bfish
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| Quote (Stephen Elliott @ Sep. 17 2009,02:42) | | Quote (bfish @ Sep. 17 2009,00:29) | | ...Baseball defense involves not only catching balls in the air, but also catching ground balls, and throwing, neither of which I saw on the cricket highlight video. Perhaps they are part of cricket as well... |
They are a part but not called catches. In cricket a "catch" is specifically preventing the ball from hitting the ground after the batsman has hit it. This puts the batter out. That is Caught out.
Catching the ball on the ground can be referred to as a scoop. If this is followed by a throw which eventually hits the wicket, knocking the bails off while the batsman is outside the crease, the batsman is out. That is run/ran out.
A batsman can also be bowled out. If the bowler hits the batsman's wicket with the ball, knocking the bails off, the batsman is out. If the batsman's leg gets hit by the bowled ball and the umpire thinks that the ball would have hit the wicket if the batsman's leg had not got in the way, the batsman is out. These are bowled out. The former is clean bowled, the latter is bowled out leg before wicket (or LBW). |
Thanks for the instruction. You'd think I'd remember some of that, given that I have played a little cricket myself, six years ago, in a strange and wondrous land called New South Wales. We had half a dozen Americans, half a dozen Brits, and half a dozen Aussies. The star player of the bunch turned out to be my wife, much to her surprise. She once bowled out three batsman in succession, and also casually plucked a lined smash out of the air one-handed, as coolly as if she was pulling a book off a shelf in the library.
There is even documented footage of one of these international test matches:
I'm one of the gents in the picture. I'm wearing shorts.
This battle took place near Washpool National Park. You might see some little mounds scattered about the field. Those would be the cow patties. The area had been used to hold cattle a bit before our visit. As you can see, we had only rudimentary equipment for this round. We later purchased a junior cricket set - which I still have in my closet - at a roadside shop. The bat is only half the standard length, but the Brits assured us that that is as big as they get in Australia.
Oh, and, um....... therefore evolution is compatible with cricket.
Edited a few times to get the image right, and correct my writing.
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