So what is a draw if it's not a tie?
How is a draw different than a win?
Or are you talking like a series? Like the Reds played the Cardinals 4 games over 4 days. Reds won 2 games with scores of 6-3 and 10-1; the Cardinals won 2 games with scores of 3-2 and 1-0
The series was split as each team won 2 and lost 2.
Nope, just one game. ?
Basically, a draw means the game ran out of time. Five six-hour days wasn't enough to find a result.
It would be as if, to win a baseball game, you had to wrap up 9 completed innings before the clock hit 11pm. If you're pitching in the bottom of the ninth inning, you're up by 7 runs to 2 and you have gotten two outs in the inning, but then the clock hits 11pm........ too bad. Draw. You needed three outs by 11pm, not two. There's no extra innings. You should have pitched and placed your fielders more aggressively in the ninth and wasted less time on pitching rituals - you knew time was your enemy.
Whereas if you were tied 7-7 in the bottom of the ninth and then you get your third out - that's a tied game. There's no extra innings in Test cricket. But usually a team will score between 150-500 runs in a Test cricket innings and each team bats twice in a game, so a tie is vanishingly rare.
Running out of an arbitrary time limit and that means a draw sounds ridiculous and idiotic to you, I have no doubt. But the great thing is, after several days of cricket, on day 5 you can always sense a photo finish approaching for hours. So all day the tension slowly builds and builds, and then if it REALLY comes down to the wire, it's fucking dramatic. The players have spent a full working week building to this nailbiter. It's thrilling watching the last two batsmen (who aren't even specialist batters, they are the pitchers - everybody bats in a cricket team)
desperately try to survive ball by ball, minute by minute, to crawl over the finish line with nothing to spare. ?
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