Wickets and Bowlers

I know absolutely nothing about cricket. I’ve never seen a match, I don’t know how it’s played, and I couldn’t name a single famous cricket player. That said, I’ve always thought that point-based sports have enough common elements that I could translate knowledge of a familiar game (say, baseball) to a theoretically similar yet unfamiliar game (cricket). This is not true even a little bit, at least in terms of understanding written game summaries. As an example, go here for comically incomprehensible coverage of the most recent India vs. Pakistan cricket competition (I think they’re called “tests”).

I see a batter and a ball, but beyond that, this is a mystery.