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Should i attempt to annihilate my last 2 brain cells by trying to figure out how cricket works

Ive been googling explanations for about 3 hours its 1:03 am and heres what i know about cricket

• There’s 2 teams of 11 people each but only 10 of them actually play because the 11th is like a spare tire
• The cricket field is a hugeass circle (kinda) with a tiny rectangle of dirt in the middle where all the throwing & batting happens
• When you throw the ball its called bowling but you throw it over NOT like a bowling ball
• On each end of the rectangle u got a batter, someone from the throwing team, and a pile of sticks to knock over
• Theres two batters “batsmen” but only one hits the ball. They run around and tag each others spots as many times as they can until somebody on the throwing team fucks up the stick towers
• There’s no “foul balls” you can hit to any part of the circle you want
• If you hit the ball all the way out of the circle thats six points
• If you fuck up thats a point to the other team
• You count the total team points (including aforementioned oppositional mistakes) & the points actually scored on purpose seperately
• All the points are “runs” whether they were scored by the batters running around or not
• All the games are extremely long. There are short versions but theyre a new thing
• Cricket ball hurts when they hit you but only like 3 people get to wear protective gear also the umpires get to wear hats. Not helmets just regular hats
• There arent any special rules for if there are crickets who want to play cricket, which i think is inconsiderate. Make bats small enough for their little bug toes to hold!!!
• Theres six bowls in an over and some?? amount of overs in an innings
• An innings has an s at the end even if theres just one of em
• An innings is NOT as long as a baseball inning. A cricket innings takes all day or maybe more i think? Its long
• The bats are also rectangles
• You’re only allowed to wear colors sometimes, but i bet its less confusing when the batting team only has 2 guys out and they only go in a circle
• If the ball is red you HAVE to dress like a vanilla milkshake. NO colors allowed
• The batters do NOT want the sticks fucked up!! They are protecting the sticks
• The throwing team DOES want to fuck up the sticks. That makes the batter out but its not the only way to do that
• If the batter knocks their own sticks over thats a fuckup point to the other team!
• I still dont know why the umps wear hats. They’re not sports hats! They’re just regular hat hats!! Why
• At the ends of the rectangle theres lines on the ground called a crease. If the batter steps over the line thats bad
• If the throwing dude throws the ball at the sticks & it hits the batters leg its a fuckup point anyway cause the batters not standing right
• If ur in australia the scores r backward and the words change???
• I still don’t understand jack about those little numbers and funky names all over the field diagrams
• Im very tired

If you actually know how cricket works please rate my review if you’re also confused please reblog this until i can find someone who knows thanks

i think i now know less about cricket which is very impressive thank you

im honored to reach this new height of bewilderment

I thought I understood it and then I read this and now ???