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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/5/23 09:36, Graeme Fitzpatrick
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but what's the playing area ?<br>
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<div>Yep, good question, with no across-the-board answer!</div>
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<div>As you say, you can play tennis from "outside" the court,
but in most ball games, if the ball (& sometimes player)
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In cricket and soccer the ball and player can be 'outside' the
marked line but in the air. Only when the player touches the ground
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<div>& then for cricket, the "cricket pitch" itself is a
small rectangular strip in the middle of the field, but the
game uses the entire area of the field, while the boundaries
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<p>Err cricket uses less area than Australian Rules Football and
sometimes the two cohabit a facility. <br>
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<p>So the cricket 'field' will be smaller than that football field.
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<p>Where cricket and soccer occur together there are sometimes 2
soccer fields with the cricket pitch in between the two soccer
fields. The cricket field does no take on the outer boundaries of
the 2 soccer fields.. <br>
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<p>Does the 'playing area' of chess include the table and seats? <br>
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<p>Then think of water and snow skiing... <br>
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