The Game of Cricket ~ Northern Florida ~ Lake City

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Travel to Lake City, Florida to shoot Junior Rodeo and end up shooting the sub-continent Indian community of this area playing the game of Cricket over their weekend.

Different worlds.

Simply put:

Eleven players per team.

A bowler, two batsmen (opposing team) and a wicket keeper on a pitch in the exact center of a circular field. The remaining nine players are strategically positioned in the field of play.

All of the circular field is in play.

The bowler attempts to strike the wicket or ‘stumps’ with a hard covered round ball with a single stitched seam.

The batsman’s play is both defensive and offensive; protecting the ‘stumps’ while attempting to hit the ball with a flat bat.

A hit ball that leaves the field of play on the fly is a ‘6’. Six runs.

A hit ball that leaves the field of play on the ground is a ‘4’. Four runs.

Runs may be scored in on routine hits as well. Lots of runs are scored.

A batter is out if the bowler strikes the wicket or if his batted ball is caught within the field of play on the fly.

There are other rules and game concepts  but this is what I retained from my first Cricket experience.

Another simple overview of  Cricket.

More information on the sport of Cricket.

An interesting comparison of Cricket and Baseball.

The shared history of Cricket and Baseball: slide show format.

No matter the name or the origin of the particular ball-and-bat sport the appreciation of the long ball by the long ball hitter is still very much the same.

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The Brits left their form of government and the sports of cricket and rugby in those countries that they colonized: What happened to America and the sport of cricket?

A way interesting game, a new to me game. After a rudimentary overview of the game concepts all involved said I should be shooting the batsmen as opposed to the bowler.

After sorting and processing images I would have to disagree; both batsman and bowler are way image worthy.

Feel free to copy Cricket images from this web site. They have been resized and are 72 ppi.

Contact Steve McKinney at Big Dawg Images by e-mail (mckfam@ncia.net) to request full size image files suitable for printing (300 ppi).

In person strong recommendation: Read the Robert Arnett book: India Unveiled