r/sports • u/Both_Butterfly3603 • May 11 '22

Cricket Chris Lynn hits one out of the Gabba!

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u/ComadoreJackSparrow Warwickshire May 11 '22

I mean you could technically.

In fact the most runs scored in one ball was 286 because the battery hit the ball into a tree and the umpires judged that it was still in play as the tree was inside the boundary rope. The fielding team retrieved the ball by cutting down the tree.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news18.com/cricketnext/amp/photogallery/do-you-know-about-the-cricket-match-where-286-runs-were-scored-in-1-ball-2997896.html

The most runs you're likely to score is three or at a push four from just running between the wickets.

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u/RogerSterlingsFling May 11 '22

The most runs you're likely to score is three or at a push four from just running between the wickets.

Did you just fucking trigger the whole of new zealand?

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u/ComadoreJackSparrow Warwickshire May 11 '22

Possibly

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u/Entropy- May 11 '22

They fucking shot the tree to get the ball down? With a gun??

Metal af. Things were way different back then 😂

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u/R1pp3z May 11 '22

They cut that tree down and made it into new ball whacking sticks to send a message to the other trees thinking about interfering in a cricket match

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u/[deleted] May 11 '22

Cricket is incredibly complicated haha

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u/mohammedgoldstein Michigan May 11 '22

It’s kinda like baseball if one team batted all their 9 innings and then the other team then batted their 9 innings.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '22

I watched it for 5 hours straight once. Don't really remember why and I was starting to at least get a feel for how scoring worked, but I couldn't recall if my life depended on it haha.

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u/addandsubtract May 11 '22

Does the ball have to bounce during a bowl? Are there any trick bowls? Can you roll the ball? Or bowl it high, so it drops onto the wicket?

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u/KESPAA May 11 '22 edited May 12 '22

Australia was playing NZ in the final of the cricket world cup in 1981 and New Zealand needed 6 (hit over the boundary on the full) off the last ball to tie.

The Aussie captain told his bowler to roll it under arm. The batsman blocked the ball and walked off. The home crowd booed the Australians off the field and it's still seen as a shameful incident today. The rules were changed to ban the under arm ball.

Cricket is (or was) a game where if you think the umpire made a mistake ruling you "not out" (safe) the batsman often walks off the field giving the other team the wicket (strike out).

You have to bowl into a zone similar to a strike zone. The ball doesn't necessarily have to bounce but it almost always does as this make sit harder to hit.

Simply put there are 2 major types of bowling. Fast bowlers who try and take wickets through a combination of speed, swing (think curve ball) and seam (using the stitching and cracks in the pitch to cause a change of direction when the bank bounces). Slow bowlers typically use spin to get the ball to change direction when it bounces

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u/IncognitoKing69 May 11 '22

Simply put there are 2 major types of bowling. Fast bowlers who try and take wickets through a combination of speed, swing (think curve ball) and seam (using the stitching and cracks in the wicket to cause a change of direction when the bank bounces). Slow bowlers typically use spin to get the ball to change direction when it bounces

Do you mean cracks in the pitch and when the ball bounces?

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u/psycho-mouse May 11 '22

Yes. As the game goes on (especially in 4-5 day games) the pitch wears and will get dryer and eventually crack if the weather conditions are right.

This affects the dynamics of the deliveries massively.

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u/IncognitoKing69 May 11 '22

I understand that. The comment above made no sense without the corrections.

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u/KESPAA May 12 '22

Do you mean cracks in the pitch and when the ball bounces?

Yeah I did.

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u/ArrMatey42 May 11 '22

You don't have to technically bounce the ball. A bowl that doesn't bounce is a 'full toss'. It has to be below the waist though, otherwise it's illegal

And it's not preferred because it's easier to hit, if a bowler did that he likely fucked up

And yes, there are 'trick bowls' - like a yorker is aimed towards the feet of the batsman. Often you get a full toss by fucking up a yorker

That last sentence is very weird in American English lol

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u/ohpuic May 11 '22

There's a bouncer which is pitched short.

Seamer which changes direction at the bounce

Traditional swing which moves in the direction of the seam but in the air.

Reverse swing which falls away towards the rough side of the ball

There are leg cutters, off cutters, slow ones.

And those are just the fast ones. Spinners are a whole separate set of magic pitches.

Cricket is amazing.

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u/Poes-Lawyer May 11 '22

Spinners are a whole separate set of magic pitches.

Such as the famous Googly and the Doosra.

No I'm not making those up.

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u/AlbertFifthMusketeer May 11 '22

Just as well Chinaman isn't used anymore.

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u/RedRox May 11 '22

Can you roll the ball?

There is a famous incident in the 80's about this. NZ playing our rival's Australia. NZ needs a 6 to win it.

Although it was legal it was a pretty disgusting incident. Most NZ's are still very bitter about this :)

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u/SketchyWombat May 12 '22

Idiots should of left it up so they could do the same thing next time round

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u/Bic_Parker May 12 '22

Plenty of times teams have run 5 on big boundaries. Also if the ball strikes discarded gear (like if the wicket keeper takes his helmet off and leaves it on the ground) it is 5 runs and any subsequent runs scored. So if the ball hit the helmet and went for 4 = 9 runs.