Current Events > Cricket - Reading this text from a Wikipedia article makes it seem fake

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Play resumed on the fourth day with Smith and Wade at the crease. Wade was caught at slip off a delivery by Broad shortly before drinks, but Paine survived with Smith until lunch, the latter reaching a half-century to bring Australia's total to 155/5 at the break, England failing to make any further breakthroughs despite a few close calls.

The sixth-wicket partnership was broken after the interval as Paine edged the ball to Buttler off Archer. Smith was then hit on the arm by a short delivery from Archer a few overs later, but was given the green light to continue after examination by team doctors. A review for lbw against Cummins was soon struck down as Archer continued to put pressure on the Australian batsmen, including hitting Smith directly in the neck with a bouncer; the batsman fell to the ground briefly, but had to retire hurt, though he was able to walk off the field unassisted after a chat with the team doctor. The new man in, Siddle, lasted only a few overs, failing to reach a double-digit score, at which point Smith was brought back in; however, he was soon out leg before wicket to Woakes after an unsuccessful review. Australia's tailenders were out before tea, giving them a total of 250, trailing by eight runs with England's second innings to begin after the interval

Cummins struck early by removing Roy and then getting Root for a golden duck, but Denly survived the hat-trick ball. This led to a 55-run fourth-wicket partnership, which ended with Denly caught and bowled by Siddle. Burns fell next, but Buttler survived until late in the session, when rain stopped play for the day with England on 96/4

I mean I know the sport is real but it is a whole other world of terms that I don't know that just seem out of place.

Like if someone told me to read the above description and guess the activity I would probably have no clue except for mentions of "wickets."
"Shortly before drinks...."
"Out before tea..."
"Golden Duck"

Edit: The wikipedia article in question. I don't remember how I got to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ashes_series#Second_Test

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Fuck that reads like a bad fan fiction, where they are just casually throwing out all this shit they just made up.

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Alteres posted...

Fuck that reads like a bad fan fiction, where they are just casually throwing out all this shit they just made up.

Haha right?! If I didn't know that Cricket was a real sport I would go to that page convinced the whole thing is made up.

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Family Guy is hit or miss these days, but they absolutely nailed their jokes about cricket. It really makes absolutely no sense and you cant help that feel that people only play it because its part of their culture.

My dad was from the UK and once tried to explain cricket to me and his friends and it still made absolutely no sense.

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electricbugs2 posted...

Family Guy is hit or miss these days, but they absolutely nailed their jokes about cricket. It really makes absolutely no sense and you cant help that feel that people only play it because its part of their culture.

My dad was from the UK and once tried to explain cricket to me and his friends and it still made absolutely no sense.

Netflix has that "Explained" show and there's an episode on Cricket but I don't remember half those terms. It was over a year ago I watched it though.

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I love American football - but this is how American football sounds to Australians.

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electricbugs2 posted...

My dad was from the UK and once tried to explain cricket to me and his friends and it still made absolutely no sense.

I mean, it's not really that complicated in a base sense. Man with bat stands in front of a stand of three sticks with one resting on top. Bowler tries to hit said sticks to knock the top one off. Batter runs between said sticks and bowler if he hits the ball.

A lot of the terms do make it very baffling.

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Stalolin posted...

I love American football - but this is how American football sounds to Australians.

I mean yall have the AFL, which from what I can tell is a form of legal murder, so go easy on us North Americans.

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test cricket is crazy, but i've definitely been enjoying Twenty20. too bad all the broadcasts got paywalled a couple seasons ago.

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I'm an American, but I feel like I have a decent grasp of it from Wikipedia

Effectively, it's baseball, except there's no foul territory and just two "bases." A run is scored each time the batter (they use the term batsman) runs from one to the other safely. They can keep batting until they're put out, either by the ball hitting the wicket (think striking out), being caught on the fly (a flyout) or they are thrown out by not reaching a base in time.

Each team bats until every batter is out, and then they switch. In test cricket, this is done twice. I'm simplifying with baseball comparisons, but that's the gist as I understand it.

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

Play resumed on the fourth day with Smith and Wade at the crease. Wade was caught at slip off a delivery by Broad shortly before drinks, but Paine survived with Smith until lunch, the latter reaching a half-century to bring Australia's total to 155/5 at the break, England failing to make any further breakthroughs despite a few close calls.

I mean I recognise that they're English words but it may as we'll be written in Russian.fornthe sense I can make of it.
I had friends that played cricket growing up, I hated it, waddling about in stupid.leg pads... Plus, whacking the teacher in the shins with a cricket bat is not a good educational career move.

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Stalolin posted...

I love American football - but this is how American football sounds to Australians.

I get it!

I know what's going to happen is i'm going to start looking into Cricket and learn all about it and maybe watch a match or two before totally forgetting about it again.

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