Sports Science: Baseball Vs. Cricket

The Sports Science Team wants to know which ball is harder to hit: Baseball or Cricket? Read about more amazing athletic feats: www.amazon.com/Perfection-Poin...

[@Graysonsoares]

Making him play a spinner on an indoor pitch indicates the research that went into this experiment.

[@UsesofBatman]

What

[@shawn9826]

I would like to see a baseball pitcher bowl at 100mph WITHOUT bending the arm... Cricket takes much more endurance level to play and perform at a high level... I think baseball would be much more exciting if the fielders didnt use gloves. Too little happening in baseball which makes it boring

[@UsesofBatman]

Shawn Larsen if they didnt use gloves every play would end in someone breaking their hand

[@UsesofBatman]

***** You're pretty dumb if you think that they wouldnt break their hands on that ball

[@UsesofBatman]

***** Ok man whatever you say Im just saying the gloves make it better because you dont spend half your life learning to not break your fucking hand

[@vikashyadav-my8yc]

Don't go to play cricket believing this video. You will come home injured.

[@datdoglovesdogs]

Too late I play Cricket every Sunday

[@Muckylittleme]

@@datdoglovesdogs You will know this video is BS then.

[@Jamanak-zb2dx]

Not really. Even basketball has more injuries

[@jamesredmill5952]

Jamanak2010 mate Phil Hugh’s died in a cricket match

[@Jamanak-zb2dx]

High school Relatables yes cricket has worse injuries but my friend who plays basketball always has cuts and fractures all the time

[@TheMKJanet]

Don't even need Johnson. Just send them Virat Kohli the batsman, and I am pretty sure he'll bowl better than this so called "star".

[@TheExecutoriscoolerthanyou]

Medha K yeah because this star isn’t a pitcher or bowler. He’s a first baseman and a hitter. The cricket player only got fastballs at 80 mph with no movement. A real pitcher would throw 93mph+ with curveballs and ridiculous movement.

[@ninconpop7349]

Imagine if Kohli were a baseball batsman😂 every ball would've been a homerun

[@TheExecutoriscoolerthanyou]

ash 101 no he wouldn’t even make contact

[@ninconpop7349]

@@TheExecutoriscoolerthanyou lmao. Baseball would be too easy for a professional cricket player since baseball is literally cricket but less skillfull & less classy

[@TheExecutoriscoolerthanyou]

ash 101 and every baseball player would hit it over the fence in cricket every time because cricket is an easier version of baseball.

[@mercedesbenz3751]

Give him a fast 150kmph bouncer and lets see if he could play or even a fast in swinging yorker 😂😂

[@OmKar-fd7xv]

He'll die...

[@baringaming374]

6 bowled in 6 bowls

[@Yogamer2845]

Mlb guys face 100 mph with movement.look up 100 mph sinker and cutter and see if it's easy to hit Plus imagine if the bat that we use has the same amount of surface area of a cricket bat mlb guys would have a higher success rate at hitting the ball🤣

[@arhamali6089]

@@Yogamer2845 Bruh we use a rock for a ball and it can come at different lengths ffs

[@AdityaSharma-ph6nc]

Yo he's trying to spin the ball on a grass pitch... That doesn't even make any sense!!

[@soumilmandal7644]

"take your eyes off the ball"....recommended by no living cricketer ever....

[@informationprism]

might as well put some extra protection and an ambulance on stand by

[@vihangaraveen8891]

And take yout testicles home separately😂💪

[@jamesredmill5952]

It’s like saying, hey drop your bat while your at it

[@sigmas_handle]

Hahaha

[@pawaratharva6371]

I remember when AbD specifically said Kohli to " watch the ball " during his lean patch. Imagine saying completely opposite of two legends in game.

[@randulafernando9850]

You used an American cricket player for the comparison ? Really ? Lol

[@stro625]

Randula Fernando And? They used Mark. Mark has the skill level of a high school ball player.

[@langdonwilson3984]

American 'international' cricketer. Wait, is there such a thing?

[@amindhadealwis5693]

I’d argue that a cricketer from USA is even worse. At least Reynolds has played at the highest level. The USA cricketer wouldn’t even be a water boy at the highest level in India or Australia. Dude has a dad bod for pete’s sake

[@Willmriley]

Amindha De Alwis 80 mph fastball is TERRIBLE for a major league pitcher, and he wasn’t throwing any curveballs or moving pitches.

[@Syzemic]

Also an off spinner! Try an in swinging yorker! Or bouncer, see how this bloke does.

[@pushpakgupta7396]

The confidence of every person involved in this video hurts me. especially the guy speaking

[@pranavgandhar4604]

Thats why usa never succeed in cricket 😂😂😂 For us we respect every sport We know baseball is different from cricket , stratagies changes.. But they have over confidence on cricket Over confidenec in cricket can lead u in hospital after facing even 80mph cricket bowler

[@baringaming374]

When I was in school, Sometimes we used to play with stumps(wickets) and throw full toss ball just for fun. I find it easier to hit than the normal cricket.

