I'm currently at the tournament venue and it appears that there's quite the crowd today...
I'm quite surprised because last time there weren't very many people present to watch this sport...
So let me get you down on the rules...
Let's say there's a ball, The size of your door knob and it's made out of leather...
There's a 22 yard pitch where you have to deliver the ball into and on the other side is the batsman taking stance to hit the ball.
What you have to do is either make him miss the ball and it hits the Stumps behind him which are made of Wood.
There are 3 such stumps that are the size and length of a small rod.
Standing while taking the support of the ground.
A part of the stumps are buried into the Ground to make them stand.
And on top of the Stumps are 2 small wooden Objects which are called bails.
And the moment these 2 bails come off the Stump will light up meaning the batsman is out.
There are various ways to our a batsman, you either make him miss the ball with the help of the 22 yard pitch and bold him out.
Meaning make sure that the ball makes contact with the stumps after delivary.
Or if by the chance the batsman uses his feet and runs down the track and misses the ball which is usually done to evade any swing or spin that the pitch offers by getting to where the ball is presumably about to pitch.
The one standing behind the Stumps wjo is called a wicket keeper will catch the delivered ball and will hit the bails.
This is called stumping which is done by the wicket keeper.
Another way to our a batsman is by a run out.
Once a batsman hits the ball, he's allowed to run between the 22 yard straight pitch with the non striker batsman.
Who is standing at the bowlers end meaning he's standing where the bowler is pitching the ball.
You usually have you bowl around the wicket or over the wicket.
Meaning to the left of the 3 stumps that are also present at the bowler's end or to the right of the stumps.
And wherever the bowlers delivers the bowl, The non striker is in the opposite side of the bowler blowing the ball.
And whenever they make one round of this 22 yard pitch they will be provided 1 run.
If they take 2 rounds it means 2 runs, 3 round s means 3 runs and so on.
And unlike baseball, Where you have to run the moment the ball is in play, Cricket doesn't have such a rule...
It's up to the batsman if he wants to take the run or not even if he's hit the ball or not.
If you haven't hit the ball you can still run and if you have hit the ball it's totally up to you if you take a run or not.
But, you have to make sure you can take the run because whenever a batsman is taking a run the Wickets or stumps at the opposite ends come into play.
And there's a white line on either side of the stumps and if you don't cross the line and if someone knocks the bails off the stumps before you make your ground it means that you are Out.
So, the run won't count and you too will be out if the bowler or the fileder hits the wickets before the batsman makes his ground.
It's not different from. Baseball where you have to throw it at the person to Dismiss him.
But, Unless you don't hit the wickets with the ball it won't be considered out.
If the ball slips out of your hands while trying to dismiss him that'd mean that the dismissal won't count even if you touched the bails and knocked them out.
That's another way to Dismiss a person.
One more way to Dismiss a person is the LBW role also known as the leg before wicket rule.
While batting if you haven't made contact with the bat and if the ball hits the equipments on your legs which are called Pads and if DRS states that the ball is hitting the wicket or if umpire believes that it's hitting the wicket he'll call it out.
And the batsman is out. No questions asked, unless there is DRS technology you won't be able to review the decision.
And it'll mean that you are out.
And also, there are 3 umpires in total who look after a match and there's the match refree.
There are 2 umpires on the Pitch one standing behind the wickets of the bowlers end and the other standing to the Left or right of The batsman.
A bit further away.
The important of these 2 umpires is to take care of 1 end of the Pitch.
One will look after 1 end of the pitch and the other will look after the other end of the pitch.
They usually give decisions about stumping, Lbw, No ball, Wides, Bouncers and some such.
They make most of the decisions.
The third empire exists for the Technology...
For example if a batter has picked the ball and the wicket keeper has cleanly taken the ball but the players are unsure about wheather he's picked it or not.
He can review it to the 3rd umpire.
There a Muc that is blaced inside the Stumps which will show if the player has nicked it or not.
Lbw calls, No balls, Or other such complications that can't be 100 percent right on field can be reviewed to the third empire either by the 2 empires or by the players who get 2 reviews each person innings.
There's also another way to Dismiss a player and that is by catch out.
It's simple really, It's like a high ball in Baseball. The batsman hits the ball in the air and the fielders, Bowlers or wicket keeper catches it than its out.
Now let's talk about the most important part of Cricket the runs.
As I said before you can score runs by running between the wickets meaning running between the 22 yards and passing the White line.
And than running back again.
But there are other ways to score runs.
There's the Boundary and 6.
If the ball goes rolling across the field and passes what we call a boundary which is a cushion type Object that is put up across the pitch at 360 degrees.
You can score anywhere across the 360 degree angles and you'll be rewarded a Boundary or a 4.
And if you hit the ball and it goes over the boundary Cushion or sometimes it's a rope depending on the budget of the match
Anyway, if it goes over the Cushion or the rope you'll be awarded a what you'd call in baseball terms A Homerun and in crecketinf terms it's a 6.
There are other ways to get free runs, Examples are a wide meaning in the pitch on the batter and bowler ends there's a vertical Line.
If you cross this line while bowling the batting team will be awarded 1 free runs and the delivery or ball won't be counted.
There's another easy way of scoring runs and that is the No Ball.
When a bowler steps his entire foot over the white line while bowling that will be rewarded as an Illegal delivery and he'll have to bowl it again and he'll get a point for free.
The best part of a no ball is that the next bawl is a free hit.
As the name suggests, No matter what you do... You won't get out of that particular ball.
It's literally a free hit. Except for a run out, You can't be dismissed in any other way for that ball.
It's like when you are fighting the final boss in a game and he just stops Attacking and allows you to get a critical hit.
And the last but not the least.
Cricket has 3 formats.
The Test Cricket or first Class cricket. This form of cricket goes on for 4-5 days until the entire batting team gets bowled out twice.
For both teams, the match won't end and if they don't get bowled out twice by the end of 5 days it'll be considered a draw.
And the other format is the One day Internationa or ODI for short and T 20 format.
The ODI is a 50/50 Format where a team bowling first has to either bowl out a team in 50 overs or bowl the entire 50 overs and than whatever the target the opponent poses you have to chase it down in 50 overs.
The T20 format is pretty much the same except for the cat that you only get 20 overs.
And how do the overs work you ask? I'll tell you
A bowler can bowl only 1 over at a time and he has to give the bowl to the next bowler after he finishes an over.
And a bowler can only bowl 10 overs a match for 50 Overs And 4 overs a match for 20 overs.
And In one over you need to ball 6 legal deliveries. Meaning, If you ball a novall, or a wide the ball won't count and you have to bowl it again.
And that way without any illegal deliveries you have to bowl 6 of them for an over to end.
And once your over is over, You'll have to give it to the next bowler and you can only bowl it after he ends his over.
And you can only bowl at most 10 of the 50 overs or 4 of the 20 Overs.
Since what I'm about to Play is a 20 over match if I get to bowl I can only bowl 4 Overs at most.
That's it for them rules, i can only hope I do well for myself in this tournament and atleast retrieve 3-4 Man of the matches so I can atleast get 10-15 Gold coins.
Well here we go...