An innings, or inning, is a segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which a side takes its turn to bat. In cricket, the term ''innings'' is both singular and plural and is always spelled and pronounced with the terminal "s". In baseball, the singular form is ''inning'' and only the plural takes an "s" In many other sports, the length of the game is dictated by a clock and teams swap offensive and defensive roles dynamically by taking possession of a ball or similar item. In cricket and baseball, however, one team known as the batting team attempts to score points (known as ''runs'' in both sports), while the other team, known as the fielding team, attempts to prevent the scoring of runs and get members of the batting team ''out''. The teams switch places after the fielding team has succeeded in getting a fixed number of players out, making a clock unnecessary. In cricket, the term ''innings'' is also used to refer to the play of one particular player (''Smith had a poor innings, scoring only 12''). By extension, this term can be used in British English for almost any activity which takes a period of time (''The Liberal government had a good innings, but finally lost office in 1972'', or ''You've had a fair innings, now it's my turn'', meaning "you have spoken for long enough, now let me speak"). The parallel to this in baseball is an at bat. ==Cricket== In cricket, a team's innings usually lasts until 10 of the 11 batsmen in the team are out, leaving the not out batsman without a partner and thus unable to continue, or until another event intervenes (such as the captain of the team declaring the innings closed for tactical reasons; or the time allotted for the entire game expiring). In first-class cricket and Test cricket, each side has two innings. In one-day cricket and other short form cricket, an innings lasts only for a set period or for a certain number of over (cricket) (typically 50). Note that "an innings" can mean either a particular side's innings (''Sri Lanka made 464 in the third innings (of the game)'') or that of both sides (''England had the better of the first innings, outscoring Australia by 104''), the difference being understood by context. An individual innings usually lasts until the batsman is given out, or until the end of the team innings. Although batsmen bat together in pairs, this combination is never called ''an innings'': it is a ''partnership'' or a ''stand''. ===See also=== *Cricket statistics *Cricket terminology ==Baseball== An inning in baseball consists of two halves. In each half, one team bats until three out (baseball) are made, with the other team playing defense. A full inning consists of six outs, three for each team; and a regulation game consists of nine innings. The visiting team always bats first in each inning, and the visitors' turn at bat is often called the ''top'' of the inning, derived from the position of the visiting team at the top line of a baseball line score. The home team's half of an inning is also called the ''bottom'' of the inning, and the break between halves of an inning is called the ''middle'' of the inning. If the home team is leading in the middle of the ninth inning, or scores to take the lead in the bottom of the ninth inning, the game immediately ends in a home victory. If the score is tied after 9 innings, the game goes into extra innings until an inning ends with one team ahead of the other. As in the case of the ninth inning, a home team which scores to take a lead in any extra inning automatically wins, and the inning is considered complete at that moment regardless of the number of outs. ===See also=== *Baseball statistics Baseball terminology Cricket terminology
The OED online edition reads: 4. a. In Cricket, Baseball, and similar games (in Great Britain always in pl. form innings, whether in sing. or pl. sense): That portion of the game played by either side while `in' or at the bat: cf. IN adv. 6d. In Cricket also used of the play of, or score of runs made by, any one batsman during his turn. to follow their innings (said of one side at cricket) = to follow on: see FOLLOW v. 19d. It is therefore quite incorrect to accuse OED of not having the singular word "inning" (it also has 3 other meanings of much greater antiquity) and I have removed this remark - please don't reinstate it. User:Seglea 05:08, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) : Fair enough I suppose, I went to my printed edition for my information. --User:Bob Palin 06:53, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::Then I guess the online edition reflects the internationalisation of the OED project in the latest edition. Weird; would they really be being snobby about American games in the earlier editions? And I'm surprised if the printed edition (what date?) didn't have at least the archaic forms. I could only get at the online edition through a loop of 3 computers this evening so I didn't explore in detail - sometimes it tells you which edition a word was introduced in. User:Seglea 08:17, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::I've now checked: singular "inning" in baseball is recognised by the 2nd edition of OED (1989), which was printed, not just the (online only, I think) New Edition. Examples are given from 1856 on. User:Seglea 23:14, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) :: I assure you that I am very capable of looking up a word in a dictionary, I have the Oxford Reference Dictionary (1986) in front of me now, there is no entry for inning. However, I just dug out my Concise Oxford Dictionary (1981) and it does have an entry marking it as an Americanism. So there we