Anyone can learn to understand, enjoy, and ultimately, love, cricket. Like the world’s greatest board game, Go, the principles are simple, but the variations endless. It disturbs me that so many of those sad souls labour under the misapprehension that the blessed game is an arcane and difficult one into whose mysteries you must be initiated from birth, otherwise understanding is impossible.Ĭricket is dead easy to understand.
It seems to me more than past time to set my simple principles of cricket down for the greater world to enjoy. Here in San Miguel I have lost count of how many times I’ve sat at a bar using glasses for batsmen and coasters for the fielders. Once a team has lost ten wickets the innings is finished.People from non-cricketing countries (poor, sad souls) often ask me to explain cricket to them.If a batsman is out another batsman replaces him.If the batsman is running and the fielder, bowler, or wicketkeeper throws the ball directly at the batsman’s stumps and the bail falls off before the batsman is inside the crease, he is out run out.If a fielder, bowler, or wicket keeper catches the batsman’s hit, he is out caught.If a batsman is hit by the ball on the legs, and it is judged that the ball would have gone on to hit the stumps, he is out leg before wicket.If a batsman hits the stumps with his bat and the bail falls off, he is out hit stumps.If a bowler, delivers a ball and the ball hits the stumps and the bail falls off, he is out Bowled.The batsmen take turns hitting the ball and running to the opposite wicket, trying to ensure they get their runs before the fielder throws the ball back. The two batsmen in the middle of the pitch need to make runs by hitting the ball, and the bowler will try to bowl them out. A coin toss decides which team bats or fields first. Familiarize yourself with the sequence of events.
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