 It's no secret that I've gotten super into cricket this winter and I don't think it's gonna fade. I don't think it's a phase, so if you're not enjoying the cricket stuff, don't watch. If you are, there's more coming. I'm still learning the game, but I understand the concept. I lived in Australia and played in the playground a little bit, so I always kind of have. Here's a general breakdown. Now I'm gonna use baseball terms. So all the cricket people, I'm using the wrong terms on purpose. I think it's more relatable for baseball fans to understand. And just the general, if you've never seen it before, the general very basic concept is if you've played running bases or pickle as a kid, that's what you have. These two lines are the safe zones. They're the bases, so to speak. And the wickets are kind of the strike zone or the base. So the guy's gonna pitch it, he hits it, and then it's how many times can each runner run back and forth? Every time they run to the other side, that's a run. That's the general concept. The fielding team has to get the ball and throw it in before the runners cross the line. If they cross, if they get to the wicket before the runner crosses the line, then it's an out. It's a one inning game, this version at least, really long innings and only one inning apiece. So on this ball, that one's put in play and it's caught on the fly. So that's an out. They call it a wicket. So you see this scoreboard, this is how many runs the team has scored, 134, and this is how many outs they've hit into, and now it's gonna change to six. Once it gets to 10, it's over. Now this is the most confusing part. Cricket is broken up into overs. An over is a set of six pitches. It's like the biggest detail you need to know. Once you get that in your head, you'll understand all the stats, all the talk, all the chatter. An over is a set of six pitches. So this bowler's name is Verma. His first pitch, we saw they got one run, his second pitch, he got an out or a wicket. That's huge. So let's keep going. He's got four more in the over. That dude who got out, he's done. His day is over. He does not get to hit again. A new batsman comes in. His name is Max Chu. He had a really good outing in the field. Let's see what he can do. Him and Broom, they call this a partnership and Broom's been in for a while. So here's the first ball to Max Chu and he puts that and no runs. That's considered a dot ball. And because in this version of cricket, there's a pitch limit. There's 20 overs, which is a set of six pitches, meaning there's 120 pitches. Every pitch that the batsman don't score a runoff is a win for the fielding team. So dot balls are huge. So you see now he's got one run, a wicket and a dot ball. These two are great results for the bowler. But in this game, the other team hit already. So the volts need 13 more runs from nine more balls. Like I said, we have these one, two, three, and then another over left and then the game's over. So it's coming to a real tight finish. So here's the next one and that's put in play and they can go for one safely. They can try to go for two. No, they just go for one run. You can see it down here. One run. And now they've switched sides. So now the other batsman, Chu hit that one. Now Broom is going to swing at this one, puts that in play, but puts it way too high and that's caught for another out, another wicket. You'll see it went to seven outs now and he's done. He's out of the game. So this is a great over for Verma because he's got two wickets. They're pretty rare, a dot ball. And Broom had scored 62 runs. He had been in the game for a while. So it's pretty big to get him out. And now you have two rookie batters, Mackenzie and Chu. And he's only seen two pitches done. So they're coming into the game fresh and there's only seven more balls left. But here is what Chu does on this ball, puts it in play and then runs and it's basically like baseball equivalent of a hustle double. He needs to get as many runs as he can and maximize the hits and they get back and they get two runs out of it safely. So that's a good way to end it because now it's 10 more runs from six balls. You have a new bowler coming in cuggling. I don't know how to pronounce that guy's name. But now Mackenzie is the batsman. They switched and he's up and they switch because every over they now pitch from the new side. They switch sides. So now this dude's going to get his first ball and it's a pretty important part of the game. They need to get 10 runs on the next six balls. He puts that one right where it came from. Nice piece of hitting up the middle and that's going to get him one run. Now Chu is up again. They switch sides and here listen to this. So over the fence like that is a home run. It's an automatic six run. So here's an update of the score bug before and after that sixer from Max Chu. Beforehand it was a 138 runs. He got six runs on that. So it goes to 144. The outs stay the same 19.1 overs. That was another ball. So now it's 19.2. Going. You have Mackenzie. He got one run off one ball. Chu had three off three. Now Chu has nine off of four ball scenes. So that's their personal stats before where the team stats. It was nine more runs from five balls but he got six. So now it's three more from four. So that's a huge shot because now victory should be in their hands. And then this is the overs and we got a six there and it's not a great start for our dude. The Galeen who's now got one wicket but he's allowed 44 runs in 3.2 overs. So let's keep watching see if the Volts can do it. Max Chu is up again and this one he's going to pop up in the air. Do they get under? Do they get under? No it drops and they get one more run out of it. So if you look at the way this is bold he bounces it really short because he wants it to come up in an area that's not really fun to hit at because he knows he's swinging. He's going forward to not swing. They're just trying to get wickets or get dot balls and that one is oh no that lands. So that's another run. So now you have the rookie up again. He's making his debut in this league and he needs two more runs from the next three balls to win it for his team and what's he going to do? Well he's going to hit what we consider a walk off homer. Now he goes to the short side of the field a double fist pump big all hugs from the rookies feeling good what a way to end it they win the match it's over walk off. So this is the final scorecard this is the Volts roster the first batsman he got eight runs off five balls the next one ten runs off ten this is the they were caught out so C stands for caught and then this is the fielder who made the catch B stands for the bowler who bowled them out or who bowled it out this dude Philips wasn't caught out he was bowled out meaning the bowler just hit the wickets he was out and really you look at this broom did all the heavy lifting for them in the three hole and then these guys Chew and Mackenzie they never got out they finished the match on the other side we have the other teams bowlers they used one two three four five or the walkers brothers they use five different bowlers that's normal because you can't bowl more than four overs that's a rule so you can't just have one dude do the whole thing dots all these guys had ten dot balls that's pretty good runs our guy Fisher allowed the least twenty one he got two wickets so he had the best day out of all these things so I don't know might be too fast for you might not if you want to watch it this league is on ESPN plus if you like baseball you're gonna like T20 cricket I gotta assume it's very similar in pace and play and intricacies and if you know if you understand what I just said and then you watch your game it'll all come together it's much simpler than baseball from a first time viewing experience because the general concept is just way simpler