 We're going to learn about cricket, but do you want to know something about America? Here's a little secret. The Yankees suck. Idiots on Corbin as with me as always is this. Idiot with the hat named Rick. Take me out to the ball game. If you're new to our channel go and smash the like button, subscribe, and ring that little bell to be part of the notification squad. Please follow us on our various social media platforms. Instagram, Twitter. Today we'll be reacting to a video that some of you requested, but it's kind of we want to learn a little more. We watched a trailer for MS Donnie. I'll link that right here. How does he do it? Every time. I'm a magic man. Yeah, mother. Sorry, my mother's in the other room sniffing. Yeah. Cricket for Americans. I'm guessing it's going to explain a little more about cricket because we are interested because I don't know hardly anything. I know I've seen a couple of videos. Right. All that kind of stuff, but I know I don't know the rules. We don't know the rules. So we both love baseball and we know baseball comes from cricket and crickets in a national story. We know that it's more popular than baseball. We want to learn. We want to learn because we also want to see MS Donnie the film and review it and we want to know the sport so that we know what the heck is going on. So if you want to explain stuff to us, let us know in the comment section below. Because we want to be less stupider. So you want to know about cricket? Yes. Great. It's an excellent sport. We've enjoyed millions of people all over the world. And the rules are not at all confusing. Look at Susan. Yeah. They're brilliant. Have no fear of this. We're in this together and we'll have you knowledge about this. I thought this was the explanation. I don't understand it. Okay. So first of all, let's get one thing out of the way. Despite the shared batting of pitch balls. That was Yankee's Red Sox. The sport has very little in common with baseball. Sorry to disappoint you. Still though, we use America's pastime as the starting reference point for convenience sake. Because well, it's awesome. And the two do have some things in common. In baseball, the game is played within the confines of boundaries that determine whether a hit ball is fair or foul. But those don't exist in cricket. Instead, the entirety of the field is in play. Whoa. A cricket field is made up of a large grass oval with a 66-foot-long playing area, or pitch, in the middle. Applied to baseball, this setup would have made Carlton Fisk's home run a lot less memorable. No dramatic waving to clearing the ball fair and foul. Just like both ends of the pitch, the part in the middle, are what are known as wickets. Wickets are made up of three wooden poles called stumps, which are hammered into the ground and connected on top by two horizontal wooden pieces called bales. Among other things, the wickets are the bowlers, think pitchers, target. But we'll talk more about wickets later. Cricket teams are made up of eleven players, all eleven play the field, and all eleven bat, most of the time. While cricket has innings, technically, they're very different from the sets of nine innings that most Americans are used to watching. In most types of cricket matches, the type you're most likely to catch on TV at least, the team's bat only once. That's it. Two innings, one time through the batting order each, for all the marvels. But there's a catch, pun intended. Two batters are essentially up at any given time. What? Any each batter, or batsman in cricketeers, continues to hit until they're at it. How do batsmen get out? Good question. There are a few differences. First, if the bowler, again, the pitcher, is able to knock down either a stump or bale on a bold ball. He's very good. The batter's strike zone is anywhere within their reach. If the ball is pitched beyond the batter's reach or behind the batter, in his natural stance at the wicket, then the pitch is deemed wide, like a ball in baseball, and the batting side is given an extra run. This ensures the fielding team pulls towards the batter, not just chucking the ball in his general direction in order to get through the set number of overs. We'll explain overs in a minute. Second, a batsman is out, but the hit ball is caught in the air by the opposing team. I understand that. The third way a hitting batsman can get out is where that second batsman comes into play, and where cricket gets excited. While one batter, the striking batsman, is being bowled to, the other batter, the non-striking batsman, stands by the wicket on the opposite side of the pitch. Each time the ball is put into play, or hit, both batsmen run to the opposite side of the pitch as many times as possible. Each time they both do so successfully, it's a run. If the fielding team is able to throw the ball at the wicket, knocking down a stump or bale, or if it's thrown into the wicketkeeper or bowler, who then does the same, before that batsman makes it back to the end the ball was thrown to, then he is out. Now yes, that all sounds very technical, but it essentially boils down to rolling the ball at a stick to get a guy