Cricket Question

[shoshntosh]

I am new to the game of cricket and would really like a book that would provide me with a nice overview, just so that I can better enjoy the game. Can anyone recommend such a book? Thank you.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

The most succinct rules of cricket:

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.

[SteveT]

you are such a wordsmith Peckhamgatecrasher.;-)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Have to confess - it's a classic taken from a teatowel.

[Marmora Man]

John Arlott wrote a book "How to watch cricket" in 1983 - I would expect that someone has updated it. Try an Amazon search perhaps?

[bignumber5]

for cricket spectating, I found this handy. http://www.iscacrows.co.uk/Field%20positions.JPG

Just watch a well commentated game with this by your side, it helps a bit! (commentating on cricket ALWAYS better on radio, my dad swears by tv on mute and radio on for commentator...)

[????]

er, anyone seen how crap we're doing right now in Kiwi land 3 down for 4 runs....

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Pietersen seems to have saved the day.

BTW from the journalist classes thread, it seems that shoshntosh is a ringer - don't bother trying to help him/her.

[Brendan]

Bailed out by a saffa.

Again.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

They have their uses - occasionally!