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On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, [email protected] [FT100] wrote:
> You lost me at "Stumps" Dave. HI HI
At the risk of going OT, I always find it difficult to explain cricket to
Americans :-) Such as even after five days of play it can result in a
draw (one side collected more wickets, but the other side scored more
runs).
> In baseball, if you strike out, it means you swung at the ball 3 times
> and missed it all 3 times or the umpire deemed that three pitches were
> within the strike zone but the batter didn't swing or a combination of
> those occurs 3 times.
Hmmm... The closest in cricket would then be "out obstruct play" i.e.
taking too long to score by playing purely defensively. I think that was
since merged with "out obstruct fielder" i.e. preventing a fielder from
taking a catch or throwing the ball back to the wicket.
> But then there's the scenario of when the first two swings are hit foul,
> they are also considered strikes.
Which reminds me, there's another obscure one: "out hit ball twice".
> And if you're not confused by now, it just means you're not paying
> attention.
:-)
I've tried to figure out the rules, but it's an utterly foreign game to
me... Just like American football, where it's someone's job to physically
block the defenders or something (in the various Aussie football games,
that would be considered a foul, by tackling someone who is not in
possession of the ball).
Two nations divided by a common language, and all that :-)
-- Dave VK2KFU
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