Umpiring Cricket

[plateumpire]

I found the umpire signals for Cricket very interesting.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/umpiring-signals-and-what-they-mean-in-cricket.html

 

The field is also interesting.

http://www.cricket-rules.com/

 

I got to watch part of a game one time.

[cyclonehokiece]

Watched plenty of it when I was in Australia. Very intersting game.

[CS-Blue]

I love cricket. I learned to play from a group of Pakistani students where I went to college. They played every Sunday near my dorm. It was awesome. When I first started, they kept having to tell me to stop swinging the bat so hard (we had very limited space). But once I got the hang of it, it was awesome. It is a lot more like baseball than you would think. 

[BigUmpire]

Played a lot in the sand box.

Harder that it looks if you have a good bowler.

A good cricket batsman can really hit a baseball slider a LONG way.

[UmpJM]

And remember, by rule, the hands ARE considered "part of the bat".

 

JM