[@ashwinsuryawanshi]

Even the untrained school boys in India play better cricket than man in this video.

[@Strawberry-12.]

Ashwin Suryawanshi to be fair they didn’t even get a top 100 pitcher. Should have got mike trout

[@bvaibhawk9694]

@@Strawberry-12. you're talking about top 100? We dont think that man even classifies as top 1 million cricket players(maybe I'm exaggerating, but you should get the point)

[@Strawberry-12.]

Bhaiya Vaibhaw Kumar yea maybe I was ball parking (pun not intended). But I was just making sure that people knew that this guy wasn’t really a mlb caliber pitcher

[@saanchisinha7073]

Actually yes

[@justinlee3768]

And we got someone who throws 80 mph while mlb pitchers throw 100 mph

[@Gunyoro]

Mitchell Johnson would eat this 'star' alive

[@Jaames___]

Should just post a link to the ball he bowled against McLaren the other day, that will show them a real ball

[@06theheartbreakkid]

Isaiah Gill i highly doubt that.

[@aruconi]

Wtf is this hah hes bowling spin... and shit is so short lol

[@antonyberchmansranjith533]

Johnson's bouncers will Make this US baseball stars head Bleed man!!😂😂😂

[@KumarVishal.]

Cricket Playing on the Ground is different. He will get out on 1st ball.

[@choozu]

Bowling to that batter in the following order: Waqar - No toes Johnson - No ribs Ambrose - No head

[@philmccracken179]

Oh man cricket sounds so scary. Do batters get hit? Omg that never happens in baseball 👌

[@pranavgandhar4604]

@@philmccracken179 Bro people are using wrong logic Here Anyone would hit cricket ball better tham baseball If somecan hit football long than ronaldo doesnt mean he is bettr football player Just like that cricket demand is not just hitting th ball as har as you can which is in baseball There are Other designed things in cricket that dont favours hit and miss batter , cricket batsman demand is better they jave score runs without getting out , cricket batsman dont get other chance once u out , u r out That why big bat is given

[@pranavgandhar4604]

@@philmccracken179 yes cricket players get injured many times Rather than hitting ball they learn first defence Defence with bat is addionally thing in cricket Cricket ball is nealy hard wood There are death happened due to cricket ball Latest australian cricket die due to getting ball hit on the head In 2016 In Latest deacades there are less no of deaths due to strong helmets

[@pranavgandhar4604]

Tommarow is final of cricket test championship ( first final since 1874) Test is oldest format of cricket Final is at england Between india and new zealand 2 strong teams♥️

[@kirenmoorkoth4625]

A number 10 batsman is enough against the " star " when he bowls 🙌🤣

[@nationlist9247]

इशांत शर्मा उसकी बॉल पर छक्का मार देगा। 😂😂

[@JustintheLittleWood]

Ok try that again but with Mitchell Johnson bowling

[@JustintheLittleWood]

He can't even bowl properly do you expect him to bat well. Get someone like Tendulkar he can hit any ball

[@hazza3786]

nah get stark and chris lynn

[@lordaizen5186]

Glenn The Maxi that guy who was pitching wasn't a pitcher ether he was a third baseman he can just throw 130km just that.if it's hard for u to understand what I'm saying let me make it easy for u.in baseball unlike cricket pitchers(bowlers) only pitches (bowls) they are not good at hitting or betting so that's guy who pitched to that American cricket player wasn't even a pitcher so it's fair

[@shubhamsemwal5532]

And that cricket 'star' is not a star at all. Bring Dhoni kohli mccullum Dr Villiers afridi...and they will show you to hit home run with eyes closed and with one hand.

[@shubhamsemwal5532]

OC Blues baseball is all about hitting in only one fixed area.... but in cricket you can bowl anywhere....away from the reach of the batsman. and about the bowling speed....you don't have to just throw the ball....you have to bowl it such that your elbow is not bent while delivering.

[@kaushikanantha578]

They're making a US national team cricket bat against an MLB star, and bowl to an MLB star. Bring in an actual professional like Shane Warne, R. Ashwin, Dale Steyn, Malinga, Wasim Akram, Santner, etc, and see how the MLB star does. For these types of experiments, a professional and advanced cricketer should've been brought in. Make the baseballer play against a variation of bowlers such as fast, medium pacer, off-spinner, in-spinner, leg-spinner, and bowl more of a variety like google, doosra, teesra, etc. Then the baseballer will be challenged by cricket pitches.

[@johndemoa191]

Mark sucks...

