Most amazing achievement 99.9% of Americans won't care about

[Snupoker]

Cricket is awesome. I play whenever i go back to the native country. Unfortunately, I get pwned by 10 yr olds.

This achievement is quite impressive.

[LearnedfromTV]

Thanks for the info. I agree, very impressive.

[EvilSmurf]

Just as an addition the * next to the 201 means it was 201 not out, the Australian team declared (which means they voluntarily ended their innings to force the other team to bat, since a test match is limited to 5 (8-hour) days and the winning team must either a) score more runs than the combined total of the other 2 teams innings in their 2 or b) bowl the other team out twice it made sense to declare to give our bowlers the chance to bowl bangladesh out)
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Bangladesh was batting for survival at tea on day four at 1-67 in its second innings, trailing by 317

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This means Bangladesh realise they have no real shot at winning the game, they've already lost 1 wicket (of 10) in their second innings (of 2) and still need to get 317 runs off their next 9 wickets, which would be an amazing feat. Instead, they will just try and bat out day 5...which is not looking likely, as by stumps (end of days play) they are 4/195 which means they still need 189 on their last 6 wickets (or not lose 6 wickets in the 90 overs that a day's play entails to force a draw), which again is unlikely, as teams tend to leave their specialist bowlers at the back of the order (most teams carry 4 specialist bowlers in their 11 man squads. There's also a very specialised fielding position, wicketkeeper (kind of like catcher) which run production from most is quite average). Why 11 players and only 10 wickets? Well, that's because you need 2 guys out there to bat, and if only one is left, it's innings over.

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

When I was in Anguilla this winter, there were a lot of cricket games on some sport channel they had and I forced myself to derive the rules. Looking at the explanation posted here, I was pretty much right on. I love how excited everybody gets about an out.

Also, they showed some replay of somebody hitting a triple century. It was pretty cool.

[Zurvan]

Is there actually "tea time" in cricket? Is that like the 7th inning stretch with a snack?

I almost thought I understood what was happening... then Smurf made his second post, and I'm confused again.

This is why I'm a hockey fan - you get a point if the black thing goes in the net ... so much simpler [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[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.

[jaymajik]

And yes, there is a tea time. There is lunch too.

A test match is 5 days.

Each day tends to start at 11am. Lunch is at 1pm.

After lunch, place resumes at about 1.40.

The players leave the field again at about 4 for tea.

They then resume play till about 6 oclcik.

All very civilised and very Engliash.

Cricket is a great game to play, as it is one of the few games one can play while drinking a can of lager, or smoking a cigarett (obviosuly, only while you are fielding).

[jedi]

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Cricket stuff, but I will provide a vague translation for the baseball folk here. Just today Jason Gillespie, who ordinarily bats at number 8 in the order (think pitcher) just scored 201* (think hitting 4 HR in a match). Absolutley marvellous effort really.
Story here

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Well, we did care (Angels fans mostly)

Adam Kennedy hits 3 HRs to send Angels to first World Series.

[DrewDevil]

So I said, "What is this, the T-interval??"

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[skp]

It indeed was a marvellous effort but there have been other instances of bowlers getting a double century. I know that Wasim Akram of Pakistan did it against Zimbabwe. There likely have been others.

I watched quite a bit of that Gillespie effort on live TV. He was just shrugging his shoulders to his batting partners in disbelief after every boundary. It was ridiculous how easy he made batting look that day.