Innings
Aninningsis one of the divisions of acricketmatch during which one team takes its turn tobat.Innings also means the period in which an individual player bats (acts as either striker ornonstriker). Incricketandrounders,"innings" is both singular and plural; this contrasts withbaseballandsoftballin which the singular is "inning".
Origin
[edit]The earliest known record of the term concerns a match in August 1730 atBlackheath,Kentbetween aKent sideandLondon Cricket Club.The London-basedSt. James Evening Postreported: "'Twas thought that the Kentish champions would have lost their honours by being beat at one innings if time had permitted".[1][2]
Usage in cricket
[edit]An innings is one of the divisions of a match during which one team takes its turn tobat,and is said to be "in to bat".[3][4]Innings is the subject of Law 13 in theLaws of Cricket.[5]
- In afirst-class match,there are up to four innings, with each team due to bat twice (in practice, this is not always the case). In alimited overs match,there are only two innings, with each team batting once (though there can beextra, shortened inningsin the case of atie).
- An innings may end in anumber of ways,such as when all but one batsman on the team is gottenout,or in limited overs cricket, when the limited number ofoversfor that innings have been bowled.
The term is also used with the meaning of "score"for both the team and each individual batsman. For example, it may be said that" he played an innings of 101 ", meaning that the player scored 101 runs in his innings (while batting during one of the team's innings). Similarly, it may be said that the team had a first innings (score) of 501.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Buckley, p. 4.
- ^Maun, p. 130.
- ^Sarah Jewell; J. James Reade; Carl Singleton."It's Just Not Cricket: The Uncontested Toss and the Gentleman's Game"(PDF).Reading.ac.uk.Archived(PDF)from the original on 28 November 2021.Retrieved12 March2022.
- ^"Why captains choose not to follow-on these days".Espncricinfo.28 July 2017.Archivedfrom the original on 9 November 2020.Retrieved9 September2020.
- ^ab"Law 13 – Innings".MCC.Archivedfrom the original on 1 October 2017.Retrieved29 September2017.
Bibliography
[edit]- Buckley, G. B.(1935).Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket.Cotterell.
- Chambers (2006).The Chambers Dictionary, 10th Edition.Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap.ISBN0-550-10185-3.
- Maun, Ian (2009).From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750.Roger Heavens.ISBN978-1-900592-52-9.
- Oxford (2004).Oxford English Dictionary, 11th Edition.Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN0-19-860864-0.