The Sport of Cricket: How to Play, Rules

cricket essentially boils down to this
you see you ball your hitter ball one of
the common conceptions is that cricket
is a sport the last five days and while
that’s true and I’d love to stop working
for five days it’s only the top ten
teams in the world that play for five
days for the rest of the world for club
cricket generally it’s a game played
over six to eight hours you have eleven
players of sight the objective is to
score more points than the other team so
you have two innings one per team one
team smashes maybe 200 300 runs other
team tries to chase it down
blank surface is very important to
cricket so here obviously the grass is
long but in a proper cricket field the
grass has got to be maximum 1 inch long
because you’re trying to hit the ball
along the ground the moment it’s over an
inch you’re struggling if you’re a
beginner and you’re struggling for your
kid the center of the pitch is the most
important we have a strip which is 66
feet or 22 yards long that is where the
ball bounces before it reaches the
batsman it has to be like a road it has
to be very compacted that’s called the
wickets now to make this really
confusing for viewers the yellow sticks
you see are also called the wickets if
you get a batsman out that is also
called the wicket there’s only one word
to learn it can be that hard cricket is
broken down into sets which are called
overs and an over is six balls bowled in
one direction by the bowler at the end
of that the field turns around and
another Bowl or all six balls in the
other direction
everybody on the team can Bowl right so
it doesn’t just have to be one pitcher
like in baseball but unlike baseball you
don’t have to just hit it in the sort of
triangle and cricket you can play 360
degrees the way you score runs is by
exchanging with the other batsmen that’s
one run so you have two batsmen standing
at all times and the ways to get out if
you hit the ball in the air and somebody
catches it you’re out even if you get
the slightest touch of the bat on the
ball and the wicket keeper catches it
behind you’re out if it touches your
glove you’re out if you hit the ball and
as you’re running someone gets the ball
and throws it and knocks over the wicket
you’re out you can be out by being
bowled out which is when the bowler
Bowls the ball you miss it and it goes
through and knocked down the wicket
another way to be out which is more
technical is called lbw which is leg
before wicket basically that means
you’re not allowed to stop the ball from
hitting the wicket with your body if the
umpire decides that the way the ball was
going would have hit the wicket if the
batsman hadn’t stopped it with his body
the batsman is out
oh I remembered another way of being out
you can be what’s called stumped you’ve
got a crease on the
now you always have to have one foot
either on or behind that crease if the
ball comes towards you and you step
forward from your crease to try to hit
the ball and miss the ball the wicket
keeper can catch the ball and knock the
wicked off before you put your foot
behind the crease it’s like being run
out