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Antifreeze Head posted:Really though, test cricket is five days long because a-way-back-when, the English aristocracy wanted a game that the poors couldn't play, so they decided it should take an entire week. The poors couldn't afford the lost wages, so the bluebloods kept their game, even though they were a bit poo poo at it. On the other hand there's now Twenty20 Cricket with it's Flashing LED Wickets and rock music.
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Tiggum posted: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. Slight correction, there's a rope about a meter in from the fence that define the boundary. It's a 4 when it bounces before going over, or touches, the boundary rope, a 6 is when it goes over the boundary rope without bouncing.
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Just to remind everyone that even though it may seem like a slow and lazy 5 day game, it's still serious loving business in term of injuries, like any other sport. Phillip Hughes was knocked out cold two days ago from a bouncer that struck him in the head, today he was pronounced dead at age 25  .
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cmndstab posted:The ball itself moves differently through the air depending on how long the game has progressed, how much cloud cover there has been throughout the day, etc. It's probably the sporting contest where winning the coin toss is most beneficial. Also the fielding team does what basically amounts to legal tampering with the ball by polishing up one side of it so when pace bowlers come out the ball swings without the bowler having to do much to cause the swing because of some physics poo poo.
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Lilbeefer posted:As an Australian it took me years to actually find the game enjoyable. A lot of the enjoyment of test cricket (the multi day games the OP speaks of) is in the tactics. But what makes the experience sweet is individual moments of brilliance, like Shane Warne's "bowl of the century". Speaking of Shane Warne, I can't think of a single other professional sport where a pudgy middle aged smoking man is a world class competitor, even in 1995 or whenever it was when he was in his prime.
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