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Trying to learn cricket and am watching NZ and Bangladesh pro leagues on ESPN that are I think 20/20. 20/20 means 20 overs (6 balls each) so this means each team gets 120 balls? If someone gets stumped on one of the first 5 balls does that mean the over is over? 

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1). Yes, 120 balls each way.

2). No, the overs don't end with a wicket. The situation you described, the batter would have to go sit down and feel like a prat for the rest of the innings, but his team wouldn't lose out any further by facing fewer balls.

To answer a question you didn't ask, overs can only be extended, and that happens when a bowler bowls a delivery that isn't legal.

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Just to use baseball as an example, Imagine every six legal deliveries, you had to change your pitcher. (but unlike baseball, you can go back to them a number of times depending on the length of the game)

 

In a 20 over game, each bowler (pitcher) can bowl 4 overs. So you have to have five people bowl in a game.

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After Steve Smith said that beating India in India would be bigger than beating England in England; it is with a smalll smile that I note that Australia were bowled out for 177 in the first test, Mr. Smith himself second-highest scoring with a mighty 37. It's entirely possible that India are playing the same game of Spinny Buggers they were playing when England came to town in 2020, doing their level best to play every game on a sandpit.

Meanwhile, the women's T20 World Cup starts tomorrow. South Africa have decided to drop their captain, Dane van Niekirk, because she didn't run a 2K quick enough. Australia's women didn't take their lone defeat in 2022 very well and have decided to poach Ireland's best player. Actually, Kim Garth had already withdrawn from Irish consideration a few years ago when she took up a full-time contract in Victoria and has just now qualified for Australia on Residency.

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Maybe we should.

England's Test cantered to a win in New Zealand, Stuart Broad having one of his periodic spells where he makes grown men look like they don't know which way up to hold their bats

Meanwhile, let's check in on Steve Smith:

 

Spoiler

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((Full disclosure, he also got Australia's third highest score in the second innings with a mighty Nine.))

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Meanwhile, in the Women's T20 Would Cup, Australia looked mortal against India. They still won their semi final by five runs, but it will give the winner of today's Semi Final a glimmer of hope that they could actually pull it off on Sunday.

Also, it's always good to see Joe Root doing well.

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England lost to New Zealand by one run in the second Test. England needed 258 to win the match and series. England lost a Test after enforcing the follow-on for the first time, the fourth such defeat in Test history. This defeat ends a run of six straight wins. It is only the second time a Test has ever been won by one run - West Indies' victory over Australia in Adelaide in 1993 the first.

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Man, it feels like only yesterday (*) when that amazing test match happened. But England are in a squeaker against Bangladesh in an ODI...

 

* It was indeed yesterday.

 

And @ohtani's jacketWas that "Jones! Bowden! Kasprowicz the man to go!"

edit an hour later: I think Stokes's 2019 insanity would be up with 2001.

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