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By: Jo Schmo

Jo Schmo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:32:49 +0000

The Ashes are played every 2 years, in Oz and in England alternating. There is also cricket world cup every four years which you could argue is more important.

Rugby union is one of the few ball games where the ball cannot be passed forwards.

Also Rugby has two codes, i.e. rules and essentially a different game to each other. League and Union. played in differnt parts of the world, in England League is generally played in the north and Union in the south of the country.

That means a player moving towards the opposition’s dead ball line must pass the ball to a team-mate either along or behind an imaginary line running at right angles to the side of the pitch.

By: soozi

soozi — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:15:31 +0000

Cricket is my favourite game

By: irishbloke

irishbloke — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:02:00 +0000

Surprising as it may seem, it wasn’t until around the 1920s that cricket really died out in the USA

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By: Jed - The London Traveler

Jed - The London Traveler — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:22:27 +0000

If you know the rules of cricket, that’s actually largely correct! But it’s more simple if you think of it like baseball. Each batter bats and scores runs until he’s out. Once the entire side (team) is out, the other team gets up to bat, until all of their team is out. In a five-day international match, there are two innings. Though sometimes, in order to get the game over and done with in a day, there is a limit to how many balls (pitches) are thrown.

Again, the best way to get it is to watch a game with someone who knows what they’re talking about, and is patient enough to teach you!

By: Jon - The DC Traveler

Jon - The DC Traveler — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:37:17 +0000

I did some research on cricket in Washington DC and here’s what I learned…

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. 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. 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 those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have been given out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

Needless to say,I’ll stick to baseball…!!!