[@mikeshoe74]

+Kaushik Anantha Mark Reynolds has the most strikeouts ever in a single season. His power is legit, but a) he's far from a great contact hitter, and far from a legendary baseball player. Nonetheless, I'm sure you just mentioned some of crickets all time greats, in that case, I'm willing to bet my life that an Ichiro Suzuki, would instantly be an all star cricket player, where as the guys you mentioned couldn't even play in a baseball farm system. Respect your sport, but baseball is much harder to play. Nonetheless, this cricket player couldn't even hit 80mph, what would he do against someone pitching close to 100mph?

[@mast420kalandar]

mike shoe ohh you boy,I too respect the sport you admire but getting your all time great to and claiming that he could become an all time champion of cricket in no time is saying that hitting a 90mph johnson 's bouncer on the face or dale styes' toe crushing yorkers out of the park, or to anticipate a sharne Warne Turner and hitting it across the line is a cakewalk, then you are grossly underestimating the game of cricket. In addition to that, cricket is a longer game and batters have to bat until they get out which really tests ones stamina and power. plus more strategic maneuvering is evolved in the game of cricket if compared to baseball.

[@notsauer]

+Mayank Rungta I really doubt there's more strategic maneuvering. You're just a hater on baseball that won't even bother to do any research. The amount of stats and research that goes into one game is astonishing. Players moving based on where the catcher and pitcher agree to pitch to the batters one weak spot. That's just me simplifying it. Btw, Mark is trash, like super trash. There were hundreds of better players than him at the time. They were being nice calling him a star. And there was no star pitching to the cricket player. It was just some random guy throwing batting practice.

[@mast420kalandar]

not Sauer first of all, I don't hate any sport let alone baseball.its a great game for sure. but what do you think,the bowler in cricket doesn't plan out the field strategy and, don't they play on the weaknesses of the batsmen (batter)? not to belittle any sport, but u can't imagine what kinds of statistics are envolved in the game of cricket. Duckworth Luise rule has been troubling people since ages. u think bowler doesn't exploit the field and the pitch conditions, the wind conditions, varies his pace,length and line, varies the angle and the swing? with all due respect to baseball players, the batsmen in cricket have to bat for longer hours, in the test match format of the game the match goes on for 5 days 9 hours each. ask any sportsperson from any sport u like, he will tell u this is draining and will test anyone's stamina to the core. keeping, fielding, bowling and batting for 9 hours in the sun light is no child's play. u need balls to step on to the ground. I am sure baseball is not an easy sport at all. But cricket isn't easy as well.

[@blu9168]

'American National team' Never knew it existed in cricket 😂 And wtf was that ball ?😂 Way to fool the American audience *clap*

[@imash5128]

Trust me, this is the funniest comparison I’ve ever seen. Have you ever seen a cricketer like this? Its like taking a marine and a scout to test their skills. Let him face Lasith Malinga and Chris gale and see. 😂😂

[@fartexpertable]

the cricketer is an international star my ass, the US national team is not even ICC affiliated. A representative from England or Australias recreational level would have been much better.

[@harshmansingh2507]

My school team guys are better 😂

[@raahimhadi4905]

We need virat kohli or babar azam

[@markcrowley2389]

That USA cricketer wouldn't get in my club's 3rd team

[@dibyajoytidas3743]

they consider this american cricketer an international star ...then who are Tendulkar,Virat, Smith, Bumrah, Sakib al hasan, jhonson,😅😂

[@philmccracken179]

Lol a bunch of nobody’s that the greatest country in the world has never heard of. I looked up that Tendukalar guy and I think he’s a jockey in the third world. Am I right?

[@manavkumar6590]

Phil Mccracken Lmao 'greatest country in the world' - last time I checked COVID-19 is still rampaging through your country and your president is literally a fucking moron. America is a third world country wearing a Gucci belt 😂😂

[@nilimahaldar7457]

@@philmccracken179 Not knowing Tendulkar? Where r u in the stone age?

[@blackworm5992]

@@philmccracken179 If you get out of your egotistical narrative bubble, you will realise your country lost war in vietnam, mediocre attempt in middle-east and a half lost battle in afghanistan, even with the fanciest of toys in hand. And here we are, the oldest surviving civilisation that pre-dates your racial orgins.

[@clashott4372]

They missed 3 important points 1. Cricket balls often come at speeds above 90mph going up to 100 2. Unpredictable nature of bounce 3. The length at which in baseball you get a home run in cricket you get caught if you swing the bat mindlessly

[@pwrgaming8396]

Well judged by the bowling style of this "star" everyone would be able to hit the ball lol

[@c3vzn]

Someone re-do this but without an E-grade cricketer nobody's ever heard of.

[@poiik2682]

What-ever who's this no-name Cricketer which is bowling spin on a artificial pitch, Any plank would hit him out of the park... So by his theory he won't be able to play golf as his hand would be close together... Most probably never heard of the term S/H and L/H...

