how long is a cricket pitch?

[bathseagull]

in METRES from wicket to wicket?

 

[Dave the OAP]

Its still measured in yards 22 yards


Bollocks to the europeans

 

[Grendel]

20 metres, 12 centimetres.

Heard of Google?

 

[Man of Harveys]

Its still measured in yards 22 yards


Bollocks to the europeans

Or in other words "I don't know"

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

europeans don't understand cricket, apart from, in a way, the dutch who understand it a little bit


what really baffles me is why the americans don't get it...i would've thought it'd be right up their street, especially twenty20

plenty of stoppages to get FAT in, high action sport in between

 

[Dave the OAP]

Or in other words "I don't know"

yup


I am still working on Pounds shillings and pence


Bloody Johhny Foreignor.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

europeans don't understand cricket, apart from, in a way, the dutch who understand it a little bit


what really baffles me is why the americans don't get it...i would've thought it'd be right up their street, especially twenty20

plenty of stoppages to get FAT in, high action sport in between

If the Americans just saw Twenty20 then they probably would get into it, fast action-packed game requiring very little attention span and always ending with a winner and a loser - just their sort of thing. What they can't get their heads around is a game that lasts 5 days, is pretty slow unless you understand it and still ends in a draw mostly.

 

[Gwylan]

europeans don't understand cricket, apart from, in a way, the dutch who understand it a little bit


what really baffles me is why the americans don't get it...i would've thought it'd be right up their street, especially twenty20

plenty of stoppages to get FAT in, high action sport in between

There are some 20/20 matches planned in the US later this year I believe.

There's a big Indian/Pakistani community in the US ITCHING for cricket.

 

[Easy 10]

How long is a cricket pitch ?
Twice as long as half of it.

 

[Marc]

How long is a cricket pitch ?
Twice as long as half of it.

words...just...fail me....I mean....GOD......WHY?

 

[Moshe Gariani]

a chain

 

[Easy 10]

words...just...fail me....I mean....GOD......WHY?

I'm a twat. Its my job.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

The earliest known Laws of Cricket, the "Code of 1744", give the length of the pitch as 22 yards. Over the centuries the often vague and regionally differing Saxon linear measurements becaine standardized to give a mile (a survival of the old Roman measurement of 1,000 double paces) as equal to 8 furlongs (i.e. "furrow long") or 320 perches (also called rods or poles) or 1,760 yards (from the Old English gyrd that meant stick or twig) or 5,280 feet or 63,360 inches or 190,080 barley corns (e.g. in the thirteenth century a royal Assize of Weights and Measures prescribed "the Iron Yard of our Lord the King" at 3 feet of 12 inches or 36 barley corns). It will thus be seen that 22 yards is in fact one tenth of a furlong or length of a furrow. There was an equally vague Saxon square measurement of land, the hide (called also carucate, from the Latin for a plough, and ploughland) which was the area required by one free family with dependents and that could be ploughed with one plough and 8 oxen in one year. This was in turn divided into four yardlands or 100 acres, the definition of which was the amount of land that could be ploughed by one yoke of oxen in one day. In Norman times the acre became precisely defined as 40 by 4 perches, thus preserving the shape of the Saxon strip-acre, i.e. one furlong by one tenth of a furlong. The cricket pitch is therefore simply the breadth of the Saxon strip-acre.

 

[bathseagull]

The earliest known Laws of Cricket, the "Code of 1744", give the length of the pitch as 22 yards. Over the centuries the often vague and regionally differing Saxon linear measurements becaine standardized to give a mile (a survival of the old Roman measurement of 1,000 double paces) as equal to 8 furlongs (i.e. "furrow long") or 320 perches (also called rods or poles) or 1,760 yards (from the Old English gyrd that meant stick or twig) or 5,280 feet or 63,360 inches or 190,080 barley corns (e.g. in the thirteenth century a royal Assize of Weights and Measures prescribed "the Iron Yard of our Lord the King" at 3 feet of 12 inches or 36 barley corns). It will thus be seen that 22 yards is in fact one tenth of a furlong or length of a furrow. There was an equally vague Saxon square measurement of land, the hide (called also carucate, from the Latin for a plough, and ploughland) which was the area required by one free family with dependents and that could be ploughed with one plough and 8 oxen in one year. This was in turn divided into four yardlands or 100 acres, the definition of which was the amount of land that could be ploughed by one yoke of oxen in one day. In Norman times the acre became precisely defined as 40 by 4 perches, thus preserving the shape of the Saxon strip-acre, i.e. one furlong by one tenth of a furlong. The cricket pitch is therefore simply the breadth of the Saxon strip-acre.

yeah, thanks

 

[Moshe Gariani]

yeah, thanks

no problem... interesting isn't it? I also just found out that an acre is not a square but is in fact a ploughing measurement equal to a chain by a furlong...

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Monty OUT !

fecking useless

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Its still measured in yards 22 yards


Bollocks to the europeans

How can you say that?

On the weekend that one of continental Europe's biggest cricket clubs is in the play-offs to gain promotion to Serie B?

The Genoa Cricket and Football Club

 

[Basil Fawlty]

europeans don't understand cricket, apart from, in a way, the dutch who understand it a little bit


what really baffles me is why the americans don't get it...i would've thought it'd be right up their street, especially twenty20

plenty of stoppages to get FAT in, high action sport in between

A few years ago the ICC wanted to bring some off the 2007 World Cup to USA.

 

[Beeercan]

22 and a half yards a CHAIN

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

tenth of a furlong
eightieth of a mile