it’s not just a phase mom this is who I am

That... actually made sense. First time I've seen cricket explained where I wasn't more confused at the end than I was at the beginning.

My man, the fact that you used a New Zealand domestic game. I feel so patriotic right now

I’ve watched about 15 different “Cricket for Beginners” videos cause I’d really like to get into it but could never really understand but Jimmy once again kills it and now I actually understand cricket

From someone who plays for the Volts, this is an outstanding breakdown! Would love to see the game grow in America

As someone who has never understood cricket despite trying, this was the best explanation I've ever seen.

As an American who moved to Australia and fell in love with cricket, I LOVE THIS! It's worth noting that Chu is a bowler, which means he's likely not the best batsman. He came in and swung the bat and got the job done, that was awesome.

The amount of times as a British baseball fan I have to explain baseball in cricket terms it’s refreshing to see that flipped.

The only problem with cricket breakdowns is that most of the broadcasters flag you for copyright violations unlike in American leagues. Yeah, I'm looking at you, Star Sports.

Cheers for this. Living in Salt Lake City for the past 6 years and was trying to explain cricket to my American wife while watching the 1st test of the Ashes.

It’s so nice to see a thread of cricket and baseball fans getting along and appreciating each other. Ball-meets-stick fans UNITE!

As an American, the most interesting observation between baseball and cricket is that the batters are offensive in baseball and defensive in cricket; e.g. the main goal is to score runs in baseball and to prevent wickets in cricket, which made a lot of sense. That's why traditional test cricket can last forever (five days for a single match) and this version of cricket (T20 with 20 overs) forces the batter to take a more offensive strategy.

"it's very like baseball" "this is the score, it's 134" baseball fans: *:O*

The cricket breakdown that Americans needed but didn’t deserve. This was a beautiful thing. Thanks!

As an American who watches football and baseball, cricket looks pretty dope

Thanks for this Jomboy. I finally have a clear basic understanding of what Cricket is all about. There is a field near my house where there have been huge picnic gatherings of folks around a Cricket match once or twice a year. Most people there are originally from India or second generation Americans. A couple of months ago was the first game since COVID. Watching these games unfold has been baffling. On a couple of occasions over the years, kind individuals tried to explain the game to me but I got quickly lost, largely because of the terminology. The most helpful was an intense 11 year-old girl who laughed at her dad trying to straighten me out and told me, “You sit down right there and watch. I will tell you when to cheer.”

Just one last note about scoring runs: We saw a couple of big sixes, but there’s also a four run shot. Basically, if the ball hits the ground in the field of play and then makes it to the edge of the field (often marked by a rope or a small barrier of some kind), that’s 4 automatic runs.

As an Englishman in the states this is probably the best I’ve ever heard it explained… thank you Jimmy now I can just send my friends this

For the *first* time I actually understood how the scoring works in cricket. Thank you for such a concise explination.

As a cricket fan who's grown up with the game and understands a bit of baseball, that was a genuinely brilliant explainer

As a Kiwi I would never thought I'd see Jomboy breakdown a New Zealand domestic t20 game lol. Good on ya Jomboy loving this content!!!

This is literally the cricket explanation I’ve needed for years. I used to work with a couple British dudes that loved watching this shit. They never explained it this well.

My favorite explanation for Cricket was from the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy novels: There was a war, long ago, with a species called the Wikket. They had evolved on a planet in a stellar nebula that was so dense, they had never seen other stars, and honestly believed the universe was simply their solar system in an endless expanse of gas. When they developed faster than light travel and explored far enough to exit their nebula and realized there were stars and galaxies for billions of light years in every direction, they decided that was Not On, and that Something Must Be Done About It Straightaway. So the Wikket devoted themselves to developing means to destroy all other life and matter in the universe outside of their star system, which basically involved creating an explosive grenade like device and hurling it through a gate that would essentially cause it to appear everywhere at once, thus destroying everything at once when it explodes. The Common Response to the Wikket was a total war involving basically every space-faring species in the Universe. It was so fierce and involved weapons so esoteric that it burned a psychic imprint into the minds and the very DNA of every being in the Universe on at least some level. The human species remembered it in the form of the rules and traditions of the game of Cricket. The rest of the species in the Universe found this to be in such terribly bad taste that they flatly refused to have anything to do with humanity on an official level, thus explaining why Earth never gets invited to any of the various Confederacies, Federations, Councils, or Unions of worlds throughout its entire existence.

So the diamond is called the wicket, an out is called a wicket, and the strike zone is called the wicket. Got it.

Love the cricket breakdowns. As someone who played organised cricket, this is probably one of the best breakdowns I have seen targeted to an American audience. Absolutely love it.

