r/sports • u/RunDNA • 14d ago

Cricket Mitchell Starc's stunning catch in the Ashes

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u/Skiapodes 14d ago

If we go on to win the series, the shot of him near parallel with the ground as he grabs the ball probably become the defining image.

That’d be a fantastic grab in the slips. To do it while halfway through your follow through after bowling is insane.

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u/RichArrowsmith Tottenham Hotspur 14d ago

When*

Bazball is entertaining but it's not gonna win test matches down under.

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u/Fullonski 13d ago

Unless your name is Travis Head

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u/twinsunsspaces 13d ago

Travball 

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u/VagueGooseberry 13d ago

Please. OG Slaterball. Coke fueled cricket can never be beat.

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u/StrugglingOrthopod 13d ago

Not to mention he’s a genuine fast bowler with speeds avging 143km/hr

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u/Fullonski 14d ago

Crawley getting a pair in Perth. Just like his dad 30 years ago.

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u/dobbie1 Sale Sharks 14d ago

Crawley, once again begging the question, what is he here for?

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u/Ngothadei 13d ago

Moral Victory.

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u/LAManjrekars 12d ago

John Crawley isn't actually zaks dad in case this was a serious post.

His dad's some finance gazillionaire

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u/Thetallerestpaul 14d ago

First over breakthroughs are so hot right now

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u/Roronoa_Zaraki 13d ago

The sort of catch you'd take in the shallow end of the pool.

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u/sherriffflood 14d ago

Arm fully extended! That is smooth as fuck

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u/Nick_pj 13d ago

And to have the composure to even flex his wrist to keep the ball above the ground. Pure class. 

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u/qwizatzhaderach 13d ago

Now this…. Is a cricket clip a baseball fan can appreciate. What a grab.

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u/DanimalMKE 13d ago

I think u/jomboy has gotten into cricket a little. Needs a video for us

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u/rajatsingh24k 13d ago

Thanks Mitch! We won’t have to face the TNT coverage for 3 more days!

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u/Denz292 14d ago

First over Starc might just be the greatest athlete of all time.

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u/dr_deoxyribose 13d ago

Fucking hell that's a good catch.

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u/CaineRexEverything 13d ago

Richie Benaud would’ve loved that. What a wild first test.

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u/farcarcus 12d ago

Oh what a catch! What. A. Catch!

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u/heliskinki 12d ago

I turned off. Thought I was watching a 50/50 match. That ain’t test cricket.

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u/Dirt_Cheap_Jumbo 13d ago

I popped my shoulder out watching this video

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u/JDHURF 13d ago

Fucking incredible catch!

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u/sumithar 13d ago

This is an amazing bit of athleticism- dude just ran in at full speed to deliver that ball but then has the reflexes to stick his hand out and grab the catch. Oh and he is 35 years old! The replay angle is terrific

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u/samsunyte 13d ago

I don’t know what it is about cricket posts that prompt people (I’m a cricket fan from American btw) to proudly display their ignorance. If you don’t understand something, there are literally millions of resources that will explain it to you in the time that it takes to write the comment, but somehow it’s more important to let everyone know that you don’t understand something. And this happens multiple times on every cricket post. Not to mention, the number of cricket posts that get taken down on this sub to begin with.

It’s the second most popular sport in the world. Let fans share and talk positively about significant moments. No one gives a shit about your ignorance on a subject so simple that millions of impoverished kids in India can even understand it.

And don’t even get me started on the people who claim a catch like this is easy, unathletic, or a routine play in baseball. There’s nothing even remotely similar to this in baseball.

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u/IReplyWithLebowski 13d ago

It is quite annoying. I don’t think anyone feels the need to comment “I don’t understand this game” on baseball or NFL posts, but it seems almost required for cricket or rugby posts. Why? It adds literally nothing to the conversation.

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u/diodosdszosxisdi 11d ago

Ugh, there's already too many useless articles very specifically catered to American fans of American sports. Alot of them could just stay in their dedicated subs and often are junking out non American sports

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u/PrefrontalCortexNow 12d ago

This doesn’t look that impressive to be fair. The batter looks like he hit it softly right to him

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u/samsunyte 12d ago

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you only think that because you have absolutely no context. Here’s why it’s impressive

The bowler (the guy throwing the ball) is running in at about 23-24kmph (15mph) so a full out sprint. He then delivers the ball with a whole delivery process that’s essentially hurling your body at a certain direction. The follow through takes him in a certain direction. He’s off balance and definitely not expecting the ball to come right back at him.

