's cricket club just about anywhere in the Commonwealth and they'd find a spot for you. I stopped playing cricket at 48 and only then 'cause my knees gave up. Serious sports, in at least Aus, NZ and the UK, are played by local clubs and not in schools. Yes there are interschool competitions but the weekend sports clubs are where it all happens and the kids serious about their sports come up through the club system in age brackets into adulthood in various graded competitions.
So the reason it said Hazelwood (and other Aussie names) instead of Aus, is because we're fielding, so it'll always just show the bowlers name, in that first case Hazelwood. The all white is Test cricket, which is basically the highest ranked cricket. The games are scheduled for 5 days (though usually finish in 3 or 4), and sometimes the Queen would show up, it used to be a fancy affair, thus the white. 2 or 3 years on and I still love your enthusiasm for our amazing country!
Two of the best fielders in cricket history, in my opinion, were Jonty Rhodes (South Africa) and Ricky Ponting (Australia). Again in my opinion the greatest all-rounder - batting/bowling/fielding - was Jacques Kallis (South Africa) followed by Imran Khan (Pakistan).
Great work pal. A lot of your assumptions are absolutely correct. To answer your question about wearing white. This is in a traditional 5 day test match. The colours are worn in shorter forms of the game (one type goes for about 7 hours and another more modern is done in about 3).
Totally agree with your statement about team sports. It is difficult after high school. Hard work finding someone to kick a football or soccer ball. Currently working hard to consistently play some tennis
Batters sometimes hesitate when running, leading to a mix-up between the 2, and someone is left scrambling to get back in. Usually, it is the batter on strike (the one facing the delivery being bowled) who calls the non-striker to run, or not.
Warms my heart when I see someone watch cricket for the first time. It's a technically difficult game, but once you have the basics down, it's sooo addictive. Your getting the rules really well. With run outs, if the bails are even slightly lifted off the stump before the bat or any part of the player is planted over the line, it's out. In the Big Bash (Twenty-Twenty) matches they have lights in the stumps and bails, if the lights flash before you or your bat is over the line (and touching the ground) your out, back in the shed. You need to talk to your team mate and not leave them stranded in these situations. The reason the female batter hesitated is, because she's just come out of striking the ball motion and could see the ball hadn't beat the fielder and knew it was too risky to run, but her team mate already called it and ran (I'm thinking she called it as they were running out of balls to chase down the other teams score and had to run on every ball or something?). Love your videos. Thank you for sharing. Cricket is played at any age, there are many teams for all ages right through to 50 year olds. There is a small contingency growing in the U.S. you guys won some surprising games at the Twenty-Twenty World Cup which was in the U.S. earlier this year.
Anywhere in the world that there are Indians there is cricket, great to see you appreciating aspects of the game. In test cricket, the 5 day version where they wear white, it's a game of cat and mouse for long periods of time but at any ball something amazing can happen. And once you appreciate it on that level you can move on to loving a tensely fought out draw where neither side wins but it has been gripping watching the bowling side get that last wicket.
The best cricket fielders are ambidextrous meaning they can throw both left and right handed accurately.. if you like check out indoor cricket Australia 🇦🇺
i used to play competitive cricket when i was younger. as a fielder once you have the ball in hand and the stumps lined up the release become almost automatic. only after the ball is released do you start thinking about the surroundings... my fav fielding spot was silly mid on .... reaction time in that location is critical, quick to intercept and just as quick to get it to the keeper or stumps....
When all white is being worn it means it's a Test Match, which is the oldest version of cricket and is played over several days. When they wear colors it means it's a Day Match, a version that was introduced in the later part of the 20th century to have a result by the end of day. The way you tell which players are in which team when they all wear white is that the players holding bats are from one team and everyone else are on the other team. Like in baseball where the batter and those on a base are one team and everyone else on the field are on the other team.
After Xmas day playing Santa in 40 degrees heat for all the kids, there’s nothing better than watching the Boxing Day Test match (The grandkids call it Pa’s day) on TV with an Eski full of Stubbies. I’m drooling in anticipation already. Hope YOUR Xmas is as great too.
There are tactics involved with doing these direct hits. If the throw misses it can go past the stumps and concede more runs. Thus as a tactical decision sometimes the fielder, especially in limited overs one day games, may decide to hang onto the ball to not risk giving up runs from a miss.
Ryan, in Australia when you finish your schooling in high school, it's not the end of team sports for you. Towns, small and large, suburbs, sporting clubs, pubs, even businesses and school ex-students will band together to form teams. These teams will play against each other, usually in their district under the local association and so on. These associations will play inter district games using the best players from the district. This is how players get noticed by the talent scouts for the top teams and how they progress to state and national level. So a bloke who finished high school in year ten to get a trade or something will play on Saturday and his talent can take him all the way. I can't understand why a good sportsman's playing days are pretty much finished in the US if he doesn't get picked up by a college.
