It's super popular at all levels in the UK. You can pass through a village with a green in the summer months and see a local match taking place on Saturday or Sunday. My local park has 2 football pitches which turn into cricket pitches in Spring for the summer months.
Cricket is not "super popular at all levels in the UK:"It is played for by a tiny minority outside of England and even in England isn't very popular.How many state schools play cricket in England today?What are the chances of a working class lad from the inner cities taking up the sport?I love cricket,particularly test matches but beyond the subcontinent,is it in healthy state?
I've been a cricket fan for more than 50 years. I enjoy the shorter formats of the game (T20 and 50 overs, can't stand the Hundred) but true cricket is the five day test match. Give me a couple of beers (an hour!) and I will happily sit and watch all 5 days.
Cricket is the second biggest sport in the world after football. It's only in the USA that the worlds biggest sports (football, cricket and rugby) are completely ignored by the masses.
I would say ice hockey is more watched than rugby. I will grant you that rugby has more players, but hockey certainly has more viewers. Hockey has Russia, all of Canada, USA, Czechia, Sweden and Finland as the title contenders (and where the plurality of viewers are probably from). Then countries like Germany, Austria, Switzerland ,Italy, Denmark, Latvia, France and Norway, who are the teams that yo-yo between the top tier of international hockey (the Elite Division) and the second tier (Division I-A), and who also have fan bases for the sport (but not at the levels of the title contenders tier). Rugby (like cricket) is mostly a game dominated by the Commonwealth countries, with a couple exceptions. Those two exceptions being France and Argentina who have solid sides.
International sports are getting more and more recognition in the states nowadays. They finally have a professional cricket league. MLS games are being sold out every week. It’s good to see that they’re realising there’s more sports than just baseball and American football
Im from Pudsey in West Yorkshire, as a tiny town with around 20k pop, we produced cricketers for nearly 100 yrs straight for the national team and Yorkshire Sir Len Hutton and Ray Illingworth who unfortunately left us this Christmas period, Matthew Hoggard more recently and Herbert Sutcliffe in the war period. Must be something in the water :) Test cricket is the oldest format, T20 is newest and you are right in that its an attempt to match other sports in playtime to increase popularity. I dont really like watching cricket on tv, but if its a nice summers day and im strolling through the local park and there is a match on then I will happily sit and enjoy with a cider or two :D
Probably like you with Baseball , my childhood memories are spending every Sunday afternoon in the summer watching my Dad and Uncles and cousins playing cricket for our village team. The Ashes series is going on now between England and Australia. Unfortunately England aren't doing very well( we're getting our arses handed to us on a plate) 😁 loving all your reactions. Do check out Shane Warne's bowling. Its insane.
Cricket is probably the second or third most popular sport in UK. First or second in Australia. Second in New Zealand. Third here in South Africa. Most popular in the commonwealth Caribbean and the indian subcontinent. I think thats all the major playing countries though with a few others like Zimbabwe also participating. Its the main summer sport in all the countries and therefore is always gonna be popular. Test cricket is actually very very popular in England and Australia. Less so outside it but its still the most prestigious. Test cricket doesnt have tournaments internationally but 'tours'. Where a team of another nation comes and stays at your country for a month or two or even over three in the case of England vs Australia.
I think American's views on baseball are generally very "American-centric", which is understandable, However, certainly in terms of viewers cricket is generally quoted as the second most popular sport in the world, second only to soccer...Basketball is third for example and baseball only comes in at about eighth...Sure the USA is big, but baseball isn't that popular outside North America...but then look at Cricket's popularity in Britain, South Africa, The West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (and the size of their populations. Even Afghanistan competed in cricket, and until the Taliban returned even fielded women's teams. Recently cricket has also started increasing again in popularity in other nations such as Ireland, and even the Netherlands...fascinating tactical sport...
@@gamersplatform1574 not a chance. India is more into crappy limited overs garbage..test matches are huge in England. Nowhere fills out their stadiums for test matches like they do in England. Trust me no way is test match cricket bigger in India than in England. There is just no way.
I played a lot of cricket when I was younger and can 100 percent confirm a cricket ball on an unprotected thumb hurts . A lot . Cricket balls are rock hard and it's like hitting a cannon ball. I was never a good bowler but I wasn't a bad batsman . Just picked the biggest and heaviest bat I could find and hope for the best . If you hit the ball square in the middle of the bat it sounds like someone snapping a tree in half and it goes! Good job there are rubber "springs" in the handle to deaden the impact or you'd end up with numb hands really fast
With regards to the UK, it may be a question of access - in some of the more heavily built up areas, it may be that schools aren't able to offer decent facilities for kids to get in to it, so if you live in an area like that, it may not seem that popular, but on the whole it is popular in England
My favourite type of cricket is the test matches especially the Ashes series (5 test matches AUS v ENG). I went to the day one of the first ashes series at the Gabba, the atmosphere there was incredible. when the first ball was bowed, and it was a wicket. Mitchell Starc has bowled out Rory Burns out the stadium went crazy. That’s my experience at the cricket.
5:27 that wicket has absolutely nothing to do with hit wicket. Hit wicket is when you accidentally hit your own stumps with either your bat or part of your body. You can't get your batting partner out hit wicket. The wicket shown here is a run out, because the bowler touched the ball on it's way to the other batsman's stumps.
T20 is generally the most popular form of Cricket but other formats aren't that far behind. The One Day World Cup is considered the most prestigious of all the World Cups in Cricket. The Ashes is a series of 5 Test matches played between England and Australia and is much more popular than most T20 matches. All three formats of Cricket do have their own tournaments or World Cups. I mentioned One Day World Cup earlier. T20 has its own world cup too. Test even though doesn't have a tournament, does have a Championship or a league played over a span of 2 years culminating in a final between the top two teams in the league. Also one last thing. This video states that the batter can get himself or his partner out on accident. Only the former is true. A batter can't get his partner out. Well at least not directly. Even if he hits the ball and the ball ends up hitting the wickets, his partner wont be out unless the bowler made contact with the bowl before it hit the wickets. P.S I always see reactors terrified when the video mentions that the One Day Matches are played for the whole day. In Cricket a Day refers to about 6 hours (so about 2 T20 matches) starting from the morning. It doesn't mean that they are playing continously until the night fall.
I don't know where you're thinking of, but here in Australia T20 cricket is by far the least popular, with test cricket being the pinnacle. T20 cricket is seen as a bit of a gimmick for children and non-cricket fans and no one really takes it seriously (even though we just won the T20 world cup)
@@Bazil496 I know in the subcontinent T20 is massive, and I think it’s the most popular in the windies too, but I would guess that test would be the biggest in England, SA and NZ. I don’t have facts though, so happy to be proven wrong
@@bowiesinspace7152 No its's very popular here in the UK. I mean we are only good at LOIs now. As for NZ and SA I don't think anyone even watches cricket anymore but it might just be a toss up between Test or One Day.
The BBL (Big Bash League) is going on now in Australia, and highlights of each game are available on RUclips. BBL is a twenty twenty tournament in Australia. Also worth checking out the Indian Premier League!!
My two cents: The 3 formats get more strategic and intricate the longer they get. T20 is the high-octane big hitting game. Upsets can happen. It fits nicely into an evening's TV schedule, so more broadcasting money = a slicker, faster, more hype kind of game. Test Matches are the slow burn, hyper-strategic chess-like version (with INCREDIBLE spectator payoffs on a close game). There's so much going on over such a long time that you can't really fluke a win in this format. One day cricket is roomy enough for some of the strategy, and short enough for some of the action. It's a great format to build a day of BBQ and beers with friends around. My personal favourite.
I can remember going to the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1962 to watch the Ashes Test, Oz v England. It was awesome to emerge into the light and see that bright green field and thirteen players in crisp white. I remember the experience so clearly. Set me up for a lifetime love of cricket. I DON’t remember who won that one. But I sure do remember the most recent Ashes series in Oz. Ouch for the Poms!
