Cricket VS Baseball - ft LAURIE EVANS

[@johndallyn7008]

I think the bounce off the wicket in a cricket bowl is really devalued by baseball fans, when we face a ball there are so many ways the ball can travel, facing a fast bowler Pro level 85-95mph, (my standard 70-80mph) the ball can skid on (Stay low) kick up (bounce off) and that doesn't even include the lateral movement, whether you have the magic of Swing or Cutters or just hitting something on the pitch. I would love to see a baseball player face an over of inswinging yorkers with a couple of bouncers thrown in

[@johndallyn7008]

Don't even get me started on spin.

[@humanoid2423]

Bruh cricket is ruthless

[@xenobladesrg7729]

hand-eye coordination is the thing that matters the most

[@davidmeyer2729]

I think baseball players could handle stuff like that. They deal with change ups, curves and sliders with all sort of movement.

[@keshavkhandelwal2207]

@@davidmeyer2729 no they cannot. There is just a small square where a pitcher can pitch the ball. Whereas in cricket a ball can be bowled anywhere from top to bottom and from right to left with or without bounce.

[@sujithvlogs9260]

Me as a cricket fan: That's a full toss it should be easy to hit😂

[@seyedshihab1921]

Exactly 😂

[@debashis169]

Yep😂

[@anweshkp6231]

Hahhaa yes and frankly this game is much easier.

[@naturebd6577]

Yeah same as i think.. In full toss even if u through it directly theres only one thing can happen (air in swing or air out swing/ari up/down swing 🙃). What is actually a normal option for a bowler in cricket. is there any other else bowler can do in baseball?? I dont know actually baseball too much.. Also i have one more thought about baseball (if u want to hit a ball as how u want then why dont u take a perfect bat?? Baseball bat is so tiny, it has only 2 option, either ball will going for home run or it will goes in higher in air) lol 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ but in cricket batsman can play lots of nice tricky shoot without giving strong physical effort.. Thats the one of the nice thing..

[@anweshkp6231]

@@naturebd6577 yes pitcher should throw away from the batter i.e. in cricket language must give room, a pretty easy ball in cricket.. this is a very easy sport

[@mohitkumar-yw7dl]

It’s easy to determine if a person has played cricket before by how he is holding the bat. The guy in white has clearly played cricket before, the guy in blue has never touched a cricket bat in his life

[@9shazad]

Most people know how to hold a bat doesn’t mean there any good

[@arshilahmad9811]

@@9shazad No, a cricket fan can definitely tell the difference

[@abhay4147]

@@9shazad Almost all people who haven't watched or played cricket won't know how to hold the bat properly. These things are best understood when you play the game itself or at least watch someone do it

[@JPH1138]

@@9shazad No, the bat for a cricket bat is pretty unintuitive. When people hold it their instinct is to line the front of their bat more or less square with the lines of their fingers and to grip tight with both hands. In actual fact to make decent contact you want the bat twisted around in your hand, and the grip on your bottom hand (right for most players) should very, very loose so that you can control the direction you hit it in. A lot of pros only use two or three fingers of their bottom hand. You can see the bloke in the Colorado shirt is gripping it like a vice with his right hand, and as a result all of his hard swings are shooting off to the left in the follow through, making it very, very hard to make good contact. Nobody who has ever had even 20 minutes of coaching would hold the bat like he does.

[@flamingfrancis]

Any person who has ever held a golf club correctly knows how to hold a baseball bat. It is a function of positioning the hands correctly in relation to the grain structure of the bat.

[@Punkologist]

I'm an Aussie baseball player that has also played a lot of cricket. Both sports are great and present their own challenges, but i personally find hitting easier in baseball even at high speeds (infact i hate curve balls!)

[@flyingdutch9818]

Mate, everyone hates the curveball. Gone back to playing cricket and any delivery on the stumps to me feels like it’s a fat pitch down the middle. Fast bowlers coming onto the bat are so much easier!

[@WaveRider1989]

@@flyingdutch9818 Except in cricket there are eno second chances, now batter can score it's of runs and that is the point. But in baseball only one hit is required at a time with multiple chances after getting strike. Cricket there are no strikes.

[@jaffertv]

Same situation except I find it easier to hit in cricket. Weird how that works out sometimes

[@FS-me8mj]

If you are a first-order batsman in cricket then baseball will be very easy for you.

[@PaulAllen6304]

Australian cricketers are the best....at sledging😂 greetings from cricket fan

[@betelgeuse4187]

Basically every ball a pitcher throws is called fulltoss in cricket.They are considered most easiest to score runs..

[@whatevertrends3627]

Yeah not with baseball bat

[@theamesavenue9834]

Yeah but not from so close up, not when the bowler/pitcher is standing and chucking the ball, and especially when the bat is a round bat!

[@BnMProductions11]

The sports are different, you dont have such a giant surface area to hit the ball and the ball moves a lot more in the air. So the "fulltoss" is not equivalent. Also, the balls are much faster on average from a closer distance.

[@philmccracken179]

Fulltoss above the waist aren’t allowed in cricket. Why is that? Is a fulltoss above the waist too scary for cricketers? And if fulltoss are so easy in cricket that proves baseball is harder because it isn’t easy in baseball. Remember we don’t get a surfboard to hit the ball

[@whatevertrends3627]

@@philmccracken179 and we did not get giant hand glove to catch a ball🤣

[@Vipernewb]

bro giving him full toss and thinking he will win 🤣

[@overpoweredits24]

Baseball mey esehi hota hai

[@imviiku]

Must say Laurie represented Cricket very well 👏🏽

[@lennymcgrath9414]

mate he took drugs

[@Ujjee19]

@@lennymcgrath9414 when?

[@handler01801]

​@@lennymcgrath9414that's kool

[@Nopeabout]

​@@Ujjee19i was there when he was taking drugs

[@mysterioushermit9948]

Even I was there ​@@Nopeabout

[@dasfinalgaming]

Im guessing Cricket, like baseball, looks so simplistic but has a lot of complexities that comes along with it

[@Emper0rH0rde]

In baseball, it's easier to defend than it is to score. In cricket, it is *far* easier to score than it is to defend. Baseball generally has three ways to get a batter/runner out. Cricket has at least seven. In order to understand both sports, you really have to watch it, pay attention, and have things explained to you along the way.

[@MKF30]

Both have their challenges, baseball it's always been difficult to score but now with guys throwing mid to high 90's minimum on average it's even more difficult than it was before in the past. It's definitely easier to defend unless you're facing a monster lineup and even then the pitcher still has the advantage 70% of the time. Cricket there's the bigger bat/paddle/club so easier to score but harder to defend. But as someone who used to play baseball yeah whether it's Baseball or Cricket, watching it and thinking "this is boring and easy" then try playing are entirely different stories. Both are arguably the most mentally challenging, focusing sports especially hitting a baseball you have like .2 seconds to react and commit then there's actually hitting it and hitting it fair lol.