You generally have a couple of left-handers on any cricket team, they're useful, especially as one of the Openers. But its also because it takes half a second to switch hands and with a run-out every moment counts, so you throw it left-handed if that's the hand the ball is caught in.
8:15 She hesitated because she hit it directly to a fielder, but her patner ran anyway. In general if you hit a ball in front of aquare its the strikers call, and its the non strikers call when you hit it behind square (an imaginary perpendicular line from the batsman)
Cricket teams like to have a few lefties on their side as when there is both a left and a right handed batsman out on the pitch the bowler needs to constantly change his tactics when bowling to each left or right hand batsman as they each change ends and the fielders need to keep changing position which can help mess them up for a chance at a catch. Test match cricket can be either as boring as watching the grass grow or very super exiting when things get down to the wire and also very fascinating with some of the very rare events that can take place during a match.
One of the major differences between US sport and the rest of the world. Australia in particular is that sport is not based around schools or universities. In fact in general playing for your school is something most of us consider quite lame. Instead it is based around where you live. I live in a small town in NSW, Bendemeer, which coincidentally is where Josh Hazelwood comes from. He began playing for the town in under age cricket teams (sort of like Little League) and then progressed through talent to regional teams, then onto state teams and finally into the national team. Because we organise our sports like this there is generally a wide range of ages playing from under 8's all the way through to over 40's and 50's. Personally I played from Under 10's right through to over 40's. I never made it to state or national sides but I did play at the level below state for a few seasons.
There are several ways of listing the top ten best teams in the world today. The ICC ranks the top 12 in test (5-day) cricket in Oct 2024 as: 1st Australia, 2nd India, then in order: S Africa, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan.
I can't recall who pioneered this, but these days they train to do this by putting a single stump in the ground, surrounded by a ring of balls. The idea is you run around the stump while picking up a ball and then immediately throw it at the stump at the same time. The accuracy this imparts is phenomenal.
We have lots of opportunities to play team sports. In almost every area there's local cricket teams (along with all other types of sports). Higher levels are club cricket, then state, then national.
playing club sports after school, through to as old as you like, is kinda routine in Australia. are adult sports uncommon in the US? here local sports clubs can also offer clubhouse with bar, restaurant, halls, etc to the general population. they are the recreational mainstay of many communities
9:10 in baseball terms, he hits it to the pitcher who then throws it to first for the double. in cricket you can't get double outs, he just did that incase he didn't fully make the catch
You always want a couple of lefties in the team, batting or bowling, for much the same reason as in baseball. Best batting lineups usually have a lefty and a righty as Openers.
The only version of cricket I can say I kinda enjoy is 20/20 because of it's quick pace. Thanks for doing this vid as it was that goid quick exciting pace.
The two best fielding moments are wicket direct hits and teamwork boundary stoppages (You can't touch the boundary rope with the ball in hand, and when running full pelt to get the ball you can't stop in time so you need teamwork to make the boundary save).
The first teamwork boundary stoppage I remember seeing, the commentators were surprised because the first fielder chose teamwork over personal glory, scooping the ball behind him to the other fielder. I don’t remember if it was a direct hit, but it was definitely a run-out.
The difference between a "direct hit" and throwing the ball to a team-mate at the wickets who then dislodges the bails is a lot. So direct hits often mean the difference between getting a batter out or not, plus it's way cooler. In cricket you're not forced to run if you hit the ball, this can cause confusion when one batter thinks they can make the run and the other thinks the opposite. There are no double outs, the batter hit the ball into the ground and the bowler fielded the ball and threw it at the wickets (very athletic and a great throw).
your reactions are so pure i would suggest you to watch live cricket matches to understand more and enjoy. start with t20 matches. or you may react to cricket highlights of one of the greatest matches that have taken place.
"Why did she hesitate to run there?" She didn't think she could make the run, but her batting partner had committed to the run so she felt forced to go in the end.
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Mate its cricket season here in Australia we are playing India it's 28 deg Celsius I have a tinny in my hand watching it on the telly. I'm in heaven. 😊
Reckon you're gonna thrash us this series. How did we become so shit all of a sudden...
@@arbabasukalsar4361 get rid of some of the old players and we'll become magically great again.
Sounds like a bloody good arvo there enjoy it mate
36 c in Melbourne 😮
Josh got Kohli out pretty quickly, looks like being an interesting match.
"why are they all wearing white, how are you supposed to tell them apart?"
ryan they're all on the same team apart from the two guys holding cricket bats and the umpire.
Yep, one team bowls and fields, while the 2 batters are from the opposite team. Also traditional uniforms for cricket were originally all white. Similar to original tennis game uniforms were all white.
Also you queried the batter that hesitated to run. She didn’t think the hit warranted a safe single run, so hesitated. However, the opposite batter ran, forcing the hitter to try to run. The two batters are expected to consider whether the hit warrants a single run or more before moving so as not to jeopardise their safety.