go... The point is however that in cricket it is an innings and on that I think we agree. --User:Bob Palin 01:42, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC) :::Aha, disparity explained. OED to me (and to Wikipedia, to judge from the link) means the big multi-volume affair (1st edn 1928, 2nd 1989, 3rd edn in preparation but work done so far available on line). I can easily believe that the Reference dictionary wouldn't have inning. But, as you say, the main thing is that the article has the correct usage. Curious that OED refers to "innings" as Great Britain - I am virtually certain that the same usage applies wherever cricket is played. You are quite right, Seglea (or at least to the best of my knowledge you are). ''Innings'' is universal, except in the US. (And , presumably, other places that speak in US english). As for the dictionaries, as I remember, * OED is the full Oxford English Dictionary - about 7 volumes. * The Shorter Oxford Dictionary is two volumes - though for some reason, the acrynom "SOD" doesn't seem to have caught on! * Various other versions exist: Pocket Oxford, illustrated, and so on. User:Tannin 06:45, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC) ---- ''(England had the better of the first innings, outscoring Australia by 104)'' :Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a repositry for wishful thinking! :-) User:Pcb21 User_talk:Pcb21 21:53, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC) :: Quite so, Pete. But, you see, I'm Australian, so I thought it would be courteous to give the Poms this one little victory. Might be a while till the next one. ;) User:Tannin ==British vs. American== Ordinarily, the whole British/American english debate doesn't really bother me. But this idea of using "innings" as a singular noun sounds like nails on a chalkboard. Brrr. User:Meelar 02:33, 4 May 2004 (UTC) -- Isn't it more accurate to describe it as cricket-versus-baseball than as British-versus-American? User:Michael Hardy 02:03, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC) :Indeed, but the cricket usage spills out into British English in other contexts, as the article says. Does this happen in the US (e.g., "the President has had a good inning")? -- User:ALoan User_talk:ALoan 12:37, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC) ---- I've just tidied this up quite a bit to remove the "offense/defense" terminology from the introductory discussion of what team is batting and what is fielding, since those terms don't apply in the same way for cricket. What I've done should now read correctly for both sports. I've also NPOVed the British/American plural usage - it was rather slanted towards British, IMO. (oops, forgot to sign) User:Dmmaus about 30 May.
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An innings, or inning, is a segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which a side takes its turn to bat. In cricket, the term ''innings'' is both singular and plural and is always spelled and pronounced with the terminal "s". In baseball, the singular form is ''inning'' and only the plural takes an "s" In many other sports, the length of the game is dictated by a clock and teams swap offensive and defensive roles dynamically by taking possession of a ball or similar item. In cricket and baseball, however, one team known as the batting team attempts to score points (known as ''runs'' in both sports), while the other team, known as the fielding team, attempts to prevent the scoring of runs and get members of the batting team ''out''. The teams switch places after the fielding team has succeeded in getting a fixed number of players out, making a clock unnecessary. In cricket, the term ''innings'' is also used to refer to the play of one particular player (''Smith had a poor innings, scoring only 12''). By extension, this term can be used in British English for almost any activity which takes a period of time (''The Liberal government had a good innings, but finally lost office in 1972'', or ''You've had a fair innings, now it's my turn'', meaning "you have spoken for long enough, now let me speak"). The parallel to this in baseball is an at bat. ==Cricket== In cricket, a team's innings usually lasts until 10 of the 11 batsmen in the team are out, leaving the not out batsman without a partner and thus unable to continue, or until another event intervenes (such as the captain of the team declaring the innings closed for tactical reasons; or the time allotted for the entire game expiring). In first-class cricket and Test cricket, each side has two innings. In one-day cricket and other short form cricket, an innings lasts only for a set period or for a certain number of over (cricket) (typically 50). Note that "an innings" can mean either a particular side's innings (''Sri Lanka made 464 in the third innings (of the game)'') or that of both sides (''England had the better of the first innings, outscoring Australia by 104''), the difference being understood by context. An individual innings usually lasts until the batsman is given out, or until the end of the team innings. Although batsmen bat together in pairs, this combination is never called ''an innings'': it is a ''partnership'' or a ''stand''. ===See also=== *Cricket statistics *Cricket terminology ==Baseball== An inning in baseball consists of two halves. In each half, one team bats until three out (baseball) are made, with the other team playing defense. A full inning consists of six outs, three for each team; and a regulation game consists of nine innings. The visiting team always bats first in each inning, and the visitors' turn at bat is often called the ''top'' of the inning, derived from the position of the visiting team at the top line of a baseball line score. The home team's half of an inning is also called the ''bottom'' of the inning, and the break between halves of an inning is called the ''middle'' of the inning. If the home team is leading in the middle of the ninth inning, or scores to take the lead in the bottom of the ninth inning, the game immediately ends in a home victory. If the score is tied after 9 innings, the game goes into extra innings until an inning ends with one team ahead of the other. As in the case of the ninth inning, a home team which scores to take a lead in any extra inning automatically wins, and the inning is considered complete at that moment regardless of the number of outs. ===See also=== *Baseball statistics Baseball terminology Cricket terminology