[@RTG0]

@@MKF30 I mean when you say cricket has a bigger club, your opinion seems very devalued

[@MKF30]

@@RTG0 How about a larger piece of wood that work for you?? Is this a troll post or have you just never played either sport clearly or are you just one of those UK snobs? When you troll, your opinion is devalued.

[@RTG0]

@@MKF30 yeah I played baseball really hard to hit the ball with the racquet

[@TheTrippleTKA]

This man middled every ball bowled with a baseball bat and played proper cricket shots!

[@omariparker3769]

So I assume "middled" means that the ball was hit correctly and what we would call "square it up"? This guy didn't in baseball terms. He "middled" the last one maybe and that was a cookie (meaning it was easy to hit). Y'all ain't touching a real pitcher trying to strike you out.

[@omariparker3769]

If the MLB players decided to change to cricket, yall wouldn't have a league because America would be the center of it all. It would literally take one year.

[@samhill487]

@@omariparker3769 Strange guy you.

[@puntguyrko]

@@omariparker3769 Lol they were bowling easy cricket balls as well, an American baseball player wouldn't be able to handle a spin ball, swinger, bouncer or any variation really... Americans really are too arrogant...

[@puntguyrko]

@@omariparker3769 Ok bro if you say so 😂😂😂, The pitcher just throws the ball straight at the batsman on baseball there's no variations except curveballs, no spin, no bouncers, no different pitches etc...

[@vijithvijayan8807]

Every cricketer can play baseball easily but only a few baseballers can play cricket easily.

[@pmukundhan1163]

It's not like that baseball is difficult to hit home runs. U can hit the ball easily but home runs is different. Baseball players can play fast bowling but spin will be difficult

[@user-km4lo8zz6z]

why you all indians don't stop spreading this lie

[@dukewatts4410]

@@pmukundhan1163 no they can’t adjusting to playing shots on the bounce will be absolutely massive adjustment

[@FS-me8mj]

facts; especially when it comes to spin bowling

[@omkarjsuvarna]

People really can talk without even playing baseball.

[@zoopertrooper3557]

Cricket is great grandfather of baseball, British brought cricket to American shores and Americans modified it and named it baseball.

[@zoopertrooper3557]

@SynthMusicFan 501 yeah that's true buddy

[@PioneerGoosy1]

@SynthMusicFan 501 very true bro

[@humanoid2423]

@SynthMusicFan 501 no cap

[@flamingfrancis]

And who wrote the rules, where, and what year?

[@PioneerGoosy1]

@@flamingfrancis Cricket was made in England 1630 when two kids were throwing a rock at a branch and boom cricket was made

[@dhawal7476]

Not many know that baseball was actually inspired from Cricket. Cricket is easily 200 years older than baseball. The earliest mentions dating back to 16th century and first official games played in 19th century :)

[@marknewbold2583]

It's a game for people who can't play cricket and need a big glove to catch

[@spacemann6179]

@@marknewbold2583 oof

[@rsvinekar]

Cricket became a formal sport with fixed rules (or laws) earlier than baseball, or its predecessor rounders. This is because the British upper class popularized it. Rounders was and is still considered a lower class pass-time played in village grounds. The lower class settlers from Great Britain dominated America especially after the independence of USA. In their time, cricket was played in exclusive clubs, with costly equipment. Unlike in India, where people quickly started using cheap replacement bats and balls to play gully cricket, American settlers associated cricket with the upper class, and shifted their attention to a game they were already playing and were familiar with. They evolved rounders into a more serious sport, baseball. They replaced the poles in rounders with bases, made a longer bat, adopted a harder ball and brought the game to the masses. Rules were formalized by the companies which sponsored the games, with several versions still used, and these have evolved. So both sports are technically equally old, but formalization makes baseball younger.

[@flamingfrancis]

@@rsvinekar The Laws of Cricket predate the Rules of Baseball by best part of two centuries. Then again those Laws (all six of them) were penned onto a silk handkerchief in a public house. The Official Rules of Baseball were adapted from the New York Knickerbocker Club in 1854. To take it to extremes there are depictions of humans hitting a "ball" with a stick in the Pyramids. So how was there a game of baseball played before the rules of the game existed?

[@rsvinekar]

@@flamingfrancis Nice of you to fill in the details. Thanks 👍

[@salempasangasp]

Cricket is more complex there's ball placement, spin, swing, bounce and many other factors you need to take in in microseconds before hitting a shot

[@robb_lucci9872]

@Cricket Explained so which is difficult cricket or base ball

[@NotUrDJ]

@@robb_lucci9872 definitely cricket because there's so much going on, you need a higher skill set for everything involved, even the planning.

[@OldScratchJohnson]

Batting is harder in baseball, and bowling (pitching) is harder in Cricket. Batting averages are much higher in cricket, you have a bigger bat, you can't strike out, you don't have to run if you hit it in play, there isn't foul territory, etc... As for Bowling (pitching), It's significantly harder to record an out in Cricket. If batting was as hard in Cricket as it was in Baseball test matches would take 45 minutes. People might disagree with this, but it's extremely obvious if you learn enough about both sport.

[@namitaroy7514]

Yeah but I still find baseball harder to hit

[@skippythealien9627]

@@robb_lucci9872 this is kind of like asking someone, which one is more delicious a pineapple or a mango? It's all subjective. They're totally different sports

[@brianfallon2607]

I've always wondered how a team of baseball players would perform in cricket and visa versa. I suspect baseball players would struggle with fielding in cricket and would find it distracting to face a bowler running up before bowling. I would love to see women softball players offered the chance to learn cricket and form the core of a USA women's cricket team.

[@insertcolorherehawk3761]

Realistically, a team full of baseball outfielders should do well A good comparison would probably be a Australia or Netherlands Baseball vs Cricket match

[@flamingfrancis]

You do realise that the USA Softball team have won just about every Olympic Gold Medal that has ever been on offer. Given their national standing they wouldn't be very interested in stuffing around with cricket especially when the USA have a National Cricket Association.

[@insertcolorherehawk3761]

@@flamingfrancis On the other hand, the USA Softball team(the men's team) has not finished in the top 3 of the World Championship since 2000, where it was dominated by New Zealand until the last few years where other nations have gotten better

[@SumofUsTV]

I'm not sure if I agree with you on baseball players struggling with fielding in cricket because there has been a number of American fielding coaches who are ex-baseball players coming over to the U.K., Australia and India to coach T20 teams in fielding. Clearly the people that run cricket teams see something in the way that baseball players are coached in fielding, and think that they have something to offer to cricket. FYI, I was a cricket fan before I got into baseball, so I'm trying to be objective with my assessment here.

[@cricfanusa3501]

@SynthMusicFan 501 as a former college baseball player who now plays cricket, bouncers weren’t nearly as difficult as a leg glance or a flighted spin delivery at good length. The pull/hook is the easiest shot to play, the trick is laying off of them until you’re set (like Rohit). Fielding is also the easiest transition, by a mile.