Bring on the summer and see what happens against this current England side. The same side that demolished Pakistan 3-0 in Pakistan and demolished the Indian side that ran right through Australia. The current on fire test side right now is England. Winning 10 of the their last 12 tests and losing one by only one run and after declaring so technically a game we shouldn't have lost but this is a win or nothing England side and that's what you're going to see in England. I think you'll see a very different result in a few months time. Remember I told you that.
I think you got confused. The wicket is the three vertical poles (stumps) with the two smaller poles (bails) resting on them. The bats are just called bats, or cricket bats if you want to be formal. The term wicket is also used when a batsman is out, ao they team “loses a wicket”, while the bowler is said to have “taken a wicket”. Teat cricket does not have a tournament as such, although the ICC recently introduced a world test championship. Test matches are scheduled led between teams as one off series or regular events. Under the new rules, they get points for these series and the team with the most points after two years is world test champion. The most famous test series is the Ashes, which is played every year or so between Australia and England. The most recent series finished today, with a 4-0 win to the Australians in the five match series. England drew the remaining match, which means Australia did not take all their wickets in the five day period. Now that you’ve worked out how the scores are formatted, I should point out that in Australia, the scores are reversed. That is, the players out (wickets lost) first, followed by runs. E.g. 4-167
There are tournaments for the T20 & One day formats, World Cup matches, involve the majority of commonwealth nations, plus a few that aren't in the commonwealth. Netherlands, Estonia, and Ireland among others.
One thing you may notice with cricket, it is very popular in Commonwealth/ex Commonwealth countries, for obvious reasons, and as far as I'm aware, they do stop play in the afternoon for tea! Maybe that's just the local teams nowadays though!
We just had a 5 day Test match in Australia. Australia needed one wicket ( batsman out), England needed to survive 12 balls (bowls) to achieve a draw. Riveting finish after 5 days which is why Test matches are so good. Have you heard of AFL? ruclips.net/video/XMZYZcoAcU0/видео.html
This summer there will be an Ashes test series between England and Australia.....this is one of the oldest, fiercest and most keenly contested international rivalries in world sport...it will consist of five test matches, each over five days(a day in test cricket is usually from 11 am to 6.30 pm, with two breaks, for lunch forty minutes, and tea 20 minutes)......it is called "Test"cricket for a reason, it is a test of stamina, courage, patience, skill, tactics, and determination. it's great to watch, and I cant wait for it all to begin....A cricket ball really IS hard, the protective helmet and pads and gloves for the batsmen are needed, because getting a six-foot-plus fast bowler hurling that little red ball down at you at speeds often exceeding 90 mph from just 22 yards away really does require a good eye, lightning-fast reflexes and a healthy does of good old fashioned guts........players have been killed, after being hit by the ball, so despite it often having the image of a genteel jolly afternoon the village green, while the spectators doze in the sunshine after eating their delicate cucumber sandwiches,(as portrayed in Hollywood movies of the 40's and 50's,) it's a hard, tough sport, watched by millions of passionate supporters all around the world.. with the principal countries being England, India, Pakistan, West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Bangla Desh, although it's taking hold in lots of other places too these days, with Ireland, Canada, Afghanistan, Netherlands, coming to the fore .... cricket? I love it!!
As cricket is a summer sport currently al the action is in the Southern Hemisphere where I am(in Australia) Over the next few days the finals of out T20 (BigBash) are about to be played so do a search for Big Bash etc. The Women's One Day International World Cup will be in March and the Men's T20 World Cup will be in October (New Zealand & Australia respectively) and in between there will be the Indian Premier League, September into October I am sure that you can get some coverage even in the USA online...Cheers! and welcome to the wonderful world of cricket!
One of the reasons why the 5 day cricket is significant is that cricket involves bouncing the ball on the pitch. As you bounce it, it gets worn out and roughed up, and so does the pitch. This opens up endless possibilities in terms of bowling especially spin bowling. Enduring and surviving day 4 and day 5 is a real challenge and it would be lengendary if you make your team win from here or even draw the match avoiding a loss.
Like most games, cricket is big on strategy. The field is 360 degrees, but if your fast bowler is accurate, and has a new ball in his hand, he can limit the field to at least 180 degrees. The Captain may leave a "sweeper" just in case the batsman is a gambler. You pack all your other 8 fielders into the easier 180 degree area, with a couple of close fielders. The batsman has to risk hitting it over their heads in order to score runs. Add a couple ready to catch any hits nicked off the edge of the bat. A spin bowler can do the same and limit any wary batsman huge areas in which to score...
Some surprising trivia... The US and Canada were the first two countries to play an international cricket match (Also the first known international major sporting event)
@@sambl1ncoe our bbl is at its 8th season or something like the ( for those who don't know the bbl is Australias version of the ipl) I just had never heard of the 100 ball format that they were talking about.
Growing up in Scotland and England in the 50's we as young children would be taught a game called Rounders which consisted of all the rules and paraphernalia associated with your American game of Baseball. The ball was like the one you use, it was white leather, much softer and lighter than a Cricket ball " British term is Corky ". Once you reached past 11 years old and progressed to Grammar or Secondary Modern Schools " Depending on your exam results " you would be introduced to Football, Rugby, Cricket, Hockey, Badminton etc etc + track and field and gymnastics. I also did Boxing but not all schools aloud it. I don't know if Rounders was copied from American Baseball or the other way around ? But Cricket was always for the older boys because the velocity of the ball in the hands off players like Shoaib Akhtar who holds the world record for the world cup in 2003 at 161.3 Kmph or 100.23mph. Much later in my own Cricket experience of playing they thankfully in 17, March 1978 introduced the protective helmet which has been upgraded many times to the version you see today. I myself amongst many others have been knocked completely out up until that point, alongside broken fingers and some very painful broken jaws. Lovely to see the game go into other versions like T20 and the One day because its given Cricket a much needed boost and push back into its rightful place amongst word sport.
Big rule here in the subcontinent -If ball goes to the pond,It's Out😂 -If the bat is mine, I will bat first -Everyone should bring money to buy Ball (Average is about 10 cents per person)
T20 was introduced to generate interest in cricket in the evening, so people could finish work and still go watch a game and have a night out. It's fast, flashy fun. Also played by club cricketers after work for the same reason. 40/50 over game (called ODI for global games - One Day International) has been around for decades and played by all teams, club sides included, on a weekend usually. In England, there are a lot of weekend leagues for small clubs, pub teams etc. For small clubs they're usually just as much for cricket as for having a social day out, especially for friendly games. The lunch intervals are usually a highlight. My old club played a lot of friendlies, and there was usually drinking while playing. Test Match cricket is imo the purest form of the game. Even the legendary great Sachin Tendulkar said limited overs (T20 & ODIs) are like a dessert - Test Match cricket is the main meal. Over 5 days players tire, the weather interferes, but a moment of brilliance can swing the pendulum one way or another.
T20 was made to please the short attention span of children and its a cheap nasty version of the game and the Indians are welcome to it. And that's coming from an English man and we are world champions in t20 and one day cricket but both are more or less meaningless. Test cricket will always be the pinnacle in England and England will always be the home of cricket. Bring on the ashes.
Test cricket is the original version of the game, and is played at state or county level; when played at district or club level, it is usually played over two days. One Day was the first aberration of the game, and T20 came much later. International Test Cricket is played by Commonwealth of Nations countries; when a Test Series is played, it nearly always includes both One Day and T20. A Test Series normally comprises of 4 tests between the host nation and the visiting nation(country); the One Day Series and T20 Series involve a third nation.
One thing that video didn't mention is that, like tennis, play stops when it rains. If more than a certain number of overs are played in a rain interrupted (or any other reason for reducing the overs played) T20 or one day game the result is worked out using Duckworth Lewis Method which is quite complicated (see wiki for explanation).
One other interesting tidbit: in Test cricket, a tie and a draw are not the same thing. A tie is where both teams, after the completion of two innings each, have exactly the same run total. A draw is where one or both teams have not completed two innings each after the allotted time (up to 5 days), regardless of the run total. Because of the limited overs format of T20 and ODI, there is no such thing as a 'draw' in limited overs cricket. A Test innings can end when the batting team has been bowled out, or the batting team makes a declaration - in other words, they have the discretion to declare a conclusion to their innings before all their batsmen are bowled out. This is often a tactical decision in an attempt to leave themselves enough time to bowl out the opposition twice, while making enough runs to win the match.
