Posted on 01/24/2010 5:42:27 AM PST by the scotsman
'The Indian Premier League has announced plans to take cricket to the US. But could the home of baseball ever take cricket to its heart?
There are plenty of English people who find it hard to understand the joy of cricket. But could the United States, the home of brash, all-action sports like American football and basketball, ever embrace a sport steeped in etiquette and played by gentlemen in white trousers?
The Indian Premier League, the new powerhouse in world cricket, certainly hopes so. This week it promised to take its competition Stateside. Regional Indian sides could be competing in the Twenty20 competition by next year, according to Lalit Modi, the vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
So could cricket take hold in the American imagination?'
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Me too. But after I watch a Rugby game (match, whatever) I'm exhausted. I've never had a clue what was going on in a Cricket game (match, whatever).
ML/NJ
Speak for yourself. Soccer is a beautiful game. (But I'll be watching the J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets, this afternoon. And I saw the Giants beat the Bears 47-7 in the '56 Championship Game.)
ML/NJ
It would take years just to learn the terminology.
I’d rather have Aussie Rules Football up here in the states.
Who won last year?
Baseball is popular in Latin America and East Asia, especially Japan.
Actually YES it will.
This is a VERY different game of Cricket. I have seen it many times during my frequent visits to India.
This is 20 overs cricket. This is how it works. SIMPLE
1. Each side ONLY gets one inning apiece. Coin toss determines who goes in first
2. Each inning is LIMITED to only 120 pitches or throws (called “balls” in cricket speak). Of course, if it is a foul ball, it does not count.
3. To make matters even easier the strike zone is actually visible (in form of three sticks) so you do not have to guess if the batter was out or not
4. Rather than the half circle (or less) that a baseball field is, the cricket field is a FULL circle. So, there are NO foul hits. So, you have DOUBLE the field to hit to
5. You get out by the usual. You can be struck out, caught if you pop a fly or be tagged out while you are running between the bases (called wickets in cricket)
6. There are only TWO bases, not four, so you run back and forth
7. In each inning you get 11 batters to come up to home plate. It has to be 11 different people so cricket teams are slightly larger than baseball teams (11 instead of 9)
8. If you strike out 10 batters in the inning then you are done EVEN if you had pitches left in the inning (Rule 2 above)
9. Just because you score a home run does NOT mean you are done. You get to keep playing till you are OUT. So, if I hit a home run, I get to stay and try for another and so on. This allows players who are hot to pile up a LOT of runs
10. If you score a single, you go to second base and the other batter goes up to bat. He can then hit a single and go to second base and you come right back to home base
11. The average “20 over game) described above lasts ONLY THREE hours. Same as baseball. So, starts around 6 PM and is done at 9 PM
All in all, very straightforward. If you watch it, you will be hooked.
All of you are mostly talking about Test Cricket that is played for FIVE days straight and has 2 innings apiece and typically has 720 pitches per inning (on average). That certainly is slow and boring
In the 20 over cricket model, it is ALL ACTION. I mean it does not stop. Think of a baseball game in which the score was NYYankees 200 and Red Sox 190. It is very cool!
Watch it on YouTube. Google has just purchased the rights and will show it for free.
Actually YES it will.
This is a VERY different game of Cricket. I have seen it many times during my frequent visits to India.
This is 20 overs cricket. This is how it works. SIMPLE
1. Each side ONLY gets one inning apiece. Coin toss determines who goes in first
2. Each inning is LIMITED to only 120 pitches or throws (called “balls” in cricket speak). Of course, if it is a foul ball, it does not count.
3. To make matters even easier the strike zone is actually visible (in form of three sticks) so you do not have to guess if the batter was out or not
4. Rather than the half circle (or less) that a baseball field is, the cricket field is a FULL circle. So, there are NO foul hits. So, you have DOUBLE the field to hit to
5. You get out by the usual. You can be struck out, caught if you pop a fly or be tagged out while you are running between the bases (called wickets in cricket)
6. There are only TWO bases, not four, so you run back and forth
7. In each inning you get 11 batters to come up to home plate. It has to be 11 different people so cricket teams are slightly larger than baseball teams (11 instead of 9)
8. If you strike out 10 batters in the inning then you are done EVEN if you had pitches left in the inning (Rule 2 above)
9. Just because you score a home run does NOT mean you are done. You get to keep playing till you are OUT. So, if I hit a home run, I get to stay and try for another and so on. This allows players who are hot to pile up a LOT of runs
10. If you score a single, you go to second base and the other batter goes up to bat. He can then hit a single and go to second base and you come right back to home base
11. The average “20 over game) described above lasts ONLY THREE hours. Same as baseball. So, starts around 6 PM and is done at 9 PM
All in all, very straightforward. If you watch it, you will be hooked.
All of you are mostly talking about Test Cricket that is played for FIVE days straight and has 2 innings apiece and typically has 720 pitches per inning (on average). That certainly is slow and boring
In the 20 over cricket model, it is ALL ACTION. I mean it does not stop. Think of a baseball game in which the score was NYYankees 200 and Red Sox 190. It is very cool!
Watch it on YouTube. Google has just purchased the rights and will show it for free.
I enjoyed India beating Pakistan that year only because
the Pakies wanted to try and hang the ones on the team
that lost.
All I hear are crickets chirping on this topic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g04aCp3ej-I
What I’ve seen of Aussie rules football I liked. It seems like rugby on steroids, yes?
20/20, the form of cricket being discussed here, does precisely that - and that's why the IPL believes that, unlike the more traditional forms of the game, 20/20 may have a chance in the US. 40 6-ball overs maximum, and it's all over. (That and the very large sums of money the IPL has at its disposal.)
There is a U.S. Rugby League organization being formed; I used to play Rugby Union, but I can see how League would be successful in the U.S. I hope it succeeds.
yes. aussie rules football is a hoot..
“That was a wicked googly!”
That’s new,=A Texan trying to teach cricket to an Aussie!
Maybe you could please explain baseball rules to me as I would like to learn more about this sport.(For example to pitch a flyball,is the ball spun similar to a googly in cricket terms,(But in baseball?))
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