[@avysek]

And there's Shane Warne who took 700+ test wickets bowling at 50-60 mph. 🔥

[@FBIINDIA]

Hes a living legend

[@flamingfrancis]

Yes and fastball pitchers or bowlers are not always the answer.I am very familiar with decades of cricket experience but in case you are not aware there are several pitchers from recent and bygone times that specialised knuckle ball and palm ball pitchers did exactly the same. Today's cricketers use knuckle balls that are exact copies gripwise. Warne's LB action was previously used by a great Mexican pitcher Fernendo Valenzuela who had a remarkable career with the Dodgers....look him up.

[@avysek]

@@flamingfrancis Thanks for writing this much 🙌🏼 I will look him up for sure.

[@willsocietyacceptmecauseio1276]

He was a spinner

[@FBIINDIA]

@beacon Of hope no...i don't think so...he is a living legend

[@wce05308]

Congratulations Laurie Evans on winning the Big Bash League with the mighty Perth Scorchers 👏 🔥

[@powerfish1127]

too bad he failed his doping test

[@wce05308]

@@powerfish1127 genuine concern or scorchers hater?

[@wce05308]

@@powerfish1127 yep the whole situation is strange

[@cinospig1544]

I try to defend baseball in Australia and this video has set me back so much

[@flamingfrancis]

Very shallow. This video is absolute rubbish and proves absolutely nothing. The hitter would be made to look an genuine fool if he was facilng a good under 19 representative pitcher with a good breaking ball.

[@tytube3001]

cricket batting is more accumulating runs while baseball you have to go hard, it's like winning the scoring title in basketball vs being the slam dunk/3 point champ

[@cinospig1544]

@@tytube3001 I play both sports and the fact you said that shows you have no say

[@tytube3001]

@@cinospig1544 >> 'hows you have no say you need to work on your English🤣

[@cinospig1544]

@@tytube3001 please read it again. Just because you can't read doesn't mean it's wrong

[@dhawal7476]

I absolutely love the Cricket content created by Jomboy. Makes it very easy to learn Cricket. 😊

[@silentscream351]

Baseball+ Skill + inteligent+ accuracy+ shot selection == CRICKET

[@alanabraham1054]

US (birthplace of Baseball) has a cricket team in the 17th century. County style cricket such as New York, Boston and other towns/cities were played during the birth of America. If you see history, cricket gave birth to Baseball/Softball. In fact, I really likes two sports very much. But it should be popular in United States too. I hope many Americans should like the sport, so ICC Cricket World Cup will be one of the most popular tournament after FIFA World Cup

[@dexterharrisonbaseball9148]

baseball is what happened when rounders and cricket had a baby. fixed your description for you!

[@AmanVerma-qh9jv]

As a cricket fan, I also hope for the same.

[@AmanEyes]

USA is hosting next T20 world cup in 2024 and cricket will return to the Olympic as well in 2028 Los Angeles Olympic.

[@weaponx0949]

As an update, the debutant USA cricket team defeated the Pakistan team at the t20 world cup.😂

[@Herxh428]

Pakistan is 7th ranked team in world also 😂😂​@@weaponx0949

[@mdsabidhosan2980]

Chris Gayle and full toss out of the stadium

[@soumyadeepsengupta9797]

💀

[@akshitijgarg6467]

Can't we all just agree that cricket and baseball are two beautiful sports, I play cricket professionally and I'd love to try baseball,it looks cool, and even though the two sports are very different but there's a lot of give and take in techniques between the two sports which I find quite fascinating

[@valeriematongo]

I agree, I love cricket and during the lockdown I started watching baseball because the two sports are similar

[@akshitijgarg6467]

@@valeriematongo and they both are crazy good,some things are brilliant about cricket and some things about baseball

[@valeriematongo]

@@akshitijgarg6467trueee e.g. the amazing catches in cricket and the amazing pitches in baseball

[@akshitijgarg6467]

@@valeriematongo there are countless things of both sports,like drives and pulls in cricket, cricket ball swinging and spinning,how they kinda escape the fielder and reach bases in baseball,baseball catches by pitchers,bouncers in cricket,hits on a brilliant pitch in baseball(I kinda got into baseball a bit through KZbin videos, though I thoroughly love cricket )

[@akshitijgarg6467]

@@valeriematongo and the funny thing is🤦🏻‍♂️😂people still want to humiliate the other sport just to show how their's better🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[@stantonclark]

It triggered me that they did 5 balls each instead of 6 like an over

[@mshk1989]

yeah my OCD is through the roof

[@smitra5901]

Oof ikrrr! 😩

[@Inder-nm7nr]

he's wearing the hundred league jersey. In that league, Bowler bowls either five or 10 consecutive balls. Different rule😅

[@FBIINDIA]

Baseball is amazing but there could be only one gentlemen's game

[@therealmrfishpaste]

...and that's rugby....

[@FBIINDIA]

@@therealmrfishpaste nah...it's cricket and cricket only

[@jamesbond4810]

@@FBIINDIA Rugby is also regarded as gentlemen's game but played by thugs.

[@FBIINDIA]

@@jamesbond4810 but that's not same in cricket except few thugs of windies

[@jamesbond4810]

@@FBIINDIA What do you mean Windies cricketers are thugs ? Do you even know what thug mean ? You are being racist here bro.

[@ItsJacobyay]

So Jomboy says he’s getting into cricket and the mlb drops this 🤔

[@yankmyass]

Jomboy is Mandred's daddy

[@Maazin5]

It's the Ashes

[@jamesbond4810]

Jomboy is the best commissioner baseball has ever had.

[@karthikkatta.]

Dude 😂 your comment is being copied and pasted by the bots 😂

[@lapazoutdoors9613]

Lets go cricket!!! 🏏🏏🏏⚾⚾⚾

[@ronoking7]

Cricket>>>> Baseball even in popularity also 🗿

[@A__Human.]

🤣🤣🤣

[@silentkiller7369]

Lol for Americans, America is whole world on the map. Like they show in movies 🤣​@@A__Human.

[@soubhik9314]

​@@silentkiller7369Richest Country USA DEVELOPMENT Country USA Powerful country USA

[@kirtigupta9753]

Just one over of top quality leg spin on a turning pitch will sort out all the base ball fans who claim it's a superior sport. There are atleast 20 different ways a cricket ball can come at you when the bowler releases the ball. The conditions (pitch and weather) play such a huge role in a cricket match which is almost non existent in baseball.

[@kirtigupta9753]

@SynthMusicFan 501 Gosh, if the conditions are overcast the ball will swing prodigiously. If it's hot and the pitch bakes up , it starts to crack thereby assisting to ball to spin prodigiously. If it's a green pitch then it will seam as well as swing. Cricket is a different beast, altogether!