[@god_hand576]

You act as if Mark reynolds a guy who strikes out an incredible amount of time is any better

[@c3vzn]

God_hand He plays in the most competitive and well known domestic baseball league in the world doesn't he? The "cricketer" barely plays for America which plays about 4th-tier cricket. Literally nobody except for someone who follows American cricket would know about him. A club cricketer from India is probably superior.

[@Spazmonkey625]

***** Can't we just stop arguing and agree that this video was stupid and rigged, and that these sports are far to different to be compared anyways? I mean for fucks sake, at 0:09 they were comparing hockey to golf... that should instantly remove any credibility this video could have had. There's also no need to fight for cricket's honor anyhow, since first off you're in the majority fan base wise, and secondly it's "Baseball vs Cricket" you may as well say "Soccer vs Football", or "Tennis vs Ping Pong" it's stupid!

[@mattcumner6958]

yea, through Mitchell Johnson up against a baseball-er and see if he can hit him

[@tomcraig4417]

This is a rare video when Aussie cricket fans (myself) and Indian Cricket fans get togeather

[@vaas45]

Heck, even Pakistanis and Indians are coming together! Now, how often do you see that!

[@P0RK3NST31N]

Haha! Man, I never even thought of it, but I think - in this very rare circumstance - cricketers of all nationalities could go and get a beer together.

[@DarkHeavenZ]

***** , your are talking like the biggest baseball fans were the Americans...... in fact baseball has a bigger fan-base in countries like Cuba, Dominican Republic, Japan, Venezuela, Taiwan, Korea and Puerto Rico. Also why would you want to beat up the baseball fans??? the ones that made this video were the SS guys, and I have watched both cricket and baseball championships and prefer baseball, but I know that cricket isn't a piece of cake, it has many rules that are foreign for baseball fans and you can hit it out of the park through the sides, which is still pretty weird to me.

[@DarkHeavenZ]

***** , woah woah, Translation? don't worry I don't have any problem with english, JK im not mad. The World Series is the name of the finals at the Major League Baseball, is just like the Super-ball on Football(NFL). World series are 7 games at the end of the playoff which decides the Champion of the MLB in that specific year. And about the fan base, the answer is sadly NO, in Japan people make a bigger deal over the Highschool National Baseball tournament than Americans with the WBC or MLB. When I moved to U.S I noticed that most of the baseball fans in here are foreigners from Latin America, there are many americans that still like the baseball but I don't consider it the biggest fan-base. I think that the only reason the MLB is played at US is that the rich teams are here. Now a question out of topic, The Major League Baseball is the best baseball league in the world because it has fans around the world and the best players from many countries (the best ones) but then why is The MLS called this way? What is so Major about the Major League Soccer? I think the NBA should be the MBL and the MLS should be the NSL, just saying.....

[@DarkHeavenZ]

***** , yeah I feel the same way. MLS doesn't deserve its name.

[@nilssonakerlund2852]

It's no mystery that a cricket ball is easier to hit than a baseball. Look at the scoring comparisons between the two games. In cricket, a team can score hundreds of runs, whereas in baseball, a team is lucky if they can score 5. Personally, I think baseball relies a lot on blind luck, as batters are often swinging blind and just hoping beyond hope to make any kind of contact. Cricket is a much more exciting sport, as balls are zipping around everywhere, and when a bowler gets a wicket, the crowd goes absolutely apeshit.

[@izatullahpaigham1414]

it is alot harder to hit the a cricket ball but the thing is baseball player was using all his force to ball/pitch the ball while the cricketer was using half his force which is called spin baller and the baseball player was a really famous and good player while no cricket fan know the cricket playerbut the pitcher/bowler was a fast bowler and famous and good bowler or batter than u would wouldve seen the baseball guys struggling at 140km/h with ball swing in and out

[@BirenderSinghJalal]

Lol idiot...we have a score system on how to do it...we play in an oval ground which is all in play to make a score...and we have only one pitch to run back and forth

[@ubikhan6079]

if this is science then i am Einstein+Newton+Stephen Hawking ,,,many more ....& much more

[@mangeshk5540]

totally biased videos towards Baseball.... Baseball player batting without Pads, that shows at what speed bowler was bowling.... Make him play against Brett Lee And remember in cricket ball can come to any direction of your body from toe to head

[@profalcon4998]

well Baseball is better, how fast can a cricket pitcher throw????????

