CRICKET:
THE EMPIRE GIFT
BE ABLE TO REPORT on Cricket
SUMMARY
LESSON ONE (Classroom 100)
- Listening test
LESSON TWO (Classroom 100)
Work on video
LESSON THREE ( On the pitch)
- cricket
LESSON FOUR (Classroom 100)
- Listening test
LESSON FIVE ( On the pitch)
- Softball
VALUATION Ipeer
- Valuators: Mr Delpierre
Listening Test
Who does he think is the best player in the world?
a) Venkatsai Laxman
b) Virender Sehwag
c) Sachin Tendulkar
Where is this player from?
a) North India
b) Central India
c) South India
What is he really good at?
a) Bowling
b) Fielding
c) Batting
What sport does Todd really like?
a) Basketball
b) Soccer
c) Baseball
Who does he ask about?
a) Tim Duncan
b) David Beckham
c) Barry Bonds
So, Selvam, you said you like cricket very much.
(Yes, sure)
and who is the best player in the world? Cricket player?
According to my view, Mr. Sachin Tendulkar is the best player.
Oh, and he's from India?
Yeah, he's from India.
OK, is he from the south of India or?
He's north India.
He's from north India. And he's a very good batter?
Yeah, batsman. (Batsman) Batsman.
OK, so in cricket how many times do you bat in one day?
How many times you bat?
How many times do you get to try to hit the ball?
Until you are out you can bat. (Oh) Until you are out you can bat.
Oh, really but you only get one time. Like in baseball you bat and another person bats
No, it's not like that, (Oh, no) until you get out you can play.
Oh, really, (Yeah) Oh, OK (It's like that) wow and do you play cricket with your friends?
Yes, yes, I used to play cricket with my friends.
You said this guys name, what's it, I'm sorry?
Sachin Tendulkar.
Wow! I don't know him. See I like baseball. Do you know who Barry Bonds is?
Yeah, sorry, I don't know anything about baseball.
W ell, that's OK. You teach me about cricket and I'll teach you about baseball.
The history
Cricket as a sport has been around for hundreds of years in some form or another, but the laws of the game were only written down in 1788, a year after the group that run the sport was founded.
They are called the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and are named after the original location of their headquarters and the first cricket ground, Lords which was in Marylebone in London.
Often called the home of cricket, Lords was named after the man who built the ground, Thomas Lord.
In 1814 Lords moved to St John's Wood in London where the ground still stands to this day
Basics
There are 11 players in a cricket team. One team bats, the other fields. Then they swap over.
A player called a bowler carries the ball towards two sets of wooden sticks called stumps, which are 22 yards apart at either end of a piece of ground called the wicket.
The bowler's job is to let go of the ball and try and direct it towards one set of stumps, hoping it will hit them and knock tiny pieces of wood, called bails, off the top of them.
A player from the opposing team, called a batsman, stands to one side of the set of the stumps the bowler is aiming at, waiting for them to deliver the ball.
The batsman tries to stop the ball hitting the stumps, using a piece of wood called a bat.
How to win:
The team that scores the most runs wins the match. But the rules are slightly different for one-day cricket and the more traditional, longer, form of the game.
OUT!
If the bowler is able to get the ball past the batsman and hit the stumps with it the batsman is 'out' and their turn at batting is ended.
There are three other main ways for a batsman to get out:
Leg Before Wicket (LBW) - The batsman is not allowed to use their legs to stop the ball hitting the wicket. If they do, and the umpire thinks the ball would have hit the stumps, the player is out LBW.
Caught - If the batsman hits the ball away from the stumps, but a player on the fielding team is able to catch it before it hits the ground, the batsman is out.
Run out - When a batsman hits the ball away from the wicket they may try to run from one set of stumps to the other to score a run. If the ball is fielded quick enough, thrown back towards the wicket, and the stumps the batsman is running to are knocked over with the ball, the batsman is run out.
Runs
A batsman isn't just trying to avoid getting out. They are also trying to score runs to help their team win the game.
A run is scored if the batsman hits the ball away from the wicket, and is able to run from one set of stumps to the other. Every time they make it, one run is scored.
If the ball crosses the boundary - a line around the edge of the field - without bouncing it is worth six runs, if it bounces first, then it is worth four runs.
What do the other players do?
The 10 members of the fielding team who are not bowling stand around the field and try to stop the batting team scoring runs.
Batsman bat in pairs, so one stands at the stumps the bowler is bowling at, and the other stands at the opposite end.
When a batsman is out one of his teammates replaces him, until 10 players are out and only one is left, at this point the team is 'all out'.
Since the last player is not allowed to bat on their own, the batting team have
How does a game work?
Bowlers bowl the ball in sets of six, called overs. Batsman stay in and try to score runs until they are got out by the fielding team.
The batting team's turn to score runs is called an 'innings'. In a game, each team has the same number of innings, and the team with the most runs, wins.
Some games are played in single day, called one-day cricket, while others like Test matches last longer, up to five days.
Test cricket
Each team has two innings to score runs, with no limit on how long an innings may last. The teams take their innings in turn.
The runs the teams score in both their innings are added together, and the one with the most wins.
A Test match can last a maximum of five days, and for a team to win, their opponents must have had two complete innings.
If neither team completes two innings during the game it is a draw. If the two teams finish with exactly the same number of runs, the game is a tie, which is different to a draw.
One-day cricket:
Each team has one innings to score as many runs as possible. Each innings lasts a maximum of 50 overs.
Normally the teams wear brightly coloured clothing, giving the game the nickname of 'pyjama cricket'.
The cricket World Cup is played this way.
How do I know if my team is winning?
It's difficult in cricket, because loads can change during a game, but as a rough guide:
One-day cricket If your team scores more than 250 runs that's good; if they score more than 300 that's brilliant.
If your team is bowling and is able to get a team all out for less than 200 runs they've bowled well; less than 100 is superb.
Test cricket If your team is the one to bat first, then a score of more than 400 runs in their first innings is good they shouldn't lose. If they score more than 600 runs, then they should be the winners.
If your team is bowling first, then getting the other team all out for less then 300 is a good effort. If the opposition are all out for lessthan 150, then your team should be able to win.
Quite often in cricket in the longer form of the game the result of the match is a draw.
WORK ON VIDEO
LAAGAN
The Movie
The Title: Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Year:
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Starring: Aamir Khan, Raghuvir Yadav
The Story:
The sequence:
Where ?
What ?
Who ?
When ?
Why ?
Lagaan
Genre: Art/Foreign, Drama, Musical, and Romance
Duration: 3 hrs. 40 min.
Starring: Paul Blackthorne, Aamir Khan, Raj Zutshi, Raghuvir Yadav, Rachel Shelley,
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Producer: Aamir Khan
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Release Date: June 15, 2001 (limited), May 10, 2002 (LA/NY).
Writer: Sanjay Dayma, Kumar Dave, Ashutosh Gowariker NDIA
AN ONCE UPON A TIME IN INDIA
Synopsis
Queen Victoria's India. The year is 1893. Champaner... a small farming village in Central India. On the outskirts of the village stands a British cantonment, commanded by Captain Russell (Paul Blackthorne)- an arrogant and capricious man who wields the power of life and death over the villages under his jurisdiction. Under the guise of protecting them, the British take most of their crop production as taxes. Calling on local royalty and the British commander of the area finds the villagers challenged to paying twice the taxes, aka the titular "lagaan," in one year.
LAGAAN - a story of a battle without bloodshed. Fought by a group of unlikely heroes led by Bhuvan (Aamir Khan), an enigmatic young farmer with courage born of conviction - and a dream in his heart. When their protestations interrupt a cricket match at the British encampment, the commander challenges the villagers to a match for the tax. The bet? 3 years free if they win; three times the tax if they lose. Of course, the villagers know nothing of how to play cricket.
Helped by Elizabeth (Rachel Shelley), an English rose who came to India and lost her heart, and Bhuvan's pillar of strength, Gauri (Gracy Singh), the young and perky village girl who dreams only of a home with the man she loves. A story of extraordinary circumstances thrust upon ordinary people.
(Outskirts: banlieue; to wield: exercer; bloodshed: carnage; perky: guilleret; unlikely: improbable)
LESSON Three and Four
Cricket and Baseball Training
On the pitch
Get your sport Gears
LAGAAN ONCE UPON A TI