*takes deep intake of breath* OK, here goes... A bowler bowls six balls conescutively from one end, then another bowler must bowl six balls from the other end. Each six ball spell is called an over. A batsman remains batting until he is out, and there is no compulsion for the batsmen to swap ends. If they do change ends, following a shot, then a run is scored. There is no limit on the number of times they can run after a shot, of course with the proviso that they aren't run out (which is like being thrown out at a base). If they complete two runs, then the same batsman will face the bowling again. Unless it is the end of the over, because then the next ball will be bowled from the other end, and his partner will face that ball. Making sense so far?
Thanks Bailey, that was very informative. The guy trying to explain it to me in person lacked the patience for all of my "But what if..." questions.
certainly not the biggest, certainly very popular... but is played over summer, draws big crowds, but doesn't have great competition for popularity..... winter is aussie rules and summer is cricket.. suppose it is like baseball a bit... it is the nations pastime not sure exactly why we are so good.. suspect we have just evolved from what was originally British cricketers think the aussie teams in the 90s became much more professional and tougher, trained harder and improved rapidly whether we can keep it up in the next few years should be interesting
what is cricket? like, i've heard roughly what it is. but does anybody have a page explaining the game and the scoring?
Wikipedia is a good, open-source information site. Here's cricket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_(sport)
Cricket is a game played mostly by Canadians. They think they're playing baseball, but you know those Canadians, always trying to be like their bigger, cooler brother.
From the Southern States I take it. We have two different types of football in Australia. Rugby League (http://www.nrl.com.au) and the mess they call aussie rules (Its really Victorian Rules). AFL is popular in the southern states. Rugby League is popular in the important states! As for why Australia is good at Cricket, its because we are the greatest sporting nation on planet earth.
One of my Australian friends (yes, I'm ashamed to admit that I have more than one! ) explained it thus: Aussie Rules and Rugby League are regional in their appeal, but cricket is popular throughout the whole country. Would that be a fair assessment?
cricket is certainly more popular throughout the country yes AFL has teams in nearly every state and the winner of the last 3 years is from a so-called rugby state what about union hey Chris... one more off field incident and League is dead right
The 73 people watching club rugby in Sydney would suggest few give a stuff about union. Anyway, it will take more then a few rape claims, a star waking up in a hotel room with a dead girl, players sleeping with the team mates wives and a relaxed view of recreation drugs to hurt League.....oh hang on...thats not League is it! Basiclly this is how it stacks up. NSW, QLD and the ACT is League. WA, VIC, SA, TAS is AFL. In the NT its just to bloody hot to do anything! Cricket is like a neutral sport.....I guess soccer is the same. But the football codes are the really big sports in Australia. Im sure if you asked most sports fans to choose between their football code and Cricket.....the decision would be a quick one. I used to hate AFL but to be honest its just a sport I dont care for. They do a great job with promoting the game though.....League doesnt promote their game at all. I would suggest people check out both sports and make their own mind up. The last thing that will conmvice anyone which game is better is a slanging match which I would win!
So Australia is a bit like the US then, the majority sports aren't really played by other countries? I can't think of any other major countries that play League and Union where League is more popular, and Aussie Rules I've never heard of played anywhere else.
Rugby Union is played in: England Scotland Wales Ireland France New Zealand South Africa Other nations are: Italy Argentina Japan (Second most popular sport behind baseball) Fiji Samoa Tonga The US played in the Rugby World Cup last year.
Yes. I know where Rugby Union is played. I'm British. In fact, I play Union. My point was in Australia, Union isn't a majority sport. In all the other countries you listed (to the best of my knowledge) Union takes precedence over League.
Rugby League: Australia New Zealand France England Ireland Russia Wales Scotland Lebanon U.S. PNG Pacific Islands There are other countries that play League....but I only wanted to list the ones that I can assure you play the game. Other nations like South Africa, Morrocco, Serbia, Japan and the like only seem to pop up when a World Cup is played. League is VERY strong at club level. The NRL is the biggest and best club competition of either Rugby code in the World. I would suggest people wanting to have a look at League do two things. 1. Go to the NRL web site (http://www.nrl.com.au) and look at a a representative series called the "State Of Origin". Its a three game series played bwteen New South Wales and Queensland....and it is without doubt the toughest football in the world. 2. Near the end of the year Australia is to play the U.S. Test team in New York. The Australian Kangaroo's (As they are called) is like the U.S. Basketball Dream Team of the early 90's. They have not lost a series of any mind in about 25 years and they have kept that record against top class competition.
I'm not trying to criticise, or start a League-Union argument, but in: New Zealand (?) France England Ireland Wales Scotland Union is considerably more popular (I put a question mark next to NZ, because I'm not sure). The other countries that you list aren't really what I would describe as "major" countries in either code. My only point was, that in countries where rugby is popular, Australia is the only one with a preference for League.
Cricket is aour National sport, we are the best cricketing country and had the best player ever, Don Bradman. Cricket may seem boring to you guys to watch, but it is very fun to play. In baseball you only get one hit but in cricket you bat until you get out or run out of overs, smashing the ball all over the park.
Except we don't have the ego to call it the World championship or World Series Chris - NT is definitely AFL and don't tell me Rugby League is a world sport... Aussies, Poms and the Sheepuckers... 3 countries thats not a world sport