[@matthewfiluk2886]

@SynthMusicFan 501 As someone who's played both sports I can confirm the unpredictability factor in cricket is so much higher then baseball

[@siddharthvenkatesan7403]

@SynthMusicFan 501 If you're bending your arms out of proportions to throw a ball, you can swing anything, let alone a baseball.

[@RightAllWays]

If the ball swings too much, its useless and may cause you concede runs as byes etc. The point is appropriate swing at the right length and at right height. Cricket ball hitting ground makes the possible variations way more than baseball and that includes getting a few hit on your head or body. Cricket strategies change by type of match, pitch (ground) condition, weather condition and even region as pitches tend to behave differently in different regions, different parts of the day and different days in a test match

[@isaakvandaalen3899]

As a cricket player many of the skills you learn are pretty easily transferable to baseball. I rocked up to a baseball net in Japan while on holiday there and faced a few pitches at about 70mph. The action is very different so I'm by no means amazing but I was at least making contact and hitting some good drives. The sports are similar, so if you're good at one you're probably gonna be at least decent at the other, even if the exact strategies and techniques differ.

[@DixieBird123]

I don't know the speed of pitches in cricket. 70mph is 12 year old baseball speeds. Good high school pitchers are hitting 90+. But mixthat in with multiple different pitches ( curve, change up and the real equalizer the slider) it is difficult. If I heard correctly in video the elite bowlers throw around 95? What is distance between bowler and hitter? Baseball is 60ft 6inches. Elite baseball pitchers hit 100+ fairly regularly. Would be interesting to get elites of both sports to see how close or far off the completely different sports are. And the difference in skills needed to compete at a professional level. Not elite level but see if any players from each sport could compete.

[@isaakvandaalen3899]

@@DixieBird123 I believe cricket bowlers are closer to the batsman, though not by a lot. Also, while it's true cricket bowlers are slower due to not being allowed to bend their elbow, I think most baseball players under-estimate just how much variance bouncing the ball can give. Still, I do think that as far as flat out skill is concerned, hitting a well-pitched baseball is tougher than a well-bowled cricket ball, simply due to the bat being round in baseball. Where the real difference in the sports comes from - in my opinion - is the fact that in cricket you need to be able to repeatedly face the bowlers for many dozens, if not hundreds, of deliveries in order to be effective. Baseball seems to be much more a game about getting one good read on your opponent, while cricket is more of a long-haul strategical game.

[@FredericktheXIIjr]

@@isaakvandaalen3899I’m pretty sure mlb pitchers are closer by a few feet I might be wrong though mlb is around 60 feet

[@RealFansSports]

@@isaakvandaalen3899 I agree with all that you said, but wanted to add because a lot of people do not realize that a baseball pitch is biomechanically the most unnatural movement in sports because the higher speeds are created by producing torque from your elbow in a way that is not suppose to be created. Also have to keep in mind that they only take one step. To be able to run up and throw a pitch I would believe multiple pitchers would be able to reach over 110mph. Just wanted to add that. Just started following cricket this past year and covering it this world cup. I have really enjoyed learning the sport

[@controversybuttrue1331]

The art of bowling perfectly in cricket (pace bowling) literally takes more than a year to even learn it

[@chaboiearl4266]

ok and it takes multiple years to learn a single pitch in baseball. Some pitchers have worked on their curveball for 5+ years before using it in a game. These are not complexities unique to cricket, idk why you are all so pompous about cricket being more difficult.

[@controversybuttrue1331]

@@chaboiearl4266 it will take more than a yr to even get a legal bowling action. It takes much more time to build pace and variations. I can just chuck a ball and it would be a legal pitch

[@chaboiearl4266]

@@controversybuttrue1331 Just because a terrible pitch is legal doesnt mean its a good pitch?? Like by that logic you could say football is extremely simple just because you need to kick a ball which doesnt take much practice?? Obviously not because there is a significant level of technique in every kick, just like in every pitch and every defensive play in both cricket and baseball. There is literally no point in acting like one is more difficult unless you just want to feel superior for no reason.

[@mrcricketanalyst]

Any normal cricket player can throw a ball more than 90+ easily😂​@@chaboiearl4266

[@raahullsngh3631]

Cricket is lot more complicated As weather To condition of ball Condition of pitch Wind Bowlers finger Everything matters... But baseball has different complications.. Only T20 cricket can be compared to baseball...

[@BnMProductions11]

All those factors play into baseball aswell.

[@FS-me8mj]

@@BnMProductions11 I don't think the condition of pitch/wicket and bowlers finger apply. Welp, you wouldn't even know what those mean.

[@cricfanusa3501]

@@FS-me8mj I don't really understand the comment of bowler's finger here. There are pitchers in baseball who have had to remove themselves from availability because they broke an important fingernail that they use for their variations.

[@rsvinekar]

@@BnMProductions11 There is a big difference in terminologies between baseball and cricket, that can confuse such debates. The word "pitch" for instance. In baseball, that refers to the delivery of the ball. In cricket it refers to the ground on which the ball bounces. The softness, wetness, the amount of grit, sand etc. on the ground affect the bounce of the ball, a factor negligible in baseball. The word "strike" "ball", "defense" and "offense" have completely different and sometimes opposite meanings in both games. In cricket, a strike happens when a batsman "strikes" the ball. In baseball, it happens when batter misses and the ball "strikes" the imaginary strike zone. This is because the umpire has to call a strike in baseball using his judgement, the strike zone is not a real thing. In cricket, everyone can see the (very real) wickets being hit, so no call is needed. A "ball" is a valid delivery in cricket, while a "no-ball" is an invalid one which can give the batsman runs. "Ball" in baseball is a delivery which misses the strike zone and can help the batter earn a walk (after four of them), contributing to a run. In short, a "no-ball" in cricket is equivalent to "ball" in baseball. In cricket, the batsman "defends the wicket" and is called the defender especially in test cricket, while the bowling team is offense. Cricket batsmen stop the ball from hitting the wickets, and do not need to run on contact. In baseball, it is the other way round, the baseball batter tries to aggressively hit the ball and has to run on contact. The closest equivalent to a defensive stop from cricket is a bunt in baseball, but even there the batter has to run on contact. Baseball fans use words like offense and defense very often, while cricket fans rarely use these terms.

[@overpoweredits24]

Baseball hai meri jaan ❤

[@Worldlackscommonsense]

Cricket is more complex and for a real fan who understands it, never gets boring.