The best team in the world of Cricket is the best team who wins in the 5 day Test match cricket forum. Because it it is a "Test Match". I am a Cricket Umpire in Scotland and it is mainly the 50 over per side game here and very popular, takes 7 hours but is great fun for all the family and a good day out. Cricket is a very social event and the home team is expected to provide drinks and lunches for the away team and Umpires which we all share together. Very civilised.
Test Cricket is the greatest form of the game. No shorter format can match the excitement, tension and drama than a good Test Match. Also, cricket is very popular in the UK. Many people play or watch cricket as their ‘summer sport’ while football is in off season.
The basic differences between the shorter and longer games are the immediate excitement and "got to score as many points as we can before the over ends" of the shorter, and the more tactical "let's make sure we still have our best batsmen in as long as possible, take no risks, because that's when the game ends" approach of the longer format Test Cricket.
You've obviously not watched the current England test side if you think it's a no risk format. England are revolutionising test cricket right now and it's never been more aggressive. The recent 3-0 drubbing of Pakistan in Pakistan and scoring over 500 on the first day and setting a new record even after losing 15 overs to light tells you all you need to know about the way England are going about test cricket at the moment. Plus England are both one day and t20 world champions.
T20 is fast-paced and visually flashy. It tends to focus on individual talents and eye-candy to keep people interested. The 5-day game, aka test cricket, is more strategic with less fanfare. They focus on combining the talents of each player into a cohesive, match-winning team. I prefer the 5-day game, but the real money is with T20.
Cricket is probably harder, from a batting point, compared to baseball. This is because they can bowl anywhere from bouncing and hitting your head or you feet, you never know. Additionally the ball travels at a similar speed to a baseball but bounces which makes it much harder to hit. Not only can the ball swing in the air (similar to what I think is a curve ball) and spin or hit the seam, which is where the ball deviates off the pitch. In my opinion it is much more interesting then baseball due to the array of different skills needed to get to the highest level. If you have any more questions on what you don't understand just ask American guy.
You should try and find some highlights of the Ashes. This is a series of five test matches that are regularly played between England and Australia. The latest series has just finished. The finish of the fourth test match after five days of play was extremely exciting...I won't spoil it by telling you the result.
There will be a very different result this summer in England I can tell you that. Have you seen how England are currently revolutionising test cricket?
Test cricket!!!!! Its the most difficult, more intense, and more fun to watch. People treat and give respect to cricket players when they perform in tests because its more technical and tough both mentally and physically. BASICALLY PLAYERS ARE TURNED INTO SUPERSTARS WHEN THEY EXCEL IN TEST CRICKET. The fun thing about test cricket is 20-30% of the times the game ends in a draw i.e, no winner after playing all the 5 days. i.e both teams play out each other so well that 5 days isnt enough to declare the winner.
There is a video by an American explaining the rules of game, using Baseball analogies; Cricket Explained for Baseball Fans, it is a lot easier to follow.
I think for pure entertainment value the shorter forms are better because it requires the batters to take more risk as there are fewer balls to work with. The greater risks mean both wickets fall easier but also more 4s and 6s are scored. However, I still like the test matches as it is a completely different style of playing and more of a test of endurance on the players. The ashes are a nice competition for a "friendly" rivalry with Australia and I look forward to hearing the results each time. Its just a shame I rarely have time to actually sit and watch a test match on the telly all day like I did when I was a kid.
Depends on the circumstances. I for one cannot be bothered to watch a team bash out 200 runs in 20 overs while the bowlers contemplate wherever they are more effective than a bowling machine.
Test cricket is the traditional format, that’s the one that’s been played for hundreds of years and was almost always the epitome and most desired format, until the last few years. Now T20 is arguably the most prestigious as that’s where all the money is. Viewers are more inclined to watch a fast- paced, intense 3 hour game rather than a slow, more patient 5 day long test match
@SynthMusicFan 501 As a guy who loves bowlers, I cannot stand the see ball hit ball mentality. I like a good old fashioned game of nerve and tactics. When it's done well it can provide such entertainment.
The comment about it being not popular in the UK is pretty wrong. It’s very popular in the UK, you’ll see loads of little games taking place in summer on the weekends It’s also very popular in: India Pakistan Sri Lanka Bangladesh Afghanistan South Africa Australia New Zealand And so on
The bat is the bat, the wicket is the thing behind the batsman - with three vertical stumps with two small horizontal bails sitting in grooves. If the bails are dislodged by the ball then the receiving batsman (the one at the end facing the bowler) is out and walks off the pitch and is replaced by the next batsman. England invented cricket. It is still very popular. To give you an idea of just how hard the ball is, it's not uncommon that if a batsman is facing a fast bowler (bowling up to 90mph) and is hit on the finger then he'll have a broken finger about 2 seconds later (even with padded gloves on), and of course, sadly people have still died when hit on the head (even though they wear helmets these days)
Great Reaction and most Internationals used to be played over 5 days where a Country like England would be at Home in THe Summer to Australia(their Winter) then in England's Winter the English International team might play in India or Pakistan and then next Summer host says The West Indies or New Zealand. Sometimes a 5-day match can end in a DRAW lol if, at least, one team does not complete 2 innings(Getting all 10 opposing players out TWICE) especially if it is rain interrupted. Teams play 3 x 2 Hour sessions a day stopping for Lunch and Tea.. That LCW law stops teams just standing in front of their wicket to get a draw if they can no longer win the game.
American reacts to Rules of cricket 😝😝 And that's the only cricket video for 99% of American RUclipsrs! Morale of the story --> You need to have some passion when it comes to sport!
There are competitions in all formats but only countries play test cricket, The only test cricket competition is called the Test Championship, but this isn't considered to be that important (yet) the biggest competition is Tests is England vs Australia (called the Ashes)
5 days, each team bats two innings, so its a total of both innings. These games can end in a draw, which usually means the last team to bat is behind, but still batting when the game time runs out. I day game, 50 overs mean 300 balls bowled, 6 legal balls an over. This is called limited overs cricket. Depending on the league, an innings can be 20, 30, 40, 50 overs etc.
Netflix has a video called Cricket Explained which dwells into history of Cricket (T20 cricket specifically) it's really informative and interesting.. although fair warning that it gets Indian Cricket centric in the second half and your channel seems to be for UK stuff. But still verry interesting for someone new to the game.
Though there is a cricket World Cup, the most lomg running prestigious tournament is the Ashes series. This is a series of usually five games, each game lasting upto five days and is always England v Australia. It's called the ashes series because whoever wins the majority of the five games or matches as we call them, win a tiny urn in which are contained the ashes of the burnt bails from the wickets of the very first cricket game that took place between England and Australia. So these matches have the greatest rivalry and longest history though in recent times limited overs cricket form such as T20 has become a more popular form amongst the masses as T20 provides a much more gun hoe, quick fire attitude as there's only limited time and balls to get as many runs as possible. Test cricket is boring to many people as technically, so long as you don't get out, you can just stand there batting for five days blocking the ball out, not scoring any runs but just running down the clock.
Test cricket for me is the pinnacle of sports. Love one day, and as for T20 it is nothing more than revenue generator as is having maximum popularity but if you ask any old schoolers like me Test cricket is real cricket.
There is one mistake in this video. The example for "hit wicket" is not a hit wicket dismissal. Hit wicket is normally when a batter hits the wicket with his body while playing a shot, or starting a run. 5:38 #8 "Handled the ball" is no longer a separate mode of dismissal, and has been incorporated under #9 "Obstructing the Field" The long game is the traditional one, and still regarded as the peak of the sport. Players are judged by their record in Test cricket. T20 is fairly new about 16 years old, as a format but being faster paced and only three hours is much more easily digestable (if instantly forgettable) and is now the big money earner - almost entirely in India, all money in cricket is almost entirely in India. One thing, particularly relevant to the five day game, a draw and a tie are different things in cricket. A draw occurs when there is not enough time for either team to force a result. Yes, four innings (two for each team) are not always completed in five days of six hours each. A tie is when the final innings is completed in time, but scores are level.
