Corridor cricket
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Corridor Cricket is an offshoot of the popular bat and ball game cricket. It is mostly played by bored university students in a sufficiently long corridor (hence the name).
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[edit] Equipment
Equipment usually varies wildly depending on what is to hand.
The Ball The ball used to play corridor cricket is usually a tennis ball. To recreate swing such as you would find in the real game some sort of tape is placed on one half of the ball. This allows players to discover copious amounts of swing. No method of creating a viable seam has been discovered yet.
The Bat Often a real cricket bat is used. However this often leads to problems as the corridor is often a confined space. This means that hefty swings can knock lumps out of the wall. Often corridor cricket is played with any long, straight object to hand such as an umbrella.
Stumps Like goal posts in Playground Football the stumps are made up of any handy object such as a bin or a chair.
[edit] Rules
Rules again vary wildly from corridor to corridor but are usually derived from the laws of real cricket. Due to the nature of corridors, boundaries are often only scored for shots which reach the opposite end of the corridor.
[edit] Bowling styles
- Pace - Due to the short nature of some corridors, the wicket is often reduced in length. This means that bowlers who'd usually be considered sedate in real cricket, bowl Brett Lee style balls in corridor cricket. This is particuarly effective when bowling bouncers and yorkers.
- Swing - With a semi-taped up tennis ball the true connoiseur of swing can accurately replicate both in and out swing. This again is particuarly effective when bowling yorkers.
- Spin - Without a seam, spin is hard to master. However a good spin bowler can reap the rewards of his hard work with numerous edges behind.