[@felixkfriju2649]

comparing to football it is boring

[@abdurrehman1827]

Wat cricket are u watching?? T20 , test or odi?? ​@@felixkfriju2649

[@R69-u6q]

for a cricket batsman its a dream to get him a full toss ball

[@isaakvandaalen3899]

@I do NOT see replies I mean, the same concept applies in cricket, and I'd argue that the bounce allows a bowler (pitcher) to do more with the ball and have more variations. For example, baseball has Curveballs while in cricket we call that Swing, but in cricket there is also Seam bowling, which is where the bowler gets the ball to bounce unevenly and jag left or right as it bounces. Seam can be bowled in the same delivery as Swing and at pace, and I'm not aware of any baseball counterpart. I'm not hating on baseball or anything, for one thing cricket bowlers are generally a little slower, plus the wider bat does help the batsman hit and (more importantly) aim their shots. Mostly I'm making a point that bowling / pitching strategies aren't unique to cricket / baseball, and you can bet that players of both sports have some pretty dastardly deliveries to give the batsman a bad time.

[@andrewhawkins6754]

@@isaakvandaalen3899 A good pitcher in baseball will throw three or four pitches that look exactly the same 3/4 of the distance and then curve in different directions. The batter must guess which it is from very limited information. Example: You have a pitch coming towards you. Is it a 155km/h fastball that seems to rise, a 130km/h curveball in the dirt, a 145km/h 2-seam coming inside, or a 145km/h cutter running away from you? They all look the same until they're 5m from you. That's not to mention the lovely 120km/h knuckleball that no one--not the hitter, the pitcher, or the catcher--knows where it'll go. The pitchers/bowlers will do the best they can given the rules of their game, and the hitters/batsmen do the same. As you said, they're different, though similar, games with different rules and strategies.

[@rajdeepsharma9005]

Anybody can bowl in baseball.....but bowling in cricket needs several years of practice....😅😅😅

[@overpoweredits24]

​@@rajdeepsharma9005baseball mey bowler ko pitcher bolte hai Aut bowling ko pitching bolte hai

[@fordastreeets8019]

Nice, now trying hitting it with a baseball bat

[@VARMOT123]

"IF YOU TWO ARE BOWLING i COULD HIT YOU WITH TOOTHPICKS TBH " . lol DESTROYED AT 4:35

[@yydd4954]

Cricket> baseball Popularity, history, difficult, strategy, class!

[@harrisonphillips8365]

Nope

[@nollienick1121]

History is such a bad argument. So is class. lol. This is why your 12

[@yydd4954]

@@nollienick1121 history isn't bad argument It shows that baseball was adapted from cricket It comes from Britain only like cricket but cricket prevailed as it was more demanding and professional Baseball succeeded in very few countries but fortune went their favour that among those few countries there was USA

[@rushabhjoshi30]

Jemel used all sweep shots in the nets😂 Not a single drive..

[@harshsrivastava8576]

What is baseball? All the deliveries are Full-Toss. Nighthawk Stuart Broad will be the greatest baseball batter of all time.

[@shivomtailor4300]

whoever thinks cricket is easy come to ground..... and get a bouncer follow by yourker and inswing hitting your middle ,, you gonna understand randomness in every ball

[@tonmoybiswas9499]

As a Cricket fan my opinion is that Cricket is an outstanding game whereas Baseball is also interesting but it can never bit cricket in excitements & emotions.

[@philmccracken179]

Oh yeah because there is no emotions and excitement in baseball 🥴. Why are you guys such dickheads? Watch blue jays vs rangers the “unforgettable inning” and tell me that. Watch the whole 40 minutes tho not just highlights

[@desamster]

I disagree but at least you gave your honest opinion and didn't make comments about baseball without properly understanding it.

[@taylorgang2237]

Funny enough my gf from india thinks baseball is more exciting than cricket.

[@dineshgahalot04]

​@@taylorgang2237 watch ashes indvspak matches than say this

[@dacutler]

You are overlooking the fact that the winner of a baseball game is very frequently (indeed) decided by just one pitch or hit at the end of the game, whereas it's rare for that to happen in a cricket match.

[@kishorrohra2968]

Cricketer needs lots of more skills than a baseball player

[@Dingosean]

Depends entirely on your position in baseball... 5-tool 2-way baseball players are some of the greatest skilled athletes on earth. For example, guys like Ichiro Suzuki and Rickey Henderson would have straight up BROKEN cricket if they were to ever to have been a partnership. It wouldn't have even been fair. Theyd be smashing sixers, and squeeking 2 or 3 runs out of absolute nothing-contact

[@ND00923]

@@Dingosean are you dumb? choose from these options , yes or yes

[@itzbashxll._6987]

@@Dingosean literally a cricket bowler need more skills and talents

[@TheBrainSpecialist]

@@itzbashxll._6987 Then why has every cricket bowler who's tried his hand at baseball failed?

[@priyanshu8947]

@@itzbashxll._6987 the baseball player was facing ball of like 90kmp as the bowler was part timer imagine him facing shoaib Akhtar...

[@Emper0rH0rde]

T20 cricket is a huge part of what got me into baseball. I'm glad to see it getting publicity in this country.

[@codeengineer10]

Okay also just mention which sport in which country

[@prashantnaik901]

@@codeengineer10 cricket

[@SDuff09]

I can't believe you're rocking a Rockies Jersey. You don't see that ever.

[@Ikasnu]

Worst run franchise

[@jlopez1017d]

They’re trying to represent every MLB team. Every show they have new jerseys

[@pink43560]

Rockies Rock!

[@rutikpatil7771]

There are 3 formats in cricket : T20 : last for 3 hours Each team play one innings of 20 overs(120 balls) ODI: last for 8 hours Each team play one innings of 50 overs(300 balls) Test: last for 5 days Each team plays 2 innings of unlimited overs though in single day 90 overs are bowled & each day is divided into 3 sessions of 30 overs They is lunch break between 1st & 2nd session & tea break in between 2nd & 3rd session

[@michael5549]

There is a 4th format, Indoor Cricket

[@flyingdutch9818]

I grew up playing both cricket and baseball and stuck with baseball from about 17yrs old on for another 20 year,s of baseball. Started playing social cricket again in my 40s and the ball bouncing really freaked me out for about a year before regaining the eye for it

[@skumar-nm1dg]

Are you an australian

[@jarjarbinks3193]

@@skumar-nm1dg From Holland, perhaps. Remember their team qualifying for the cricket world cup once.

[@skumar-nm1dg]

@@jarjarbinks3193 holland played in the last t20 world cup

[@alpha5047]

@@jarjarbinks3193 they recently beat South Africa one of gaints in cricket

[@manishthakur9851]

Slight benefit of baseball is that ball comes directly to the batter as against in cricket, after ball bounces ball can spin and swing a lot.

[@okkcomputer]

play baseball and come back to me please

[@flamingfrancis]

@@okkcomputer Would help him to go and stand behind the backnet for 15 minutes of pitching.

[@BnMProductions11]

Baseball pitches are faster, thrown from a shorter distance and can move even more than a cricket pitch when it bounces. Just go look up MLB catchers view of a bullpen.