[@mangeshk5540]

+Pro Falcon 161kmph

[@mangeshk5540]

+Rock Star karande mind you, ball doesn't come straight way to bat

[@profalcon4998]

+Rock Star karande Same thing with baseball. 161 KMPH (100 MHP) and the ball in baseball isn't going straight to the bat either

[@mangeshk5540]

+Pro Falcon cricket is most difficult game in world, it is gentleman game, not many nation play this game. some country even can't afford to play this game. Try to play cricket once with original new ball, you will dance better than Michael Jackson

[@gourabghosh5207]

A strange test indeed. No disrespect but the guy representing cricket is Aditya Tyagarajan? It's an Indian name and he was born in India and couldn't even get into the lowest tiers in domestic cricket there and has gone on to represent USA national cricket team which no one has heard of. And you call him a cricket star? Since I never heard of him, I googled to find out that this "star" has a batting average of 19 in list A cricket with a top score of 42? I didn't know what list A was and had to google again to find that it is a lower standard cricket system or something. Man! that average and top score is what you see in cvs of a very average international cricketer, forget where he plays which is like the lowest standard of the game in the universe. And pitting him with a world class baseball player plying his trade in the best baseball league? seriously? The comparison is like comparing badminton (like baseball you dont have a bounce) to another racket sport ie tennis (like cricket where several variations of bounce play the most important part). I suggest you to bring Bhutan's international tennis player (equivalent to USA's cricketer) and a Chen Long or Saina Nehwal (equivalent to Mark Reynolds of baseball) to return some tennis balls to get my point. :)

[@soundlessbird9181]

List A is limited over version of First Class cricket. Usually only domestic matches in Test status nations, or some limited over matches santioned by ICC will grant this status.

[@dibyajoytidas3743]

the comparison should be with some indian,australian, or Brithsh cricketer.....then it would be considered as a perfect comparison....

[@moundain4220]

@@dibyajoytidas3743 or pakistani / srilankan

[@brendanhigginson7996]

This was a segment in a show I don't think they wanted to put all this money into it

[@jj2hostetler108]

Yeah I'm a baseball fan and I'll admit that the only thing this video proved is that it's harder to make good contact with a bat than a wicket (for obvious reasons) and I'm not totally ready to believe it's easier to hit a ball that bounces... That just doesn't make sense. They need to get vlad Guerrero Jr or Mike trout to represent the best hitters from baseball and Jacob deGrom to represent baseball pitching then get the best counterparts(best bowlers and hitters) from cricket and have an actual showdown. I would pay to see that.

[@davidmurphy2903]

Baseball players hit 'fastballs' all the time. To truly challenge the baseball batter it would be good to see how they handle a spin bowler. I'm sure not many of them could manage Shane Warne or Muttaiah Muralitharan. Especially on a Sydney Cricket Ground day five 'turner.'

[@thesupercoach]

I think he's trying to bowl spin. They were all pies though.

[@krishnayadav023]

Forget about shane Warne they even can't hit kuldeep Yadav

[@pooplacy5393]

you know there are different type of baseball pitches too right?

[@krishnayadav023]

@@pooplacy5393 there are 12 types of spin bolling.... Forget about pacer

[@mrgyani]

Spin, seam, swing, yorkers, googly, line and length variations.. If it were that easy, anybody who can swing a bat would be a batsman.

[@rsproductions4343]

"International Star" 😂😂

[@doublehit1]

This video is complete BS. This is not sports science.. This is Baseball - Ego boost. Ask your Reynolds to face Brett Lee and lets see if his eyes adjust fast enough.

[@daanverpaalen8923]

fuck off

[@daanverpaalen8923]

alordis chapman 106mph Let the cricketplayer try ...

[@daanverpaalen8923]

and that is mph and not kmph..:)))

[@IroshanVithanage]

+Daan Verpaalen lol, that's illegal, because they bend their arm, tell cricket bawl to ball like baseball, they will cut your testicles off :v

[@sidharthshankar7734]

+Daan Verpaalen People bowl at 100 mph in cricket and they bowl at your head.

[@xphaisalx]

Putting a professional baseball player against a person that nobody know off. Brett lee, shoaib akhtar average bowling speed were 96-98mph. I love both sports but cricket definitely more technical

[@RedlegFan19]

Reynolds career batting average is .233, and he's struck out over 1300 times since 2007, the most in the MLB.

[@deerkeaenscjezney3290]

***** And the cricket player was a player from the US team. THE US TEAM.

[@Aldrin.17]

Ye bosdiwalle thodi na ye baat samjhenge be?

[@moundain4220]

@@deerkeaenscjezney3290 Wait they had a cricket team ? Lol

[@Bigbrodonateddollarsthroughsup]

@@RedlegFan19 he’s still in the mlb

[@JonnyHindu]

3:10 this is what we call "a Lollipop Delivery" in India.. Used to play with 5 year old kids.. A fast "Yorker" is a good test for this star baseball player to hit.. if he can.. After that you can compare Baseball and Cricket Edit :- or may be a "Bouncer" at 140+ km/h..

[@nithinmohan3140]

Shawn Tait steps up: I am going to end this man's career (/life).

[@adsn91]

അവന്റെ ഒരു മാങ്ങാണ്ടിയേറ്😁😁😁😠😡

[@nithinmohan3140]

@@adsn91 athe...Myru😂

[@adrianbedolla7939]

Thats like asking a cricket player to have an at bat against someone like jacob degrom or josh hader like obviously elite players from their respective sport would humiliate the other

[@JustaQuad]

Unfortuanetly, being able to hit the ball isn't the only thing done to win.

