Re: Cricket for beginners!
uzzybuzzy:
Seeing as no one else will help you I will tell you what I know.
There are 2 main types of cricket…test cricket and one day cricket. in each match 2 teams play against each other. There are 11 players in a team. There will be a toss of the coin to see which team bats and fields first.
In one day cricket each team will bat for 50 overs called an innings. An over is 6 bowls by a bowler. One bowler can bowl a maximum of 10 overs in one day cricket. The bowler is changed after each over i.e. a bowler cannot bowl 2 overs one after the other. The batting team must score runs. To score a run you and your batting partner must run between the wickets. If you hit the ball and it goes to the boundary and it touches the ground in between you score 4 runs. If the ball goes to the boundary without touching the ground you score 6 runs. The fielding team do thier best to contain runs and get the batters out. The ways the batters can get out are run out, caught, bowled and lbw(leg before wicket). After 50 overs or the batting team is all out there is lunch time and then the teams switch over. You can win by scoring the most runs or by saving the most wickets.
In test cricket its the same but you play for 5 days. Each team plays 2 innings each which are longer than 50 overs. A bowler can bowl as many overs as they like. thats all i know about test cricket.
I think thats all the basics. hope you find it helpful.
Hearing this, I have no idea what we played as kids -cricket or fricket! 
Thanks so much! It really helped. It really sounds like fun but not good enough to watch it for hours. 