Cricket is a lot like baseball except for the time amounts. Majors’ games can last up to three days and my games are around three hours long. It gets pretty boring.
Cricket games have innings like baseball, but in baseball innings are over when there are three outs and in cricket innings are over when all the players have batted. In my league we do one innings.
Cricket talk
Bowler - A bowler bowls the ball to a batter.
Wicket - Wickets are three poles in the ground. If the bowler hits the wickets the batter is out.
Wicket keeper - When the bowler misses the wickets, the wicket keeper fields the ball.
Backstop - Backs up the wicket keeper.
Innings - Plural is always used even if it is a single innings.
Gear
Ball - A little harder than a baseball.
Bat - A bat is three sided. The hitting side is larger than the other two.
Batting pads - When you are batting you have to wear very hot pads all over your body for protection against the rock hard balls.
Note
There are no gloves allowed except for the batter and the wicket keeper!
Clothes
White shirt, white pants, white socks and a hat.
I am thinking about not playing cricket next year and playing golf because I went to the New Zealand Open golf tournament. It was pretty cool, but it is my next blog.
To see positions of players, use the diagram and the key.
Key for Cricket Field Diagram
Defense
1 (Red) = Wicket keeper
2 (Red) = Backstop
3,4,6,7 and 8 (Red) = Fielders
5 (Red) = Bowler
Offense
9 (Green) = Non-batting batter
10 (Green)= Batting batter
Boundaries and Wickets
11 and 12 (Yellow) = wickets
13 = boundary line
Dim lines =lower grass
p.s. Carolyn here now. I just found a blog entry that should have posted 8 December, titled "Good On You, Colin and Liam." I was writing about the 15-16 November, the boys first few days of cricket. There is a link to photos from Liam's first game. I am not sure why it wasn't posted already.
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