Umpires. There are always two, the square leg and the bowler's end.
We don't talk about the 3rd Umpire up in his booth with the slow-motion screens and Snicko.
😂😂😂
Years agoI saw a skit as a kid (80's era) a great skit about a wife that had never been to the cricket before and the husband was explaining it.. one part(and it was all hilarious and went for a while)
"Where's he going?"
"He's going in"
"But I thought he just got in"
"He did. But then he got out for a duck. So now he has to go in. "
Well that not very team spirited of him to go out just because someone got him duck.. there's on 2 against 11 and that doesn't seem fair any way"
(Man goes on to explain a duck etc)
Cricket: fun to watch, fun to play 😁
ENG (is short for England) and their progressive score is 2 (wickets or outs) for 145 runs (at this point in their innings).. England are batting (2 players in the middle with bats & pads) and the fielders and bowler etc are the Aussies. "Vince & Root" are the names of the two batsmen and their individual score is listed next to their name. The "*" indicates who is facing the bowler (pitcher). Hazelwood is the name of the bowler and his progressive stats for this game are displayer. All players wear "white" in the TEST version of the game (which can last up to 5 days)
I was about to give a brief description, but I tend to get a bit wordy and you beat me to it. I'm not going to repeat old mate.
I love, respect and admire that you are giving understanding cricket a fair go! Keep it up, love your stuff!
Shoutout to the Indianapolis Cricket Club who won the Midwest t20 competition last year
Just about every suburb and country town has cricket and football teams. Once you leave high school there are many opportunities to continue playing team sports. It doesn’t matter what level you are there is always a team for you.
My grandchild has just started little athletics this season , her mum did it too
You are correct about playing from a young age. In the 70's I was a P.E. teacher in high school in Australia and we had several US PE teachers come out on an exchange scheme. All superb athletes, great basketball players etc but when playing cricket not one of them could master the bowling action. It was so funny to watch.
As a lefty myself, all I can say in justification of our brilliance is "If the right side of the brain, controls the left side of the body, only left handers are in their right mind".
The green cap is a traditional Aussie hat more commonly known as the 'Baggy Green', they are given to players when inaugurated into the test squad, they are all numbered and receiving one is a big deal, you only get one for your whole test career. You'll see some that are well faded and worn out on players that have been around a long time.
Got a free pocket under the edge to store sandpaper too 👍
@@necessaryevil3428 Vicious lol
@@mikk4309 😁
Ah, one of the moral winners has spoken.
Actually iirc these days they get a new one each Test, but they only every wear the first one because tradition.
Originally yes, the Cricket Board would not extend the money to issue more than one.
Ryan you are fun bloke to watch making efforts and enjoy our sport! Love it.💜
I used to be the Junior Co-Ordinator for the local cricket team, and as I had never played as a junior, I got to play my first cricket match with my son playing his first Senior match. I was 52. So everyone can play if they want to
Wow the women's game is superbly skillfull nowadays. I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Good choice of clips, Ryan.
Come to Australia, virtually every suburb, town or country district has a cricket team, mostly with various grades from juniors to several "open grades". Numbers are dropping however
there are still a lot around !
Why numbers are dropping?
@@barhat961Screens and other (non) activities distracting younger potential players and age for the older ones.
@@barhat961 Youngsters are less sports orientated. Those that are have many alternatives, often seen as "sexier".
Thanks for bring back my love for the game, it had been lost... My Grandfather was a score keeper for the Adelaide Cricket Club until about 1970 - Great memories X
It'll blow your mind to know that there are some players that bat left handed and throw right handed (and vice versa) 🤯
I'm one of them! I bat right handed but bowl and throw left handed. Don't ask me why, I was just born with some wires crossed 😅
I used to annoy the kids in school as I am ambidextrous... I could bat both left and right... could kick a football both as well... come in handy when playing pool 😂
Actually that is quite common in baseball. So Americans won’t be surprised by that. Multiple MLB all star Shohei Ohtani pitches right handed and bats left handed. Ohtani is a very rare “2 way player” (like an allrounder in cricket, who is both a top batter and a top pitcher) in American Baseball, the first in almost 100 years to excel in both.
In baseball there’s also some batters who are “switch-hitters”, who bat right handed when facing a lefty pitcher, and left handed against a right handed pitcher.
@@SS-sk3hbmy husband is a pool shark because of that. He'll play someone right handed then ask if they wanna put money on the next game. They agree then he plays left handed!
