June 8 – ODI and NRR?

ICC World Cup?
ODI and NRR?
Well, must be Cricket!

Take off of the old saying, ‘That wouldn’t be circket.”

Some years ago, as a purely academic exercise, I decided to understand the rules of Cricket.

I had just read a wikipedia article about Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, the Allied General who commanded in the Mediaterran Theater when Ike went back to London.

In that article was the line, “Alexander was educated at Hawtreys and Harrow School, there participating as the 11th batsman in the sensational Fowler’s Match against Eton College in 1910.”

Really? The fact that Alexander had played in a famous cricket match was worth mentioning in a life that spanned two world wars, Field Marshall’s rank and finished with Governor General of Canada?

I decided I had to learn this game.

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport’s governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament. The tournament is one of the world’s most viewed sporting events and is considered the “flagship event of the international cricket calendar” by the ICC.

10 world teams are invited and all 10 teams play each other to qualify for the 4 team final round.

This means India and Pakistan WILL play each other but more on that another day.

One Day International (ODI) cricket is a game designed to be played in one day (unlike test match cricket which goes on for 5 days.)

Every six LEGAL pitches (no dot balls) is an over and ODI is limited to 50 overs or a game of just 300 legal ptiches.

The NRR or Net Run Rate is the rate of runs being scored per over.

See, it’s Cricket and I am hooked.