Indoor Cricket

[Lokomotiv]

I want to know about Indoor Cricket.
I asked about Indoor Cricket to an Australian coach. He answered that his team play Indoor Cricket in winter as training, and do not join official competitions.
Could you tell me about the difference between Indoor Cricket and normal Cricket on turf?

 

[jan]

Indoor cricket is simply crap.
At least here without indoor cricket dedicated facilities.

 

[Red]

Indoor cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've played a lot of indoor cricket Loko. What do you want to know specifically?

 

[Maximas]

come round for dinner and we'll discuss this and other matters Loko

 

[Lokomotiv]

Indoor cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've played a lot of indoor cricket Loko. What do you want to know specifically?

I have many questions.
In normal Cricket, there are 4s and 6s. However, the playing area is smaller in Indoor Cricket. So, is the value of boundary (4s or 6s in normal Cricket) same?
When I saw an Indoor Cricket game on YouTube, 1 over was 8 balls. Is that normal in Indoor Cricket? If so, what is the reason? (In the Laws of Cricket, 1 over can be both 6 and 8 balls.)
How large is the playing area? And how many players does a team have?

 

[Maximas]

he's like a small child, and we are the parents

 

[Red]

The Wikipedia link answers all your questions I think.

Overs in Indoor Cricket are 6 balls, but no balls/wides mean an extra ball will be bowled.

 

[benchmark00]

Nah, proper indoor cricket is 8 ball overs and wides are not re-bowled unless it's the last over of the skin where the batting team has the option of making the bowlers re-bowl it or not (saves the bowling team bowling 8 wides to save the skin).

Sundries are also worth 2 runs instead of 1.

I believe the governing body is also introducing into the World Cup the mandatory pizza tray attached to the back wall where if you hit it you get a six pack.

 

[NUFAN]

The Wikipedia link answers all your questions I think.

Overs in Indoor Cricket are 6 balls, but no balls/wides mean an extra ball will be bowled.

I used to umpire Indoor a long time ago. I'm certain that overs were 8 balls.

 

[Hurricane]

I used to umpire Indoor a long time ago. I'm certain that overs were 8 balls.

You are correct as is benchmark00

On the topic of indoor. I cannot bowl an indoor cricket ball. It feels too light in my hand and the ball is either a beamer or a triple bouncer no ball.

Which is a shame as I could probably bowl an indoor ball about 110ks which would be a challenge for the 60 year olds I come up against in the beginners division I am in.

 

[Red]

Yeh, you're right. I forgot about the 2 run thing for no ball/wides and the extra ball available in the last over.

I haven't played for about 4 years, but I did fill in maybe a year ago and I'd noticed some rules had changed with stuff like super-overs (double run/penalties) etc.

I swear we used to have 6 ball overs when I played. But I'm probably wrong there too!

 

[benchmark00]

They've started to bring in t20 style rules to indoor cricket to jazz it up a little, but the proper stuff is still 8 a side, 8 ball overs like it always has.

I remember on ABC back on the day they used to show the state league. Bruce Reid used to turn out for WA.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Sledger multi?

 

[Red]

This was ****ing with my head so much I just called the indoor centre I used to play at. They have 6 ball overs there.

Might not be the standard, but I knew I wasn't that mental!

 

[Marius]

They've started to bring in t20 style rules to indoor cricket to jazz it up a little, but the proper stuff is still 8 a side, 8 ball overs like it always has.

I remember on ABC back on the day they used to show the state league. Bruce Reid used to turn out for WA.

In the indoor league I play in South Africa we play six ball overs.

 

[benchmark00]

Theres a reason I put the word 'proper' in there itbt.

 

[Lokomotiv]

According to my friend, 8-ball over Cricket (not indoor, but normal turf Cricket) was popular in Australasia many years ago, but today there is no 8-ball over Cricket except Indoor Cricket. Is that true?
And could you tell me the size of playing area of Indoor Cricket? Is the pitch length (20.12m) same?

 

[uvelocity]

wait until you find out about aqua cricket ****

 

[Marius]

According to my friend, 8-ball over Cricket (not indoor, but normal turf Cricket) was popular in Australasia many years ago, but today there is no 8-ball over Cricket except Indoor Cricket. Is that true?
And could you tell me the size of playing area of Indoor Cricket? Is the pitch length (20.12m) same?

Indoor cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Everything you need to know is in that article.

 

[Red]

Theres a reason I put the word 'proper' in there itbt.

Yeh, but some people in SA thought apartheid was ok because it was all they know. They were immersed in it.