You don’t know cricket? Don’t worry, I will teach you.

  1. There are 11 players on each team, one team bats and the other team fields.
  2. There are two referees, called umpires. One umpire tosses a coin, and the two teams' captains decide heads or tails. Whoever wins the toss decides whether they want to bat first or field first.
  3. From the batting team, two players stand on either side of the pitch. The remaining 9 sit on their asses waiting for their turn to come.
  4. One batsman is on the batting side, at whom the bowler has to throw the ball. The other batsman stands on the other end, waiting for his turn to come.
  5. A bowler from the fielding team throws a ball at the wickets behind the batsman, and the batsman has to hit the ball, just like in baseball.
  6. If the ball hits the wicket, the batsman is out.
  7. There is another player from the fielding team who stands behind the wickets, called the wicket-keeper. His job is to catch the ball in case the batsman misses it or if the ball doesn't hit the wicket. Because if he doesn't catch it, the ball will continue rolling and go across the boundary. See the next point for why it's a bad thing.
  8. Points are called runs. If the batsman hits the ball across the boundary without it bouncing, he scores six runs. If it crosses after bouncing, he scores four runs. That's why in point 7, it's a bad thing if the wicket-keeper doesn't catch the ball, because then it will go across the boundary and the batsman will score 4 runs.
  9. If the ball doesn't cross the boundary, the fielders have to throw the ball back at the wickets. In the meantime, both batsmen have to run from one wicket to the other as many times as they can. They score one run each time they reach the wickets on the other side.
  10. If the wicket is hit before the batsman can reach it, the batsman is out.
  11. If the batsman hits the ball and a fielder catches it before it can bounce, the batsman is out.
  12. If the batsman's foot is blocking the wicket and the ball hits his foot, the batsman is out.
  13. If the batsman hits the ball twice with his bat, the batsman is out.
  14. After a batsman is out, they return to the pavilion, and the next player comes out to bat.
  15. The bowler has six turns to throw the ball. This is called an over. After an over ends, the next fielder will come to bowl.
  16. If the ball bounces more than once before it can reach the batsman, it's a dead ball and won't be counted.
  17. If the bowler's foot crosses the line near the wicket, it's called a no-ball, and the batsman gets to hit the ball one extra time, called a free hit. In a free hit, no matter what happens, the batsman will never be out.
  18. If the bowler throws the ball too far from the batsman, it's called wide, and one run is added to the batting team's score for free.
  19. Depending on what format of cricket it is, the number of overs are different. In T20 there are 20 overs, in ODI there are 50 overs, and in test cricket (the OG cricket in which everyone wears white clothes instead of colourful jerseys), the match goes on for five days with unlimited overs.
  20. The duration for which one team plays is called an inning. An inning ends when all the overs are over, all the batsmen are out or, in case of the fielding team now batting, they catch up to their score.
  21. The goal is to score more runs in the given over than the other team. The team that bats first has to make sure the fielding team doesn't score more runs than they do when it's their turn to bat, and the team that fields first has to make sure the batting team doesn't score too high so that they can catch up when their turn comes to bat.

These are just the rules I can remember right from the top of my head. There might be more than I don't remember.

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