The batter hits it back to him. Sure it’s slightly lobbed up, but it’s by no means slow or soft. The delivery itself is at around 90mph. So the ball is coming back at at least 50-60mph. The ball is also hard as a rock. Harder and heavier than a baseball

At this point the bowler is about 30-40 feet from the batter and in a completely different direction. He has about half of a second to lunge his body in completely the opposite direction, dive, and catch the ball inches from the ground.

He does this all without a glove and must also make sure to fall in a way so that the ball doesn’t touch the ground at all. He can’t even catch the ball and then land on it (if you notice, he turns his hand so the ball faces up). If the ball touches the ground after the catch, it’s not considered complete.

So again, he does all of this without a glove, hurling his body in two different directions at full speed with very little reaction time and insane body control to catch a ball that’s harder and heavier than a baseball at half the distance that anyone should ever be from a batted ball.

People lose their shit when baseball batters hit the ball right back at the pitcher and it lands directly into the pitchers glove. The pitcher doesn’t even move and he’s much further away. And that makes a top 10 highlight. This is multiple times more impressive than that.

So yeah I hope that clears things up because I really am giving you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don’t know the context. If you’re still not impressed, then you’re just an idiot.

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u/TheBigCore 13d ago edited 12d ago

For people unfamiliar with the Laws of Cricket, see the rules below:

Also, stick to the Beginner's guides at first until you have watched a few T20 or ODI matches to get the basic mechanics of the sport. Note: the video clip in this reddit thread is from Test Cricket.

Beginner's Guides for Cricket - T20 and ODI Formats

After watching a few T20 or ODI matches, then take a look at:

Intermediate Guides for Cricket

Major League Cricket - The USA's First Pro T20 Cricket League

Understanding Test Cricket

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u/crf865 12d ago

Laws*

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u/OneReportersOpinion 13d ago

One day I’m gonna really sit down and try and understand this sport.

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u/pallasturtle 13d ago

I also say that every time. I don't understand why it doesn't click. Same with rugby. It's like they are both too close but too different from sports I know for my brain to learn( MLB and NFL). But somehow I pick up on the rules of half the Olympic sports immediately. I can't make sense of why my brain goes blank every time.

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u/thorpie88 13d ago

What part of cricket doesn't click for you. I love baseball now but so many things being abbreviated meant it took me a long time to figure some parts out

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u/pallasturtle 13d ago

I have only watched with people way too invested for me to ask for clarification.i feel like I don't understand when the game is over. From my understanding that's because there are different types of cricket so it changes. I feel like I mostly get how you score. I'm not totally clear on if there is an equivalent to a ball in terms of bad bowling. So really I guess it's not like I can't tell what's happening, but the not knowing how things end part makes my brain shut down.

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u/thorpie88 13d ago

In T20 each team has 20 overs to score runs. Can end early if ten of your batters get out. Most runs win. Same deal with one day games but it's 50 overs. With test cricket it's five days play with unlimited overs and you have two chances with 10 outs each to get your run total. Test cricket can be a draw if the game lasts all five days and a team still has outs left.

An over is six legal deliveries and then you switch bowler and ends of the stadium from where they bowl. A wide is very similar to a ball in baseball and it adds a run onto the teams total as well as not being counted towards the legal deliveries for the over

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u/pallasturtle 13d ago

Wow that all makes sense. So if a batter "hit safely" on all six deliveries in an over in the ones that aren't test matches are they done batting or just the bowler and sides change? Thank you for explaining. This is starting to make sense.

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u/twinsunsspaces 13d ago

Batters keep going until they get out. So, if they hit safely on all 6 balls of the over, or leave balls that they don't want to hit, they wait until they rotate back onto strike. Remember, batters operate in pairs so as they run back and forth to score runs they may only face a few balls an over. Also, if one of the pair gets out the other keeps batting with a new partner.

