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Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Postby blingle » Sun Sep 08, 2019 9:09 am

I'm not a fan of cricket, but something's confusing me.

It's currently the 4th test, and Australia have scored 683 runs over their 2 innings.

England have scored 319 runs so far, and there is 1 day left. According to BBC Sport, England need 365 runs to win.

If England score 363, and take their total to 682 at the end of play today, would the ECB be within their rights to complain, and say that because there is only 0.146% difference between the two run totals, Australia should not be allowed to take home the Ashes?
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Re: Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Postby diesel » Sun Sep 08, 2019 9:55 am

Love it ha ha...
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Re: Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Postby Babu » Sun Sep 08, 2019 10:03 am

No . . . Unless England win at least one more game than Australia i.e. 20% more in a 5 test series, Australia keep the ashes and things remain the same as before . . .
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Re: Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Postby blingle » Sun Sep 08, 2019 10:30 am

Aha. OK. That SORT OF makes sense. Possibly.

So England could feasibly win just 1 game out of 5 (20%), and draw the other 4, and would be declared the winner?
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Re: Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Postby Babu » Sun Sep 08, 2019 10:47 am

indeed :D
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Re: Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Postby Benjy » Sun Sep 08, 2019 11:34 am

It’s really VERY, VERY, SIMPLE for England. Win the series, win (regain) the Ashes. Lose the series or draw the series = Lose the Ashes. ( in the event of a drawn series the current holders (Australia) keep (retain) the Ashes.
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Re: Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Postby Chrisdee » Sun Sep 08, 2019 12:37 pm

If you were confused before, you'll be even more confused now:-

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out.

When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game! Howzat
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Re: Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Postby Mickey Braw » Sun Sep 08, 2019 1:00 pm

Whooosh !!!!! What was that? :D
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Re: Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Postby lynny » Sun Sep 08, 2019 2:44 pm

I wouldn't worry too much about England scoring 682
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Re: Cricket confusion - The Ashes

Postby Ronnie112 » Sun Sep 08, 2019 4:40 pm

Cricket is about exciting as watching paint drying on a wall :text-lol:
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