@SS-sk3hb my brother and my son are the same. My brother would switch sides with each over to annoy bowlers
You crack me up mate lol Some of the things you say are hillarious. I don't want to sound mean but when you get things hilariously wrong like the batters and bowlers names on the score board it makes me laugh aloud, in a nice way, not mocking. I would be just as lost if I was watching Gridiron and trying to do a reaction video. For a yank you do get a lot right about cricket, I was impressed you knew what the crease was, it's only a small thing but it makes me want to hug you knowing you like my country enough to do videos about our sports and other aspects the country I love and everything that makes us Aussies, Keep up the great work, I never miss one of your videos.
Us kids used to play cricket in the street, & we still play at family bbqs, Christmas etc you don’t necessarily have to have the exact cricket pitch to play, any old oval, or space will do🤗
Wheelie bin stumps sonnnnn
@@JustAGuyWithThoughts Or just a deck chair. And automatic wickie of course.
And the classic 6 and out.
I miss Christmas day cricket with grandpa, the uncles aunts and all the cousins,
The one you thought was a "double out", the ball was hit directly into the ground and bounced up to be where he "caught" it, so it wasn't a catch for an out. It's often very difficult at first view to see if a ball bounced or not when they hit it, and it's colloquially known as a "crowd catch", at least here in Australia it is. Because the spectators will think it's a catch while the players out on the field know it actually bounced first off the bat.
Never ever heard it called a crowd catch. Only ever heard it referred to as a bump ball.
@@bobhawke7373 Aussie commentators often call it that because the crowd goes up like it was a catch and then they realise when none of the players celebrate and settle down again. Heard it hundreds of times from commentators over here.
@@bobhawke7373 As @Johnnysoccer said, but it's only called a crowd catch if the crowd does actually go up thinking it is out. But you're right, it is a bump ball.
Hey mate, I just chucked this in an earlier video, but here is a little rundown of Aussie sport, with a big section on Cricket. Definitely heaps of topics to check out.
Note these are my perceptions only, as a born and bred Aussie (feel free to fact check):
- Rugby League (Footy/NRL/League) - Generally the most popular sport in NSW and especially QLD, as the teams are mostly located in these 2 states (there is also a heated rivalry between these 2 states due to this, culminating in the "State of Origin" series). League was originally invented in England as an adaptation of Rugby Union but the Aussie NRL is now considered the pinnacle of Rugby League in the world. Sometimes referred to as Australian Rugby by the US (leads to a lot of confusion with AFL). This year and next year the NRL season has been kicked off in Vegas to try and get some US interest (check out Russel Crowes's US promo video).
- Rugby Union (Rugby/Union/Footy) - Your traditionalists footy, hard, tough. It is less popular in Australia though than the other "Footies", mostly because our National team has been less competitive in recent years compared to England, France, New Zealand, South Africa etc. Your older generations are more likely to watch this, especially first generation Aussies with a lot of European/UK heratige.
- Australian Rules (Footy/AFL) - Most popular sport in VIC, SA and WA. Constant battle with NRL for most watched in Aus (typically AFL fills out stadiums more, but NRL gets more streams from home). A little bit limited in exposure due to an understable lack of international competitions.
- Football (Commonly called Soccer due to US influence, but the term "Football" is gaining more traction lately due to continued European/UK immigration and lots of Aussies watching European Football leagues online.
- Cricket (just Cricket) - This is actually our official national sport, most aussies grow up watching this on summer holidays, particularly the boxing day test, so it has quite a nostalgic aussie feel, although a large chunk of the younger population find it too "boring" (comparable to Baseball in the US maybe?), for some others it's just playing in the background or on the radio while you go about your summer fun. For more active families, "backyard cricket" is a popular pastime; just playing in the backyard with siblings, friends or family, or more iconically at the beach or out the front of of your house on the street, using wheelie bins for wickets and rushing them back when a car comes through. A lot of the excitement comes from smashing our Pommy overlords (England) in the Ashes, although matches against India can also be very competitive. Generally Aus and India are the best 2 cricket nations in the world. Probably the most widespread national presence of all the sports. There are also 3 main forms of the sport: 5 Day Test Matches (long, tough, traditional); T20 (twenty Overs for each team, fast exciting, a little more gimmicky, better to bring kids to because it isnt so long, still 3 or so hours though); ODI (One Day International, a middle ground between the long Tests and short T20's)
- Honourable mentions for popular Aussie sports - Netball, Hockey, Basketball, Touch footy, Tennis, Swimming, Surfing.
Heh Ryan, a happy day to you! 😁 Comon Aussies! The All White's are Test matches, the Coloured ones are 20 overs per side/1 day! Purple is Tasmania! The batsman must have some part of the bat inside the crease/over the line! Both batsmen must run, or none! Every region has a cricket team, even for mature aged, and soccer teams too! Kids start in local teams at age six! 💚💛
you can tell the teams apart because 2 have bats, one has (generally) no hat (the bowler/ Hazlewood), and everyone else is standing in the middle of no where
Australia hired a baseball coach from the US to coach their team on feilding, throwing and catching, so your comparisons aren't too far off. Many of the skills are transferable.
