Talk:Cricket/Archive 8

message: Because it has been requested and I have an interest in Cricket I will do a spoken version of this article. I should have it ready within a week or so (hopefully) Whitehornmatt 02:38, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoken Article 

message: Not enough info on this new form of cricket.--Johnhardcastle 11:14, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Arguably the paragraph that is there already is too much for such a new and emphemeral form of cricket.  It also has a main article at Twenty20. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:17, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  20-20 cricket 

message: We need the links for club teams in the major countries like www.play-cricket.com is the official ECB one in England and Wales, what you think?
Also more images of the game. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.145.241.4 (talk) 21:41, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: List A games are already covered in the forms of cricket section by "limited overs cricket". The section is meant to be about the different forms of the game, not the different levels it is played at, and their status. List A is not a different form of the game, but a status awarded to normal limited over matches between certain teams. Admittedly, first-class is also a status, rather than a form of the game, but these matches deserve a section because they are not already covered, and because they are generally longer than non-first-class matches. For two-innnings cricket, different status does tend to correspond to a difference in the details of the game, unlike the limited overs version. JPD (talk) 10:28, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List A 

message: The section on End of an Innings says that The team has only one batsman left who can bat (the others being incapacitated either through injury, illness or absence) — again, the team are all out. But this is not the case, if some player in injured and retires hurt the scorecard does not say that player is out, merely mentions retired hurt and the number of wickets fallen is shown as 9 if the rest of the team is out.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.196.157.34 (talk • contribs) 12:24, 23 January 2007  (UTC)
:The section is trying to say that the team is considered "all out" in these situations, regardless of how many wickets have fallen. There is always at least one not out batsman, there may be others who are not out, but absent, retired hurt, etc. JPD (talk) 12:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: End of an innings

message: "of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a pitch" erm... isn't that the square? SGGH 22:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been watching and playing cricket for just over nine years, and I've never' heard that being referred to as anything other than the square with the entire playing field being called the pitch. SGGH 22:39, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The strip in the middle is called the pitch, the collection of all pitches is the square, and the entire playing field is called the, well, playing field. The pitch always refers to the strip on which the game is being played, I've been watching and playing cricket for almost 17 years and have never hear pitch be used to refer to anything else. Andrew nixon 22:50, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  pitch? 

message: these are worthy of links via the top menu as they are important categories in themselves as opposed to a passing reference.
--ToyotaPanasonic 07:50, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, nothing is worthy of links via the top menu. The menu is not for linking to other articles, but simply listing the sections of this one, and the Manual of Style says to avoid links in headings, even if there is a section with a name that could be linked. It definitely isn't a good idea to creat empty sections just to make links more prominent. There are many important topics that are linked to from this article, but most of them don't need more than a link in the text. JPD (talk) 11:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  pace/spin bowling links 

message: I seem to have unwittingly stirred up some controversy here. It's true that the Laws say: "A match is played between two sides each of eleven Players..." However in spite of that, matches do sometimes take place between sides with other numbers of players. For instance there is the "Hong Kong Sixes" tournament, which is a six-a-side competition. England on recent tours have played a number of practice matches against local sides where more than eleven players have batted. In the past, 12-a-side matches were quite common, and where sides were of widely differing strengths matches were sometimes XI against XXII. Of course, no match other than XI a side can nowadays be rated as first-class, but this article is more general than that and there is a separate article on f-c cricket. JH (talk page) 11:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of players in a team