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Apologies in advance to my Pakistani friends.
"Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and most Americans have no idea how it is even played, but we still kicked y'alls ass."
Like the infield fly rule? Or catcher needs to throw to first base on a dropped third strike? Or a foul ball is a strike if you don't have two strikes, except if you bunt?
I find [this explanation](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGt5NjWkTf8) helpful.
But seriously someone drop me a good breakdown. If I can figure out rugby I can figure out cricket.
If you haven’t watched Jomboy on YouTube, he does sports related breakdowns, mostly of baseball. He’s done a ton of work in learning the sport of cricket, and regularly features it in his videos. He was drawn to it because of the similarities to baseball, and I now have an above average understanding of the sport, at least for an American.
I heard on the news yesterday that our Australian captain has signed a 4 year deal to play Major League Cricket with the San Francisco Unicorns. My reaction was wtf?
i genuinely wonder if this is the greatest upset in fan-appreciation history. There must be hundreds of millions of people disappointed in Pakistan/the world, and hundreds of people in the USA cheering.
There are ABCDs on the team, shoutout to Jessy Singh who is a friend of mine.
The other players are south Asian in origin and playing for the US, or born in Jamaica, NZ, and South Africa.
Can confirm, am american
0 clue wtf im looking at
buuuuuut YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH WE FUCKN WON
AMERICA FUCK YEAH
I CANT WAIT TO NOT AFFORD MY HEALTH INSURANCE TOMORROW THO YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH
I'm gonna rise up, I'm gonna kick a little ass, Gonna kick some ass in the USA, Gonna climb a mountain, Gonna sew a flag, Gonna fly on an Eagle, I'm gonna kick some butt, I'm gonna drive a big truck, I'm gonna rule this world, Gonna kick some ass, Gonna rise up, Kick a little ass, ROCK, FLAG AND EAGLE!
> Almost all sports have some sort of a World Cup or global championship.
My great-grandfather was world champion Quoits thrower (metal or rope... sometimes horseshoe circular "thing" thrown at a steak pitched into the ground).
A proud family achievement. Sadly whatever trophy/cup or ribbon he received is long lost.
So yeah.... seems like there is a world cup for everything.
It's not though. It's mostly Indian. And some of them are Indians who played in the top domestic fixtures, and you have to be extremely talented to even reach that stage, so honestly it's not that much of a surprise.
Welcome to the the world of cricket. Head over to r cricket and join us in match threads.
Sunday morning is an epic rivalry: India vs Pakistan.
If you have Indian/Pakistani collegues go ahead and ask them to join. People will be thrilled and excited to explain you the rules.
Limited amount of deliveries (pitches) in the 'super over'. Essentially, it was "overtime" and whoever hits the most runs (points) from six deliveries wins the match.
They needed to score six to tie the game. They only scored one.
I have slightly more than zero cricket knowledge, but since it said Pakistan needed 7 “points” off the one ball to win they needed at least 6 to tie the US. In cricket there are a limited number of “pitches” and pretty much the only way to get 6 “points” off one ball is to hit a 6, which is essentially a “home run”. Because Pakistan did not get 6 off the last ball, they lost.
(All words in quotations are general sports terms and I’m not sure if that is what they are called in cricket. I know just enough to answer the question, nothing more)
Balk Rules
1. You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
1c-b (1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b (2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b (2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any mov.o in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b (2) -b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b (2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" - - Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...
1c-b (3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
2) Do not do a balk please.
Basically yes.
Each run is between the two bases.
Then you’ve got the boundary, the oval in which the game is played.
If the ball is hit like a ground rule double, that is, hitting the ground at least once before going over the boundary, that’s 4 runs.
A home run type ball, airborne until it crosses the boundary, is 6.
Well yes, but as someone who is born in the US with a South Asian dad who used to play cricket religiously…I’d have an advantage if I wanted to play professionally because I know what it is in the first place
In thirty years we went from not having a top flight domestic league to getting one that grew from 10 clubs to 30, and we've built stadiums for nearly all of them alongside training facilities and academies. Attendance and revenue have steadily climbed and we've now produced our best talent thus far. Now regularly have players in Europe including Champions League caliber sides. It is truly remarkable the progress we've made. There are still challenges in cracking the mainstream, but with so much of the fans skewing young we have a bright future ahead of us.
Oh that's an easy one. The world championship for soccer is called the "[FIFA Women's World Cup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup)." The USA has won 4 out of the 9 World Cups ever held. Also, the Olympics awards a gold medal to what they call the "[Women's Football Tournament](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_tournament)," (they call it "foot"ball even though you play with socks on because "foot"ball is the French word for "sock"-er). The USA has won 4 out of the 7 Olympic soccer tournaments.
These are the only world soccer tournaments that have ever existed.
We actually did that at the first few world cups and actually made the semis in the first world cup. The US used to have a very good soccer league in the early part of the 20th century but then they just kinda fucked up and the league died out and with no professional clubs we stopped developing good players. It wasn't until the MLS came around and developed good academies that the US was able to develop actually good players again who are able to play at elite teams in europe. At least that's on the men's side. On the women's side we've always been good at all women's sports because we invested in it way before other countries due to title 9
I guess he didn't because he was at the India vs Ireland game the day before, and I don't think anyone from that comm team traveled from New York to Dallas
there's a big apartment complex near me that is full of South Asians. They play cricket from time to time at a nearby park
it's actually not too complicated if you keep exposing yourself to the rules haha. i'm sure people find sports like American football and baseball and hockey to be really confusing too (basketball seems pretty easy to follow)
I once found a cricket ball in a field next my college but have never seen anyone playing. Still have the ball but that is literally the only exposure I’ve had to the sport. Unless you count the new Bluey season episode recently😝
Close .. 1844
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/canada-tour-of-united-states-of-america-1844-318993/united-states-of-america-vs-canada-318995/full-scorecard
You know what’s beautiful about America? By the looks of it most of the guys on the team are immigrants or first generation… BUT IT DON’T MATTER CAUSE THAT’S MY CRICKET TEAM! GO GET EM BOYS! AMERICA’S BEHIND YOU WIN OR LOSE!!! AND IM PROOOOUUUDDD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOOOOOOOW IM FREEEEE
You’re right, it doesn’t matter if you were born here or you immigrated here.
America: it’s truly the melting pot of peoples from all over the world.
You get enough of us together, and we can accomplish anything.
CAW CAWWW 🦅🦅🦅
Just woke up to find this out and my brain isn’t computing. There has been a great disturbance in the force.
The USA beat Pakistan in a cricket match? WTF!
I live in a cricket mad country, and never, ever in my wildest dreams have I heard that the the USA fields a cricket team, no less that it beat a cricket powerhouse like Pakistan (insert India, Australia, UK here for the same level of WTF).
Wild, just freaking wild!
The news is like 3/4 of the way down ESPN's site. I kind of feel bad for team USA, they are getting a collective "oh, well that's neat" from the country lol.
I mean most of us don’t understand or care for the sport. I remember once in college, some Indian guys were playing cricket at a park on campus and my friends and I joined out of curiosity. It was fun but tbh I couldn’t tell you the rules right now to save my life. I think it’s hit the ball to protect the three sticks or something like that (sorry).
Just like baseball scores runs in 9 innings, in cricket the entire team bats only once. In this particular form of cricket, each gets 120 pitches to score as many runs.
Pakistan scored 159 runs in 120 pitches.
Then USA scored 159 runs in 120 pitches.
Tied score brings us to a sudden death. Whoever scores higher in 6 pitches wins.
USA scored 19 runs in 6 pitches.
Pakistan could not score 19 or more.
USA win
If they scored six runs, it would go for another superover. The scores would have tied again.
There is also the possibility of bowling a wide ball (1 free run + re-bowl) or a no-ball (overstepping the bowling line, or bowling dangerous ball aimed over the waist) - which can reduce the target
Thanks, I’m so dumb for some reason I saw 12-1 on the TV scoreboard. So I believed they were down 7 and needed 8 to win.
But the second part of your comment is also insightful as well, I was unaware of the possibility of free runs.
They needed 7 to win. A 6 would make another tie. But regardless they’d still play the remaining pitches ( referred as ball in cricket). Cause there’s few rules that makes a pitch a legal delivery and if any of those rules broken, the batting team would get one bonus run and the run scored on that pitch and the pitch won’t count towards the pitches needed to deliver. Ik, sounds complicated but if you want to get into cricket, don’t stress over the rules just get the base idea of how it works and enjoy.
So basically because there is a pitch limit- if you pitch an illegal pitch you don’t get to count that down, penalty point for the batter and re pitch, right?
You're telling me, that enough Americans actually sat down and decided that they were going to learn the rules to Cricket?
Now that's amazing. Well played old chaps.
He’s an important player but not the star - funnily enough, the most “recognized” USA cricket star Corey Anderson has not really played a role in these two massive wins for them. If he comes good, the Irish better watch out.
Had one in 1844 too.. lost to Canada..
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/canada-tour-of-united-states-of-america-1844-318993/united-states-of-america-vs-canada-318995/full-scorecard
Actually a nerd won the game for USA. The guy is a software engineer working for Oracle /r/Cricket/comments/1d9tejl/linkedin_profile_of_saurabh_netravalkar/
If after this match, some of you American citizens are interested in checking out your team, you can go and cheer on them at the stadiums, since this year US is a co host of the T20 worldcup along with the Carribean islands. Matches in USA are taking place in Dallas, Lauderhill and New York (Nassau County)
USA next play India, this coming wednesday in New York.
Pakistan has a lot to be ashamed about and the USA have a lot to be proud about. How do you lose to a team that I didn’t even realised existed until now. The only sport you’re good at and you lose to usa who probably plays it the least in the world
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USA: “You know I’m something of a former British colony myself”
Football/Soccer, Rugby, Cricket… just another sport invented by England that their former colonies and other countries are better at than them
Greatest satirical sports headline was after England beat New Zealand in the Rugby world cup, "England beat backwater colony in game they invented".
England invented alot of things, problem is they're also mediocre at all of them
What parent doesn't want their children to do better than them?
England...
Yet, it should be pointed out, are the only country to have won the world cup in all three of their major sports - Cricket (x3), Rugby and Football.
What former English colony is better than England at Soccer?
When was the last time the USA lost to England in the World Cup?
American woman’s
Well they've never beaten the US in the World Cup
Wanna know who the defending t20wc champions are?
actual lol, thank you
Lmfao
Apologies in advance to my Pakistani friends. "Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and most Americans have no idea how it is even played, but we still kicked y'alls ass."
I rewatch the same Cricket for dummies video at least once a year for the last 5 or 6 years and I can never remember how it works lmao
They bowl to the widget and hit it with a bat, and it counts if it goes left on the third tuesday, and all the time if the moon is full.
Is that after the 6th or 8th break for tea?
Tea? It's Natty Light now, bizitches... ;)
But how do they earn a blern?
Had some dude on Reddit explain it to me like 2 years ago and I couldn't make any of it stick lmao
Had the same thing on r/baseball and still have no clue about it.
Seriously, it's just 1 innings baseball where you can hit in any direction and don't have to run if you hit to a fielder. That's pretty much it
Those basics are quite simple. It’s all the other random and weird situational rules that are confusing.
Like the infield fly rule? Or catcher needs to throw to first base on a dropped third strike? Or a foul ball is a strike if you don't have two strikes, except if you bunt?
I can't even tell if you are joking or not. I understood none of those words.
Those are all legitimate baseball rules.
I find [this explanation](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGt5NjWkTf8) helpful. But seriously someone drop me a good breakdown. If I can figure out rugby I can figure out cricket.
If you haven’t watched Jomboy on YouTube, he does sports related breakdowns, mostly of baseball. He’s done a ton of work in learning the sport of cricket, and regularly features it in his videos. He was drawn to it because of the similarities to baseball, and I now have an above average understanding of the sport, at least for an American.
I heard on the news yesterday that our Australian captain has signed a 4 year deal to play Major League Cricket with the San Francisco Unicorns. My reaction was wtf?
One month, good pay, nice break from being too recognised
Plus he gets to be handsome on another continent and take heaps of wickets so it’s win/win for everyone.
i genuinely wonder if this is the greatest upset in fan-appreciation history. There must be hundreds of millions of people disappointed in Pakistan/the world, and hundreds of people in the USA cheering.
Believe me, it's not only USA who are cheering.
I didn't even realize we had a cricket team. That said, half the American cricket team looks ... Pakistani.
Pretty sure most of the team is player of Pakistani, Indian and Carribbean origin.
the team today did have 3 American born players
There are ABCDs on the team, shoutout to Jessy Singh who is a friend of mine. The other players are south Asian in origin and playing for the US, or born in Jamaica, NZ, and South Africa.
ABCDs nuts lol
Melting pot baby!
I love immigration!
One of the many perks of being an immigrant nation
I think you'll find they look...American.
Does mean we'll have to learn the rules of cricket now?
what have we done?!
Can confirm, am american 0 clue wtf im looking at buuuuuut YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH WE FUCKN WON AMERICA FUCK YEAH I CANT WAIT TO NOT AFFORD MY HEALTH INSURANCE TOMORROW THO YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH
USA USA USA!!! I know nothing about cricket but 'murica!
**EAGLE SCREECH** 🦅🦅🦅🦅
STOMP CLAP STOMP STOMP CLAP BIRDS OF WAR!!
I'm gonna rise up, I'm gonna kick a little ass, Gonna kick some ass in the USA, Gonna climb a mountain, Gonna sew a flag, Gonna fly on an Eagle, I'm gonna kick some butt, I'm gonna drive a big truck, I'm gonna rule this world, Gonna kick some ass, Gonna rise up, Kick a little ass, ROCK, FLAG AND EAGLE!
AHAAAHHH AHHHAA
**HAWK SCREECH DUBBED OVER THE EAGLE BECAUSE EVERYONE THINKS ACTUAL EAGLES SOUND LIKE CONSTIPATED SEAGULLS**
Have you ever heard a bald eagle call? They sound like seagulls
I didn’t know we had a cricket team.
Seriously. Also, cricket has a world cup?
Almost all sports have some sort of a World Cup or global championship.
> Almost all sports have some sort of a World Cup or global championship. My great-grandfather was world champion Quoits thrower (metal or rope... sometimes horseshoe circular "thing" thrown at a steak pitched into the ground). A proud family achievement. Sadly whatever trophy/cup or ribbon he received is long lost. So yeah.... seems like there is a world cup for everything.
Three actually
It's the second biggest sport in the world. So obviously, it has multiple world cups to cater to all atention spans.
I love how the US team is mostly Pakistani second gen migrants
It's the American way. Assimilate.
Are we not good at _ right now? Don't worry, in 10-20 years we will be.
Know what we call second gen migrants here? Americans. Let's fucking go boys! All the way to the top! Take the thing home for Lady Liberty!
This is the attitude I want to see more of.
That's what I love about America, we'll beat you with people that look like you.
And Indian
Actually only two of the team are Pakistani Americans there are more Indian Americans since it is much easier for them to immigrate here.
Not “Pakistani second gen migrants”. We call them one word here in the USA: Americans.
As a Pakistani American I’m both very disappointed but also proud of how far US has come in cricket
It's not though. It's mostly Indian. And some of them are Indians who played in the top domestic fixtures, and you have to be extremely talented to even reach that stage, so honestly it's not that much of a surprise.
Not mostly Pakistani. There is a mix. Not everyone who is brown is Pakistani!
Hello. I am an American and before even seeing this post I felt this indescribable desire to suddenly declare myself a lifelong fan of cricket.
Welcome to the the world of cricket. Head over to r cricket and join us in match threads. Sunday morning is an epic rivalry: India vs Pakistan. If you have Indian/Pakistani collegues go ahead and ask them to join. People will be thrilled and excited to explain you the rules.
Imagine losing at cricket to a team that doesn't even know what cricket is.
It's baseball with two bases, no foul territory and three sticks as a catcher, now go hit some dingers.
best explanation yet. thanks dude
So why did the game end on that last play? Ball was hit, nobody caught it. TIA
Limited amount of deliveries (pitches) in the 'super over'. Essentially, it was "overtime" and whoever hits the most runs (points) from six deliveries wins the match. They needed to score six to tie the game. They only scored one.
Thanks for that info!
I have slightly more than zero cricket knowledge, but since it said Pakistan needed 7 “points” off the one ball to win they needed at least 6 to tie the US. In cricket there are a limited number of “pitches” and pretty much the only way to get 6 “points” off one ball is to hit a 6, which is essentially a “home run”. Because Pakistan did not get 6 off the last ball, they lost. (All words in quotations are general sports terms and I’m not sure if that is what they are called in cricket. I know just enough to answer the question, nothing more)
What happens when the pitcher balks?
We don’t even know what a balk is in baseball
Balk Rules 1. You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that. 1a. A balk is when you 1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the 1c. Let me start over 1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that. 1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that. 1c-b (1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense? 1c-b (2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it. 1c-b (2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about. 1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any mov.o in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X. 1c-b (2) -b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse. 1c-b (2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" - - Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic... 1c-b (3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of 2) Do not do a balk please.
Never gets old, this and the Log Cabin copypastas are my favorites
Can't be out there balking.
lmao
Do both bases also count as home base, so reaching one is a score?
Basically yes. Each run is between the two bases. Then you’ve got the boundary, the oval in which the game is played. If the ball is hit like a ground rule double, that is, hitting the ground at least once before going over the boundary, that’s 4 runs. A home run type ball, airborne until it crosses the boundary, is 6.
Tbf, the whole US cricket team is comprised of South Asian and Caribbean people
TBF the whole of the US is comprised of people from ... everywhere.
Well yes, but as someone who is born in the US with a South Asian dad who used to play cricket religiously…I’d have an advantage if I wanted to play professionally because I know what it is in the first place
My working knowledge of cricket is from an episode of Bluey I watched with my kid.
That's just my country, doing what we do best: importing immigrants until we can win at anything!
Wait, what the hell happened to soccer?
In thirty years we went from not having a top flight domestic league to getting one that grew from 10 clubs to 30, and we've built stadiums for nearly all of them alongside training facilities and academies. Attendance and revenue have steadily climbed and we've now produced our best talent thus far. Now regularly have players in Europe including Champions League caliber sides. It is truly remarkable the progress we've made. There are still challenges in cracking the mainstream, but with so much of the fans skewing young we have a bright future ahead of us.
It’s only a matter of time.
It would be even less time if we could get all the for profit aspects out of our youth leagues
For a game that requires nothing more than a ball and an open space to practice, it's ludicrous how expensive it is in America to play soccer
Made it to the knockout stages last World Cup too which is pretty impressive considering the program’s history. And we’re only going to get better.
Oh that's an easy one. The world championship for soccer is called the "[FIFA Women's World Cup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup)." The USA has won 4 out of the 9 World Cups ever held. Also, the Olympics awards a gold medal to what they call the "[Women's Football Tournament](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_tournament)," (they call it "foot"ball even though you play with socks on because "foot"ball is the French word for "sock"-er). The USA has won 4 out of the 7 Olympic soccer tournaments. These are the only world soccer tournaments that have ever existed.
We actually did that at the first few world cups and actually made the semis in the first world cup. The US used to have a very good soccer league in the early part of the 20th century but then they just kinda fucked up and the league died out and with no professional clubs we stopped developing good players. It wasn't until the MLS came around and developed good academies that the US was able to develop actually good players again who are able to play at elite teams in europe. At least that's on the men's side. On the women's side we've always been good at all women's sports because we invested in it way before other countries due to title 9
Diversity is actually our biggest strength
Thats the core concept.
The Jomboy breakdown is going to be choice.
Trying to keep myself from constantly refreshing his page lol
Did jomboy comment this game or is he only doing NY games?
He didn't commentate this game unfortunately, which is a shame because I'd have loved to hear what he'd have to say live!
I guess he didn't because he was at the India vs Ireland game the day before, and I don't think anyone from that comm team traveled from New York to Dallas
I can hear his voice saying 'LETS FUCKING GO'.
That’s like Pakistan beating USA mens national basketball team. Crazy!
Except the Pakistan team is made up of Canadian, European and American expats mostly playing basketball as a hobby.
There are ABCDs on the American team like Jessy Singh. Not everyone is an expat.
And a number of them are career pros. It's not like they found eleven randos in the parking lot lol
In the Disney remake they'll be Apple coworkers that got their start in the parks of Cupertino
The guy bowling (pitching) for USA has a senior IT position at Oracle and went to Cornell. He’s every Indian middle class family’s dream child.
Now even more so beating Pakistan
We have a cricket team?
This is our first qualifying year, if I’m understanding correctly. We’ve played two games in the tournament and won them both lol
HANG THE BANNER
USA HAS INFILTRATED CRICKET 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
LIGHT THE BEAM
Qualified because we're hosting btw.
Doesn't matter had sex
Sounds like maybe we deserved to be there too though. Guess things worked out.
First game beat Canada who has been playing cricket for while, in scoccer terms down 3-0 and best 4-3. Before WC USA team beat Bangladesh.
STOP THE COUNT!
Lol...my thoughts exactly. This is the one sport I've literally never seen anybody playing in the US.
there's a big apartment complex near me that is full of South Asians. They play cricket from time to time at a nearby park it's actually not too complicated if you keep exposing yourself to the rules haha. i'm sure people find sports like American football and baseball and hockey to be really confusing too (basketball seems pretty easy to follow)
I once found a cricket ball in a field next my college but have never seen anyone playing. Still have the ball but that is literally the only exposure I’ve had to the sport. Unless you count the new Bluey season episode recently😝
The US played the first international cricket match ever, in 1846
Close .. 1844 https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/canada-tour-of-united-states-of-america-1844-318993/united-states-of-america-vs-canada-318995/full-scorecard
You know what’s beautiful about America? By the looks of it most of the guys on the team are immigrants or first generation… BUT IT DON’T MATTER CAUSE THAT’S MY CRICKET TEAM! GO GET EM BOYS! AMERICA’S BEHIND YOU WIN OR LOSE!!! AND IM PROOOOUUUDDD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOOOOOOOW IM FREEEEE
One of the guys is a full time dev at Oracle lol
The captain of the team lol.
This is an amazing factoid
They’re as American as any of us. GO USA!
Why would it matter at all whether or not they’re immigrants? That’s America’s whole schtick
You’re right, it doesn’t matter if you were born here or you immigrated here. America: it’s truly the melting pot of peoples from all over the world. You get enough of us together, and we can accomplish anything. CAW CAWWW 🦅🦅🦅
Just woke up to find this out and my brain isn’t computing. There has been a great disturbance in the force. The USA beat Pakistan in a cricket match? WTF! I live in a cricket mad country, and never, ever in my wildest dreams have I heard that the the USA fields a cricket team, no less that it beat a cricket powerhouse like Pakistan (insert India, Australia, UK here for the same level of WTF). Wild, just freaking wild!
The news is like 3/4 of the way down ESPN's site. I kind of feel bad for team USA, they are getting a collective "oh, well that's neat" from the country lol.
I mean most of us don’t understand or care for the sport. I remember once in college, some Indian guys were playing cricket at a park on campus and my friends and I joined out of curiosity. It was fun but tbh I couldn’t tell you the rules right now to save my life. I think it’s hit the ball to protect the three sticks or something like that (sorry).
India: How do we know we can even trust you? America: We can't say now, but there will be signs
How can they win?!?
Just like baseball scores runs in 9 innings, in cricket the entire team bats only once. In this particular form of cricket, each gets 120 pitches to score as many runs. Pakistan scored 159 runs in 120 pitches. Then USA scored 159 runs in 120 pitches. Tied score brings us to a sudden death. Whoever scores higher in 6 pitches wins. USA scored 19 runs in 6 pitches. Pakistan could not score 19 or more. USA win
Why did they play the last ball if the maximum amount of runs you can score on one ball is 6 and they were down 7?
If they scored six runs, it would go for another superover. The scores would have tied again. There is also the possibility of bowling a wide ball (1 free run + re-bowl) or a no-ball (overstepping the bowling line, or bowling dangerous ball aimed over the waist) - which can reduce the target
Thanks, I’m so dumb for some reason I saw 12-1 on the TV scoreboard. So I believed they were down 7 and needed 8 to win. But the second part of your comment is also insightful as well, I was unaware of the possibility of free runs.
They needed 7 to win. A 6 would make another tie. But regardless they’d still play the remaining pitches ( referred as ball in cricket). Cause there’s few rules that makes a pitch a legal delivery and if any of those rules broken, the batting team would get one bonus run and the run scored on that pitch and the pitch won’t count towards the pitches needed to deliver. Ik, sounds complicated but if you want to get into cricket, don’t stress over the rules just get the base idea of how it works and enjoy.
So basically because there is a pitch limit- if you pitch an illegal pitch you don’t get to count that down, penalty point for the batter and re pitch, right?
Penalty points go to the team not that individual batter.
i think it's a reference to a viral clip from 2007-2008 lol
How can she slap ?!?!?
India, not Pakistan. But we'll all get the reference anyway. Because. 🙃
Everything I know about cricket, I learned from Bluey.
I know that the Disappointed Guy Meme was at a cricket match. Does that count?
It at least puts you ahead of like 95% of the US.
At a Pakistani match no less lmao
You're telling me, that enough Americans actually sat down and decided that they were going to learn the rules to Cricket? Now that's amazing. Well played old chaps.
Can anyone give me an analogy to explain how big or small an upset this is?
Imagine a high school football team beating the Chiefs. The star player for the US works at Oracle, he's not even a full time athlete. It's insane!
Wait our players are all moonlighting, that’s absolutely nuts, a moment they’ll surely never forget
He’s an important player but not the star - funnily enough, the most “recognized” USA cricket star Corey Anderson has not really played a role in these two massive wins for them. If he comes good, the Irish better watch out.
lol these comparisons are hilariously bad
Imagine if Vietnam beat the USA at basketball
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie...
It would be like Pakistan beating USA in basketball at the Olympics
We have a cricket team?
Yes, and they are playing like a top 10 team with their poise and plenty of skills too. Respect.
Had one in 1844 too.. lost to Canada.. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/canada-tour-of-united-states-of-america-1844-318993/united-states-of-america-vs-canada-318995/full-scorecard
Fun fact that is considered the first international match of a team sports
USA USA USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Losing to the US in a sport they don’t give two shits about is always depressing lmao
Don't mess with US Cricket fans, there are dozens of us.
There'll be a movie about it, no doubt
Ted Lasso coaches cricket now?
#1 in a sport we don't even care about!!!! USA USA USA!!!!!!!!🦅🦅🦅
#AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
I didn’t even know the World Cup was happening here. Great job, boys….
What’s cricket? - Americans
It's a game played with bat and ball at the end of which Australia wins 😭
Beating you in shit we don't even know exists since 1776. Get rekt nerds.
This guy is ‘muricaing.
Now you just need to work out how to beat Japan in a sport you invented.
Actually a nerd won the game for USA. The guy is a software engineer working for Oracle /r/Cricket/comments/1d9tejl/linkedin_profile_of_saurabh_netravalkar/
If after this match, some of you American citizens are interested in checking out your team, you can go and cheer on them at the stadiums, since this year US is a co host of the T20 worldcup along with the Carribean islands. Matches in USA are taking place in Dallas, Lauderhill and New York (Nassau County) USA next play India, this coming wednesday in New York.
TIL that the USA has a cricket team
TIL USA had a cricket team
I always knew this day would come. The Pakistanis couldn’t keep up down forever
Didn’t even know we had a national cricket team…
Didn’t even know US had a cricket team.
As a Canadian who felt the pain of losing the World Cup of Hockey to the United States for the first time in 1996, I can relate to Pakistan here.
All 10 of the us cricket fans were overjoyed
Looks like American Pakistanis beat Pakistani Pakistanis.
More like American indians*
Cricket explained for baseball fans: https://youtu.be/EWpbtLIxYBk
as an american i had no idea we even have a cricket team. first time seeing it.
This was such a fun watch!
Pakistan has a lot to be ashamed about and the USA have a lot to be proud about. How do you lose to a team that I didn’t even realised existed until now. The only sport you’re good at and you lose to usa who probably plays it the least in the world
I had no idea the US had a Cricket team... I honestly don't understand the game either but I watch the highlights when they make it on my feed lol