I've heard the Chapell brothers who were cricket royalty during the 1970s and 80s were top baseball players in their younger days before choosing cricket. If they'd been American they'd be baseball champions but being Aussie it was cricket of course.
It's England vs Aus, the names at the bottom are the English batsmen, the astrix shows who's facing the bowler and Hazelwood is the Aussie bowler who has 0 wickets for 44 runs.
This bloke is challenged !
"Why did she hesitate" Its often a judgement call to run or stay safe, especially if its in close you are almost daring them to try and get you out... Watching them after they are done its easy to say, oh but if they both started they would have made it but its a quick decision that has to be made and stuck to
9:13 the batter hit the ball into the ground and the ball bounced back up. Lots of people get confused on whether it is caught out or not.
Yeah, you tell there's top spin from it being driven into the turf.
Yeah, unlike baseball there are no double plays in cricket
Most sports in Australia are played socially or professionally outside the school system. Local community associations, regional or state competitions and at the upper levels national or international games like, cricket, rugby, basketball, netball etc. On the whole, in Australia the state "team colours" are: Victoria "Navy Blue" (with white or silver trim), NSW "Sky Blue" (with navy trim), Qld "Maroon", SA "Red, Royal Blue & Yellow", Tas "Green & Gold", WA "Black & Gold"
Allan Boarder was Australia Cricket Captain (84-94), he also played baseball in his school years. Many baseball fielding techniques were introduced to Aussie Cricket because of "AB" which we see today.
Yes. Allan Border also had an extreme leg flex in his batting technique. Very baseballish.
My son is in his 50’s and has played from a young boy as a batsman/fast bowler. He now plays in the Seniors and was President of his Club for around 10 years securing the local Federal politician’s support for a grant to provide new Club rooms with separate change areas for both males and females to encourage girls to play for the Club. Even one of the granddaughters played in her teens.
good thing about cricket, as long as you are able physically play, there's a local team that will have you, there's quite a lot of old guys playing too
You're taught that the striker (the player that hits the ball) will call 'Yes', 'Wait' or 'No' if they hit the ball infront of the stumps as they can see the trajectory of the ball after it gets hit but if the ball is hit behind the line of the stumps then the non-striker (the other batter) makes the call as they have the most immediate vision of where the ball is going.
'Yes' means run, 'Wait' means don't get yet until we see if a nearby fielder gets the ball or if it makes it past them, 'No' means don't run. NEVER say 'Go' because it sounds like 'No' and often confuses the other player.
The batters will often scream these words very loud, especially early in their batting time to help get some nerves out while they're getting settled in. You'll often hear their calls louder than the commentary for this reason.
Many run outs are caused by one of the two batters not following these lessons and essentially leaving the other player dry. Others are caused by players knowing these lessons but gambling that they can run faster than the fielder can collect the ball and throw it OR that they don't expect them to be accurate with the throw.
It's not a very common way to get out in 5 day cricket (white uniforms) as players know that they have a long time to score runs over the days. 1 day games (50 overs and coloured uniforms) and T20 games (20 overs and coloured uniforms) have a larger number of run outs as batters are pressured to score quickly and will try to take risky runs.
Thank you for attending my Ted talk.
Remember the left-handed fielders are also batters. When a bowler has to keep changing their delivery tactics because 1 bowl is to a right-handed batsman and if they run 1 or 3, then the next delivery is to a left-handed batsman. Not all the time (as it depends who’s batting) but lefties are a higher average in cricket.
Mate I know others will have said this but it’s always amazed me how in the States unless you turn pro your sport career is done by college and you can’t even play local organised sport! If you were in Australia right now you could go down to your local cricket club, sign up, pay your fees and play a competitive match this Saturday. And lots of people do it well into their 60s too.
In the UK college and university sports exist but are nothing major. In the States you can be playing in a stadium that seats over a 100 thousand people but come the end of college you may never play American football again. If you look at all of the media-popular sports in the UK you'll find amateur leagues for those sports everywhere.
My brother and his mates spent hours on the couch watching cricket. I asked 'Why do you watch this sport, it's like watching paint dry', 20 years later, now I understand why.
Hi Ryan, love your enthusiasm. I recommend you watch Cricket explained for Baseball Fans - I think you would find it really helpful.
Part of the reason Australia was so dominant in the late 90s and early 2000s was their ability to hit the stumps side-on from 50m away while coming out of a roll/slide. Really made a difference in the number of successful run-outs.
Good on you Ryan. Love that you are enjoying this. We have a few types of cricket matches - test cricket (played in white over 4 days - very serious :)), and then different versions of limited over matches- 20 overs, 50 overs. In the limited over matches, the players wear coloured uniforms.
test cricket is played over 5 days and is the traditional game where as the 1 day games are more for the entertainment value
This is why cricketers spend so much time throwing at a tiny target wqhile running and diving. It is an incredible skill that is earned over years of practice. And it is why great cricket moments stay in the memory for decades. It literally is AWESOME. It is also why cricket is one of the oldest games in the world, played since medieval times when the stumps were literally tree stumps and the ball and bat were homemade from wood.