Never knew it was 1, the second most popular sport in the UK and 2, that it's considered generally a middle-upper class sport. Would Rugby be the third most popular sport in the UK?
@@californianreacts Rugby is third, followed by tennis followed by, you guessed it badminton. This is going off of a range of things, not simply viewing figures, some sports arent on much but are played a lot by common folk.
Test cricket doesn't really have a tournament, but rather nations play series against each other, lasting between 3-5 test matches. There is however, a test championship which is fairly new. Teams score points by winning or drawing test matches with the 2 best ranked teams playing a final at Lords cricket ground in London. New Zealand are the current champions, having g defeated India in the final.
Maybe but England ate the current form side in test cricket. 10 wins from 12 tests is incredible in today's game and even that should be 11 from 12 after losing by one run in a game we declared in to try and force a win. We at least had a draw and a series win in the bag if we wanted it but this is a new England side that is trying to every game they play and they usually are doing and by some huge scores as well.
T20 is aimed at younger audiences and families and generally includes all manner of entertainment and fireworks. Cricket puritans insist Test cricket is the best. Generally Test cricket aims to bowl a minimum of 90 overs a day (but there's all sorts of reasons why this might be fewer). Not sure he covered that in Test cricket both teams bat twice (and there's also other cricket - Tests are strictly international, but there are lower grades of cricket that are played over different lengths of time "First Class" cricket (used to generically refer the highest level domestic league in a country) is typically over 3 or 4 days, and amateur/club cricket is often one day or 2 day games (that might be Saturday/Sunday, or it might be 2 consecutive Saturdays)..
You are confusing wickets with stumps-- Stumps are the 3 x poles with bales on top , a wicket is generally the pitch between the stumps, the actual pitch. you will sometimes hear re state of the wicket (ground) can be a slow wicket (ground or a fast wicket or sometimes if the wicket is good for spinners or for fast bowlers.. i also hear that the ball must hit the ground first ,this is not the case but many bowlers hit the ground fist so they can better judge how the ball will spin to the left or right o whether it will curve to either side, the idea of bowling is to confuse the batsman to make them make a mistake ,or to hit the edge of the bat and position fielders to take advantage .
I can remember at high school thinking I was clever and went into bat without gloves on. Spent most of the afternoon In accident and emergency having my thumbnail pierced to relieve the pressure after the ball hit it.
The first international cricket match was between the USA and Canada in New York. Canada won. It was also the first international sporting event of any kind. The narrator explained "Hit Wicket" incorrectly and the example shown was of a possible run out. Hit Wicket is when the batter breaks the wicket (ie the bails fall off) with his bat, body or any equipment when playing the ball or taking off for a run. Here is a recent example of a Hit Wicket ruclips.net/video/9sb2zMcPhhQ/видео.html
If you are interested in learning about other sports from around the world, check out "What is AFL: Aussie Rules Explained"; don't watch the 2020 updated version, you need to watch the original version first.
I'd say the best can vary on situation, T20 is great is you want some quick excitement whate having some snacks and drinks with friends. While test is flgreat if you really get into the meat of the game, as this is where you can really get into the more tactical side of things (the ground and ball deteriorate over the 5 days, and the different conditions are best suited to different players and play styles, etc)
But in Test Cricket since its so long u cant do a tournament style so the competition is set over 2 years where every team that plays test cricket which is only the good teams (india england Australia etc) will play each other and the top 2 teams with the best winning percentages play a final in england. The teams that currently hold each form of cricket title is for T20 is Australia for One Day it is England and for Test Cricket its New Zealand
In t20 and one day cricket they have tournaments where they have a qualifying rounds for it with the not so good cricket nations play each other in 2 different groups and then the best two from each group join the better teams where they r once again put into 2 groups where they play each other once then the top 2 from each group get into the semi finals and then the finals and whoever wins is champion of that version of cricket for the next 4 years
If your still confused about cricket rules. Jomboy does a cricket for baseball fans explained video that is very good for people that know baseball's rules. Enjoy cricket its the best 😁🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🏏
Question about test matches: are they five consecutive days? I was in London for about ten days one summer. There was match between India and Pakistan going seemingly the entire ten days I was in the city.
Hiya 3 very good videos for you to watch first is the history in the USA your gonna be supprised , so in order , 1) Pitch of Dreams , cricket in America. 2) cricket explained for baseball fans . 3) cricket and baseball similarities and differences .
Cricket and Baseball are two world's apart... Nothing similar.. Fun fact: The first international cricket match was played between USA and Canada.... Recently the USA cricket team defeated Ireland in Fort Lauderdale ( FL), which is a big deal for US cricket
The craziest rule that he didn't cover is that in test cricket, if you get to the end of the five days before both teams have completed their two innings, then the match is a draw regardless of the score.
The bowler must have some part of his/her foot behind the line when they bowl the ball. If they overstep the line it is a No Ball and the umpire will single it by sticking his arm straight out from his body. If the bowler bowls a no ball when a wicket is taken the batter is not out.
To an outsider the rules of cricket seems complicated but when you grow up and play it it's not. I think the guy on this video is reading from a script because when he is talking about finishing an over he says the "other bowler bowls from the other side" that's incorrect it should be bowling from the other end. I suppose the video showed the basic rules of cricket without going into things too complicated like declaring in test matches and the field placing positions eg:Square leg or silly mid on/off.
Test cricket is definetly (in my opinion) the best type of cricket
Not just your opinion. It's a fact.
Not the way England play it.
Test cricket is the only cricket I watch and I love it. I can't stand T20.
Absolutely
@@adethoem7815 please 😩
It's super popular at all levels in the UK. You can pass through a village with a green in the summer months and see a local match taking place on Saturday or Sunday. My local park has 2 football pitches which turn into cricket pitches in Spring for the summer months.
More specifically, it's super popular in England. Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland much prefer rugby.
Except the poms suck and aussies are to good
@@Mrcoolguy5913 Indeed
@@Mrcoolguy5913 You suck apples? Wow, you must have a big mouth.
Cricket is not "super popular at all levels in the UK:"It is played for by a tiny minority outside of England and even in England isn't very popular.How many state schools play cricket in England today?What are the chances of a working class lad from the inner cities taking up the sport?I love cricket,particularly test matches but beyond the subcontinent,is it in healthy state?
I've been a cricket fan for more than 50 years. I enjoy the shorter formats of the game (T20 and 50 overs, can't stand the Hundred) but true cricket is the five day test match. Give me a couple of beers (an hour!) and I will happily sit and watch all 5 days.
Cricket is the second biggest sport in the world after football. It's only in the USA that the worlds biggest sports (football, cricket and rugby) are completely ignored by the masses.
I would say ice hockey is more watched than rugby. I will grant you that rugby has more players, but hockey certainly has more viewers. Hockey has Russia, all of Canada, USA, Czechia, Sweden and Finland as the title contenders (and where the plurality of viewers are probably from). Then countries like Germany, Austria, Switzerland ,Italy, Denmark, Latvia, France and Norway, who are the teams that yo-yo between the top tier of international hockey (the Elite Division) and the second tier (Division I-A), and who also have fan bases for the sport (but not at the levels of the title contenders tier). Rugby (like cricket) is mostly a game dominated by the Commonwealth countries, with a couple exceptions. Those two exceptions being France and Argentina who have solid sides.
International sports are getting more and more recognition in the states nowadays. They finally have a professional cricket league. MLS games are being sold out every week. It’s good to see that they’re realising there’s more sports than just baseball and American football
Im from Pudsey in West Yorkshire, as a tiny town with around 20k pop, we produced cricketers for nearly 100 yrs straight for the national team and Yorkshire Sir Len Hutton and Ray Illingworth who unfortunately left us this Christmas period, Matthew Hoggard more recently and Herbert Sutcliffe in the war period. Must be something in the water :)
Test cricket is the oldest format, T20 is newest and you are right in that its an attempt to match other sports in playtime to increase popularity.
I dont really like watching cricket on tv, but if its a nice summers day and im strolling through the local park and there is a match on then I will happily sit and enjoy with a cider or two :D
Probably like you with Baseball , my childhood memories are spending every Sunday afternoon in the summer watching my Dad and Uncles and cousins playing cricket for our village team. The Ashes series is going on now between England and Australia. Unfortunately England aren't doing very well( we're getting our arses handed to us on a plate) 😁 loving all your reactions. Do check out Shane Warne's bowling. Its insane.
Not exactly our best ever Ashes series was it? Lots to be sorted out.
Cricket is probably the second or third most popular sport in UK. First or second in Australia. Second in New Zealand. Third here in South Africa. Most popular in the commonwealth Caribbean and the indian subcontinent. I think thats all the major playing countries though with a few others like Zimbabwe also participating.
Its the main summer sport in all the countries and therefore is always gonna be popular.
Test cricket is actually very very popular in England and Australia. Less so outside it but its still the most prestigious.
Test cricket doesnt have tournaments internationally but 'tours'. Where a team of another nation comes and stays at your country for a month or two or even over three in the case of England vs Australia.
I think American's views on baseball are generally very "American-centric", which is understandable, However, certainly in terms of viewers cricket is generally quoted as the second most popular sport in the world, second only to soccer...Basketball is third for example and baseball only comes in at about eighth...Sure the USA is big, but baseball isn't that popular outside North America...but then look at Cricket's popularity in Britain, South Africa, The West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (and the size of their populations. Even Afghanistan competed in cricket, and until the Taliban returned even fielded women's teams. Recently cricket has also started increasing again in popularity in other nations such as Ireland, and even the Netherlands...fascinating tactical sport...
Test cricket is more popular in India than england or australia
@@gamersplatform1574 not a chance. India is more into crappy limited overs garbage..test matches are huge in England. Nowhere fills out their stadiums for test matches like they do in England. Trust me no way is test match cricket bigger in India than in England. There is just no way.
I played a lot of cricket when I was younger and can 100 percent confirm a cricket ball on an unprotected thumb hurts . A lot . Cricket balls are rock hard and it's like hitting a cannon ball. I was never a good bowler but I wasn't a bad batsman . Just picked the biggest and heaviest bat I could find and hope for the best . If you hit the ball square in the middle of the bat it sounds like someone snapping a tree in half and it goes! Good job there are rubber "springs" in the handle to deaden the impact or you'd end up with numb hands really fast
With regards to the UK, it may be a question of access - in some of the more heavily built up areas, it may be that schools aren't able to offer decent facilities for kids to get in to it, so if you live in an area like that, it may not seem that popular, but on the whole it is popular in England
Theres a reason why cricket hating found its way into many insults associated with eccentrics and subversives throughout the 20th century.
My favourite type of cricket is the test matches especially the Ashes series (5 test matches AUS v ENG). I went to the day one of the first ashes series at the Gabba, the atmosphere there was incredible. when the first ball was bowed, and it was a wicket. Mitchell Starc has bowled out Rory Burns out the stadium went crazy. That’s my experience at the cricket.
5:27 that wicket has absolutely nothing to do with hit wicket. Hit wicket is when you accidentally hit your own stumps with either your bat or part of your body. You can't get your batting partner out hit wicket. The wicket shown here is a run out, because the bowler touched the ball on it's way to the other batsman's stumps.
T20 is generally the most popular form of Cricket but other formats aren't that far behind. The One Day World Cup is considered the most prestigious of all the World Cups in Cricket. The Ashes is a series of 5 Test matches played between England and Australia and is much more popular than most T20 matches.
All three formats of Cricket do have their own tournaments or World Cups. I mentioned One Day World Cup earlier. T20 has its own world cup too. Test even though doesn't have a tournament, does have a Championship or a league played over a span of 2 years culminating in a final between the top two teams in the league.
Also one last thing. This video states that the batter can get himself or his partner out on accident. Only the former is true. A batter can't get his partner out. Well at least not directly. Even if he hits the ball and the ball ends up hitting the wickets, his partner wont be out unless the bowler made contact with the bowl before it hit the wickets.
P.S I always see reactors terrified when the video mentions that the One Day Matches are played for the whole day. In Cricket a Day refers to about 6 hours (so about 2 T20 matches) starting from the morning. It doesn't mean that they are playing continously until the night fall.
Day and night matches do happen.
I don't know where you're thinking of, but here in Australia T20 cricket is by far the least popular, with test cricket being the pinnacle. T20 cricket is seen as a bit of a gimmick for children and non-cricket fans and no one really takes it seriously (even though we just won the T20 world cup)
@@bowiesinspace7152 Yeah I know. But Australia is kind of the exception here.
@@Bazil496 I know in the subcontinent T20 is massive, and I think it’s the most popular in the windies too, but I would guess that test would be the biggest in England, SA and NZ. I don’t have facts though, so happy to be proven wrong
@@bowiesinspace7152 No its's very popular here in the UK. I mean we are only good at LOIs now. As for NZ and SA I don't think anyone even watches cricket anymore but it might just be a toss up between Test or One Day.
The BBL (Big Bash League) is going on now in Australia, and highlights of each game are available on RUclips. BBL is a twenty twenty tournament in Australia. Also worth checking out the Indian Premier League!!
My two cents:
The 3 formats get more strategic and intricate the longer they get.
T20 is the high-octane big hitting game. Upsets can happen. It fits nicely into an evening's TV schedule, so more broadcasting money = a slicker, faster, more hype kind of game.
Test Matches are the slow burn, hyper-strategic chess-like version (with INCREDIBLE spectator payoffs on a close game). There's so much going on over such a long time that you can't really fluke a win in this format.
One day cricket is roomy enough for some of the strategy, and short enough for some of the action. It's a great format to build a day of BBQ and beers with friends around. My personal favourite.
T20 is for children
I can remember going to the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1962 to watch the Ashes Test, Oz v England. It was awesome to emerge into the light and see that bright green field and thirteen players in crisp white. I remember the experience so clearly. Set me up for a lifetime love of cricket.
I DON’t remember who won that one.
But I sure do remember the most recent Ashes series in Oz. Ouch for the Poms!
Bring on the summer and see what happens against this current England side. The same side that demolished Pakistan 3-0 in Pakistan and demolished the Indian side that ran right through Australia. The current on fire test side right now is England. Winning 10 of the their last 12 tests and losing one by only one run and after declaring so technically a game we shouldn't have lost but this is a win or nothing England side and that's what you're going to see in England. I think you'll see a very different result in a few months time. Remember I told you that.
I think you got confused. The wicket is the three vertical poles (stumps) with the two smaller poles (bails) resting on them. The bats are just called bats, or cricket bats if you want to be formal. The term wicket is also used when a batsman is out, ao they team “loses a wicket”, while the bowler is said to have “taken a wicket”.
Teat cricket does not have a tournament as such, although the ICC recently introduced a world test championship. Test matches are scheduled led between teams as one off series or regular events. Under the new rules, they get points for these series and the team with the most points after two years is world test champion.
The most famous test series is the Ashes, which is played every year or so between Australia and England. The most recent series finished today, with a 4-0 win to the Australians in the five match series. England drew the remaining match, which means Australia did not take all their wickets in the five day period.
Now that you’ve worked out how the scores are formatted, I should point out that in Australia, the scores are reversed. That is, the players out (wickets lost) first, followed by runs.
E.g. 4-167
There are tournaments for the T20 & One day formats, World Cup matches, involve the majority of commonwealth nations, plus a few that aren't in the commonwealth. Netherlands, Estonia, and Ireland among others.
One thing you may notice with cricket, it is very popular in Commonwealth/ex Commonwealth countries, for obvious reasons, and as far as I'm aware, they do stop play in the afternoon for tea! Maybe that's just the local teams nowadays though!
We just had a 5 day Test match in Australia. Australia needed one wicket ( batsman out), England needed to survive 12 balls (bowls) to achieve a draw. Riveting finish after 5 days which is why Test matches are so good.