[@Kyle-mw3bo]

@SynthMusicFan 501 baseball moves the ball much much more

[@fordastreeets8019]

Nice but try hitting a pitch with a baseball bat tho, not a cricket stick

[@pabitra8343]

Cricket is a proper sport, yet most of the country can't keep up with it. I still wonder why ....?

[@sumanghatak2088]

Because of the Olympics

[@sallie_gardner_]

Guys took gully cricket to the lords. Respect.

[@Evan3783]

Baseball is a very flat game compared to very intricate cricket. A staring ball or curve ball can only have so many variations. But cricket has many variables that makes it interesting till the last ball is bowled. Sheer strength alone doesn’t matter (unlike Basketball or other sports).

[@my2l]

there are over 15 different pitches in baseball you clown, and plenty of strategies regarding deception and tunneling, don't talk about something u dont know.

[@spacemanspiff4985]

Spoken truly like someone who knows nothing about baseball

[@ramka5861]

Cricket is basically a slow game, which involves technique,deception, variation, gamble, anticipation etc and most importantly a mind game.

[@bcs455]

The best thing about cricket is that it tests defensive skills of a batsman as well while baseball is all about hit or miss which makes it boring.

[@nikhilreddy8550]

They do play bunt. Which is a defensive shot, tap the ball and make a dash for the second base.

[@KingoftheHill63]

@SynthMusicFan 501 that's still lower risk plays trying to score. In cricket batters are literally playing for survival. Not trying to score - just survive.

[@KingoftheHill63]

@SynthMusicFan 501 I didn't mean all the time. I was thinking about batters trying to survive until the break or night watchmen or stuff like that. Or even waiting for a bowler to get bowled out in short form. There's a thought process at all times between defense and offense.

[@masoodjalal1152]

@SynthMusicFan 501 I think survival is also a good example. You know in Pakistan we had a player who played so slow we named him "tuk tuk" because thats the sound it made when he defended himself. He would score like 50runs of 80balls(if you don't know that is a very slow in cricket) then he retired and our team crumbled. He was holding the team together so it is important to have a backbone in the team.

[@FS-me8mj]

@@nikhilreddy8550 notice how he says hit and miss. Why did he say that? because in baseball you only get 3 chances to either hit a home run or get out.

[@VARMOT123]

cricketers also have great hand eye cordination and hitting power so most of them can hit few

[@8AlisaInez9]

💚Loving The Baseball ⚾️ 🆚 Cricket 🏏 Challenge!!!👍🏽

[@abhisekchoudhary3108]

Hi

[@8AlisaInez9]

@@abhisekchoudhary3108 Hi 👋🏽

[@abhisekchoudhary3108]

@@8AlisaInez9 you are from which country

[@8AlisaInez9]

@@abhisekchoudhary3108 California U.S.A

[@abhisekchoudhary3108]

@@8AlisaInez9 😯😯😯

[@nishant_singh]

I love cricket! Never played or watched baseball before but I guess there must be something good in it!! After all I respect every sport...

[@MdAkilNawaz-zo5kr]

Baseball is too easy for a cricket player but cricket is too hard for a baseball player

[@donut_3370]

I can just imagine the baseball player facing a inswinging yorker or a bouncer by Mitchell Starc or Shoaib Akhtar

[@jbleaver28]

I can just imagine cricket players facing Jacob degrom or gerrit cole

[@johnconstantine8574]

Even pro cricketers can't play that and you're expecting it from a baseball players. Funny,innit?

[@johnconstantine8574]

@@jbleaver28 they will be smahsed ngl.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

​@jbleaver28 Lol hitting full toss is easy and this video shows it

[@johnhenson6495]

@@dcmastermindfirst9418ah yes because hitting off batting practice and a complete nobody amateur pitcher is just like hitting off actual mlb pitchers.

[@AussieTVMusic]

Just after this Laurie flew to Australia to win the title with the Perth Scorchers. Best player in the Final too.

[@morkdevil8378]

Baseball is a side quest for cricketers

[@taylorgang2237]

Baseball is a harder game but very different overall.

[@my2l]

you would embarrass yourself playing baseball ya clown

[@Mom_stealer_the_III]

@@taylorgang2237 Cricket is very complicated and harder. Ball just comes straight in baseball but in cricket it comes in many ways, such as spin, Yorker, googly, leg break off break. And cricket has many tough and complicated rules.

[@rajdeepsharma9005]

​@@taylorgang2237 it's a useless game

[@taylorgang2237]

@@Mom_stealer_the_III baseballs can break in a bunch of different directions. A baseball is significantly harder to hit than a cricket ball. Baseball players get paid more money as well. If cricket was harder, guys would come make 40mil a year playing baseball.

[@harshbhai11]

Cricket is wayyyyy more diverse than baseball. There is a lot variety in shots and balls in cricket.

[@p2pnest]

Cricket is just another level ....no comparison

[@storon2009]

No way that pitch was more than 70MPH

[@harishkiran3663]

😂😂🤣

[@luisinfante1613]

Looked like 60

[@craz7644]

Same goes to both ways. Machines can bowl / pitch that fast.

[@sumitsingh-vj9yg]

Respect to all games but bro in term of speed a bouncy rock hard ball with speed 95MPH staight to head or body is way tougher to play than 90MPH full tossed ball(pitch)

[@geetikasrivastava3799]

In cricket some bowlers touch 100mph with the ball bouncing and moving....and all the pitches in baseball are the easiest ball in cricket..... Especially cricket's test match I think it's the hardest in all sports...playing fo 8 hours in a day and 5 days facing 80-90 mph .... and the bolwers can come back in the same match....the bats man can struggle against fire bolwers and can score runs against not so fired bowlers

[@samiullahjaffar5837]

full toss is a gift in cricket for batsman

[@paulmckenzie3181]

And a full toss is a gift to a baseball player, if thrown the same way as it is in cricket -- slow and perfectly waist high. You really think this is how "full tosses" are thrown in baseball? The baseball "full toss" is thrown at 100 MPH, with left, right, up and down movement on the ball while it's in the air. Then you have a curve ball, where the seams of the ball act with the air, making even top-level baseball players look silly, and I know cricket players will *not* be able to hit a curve ball without tons of practice, and may never be able to hit it.

[@saurishghosh2142]

@@paulmckenzie3181 cricket balls deviate even more because of the symmetric stching structure of a harder havier cricket ball, we call it swing bowling (google it) , there r lots of other variations, because the ball is allowed to hit the ground, (remember it can be on the full like baseball too.). Baseball is great too, I think baseball is pitchers game, where cricket is more of a batters game where lots of runs to be scored, where u can hit 360 round the park with a flat bat.

[@hrk55]

Cricket - brain = baseball Cricket is more mind game than physical

[@espressogirl68able]

In under two minutes of baseball being explained to you, you would be thoroughly confused and lost.

