Cricket anyone?

[HipChick]

anyone besides me following cricket?..

[mysuzuki2]

1. They only come out in the warm weather

why last summer I had one living under my refrigerator for weeks that kept me awake all night with its chirping!

[NV Whino]

2. Can anyone actually "follow" cricket?

;)

[bikebloke]

3. I used to.

Now I might sort of listen to the cricket scores on the BBC.

A bunch of us in a Sydney hostel went out and tried playing cricket once. We weren't sure what we were doing. And an american was bowling baseball-style pitches didn't help.

[meow2u3]

4. I don't understand cricket

The only thing I appreciate about cricket are the circus catches made barehanded by cricket's equivalent to baseball's outfielders.

Pardon my ignorance, but how does one understand the progress of the game?

[ikri]

5. A long read, but worth it

Cricket Explained (An American Viewpoint)

[TheMightyFavog]

6. Cricket explained:

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. 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 you get men still in and not 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. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.