[jaymajik]

A test match is 5 days.

Each team has 11 players.

Each team has 2 innings. To finish the other team's inning, you have to get 10 of their 11 players out.

You get them out in various ways (as described above).

When 10 of team A's players are out OR if Team A voluntarily decides it has scored enough and stops batting(called "declaring"), it is team B's turn to bat. Each team has a further inning after that.

When you hit the ball you can (but dont have to) run between teh wickets (sticks at eth end of the picth). for each time the batsmen successfully run between teh wickets, you get 1 run. IF you hiot it over the edge of the pitch withoiut bouncing, you get 6. If you hit it off the edge of the pitch, but it bounces on the way, you get 4.

THere are variosu great fielding positions, called things like Silly Mid-Off, Fine Leg etc etc.

The different types of delivery the bowler can bowl (i.e. like a pitchers' different pitches) also sometimes have amusing names, like the Googly, the Wrong'un or the Chinaman.



The analogy used above is a good one. The guy's achievement is like a pitcher, the first time he ever gets a hit, hitting four home runs in consecutive at-bats.