[@JFAC423]

If you don't score it is impossible to win. Good defense and pitching help immensely but hitting is pretty important.

[@JustaQuad]

JFAC423 Also impossible to win if you are likely to go out every ball.

[@Sgtcheesecake1]

and if you go up against shane warne then your fucked lolz XD

[@dazuza95]

CounKillz What about Murali? haha that guy is a legend :D

[@samvictor217]

@@JFAC423 the way the baseball player was hitting the ball, i am pretty sure, he would be catch out in first ball and not to forget, the pitch was artificial grass(it should be solid and dry) and the baller was a bad player.

[@nazareth9090]

This has to be the ultimate proof of how the american media dumbs down it's citizens. lol

[@fartexpertable]

never been said better

[@sofiarune3124]

Projection

[@duncanthrower13]

You guys serious? Every country’s media dumbs down their own citizens it’s is not an american thing. Plus wanna know an ultimate proof? In the late 1950s bbc radios wouldn’t play American rock and pop songs. Oh and lets not forget the bbc radios were the only radio stations in Europe

[@sarmadghafoor1484]

Robin24 I mean this video was kind of stupid

[@vishanttanavade6764]

Not just dumbs!! Make them dumbest!!😂🤣😂🤣

[@lankarocks]

What a fair and unbiased comparison

[@tatsuyahiiragi416]

I know this is sarcasm, but I gotta say this- fair and unbiased my ass

[@musmerabdulrehman8147]

Ahhhh I know we'll use a Major League Baseball player and compare him with someone unknown cricket player that plays for a non test playing nation. Brilliant

[@Mitchx42]

They did the same thing with American football vs rugby they got a NRL star and a rugby amateur.

[@frantic5679]

Pride before science. I meet quite a few baseball players, and we've put them in the nets many times. They are quite good at hitting easy balls, but without experience to play tactically and not hit catches. Sometimes you can seriously use them to just risk their wicket and try to hit a 6 every ball. On the field though, despite the great hitting, they will generally be out after a few balls. As stated previously, a proper surface in which to turn the ball, or a passable surface and a fast bowler would change all of these results dramatically. Baseball players are specialists. What kind of dumbed down science would choose an all-rounder to compare... 'murica!

[@philmccracken179]

Why couldn’t the cricket guy even touch 80 mph fastballs?

[@philmccracken179]

@RNIK yeah but he plays cricket and according to cricket fans, baseball is so easy that they would hit every “full toss” for a homerun everytime. And that guy couldn’t even connect on a 80 mph fastball with no movement. And the pitcher pitching to him wasn’t a pro either, he was just so guy. And in baseball, pitchers intentionally hit batters, sometimes in the head and pitch it over 100 mph as well

[@donmills7011]

@@philmccracken179 mate the fastest crickets bowlers and baseball pitchers of all time bowl around the same speed. However crickets balls can bounce and pitch anywhere making it hard to bat against. Also for baseball the bat is clearly a lot smaller making timing more important. So there are disadvantages and advantages for both sports but I can’t make an overall judgment on witch would be the harder sport. Especially considering I don’t have extensive knowledge for baseball because it’s not popular here in the UK but one thing I will tell u is that the cricketer is awful and this video was a highly biased stupid test. What I just summed up there with my small knowledge of baseball is better then what they summed up for cricket.

[@philmccracken179]

@@donmills7011 what did they say wrong? Did you see this guy trying to hit a baseball? Even if he isn’t a world class cricketeer, he still plays cricket and couldn’t even make contact on 80 mph fastballs with no movement. I thought “hitting fulltosses is a joke”? That’s what all you guys say right? Hitting a baseball from a professional pitcher is the most difficult thing to do in sports, so it gets frustrating when all the arrogant ignorant cricket fan thinks it’s so easy and they would dominate baseball. Also baseballs ave speed and top speed are faster in baseball and the length between batters and pitchers is shorter and they use a smaller bat. I mean many baseball games have low scores like2-1 or 1-0, so obviously batting in baseball is hard

[@siddharthgajare895]

seriously put down this video... this video is shame to mankind ....very biased

[@timrthoward7007]

+John Demoa he said nothing about either sports

[@DaBoss-sl3dr]

TimRT Howard he’s just a mad cricket fanboy.

[@karlkilbiv]

How is it biased the guy pitching was terrible they even said in the video the guy pitching is NOT AN MLB PITCHER AND IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO PITCHING LIKE ONE

[@jamesredmill5952]

At least he was a decent player, that cricketer was in no way a ‘star’ they could bring in a player from and English Recreational league player who would be a better cricket representative

[@07nikhilchaudhari83]

@DK KK You're the one who is an idiot. This video is clearly biased and non sensical. Science and physics can't be biased but the data you used for research can br corrupt. That's what's wrong with this video. Also, cricket isn't about just hitting the ball, even if it's harder to hit the ball in baseball, it doesn't mean baseball is harder. Cricket isn't just about power hitting.

