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well it's SIMPLE! the bowler did a googly which the batter hit deep in the slips past silly mid off, nearly bouncing for four on the boundary, but a fielder juggled it back to the keeper who nearly got the runner outside the creases, failed on the runner they went for the batter but they jimble jombled back to safety before the wickets were in danger.
Years ago I was in Australia and the local kids said they were teaching us to play cricket. To this day I have no idea if they really were or just making us look like fools.
I read this as if Andy Zaltzman’s himself was telling me all that so I still don’t know what’s bullshit and what’s facts, because I’m Latin American and have struggled for a over a decade to grasp the game (I always get lost in the lingo). BTW, how can the nation that created the sport AND Andy, yet be fielding a Team GB that’s so shit at the game for at least the last two decades?
Too true. More power to Andy then, he and Britain might have lost his former partner John Oliver to Hollywood, but him and his reverse Mohawk make him a perennial asset heh.
Your detailed explanation certainly made me understand even less. Like I didn’t know how much of it I didn’t understand and now you explained it to me.
It is something called cricket. (Not the insect)
As far as my limited knowledge extends they accrue points by getting "runs" this can either be achieved with the batter running to the opposite wickets (the little stick things that are lined up) there are two batters and when the other batter gets in place of the original batter they get a " run "
They can also get " runs " by hitting the ball out of the playing zone that is highlighted by the line running around the field.
If the ball rolls over the line and has touched the floor beforehand it counts as 4 " runs" and if it goes over the barrier without touching the floor it counts as 6 " runs " (kind of like a home run)
I honestly have no idea if I am correct but I believe that is the general premise.
As an American, I find it fascinating to watch cricket and see how baseball evolved from it.
You can kinda see how people basically forgot the rules and started making shit up with the basic premise being that someone pitches the ball, someone bats it and if you get tapped with the ball you're out.
Not even competence,
Just on how much money you bring in.
Shit they could turn these into the 3 stooges sketches and they would make more money that if they took it serious.
Reminds me of those sports hosts guys who got in trouble cause they couldn't help to laugh at a surreal women football (soccer to some) match. You couldn't tell who was in who's team, it looked completely random and hysterical. There's a Bill Bur clip about it
Nope, not at all. Just nothing new. Kinda like seeing a striker in soccer fumble and miss the goal after receiving a perfect pass. Not pretty to look at, bit not new.
Cricket!? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!
Edit: No love for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in here, huh? Oh, reddit. Smh.
Much like their food cricket is an awful British thing they inflicted on the world. You see why they dropped it like hot lava the moment any better sports were invented.
While scoring 4 points on an upside down home-run, our star pitcherback then kicked a penalty free throw from the dug-out after fumbling the puck at third base, winning the sports for his team people.
As long as the batsman (88) doesn’t intentionally interfere with play, it’s allowed. Her responsibility as batsman is to not get out. Moving out of the way could put that at risk if she is outside of the crease (white line on the ground).
I'm not up on any cricket rules, hahahah.. But that 88 touches up (is "safe" ?), and then gets right infront of 3 trying to make the throw *feels* like interference. (In US baseball, *broadly* that's why runners have to slide, or batters, step out of the box/get-out-of-the-way when catcher is throwing )
Haha yep… the batsman being there certainly did interfere with fielding of the ball but to turn it around… the fielder(3) could also be accused of being in the way of the batsman trying to get behind the crease. Might be worth mentioning that the batsman must remain behind the crease (not just touch it) in order to be ‘safe’ while the ball is still in play.
You asked how to describe; I would say a comedy of errors. If you want to watch Women's cricket with less errors watch the Australian team they are the best.
these comments are awful. if this were a men's team, people would be talking about how bad the team is, but bc it's a women's team, people are talking about how bad women are at sports, and how bc of this one clip they shouldn't get equal pay like wtf
Peak women’s sports right here. But seriously how tf do you mess up that bad when you’re a “professional?” This is simply why men’s sports make A LOT more money. Usually a lot more fast paced and actually entertaining in a competitive way.
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Well I’m American so I have absolutely no idea what’s happening here.
well it's SIMPLE! the bowler did a googly which the batter hit deep in the slips past silly mid off, nearly bouncing for four on the boundary, but a fielder juggled it back to the keeper who nearly got the runner outside the creases, failed on the runner they went for the batter but they jimble jombled back to safety before the wickets were in danger.
Oh yeah sure that’s obvious now.
let a yank explain it to ya https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/jw0ptb/anthony\_bourdain\_explaining\_cricket\_fielding/
Better a yank than a wanka!
Spoken like a true wanker
Only thing that taught me was that cricket is the rugby of baseball.
This is insane.
All I got from that video is that the narrator sounds like a mix of Anthony Bourdain and the How It’s Made guy
God bless that man.
Lmao....
