Example: Say a no ball is bowled and you think you can make it down the other end, but your teammate doesn't. This can happen even if it was a no ball. If the fielders get the ball and hit the wickets before you're behind the crease, sorry mate, you're out. Run out - When you running between wickets, your aim is to get behind the crease, which is the line after which you can't be out. You could have stepped too far back, you could have swung your bat round too much, but basically, you were the reason the bails (those things that sit on the stumps) have come off, so you're out. Hit wicket - Now this is an embarassing one. Again, cannot be called out if it was a no ball. This could be the wicketkeeper, or a fielder. Again, cannot be c&b if it's a no ball.Ĭ someone b someone-else - Same as caught and bowled really, except one of your fielders caught it. The bowler must catch the ball before it bounces. This happens when you hit the ball with your bat (or glove, but only whilst holding the bat) and the bowler catches it. You could have touched the ball first with your bat, you could have not, if your wicket falls, you're out! If however it is a no ball, you cannot be called out.Ĭ&b - Caught and bowled. This happens when the bowler hits your wickets when he bowls a ball. I'll use the notation that you would see on a scorecard, then explain how that happens:ī - Bowled.
Meaning you get 5 runs total.ĮDIT: Few people asking for a clear up about wickets, so I'll go over that too. This means that not only do you get the 1 run from the wide, but also 4 from the ball going to the boundary. For example the bowler bowls wide, so wide that the wicketkeeper also misses the ball when it gets to him and the ball eventually rolls to the boundary.
NOTE: Wides and no balls can be used in conjunction with other ways to get runs. Because the ball was obstrctued by something on the field of play that was not a player, the batting team is awarded 5 runs. The ball comes your way, but you miss it! And the ball then hits your helmet. Let's say you're the wicketkeeper and you've put your helmet on the ground for this one ball and it's right behind you. The same goes for leg-byes, although that just means you touched it with your leg, and not your bat.Īnd the most obscure way to get runs is if the ball is obstructed. Now because they didn't touch it the runs don't get added to his personal total, but are still added to the team toal, under the extra of byes. Say you bowl the ball and the wicketkeeper doesn't catch it. This literally means the batsman got runs without hitting the ball. A wide must also be retaken, like a no ball. Another way of bowling a wide is if the bowler bowls the ball and after bouncing it goes over the batsman's shoulder height. However in test cricket the restrictions are quite relaxed and you really have to bowl quite wide before they give you a run. If it's ODI or T20, anything to the batsman's leg-side is a wide, so that's 1 run. This depends on what type of cricket you're playing. START SWINGING.Ī wide is literally when you bowl the ball wide. The only way you can get out on a no ball is by run-out. There's a few other ways to get a no ball, like bowling over the batsman's waist without bouncing. They can do this in a few ways, namely, no balls, wides, byes and leg-byes.Ī no ball is when a bowler oversteps the line he can bowl from, so the ball has to be retaken and the batting team gets 1 run. The bowling team can also give away runs. Because you hit the boundary, all you get is 4 from the boundary, and the 2 you ran isn't counted. Say you hit it along the floor to the boundary, and while it's rolling there you've run twice between wickets. NOTE: If you get a boundary, it doesn't matter how many times you ran, you only get the runs of the boundary. If they can clear the boundary without the ball bouncing though, then that's 6 runs!
If the batsmen can hit the ball as far as the boundary, they get runs! If they can get the ball to the boundary and the ball bounced before it got there, that's 4 runs. The boundary of the field is indicated by a long rope going around the entire field. So if you run from wicket to wicket 3 times, hey, that's 3 runs! They can do this as many times as they can before the other teams gets the ball back and can get them out. The main way to get runs is to literally "run" between the wickets, so one batsmen runs to one end and the other runs to the other end. You can get runs in quite a few different ways.