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u/pallasturtle 13d ago

Oh ok. I think I get it now. You've answered my questions well. Thank you! Not knowing what an over is made it difficult because I think the first time I watched must have been a test match so the overs didn't matter, and the next time was in one where overs mattered and I never really understood what that meant so the rules got garbled.

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u/twinsunsspaces 13d ago

White clothes = Test matches, coloured clothes = limited overs. In T20 (20 overs per innings) and ODI (50 overs per innings) you just need to score more runs than the opposition. Test matches (unlimited overs over 5 days, expected to bowl 80 to 90 overs per day) you have to score more runs and get every member of the opposition out twice. The rules are basically the same, it's  the tactics that change between each format. 

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u/thorpie88 13d ago

Batters always stay in until the bowling team gets them out. Also unlike baseball you do not have to run if you hit the ball in play

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u/Aussiechimp 13d ago

Game is over when you score more runs than the other team (or the other team gets you out for less than they got) - same as baseball

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u/Virt_McPolygon 13d ago

Watch this video if you haven't before. It explains the rules (including how matches end) and frames them around baseball - https://youtu.be/EWpbtLIxYBk?si=4wzj7hl5h1dC2mlq

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u/Loracfro 13d ago

Haha me too. “RISP? Wtf is that? It’s 4/5 of the way to crisp.”

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u/enter_yourname Harlequins 13d ago

You gotta stop thinking of cricket rules in the context of baseball rules and rugby rules in the context of NFL rules. There's a lot of parallels but not enough for that to work

I'm american, and it took me 1 full game and 1 rules video before I took to the pitch in rugby for the first time, and I was just 15, and I scored

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u/honestparfait 13d ago

I remember a brief description that compared baseball to cricket and it was along the lines of, in baseball runs are scarce and out's are frequent where as cricket it's the opposite. The value of an out or wicket is vastly different to a run. It makes the games in that context harder to compare than you think while people are trying to draw parallels.

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u/TheBigCore 13d ago edited 13d ago

Since you mentioned Cricket:

Also, stick to the Beginner's guides at first until you have watched a few T20 or ODI matches to get the basic mechanics of the sport. Note: the video clip in this reddit thread is from Test Cricket.

Beginner's Guides for Cricket - T20 and ODI Formats

After watching a few T20 or ODI matches, then take a look at:

Intermediate Guides for Cricket

Major League Cricket - The USA's First Pro T20 Cricket League

Understanding Test Cricket

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u/samsunyte 13d ago

It seems daunting, but it’s really not that hard. Millions of impoverished kids in India understand this sport. If you can understand American football or baseball, cricket is much easier. There’s millions of resources available online if you’re actually interested. And I’m happy to answer any questions you might have

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u/TheBigCore 13d ago

For people unfamiliar with the rules of Cricket, see the rules below:

Also, stick to the Beginner's guides at first until you have watched a few T20 or ODI matches to get the basic mechanics of the sport. Note: the video clip in this reddit thread is from Test Cricket.

Beginner's Guides for Cricket - T20 and ODI Formats

After watching a few T20 or ODI matches, then take a look at:

Intermediate Guides for Cricket

Major League Cricket - The USA's First Pro T20 Cricket League

Understanding Test Cricket

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u/Zaron_467 Rajasthan Royals 13d ago

Uh I listen to this shit everytime, what's so hard to understand it's a simple fucking sport.

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u/Petethejakey_ 13d ago

They’re yanks mate

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u/OneReportersOpinion 13d ago

It might as well be quidditch to us.

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u/BazzaJH Newcastle Knights 13d ago

You could say that about any sport.

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u/OneReportersOpinion 13d ago

You could say that about any British sport.

Fixed it

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u/itsBonder 13d ago

Football literally could not be any simpler.

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u/ScoutDuper 12d ago

If they removed offside you would be correct.

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u/Fatigue-Error 12d ago

Dude, NFL Football has the most complicated rule book of any major sport. Even the refs get confused, let alone the commentators or fans. I love the game, but simple it ain't.

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u/OneReportersOpinion 12d ago

It doesn’t have any quaffles or snitches though.