Not only was this the perfect pace as you were breaking down an actual match, but it was super easy to understand thanks to the baseball terms and the side by side graphics. I had ZERO understanding of cricket going in, and now I KNOW I can enjoy it if it were on in the background and could make conversation about it if anyone were to ask. Awesome job once again. Love JM so much! ❤

As an Australian, this was hilarious to watch. Completely accurate (even though you missed the concept of a 4) but funny to think of in terms of baseball. Thanks for the smile!

This was perfect. Now I understand as much as I need to about cricket and can go back to ignoring it for the rest of my life.

I'm a Canadian baseball fan and I fell into the cricket rabbit hole last winter. I've been following the ashes this year, huge win for Australia in the first match.

Your sports media company went from unique baseball coverage to truly a “world” class media company. I can’t wait for Rugby next. Wide World of Sports Baby…As Dick Vitale would say.

What's especially good about this explanation is that it's fed in drip by drip, you don't try to sell the whole thing in one go. Just the very basics to start with, then you flesh it out, explain the idea of an over, then the way the scoring works etc. You've covered 80% of cricket in 8 minutes 👏🏻

This is just PERFECT!! Please please do keep these coming! 💙🙏

I think one thing I'll add to this fantastic intro is this: everyone in that field is going to be batting. Every team has about 5 bowlers/pitchers used during the innings of a match, and every one of them will be batting, there is no DH for them (although as some have probably noticed you'll put your bowlers at the bottom of the batting order, say 7,8,9,10,11 so that your hardest hitters and big batsmen can come out first and hit all your runs). It's also worth noting that these bowlers/pitchers aren't really like starting pitchers/relief, they'll usually all bowl the same number of pitches in a match, so your tactics can be quite different and batsmen have to adjust super quickly as they only see 24 balls from any given pitcher maximum. Again, great intro, Jomboy, hopefully more people can get into cricket!

I moved from Pakistan to the US when I was 13. I was a cricket fan who missed the sport dearly. It wasn't till I found Jomboy in my senior year of high school that I started to enjoy Baseball. This is really cool to see, feels kinda full circle

I've learned so much from this channel. Not just games I'm familiar with but stuff like this. Awesome. Keep the cricket (and other) videos coming man.

I needed this kind of video to get into cricket. I've always been intrigued by cricket, but I never understood the rules... Now, I can start watching some.

I would like to see Jomboy do "The Underarm Incident" only for the pure joy of watching him breakdown angry cricketers

As an Australian being a lifelong cricket fan (naturally), I really enjoyed this content. I have enjoyed watching your baseball content to try and learn baseball. Seeing this crossover was fantastic. I hope to see more cricket content coming soon! The Ashes test match series is on at the moment, you should cover some of it. Would be hilarious trying to see baseball fans get their heads around a 5 day long match!

This is by far the best explanation I've ever seen of cricket. As I just started scoring baseball games this past season, cricket looks like a fun game to score, too.

Wow. That makes it reasonably easy to figure out what's happening, the next time I catch a match. Can't wait to find another on the telly. Thank you for the great work.

you absolutely have to react to the 2019 World Cup Final between NZ vs England, craziest finish ever

It's one of those things that, once you watch it a bit, you'll pick up the basics in no time. Jomboy does a better job explaining it than I've heard before

I watched this video just bc I saw cricket on ea play and I’m only half way through but holy hell the English know how to make a confusing game. Really appreciate your use of baseball terminology definitely helped understand a lil more

Great video, Jomboy! I’ve been curious about this sport forever, but it was never explained in such a way I could understand. Nailed it.

Mate, Cricket isn't confusing: All you got to do is have a good night's watchmen who's able to sweep a couple to to third man if one of the slips has taken a wander down to point. Of course that's assuming there's not any turn in the pitch.

7:52 Yes, the Walkers are brothers. Joe, the older, is a right armer. Fred, the younger, is a left armer.

I am lifelong baseball fan. I visited Australia for 9 weeks in early 2013 and went to 4 Australian Baseball League games, one in Perth, 1 in Adelaide and 2 (of the Championship Series) in Canberra. During that time, I became aware of cricket and educated myself a bit about it. It's a good, good game and while I still prefer baseball over cricket, I think any true baseball lover could develop an affinity for cricket. Thanks for this wonderful video.

As a cricket fan I think you did an excellent job of explaining the very basic concept of cricket and using relevant baseball comparisons

The same thing happened to me last winter. I got super into cricket, and I actually ended up joining a club not too far away from me here in the U.S. You really have no idea how huge what your doing is for the growth of the sport. Keep it up!

This was an incredible explanation, I actually feel like I somewhat understand cricket for the first time ever. Breaking the explanation down by action taking place really helps compartmentalize the actions happening on the field (pitch? grounds?)

I've tried several times to learn the rules of cricket. it's never made sense. I've watched some to see if i could figure it out. Nothing. This video was exactly what I needed. It makes so much sense.

I once explained cricket to an American, who seemed to be the most fascinated that there was no foul territory and that you could score runs no matter where you hit the ball to. I mean, this fella got the concept of LBW right away, f'r heaven's sake! But it's the no foul ground that's the eye opener for him, so you never know what the American you're explaining things to will find easier/harder to understand.

T20: "Has really long innings" Test Match: Hold my beer

I'm a New Zealand cricket fan and got super into baseball from watching Jomboy breakdowns this year. Very bizarre to now see cricket explained using NZ domestic T20 on the same channel lol, love it

Jomboy you have nailed it. However here is another explanation: You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

That was amazing, thanks! I will have to watch it again but that is more educational than all my other efforts combined.

tbh im not that big of a baseball fan (although I dont mind watching big games here and there) but I watch your baseball vids for the entertainment value. On the same note, Im definitely not a cricket fan at all but I watch your cricket vids for the entertainment value. Point is, even if cricket is not a phase for you, just keep the cricket vids coming.

I've been wondering about Cricket my entire life. This was incredible! I'd love a similar rules breakdown on rugby.

This breakdown was pretty amazing! On point throughout!

As a lifelong cricket fan I wholeheartedly thank you for bringing more light onto this wonderful sport. It's a fine game and I hope many more people around the World will now begin to enjoy it. Cheers Jomboy! 🍻

This is exactly what I have been asking for! I live in Europe and have been badgering my British friends to explain cricket to me, to which they have rolled their eyes. Always seemed like a cool game if you’re into baseball. Fantastic video!

Cricket was one of the only sports I felt I couldn't just watch and understand what was going on. That was several years ago, and I've figured it out since then. I went to school for game design and we had a professor there that was very into sports. He had a proposal for modifying baseball to play a bit more like cricket that always intrigued me. Instead of trying to explain it in my own words I'll copy pasta it here for ya. I like the idea. "I'm serious. Don't laugh, let me explain. The idea is to allow all nine players to bat in each inning, with the inning only being over once all nine are out (sort of like cricket). If your turn to bat comes up and you are on base, you are replaced by a pinch runner (who does not take your place in the lineup in this case), but if either you or one of your pinch runners (it's possible to have up to three at a time) is out, then you do not get to bat again in that inning (although you can still run the bases if the inning is not over). This change means there are only three innings instead of nine, of course. Why do this? Because then you can't really pitch around the good batters, the game would go faster, and no team would ever be completely out of the game, regardless of the score. The end of each inning would be much more exciting as only the best batters would be left and a lot of the base runners would be super-fast base-stealing specialists (great base-running ability would be highly valued even if you aren't a great hitter). On-base percentage would become more important, tactics would change dramatically through the course of an inning, pitchers would be brought in (especially in the third inning) to get a specific batter out (not to pitch around him--to get him out in a high-stakes duel), and the top players would be more and more important (while still allowing minor players to have incredibly dramatic games). I've run simulations of three-inning baseball, using average major league percentages, and the games generally aren't much longer. Measured by number of at-bats they would probably be about 5 at-bats longer per team, but the time of the game would generally be shorter because there would be so much less time wasted between innings. Scoring would be much higher (about 10 runs on average per team instead of 4), but I would consider this a good thing. There are downsides, of course. You would have to throw away the record books (but is that really a problem in the steroids era?). A game that has a big nostalgia appeal would be very different (although the skills and individual plays wouldn't change at all). But if baseball has to do something dramatic to compete with football and basketball, this would do it. Also, this could be tested extensively in the minor leagues to see how well it worked before bringing it to the majors."

that was great. i understood the very basics of cricket (like 6=hr, 4=ground rule double, and protecting the wickets) due to my time in trinidad visiting my grandparents, but all the scoreboard stuff was new to me. well done jomboy

What Jomboy gets that most other explainers don't is that the most important thing to teaching someone to follow a sport on television is to explain the scorebug/on-screen stats.

As an Aussie have enjoyed you baseball breakdowns for a while now and that's a very good breakdown on cricket.Also for baseball fans if confused re bowlers , the bowlers are basically your baseball teams bullpen but they are all on the field together and they can bowl (pitch) at anytime.

Yes yes yes! I’m so happy you’re making cricket videos! As an American who got into cricket during the pandemic, it’s my offseason sport for sure to get me to spring. My goal is to one day see the New Zealand Black Caps play.

Lifelong baseball fan, got into cricket a few years ago when a client invited me into his home to watch a Test Match until 1am. I’m really happy you did this breakdown, and I hope it contributes to Americans liking the sport.

This is absolutely incredible and what a breakdown. Thanks for the explanation!

When the last guys are rookies AND they clutch for the team, that’s AMAZING in any sport.

