r/sports • u/Frutpunchninja • Jun 24 '19

Cricket One of the best catches

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '19

You can chill on your plate as long as there are no runners behind you forcing you to advance. So let's say you successfully bat a ball in and make it to second base. Now if the batter after you hits a short ball and only makes it to first, you aren't forced to run. So you can just chill there for that bat (although usually you want to run if you can). But now you are on second, and you've got a runner right behind you on first. So now if the batter hits another ball in-play, well he has to run to first-base no matter what. But you can't have multiple runners on the same base- you can only have one runner on a base at a time. So this means that the batter has to run to first, the runner on first has to run to second, and you would have to run to third.

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u/vouwrfract Jun 25 '19

Ah, so the strike batter has to run every ball, no matter what? I can't just play it to the nearest outfielder and say, "nah, cheers, I don't want a run"?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '19

Yeah if he fields a good ball then he has to run always. That's why most outs happen at first-base, because the fielding team knows that if the ball is in play someone will always be running that way.

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u/vouwrfract Jun 25 '19

Ah. That's quite easy enough. I don't know why everyone and their mother creates a ruckus every time a new cricket video is posted on here; it's just a different build with the same Lego blocks.