Talk:Cricket

Semi-protected edit request on 15 March 2024

"Polishing the ball and wetting it with sweat or saliva is legal, even when the polishing is deliberately done on one side only to increase the ball's swing through the air, but the acts of rubbing other substances into the ball, scratching the surface or picking at the seam are illegal ball tampering." This should be changed to: "The act of using saliva is illegal after Covid restrictions were placed." Wisden can be referred in case a trustworthy validation is needed.

Please refer to this article for reliability https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/saliva-ban-made-permanent-as-icc-announces-changes-to-playing-conditions/article65913273.ece#:~:text=The%20use%20of%20saliva%20to,into%20effect%20on%20October%201. Hrishi Preetham GL (talk) 05:38, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done Antrotherkus 18:30, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Laymans terms

Being American I have never heard of Cricket until hearing it mentioned in cartoons my kids watch. The article uses game terms I am not familiar with & spent a lot of time clicking on links to learn them. Its time consuming & I still have no idea what the game is other than a ball & bat game. It would be nice if the article at least explained what the terms mean. Thank you! Neshutahi (talk) 02:45, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

While I agree articles like this can always be improved, I think you might be being a bit unfair when you say "I still have no idea what the game is other than a ball & bat game". I am one of those rare non-Americans who happens to know a fair bit about both cricket and baseball, so I went and had a look at the baseball article. The openings of both are very similarly structured, so it's obvious some attempt has been made in the past to make this one comprehensible to non-aficionados. Maybe if you gave us the first three or so examples of wording that confused you, we could see if we can improve the article. HiLo48 (talk) 05:00, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

I asked an AI what Cricket was & I understood it. Where I got lost is terms like "Wicket", "Bails" & "Bowl". I now understand that a wicket is a cylindrical stick & a bail is like a ball that goes on top of it to show if the wicket has been disturbed. By reading the article I had to guess what a wicket was which at first thought was the bat & at no point knew what a bail was & couldn't tell if it was an act or verb. The term bowl also confused me & I assumed it was just a way Australians & British spoke. I now know that it is different than a throw cuz there are illegal throws. Even if some things are clear, me not understanding the basic terms made the rest kinda hard to read. Neshutahi (talk) 04:56, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

I note that you are new to Wikipedia. Those words that confused you are in blue in the text. That means they are what we call Wikilinks, or hyperlinks, that you can click on to see a new article linked to from that word. Hope that helps. HiLo48 (talk) 05:19, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

I hated clicking each link, straying away from original article & taking time to read it then coming back. It didn't really help. I was able to learn them easier elsewhere in the concept I was needing it in as a whole. It would still help those who don't know to have a short basic of what something is while reading the article your on without the need of having to read a bunch of other articles to try to put them all together & then back to first article or just try to remember everything. A link is helpful for a more in deph info but a quick "(Bail is like a ball)" would be helpful in the moment. Neshutahi (talk) 00:42, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Bcci

About bcci and other association 223.235.61.253 (talk) 10:41, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

What about it? There's an article Board of Control for Cricket in India, and BCCI is set up to redirect to it. JH (talk page) 17:12, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 July 2024

Add “pickle ball” to the list of similar games:

“Cricket is one of many games in the "club ball" sphere that involve hitting a ball with a hand-held implement. Others include baseball (which shares many similarities with cricket, both belonging in the more specific bat-and-ball games category[2]), golf, hockey, tennis, squash, badminton and table tennis.[3])”

<ref> https://usapickleball.org/what-is-pickleball/ DottheiCrossthet (talk) 12:39, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

 Not done for now: The source you provided doesn't verify pickleball as being related or similar to cricket. Left guide (talk) 09:34, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

{{Distinguish}} template on the page

I'm not too sure why the {{distinguish}} template is used. I feel like the {{about}} template would be better suited to further differentiate the sports, per {{distinguish}}'s documentation, but I don't know how it would be worded. mwwv ^converse∫_edits 02:47, 23 July 2024 (UTC)