Pakistani Cricket

Can anyone explain cricket scores to a complete idiot please?

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1. cricket scores are shown by how many runs you have made then how many wickets have been taken e.g. u have scored 525 runs and you have lost 6 wickets so its shown 525-6 u get a run everytime u successfully run one length of the cricket strip u can get 4 runs if u hit it past the boundary with at least 1 bounce and u can get a 6 if u hit it over the boundary without it bouncing
2. It's difficult to make sense of the score without knowing all the rules. Try http://www.therulesofcricket.co.uk The game can be understood better when you remember that it originated as a means of stopping farm labourers from rioting. During the summer when there was not much work to do, they could relieve their frustrations by slinging (sorry bowling) a hard leather ball at the squire's idiot son, who only had a willow bat to defend himself. ;)
3. The answer to your question is probably no. Complete idiots can't understand much at all, let alone cricket scores. However, put simply, the team scoring the most runs wins. Then you get complexities of two innings, limited overs, one dayers etc.
4. the best way to understant anything is to watch it and find all stuff of cricket here
5. Please check the following website for complete details about cricket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket
6. hit the ball and complete one lap of the 22 yard pitch = 1 run. Most runs wins...that's pretty much it... if u hit the ball and it hits the fence = 4 runs over the fence on the full(no bounce) = 6 runs... person that throws(bowls) ball down the pitch to the batsman has 6 deliveries to bowl per his over(6 deliveries)... In one day internationals u get 50 overs of bowling and limits on who bowls how many...and it last for the best part of a u guesssed it...one day... a test match lasts five days...and u get through at least twice as many overs...u have 11 batsmen to hit the ball and run...once the team has batted this is called their innings... in test matches u get two innings...that's pretty much it... oh and england ivesnted it but are bad at it and australia excel at it... (-:
7. This is a classic british sport... we invent a game no one understands... and the whole world still beats us at it! Firstly the best way know is by the lingo: Over = 6 Deliveries (bowls) Runs = Number of times you can lap the 22 yrd pitch once after hitting the ball. (from one crease to the other) Crease = Stumps Stumps = Wooden sticks which if hit by the ball becomes a wicket. Wickets = How many batsman have been bowled out Innings = turns at batting Declared = The score stands although the team have not lost all of there wickets (usually in test matches as they can achieve very large numbers of runs.) If you have 342 - 7, then you have scored 342 runs, but have lost 7 batsmen (wickets), leaving only 3 left to score your runs, but you must always have two batsmen playing at the same time. hence why at the end of each innings is a batsmen who is declared "Not Out". In 20/20 matches you get 20 Overs as a limit per team. Each takes a turn at batting and fielding. having 1 set of innings each. This means that once you reach 20 overs, the batting is over for that team, regardless of whether they have had all there wickets taken. 1 Day international matches have a limit of 50 overs per team, again as above with only one set of innings per team. Then the five day test matches, as described are played over five days. These have unlimited overs, and an innings is completed when the batting side is bowled out, or they declare their score. thus allowing the other team to bat. This game is played, with each team being allowed two sets of innings. Hence why it is played over 5 days. the first team bats, notching up some runs, then when they finish there innings the next team bat and try to beat that score, in order to make the first team bat again. if they do not succeed in making the first team bat again, then they must use there second innings in order to try and win, leaving the first team in the lead with and innings still to play. if the second team do not manage to exceed the score set by the first team after they have completed their second innings, then the first team have won, without needing to bat a second time. The object of the game is to score more runs than the other team by the end all four innings. (if all four are needed) hope this helps
8. The team that are in try to stay in until the team that aren't in get them all out. Then the team that weren't in, go in and the team that were in try to get them all out. This happens twice! The team with the biggest number on the big board wins.
9. As several of the answers are absolutely superb to which I cannot add, I suggest that you get the real feel for cricket by finding someone who is a member of a cricket club, go to a match with him, and watch how many cricketers become complete idiots watching the gane from the Pavilion bar!
10. Probably not.
11. Can I just point out that a 'lap' of the 'pitch' (ie, to the other crease and back) actually constitutes two runs? One run is scored by running to the other crease (set of stumps), where the ball is bowled from.
12. no
13. When a batsman hits a ball hard enough he can run to the other wicket passing his partner on the way. If they do this once it is one run, if they return ie do it twice that's two runs, sometimes they can do this three or four times, however getting four runs it more likely to be made by the batsman hitting the ball over the boundary(that the line around the field of play) If the batsman hits over the boundary without the ball touching the floor, that is counted as six runs. There are other scores for instance if a ball bowled bounces off a batsmans leg or body without touching the bat and the batsmen take a run(s) that's counted as run(s) also but this is called a leg bye and does not go onto the batsmans score but but is added to the whole team score, another way to add to the team score is when the bowler bowls outside of his designated batting area making it virtually impossible for the batsman to play.
14. The way cricket scores go is by the amout of runs they get they mark them down when you get the amout of runs i should know because i play cricket for my country.
15. it's too boring the idiot is well off not knowing anything about the game.
16. everything you need can be explained by Sky sports new animated series. It covers everything from scoring to general cricketing concepts.... Found a full version on youtube ...
17. There are so many rules to cricket and they are always changing so if you log on to the following website, you can read them all for yourself: www.therulesofcricket.co.uk
18. Easy; Australia wins England looses.
19. A difficult thing about cricket that has always puzzled me is the following: The team that is in goes out onto the field until they are out and then they come back in. Once they are all out and have come in they then go out into the field and the other team comes in until they are all out and have come in and then the whole thing starts all over again. Why don't they just stick to an oval ball, 30 players and two sets of posts?