Because it is so old there are so many ancient terms, like the saying "The crease belongs to the field."
They practice the run outs. Fielding drills nearly always include trying to hit a single stump from various angles.
She hesitated to run because there is no obligation to run if you hit the ball. You only run when you think you can make it, in this case the non striker believed there was the chance of a run and began running and the striker hesitated. Had she begun to run straight away she may well have made it.
Enjoyed watching the direct hits! Glad to see that you enjoyed them too!
Love your reactions Ryan 😎 and this is why the Bluey cricket episode means a lot to us 🤙🇦🇺
Run Outs can be more exciting even than Bowl Outs because you can see the ball going in, whereas Bowl Outs happen so fast you can blink and miss them.
This is hard .Watching your channel on my Laptop & watching a cricket Test match between Australia & India on TV.
me too! ☺
Really boring match
Really? Boring? 150 & 104?
Test Cricket (the highest and oldest level of cricket) is 5 days long and both teams wear white.
It's only in One Day International (ODI) or Twenty-20 cricket where they wear colours.
In Australia if you want to join a sports club and play with a team you generally can, there are loads of amateur leagues.
I have a colleague who's like 30 stone with a Hernia and still plays cricket every week during the season.
Yeah that last one was the Pat Cummins one i mentioned in the last video.
He'd been in the field for almost six hours and bowled 20 overs then did that.
12:16 is the worst kind of out - to be run out because of a miscommunication with your batting partner.
Just in case someone hasn't helped out.
Vince and Root are the surnames of the two batters currently at the crease. The first number is how many runs they've scored if there's a second number there in ( ), that's how many balls they've faced in scoring those runs. The other name, Hazlewood is where they put the surname of the bowler, the 0 is how many wickets he has generated directly off his bowling (bowled, caught, etc., but not including runouts), the number after the / is the runs he has conceded in getting those wickets. So for this, he has not gotten any wickets and has been hit for 44 runs so far.
ENG is for England, that's the team batting. The 2 numbers there are wickets lost/runs scored. Each time gets 10 wickets, once they lose 10 they are all out and they swap over, or game ends depending on some variables.
Just to help out on the details on the screen at the start of the video (before I watched it, you may work it out during yet), but thought I'd give you a quick rundown as I didn't see another comment like that in the top of the comments section yet.
If you want to see nuts at cricket, go watch Viv Richards' team; mesmerizing.
What the score board is saying is that England (ENG) is currently batting and Australia (AUS) is bowling/ fielding. Hazelwood is the guy bowling, it shows you how many wickets (people he's got out) and how many runs England has scored from his bowling. The English people batting are Root and Vince, and it shows you how many runs each has scored so far.
The funniest thing I've picked up from watching Americans watching our great sports whether it be cricket or footy is that they are all gobsmacked at a player pulling off play like a bowler fielding his own ball and hitting the stumps for a runout (jofra archer as 1 example at 8:40)
I guess they are so used to how role driven their sports are, particularly baseball and nfl. A pitcher-pitches. A catcher-catches. A QB-throws and a receiver-receives.
In cricket. A bowler can run after a ball and field it himself, something Americans probably think only out fielders should do. Same thing a wicket keeper (crickets "catcher")
Cricket ground are massive and when there's only a 11 players trying to cover it bowlers and keepers sometimes do have to run 30-40m to field the ball
The all white are the 5 day test matches, the coloured gear is either 1 day cricket or state matches
The Australian team has employed baseball coaches to assist with their fielding for a long time. Hence the similarity in the throwing actions.
Ryan if you want to play cricket, you could show up to any suburban/town's cricket club just about anywhere in the Commonwealth and they'd find a spot for you. I stopped playing cricket at 48 and only then 'cause my knees gave up. Serious sports, in at least Aus, NZ and the UK, are played by local clubs and not in schools. Yes there are interschool competitions but the weekend sports clubs are where it all happens and the kids serious about their sports come up through the club system in age brackets into adulthood in various graded competitions.
Well said.
So the reason it said Hazelwood (and other Aussie names) instead of Aus, is because we're fielding, so it'll always just show the bowlers name, in that first case Hazelwood.
The all white is Test cricket, which is basically the highest ranked cricket. The games are scheduled for 5 days (though usually finish in 3 or 4), and sometimes the Queen would show up, it used to be a fancy affair, thus the white.
2 or 3 years on and I still love your enthusiasm for our amazing country!
