Cricket

Last night I went to a cricket game down at the Gabba. The Gabba is their stadium for cricket and AFL (Australian Football league). It is about a mile from my house so we walked down to watch the game. It was Meribeth, me, Luke, and Lukes brother in law, which I forgot his name. Luke is one of our cop friends we met through Brewster. He pre-ordered tickets so we walked down to go pick them up. Well I guess they didn't expect so many people to show up so they just opened the gates and let everyone in for free! So we felt pretty stupid being the ones that bought tickets. Could you imagine in America, the stadium say oh tehre's too many people here we'll just let them all in for free. haha crazy world over here.
Anyway, the game we went to was called a 20/20 game. Which means 20 turnovers. It gets kind of tricky but I'll do my best to explain. A turnover is 6 pitches. So when a bowler pitches six pitches then the turnover is over. There are two hitters one on each side and they take turns hitting. There are 2 innings, and an inning counts as one team batting. So in baseball terms one of their innings = half of a baseball inning. They either get 20 turnovers or 11 outs. It's pretty hard to get an out so usually the turnovers come first. The score of the game was 174 to 143. Queensland won. There are a lot more rules but I only learned them last night so I won't be able to explain them very well.
It was pretty fun to watch. A lot more exciting then I thought it would be. They have cricket games that are 20/20 games that last about 3 hours, 50/50 games which last like 8 hours, and then they have test matches that last 5 days! The games that last 5 days are like watching paint dry! It's awful.
All in all it was a fun time, there were lots of people and the 20/20 games are pretty fast paced.