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CaptainGoose t1_isyd844 wrote

Reply to comment by laxkid7 in Curtis Campher scores 72 not out and leads Irish victory over Scotland in Irelands highest ever run case by Risc_Terilia

It's a version of the game called T20. Each team has 20 overs (1 over is 6 pitches) to score as high as they can.

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biscuitslayer77 t1_isyjg1m wrote

This doesn't help us lmao

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Squints1234567 t1_isyjml3 wrote

When explaining provides less clarity

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CaptainGoose t1_isyl5jf wrote

Sorry, I'm a tad drunk.

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lemonloaff t1_isyxi7q wrote

It was clear. I had two Englishmen explain Cricket to me in 15 minutes and I understood just fine. People in North America like to meme about how hard Cricket is to understand because they just don't care to understand.

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CaptainGoose t1_isyxw11 wrote

I think Jomboy has a decent video for the baseball fans - I actually watch him for baseball.

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Squints1234567 t1_iszqnjd wrote

As I was browsing the comments, looking for explanations as I was generally curious.

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chrisb993 t1_isypw0k wrote

In baseballese

Instead of measuring the game in terms of innings which only end with 3 outs, they measure the length of a game in terms of pitches so that a game takes a lot less time. Each team has, say 50 pitches to score as many runs as possible. If you score a run, you get to carry on batting, but if you're out, you're out for the whole of the innings. If your whole team is out before the 50 pitches are up, too bad.

At the end of the 50 pitch/all out inning, the other team have a maximum of 50 pitches to try and score more runs than you did. If they beat your score in 50 pitches or less they win, if they don't, you win.

If you're tied (and it's a knockout match so you need to find a winner), you go to a mini inning each of, say, 5 pitches. If it's still a draw, pluck up some arbitrary rule such as 'most home runs' to split them (and run away from any New Zealanders).

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MrCunninghawk t1_isyy3qd wrote

Each team gets a turn to bat. When batting, they have 20 "overs" worth of balls to score off of. Each over is 6 balls. The bowler Wil bowl the ball 6 times in an attempt get the batsman out, while the batsman will attempt to hit the ball and score runs.

The batting team needs to post a high score between their collective batsmen. They have 20 overs and 10 outs to do this. If the bowling team gets all the batsmen out, that is also the end of the batting teams "innings".

It is then the job of the team batting second to chase the score and surpass it within, you guessed it, 20 overs and 10 outs.

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biscuitslayer77 t1_isyyap5 wrote

Why do these games take like 10 hours?

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XraftcoHD t1_isyz0ry wrote

They don't, this is T20 which lasts like 3 hours

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MrCunninghawk t1_isz2gzq wrote

This is a version called T-20, 20 overs. So it doesn't take as long as "One day" cricket, which has 50 overs an innings.

This is more like 3 hours

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biscuitslayer77 t1_iszbncw wrote

Why on gods earth would someone want to play THAT long?

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MrCunninghawk t1_iszexer wrote

Bro that's nothing, there is also the OG form of cricket. "Test" match. Which goes for days and days.

How long does the average baseball game take? I feel like it's quite long. Same with NFL, every superb owl I've watched as been like the whole afternoon. When we watch MMA PPV's that's like most of the day if u start with the early prelims.

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broke-collegekid t1_it02xi7 wrote

So each team gets 120 potential swings at the ball to get as many hits (which I assume equals points scored) as possible?

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AzLibDem t1_it0mhxl wrote

Yes, plus if the ball makes it to the boundary of the field, it's four runs scored; if it goes over the boundary without hitting the ground, it's six.

Campher scored 72 off 32 balls, so more than two runs per ball on average.

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PooperJackson t1_isyx0cr wrote

Most of the things you said were real words so no complaints here.

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