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The basic rules are fairly easy to pick up. The batting team has two players on the field at any one time. One is the active batsman, the other stands opposite him. The other team has one person bowling and the rest fielding. The bowler bowls the ball trying to hit the wicket behind the batsman. If he does, the batsman is out. If ten of the eleven members of the batting team go out, their innings is over. If the batsman manages to hit the ball, and it's caught before hitting the ground, he's out. If no one catches the ball and it goes over the fence, that's six points (runs). If it reaches the fence but doesn't go over, that's four points. Otherwise the batsman and his teammate run back and forth between each other's position. Each time they do so that's one point. While they're out of position the fielders can attempt to throw the ball back and hit the wicket. If they manage this, whichever of the batting team's wicket it was is out. The batting team can choose to stop running at any time and are safe as long as they're in position. When the running is done and the bowler has the ball back, they go again. In the course of the running the batsman and the other player on his team may have switched positions. This makes the second player the active batsman. There are a lot of silly names for fielding positions (eg. square leg, deep backward) and game events (eg. a duck is when a batsman goes out without scoring any runs, a maiden over is where a bowler bowls six times without the batsman scoring any runs) and there are additional complications (eg. if the bowler would have hit the wicket but the batsman's leg was in the way, the batsman is still out), but you can pick up most of it just by watching a match.
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Ewan posted:An example score might be: Unless you're Australian, in which case it's 7-200. That's not a joke, by the way, we actually say the scores the other way around here. And if you're saying it rather than writing, it's "7 for 200" (or "200 for 7" in the rest of the world).
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