out. Before the ball is played, hit him up! Oh, it's out! As we set up top, this game is exciting. There are even homeruns and grand slams. If the striking batsman really puts a charge into the ball, sending it past the outer boundaries of the oval in the air, it's called a six, good for six automatic runs. If the ball hits the ground before bouncing over the barrier, it's a four, which, you guessed it, is good for four. This run scoring continues through the striking team's batting order, with the field of play flipping and the bowl are changing after six bowl balls. In cricket terms, that batch of six is called an over. In most one-day matches, a cap of 50 overs is placed on each team, meaning essentially an upper limit of 300 bowls per in. When a team hits that cap, no matter where they are in their batting order or with their run total, that inning is closed. In addition to reaching the set limit of overs, an inning can also end with 10 of the team's 11 batsmen eventually being retired. And the game will end if the second striking team scores enough runs to reach or beat the first team's score. The second team is essentially chasing the first team's score their entire inning. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is cricket. You now know enough to take in all the cricketing action your heart desires without feeling like a complete novice. Pretty cool, right? Yes? No? Well, hopefully that's an affirmative. But if this is all still too confusing for you, just remember, there's always baseball. A simple game that hinges on our human empire's arbitrary, often inexperienced football. Oh, and then he got off! No! When the archaic set of unspoken rules of possession has been put on a tar and and somehow even more nuanced in the Martin interpretation that it's distant-grace president. The Mingus has a rundown going on. Much easier to follow. One unusual way to turn tar. It's a very confusing game. Let me tell you something. If you know all of the insides and nuances of baseball, baseball is very complex. Yeah. But obviously not as complex as cricket. Yeah. Someone said in the comments that said, cricket? Baseball? No, cricket minus brains equals baseball. Which is why we like baseball. We're stupid! This is a funny comment. Let's see. You hit it there. It's four runs. I mean, if you hit it there, it's six runs. If you hit it there, it's 20 runs. If you don't know anything about a certain sport, it's obviously going to be confusing to you. It's true. No matter what the sport is. If you're from another country and you've never heard of football, don't forget it. Why do you throw it with your hands? Why can one person hold it? It takes years to understand that game. Obviously, I understand that it's... I'm still very confused. Tennis is pretty simple. But from what I think, you hit the ball, and then you can run back and forth and get some runs. Right. What are those called? What are they called? Sprints. A couple sprints. And the more and the faster. Obviously you need speed before somebody can hit those little things. And everything's in play. Yeah, that's crazy. So like if you... If it was thrown at you and you hit it and it went backwards and went over the fence, that's a homerun? I think so. How can you get rewarded for having not even hit it right? Well, we're probably not saying it correctly. Oh, I'm sure we're not. You'll let us know. I know you'll let us know. You'll send us links to what we should be watching. Yeah, be interested. Is there a certain place we should... Like a YouTube compilation of plays we should watch? Or if there's a game we should watch? How long does the game last? If you've only got two innings and you just go through those guys hitting... It could last a long, long time. And apparently they have a couple days matches sometimes from what I got from the video. It looks like the game would be over in 45 minutes. No, I think it's going to last a long time. And can you strike a guy out? And what do you do if you hit the guy? The hit batsman? Does he get a base? He doesn't go to a base. There's no base to go to. Does he walk back out and he becomes the other batsman with the other bat bat? I think it's one of those foul... or the ball type thing. Why does the other guy have a bat? He's not hitting anymore. Um... He's using it to touch the other side of the thing? Yes. He's the runner up, but they also... have an opportunity to score. And if everything's in play, the other guys that's coming up, is he off the field and he takes that long walk to come up there, or is he like in the way, standing over there baseball? No, I'm wondering where the other... If the whole team hits, where are they coming from? Do they have a dugout? Probably, I just assume so. They have to sit somewhere. Obviously, a sport that we've never seen before is going to be confusing. Australian rules football. Oh yeah, that one's crazy. I'll never understand that sport. So please let us know if there's other cricket videos we should watch, and other things like that, so we can understand or react to, see, this was cricket for Americans. We need cricket for idiots. Yeah. Since that video.