Have you heard of AFL? ruclips.net/video/XMZYZcoAcU0/видео.html
This summer there will be an Ashes test series between England and Australia.....this is one of the oldest, fiercest and most keenly contested international rivalries in world sport...it will consist of five test matches, each over five days(a day in test cricket is usually from 11 am to 6.30 pm, with two breaks, for lunch forty minutes, and tea 20 minutes)......it is called "Test"cricket for a reason, it is a test of stamina, courage, patience, skill, tactics, and determination. it's great to watch, and I cant wait for it all to begin....A cricket ball really IS hard, the protective helmet and pads and gloves for the batsmen are needed, because getting a six-foot-plus fast bowler hurling that little red ball down at you at speeds often exceeding 90 mph from just 22 yards away really does require a good eye, lightning-fast reflexes and a healthy does of good old fashioned guts........players have been killed, after being hit by the ball, so despite it often having the image of a genteel jolly afternoon the village green, while the spectators doze in the sunshine after eating their delicate cucumber sandwiches,(as portrayed in Hollywood movies of the 40's and 50's,) it's a hard, tough sport, watched by millions of passionate supporters all around the world.. with the principal countries being England, India, Pakistan, West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Bangla Desh, although it's taking hold in lots of other places too these days, with Ireland, Canada, Afghanistan, Netherlands, coming to the fore .... cricket? I love it!!
As cricket is a summer sport currently al the action is in the Southern Hemisphere where I am(in Australia) Over the next few days the finals of out T20 (BigBash) are about to be played so do a search for Big Bash etc. The Women's One Day International World Cup will be in March and the Men's T20 World Cup will be in October (New Zealand & Australia respectively) and in between there will be the Indian Premier League, September into October I am sure that you can get some coverage even in the USA online...Cheers! and welcome to the wonderful world of cricket!
One of the reasons why the 5 day cricket is significant is that cricket involves bouncing the ball on the pitch. As you bounce it, it gets worn out and roughed up, and so does the pitch. This opens up endless possibilities in terms of bowling especially spin bowling. Enduring and surviving day 4 and day 5 is a real challenge and it would be lengendary if you make your team win from here or even draw the match avoiding a loss.
Crickey is very popular in England.
Like most games, cricket is big on strategy. The field is 360 degrees, but if your fast bowler is accurate, and has a new ball in his hand, he can limit the field to at least 180 degrees. The Captain may leave a "sweeper" just in case the batsman is a gambler. You pack all your other 8 fielders into the easier 180 degree area, with a couple of close fielders. The batsman has to risk hitting it over their heads in order to score runs. Add a couple ready to catch any hits nicked off the edge of the bat.
A spin bowler can do the same and limit any wary batsman huge areas in which to score...
Some surprising trivia... The US and Canada were the first two countries to play an international cricket match (Also the first known international major sporting event)
I seriously doubt that. I'd like to see a source for that? England vs anyone has got to be older.
T20 (20 overs, with an over being 6 balls = 120 balls each) and The Hundred (100 balls each) are pretty popular (in the UK) :)
I am pretty sure the Hundred is only popular in the UK.
@@Bazil496 Yup - I live in the UK
Yeah here in Australia I have never heard of that version of cricket.
@@jamislife5406 basically our bbl. Only started last year but it was good
@@sambl1ncoe our bbl is at its 8th season or something like the ( for those who don't know the bbl is Australias version of the ipl) I just had never heard of the 100 ball format that they were talking about.
Growing up in Scotland and England in the 50's we as young children would be taught a game called Rounders which consisted of all the rules and paraphernalia associated with your American game of Baseball. The ball was like the one you use, it was white leather, much softer and lighter than a Cricket ball " British term is Corky ". Once you reached past 11 years old and progressed to Grammar or Secondary Modern Schools " Depending on your exam results " you would be introduced to Football, Rugby, Cricket, Hockey, Badminton etc etc + track and field and gymnastics. I also did Boxing but not all schools aloud it. I don't know if Rounders was copied from American Baseball or the other way around ? But Cricket was always for the older boys because the velocity of the ball in the hands off players like Shoaib Akhtar who holds the world record for the world cup in 2003 at 161.3 Kmph or 100.23mph. Much later in my own Cricket experience of playing they thankfully in 17, March 1978 introduced the protective helmet which has been upgraded many times to the version you see today. I myself amongst many others have been knocked completely out up until that point, alongside broken fingers and some very painful broken jaws.
Lovely to see the game go into other versions like T20 and the One day because its given Cricket a much needed boost and push back into its rightful place amongst word sport.
Many villages and towns have cricket teams, sound of summer. Leather on willow.
Big rule here in the subcontinent
-If ball goes to the pond,It's Out😂
-If the bat is mine, I will bat first
-Everyone should bring money to buy Ball
(Average is about 10 cents per person)
T20 was introduced to generate interest in cricket in the evening, so people could finish work and still go watch a game and have a night out. It's fast, flashy fun. Also played by club cricketers after work for the same reason.
40/50 over game (called ODI for global games - One Day International) has been around for decades and played by all teams, club sides included, on a weekend usually. In England, there are a lot of weekend leagues for small clubs, pub teams etc. For small clubs they're usually just as much for cricket as for having a social day out, especially for friendly games. The lunch intervals are usually a highlight. My old club played a lot of friendlies, and there was usually drinking while playing.
Test Match cricket is imo the purest form of the game. Even the legendary great Sachin Tendulkar said limited overs (T20 & ODIs) are like a dessert - Test Match cricket is the main meal. Over 5 days players tire, the weather interferes, but a moment of brilliance can swing the pendulum one way or another.
T20 was made to please the short attention span of children and its a cheap nasty version of the game and the Indians are welcome to it. And that's coming from an English man and we are world champions in t20 and one day cricket but both are more or less meaningless. Test cricket will always be the pinnacle in England and England will always be the home of cricket. Bring on the ashes.
Test cricket is the original version of the game, and is played at state or county level; when played at district or club level, it is usually played over two days. One Day was the first aberration of the game, and T20 came much later. International Test Cricket is played by Commonwealth of Nations countries; when a Test Series is played, it nearly always includes both One Day and T20. A Test Series normally comprises of 4 tests between the host nation and the visiting nation(country); the One Day Series and T20 Series involve a third nation.
One thing that video didn't mention is that, like tennis, play stops when it rains. If more than a certain number of overs are played in a rain interrupted (or any other reason for reducing the overs played) T20 or one day game the result is worked out using Duckworth Lewis Method which is quite complicated (see wiki for explanation).
One other interesting tidbit: in Test cricket, a tie and a draw are not the same thing. A tie is where both teams, after the completion of two innings each, have exactly the same run total. A draw is where one or both teams have not completed two innings each after the allotted time (up to 5 days), regardless of the run total. Because of the limited overs format of T20 and ODI, there is no such thing as a 'draw' in limited overs cricket.
A Test innings can end when the batting team has been bowled out, or the batting team makes a declaration - in other words, they have the discretion to declare a conclusion to their innings before all their batsmen are bowled out. This is often a tactical decision in an attempt to leave themselves enough time to bowl out the opposition twice, while making enough runs to win the match.
The best team in the world of Cricket is the best team who wins in the 5 day Test match cricket forum. Because it it is a "Test Match". I am a Cricket Umpire in Scotland and it is mainly the 50 over per side game here and very popular, takes 7 hours but is great fun for all the family and a good day out. Cricket is a very social event and the home team is expected to provide drinks and lunches for the away team and Umpires which we all share together. Very civilised.
Worth checking out this video, explains in terms of Baseball. Also RUclips Channel "Cricket for Americans" also worth checking out
With baseball terms would probably help, and funny too! I'll need to watch more to understand everything going on more. Looking forward to it!
Seeing a cricket video but there is very less Indians. Makes me feel good
You should definitely check out AFL, the Australian Football League. Aussie rules football is the best sport in the world
1,000,000% agree
Agreed
Test Cricket is the greatest form of the game. No shorter format can match the excitement, tension and drama than a good Test Match. Also, cricket is very popular in the UK. Many people play or watch cricket as their ‘summer sport’ while football is in off season.