[@Bayonet7]

@@espressogirl68able no noone will be lost its only you

[@ArkaChakraborty-gd9cb]

Plus you have to remember so many fielding position

[@kitkat6782]

Every single time a batter steps up to the plate, there is a mind a game between the batter and pitcher, the batter is trying to predict what pitch is coming next, and if the pitcher pitches the ball they’re predicting, it’s getting hit. There is absolutely a ‘brain’ aspect and to insinuate otherwise is idiotic and dumb.

[@nollienick1121]

So we don’t think k when playing baseball. Why are fans of other sports such losers. lol.

[@willsocietyacceptmecauseio1276]

Usa is going to host the 2024 t20 world cup. Let's go 💪💪💪

[@bikershub9680]

Cricketers are so genius they can play every games ❤

[@liamh9814]

I love baseball and cricket. Cricket is my favourite. I remember Botham going to the US as a kid, he tried baseball and was offered a contract by some big clubs.

[@MaverickAM9]

They should bring someone like Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers or Rohit Sharma. It would be way more fun.

[@thinhnonyt]

These guys have packed schedules. It’s much easier to get a star in the Donestic level

[@deansharpe6527]

There’s a video of jos Buttler and Alex Hales hitting a few pitches

[@aamaadmi8772]

There is a video of Rohit Sharma throwing the first pitch in an MLB game. He made a fool out of himself on that one.

[@khaikhuc1432]

Might as well bring up Bauer to the mound to even the playing field. The guy and his media company would love that.

[@uoauibdhv]

Baseballer facing Pat Cummins would be even better,

[@tejeswar]

TLDR- Cricket is superior than Baseball.

[@BilalAhmed-dz7gi]

cricket > baseball

[@shivaprasad2003]

Football>>>> any other sport

[@mclew1234]

With T20 & 100 a lot of cricketers are taking starting to take tips from baseball with launch angles and how to load the lower half to maximize distance, the big thing a lot of Americans don't appreciate is that in cricket once you are out you are done for the day so it's not all about hitting the ball far & in the air. Also Max has a lot of cricket potential, from the few balls we saw I reckon a few weeks of just average Saturday afternoon club cricket & he'd be a handy batsman

[@loganleroy8622]

I just don't understand why people get so bent out of shape over this. Cricket and Baseball are two completely different sports. The only thing that's similar is they have two teams, a ball, and a bat of some kind. Other than that everything else, the strategy, the flow of gameplay, which parts are exciting are completely different.

[@Virgoan958]

Full toss = Home run!

[@fordastreeets8019]

Nice but try hitting a pitch with a baseball bat tho, not a cricket stick

[@nomancricket]

As Asian cricket player and coach. We think ,baseball it's easy to hit full toss ball. But there bat size different than cricket. Overally both are high intensity games❤

[@debojyotimazumdar2866]

Baseball + Brain = Cricket

[@Penaltypessighost]

Nah. Baseball is better and more popular than Criket. Hope it never becomes popular here in America.

[@rajdeepsharma9005]

​@@Penaltypessighost R u from Jupiter😅😅😅

[@sumitbhatt3469]

​@@Penaltypessighostcricket world cup is happening in USA 🇺🇸 good luck lol

[@shivendra7523]

Hitting the baseball ball has to be done with full strength, but in cricket, one has to defend with strength as well, which is definitely a difficult skill for baseball players.

[@techclues123]

in cricket the ball comes to you at 130 t0 161 kmps from 22 yards distance and that full toss in cricket means a bonus and in baseball all the balls bowled are bonuses for a cricket fan

[@johnnysardar123007]

Now since Laurie Evans has done us proud by hitting baseball for a home run, now let's see if any baseball batter can even face Shaheen Afridi or Mitchell Starc bowling at 95mph and with inswinging yorkers. 😂🤣

[@esadhi]

the baseball batter is gonna lose his toes haha

[@mycricketingworld5328]

Laurie got 3 chances. Let's give the baseball batter 6 balls. 1 each from Starc, Shaheen, Bumrah, Rabada, Boult and Archer. I would be astonished if he scored even 3 runs....

[@nortanleisure1399]

Who is she? Shaheen

[@thomaswallace9725]

That was not a hr lmao

[@alicebrus2703]

​@@mycricketingworld5328that would be too much. Lets just give them some okay once like part time fast bowlers. Even then they won't be able to play.

[@skabdulhakim4104]

That's a fulltoss, i can be legendary baseball player😂

[@ටිරාන්ප්රමෝද්]

You made us proud evans. 😎

[@haidimran]

This was much more honest and genuine comparison than the one done by the Sports Science!

[@archiewalters3633]

It really isn't they got some little kid who was only throwing 70 mph and pitching off flat ground, terrible stuff, they could've at least gotten a decent amateur throwing 90mph off a mound

[@Upanishadicsaint]

Seeing the cover drive of a top batsman will make you immediately love cricket It's too complex and analytical in test matches a mind game and gentleman's game.

[@mr.alakesh7060]

Every pitch in the baseball will be a full toss for cricket and that's the easiest ball to hit a six😂

[@artistfarazz]

Cricket - mind = Baseball 😂

[@yerdans]

ignorant statement

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Lol cricket is much more technical than Baseball.

[@sangit0796]

Well cricket need more skills than strength, baseball need more strength than skill. Cricketers faces 145+km/h ball in a regular basis, baseball for a cricketer is like a full toss spin ball without turn.

[@MdKaosarMia-75]

Short cricket match, such that T20 and T10 is very popular in over the world

[@joshjay6151]

A 90mph bowling is way harder to face than 100 mph pitch .

[@philmccracken179]

Lol why are cricket scores 531953753-5311953754 then and baseball scores are like 4-2?

[@nishantthakur3357]

@@philmccracken179 We have 90 overs i.e 540 balls in a day in a test match, 50 overs i.e 300 balls per innings in a one day match. 20 overs i.e 120 balls in a T20 match. Secondly, cricket is a way more skillfull sport. A cricket batter would do way way way way better in baseball than the baseball batter will in a cricket match. The video proves it too. It's time america gets rid of this joker sport called as baseball and take cricket up.

[@taylorgang2237]

@@nishantthakur3357then why do baseball players make multiple times more money? Why don’t cricket players go to the US and make 400 million usd playing the easier game?

[@RandomLelouchFan]

@@taylorgang2237 MLB brings money coz of you guys watching them, MLB started on 1876 or something meanwhile IPL started during 2008 if league cricket had 200+ years to grow compared to MLB i'm pretty sure cricketers will be more rich

[@taylorgang2237]

@@RandomLelouchFan I get what you’re saying but that’s not my point. If a top tier cricket player could dominate baseball because it’s easy they would come play to make the money. Cricket players vastly underestimate the bat difference and the fact that foul balls exist and there’s limited holes to hit a ball. Its wildly hard and the movement on pitches is way more

[@AdamBradley22]

Cricket is great! During baseballs off-season.

[@g-seriessongs7686]

True! 😄

[@adriang6259]

Hey, thanks Evo. Saved the day for the Scorchers.

