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| What are the differences between cricket and baseball? |
| Well, there're quite a few. This section of the FAQ will deal with that. |
| Someone once told me that cricket is played on a 'pitch'. What's a pitch? |
| Ok, imagine a baseball diamond. Now, imagine there are only TWO bases instead of FOUR. That's a pitch! |
| Ok....then what? |
So, right now, we have two bases or ends: one is called the striker's end and the other is the non-striker's end. The batsman (cricket's counterpart to baseball's batter) bats at the striker's end. However, unlike baseball, the bowler (pitcher) bowls (pitches) from the non-striker's end.
The distance between the two ends is 22 yards. |
| Hang on there! Did you say 'bowls'? How big is a cricket ball exactly? It is 'ball', right? |
Yes, it is 'ball'! And it's actually not much bigger than a baseball! Maybe even smaller. Cricket balls are usually red in colour and are as hard as baseballs. However, and get this, fielders in cricket DON'T use gloves to catch the ball. Ouch!
NOTE: When cricket is played for leisure, tennis balls are used rather than actual 'cricket' balls. |
| So, how many players are there in a team in cricket? |
| There are 11 players per team. This usually comprises of 6-7 batsmen and 4-5 bowlers. And one of these eleven acts as a wicket-keeper (catcher in baseball). The wicket-keeper is the only one in the fielding team who wears gloves. |
| Tell me more about bowling! I want to be a bowler! |
The first thing you should know is that in cricket the ball is allowed to bounce before it gets to the batsman. In fact, when a ball gets to the batsman without pitching, it is considered 'poor bowling'.
A bowler doesn't just STAND at the non-striker's end to bowl. He runs in from some distance and uses that momentum when he releases the ball.
When a bowler bowls SIX legal deliveries (pitches), it constitutes one OVER (A One Day International match has fifty OVERS per team. We play forty over games in our league games, a shortened ODI game).
Two common circumstances under which a delivery is not considered legal are a WIDE (when the ball is too far away from the batsman) or a NO-BALL (when the ball is too high for the batsman). |
| Running in sounds like hard work! I think I'll be a batsman! |
Batting in cricket is a lot like in baseball. The batsman's aim it to score runs.
The 'bases' in cricket are always loaded in the sense that whenever there is a batsman at the striker's end (called the STRIKER), there SHOULD be a batsman at the non-striker's end (called the NON-STRIKER).
A run is scored when the striker manages to hit the ball somewhere and run to the non-striker's end while the non-striker runs to the striker's end.
When the striker manages to hit the ball over the boundary of the cricket field and the ball does not bounce on its way there, its a SIX and the team gets ... six runs! If it does bounce, its a FOUR (four runs).
Confused yet! Check out the BBC Cricket webpage for more info on batsmen and scoring. |
| And there are a refrees in all this somewhere, right? |
| Yup, only in cricket, we call them UMPIRES. There are usually two umpires on the field in a game. |
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