The basic differences between the shorter and longer games are the immediate excitement and "got to score as many points as we can before the over ends" of the shorter, and the more tactical "let's make sure we still have our best batsmen in as long as possible, take no risks, because that's when the game ends" approach of the longer format Test Cricket.
You've obviously not watched the current England test side if you think it's a no risk format. England are revolutionising test cricket right now and it's never been more aggressive. The recent 3-0 drubbing of Pakistan in Pakistan and scoring over 500 on the first day and setting a new record even after losing 15 overs to light tells you all you need to know about the way England are going about test cricket at the moment. Plus England are both one day and t20 world champions.
T20 is fast-paced and visually flashy. It tends to focus on individual talents and eye-candy to keep people interested. The 5-day game, aka test cricket, is more strategic with less fanfare. They focus on combining the talents of each player into a cohesive, match-winning team. I prefer the 5-day game, but the real money is with T20.
Cricket is probably harder, from a batting point, compared to baseball. This is because they can bowl anywhere from bouncing and hitting your head or you feet, you never know. Additionally the ball travels at a similar speed to a baseball but bounces which makes it much harder to hit. Not only can the ball swing in the air (similar to what I think is a curve ball) and spin or hit the seam, which is where the ball deviates off the pitch. In my opinion it is much more interesting then baseball due to the array of different skills needed to get to the highest level. If you have any more questions on what you don't understand just ask American guy.
I love all 3 versions. The boxing day test is part of our families christmas. 5 days of cricket
The way things are going is that each country more or less have specialist sides for each form of Cricket
You should try and find some highlights of the Ashes. This is a series of five test matches that are regularly played between England and Australia. The latest series has just finished. The finish of the fourth test match after five days of play was extremely exciting...I won't spoil it by telling you the result.
There will be a very different result this summer in England I can tell you that. Have you seen how England are currently revolutionising test cricket?
For Test Cricket think of it as a series in Baseball, especially one with a double header, but it just happens to be the same game
Test cricket!!!!! Its the most difficult, more intense, and more fun to watch. People treat and give respect to cricket players when they perform in tests because its more technical and tough both mentally and physically.
BASICALLY PLAYERS ARE TURNED INTO SUPERSTARS WHEN THEY EXCEL IN TEST CRICKET.
The fun thing about test cricket is 20-30% of the times the game ends in a draw i.e, no winner after playing all the 5 days. i.e both teams play out each other so well that 5 days isnt enough to declare the winner.
Or it rains too much or the Umpires go off on one about the light.
There is a video by an American explaining the rules of game, using Baseball analogies; Cricket Explained for Baseball Fans, it is a lot easier to follow.
I think for pure entertainment value the shorter forms are better because it requires the batters to take more risk as there are fewer balls to work with. The greater risks mean both wickets fall easier but also more 4s and 6s are scored. However, I still like the test matches as it is a completely different style of playing and more of a test of endurance on the players. The ashes are a nice competition for a "friendly" rivalry with Australia and I look forward to hearing the results each time. Its just a shame I rarely have time to actually sit and watch a test match on the telly all day like I did when I was a kid.
Depends on the circumstances. I for one cannot be bothered to watch a team bash out 200 runs in 20 overs while the bowlers contemplate wherever they are more effective than a bowling machine.
Limited overs especially t20 is made to please the short attention span of children. Test matches are for the purists.
Test cricket is the traditional format, that’s the one that’s been played for hundreds of years and was almost always the epitome and most desired format, until the last few years. Now T20 is arguably the most prestigious as that’s where all the money is. Viewers are more inclined to watch a fast- paced, intense 3 hour game rather than a slow, more patient 5 day long test match
The ironic thing is, I have no patience for T20 cricket.
@SynthMusicFan 501 As a guy who loves bowlers, I cannot stand the see ball hit ball mentality. I like a good old fashioned game of nerve and tactics. When it's done well it can provide such entertainment.
The comment about it being not popular in the UK is pretty wrong.
It’s very popular in the UK, you’ll see loads of little games taking place in summer on the weekends
It’s also very popular in:
India
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
And so on
And the countries where they are not popular internationally but in local
Guyana
Ghana
Papua New Guinea
UAE
The bat is the bat, the wicket is the thing behind the batsman - with three vertical stumps with two small horizontal bails sitting in grooves. If the bails are dislodged by the ball then the receiving batsman (the one at the end facing the bowler) is out and walks off the pitch and is replaced by the next batsman. England invented cricket. It is still very popular. To give you an idea of just how hard the ball is, it's not uncommon that if a batsman is facing a fast bowler (bowling up to 90mph) and is hit on the finger then he'll have a broken finger about 2 seconds later (even with padded gloves on), and of course, sadly people have still died when hit on the head (even though they wear helmets these days)
Thank you Andy for the clarification on this, I was confusing myself with a few things there haha
Great Reaction and most Internationals used to be played over 5 days where a Country like England would be at Home in THe Summer to Australia(their Winter) then in England's Winter the English International team might play in India or Pakistan and then next Summer host says The West Indies or New Zealand. Sometimes a 5-day match can end in a DRAW lol if, at least, one team does not complete 2 innings(Getting all 10 opposing players out TWICE) especially if it is rain interrupted. Teams play 3 x 2 Hour sessions a day stopping for Lunch and Tea.. That LCW law stops teams just standing in front of their wicket to get a draw if they can no longer win the game.
American reacts to Rules of cricket 😝😝 And that's the only cricket video for 99% of American RUclipsrs! Morale of the story --> You need to have some passion when it comes to sport!
There are competitions in all formats but only countries play test cricket, The only test cricket competition is called the Test Championship, but this isn't considered to be that important (yet) the biggest competition is Tests is England vs Australia (called the Ashes)
Jomboy has explained cricket in baseball terms...
5 days, each team bats two innings, so its a total of both innings. These games can end in a draw, which usually means the last team to bat is behind, but still batting when the game time runs out. I day game, 50 overs mean 300 balls bowled, 6 legal balls an over. This is called limited overs cricket. Depending on the league, an innings can be 20, 30, 40, 50 overs etc.
Netflix has a video called Cricket Explained which dwells into history of Cricket (T20 cricket specifically) it's really informative and interesting.. although fair warning that it gets Indian Cricket centric in the second half and your channel seems to be for UK stuff. But still verry interesting for someone new to the game.
Though there is a cricket World Cup, the most lomg running prestigious tournament is the Ashes series.
This is a series of usually five games, each game lasting upto five days and is always England v Australia.
It's called the ashes series because whoever wins the majority of the five games or matches as we call them, win a tiny urn in which are contained the ashes of the burnt bails from the wickets of the very first cricket game that took place between England and Australia.
So these matches have the greatest rivalry and longest history though in recent times limited overs cricket form such as T20 has become a more popular form amongst the masses as T20 provides a much more gun hoe, quick fire attitude as there's only limited time and balls to get as many runs as possible. Test cricket is boring to many people as technically, so long as you don't get out, you can just stand there batting for five days blocking the ball out, not scoring any runs but just running down the clock.
If a batsman can do that in a Test Match then the pitch would obviously be inevitably flat.
Check out cricket on the radio - BBC test match special - surprisingly entertaining and a key element to an English summer.
Test cricket is the sacred version of cricket. & the most popular version!
Can you please do one of these videos on AFL the aussies footy it’s the most popular thing hear in Australia
Test cricket for me is the pinnacle of sports. Love one day, and as for T20 it is nothing more than revenue generator as is having maximum popularity but if you ask any old schoolers like me Test cricket is real cricket.
Agree.
There’s a video called ‘Cricket for Americans’ which supplements this well
There is one mistake in this video. The example for "hit wicket" is not a hit wicket dismissal. Hit wicket is normally when a batter hits the wicket with his body while playing a shot, or starting a run.
5:38 #8 "Handled the ball" is no longer a separate mode of dismissal, and has been incorporated under #9 "Obstructing the Field"
The long game is the traditional one, and still regarded as the peak of the sport. Players are judged by their record in Test cricket. T20 is fairly new about 16 years old, as a format but being faster paced and only three hours is much more easily digestable (if instantly forgettable) and is now the big money earner - almost entirely in India, all money in cricket is almost entirely in India.
