Backyard Cricket
Rules
Okay, I know every self respecting cricket fan would have seen this eons ago. Still, I think there's a chance this might be new to at least one of you.
posted by Crp @ 12:03 PM
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Friday, March 25, 2005
Okay, I know every self respecting cricket fan would have seen this eons ago. Still, I think there's a chance this might be new to at least one of you.
6 Comments:
ben-hits Complex protocol to determine batting order by pummelling back of the hardiest chap in the neighbourhood or willing volunteer.
Out by bad-owner Bad owners hate balls falling into their property. Declared out only when a sixer falls into a fixed set of houses with high walls and evil aunties
Aatkuntu Lekhakkilla Literally, "in the game, not in the score board". When mommies force elder sons to 'make the kid brother play', one apologetically requests peers to include the brat in the game without ever letting the stats reflect it. This is until kid brother wakes up one day and learns to read the score board
3-D stumps The three distinct dimensions of the garbage bin or stone slab have ensured that no Indian will ever make a direct-hit run-out, which brings me to...
Current run-outs
In the event of unavailability of a rubbish-bin, few chappals are stacked. A bowler or any fielder standing on the stack and holding a ball lets the 'current; flow from the ball, to hand, through the body and onto stack of chappals.
baby over
Bad bowler convinces team to give him over. 10 wides and 5 no-balls and 6 no-ball sixers later, believing that this has been a bad idea, the over is reduced to three balls to preserve the beauty of the game. This reduction is termed a baby over.
Those were nice. Some other desi innovations :
Voluntary Retirement : Bad batsman who swings and misses a couple of times sits out the inning or at least till all the rest have had a whack.
Combined Fielding : resorted to when there aren't enough players. Key fielding positions are assigned to players in the batting team who haven't had their turn yet, and are therefore the least likely to drop a catch.
>> This is a cool find <<
Courtesy the Cheshire Cat. I have to mention, since he reads the blog.
>>We knock the ball around in our frontyard and the rules are amazingly similar <<
Yup. The Aussie and Indian versions are identical except for the barbies and the beer.
Chalk Wickets
A convenient solution employed by cricketers playing indoors by chalking out the wickets area in white/black. Question... how do you know if a guy is bowled, well... the walls are not going to collapse for sure... it's easy, look for the chalk mark on the ball!
One pitch one hand Catching the ball with one hand after its pitched once. Variations include bounce off the walls, off trees.
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