American reacts to How to Play Cricket

The commentator forgot the most important part of the game - the break for TEA.

Cricket Explained to a Foreigner You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in the field goes out and when he’s out comes in and the next man goes in until he’s 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. 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 there are men still in and not out. There are men called umpires who stay out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter whether they’re in or out. When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished. – Attributed (tenuously) to the Marylebone Cricket Club. See Amputee Cricket.

YES! Test Cricket - my favourite form!

My Dad played club and state cricket for WA back in the 40s 50s n 60s. He had the honour of playing with and against a few West Aussie legends, Rod Marsh, Dennis Lillie, Ashley Mallet etc, so I grew up with the game. I'm 59 now, and still can't drag myself away from the Boxing Day Test match, The Ashes, or any test match to be honest lol. I love the game. I enjoy 1 dayers and 20/20 as well, but test cricket is my deal. I love the strategy aspect of it, and the pure skills that come in test matches ❤ 🏏 RIP - Phil Hughes, Andrew (Roy) Simmons, Rodney Marsh and Shane (Warnie) Warne. Legends who will never be forgotten ❤❤❤

His description and example of "Hit Wicket" were incorrect. Hit Wicket is when a batsman breaks the wicket (one or both of the bails fall off) with his bat, body or equipment when playing a shot or starting off for a run. The non-striker cannot be out hit wicket. The example shown where a batter hits the ball back and the bowler touches the ball and the wicket is broken with the non-striker out of his crease is Run Out. If the batter hts the ball back and breaks the wicket at the other end without the bowler touching it, it is not out. No Balls and Wides score 1 automatic run plus the ball has to be bowled again (6 legal balls in an over, as mentioned later in the video). Any additional runs the batters can score off that ball also count. The only outs possible on a No Ball are Run Out, Obstructing the Field and Hitting the Ball Twice. As mentioned in the video, some of the ways of getting out are rare, but not unheard of. In last year's ODI (50 over per side) World Cup a player from Sri Lanka became the first to be given out Timed Out in international cricket.

One important fact that is not mentioned is that the batsman don't have hit a pitch if they don't want to. They also don't have to run if they hit the ball, that's why the runs are quite large for the American audience to understand.

The most confusing thing about Cricket is its language. It’s in English but not your normal vocabulary, for example “silly mid off” and “out for a duck”!

Soooo funny watching you decipher this 😂😂😂

Growing up in the West Indies (Caribbean) in the 70's and 80's, we were the World Champions before there was even a World Cup, a new thing. Tiny little islands, like my Antigua (pop.80k) taking on huge countries like India, England or Australia and winning. These players were Gods.

Love the cricket, Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi Adelaide South Australia

When he says 6 legal balls make up an over he means that high balls, wide balls and no balls (usually the foot crossing the crease before ball is released) do not count against the 6 legal balls. So theoretically an over can be infinitely long if the bowler bowled only illegal balls.

At its heart cricket is a simple game, very young children play it on their streets, a bat and ball being the only essential equipment, all else can be improvised. Often it's terminology that confuses, as with "wicket". The 3 stumps+bails= wicket; the pitch where the batting, bowling and running take place = the wicket (cf playing on a sticky wicket is difficult for the batsmen as the bounce of the ball is unpredictable); when the batsman is out he has lost his wicket and the bowler has taken a wicket i.e. a batsman's innings = a wicket. There are many, many esoteric terms which can describe types of bowling, batting, field position, pitch condition etc etc Watch a few T20 matches to get drift, Test matches involve a whole new world of skills management, psychology, tactics and strategy plus an appreciation + knowledge of meteorology, horticulture and physics all to be found in the captain.

An "over" ( 6 legal balls) is called an "over" because, after 6 balls the whole fielding team changes ends and the new "Bowler" bowls from the other end (for 6 balls). They all change ends, or change over. (get it?). The fielding team change over but the Batsmen stay where they are, this allows for fairness with regards to the weather, the position of the Sun and wind direction, anomalies on the playing surface etc. etc.

The experience of watching a live cricket match is out of this world , pure cinema ❤❤❤

I relocated from the US to the UK thirteen years back. My British spouse is a cricket enthusiast; he used to play in his youth and still follows the matches avidly. Despite his repeated attempts to clarify the rules, the game remains an enigmatic puzzle to me! 🤣

That isn't the best video to explain cricket, because it leaps straight into a lot of jargon and rules without taking you through the basics (like, what is "the crease"). There are two batsmen, one at each end. The bowler will do one "over" (6 bowls) from one end, then swap to the other end for the next over, so whichever batsman is at the opposite end from the bowler is the one who is receiving the ball and has to hit it. If the batsmen manage an odd number of runs then they swap ends in the process, if they manage an even number of runs then they end up back where they started. This can add a bit of uncertainty into the game because it means that some batsmen will face more balls than others in the same period of time. Stumped out (5:20), yes, when he swings and misses the ball, he has probably stepped forwards and so is outside the marked box of the crease. If he's inside the box then he's safe, if he's outside the box then the fielders can hit the wicket with the ball and then he's out. There are 11 players on a team, so once 10 are "out" that would only leave one batsman on their own ... and as you need two batsmen then that can't happen and so the innings is over. When I saw your 😳 reaction to "One day cricket" lasting a whole day, I knew what was coming next

The Crease is the horizontal line 3ft in front of the wickets at each end of the pitch this is the line the batsman have to be to be safe.

You can't learn the game by watching someone summarize the rules like this, because once simple concepts are dressed up in words, they're always going to sound maddeningly complicated. Take an over, for example. The guys who pitch/bowl the ball take turns. You bowl the ball six times, then it's a teammate's turn, and he bowls six times. An over is simply a turn to bowl the ball. With each new over, the ball is bowled from the opposite wicket to the last one. And that is also why there are two batters. As they run back and forth, there must always be a batter at each of the two wickets.

You shouldn't use the eu flag in a video about cricket honestly. It is a very british sport and the uk made it very clear they are no longer part of the EU.

The state of the pitch plays an essential role in deciding whether to bat or field first. Some pitches help spinners, while others help fast bowlers. The commentators will usually comment on this before the match starts.