[@najibyarzerachic]

secret to hit a cricket ball 5:45 take your eyes off the ball .... best coach ever

[@agnijomukherjee1730]

That kid with that kind of batting stance hitting 70% of the balls says a lot about quality of the bowler

[@LeNGuyen-yw4nd]

send them Mitchell johnson, Dale steyn, malinga, shaun tait or spinners like Lyon, Yasir Shah. They would shut up straight away ;)

[@cenayankeesking234]

Who? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who? Or maybe we could send someone who DIDN'T break the strikeout record for one season. (Reynolds) The fact that HE destroyed it is a joke.

[@brian77771]

Arlen Tzamarot in cricket we have fast bowlers who can send the ball at more than 145km/h so yeah this video is misleading

[@cenayankeesking234]

Brian Moya In MLB pitchers go up to 105mph.....

[@cenayankeesking234]

Le NGuyen Why don't you learn English before you try commenting.

[@jamesvozar1]

Brian Moya 160km Shaun Tait

[@sabihomar852]

You throw that 80 mph at Chris Gayle and see where it goes lollol

[@Phigalilly]

***** Okay...I'm staying out of the whole fight, but this made me laugh out loud. HA!

[@lukecoffey2432]

You're out of your mind!

[@adsn91]

Then the base ball should be WANISHED and chance to broken the bat too👍👍👍

[@philmccracken179]

@ᏒᎯᎻᏬᏝ lol plz watch “Barry Bonds Pure Greatness” if you really want to see the best hitter ever. He makes Gayle look like a schoolgirl

[@anm6424]

@@philmccracken179 and same applies to your Barry bonds in cricket. The full toss balls in baseball are gift for a cricketer to hit a six and it's a looby for a professional cricketer not for the noob player shown in this clip

[@Impulse_28]

3:35 Mitchell Starc - *clutches fist*

[@humanbeing4076]

Imagine this baseball guy facing Shoaib Akhtar and Shane Warne

[@Yogamer2845]

Imagine cricket players facing Jacob degrom, garrett Cole, aroldis chapman, Jordan Hicks, Tyler glasnow, Walker Buelher, emmanuel clase, brusdar graterol, garrett crochet and the names go on players of pitchers that are playing rn

[@philmccracken179]

Omg there is no way he’d be able to hit a slower ball from further away on flat ground with a surfboard 🥴👌

[@CoDHunterz]

To be honest, that is the most stupid comparison between the two sports and completely biased towards baseball. Why? The cricketer had to face 80mph pitches, whereas the baseball player was facing 40mph pies bouncing half way down the wicket. Put the baseball player against an 80mph+ bowler bowling at his feet, he would have been out every single time.

[@pietromodena8790]

80mph served balls are like nothing in baseball terms.

[@prathikch]

True ...the bowler was a spinner with a speed of say 50 miles/h ...fast bowling would have been a different story alltogether

[@CoDHunterz]

Ok, so lets put the cricketer player up against top quality pitches (at whatever top quality speed is delivered by the best pitchers), and the batsmen up against a 95mph bowling (around 152 kph). If anything, the baseballer would get scared and back off because in cricket you can bounce it at someones skull. And PS - That was not 50mph. Honestly that was nothing, pie chucks.

[@pj1302239]

Pietro Modena may be they are nothing in BASEBALL terms bt with the same speed if that ball unpredictably bounce right from your feet height to your chest in the last 5 feet, it would be a complete different scenerio

[@pietromodena8790]

Jigar Patel It is correct but keep in mind a baseball pitcher will put his throws on wider area from toe to head outside to batter hands, and this balls moves in the air so batter need a knwlegment about every pitcher arsenal.

[@Afllive2hubhubhitz]

Reynolds is clearly more of an athlete than the other gentlemen. Would love to see him hit a 95mph in-swinger from Brett Lee

[@suuwooski6416]

Would be so easy for him

[@MemeTeam6900]

Bro would be dead lol

[@vinayanv7622]

​@@suuwooski6416 Bowling variations: In Base ball- Full toss with some swing😂 In cricket- In swing, out swing, reverse swing, bouncer, slower ball, Yorker, knuckle ball, off cutter, leg cutter, beamer (Fast bowling) The googly, top spin-leg break, the flipper, the slider, the arm ball, top spin-off break, the doosra, carrom ball (Spin bowling)

[@suuwooski6416]

@@vinayanv7622 no one cares dumbass, not a real sport. Its for unathletic fucks

[@jaketimmerman2899]

The cricket guy is from America WTF

[@cmwpakz4377]

Sports science? More like ego boost.

