Talk:Backyard cricket

message: Is "beach cricket" really the most common term? I've always heard it referred to as "backyard cricket", although that may just be an Australianism. ShaneKing 05:07, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd have to agree, backyard would be the more apposite term --I like pants 07:22, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

text: And then you have the fine old tradition of wrapping half of a normal tennis ball in electrical tape to make it swing. ;) thefamouseccles 02:22, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Tape-ball is quite common in Pakistan. Not so in India. Saish 06:08, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: older entries

message: I tend to think of "peg" and "hit and roll" as games based on cricket, whereas backyard/beach cricket is cricket with some modified rules. It seems that some sort of distinction should be made between these "rules" and the others which are less signficant changes. Does anyone agree? JPD (talk) 12:57, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rules/games 

message: I just want to say that's a very cool photo Saishg added. Nice composition and it shows the casual nature of the game very well. -dmmaus 22:27, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: OK, this should maybe seem obvious to y'all who've played beach cricket, but to this yank, it's not. If you have a field that's "ideal for spectacular diving catches" you can't bowl the ball so it pitches, right? It's just an underhanded delivery, or what? It looks like the dude in the picture is bowling for real, and I don't know what the surfaces of your beaches are like, if you play at low tide or the dirt is packed tighter or what... but out here in Cali, if you tried bowling a devastating leg break at a beach out here, it would thud unceremoniously a few feet in front of the batsman. So that should be clarified somewhere on the page. Wiki Wikardo
:There's two ways you can play on a beach. (1) Do as you say and only "bowl" underarm full tosses. (2) Play on the smooth, hard-packed sand close to the surfline. A tennis ball bounces quite well off this sand. -dmmaus 00:38, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full toss 

message: I presume that this article is really about background cricket in Australia - but it doesn't say so. It all seems very familiar to me except for a couple of rules about fielders having to hit a bit to get a turn. Are the rules in NZ, SA, England, India, etc different? Stevage 14:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My memory is that there was a reasonable amount of Indian input in this article. The picture is definitely not Australian. JPD (talk) 15:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope 

message: Backyard, beach or garden cricket?  Beach is probably too Australian-centric.  I have never heard of Garden cricket.  Article name changed to Backyard cricket which is universal. — Moondyne 06:53, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: Congrats everyone, it nails the topic ROxBo 13:50, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This is a really great article

message: Might this  film clip be used in the article?SovalValtos (talk) 23:53, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historic film clip 

message: As this is a widely popular sport in the Indian subcontinent and other Non-american countries, using 'Backyard' (north american term) can be avoided. To adhere with WP:USEENGLISH, perhaps change it to Street Cricket or Beach Cricket. - 59.99.208.216 (talk) 11:14, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page title should be 'Gully Cricket' 

message: Edited the Coin Toss rule to read a little better and with slightly less redundancy in English. Otherwise, a great article. Nihilianth (talk) 01:12, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar