nvm of that, I love gaming the most, but it's no subject

The cricket bat is made of willow wood and he did quite a good description of it, it comes about up to hip height and looks like this:

The playing field is shaped like a circle and its diameter is around 140m, it has a rope boundary marking it out. In the centre there's a rectangular court where two batters stand, one at one end and one at the other. A bowler throws the ball to a batter at one side and to score a run they have to both run from their opposite ends. If they hit the ball and it rolls over the rope boundary they automatically score 4 runs and if it goes over without bouncing they score 6.
Confusing rules now, at each end there are three stumps with weird shaped things balanced on top of them which are called bails. This is called your wicket and if that gets hit with the ball and the bails fall off, you're out. There's also something called a crease about a metre in front of the wicket and if the bails are knocked off and you're not behind the crease, you're out. If someone catches the ball when you hit it, like in most batting games, you're out. And if at any time you knock the bails off by accident, tough luck, you're out.

Once you're got your head around these runs, stay behind the crease and don't let anything touch your wicket it sounds easy, but its not. At the highest level, bowlers throw the ball in different ways. Spinners make the ball spin so that when it bounces it changes direction, and they throw these at like 60mph. Fast bowlers do just what their name says, and many throw the ball at between 85-90mph. When you also remember that the ball is rock hard it makes a rather daunting combination, they always wear loads of safety gear.
The game also gets taken the mickey out of because its one of the only games where if it rains, play stops, and the players, when they play all day, have a break at lunch and a break at around 4pm called tea. The videos also show you what I mean by the rectangular playing pitch, I haven't told you all of the rules, but I figure that people won't really care anyway:
Here's a YouTube video of about the best catch ever taken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WMEXP4G9sM
Here's a video of a stupid run out, dunno why the nutter does this, you just have to hit the stumps with the ball, not yourself...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMHpZpwv … re=related
And here's a video of what happens when they get hit by a cricket ball (Because of the quality you can't see how much his mouth is bleeding): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm4aMRB231o&feature=fvw

This is probably the weirdest video I've ever seen to do with cricket, it shows what a cricket ball does to birds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZimSVYWmVac

I was always good at PE because I'm quite sporty, but it wasn't my favourite unless we were playing rounders. My favourite subjects were always art and science (specifically biology). I don't go to school anymore though and I'm taking a year out before I go to university next year so I'm just working now.
Just a quick question for everyone, I heard Firefly say that PE for him is indoors usually, and then Cic said she played dodgeball. So my question: What sports does PE include for you guys?
For me it included:
Girls: netball, volleyball and hockey in winter and rounders in summer
Boys: basketball, rugby and football (english version) in winter and cricket and softball in winter
Both: badmington, dance, gym and trampoline in winter and athletics, tennis and cross-country in summer

Okay, I have a few questions.   First of all, what in the world is cricket?
   Second of all, since when do you use a trampoline in school? o_O
     Oh, and in PE we play volley ball with a giant exercise ball, (which is hard <_< ) we shoot hoops just for fun, run track, and you can even play soccer or frisbee if you want to when we're outside. ( Oh, dodgeball in my school is called Indian Ball)

Ones that I suck at: Language Arts.

I have no P.E. so far as I know of.

Hidstory is actually pretty interesting if you have a good teacher... Well like European history, like the Medival Ages and the Antiquity and the Renaissance and stuff... Victorian age and what not. If you mean American/Canadian history I totally understand. That stuff islike the definition of dull. lol...

Anyways, I'm usually best at history + language(English+French) courses. i find math and science both to be a mixture of confusing and boring lol

-Firefly