Could someone explain the rules of cricket please I'm Irish we apparently won today.

[gaelic cowboy]

England 327/8 (50 ov)

Ireland 329/7 (49.1 ov)

Ireland won by 3 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)

I havent a clue what it means but I like it

[InsaneApache]

Well done.

[gaelic cowboy]

Well done.

You should immediately tell Sky and BBC to do a news blackout most people here dont even know there is such a thing as a Cricket World Cup.

[drone]

An ignorant yank's take:

ov = over. 6 balls thrown at 1 wicket from 1 side is an over, after six you throw at the other wicket. I assume this was a limited over match, at 50 overs?

327/8 means England had 327 runs in 8 outs/wickets before reaching the over limit.

329/7 means Ireland had 329 runs with 7 outs/wickets, since they batted last they exceeded England's total before reaching the over limit, barely, with only 5 bowls left in the last over. I don't know why they say they won by 3 wickets, must be a limited over thing.

[gaelic cowboy]

I copy pasted it from ESPN so maybe they got it wrong but the texts have been flying here about the win apparently mate of my brothers has won big putting a few hundred on Ireland when they were like a couple of hundred to 1 to win.

[Hosakawa Tito]

From what I'm lead to believe, cricket is something to watch until all the kegs are empty.

[InsaneApache]

Aye tha's nowt like a googley for rubbing up the seam for a leg off.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

You get two cricket clubs. They cricket at each other. Then, whoever crickets the hardest is the king of cricket.

Apologies to SMBC

[stratigos vasilios]

An ignorant yank's take:

ov = over. 6 balls thrown at 1 wicket from 1 side is an over, after six you throw at the other wicket. I assume this was a limited over match, at 50 overs?

327/8 means England had 327 runs in 8 outs/wickets before reaching the over limit.

329/7 means Ireland had 329 runs with 7 outs/wickets, since they batted last they exceeded England's total before reaching the over limit, barely, with only 5 bowls left in the last over. I don't know why they say they won by 3 wickets, must be a limited over thing.

Very good! But you don't throw the ball, you bowl it. Your not allowed to bend your elbow when you bowl, if you do it's a throw and it's called a no ball and the opposition is awarded a run and a free hit (at which if they get out, their nor out).

They say won by 3 wickets as they chased the total with 3 wickets to spare.

Side note: I am very happy Ireland won, great work taking down England. I wonder if we'll play Ireland any time soon, I've been pretty slack with keeping up to date with the fixture.

[rajpoot]

A very surprising development actually....Ireland winning against England.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Ah, so according to my newspapers apparantly something quite extraordinary happened. Congratulations to the Irish! I think. Maybe the game goes on for another three days or something, I'll never quite understand this stuff.



Edit: Is this that one sport where you throw wickets at a board in a pub, aiming for that tiny twenty?

[gaelic cowboy]

This is the equivalent of a non league side beating Real Madrid in my view however by tomorrow everyone will have forgotten we won cricket is just non existent in Ireland.

[stratigos vasilios]

I think the Indians gave the Irish some major support on the day. Nothing like anyone beating the Imperials ay?...

[rajpoot]

I think the Indians gave the Irish some major support on the day. Nothing like anyone beating the Imperials ay?...

Only in Cricket :D
And ofcourse people liked seeing it after all our team could get was a tie.

Edit:

by tomorrow everyone will have forgotten we won cricket is just non existent in Ireland.

LOL, the Irish may forget, but Indians won't anytime soon....and I don't think England would either.

[gaelic cowboy]

LOL, the Irish may forget, but Indians won't anytime soon....and I don't think England would either.

Might take them a while to live it down, especially if India beat us next when England couldnt, the Indians will be double smiling then.

[InsaneApache]

Edit: Is this that one sport where you throw wickets at a board in a pub, aiming for that tiny twenty?

No. That's billiards.

[rajpoot]

Might take them a while to live it down, especially if India beat us next when England couldnt, the Indians will be double smiling then.

Well yeah, but IDK....IMO they're not in their best playing form right now. Still, if cricket teaches us anything it's that miracles can happen.....and that one must not participate in match fixing.

[Motep]

As an american, I am currently dazed and confused.

[InsaneApache]

As an american, I am currently dazed and confused.

Man.

[Banquo's Ghost]

As an american, I am currently dazed and confused.

This will help:

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.

[pevergreen]

Imagine baseball, but an actual sport.

[Boohugh]

This will help:

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.

I think you just made my day

[rajpoot]

This will help:

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.

Going to copy this to my Memorable quotes file.

[Motep]

This will help:

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.

My mind went "blah" after the first paragraph. During the active time, though, it was quite amusing, and not informative at all. For instance: how they get out.

Go ahead and dont answer that; I am pretty happy not knowing more things about this sport. I will just curl up in a corner for a while and think about cabbage.

[A Very Super Market]

As I recall, a friend of mine from Liverpool tried to explain it to me, after I told him that I already knew how soccer worked. I didn't get a word of it, so he offered to teach through example.

He took some garden canes and stuck them in the ground, put a golf ball on them, and told me to stand by it with a baseball bat. Then he went off and found an abnormally round and motioned to me "I am bowling this, not pelting it at your head"

He did bowl it, but at such high speed that it skipped, bounced, and hit me in the temple. I thought he was lying, so I was standing in baseball position, and fell over in fetal. When I came to, it turned out that I had a concussion, but was missing my iPod.

So far as I know, the game does not actually involved crickets in any way.

[Fragony]

Brilliant parody http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...2546566693867#

[rajpoot]

We won today.

[gaelic cowboy]

We won today.

That means now that England should hand over the ashes to India of course