I'm seriously thinking about studying the rules for cricket. It could easily surpass my enjoyment for the soccer World Cup due to it being a bat and ball sport. I think it's really neat that there's a sport where the Middle East and India dominate. Thanks British imperialism.

And by the way, keep pumping up cricket. I've seen several posts from you about it, and it seems that you have the same passion for the sport that I have for stock car racing.

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Posted by stendulkar

Member since Aug 2012

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Posted on 2/6/15 at 12:34 pm to Sellecks Moustache

Thanks. Yes, it is not that hard to understand the game, if you know a few basic rules. There is a lot of similarities with baseball.

Remember these simple rules and you will be fine:

1) In cricket you don't have to run if you hit the ball if you think you can't complete the run safely.

2) In cricket you have to use a minimum of 5 bowlers (pitchers) in every game and each bowler gets to bowl (pitch) 6 balls at a time and then he switches with the next person.

3) In cricket a ball hit into the crowd (home run) results in 6 runs. If the ball rolls to the boundary (rope/advertising hoarding) along the ground, it results in 4 runs.

4) There are a lot of runs scored in cricket because every hit that results in a batsman reaching the other base (only two bases in cricket) results in a run. So if you compare it to baseball, it is like a batter scoring 1 run for reaching the 1st base, 2 runs for reaching the 2nd base and so on. Also in cricket the batsman keeps playing until he gets out. Doesn't matter how many runs he hits or how many times he rounds the two bases.

Here is one of my previous posts on this:

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