Explaining cricket to an American

[pinksalamander]

This made me laugh! So here it is, the explanation of cricket!

You have 2 sides; a team that's in and a team that's out.. two men in the team that's in go out and when one of the men who's in is out; the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out; the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get min still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in; the men who are out are trying to get him out; and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decided when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out; and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

That's the wonderful game of cricket.


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[hartleybun]

:roflmao:it gets even worse when you talk the talk

 

[JadeIcing]

:nerves1That hurt my head.

 

[hartleybun]

probably been hit offside left stump by a yorker then.....or if it's really bad then you are definitely out for a duck:twitch:

 

[TinysMom]

and here I thought cricket was a little bug

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

Ha ha, I find Cricket confusing enough as it is and that just further confused me! :huhIt's not my kind of sport really!:biggrin2:

 

[mouse_chalk]

LOL Fran! :laughsmiley:

Where did you get that?

I don't get cricket either.... I remember playing it in P.E at school and all I knew was that I'd try to hit the ball (and usually miss) and people would just yell at me 'Run! RUUUUUNNNNN!!!!!' :?

 

[Leaf]

:shock2:

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

That is the most confusing thing i have ever read in my life,lol!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Luvr of Wabbits and Polar Bears]

TinysMom wrote:

and here I thought cricket was a little bug

:roflmao:

That was really confusing reading the explanation to the game. I think it's not a game I would want to try.

 

[JennJenn]

:shock:I'm so confused.

 

[kirst3buns]

Now do you really wonder why we Americans don't get it?!

:foreheadsmack:

 

[pinksalamander]

Makes sense to me! If I could speak that explanation along with a video of some sort you'd definitely understand it!

 

[hartleybun]

:nodmakes perfect sense. what does confuse me tho' is the baseball world series that is only played by teams from america:?

 

[pinksalamander]

Cricket is basically what baseball is based on anyway (or maybe rounders?)

Rounders is similar to cricket and so much easier to understand. Its basically baseball without all that silly glove and helmet stuff.

 

[Numbat]

kirst3buns wrote:

Now do you really wonder why we Americans don't get it?!

:foreheadsmack:

:biggrin2:

LOL! It doesn't even mention a ball!

 

[MyLOVEABLES!!]

HAHA numbat good one

I love playing Cricket. I prefer non stop cricket though.
i was explaining to my couzins and i just simplyfied it and i was like

"silly people who runs back and forth and chase after balls. haha"

x

 

[kherrmann3]

Ha! That's a good explanation!

I've played Cricket before and I still don't get it. I just did what Jen did and ran when people yelled at me to! lol I still think it is a silly sport to watch.

*watches men run back and forth, back and forth*

*giggles*

I'm not a "sports person" by any means. I don't even like American Football because of their obscenely tight pants. :twitch: