Talk:Cricket

Semi-protected edit request on 26 September 2024

Please rearrange an introduction sentence. Right now it says:

Forms of cricket range from Twenty20 (also known as T20), with each team batting for a single innings of 20 overs (each "over" being a set of 6 fair opportunities for the batting team to score) and the game  generally lasting three to four hours, to Test matches played over five days.

This is better:

Forms of cricket range from Test matches played over five days, to Twenty20 (also known as T20) games generally lasting three to four hours, with each team batting for a single innings of 20 overs (each "over" being a set of 6 fair opportunities for the batting team to score).

The extremely long T20 clause ought to come later: by the time you come to the end, you may have forgotten that you're reading about forms of cricket, so you'll be confused how a Test match fits into the description of T20. If we put Test cricket first, with its short description, there won't be a problem with the long T20 clause. 123.51.107.94 (talk) 01:28, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and made that sentence mostly like how you wanted:

Forms of cricket range from traditional Test matches played over five days, to the newer Twenty20 format (also known as T20), in which each team bats for a single innings of 20 overs (each "over" being a set of 6 fair opportunities for the batting team to score) and the game generally lasts three to four hours.

GreekApple123 (talk) 19:45, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

"Old-style"?

How would January 1598 old style correspondent January 1597 new style? Wouldn't it be more like December? Ko 2607:FEA8:FF01:4FA6:1C6:6AA1:FEAD:510F (talk) 15:11, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

In this case it's not the way round that you have it but January 1597 old style corresponding to January 1598 new style. As the article Old Style and New Style dates - linked to from this article - explains, the reason for the difference is that in old style dates New Year's Day wasn't on 1st January but instead on 1st March. JH (talk page) 16:36, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 November 2024

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The most successful side playing international cricket is Australia, which has won eight One Day International trophies, including six World Cups, more than any other country, and has been the top-rated Test side more than any other country.[citation needed]

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The most successful side playing international cricket is Australia, which has won eight One Day International trophies, including six World Cups, more than any other country, and has been the top-rated Test side more than any other country.

1)Added citation of Historical test rankings-

2)Added citation for Australian trophy count

I am new to wikipedia, please ignore any syntactic errors. Xenorals (talk) 20:09, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

 Already done by another editor. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 14:48, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

References

Order of gameplay subsections

I recently reverted some edits that re-arranged the subsections under the "Cricket#Laws and gameplay" section. Here is an explanation of what I think about the proper ordering of the subsections and the information they present:

1. The subsection on overs needs to come very early, because the term "overs" is used in several other subsections and can not be understood without prior definition.
2. I think it is preferable that the subsection on bowlers be shown later rather than earlier, as it uses terms like "overs", "caught behind", "buy their wicket", etc. In other words, you first have to explain overs and various methods of dismissal before showing the reader the info on bowling. (You could maybe give a briefer overview of bowling early on and then show these extra details later on, but it seems simpler to keep things together). Also, consider that the info on bowling and its breakdown of pace vs spin, run-ups, spells, etc. is not as important for readers to initially know in learning the game.
3. I don't have a very strong opinion on where the Fielding subsection should appear, but it does mention "three [fielders] are in shot in the image above" referring to the image under the "Basic gameplay: bowler to batter" subsection, so it should probably come fairly near and under that subsection. It also might not be too bad that the fielding subsection currently precedes the batting section, as it gives context as to the overall field layout and opponents that the batters face.

GreekApple123 (talk) 16:32, 16 June 2025 (UTC)