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I declare............


a cricket match! with anyone that wants to play :D



hus up 4 it?

Well, us moles haven't played for sometime..., but we'll take up your offer... :lol:

Lets go! ur battin first

Cricket Mole and batty mole step up to the crease. Cricket Mole stares into the bowlers eyes. He knew, deep down, that he was going to be out early in the match. he had no practice. however, he knew he was going to hit this ball...

OOC: Cricket is a purely English sport and me being american, i have no clue as to how to go about playing it :oops: ...However, I will watch this post to see if i can learn a little bit more.

Cricket is an english game, true. The rules are complicated. I'll try and explain it.

There are two teams in a cricket match of I think 16 (I'm not sure). One team is the 'Batting side' and the other 'The bowling side'
To win, a team must get more runs than the opposing team. A team scores runs by:
Hitting the ball a short distance and by the two batters running between the two stumps. this scores 1 run
Hitting the ball over the boundary rope, without boucing. This scores 6 runs
Hitting the ball over the boundary rope, but bounces. This scores 4 runs.
By the bowling running over the no ball line when bowling. The ball is void, and the batting team scores 1 run.
Leg by: the ball bounces off the batters leg, and beats the wicket keeper and rolls away from him. This scores 1 run.

The bowling team can get a batter 'out' by:
Bowling him out: The batter misses the ball, and it hits the stumps.
Running him out: The bowlering teams fields pick up the ball, and hit the stumps at one end before the batter runner reaches the crease. He is out.
LBW: Or leg Before Wicket. The batter misses a ball pitch in the centre of the stumps, and it hits his leg. If the ball was going to hit the stumps, he is out.
Caught out: the batter hits the ball, and a fielder catches the ball before it bounces.
The batting team is out when 11 'wickets' have been taken (11 people are out) when this happens the teams exchange places.

There are two different versions of the game. 1 day and 5 day. In 1 day, each team has 1 'innings' (bat once). They bat until they are all out or 50 overs pass (an over consists of 6 bowls)
5 day consists of two innings. The teams bat until they are all out, or they declare (they swap places because the batters think they have enough runs) I think that's all. Any clearer now? :wink:

Crickets fun.

OOC: Cricket is a purely English sport and me being american, i have no clue as to how to go about playing it :oops: ...However, I will watch this post to see if i can learn a little bit more.

Think baseball. The differences are:

1 - Once the ball is bowled (pitched) it must bounce once before the batter hits it.
2 - You have two batters up at once.
3 - Once the ball has been hit, you run from one wicket (backstop, only in the form of 3 wooden posts) to the other, and back again, as many times as you can until the bowler gets the ball back. Each time across counts as one "run".
4 - You keep going, scoring more and more runs, until you are caught out (obvious), run out (a fielder touches the ball to a wicket before you run there) or bowled out (you miss a bowl, and it hits the wicket).
5 - There are 11 in each team.
6 - Cricket is better.

There are more rules, but those are the basic ones.

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