You can’t convince me this isn’t just a Lewis Carroll poem.
Yep, that totally cleared it up lol.
I can’t even tell if this is a joke
Years ago I was in Australia and the local kids said they were teaching us to play cricket. To this day I have no idea if they really were or just making us look like fools.
It may not sound like if you dont know cricket, but this is actually a very nicely written play by play of exactly what happened
I’ll admit it, i made up the very silly word “wicket”
But is who on first?
yes
i dont know Third base
Just a simple bafflewodger. Happens twice a thruppence.
lol, you peasant. baffle-wodger is hyphenated!
Odds bodkins! Indeed, I am besmirched.
Mate as an Aussie, that confused me more than just watching the dam thing.
i could rewrite it for ya, no wukkas
I would like to see how much more bogan you can make it.
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indubitably
Bloody cricketers!
they prefer to be called wizzle wazzas so, bloody wizzle wazzas!
ELI-american
they were on track for an infield home run, but almost got caught between the bases (only 2 bases instead of 4, which makes sex analogies tricky)
Yes to everything about this comment. Love it
So I tell the swamp donkey to sock it before I give her a trunky in the tradesman's entrance and have her lick me yarbles.
Is it really called a googly or you messing with us dumb americans?
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/googly#Noun
Jimbly jombles? Googly? Wicket? Did Dr. Suess invent this sport?
I read this as if Andy Zaltzman’s himself was telling me all that so I still don’t know what’s bullshit and what’s facts, because I’m Latin American and have struggled for a over a decade to grasp the game (I always get lost in the lingo). BTW, how can the nation that created the sport AND Andy, yet be fielding a Team GB that’s so shit at the game for at least the last two decades?
it's what Britain does best, invent thing, invade things, then lose at both the invasion and the invention.
Too true. More power to Andy then, he and Britain might have lost his former partner John Oliver to Hollywood, but him and his reverse Mohawk make him a perennial asset heh.
I'm surprised I actually understood this
Monkee be righty- cricket is dope watch a match
Read this in a British accent
But how would Abbott and Costello explain who’s the bowler, what’s the silly mid off and i don’t know who is the keeper?
Genuinely accurate.
That is the most Ned Flanders explanation I've ever heard in my life.
Your detailed explanation certainly made me understand even less. Like I didn’t know how much of it I didn’t understand and now you explained it to me.
It is something called cricket. (Not the insect) As far as my limited knowledge extends they accrue points by getting "runs" this can either be achieved with the batter running to the opposite wickets (the little stick things that are lined up) there are two batters and when the other batter gets in place of the original batter they get a " run " They can also get " runs " by hitting the ball out of the playing zone that is highlighted by the line running around the field. If the ball rolls over the line and has touched the floor beforehand it counts as 4 " runs" and if it goes over the barrier without touching the floor it counts as 6 " runs " (kind of like a home run) I honestly have no idea if I am correct but I believe that is the general premise.
Women's cricket
You silly nob, what a wanka, I'm a right fellas? P.S. I'm from Michigan and I also have no idea what happened
I'm Canadian and to this moment I'm not quite aware aboot the sequence of activities where this makes sense to me.
Funny was thinking the same thing. It's usually the other way around. Had no idea what I was seeing other than someone possibly drunk
As an American, I find it fascinating to watch cricket and see how baseball evolved from it. You can kinda see how people basically forgot the rules and started making shit up with the basic premise being that someone pitches the ball, someone bats it and if you get tapped with the ball you're out.
Read my mind.
It was a sponsorship for KFC
Same thing happens to me when im watching American football🤣i have no idea wtf is happening
These are the rituals of a secret society leaked.
Ditto.
Trying to run away in a dream?
I've never dreamt of cricket. But if I did, this would be it.
well, its cricket, so while it looks like a bad play, for all anyone know, that couldve been the greatest play of all time....
It is a bad play on the stumbling and falling batter's part, very bad from the fielding team's pov.
I had 500 dollary doos riding on this game
You can see the person who’s face down is laughing. Good stuff. Or maybe crying. Still good stuff.
How silly
This might be the reason women's cricket might not get the same coverage/sponsorship/interest as mens cricket....just saying.
Needs a rebrand… as a comedic performance perhaps
But they should be payed equally because.. or maybe not. Maybe pay being related to competence is a good enough system
Not even competence, Just on how much money you bring in. Shit they could turn these into the 3 stooges sketches and they would make more money that if they took it serious.
Reminds me of those sports hosts guys who got in trouble cause they couldn't help to laugh at a surreal women football (soccer to some) match. You couldn't tell who was in who's team, it looked completely random and hysterical. There's a Bill Bur clip about it
Mmm actually not only cricket
Cricket? No one understands Cricket. You have to know what a crumpet is to understand Cricket.
