Jiskefet - cricket engelse sport

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High camp. :o) Jiskefet represents a Dutch comedy group.

Via: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/pkqht/how_cricket_looks_for_most_people/

The reddit community provided an explanation:

Alright let's see if I can break it down a bit easily. Most people get lost at the explanation because they just honestly don't want to try and learn, otherwise, just like any other sport, the rules are not that hard to learn. 

So in cricket there's these things called runs, almost, but not exactly the same as in baseball. In baseball, you have 4 bases, and you always run to the next base. In cricket however, there are two bases, and a person from the batting team is on either base. At each opportunity, they are allowed to run back and forth from their respective base, for each successful crossing, they get a run. Now in baseball, you have people manning each base to get the batter out, in cricket, they have these things called stumps. They're just three wooden sticks out of the ground. You have to hit the stump while the batter is away from the base, just like in baseball. 

Now in cricket, you have a circular field, and 11 players in the bowling/pitching team. How things are done in cricket is, the bowler runs to pitch, while in baseball, they usually just stand in one spot. Now once the ball has been hit, if the ball goes to the boundary while rolling on the ground, it amounts to 4 runs mentioned previously. If the ball goes out of the park like a home run, that's 6 runs. 

The whole point of the game is to continue scoring runs, without getting batted out. The batting side has 10 continuous batsmen, and there is only one inning change, instead of 3 batters, and 9 inning changes in baseball. There is also a limit to the number of "pitches", limited to 50 overs in a One Day International game. One over is 6 pitches or rather bowls, that can be done by one pitcher/bowler. The bowler must be changed after every six pitches, and this goes on for either 50 overs. Or until all 10 batsmen are batted out. 

I hope that helps, the rules are fairly similar to baseball, people just fail to bother trying to understand them. 

Edit: Also next to the runs will be something called overs, like Over 20.4 -> that means its the 20th over and the 4th ball in the over. Two more bowls, and there is a pitcher change. 

Edit 2: I am an American, and I learned! It really is possible, and its fun.