Two of the best fielders in cricket history, in my opinion, were Jonty Rhodes (South Africa) and Ricky Ponting (Australia). Again in my opinion the greatest all-rounder - batting/bowling/fielding - was Jacques Kallis (South Africa) followed by Imran Khan (Pakistan).
Great work pal. A lot of your assumptions are absolutely correct. To answer your question about wearing white. This is in a traditional 5 day test match. The colours are worn in shorter forms of the game (one type goes for about 7 hours and another more modern is done in about 3).
Totally agree with your statement about team sports. It is difficult after high school. Hard work finding someone to kick a football or soccer ball. Currently working hard to consistently play some tennis
It is a beautiful sport so easy yet so difficult to explain, its the game god play in summer
Well done mate
Batters sometimes hesitate when running, leading to a mix-up between the 2, and someone is left scrambling to get back in. Usually, it is the batter on strike (the one facing the delivery being bowled) who calls the non-striker to run, or not.
Warms my heart when I see someone watch cricket for the first time. It's a technically difficult game, but once you have the basics down, it's sooo addictive. Your getting the rules really well. With run outs, if the bails are even slightly lifted off the stump before the bat or any part of the player is planted over the line, it's out. In the Big Bash (Twenty-Twenty) matches they have lights in the stumps and bails, if the lights flash before you or your bat is over the line (and touching the ground) your out, back in the shed. You need to talk to your team mate and not leave them stranded in these situations. The reason the female batter hesitated is, because she's just come out of striking the ball motion and could see the ball hadn't beat the fielder and knew it was too risky to run, but her team mate already called it and ran (I'm thinking she called it as they were running out of balls to chase down the other teams score and had to run on every ball or something?). Love your videos. Thank you for sharing. Cricket is played at any age, there are many teams for all ages right through to 50 year olds. There is a small contingency growing in the U.S. you guys won some surprising games at the Twenty-Twenty World Cup which was in the U.S. earlier this year.
In cricket , stumping is something what wicketkeeper's do, the only person behind the stumps with the gloves
Oh btw have a look at some caught and bowled footage, and remember that the ball is screaming back at the bowler at a bloody rapid pace.
Yes, C&B, the hardest catch because of the speed.
Anywhere in the world that there are Indians there is cricket, great to see you appreciating aspects of the game. In test cricket, the 5 day version where they wear white, it's a game of cat and mouse for long periods of time but at any ball something amazing can happen. And once you appreciate it on that level you can move on to loving a tensely fought out draw where neither side wins but it has been gripping watching the bowling side get that last wicket.
The best cricket fielders are ambidextrous meaning they can throw both left and right handed accurately.. if you like check out indoor cricket Australia 🇦🇺
never too old for cricket mate, any pub team would take you, most small towns will have a team to fit you on
i used to play competitive cricket when i was younger. as a fielder once you have the ball in hand and the stumps lined up the release become almost automatic. only after the ball is released do you start thinking about the surroundings... my fav fielding spot was silly mid on .... reaction time in that location is critical, quick to intercept and just as quick to get it to the keeper or stumps....
Bless you for your cricket efforts. Very much appreciated. Test match series of Aust vs India starts today. Should be epic.
When all white is being worn it means it's a Test Match, which is the oldest version of cricket and is played over several days.
When they wear colors it means it's a Day Match, a version that was introduced in the later part of the 20th century to have a result by the end of day.
The way you tell which players are in which team when they all wear white is that the players holding bats are from one team and everyone else are on the other team. Like in baseball where the batter and those on a base are one team and everyone else on the field are on the other team.
After Xmas day playing Santa in 40 degrees heat for all the kids, there’s nothing better than watching the Boxing Day Test match (The grandkids call it Pa’s day) on TV with an Eski full of Stubbies. I’m drooling in anticipation already. Hope YOUR Xmas is as great too.
White cricket uniform is for test cricket (5 day match), country colours are 50/50, bright colours are local 20/20 competitions
There are tactics involved with doing these direct hits. If the throw misses it can go past the stumps and concede more runs. Thus as a tactical decision sometimes the fielder, especially in limited overs one day games, may decide to hang onto the ball to not risk giving up runs from a miss.
BTW its both mens & women's Teams also international games plus other types of first class cricket
Ryan, in Australia when you finish your schooling in high school, it's not the end of team sports for you. Towns, small and large, suburbs, sporting clubs, pubs, even businesses and school ex-students will band together to form teams. These teams will play against each other, usually in their district under the local association and so on. These associations will play inter district games using the best players from the district. This is how players get noticed by the talent scouts for the top teams and how they progress to state and national level. So a bloke who finished high school in year ten to get a trade or something will play on Saturday and his talent can take him all the way. I can't understand why a good sportsman's playing days are pretty much finished in the US if he doesn't get picked up by a college.
You generally have a couple of left-handers on any cricket team, they're useful, especially as one of the Openers. But its also because it takes half a second to switch hands and with a run-out every moment counts, so you throw it left-handed if that's the hand the ball is caught in.
