I just don’t get cricket. Every time I begin to think I understand the impenetrable English export, they introduce some new and even more inexplicable angle.
So, what is this called? Bending the back? Is this man bowled out? Or is this chin music?
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Shirts and skinsBy lex, on March 4th, 2008
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Wow! Knocked the pigment right out of him!
I had no idea there was a Cricket Council Code of Conduct. Crikey!
Once he invaded the pitch he was no longer a spectator. Reminds me of a great linebacker for the Colts named Mike Curtis who treated another idiot in similiar fashion, to thunderous applause, I might add.
Let’s just hope theres nothing to do with a sticky wicket.
If you watch the video at the link, this guy gets absolutely clocked by Symonds. Great stuff.
Re: Mike Curtis-
“That man was in violation of a City Ordinance, and I enforced it.” Great interview with him on an NFL Films show about tough guys.
Gives new meaning to the term “all out”.
I, for one, am glad the photographer was on the backside of the shot.
That’s the twelfth man getting his time on the pitch.
Cap’n,
I understand there are rules to the game. Darned if I could figure them out.
I suspect the ‘sky-clad’ person was injured as the cricket ball is much harder than the US Baseball.
Marine6 – I remember watching Curtis knocking the bejeebers out of the fan who wanted the football. I believe said fan spent some time in the local hospital trying to recover from some spinal injuries.
Maybe that will give a little forewarning to any other would be streakers. John Carmichael beat me to the punch on the “pigment” Gees, if your gonna go “all out” like that at least don’t blind the on lookers.
Cricket is a very simple game. And I’m still gonna mess up the explanation but who cares? You’ve got three sticks (the wicket), with two little sticks suspended in between them (the stumps). Well, you have two, one on each side of the pitch.
The job of the batter is to protect the wicket with his bat. Well, it’s actually to protect the stumps from flying off the wicket. But just the merest touch of the cricket ball on the wicket will do the trick, so really, it’s to protect the wicket.
The job of the bowler is to whack the wicket with the ball. Well, if he can get the batter to whack the wicket somehow, that’s fine too.
How do you score? The batting team scores runs – in this case, both batters run to the other side and back again. A run means both batters – their batsm at least – must cross the ‘goal’ lines. If the ball flies out of the boundary (delineated by ropes), you automatically score 6 runs. Unless it drops to the ground first, in which case you score 4.
The bowling team scores by ‘outing’ the batters. Whacking the wicket will do it, and so will some rules violation (such as the infamous LBW, which states that if your leg wasn’t in the way, the ball would have hit the wicket). A fly ball would do it too (except it’s not called a fly ball).
And… that’s it. Everything else is just rules and regs.
It’s easy:
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
Funnily enough I was watching the game while chatting back and forth with a friend who’s originally from Sacramento, a question about what a leggie was then wandered through the googly, the doosra and the chinaman. Then we got on to where the hell the covers were and just why is it silly mid on (silly = anyone fielding close enough to the batsman to sustain serious injury).
His closing comment? “I hope to christ the kids don’t want to play this sport”
PS Gregory, wicket and stumps are interchangeable when talking about the wooden things, though wicket may mean the pitch and stumps may mean the set or just one. The two little things on top are bails.
Sim,
Thanks for that – I haven’t read that one in ages, I’ve been trying to remember it.
Actually most boozed up cricket spectators don’t mind the odd streaker – it all adds to the spectacle…
Chris-
Indeed, and of course everyone backs the streaker against the dastardly security types. Unless you’re a Chappell… wasn’t it one of those that grabbed a steaker and started to spank his arse with the bat?
And didn’t I say I was gonna screw up the explanation. I didn’t want to search for it, so I ran with memory. [shrug] Like I said, a fairly simple game.