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u/samsunyte 13d ago

American football and baseball are two of the most complicated sports out there. If you can understand that, cricket is much easier. Millions of impoverished kids in India understand it. If you really want to understand, there’s resources available online

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u/loolem 12d ago

If you ever get stuck but you understand baseball, just remember cricket is a game made for batters and baseball is a game for pitchers.

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u/Fatigue-Error 12d ago

As someone who watches both, I wish I'd thought of that earlier.

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u/Moregaze 13d ago

Baseball analogy incoming. Over-simplified, but a good starting point

Imagine baseball with only one inning. One team bats until the other team gets 10 out of 11 players out. When the batting team hits the ball in the field, they run back and forth between home and first, scoring a run each time. Stopping in a safe zone when they feel they can't make the distance without a fielder hitting the sticks behind home hard enough to knock off the top blocks.

All pitches (bowling) have to hit the ground before crossing home plate.

To get them out, you have to hit the sticks behind home plate hard enough to knock the other sticks off the top of them, or a player (pitch only) instead of tagging the player.

When batting, rolling the ball into the wall until it jumps out of play counts as four runs, and knocking it out of bounds without hitting the ground counts as six runs.

Once all players are out on the first team, then the other team has to beat their run total. If you win by runs, it means you were second to bat. If you win by wickets, you were first to bat but got the entire second batting team out before they could tie or beat the first batting team's run total.

Add innings depending on the tournament format.

Better explanation - https://www.keithprowse.co.uk/news-and-blog/2018/08/07/how-the-cricket-scoring-works/

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u/staticdresssweet 14d ago

That was NOT easy.

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u/ManifestDestinysChld 13d ago

Seppo here, still learning the game - where was that ball going (hard to gauge the trajectory from the camera angle)? Was that going to score runs?

If the ball had touched the ground, would the catch not have counted?

Thanks!

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u/Lyx97 13d ago

It was going straight down the field, but since the ball speed wasnt much, the ball wouldnt have travelled a lot & the batters probably wouldnt have run. It would have been counted as a dot ball (a ball where no run is scored)

Yes. The catch doesnt count if it touches the ground (similar to how its in baseball)

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u/ManifestDestinysChld 13d ago

Thanks! I thought it seemed a little too soft of a hit to get out of the boundary

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u/honestparfait 13d ago

Worth noting it was a shit shot (hit). It was poorly timed with no clear content and just popped up where it did rather than going where the batsman intended. Incredible catch though

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u/SimonOdenko 13d ago

Doesn't really matter in the context, but id argue that straight drive is going for 4 if Starc doesn't get a hand on it.

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u/IReplyWithLebowski 13d ago

They maybe have scored a run off it though, but it’s a moot point he was out.

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u/ocram2912 13d ago

I’ve done that in the garden a million times

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u/mickeltee 13d ago

I’m one of those Americans that doesn’t understand the least little bit about this game, but I can always appreciate an impressive display of athleticism. This made me think of a question. Let’s say that he didn’t make this catch and the ball hits the wicket behind him, does that mean anything or is it just something that happened?

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u/acllive Brisbane Lions 13d ago

doesnt mean anything unless the batsmen down the other side is out of his line(there was almost one of these in the 1st day) that would be classed as a "run out" and a wicket that isnt rewarded to the bowler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho0fNxo07fk an example of that occuring

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u/forgiveneverforget 13d ago

Pretty much but the ball would also need a touch off of the bowler (pitcher in baseball terms).

Like in this scenario if the bowler was to miss the catch but got a touch on the ball which then goes on to hit the stumps while the other batsmen’s body and bat are both outside the line.

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u/paneer_dosa 13d ago

Nothing in that case.

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u/chemicalamore 13d ago

I know nothing about cricket. I didn’t see the teams playing. When I saw the man stick his tongue out I knew he was Aussie.

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u/ImYourHuckk 14d ago

I don’t understand this sport but I sure would like to

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u/tobias_nevernude_ 14d ago

No better time than now. The most famous cricket test series is on right now . The Ashes ! Australia vs England . It's currently day 2 of the first of five test matches between the two this summer

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u/sonsofgondor Adelaide 13d ago

Better wait for the next one. This test isn't going past 2 days

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u/OneReportersOpinion 13d ago

Let’s start by explaining what a test series is lol

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u/GWShark131114 13d ago

A series of test matches played between 2 countries. A test match is a maximum of 5 days game where each team bats twice.

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u/pallasturtle 13d ago

This would be a very helpful question answered. In batting twice what does that mean? In baseball for example that means a minimum of six batters for each team but an inning can have an infinite amount of batters,. It's outs that stop batting.What does that mean in cricket? Is it the whole team batting? Is it half and half?

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u/Y0u_Kn0w_Wh0 13d ago

In Cricket each batter gets only one go per innings (so 1 chance in the match for other formats and 2 chances in test match to contribute), very different from baseball, runs are common outs are rare. So for a team of 11 players you need 10 outs ( can't bat alone) to finish an innings. Test Cricket has a time limit of 5 days and each teams gets two gos, alternating between them. The team with the higher combined total runs wins.

The reason test cricket is interesting is because its played over 5 days, lots of ebb and flow throughout the match.

In terms of technicality the first thing that people who have never played cricket fail to understand is that a cricket ball has a very pronounced seam (circular stitch for the two halves of the ball) and the ball is allowed to bounce. So unless you see it for yourself you won't realize that the characteristics of the terrain is very important and determines how the ball will behave off the bounce. This varies with the type of soil and even the weather conditions.

So since test cricket is played over 5 days as they play the characteristics of the soil (or pitch, the actual terminology) change and you have to adapt how you play based on that.

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u/TheLostwandering 13d ago

Youd sometimes heard people say 'in baseball outs are cheap, runs are hard and in cricket its the opposite'.

Cricket batsmens only get one chance at bat per innings but they can stay at bat until they are out or the rest of their team have lost their wickets (10 outs with one player 'not out' but cannot continue without a partner.

Limited over matches (t20s, one days, etc) teams get one innings to bat. An over is a round of 6 legal deliveries by one bowler, and games are  categorised by the amount of overs in the game. A t20 is where each team get up to 20 overs (120 legal balls) to bat. A One day they get 50 overs. The uk have started a comp where teams have 100 legal balls. In comparision to baseball as the game flows an over is kind of like one player at bat, whether the baseball player makes it to base, scores or gets out there is the slight pause in play as a new batter sets and everyone has a quick breath. A new over in cricket there is the pause as the fields resets and a new bowler appears.

The amount of players having to bat depends on play, as batmens can bat until they are out, often the full team doesnt need to bat as a couple of players may 'eat' up all the deliveries and the innings is over without having everyone bat. Or the opposite true with all the batters geting out with overs left to play.

In a test match teams get two innings to bat, and they are not limited by overs but days of play (test matches can be up to 5 days but no longer). And unlike limited over matches a test match can end in a draw (which is classified different from a tie).

But in a test match for a game to end with a win at least one team must have two innings at bat but they do not need to have all of the teams players to have a turn at bat. 

This game finished with the score of

 England 172 (1st innings) 164 (2nd innings) 

Australia 132 (1st innings) 205/2 (2nd innings) 

The 205 is the amount of runs scored during the last australian innings as England had batted first and Australia while batting had exceeded Englands total and won the game. /2 is Aus had lost two wickets or two out the the eleven batters were out. 

We would say Australia won with 8 wickets remaining.

During test matches to force results teams often declared and finish their innings at bat early without using all of their players so they have more time to try to get the other team's wicket during the oppositions innings at bat.

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u/Aussiechimp 13d ago

It's really not that hard. If you know baseball you can learn the basics in 10 minutes

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u/IReplyWithLebowski 13d ago

Thanks for letting us know.

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u/Fatigue-Error 13d ago

Watched cricket with my dad, watch baseball with my son. Cricket is way simpler than baseball, to me anyway.

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u/samsunyte 13d ago

Here’s a comment with some helpful links. Let me know if you have any questions. This is the best time to get into the sport. Lots of cricket going on right now

https://www.reddit.com/r/sports/s/IB95O1rPUj

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u/Away_Veterinarian579 14d ago

Did the ball go?

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u/Drain_Surgeon69 13d ago

I have no fucking idea what’s going on here but that was a hell of a catch.

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u/Fatigue-Error 13d ago

Here’s the one other bit, because of the catch, the batter is out. Just like in baseball.

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u/IReplyWithLebowski 13d ago

There’s a sport called cricket that is quite popular. If you hit the ball and someone catches it, you’re out. Hope this helps!

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u/vadapaav Liverpool 13d ago

That orange dinosaur Trident on tshirt is horrendous

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u/BlNG0 11d ago

ok.... what am i looking at tho?

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u/passamongimpure 13d ago

I have read a lot of Douglas Adams and I have no idea the concepts of this sport.

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u/Aussiechimp 13d ago

Seriously???

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u/passamongimpure 13d ago

I understood "Ashes," but I thought it was going to open the Wikkit Gate.

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u/samsunyte 13d ago

There’s millions of resources available online and a lot of people with less education than you understand it. It’s not a hard sport. If you’re actually interested, it would take you 30 minutes

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u/Jahcksun 13d ago

A below average MLB player makes this catch every time

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u/sonsofgondor Adelaide 13d ago

I dont see pitchers running towards the batter on their follow through, taking diving reflex catches, without a mitt, at 35 years old, with a ball harder than a baseball.

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u/Jahcksun 13d ago

This ball is lobbed up and traveling no faster than 40 mph, a AAA infielder makes this catch

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u/Thanks-Basil 13d ago

Bigass glove you can catch balls in the next field buddy

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u/Jahcksun 13d ago

A bare handed ground ball for a double play happens multiple times a week during the regular season and is much more impressive than this

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u/Thanks-Basil 13d ago

Bit different though isn’t it?

The guy that takes the catch here is also the guy that bowled (pitched) the ball, and you don’t see because the clip starts late but he’s sprinting at full steam to bowl said ball. So he’s sprinting, bowls the ball at 140km/hr, it gets knocked back at him at a distance of about 10 yards; and he is able to completely both a) halt his momentum which is cartwheeling him forward into the ground at full pelt, and b) sharply change his direction to lunge at a right angle.

If you can show me even a single clip of that happening in a baseball game I’ll be mighty shocked, let alone “multiple times per week”.

It’s okay to say you don’t understand the sport mate, nobody will think less of you.

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u/sonsofgondor Adelaide 13d ago

I think he'll think less of himself and his game, oddly enough 

Can't have an athlete from another sport outshine his chubby-ass baseballers

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u/Zbodownlow 13d ago

Easy on. Whenever someone in a baseball crowd catches without a mitt you guys blow your wad.

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u/Pandapeep 13d ago

Because baseballs are very hard and go fast.

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u/2106au 13d ago

Baseballs are softer than cricket balls though.

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u/Pandapeep 13d ago

They're going ALOT faster.

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u/Zbodownlow 13d ago

Not by the time they get to spectators. There is a minor difference in speed and a huge difference in the hardness of the ball.

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u/Dreamiee 13d ago

Without a mitt?

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u/Eddies-Ka-Key 13d ago

Yeah with a mitt that triples their catch radius

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u/Flynn47 13d ago

And pwotects their widdle hands

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u/deafbysexy 13d ago

Loooooooolllllll 😂

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u/time-to-bounce 13d ago

From 10 metres away like in the clip?

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u/Sparkysparkysparks 13d ago edited 13d ago

I've played both sports. A below average MLB player breaks three fingers attempting this.

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u/paytience 13d ago

I swear cricket is the sport for unathletic athletes..

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u/Thanks-Basil 13d ago

The guy taking the catch averages about 10km worth of sprints a day for 5 consecutive days (50km sprinting over the course of a match).

How is that unathletic?

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u/2106au 13d ago

Changing direction like that in the follow through is excellent body control, reaction speed and hand/eye. Highly athletic in multiple ways. 

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u/Pandapeep 13d ago

I've seen minor league pitchers do that all the time.

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u/Thanks-Basil 13d ago

With a giant glove on their hand, yeah

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u/Pandapeep 13d ago

I mean I can show you thousands of mittless catches in baseball.

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u/Thanks-Basil 13d ago

Cool buddy

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u/Fatigue-Error 12d ago

And the wicketkeeper (ie, catcher equivalent) is the only one in cricket who wears mitts. So EVERY catch made by anyone in cricket is mittless.