One thing, particularly relevant to the five day game, a draw and a tie are different things in cricket. A draw occurs when there is not enough time for either team to force a result. Yes, four innings (two for each team) are not always completed in five days of six hours each. A tie is when the final innings is completed in time, but scores are level.
Appreciate the correction with this, and the timestamp for what you're talking about. Understand it better now and the whole "hit wicket"
And over the fence is six and out (backyard cricket rules)..
it’s the second most popular sport in the UK after football (soccer) but here, it’s quite a middle and upper class sport.
Never knew it was 1, the second most popular sport in the UK and 2, that it's considered generally a middle-upper class sport. Would Rugby be the third most popular sport in the UK?
@@californianreacts Rugby is third, followed by tennis followed by, you guessed it badminton.
This is going off of a range of things, not simply viewing figures, some sports arent on much but are played a lot by common folk.
@@californianreacts rugby is the second most popular, followed by tennis in uk....cricket is 4th
Test cricket doesn't really have a tournament, but rather nations play series against each other, lasting between 3-5 test matches. There is however, a test championship which is fairly new. Teams score points by winning or drawing test matches with the 2 best ranked teams playing a final at Lords cricket ground in London. New Zealand are the current champions, having g defeated India in the final.
Maybe but England ate the current form side in test cricket. 10 wins from 12 tests is incredible in today's game and even that should be 11 from 12 after losing by one run in a game we declared in to try and force a win. We at least had a draw and a series win in the bag if we wanted it but this is a new England side that is trying to every game they play and they usually are doing and by some huge scores as well.
test cricket is the best form of the game. in my opinion.
T20 is aimed at younger audiences and families and generally includes all manner of entertainment and fireworks. Cricket puritans insist Test cricket is the best. Generally Test cricket aims to bowl a minimum of 90 overs a day (but there's all sorts of reasons why this might be fewer). Not sure he covered that in Test cricket both teams bat twice (and there's also other cricket - Tests are strictly international, but there are lower grades of cricket that are played over different lengths of time "First Class" cricket (used to generically refer the highest level domestic league in a country) is typically over 3 or 4 days, and amateur/club cricket is often one day or 2 day games (that might be Saturday/Sunday, or it might be 2 consecutive Saturdays)..
A match highlights suggestion - India vs England 2021 Lord's Test, available on yt, posted by ECB - England cricket Board
Have you done a reaction to AFL rules yet? It’s the biggest sport in Australia.
T20 is popular but true Cricket lovers love Test format(5days Format)
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In a way your scoreboard theory is right,the runs scored by batting team,against wwickets taken by the fielding team.
Test match cricket is the most popular and finest part of cricket
You are confusing wickets with stumps-- Stumps are the 3 x poles with bales on top , a wicket is generally the pitch between the stumps, the actual pitch. you will sometimes hear re state of the wicket (ground) can be a slow wicket (ground or a fast wicket or sometimes if the wicket is good for spinners or for fast bowlers.. i also hear that the ball must hit the ground first ,this is not the case but many bowlers hit the ground fist so they can better judge how the ball will spin to the left or right o whether it will curve to either side, the idea of bowling is to confuse the batsman to make them make a mistake ,or to hit the edge of the bat and position fielders to take advantage .
I can remember at high school thinking I was clever and went into bat without gloves on. Spent most of the afternoon In accident and emergency having my thumbnail pierced to relieve the pressure after the ball hit it.
@SynthMusicFan 501 still played again but ensured I wore correct protection
The first international cricket match was between the USA and Canada in New York. Canada won.
It was also the first international sporting event of any kind.
The narrator explained "Hit Wicket" incorrectly and the example shown was of a possible run out.
Hit Wicket is when the batter breaks the wicket (ie the bails fall off) with his bat, body or any equipment when playing the ball or taking off for a run.
Here is a recent example of a Hit Wicket ruclips.net/video/9sb2zMcPhhQ/видео.html
We used to have a pub team and play (not very seriously) against the other local pubs
Test cricket is the pinnacle of cricket
If you are interested in learning about other sports from around the world, check out "What is AFL: Aussie Rules Explained"; don't watch the 2020 updated version, you need to watch the original version first.
I'd say the best can vary on situation, T20 is great is you want some quick excitement whate having some snacks and drinks with friends.
While test is flgreat if you really get into the meat of the game, as this is where you can really get into the more tactical side of things (the ground and ball deteriorate over the 5 days, and the different conditions are best suited to different players and play styles, etc)
T20 was made for the short attention span of children and the simple minded. Test matches are still the ultimate format.
Uk has one of the biggest fan base in the world for cricket but Australia is bigger I think
Test cricket is the greatest form of sport nay greatest "test" of human character and skill.
Actually cricket very popular in india . You can see the Mass crowd while india match. it's in over blood
But in Test Cricket since its so long u cant do a tournament style so the competition is set over 2 years where every team that plays test cricket which is only the good teams (india england Australia etc) will play each other and the top 2 teams with the best winning percentages play a final in england. The teams that currently hold each form of cricket title is for T20 is Australia for One Day it is England and for Test Cricket its New Zealand
England currently hold both world cups (ODI & T20). It's still very popular.
And we will win back the ashes this summer which is worth more than both limited overs world cups combined.
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What do you mean win back doesn't Australia hold it at the moment? Do you mean retain the Ashes?
@@geoffknight874 no cause I'm English so obviously we will have to win them back. Which we will very soon be doing
@@geoffknight874 I'm not Australian I'm English thanks.
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So am I. England hold both World Cups and hopefully The Ashes as well.
In t20 and one day cricket they have tournaments where they have a qualifying rounds for it with the not so good cricket nations play each other in 2 different groups and then the best two from each group join the better teams where they r once again put into 2 groups where they play each other once then the top 2 from each group get into the semi finals and then the finals and whoever wins is champion of that version of cricket for the next 4 years
You heard it’s not popular in the uk there the creators of the The game and 1 of the best teams
Test cricket is the most popular
Test cricket is purest and the best format of all.
If your still confused about cricket rules. Jomboy does a cricket for baseball fans explained video that is very good for people that know baseball's rules. Enjoy cricket its the best 😁🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🏏
Question about test matches: are they five consecutive days? I was in London for about ten days one summer. There was match between India and Pakistan going seemingly the entire ten days I was in the city.
@SynthMusicFan 501 Can there be rain delays? Is there another reason why a test match might last longer than 5 calendar days?
But Tests are usually played in series. So there may have been back to back tests but there is usually at least some gap between matches.
@SynthMusicFan 501 “Now the limit.” I was there in 1996, so the rules could have been different then?
@@PaulMcElligott No. It's been 5 days for many years now.
@@robinbrown8749 Yes, although it could not have been a Test between India and Pakistan in London.
Hiya 3 very good videos for you to watch first is the history in the USA your gonna be supprised , so in order ,
1) Pitch of Dreams , cricket in America.
2) cricket explained for baseball fans .
3) cricket and baseball similarities and differences .
Cricket and Baseball are two world's apart... Nothing similar.. Fun fact: The first international cricket match was played between USA and Canada.... Recently the USA cricket team defeated Ireland in Fort Lauderdale ( FL), which is a big deal for US cricket
he catches on so quick
Although t20 is famous test cricket is the ultimate form of cricket
The craziest rule that he didn't cover is that in test cricket, if you get to the end of the five days before both teams have completed their two innings, then the match is a draw regardless of the score.
After 3 minutes I said goodbye. Bad, bad explantion. No context, no vocabulary ....next... probably no patience of my part.
The bowler must have some part of his/her foot behind the line when they bowl the ball. If they overstep the line it is a No Ball and the umpire will single it by sticking his arm straight out from his body. If the bowler bowls a no ball when a wicket is taken the batter is not out.
To an outsider the rules of cricket seems complicated but when you grow up and play it it's not.
I think the guy on this video is reading from a script because when he is talking about finishing an over he says the "other bowler bowls from the other side" that's incorrect it should be bowling from the other end.
I suppose the video showed the basic rules of cricket without going into things too complicated like declaring in test matches and the field placing positions eg:Square leg or silly mid on/off.