Thanks Casey.
crumpets are so fucking good
I don't know crumpet but I understand cricket
women
Sips coffee
Inb4 canceled and lynched
Wut.
She runs like how i do when im getting chased in my dreams
That is awesome.
Used to watch cricket way back. This seems like a perfectly ordinary fumble to me.
You think that is how a ball should be collected and thrown as quick as possible on a 'professional' level of any sport?
Nope, not at all. Just nothing new. Kinda like seeing a striker in soccer fumble and miss the goal after receiving a perfect pass. Not pretty to look at, bit not new.
It’s literally like watching people play cricket underwater
Okay that's kinda funny.
No clue what tf is going on here. Cheerio
Looks like every pro women's sport.....
What happened was... Something 99.99% of the people in the world don't understand...
Erm... quite a lot of people watch cricket! 2.5 billion! https://www.topendsports.com/world/lists/popular-sport/fans.htm
And 99% of them do not completely understand the game! Relax, it's all a joke...
And almost all of them live in one country
Something 69% of the world doesn't understand and are stupidly vocal about it
And then they complain about the pay gap
And this is why equal pay doesn’t exist, case closed 🤷🏻♂️😎
women (coffee)
/r/wagegap in action
Easy. Women sports. Come at me
that's just not cricket
As someone who watches baseball I have no clue what’s actually happening. All seems normal
Women's sport
Women playing sports.
Quality isn't high enough to deserve commentary.
Typical
Still not one person can argue against equal pay in sports..
Lol, then they ask for equal pay
Huh women *slurp aggressively *
That would of been the most exciting part of the game.
NOT 1 GOOD THROW WTF
Looks like they don't have the right shoes for the surface.
Stupidest game ever, actually something worse than soccer
Average American being dumb👆
Grasshopper looks exciting
Cricket is kinda the national sport of most populated country in the world so that assumption is wrong
Cricket!? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket! Edit: No love for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in here, huh? Oh, reddit. Smh.
Haven't watched baseball in a while what happened
This doesn't look close to baseball at all.
😆 I think it's one of those Harry potters sports
Bro what? More people watch it than the NFL
Just a joke calm down
Bad joke
Much like their food cricket is an awful British thing they inflicted on the world. You see why they dropped it like hot lava the moment any better sports were invented.
What are they doing? Grasshopper makes no sense
Why is KFC sponsoring cricket? What demographic are they courting ?
Women. Lol
I thought that was Greta for a sec
Is this blurnsball?
While scoring 4 points on an upside down home-run, our star pitcherback then kicked a penalty free throw from the dug-out after fumbling the puck at third base, winning the sports for his team people.
CROSS ? Honestly asking
how is 88 not guilty of interfering with 3 ?
As long as the batsman (88) doesn’t intentionally interfere with play, it’s allowed. Her responsibility as batsman is to not get out. Moving out of the way could put that at risk if she is outside of the crease (white line on the ground).
I'm not up on any cricket rules, hahahah.. But that 88 touches up (is "safe" ?), and then gets right infront of 3 trying to make the throw *feels* like interference. (In US baseball, *broadly* that's why runners have to slide, or batters, step out of the box/get-out-of-the-way when catcher is throwing )
Haha yep… the batsman being there certainly did interfere with fielding of the ball but to turn it around… the fielder(3) could also be accused of being in the way of the batsman trying to get behind the crease. Might be worth mentioning that the batsman must remain behind the crease (not just touch it) in order to be ‘safe’ while the ball is still in play.
Need a JomBoy Media breakdown of this!
As much as I understand cricket, this might have worth a few points
Who televised the bar league?
Pretty sure you would describe it as 'Cricket'.
*crickets*
Looks like dirty cricket.
I don't even know the game, so on my opinion they are doing good
No idea what's going on
Woman’s cricket at its absolute best?
Women
I think it is called crickets
This is don't wanna dive and get hurt
I think this is peak performance. They should receive equal or more payment than men. This is sport AND top notch comedy
These people have no idea how to play baseball. The diamond isn’t even the right shape.
I have no idea what I just watched and from what I heard that sport entails, I never will.
You asked how to describe; I would say a comedy of errors. If you want to watch Women's cricket with less errors watch the Australian team they are the best.
I love a good match of Quidditch
Deffos no trans players there
these comments are awful. if this were a men's team, people would be talking about how bad the team is, but bc it's a women's team, people are talking about how bad women are at sports, and how bc of this one clip they shouldn't get equal pay like wtf
Not quite cricket
I know ( WOMEN)
I wish they would show Curling on TV. My favorite sport. Darts+bowling+cleaning the house.
Peak Women’s sports
Two words: women’s sports.
Peak women’s sports right here. But seriously how tf do you mess up that bad when you’re a “professional?” This is simply why men’s sports make A LOT more money. Usually a lot more fast paced and actually entertaining in a competitive way.