It may be a British game, but India is the epicenter of cricket. MWV had a company sports weekend. In addition to cricket, there were competitions in badminton (another Indian passion), chess, and karom (carom?). We went to the finals on Sunday afternoon.
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| The cricket pitch at the Ashardham School -- the school at the Catholic church in Vapi. NH8 is along the right border of the field, so this is in the heart of Vapi. |
Similarity to baseball stops at using a bat to hit a ball. Some of the words may be the same ("run", "innings"), but they are very different beasts. In a way, it's like baseball-in-the-round. There are two batsmen who both run when the ball is hit. The action is in the middle of the field, with 10 fielders at various points around the field. The bowler (pitcher) is the 11th player, and the bowler changes after every 6 pitches.
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| The celebration after the final game. |
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| After the finals, MWV upper management played a short game against the winning team. Lon had to take a turn as a batsman. Here he is running between the two wickets. I'm glad that women don't play cricket, or I'm sure I would have had to take a turn as well! |
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| On the way home we had to walk through the inevitable herd of cattle. This one is unusual because it has both cows and buffalo. NH8 is on the left. |
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| The buffalo in the middle of the herd had an unusual patch of white hair on the top of her head. (My excuse for another cow picture!) |
Found this on the web a long time ago:
ReplyDeleteCricket: As explained to a foreigner...
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 out all 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 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
That pretty much sums it up, Rich! The only difference was that these were short games with 20 overs for each side. That really adds clarification, doesn't it?
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