When Cricket SPAM goes wrong
Six and Out was privileged enough to get some comment SPAM today. It wasn’t the usual SPAM variant (viagra, poker, free money) but a site claiming to offer some good info, on Cricket. I took a look at the site, and yes, it basically wants to be another Wikipedia. Sadly though, the integrity of its articles pale in comparison.
Namely due to its description of cricket. Now, I thought my definition of cricket were hard to follow. Check this out:
Cricket is a game basically of two opposing sides- one known as the fielding side and the other the batting side. The roles being decided by flip of a coin. The fielding side places its fielders strategically in the field (divided mainly into the longish rectangular batting strip of 22 yards, with wickets at either end) to challenge the batsman of the batting side into scoring runs while saving his wicket. The game is refereed by two umpires. The side scoring more runs is the winner. The main tools with which cricket is played are, a ball, bat, wicket and guards (abdomen, helmet, gloves ,pads etc.) The ball is a five and a half ounce leather stitched sphere with cork as its core. The bat is a broad wooden plate with a handle, for a firm grip. The stumps comprise of 3 upright wooden poles with 2 wooden bails mounted in between the stumps located at either side of the wicket. The ball is hurled from one side of the wicket by a bowler to the batsman, who is standing on the other side with a bat in his hands, looking to score runs by hitting the ball. A run is counted as the batsman & runner exchange sides, by running across the running strip, i.e. the pitch.
Still there?
The game has two variants- Test Match and One-day-International. Test match cricket is the classic form, where each side gets to play twice in a match. A Test match is spread over 5 playing days and is played in 3 sessions in a day. The uniform of both sides consists of white apparels. The other variant- One day game is a form in which each side gets to bat for only a limited number of overs (an over consist of six deliveries by a bowler). As such a One-day game has a huge popularity due to its limited time span & also because of the fact at most times it is decisive and thrilling as against a five day game which has got even chances of ending in a draw.
Frightening.
P.S. Yes, I have intentionally NOT linked them in to the post because I don’t want to give them any of my pagerank.
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