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Message: <blockquote data-quote="glass" data-source="post: 3119331" data-attributes="member: 12251">OK, I'll field the cricket one (if you'll pardon the pun <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />).A cricket pitch comprises two wickets (which are precariously balance wooden assemblies) 22 yeards apart. In front of each is a small area called the crease, where the batsmen stand. There are two batsmen in play at any one time, one in each crease. All eleven men on the fielding team are on the pitch. One is bowling, one is the wicket keeper (see below), and the rest are aranged around the field in a number of colourfully-named positions.One batsman is facing the bowler, and he is said to be 'on strike'. The bowler bowls towards him from by the opposite wicket, with an overarm straigt-armed and, and he has to prevent the ball from hitting his wicket, and ideally hit the ball away from the fielders so he can run.To score, both batsment have to run from the crease they are in to the other crease. That scores one run (and changes who is on strike). If they have time, they try for a second (AFAIK they can keep running as long as the fielders let them, but there is almost never time for more than a couple of runs). The other way to score is to get the ball to the boundary, which is rope around the edge of the pitch. That is worth 4 runs (or 6, if the ball doesn't bounce first).The fielding team's job is to get the batsmen out. There are lots of ways to do this, but the main ones are bowled (where the bowler hits the wicket directly and the bails knocked off), caught (where a fielder catches the ball directly from the batsman's bat), and run out (where a batsmen tries for a run and the bails are knocked of the wiket he is running to before he gets into the crease), and LBW (where the batsman prevents the ball from hitting the wicket with his leg rather than the bat).When ten of the eleven batsmen have been got out, the team is decribed as 'all out' (even though they are not <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />), and that is the end of the innings. Then the fielding team get an innings of batting (and vice versa).In test cricket, the teams get two innings each over four or five days. Both teams have to complete both their innings in the time, or the match is a draw regardless of the current score. Otherwise, if the fielding team bowls the batting team out in the last innings before they catch up on runs, then the are said to have won by the difference in runs. Conversly, if the batting team runs gets one more run then the fielding teams total, they are said to have won by the number of wickets they have left.glass.</blockquote>

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