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The OED online edition reads: 4. a. In Cricket, Baseball, and similar games (in Great Britain always in pl. form innings, whether in sing. or pl. sense): That portion of the game played by either side while `in' or at the bat: cf. IN adv. 6d. In Cricket also used of the play of, or score of runs made by, any one batsman during his turn. to follow their innings (said of one side at cricket) = to follow on: see FOLLOW v. 19d. It is therefore quite incorrect to accuse OED of not having the singular word "inning" (it also has 3 other meanings of much greater antiquity) and I have removed this remark - please don't reinstate it. User:Seglea 05:08, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) : Fair enough I suppose, I went to my printed edition for my information. --User:Bob Palin 06:53, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::Then I guess the online edition reflects the internationalisation of the OED project in the latest edition. Weird; would they really be being snobby about American games in the earlier editions? And I'm surprised if the printed edition (what date?) didn't have at least the archaic forms. I could only get at the online edition through a loop of 3 computers this evening so I didn't explore in detail - sometimes it tells you which edition a word was introduced in. User:Seglea 08:17, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::I've now checked: singular "inning" in baseball is recognised by the 2nd edition of OED (1989), which was printed, not just the (online only, I think) New Edition. Examples are given from 1856 on. User:Seglea 23:14, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) :: I assure you that I am very capable of looking up a word in a dictionary, I have the Oxford Reference Dictionary (1986) in front of me now, there is no entry for inning. However, I just dug out my Concise Oxford Dictionary (1981) and it does have an entry marking it as an Americanism. So there we go... The point is however that in cricket it is an innings and on that I think we agree. --User:Bob Palin 01:42, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC) :::Aha, disparity explained. OED to me (and to Wikipedia, to judge from the link) means the big multi-volume affair (1st edn 1928, 2nd 1989, 3rd edn in preparation but work done so far available on line). I can easily believe that the Reference dictionary wouldn't have inning. But, as you say, the main thing is that the article has the correct usage. Curious that OED refers to "innings" as Great Britain - I am virtually certain that the same usage applies wherever cricket is played. You are quite right, Seglea (or at least to the best of my knowledge you are). ''Innings'' is universal, except in the US. (And , presumably, other places that speak in US english). As for the dictionaries, as I remember, * OED is the full Oxford English Dictionary - about 7 volumes. * The Shorter Oxford Dictionary is two volumes - though for some reason, the acrynom "SOD" doesn't seem to have caught on! * Various other versions exist: Pocket Oxford, illustrated, and so on. User:Tannin 06:45, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC) ---- ''(England had the better of the first innings, outscoring Australia by 104)'' :Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a repositry for wishful thinking! :-) User:Pcb21 User_talk:Pcb21 21:53, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC) :: Quite so, Pete. But, you see, I'm Australian, so I thought it would be courteous to give the Poms this one little victory. Might be a while till the next one. ;) User:Tannin ==British vs. American== Ordinarily, the whole British/American english debate doesn't really bother me. But this idea of using "innings" as a singular noun sounds like nails on a chalkboard. Brrr. User:Meelar 02:33, 4 May 2004 (UTC) -- Isn't it more accurate to describe it as cricket-versus-baseball than as British-versus-American? User:Michael Hardy 02:03, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC) :Indeed, but the cricket usage spills out into British English in other contexts, as the article says. Does this happen in the US (e.g., "the President has had a good inning")? -- User:ALoan User_talk:ALoan 12:37, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC) ---- I've just tidied this up quite a bit to remove the "offense/defense" terminology from the introductory discussion of what team is batting and what is fielding, since those terms don't apply in the same way for cricket. What I've done should now read correctly for both sports. I've also NPOVed the British/American plural usage - it was rather slanted towards British, IMO. (oops, forgot to sign) User:Dmmaus about 30 May.
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