AIBU to ask you if you understand the rules of cricket?

[Flyingfish2019]

Have to say I am not a Brit and had very little exposure if cricket but whenever I hear about it it sounds like it is a game with circa 5000 hard to remember rules and circa 30.000 exceptions from that rules and cannot be fun at all.
Is this just me?

No idea. Have watched one test match and I was so drunk (due to boredom) by 1030am I couldn't have told you who was playing never mind the rules

No idea. Don't know rules for tennis either. Have no interest 🤷‍♀️

Sometimes I think that my DH would have married cricket rather than. Me 😅. He encouraged me to attend matches with him, which I did until I was made redundant and we couldn't afford for both of us to go. He has his membership instead of Christmas and birthday presents.

I can follow play and understand the bowling types. I love the language of cricket like silly mid on/off, cow corner, bowling a googly etc but I don't understand them all.
Mainly its a case of scoring more than the opposition, the wickets (-4 etc) only come into play when the teams score the same in competitions.

Yep, i grew up watching it all summer, one tv and my dad was obsessed
Its generally easy to get basics after watching for a bit to understand the terms used. Like any sport really

Now cricket is what gets me through the off season for Aussie rules footy lol

I love cricket, it's one game you don't need to know all the rules to enjoy.. Basically, the team that are fielding need to get the batting team out asap! There's different sorts, 5 day test, 20 over, 50 over (an over is 6 balls) 20/20 is my favourite, it gets very exciting believe it or not.

Yes, have a good grasp of most of the Laws and am a qualified ECBACO Scorer.

It doesn't seem to be a big thing in my area in Scotland .I can see that there are a few clubs around, though not really in my County, but I don't know anyone who plays it, or anyone who follows it and I don't think I've even heard anyone mention the word. There's no plethora of pitches here either. I can find one but it doesn't look as though they've played there since 2015 and it didn't exist until 2010. Interesting to see that it's more popular in the East.

Yes, I understand. But it doesn't have rules, it has laws.

Basically, you have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

Each player 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 thats 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 all 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!

No its a mystery. Great game though.
Btw it not 'rules' it's 'laws and spirit'....just saying...

Ha x post champagne communist. ..!!

Yes, I was brought up on TMS and it's the sound of the summer to me. I remember it gave my dad huge comfort in his last days.

We were lucky enough to go to Australia for the 2006/7 Ashes. We "only" went to Perth, Melbourne (Boxing Day!) and Sydney on New Year's Day. We only had for tickets one day at each match. We hired a camper van.

The series started with Brisbane and then Adelaide and I can remember sitting up in the night at home in freezing England with a cup of tea listening to TMS and hearing the crowd and getting all excited because soon that would be us!

As we were driving across the Mullabor between Perth and Melbourne we were listening to the Australian coverage of the remaining days and then they segued with TMS for a bit and I was ridiculously excited that I was actually there.

My DH never met my dad which makes me sad as they would have loved each other and my dad would have been so chuffed for me to have such a cricketing adventure. Bugger. I've made myself cry now.

*Nullabor

Yes, I understand the rules reasonably well. We're another TMS household, it's a background to our summer. Any sport where you can turn up to watch with a picnic basket and wine, and while slow enough to allow you time to chat and go to the loo still has some of the most exciting endings to the matches is a winner.

Why is it such a point of honour not to understand sports?

Personally, I don't have five days to watch a bunch of men in white clothes cantering about.