An American’s Guide To Cricket And How To Bet On It

Sports are seasonal and just as the summer is the time for Major League Baseball in the United States, in other countries around the world, they too have their own summer sports traditionally played 안전 스포츠사이트 추천 at this time of the year.

Given the popularity of global sports betting, wagering on events taking place all over the world with your sportsbook, such as FanDuel Sportsbook, it is handy to know what sports are popular at all times of the year.

And given that many US bettors enjoy betting on UK-based sports events such as the Premier League, the British Open Golf, Wimbledon or the NFL International Series, there’s one sport that maybe not so well known in the U.S. that is still very popular in the UK, especially for punters that like a wager.

That sport is cricket and in this article, we are going to learn a bit more about this strangely odd and quirky game, as well as some of the enjoyable sports betting markets you can find on it.

But first, an admission.

Standard Cricket Rules Explained

Cricket is played on a field within a boundary and where most of the action takes place is the wicket, a strip of the field that is 22 yards in length and 10ft wide, which has wickets (the wooden things in the picture, also called the stumps) at either end. The area in which the wickets are located are called the ‘crease’.

At the start of the game, the two team captains toss a coin with the team winning the toss given the choice of either batting or bowling first. A number of factors will be considered by the captain before they decide whether to bat or bowl first.

The team batting and scoring runs is the team that is technically ‘defending’ their wicket. The team has two players batting at any one time, one facing the ball (the striker) and the one at the opposite end of the wicket (non-striking end).

Depending on how many runs are scored, the batsman being the striker in an over can change if the batsman striking the ball runs for an odd number of runs.

Scoring in Cricket

Teams can score runs in four ways:

• The batsmen run in between the wickets after hitting the ball. Each successful runs.
• The batsman strikes the ball and it travels and reaches or passes the boundary on the field touching the floor at least once before crossing the boundary. This scores four runs
• The batsman strikes the ball and it goes over the boundary without touching the floor. This scores six runs.
• A team can also score runs via “Extras” which includes runs not scored by a batsman but which are awarded to the team. A team can be awarded an extra for a variety of reasons – no ball (an illegal ball from a bowler), a wide (when the bowler bowls the ball too wide of the batsman’s crease), bye (when the ball is not hit by the batsman but they run anyway), a leg bye (when the ball comes off the batsman’s pad and they run) and a penalty run.

Scoring runs is relatively simple to understand. Types of dismissal, well, that’s not quite so easy to follow!

Removing A Batsman (Dismissal)

The team bowling the ball to the batsman is “attacking” the wicket and trying to get the batsman out, when a batsman is out in a game, it is called a ‘dismissal’.

Balls are bowled in groups of six called ‘Overs” and a different bowler must be used in successive 벳무브 스보벳 피나클 overs.

For example, Bowler A would bowl the first over, Bowler B the second, but then Bowler A may then bowl the third, with Bowler B the fourth and so on.

If a bowler is judged to have made an illegal bowl for whatever reason, then the umpire will call a ‘no ball’ and the batting team get one extra run and the bowler must bowl that delivery again.

The attacking team can get a batsman out and replaced by another in the batting team in the following ways:

• Bowled – When the ball is bowled and hits the batsman’s wicket either directly or off any part of the batsman.
• LBW – LBW stands for Leg Before Wicket, a batsman is out when the bowler bowls the ball online with the stumps, at the right height to hit the stumps and is only prevented from doing so by either of the batsman’s legs.
• Run Out – Either batsmen at the crease can be run out if they run between the wickets and do not get their bat down in the crease before the fielding team hit the wickets with the ball. If this happens, then the batsman who failed to reach the crease before the wickets were hit is out, regardless of whether they hit the ball for that delivery.
• Caught – When the batsman hits the ball with the bat or glove and it is caught by any of the fielders without the ball touching the floor.
• Caught and Bowled – When the bowler both bowls the ball and then catches the resulting hit from the batsman.
• Hit Wicket – If the batsman is careless and accidentally knocks over their wicket with their bat or any part of their body, then they are given out hit wicket.
• Stumped – When a bowler bowls the ball and the batsman moves out of his crease to hit it, but misses the ball. The ball is then caught by the wicket keeper who can then remove the top of the stumps (called the bails) before the batsman gets back into the crease.
• There are a number of other very rare ways batsmen can be dismissed including retiring out, hitting the ball twice, obstructing the field, or timing out (taking longer than 3 minutes to face the next delivery) but these happen only very, very rarely.

Each team’s batting innings lasts for a maximum ten wickets, after which the team is declared “All Out”.

The Main Forms Of Cricket You Can See Played Today

The main forms of the game of cricket that you can see today (and bet on) are as follows:

• 5-Day or Test Match Cricket – This is the purists form of the game. Test Matches and standard County Championship games are scheduled to be played over five days and each team has two batting innings. Teams win a 5-Day or Test game by scoring more runs than their opponent and also bowling them out fully twice over the five days. If one team is not bowled out twice by the other after the five days has been completed, then regardless of runs scored, the match is a draw. Examples of these games include the Ashes Series between England and Australia.
• One–Day Cricket – A game where a team has one innings usually over a stated number of overs (55 or 60) and the winner is the team that scores the most runs, regardless of how many wickets they have lost or not. These games are played within one day, hence the name. The Cricket World Cup and Indian Premier League is played over this format.
• Twenty/20 or T20 – An even shorter version of One-Day cricket where teams have 20 overs to score as many runs as they can without being dismissed, the team that scores the most runs in the game wins regardless of the number of wickets taken for either team. The T20 World Cup is played over this format.
  
  

Popular Cricket Bets

In the United States, you tend to find that the focus on cricket betting is on the major international test matches, such as the current series between England and New Zealand and the West Indies and Bangladesh, as well as international One Day and Twenty20 games.

Betting on which team will win is very popular, and in Test Matches, you can also bet on the tie.

However, dig a little deeper and you can also find plenty of other betting, such as betting on who will be the next batsman out in the game, what the method of dismissal for that wicket will be and who will be the top run scorer for the team next up to bat.

Cricket is a tough game to get into for a novice to the game, but it can provide a lot of fun when betting. It’s a quirky, strange old game with a number of unusual traditions,

And my advice to any American wanting to learn more about the game is to tune in to any T20 or One-Day games you can find first to see how these versions of the game work, before trying to get to grips with the much slower pace and more nuanced 5-day or Test Match form of cricket.

I will revisit cricket again in a subsequent article as there’s a lot more to learn about the game, but for now, this should be enough for you to get to grips with the basics!

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