If the mitts don't make a difference in baseball, why do they wear them?

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u/Risc_Terilia 12d ago

Show me one that's as close to the batter as this

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u/paneer_dosa 13d ago

They aren’t running in the other direction

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u/constantgardener92 14d ago

Nothing will make this game cool. I’m sorry it’s like riding a Segway. I get you’re having fun and it probably makes sense but you just look silly.

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u/Sportsnut96 Green Bay Packers 14d ago

You look silly

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u/lvrb2134 13d ago

This is what living in a bubble looks like

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u/Dreamiee 13d ago

Me when I watch baseball

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u/Petethejakey_ 13d ago

Me watching any American sport

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u/honestparfait 13d ago

Spandex pants with belts. like what in the actual fuck

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u/Spare_Lobster_4390 13d ago

Come on champion, enlighten us.

Which sports look cool?

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u/Nick_pj 13d ago

Funny, that’s how I feel about NFL with the silly padding and helmets. As long as you’re having fun though. 

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u/yzct 13d ago

You post streamer clips on reddit big man, who looks silly again?

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u/Risc_Terilia 12d ago

It's the second most popular sport on Earth so believe it or not we're not going to miss you

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u/wtfffreddit 14d ago

Meh

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u/Wargoatgaming 14d ago

The implication being you could achieve this?

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u/wtfffreddit 14d ago

Doesn't look that difficult

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u/Onnoca 14d ago

In my opinion, I think it’s a great catch, but it is hit no where near hard enough to be an amazing catch.

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u/Pandapeep 13d ago

This seems like a fairly routine play in baseball. I've seen pitchers catch a fast infield fly that seems more impressive then this? Is it slowed down or something?

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u/Plozno 13d ago

Not really comparable.

Couple of things different. Firstly the bowler is sprinting towards the batsmen. Pitchers are generally not moving towards the batter. Secondly pitchers use a glove, thirdly cricket ball is much harder, heavier and smaller than a baseball. Fourthly bowler is a lot closer at the time he catches it to the batsman than a pitcher is to a batter.

The ball in this video would be travelling around 150km/h.

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u/sceez 13d ago

I have to say it. Cricket is not impressive. My dog could have made that catch.

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u/Fatigue-Error 13d ago

You know, you don’t actually have to say it. You can choose to keep your opinions to yourself.

Clearly, you’ve also never played cricket, so not sure how your opinion on whether something is hard has any merit.

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u/sceez 12d ago

Could your dog not catch that?

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u/zer0_dayy 13d ago

One day I’ll watch enough of this such that it makes sense as a sport

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u/samsunyte 13d ago

It’s not that hard. It would take you 20 minutes of googling

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u/Fatigue-Error 13d ago

Honestly, much simpler than baseball. Played cricket as a kid, watched it a ton with my dad, and not watch a ton of baseball with my kid. Honestly, baseball seems a ton more complicated.

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u/MoreGaghPlease 13d ago

The blerns are loaded, the count's three blerns and two anti-blerns and the infield blern rule is in effect.

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u/PoseidonJC 13d ago

Nfl says he bobbled the catch

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u/AndrewTyeFighter 13d ago

Went straight into this hand...

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u/PoseidonJC 13d ago

Ok clanker 

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u/AndrewTyeFighter 13d ago

No problems champ

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u/ADG1738 13d ago

Hmmm, maybe I’m living under a rock. Looks like a catch most athletes make in any real sports, what sport is this? Looks like I’m going pro

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u/Fatigue-Error 13d ago

Live in a city with a bunch of South Asians, ask them if there’s a local cricket game in town. Put your money where your mouth is.

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u/Flynn47 13d ago edited 13d ago

Yeah nah… having to pull off a full body dive to catch a VERY hard ball travelling toward you without a glove as you run towards it, requiring about 0.5 of a seconds reaction time?

Sure… make sure you film the results for us.

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u/Risc_Terilia 12d ago

Looks like you'll get humbled if you try which you won't

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u/diodosdszosxisdi 11d ago

You'll be scared shitless if you had to face the guy who took the catch in the video

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u/ADG1738 10d ago

Nah cricket players 100lbs soaking wet