Illustration:
What with the new Cricket Season underway, Zephyrinus thought it prudent to offer a respectful explanation of the Laws of Cricket to our North American Cousins, who, possibly, get confused about the strange regulations.
Basically, Cricket is nothing like Baseball.
Hence, the following . . .
You have two sides . . .
one out in the field . . .
and one in.
Michael Hussey takes on a delivery from Shaun Pollock
on the second day of the Australia v South Africa
Boxing Day Test Match in Melbourne.
Photo: 26 December 2005.
Source:
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2.0 Generic Licence.
Author: Prescott Pym on Flickr
(Wikimedia Commons)
Each man that’s in the side that’s in . . .
goes out.
And when he’s out . . .
he comes in.
And the next man goes in . . .
until he’s out.
Australian Cricketer Charlie Macartney,
taken in the 1920s.
Illustration: CRICPIX
When they are all out . . .
the side that’s out . . .
comes in . . .
and the side that’s been in . . .
goes out.
and tries to get out . . .
those coming in.
Illustration: CRICKET
Sometimes you get men still in . . .
and not out.
When both sides have been in . . .
and out . . .
including the Not Outs . . .
the winner is declared . . .
if there is one . . .
and it hasn’t been abandoned . . .
or declared “No Result” . . .
or Drawn . . .
or Tied . . .