[@matthewfiluk2886]

Yessirrr

[@nohandler1493]

In cricket you use the bat not just to hit the ball but to protect your body head as well. It's an offensive as well as defensive tool.

[@philmccracken179]

You hit “defensively” in baseball at times as well

[@johnconstantine8574]

Baseball plays blunts

[@nohandler1493]

@@philmccracken179 there is no defensive hit. It's oxymoron. You could say defensive block. Cricket batting extremely multi dimensional. Therefore, you have different versions of cricket. Longer version 5 days match, where you have to play for multiple days. Therefore, test your technique, patience, defense, offense. You apply your technique to survive on the pitch. Then you have ONe day matches where both survival and scoring are important and need to be optimize. Then you have T20 three hours long matches basically emphasize on your striking rate. But unless you bat in cricket, it's hard to realize how many skills you need to acquire to be a successful batsman in cricket. There are not many

[@pavanchitransh]

Base ball is fulltoss cricket And fulltoss are considered Easy ball or error by bowlers to batsmen.. every fielder has big gloves in baseball but in cricket heavy ball with bare hands...

[@vetiarvind]

As someone whose played a lot of cricket, i find it really hard to hit baseball shots against a machine. When a pitcher tosses it i can connect pretty well but not with a machine. I guess the stance, and your hand-eye coordination changes between the 2 sports a lot, but my friend who plays club cricket can consistently smash a baseball from a machine.

[@lebakurukeswarreddy7168]

Cricket players can play baseball but baseball players can't play cricket

[@wilkesmcdermid7906]

Considering the avg salary of a MLB player is much higher than a cricket player why hasnt one made it to the pro leagues? Heck the Japan, Korea, Mexican league pay is likely higher than the avg Cricket league why hasnt any Cricketer made the transition yet?

[@MayoHosko]

Cricket 🏏 is way more skilful than baseball ⚾️ and more entertaining but the magic of a home run is more magical than a wicket or a six. The magic of a home run might only be surpassed by a goal in soccer ⚽️

[@fmrshortstm7025]

Well said 👍

[@rajdeepsharma9005]

​@Cricket Explained on the basis of playing.....baseball is a kid's game compared to tough game like cricket😂😂😂

[@democracyisevil6043]

@@rajdeepsharma9005 Any sport dominated by India requires no talent.

[@englishforsrilanka2535]

I've played cricket all my life, but trust me, baseball isn't easy either. Especially when it comes to scoring homeruns. Also, note that a six in cricket has a horizontal displacement of about 75-90m, but a MLB homerun has a minimum horizontal displacement of 99m, this is where it starts! Since the retirement of Shoaib, Lee and Tait, it's quite rare to see a ball regularly hit 95mph in cricket, but 100mph is an everyday occurrence in baseball. I'm neither, in any way or form, trying to undermine cricket nor place baseball on a pedestal, but it takes a very special individual to be successful in either sport. I wasn't good enough to represent my country nor a 1st class club, but as someone who's played at a B grade club, I have a healthy respect for the gifted few who excel in sport.

[@animedc69]

They choke for speed

[@adityabansode572]

Its just too ignorant to compare the speeds of bowlers.. if the baseball pitchers are asked to bowl without jerking their arms I don't think they can reach even the speed of a medium pacer..

[@democracyisevil6043]

@@adityabansode572 Mechanics are different, Its stupid to compared. A cricket bowler known for throwing hard in cricket could not throw a pitch in baseball above 75MPH and would also struggle to have good command of the pitch as well. Goes vice versa.

[@akashshah6904]

Baseball is also lighter so cricket pitchers Harris Rauf, starc and afridi bowling at 90mph would start hitting high 90s if not 100. Horizontal displacement doesn't count. Baseball hitter stands with lower body firmly rooted before the balls leaves and never moves feet. Crickets come down the track and use maybe back leg strength to hit 100 meters longs sixes....while still in motion of coming down. The round bat is a slight advantage to Baseball in comparison but cricketers don't use full face and only use the sweet spot of the bat.

[@democracyisevil6043]

@@akashshah6904 They would not. Its marginally lighter and not enough to make a sig difference, and they would not be allowed to run as well. Also, the mechanics are totally different. Baseball a good hit is supposed to hit the barrel if you dont you will likely hit a foul or be out.

[@adnanshabbar9310]

The way they pitch in baseball is called a full toss ball in cricket. It is the easiest delivery to hit.

[@IamTimung]

Cricket is very enjoyable game but Baseball ???? Because baseball bowlers are directly through & batsman are hitting only Full touch ball. World Cricket long live.🔥🔥💪💪💪💪

[@pradyumnvashishtha983]

I enjoy both, though i find baseball to be easier, cause you dont need as much stamina

[@FS-me8mj]

@SynthMusicFan 501 1 test match= 5days in cricket. Batters bat for hours and bowlers ball for hours in cricket and that is where you need stamina. Unlike cricket, in baseball, you only need to face 3 balls coming at you at over 90mph. In cricket, you need to be able to face these balls as long as you are not out.

[@vicksksr9797]

@SynthMusicFan 501 baseball world cup has 150 matches?

[@vicksksr9797]

@SynthMusicFan 501 Well cricket has multiple formats with multiple seasons and rarely does a player play all formats. Also international matches break-up seasons and players switch in between leagues and international match. A fair comparison cannot be made in this regard. A cricket world cup which features 12 teams lasts about 30 days and has roughly 48 matches. there are also 2 matches in same day in world cup. I feel baseball championships would be similar in nature but baseball feels more of skill game and less stamina is required.

[@vicksksr9797]

@SynthMusicFan 501 Well I can certainly think of how much cost cutting is involved. Less no. of broadcast days means less paydays. Do the teams also save money by keeping less players on payroll so that workload per player goes high. By the way cricket teams have 25 high quality players plus academy reserves for practice. On an average 3 to 4 players are switched every other match to field a team of 11 to manage the workload; similar to football. It appears that MLB has poor managers. I've also heard that pitchers get chronic elbow joint fractures. My impression is that the sport is sustainable but the managers make it strenuous by poor planning.

[@vicksksr9797]

@SynthMusicFan 501 hmmm...ok

[@suryathawait8764]

Every ball is full toss 😂😂

[@philmccracken179]

What are you implying? That it’s easy? Hitting a baseball off a professional pitcher is the harder thing to do in any sport, maybe besides controlling a puck effectively on skates in ice hockey

[@rageeth]

I've always wondered how Sachin would fare in Baseball.

[@curious-abc-xyz]

Cricket : LED TV Baseball: Black&White TV from 1970s.

[@Naful]

I play baseball & I think Cricket is much harder and interesting. The ball is 10x hard & they catch it with bare hands. The spins and swing are amazing.

[@Tushar_roy11]

A cricketer can play baseball easy, but a baseball player will be like noob in cricket 🤣🤣🤣