Started watching the BBL last week since there's no other live sports to watch at 3am and kinda just taught my self the rules. This video clears some things up better. But it's not nearly as complicated as I had first thought. Go 6ers

Jomboy, I'd love to see this being a series on your channel where you explain the rules to a bunch of different sports! I'm always up for finding new sports to watch!

Great video mate. I’m Australian and love my cricket and this was very interesting to listen to and a very accurate description. Awesome 👌🏻

I’ve looked at a dozen “cricket rules” videos trying to teach my friends, this is by far the best video to use to introduce someone to cricket

wow, nice to see American commentary on cricket, I try and explain to my US pals the game but this you got down pat. Memories also of the late and taken way too soon cricketer Phillip Hughes, 63 Not Out

I've been curious about Cricket... you've made it SUPER easy to understand. Thank you! 👏 👏 👏

Thanks for a great video. The part I was missing was understanding what Overs are and what they represent. This helped immensely.

As a cricket fan, great way to learn about baseball. Love this Jomboy! "Rookie Batsman" this needs to be incorporated into our game. We'd typically use the term "tail-ender" Edit : McKenzie was on debut. Thanks for letting me know.

Just a note, on the final screen the "Economy" is the average number of runs per over that bowler has given away. In the format of cricket shown you ideally want to give away an average of less than 1 run per ball (pitch) so an economy of less than 6.00

Always been curious about crickets but now I can actually understand it. Nice work!

As an America who could never understand cricket even after trying to, thanks so much, I now actually get at least these fundamentals.

I was actually at that game, to see it on a video by Jomboy is just crazy. Love the vids, especially the cricket stuff.

I love watching "other" sports, especially during the Olympics, and trying to figure out the rules/strategies/etc, but cricket was never one I've been able to put together. Until now. Thanks Jimmy!

Been watching for a while I love finding these old videos. You’re next up man

THANK YOU!!!!!! My wife's family tried to explain it to me last time we where in Oz, but I just pretended to get it. This helped out so much more.

“Broom did all the heavy lifting in the 3 hole” 3rd batsmen is called “1st Drop” - first batter who comes in after the first wicket is lost. Usually the best batsmen in the team in terms of talent. Opening batters have a temperament to “see out the new ball” - meaning they have patience and can play defensively to soften up the ball a bit making it more predictable and easier to hit. Unlike baseball, cricket uses the same ball for the entire innings (except for Test cricket) so generally speaking the less shiny and new it is the easier it is to hit

This video is like Kerbal Space Program for Cricket. I'm not gonna be hired by Nasa but I have a huge jump in understanding it.

Just got a quick tutorial from a customer and instantly wanted to know more and understand it better, this is the best explanation of the game and post game stats to know what to look for. Keep up the good work

I've been watching cricket for the last 16 years and even spent 4 years playing, but hearing cricket being explained by an american accent makes me feel like I'm learning about a completely different sport, even though he references and explains all the correct terminology. Feels strange hearing this, but nice to see an American actually appreciate the sport for once

A great piece of trivia is the first ever international cricket game was played between the USA and Canada in 1844 at the St George's Cricket Club in New York .

We just had a 5 day test match Australia v’s MCC (England) finished in a draw on the 5th day on the last ball, of the last over.

This is a great intro, really well explained (i think! I'm a cricket fan who likes a bit of baseball on the side, but I don't know all the details of baseball. One other thing that might stand out as different is there's no equivalent of tagging the runner in cricket. You can only get a run out by breaking the wicket (base) with the ball when the runner is out of their ground. You can't tag the man. The batters carry their bats as they run and can make their ground (get safe) by running their bat in over the crease (safe line). There's also no stealing (not really) in cricket, once the batters stop running and the ball is thrown in, it's 'dead ball' and the batters can't just keep running.

Amazing. I’ve watched hours of videos trying to understand this game to no avail. You got through in a few minutes. Thank you.

Oh thank you man. As an Aussie fan this is like worlds colliding. I dare you to do a test match breakdown.

Been to a cricket match in Pakistan Absolutely madness. Just like a soccer game in Africa. Amazing

You just made my day, thanks for making this, I tried watching a few games and couldn't figure it out. Now i get it!

Love the breakdown! It’s a sport I’ve struggled to understand from just watching, so thank you.

As an aussie growing up playing cricket all my life, this is an excellent explanation for someone who is new to it

Great vid! I’ve been a baseball fan all my life and have always been intrigued by cricket - but I’ve never had much of an understanding of the rules. I’m still quite a bit in the dark, but I have a little more understanding - and I’m more intrigued than ever. Keep up the good work!

Great job on the breakdown Jim! You should get into the aspects of bowling next (and the rules the bowlers have to follow) when bowling (pitching) and also the penalties that can come!

Watching cricket again this winter, this breakdown is a great refresher