Ashwin toys with Marnus then bowls out Smith, a breakdown

I thought you might find this interesting

because there was just a little something that happened

in the match that I found interesting,

and it's a little different than baseball.

Watch this.

The bowler, Ashwin, does not throw the ball.

Acts like he's gonna throw the ball.

Doesn't throw the ball.

It's legal.

It seems like trickery.

Sometimes you think they're gonna do it

to keep the runner in check.

Steve Smith wasn't taking that big of a lead,

and he gets back.

He's like, are you checking on me?

But Ashwin, the bowler, didn't even look at him.

He's doing this, I think,

because he thinks the batsman is gonna tip his hand

at his approach, and he's gonna catch him,

and he does, and they look at each other.

They're like, gotcha, and Marnus is like, yep,

you got me.

He turns around and smiles, and then they all smile,

and what did he tip, you're asking?

Well, he showed that he was gonna try and sweep him.

He steps out.

He turns.

He's gonna try and do a sweep shot,

and he's like, shit, you got me.

So does he try to do it again,

or does he change his approach?

He stays with it, just a little tap,

and Ashwin's like, oh, no, I did the whole fake.

I thought, ooh, I thought you weren't gonna do it

because I faked you out, and Marnus is like, nah, did it.

I was cute about it.

Just a little touch gets it all the way

to the boundary for four runs.

That's how that works, and it's just simple.

You just don't see that in baseball,

and you definitely don't see that, a reverse sweep.

You also, in baseball, the batter can't really tip his hand.

Just the pitcher can, but here,

the batter can show you what he's gonna do

because he's got a pre-plan it.

Steve Smith's gonna try the same thing, and he's out.

Umpire says, you're gone, and Smith's like, wait, what?

Why?

And he looks behind him that way,

not on the side the ball went to.

I found that interesting, and I'm not positive here

because I'm a new cricket watcher,

but I think maybe when you set up

for this shot, your front leg, that left leg,

is supposed to be even with the farthest away stump.

That way, any ball on leg side

would seemingly not hit the stumps

because it would travel so much, have so much turn on it,

and the umpire would not even rule it.

Maybe that's why he looks that way.

Look at Ashwin's fingers.

That's why he can spin the ball so crazily.

Those are like both of mine put together.

Steve Smith is upset.

He doesn't like it.

I don't think he thought the umpire was gonna call it,

but being on that side of him, and watch what happens.

The reason he missed it is because it hits the seam

and turns into topspin.

So the whole time it's turning,

you know, right to left, right to left,

then it hits the seam, and now it's topspin,

which keeps it under.

He swings right over it.

They go to review, and first they're gonna look

at the sound waves to see if it did hit his bat

because if it hit his bat, he'd be clear, but it did not.

The sound waves don't come until it hits his leg,

and that's not allowed.

So then they go to the magic,

magician machine that tells you which way the ball

would have went if it didn't hit him,

and they say, yep, would have hit the stump.

He's out, and Australia was doing pretty decent

up until this point, and it's kind of a turning point

of like, oh boy.

These are the two different sweeps,

and you can see Marnus on the left.

He's just soft about it.

He's just kind of placing the ball

where Smith is going for a big ol' knock,

and that gets him, and then that got Australia

kind of the rest of the match.

Going sweep, sweep, and they just dance their way

to another victory, 2-0 in the test series.

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Two, I'm gonna quickly show you how to read a scoreboard

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you might want to go to ESPN Plus or Willow or Flow TV

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because now you're understanding it.

Here's how you read the scorebook, okay?

They're gonna have the two batter's names that are up,

the partnership, and they're gonna have how many runs

they have scored.

Off of how many balls they have faced.

They're also gonna give you the bowler's name

and show you how many runs he's allowed

and how many wickets he's taken,

and then they have the total team score,

runs they've scored, and wickets or outs they've made.

It's a lot of info, but it's awesome

because it kind of, you flip on

and you can read the whole story right away

once you understand it,

kind of understand where you're at

in the game, what momentum is built, and all of that.

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