Limited Over Cricket

An OVERview

The game begins with a player bowling an OVER, OVER the wicket or round. When his OVER is OVER, the fielders change OVER to partake in the next OVER. This OVER is bowled by another OVER bowler. This continues until all the OVERs are OVER.

During this time the OVER bowlers try to render the batsman’s innings OVER. They can knock the wickets OVER, entice the ball to leave the bat OVER the ground directly into the hands of a fielder or force the batter to block the ball with his body to prevent his wicket being knocked OVER.

The fielders can render a batter’s innings OVER by knocking the wickets OVER before a run is OVER. The batter whose innings is OVER depends on whether or not they have crossed OVER. Should the ball go OVER the wicket without knocking them OVER then the batters can run OVER-throws.

A team’s innings is OVER when ten batters innings are OVER or their allotted OVERs are OVER.

Occasionally, although rarely in the limited OVER version of the game, a bowler can bowl a maiden OVER. Lucky him.

The whole game is OVER when the second team’s OVERs are OVER or their ten innings are OVER. Both teams then go OVER to the bar and consume alcohol until they fall OVER.

The other form of the game, ‘Test Match Cricket’, is seldom OVER, for even when the allotted five days are OVER the game has to be abandoned as a draw. This lets the teams go to another venue for a further five days in the hope that the next game will really be OVER.

Test Cricket – The Ins and Outs

The game starts with two men coming or being IN. The other team must get them OUT, indeed they must get them OUT twice. Each team can be IN twice. This process must be achieved in 5 days.

In each INNINGS, ten of eleven players are IN until they are OUT. When an INNINGS is complete (Ten men are OUT) it is the other teams turn to go IN. However, if you score lots of runs you can declare yourself to be OUT rather than IN even though you have some more players to come IN; for to win the game, it is beholden upon you to get the other team OUT twice. If you stay IN too long and you cannot get all the others OUT twice in the remaining time available then the game is drawn. A draw occurs regularly in England because it rains a lot. Both teams can then spend many hours IN the bar.