Great reaction well done!
Ooooooh that was good. Smiling throughout
Well played Sir, that will get your ERA up. Your ready for the Majors.
Yeap, have to be over the crease line to be "IN". And bat or feet have to be touching the ground. Quality reaction Ryan.
8:15 She hesitated because she hit it directly to a fielder, but her patner ran anyway. In general if you hit a ball in front of aquare its the strikers call, and its the non strikers call when you hit it behind square (an imaginary perpendicular line from the batsman)
Cricket teams like to have a few lefties on their side as when there is both a left and a right handed batsman out on the pitch the bowler needs to constantly change his tactics when bowling to each left or right hand batsman as they each change ends and the fielders need to keep changing position which can help mess them up for a chance at a catch.
Test match cricket can be either as boring as watching the grass grow or very super exiting when things get down to the wire and also very fascinating with some of the very rare events that can take place during a match.
A direct hit of the wicket is like essentially throwing it to a baseman in baseball before the batsman get to the base.
You were right the bat or batsman must be behind the crease not just on it.
One of the major differences between US sport and the rest of the world. Australia in particular is that sport is not based around schools or universities. In fact in general playing for your school is something most of us consider quite lame. Instead it is based around where you live. I live in a small town in NSW, Bendemeer, which coincidentally is where Josh Hazelwood comes from. He began playing for the town in under age cricket teams (sort of like Little League) and then progressed through talent to regional teams, then onto state teams and finally into the national team. Because we organise our sports like this there is generally a wide range of ages playing from under 8's all the way through to over 40's and 50's. Personally I played from Under 10's right through to over 40's. I never made it to state or national sides but I did play at the level below state for a few seasons.
Many years ago, I knew a really good cricketer who couldn’t get onto the NSW team because he refused to advertise beer. NSW’s loss.
They learn to throw both hands
There are several ways of listing the top ten best teams in the world today. The ICC ranks the top 12 in test (5-day) cricket in Oct 2024 as: 1st Australia, 2nd India, then in order: S Africa, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan.
I can't recall who pioneered this, but these days they train to do this by putting a single stump in the ground, surrounded by a ring of balls. The idea is you run around the stump while picking up a ball and then immediately throw it at the stump at the same time. The accuracy this imparts is phenomenal.
We just call it throwing the ball unless it is bowling the ball which is completely different from playing bowls😊
6:18 Check out Major League Cricket in the US; the game is available in the US.
We have lots of opportunities to play team sports. In almost every area there's local cricket teams (along with all other types of sports). Higher levels are club cricket, then state, then national.
playing club sports after school, through to as old as you like, is kinda routine in Australia. are adult sports uncommon in the US? here local sports clubs can also offer clubhouse with bar, restaurant, halls, etc to the general population. they are the recreational mainstay of many communities
9:10 in baseball terms, he hits it to the pitcher who then throws it to first for the double. in cricket you can't get double outs, he just did that incase he didn't fully make the catch
The wicket is only a 1" wide so it is incredible that they hit it from the side
You always want a couple of lefties in the team, batting or bowling, for much the same reason as in baseball.
Best batting lineups usually have a lefty and a righty as Openers.
The only version of cricket I can say I kinda enjoy is 20/20 because of it's quick pace. Thanks for doing this vid as it was that goid quick exciting pace.
The two best fielding moments are wicket direct hits and teamwork boundary stoppages (You can't touch the boundary rope with the ball in hand, and when running full pelt to get the ball you can't stop in time so you need teamwork to make the boundary save).
The first teamwork boundary stoppage I remember seeing, the commentators were surprised because the first fielder chose teamwork over personal glory, scooping the ball behind him to the other fielder. I don’t remember if it was a direct hit, but it was definitely a run-out.
The difference between a "direct hit" and throwing the ball to a team-mate at the wickets who then dislodges the bails is a lot. So direct hits often mean the difference between getting a batter out or not, plus it's way cooler. In cricket you're not forced to run if you hit the ball, this can cause confusion when one batter thinks they can make the run and the other thinks the opposite. There are no double outs, the batter hit the ball into the ground and the bowler fielded the ball and threw it at the wickets (very athletic and a great throw).
your reactions are so pure
i would suggest you to watch live cricket matches to understand more and enjoy.
start with t20 matches. or you may react to cricket highlights of one of the greatest matches that have taken place.
"Why did she hesitate to run there?"
She didn't think she could make the run, but her batting partner had committed to the run so she felt forced to go in the end.
Australia have just got India out for 150, on the first day of the first test in Perth🙃
How they're doing now 😁
@@infidel3412 Australia are out for 104 at lunch on the second day of the first test in Perth😒
India 218 ahead at stumps.
Sigh.
@@BarryRedhead-n6o I guess Australians took Indians lightly and now Indians are hitting hard