[@ihasadodo]

a professional baseball player vs an amateur cricket player? yeah not a very accurate video. inaccurate in the way a batsman detects a ball. taking your eye off the ball is bs

[@ihasadodo]

Pietro Modena keep in mind they have there facts wrong and you cant compare an ameture cricketer to a professional baseball player.

[@ihasadodo]

Pietro Modena armature cricketer bowling to an pro baseball-er armature pitcher pitching to a amateur cricketer? the cricket player doesnt even look like he can bat, no technique, no style. you cant compare them two. also the baseball player would have been caught probable 80% of the balls he hit. the cricket player had to use a baseball technique while the baseball player still used his baseball swing. not to mention they got there facts wrong.

[@philmccracken179]

Lol the cricket guy was still using his cricket swing as well

[@AadhilRizwan]

Cricket is not about just smashing the ball. Its about class & concentration.

[@lordaizen5186]

Aadhil Rizwan u mean technique

[@sheerazmohammad7446]

Aadhil Rizwan you are right.

[@venomfb5585]

Technique

[@Dave-lr2wo]

Yawn. "class". Pffft.

[@humzzy4473]

lol that they call this a bowling givethat ball to cutter master muftafiz XD then look for the middle stamp

[@garryablett100]

This would be like putting an international cricketer against a bloke who plays for the Indian baseball team.

[@agentx8711]

Everyone is gangsta until cricket ball hits elbow

[@acerimmeh]

HAHA this is funny, What a silly test, using a USA cricketer on surface that does not represent a cricket playing wicket(surface). Let the pro baseball batter face either Shaun Tait, Mitch Johnson or Brett Lee sending some balls down on a cracking WACA surface, a baseball player will be well out of his comfort zone knowing that the ball can be delivered at you're toes, balls, head and anywhere in between all which are legal deliveries in Cricket. The baseball player will have a new appreciation for Cricket as well as few cuts and bruises. Then get a national batsmen like David Warner or Chris Gayle to face a pro baseball pitcher who has to pitch in a specific hitting zone (and not at the body of the batter). For a cricketer to know exactly the zone the baseball has to be delivered would be a very comfortable thing for a cricketer since they are used to having balls flying at their body by aggressive bowlers off surfaces that can have uneven bounce and cut both ways(move left or right as it bounces at speed). Also it's noteworthy that the easiest ball in cricket to hit is generally considered as the full toss.

[@devonashburn7000]

You have point that the test is flawed ... but pitchers don't just throw the ball. They change speeds and move the ball around the strike zone. You'll have guys throwing 95+ and then throw a 82 mph change up or curveball. Give credit where it's due.

[@acerimmeh]

Devon Ashburn Sure ,but the same thing happens in cricket, you have fast and slower balls too, balls that swing/curve left and right, balls that can cut/move off the seam of the ball left or right when it bounces. That's why I never mention a baseball pitchers variety of deliveries because you have variety in cricket too. Actually you have far more variety in cricket because you are not restricted to a certain area to deliver the ball, and aiming at the batsmen is legal.

[@MrSlickJerk]

Devon Ashburn Speed change happens in cricket. Ball swings either right or left. Balls swings in the air and after bouncing off the surface as well. Type of the surface also comes into play. Ball bounces more on some surfaces and less on others. Some surfaces have uneven bounce which means one ball bounces more on a surface and the next ball bounces less at the same surface.Cricket balls have much more variety.

[@DroopusTunes]

Devon Ashburn The speeds aren't comparable to start with. Let's say a bowler hits 90mph. Take off 5mph for the bounce. 85mph is batting practice speed. The batsman in cricket is essentially guarding the wickets with a large 4 inch slat of wood. The wickets aren't going anywhere. Now Arolids Chapman is throwing 6 inches from your face at 107mph anywhere in a square from letters to knees. Let it go, it might be a strike anyway, swing, it might slide to the left. You have 2 tenths of a second to decide and you won't see the last 15 feet anyway: beyond human vision capabilities. There are 1024 players good enough for MLB. Three quarters of them are average. As Michael Jordan said "the hardest feat in sports is to take a round bat and a round ball and square them up." I love both games but their differences outweigh their similarities.

[@devonashburn7000]

Droopus Tunes very well said

[@siddbarak7442]

Hahaha im the fan of cricket and I don't know that guy in the video lol 

[@muhammadalam7368]

Neither I

[@jamesredmill5952]

I only know him from when I laughed at his stats

[@dibyajoytidas3743]

yeah....the comparison should be with some fine cricketers like M.S.Dhoni, Steve Smith or Kohli

[@ankitaharwal5886]

Children near my house can bowl faster than him😂😆

[@muppet50yago36]

The fact that you can hit the ball more easily is by design, cricket is more endurance based and you often have batsmen who face more than a hundred balls in a game. It's easy to get 17 out of 20 hits but one in those 3 missed might hit your stumps and your game is over. Good catch with anticipating where the ball will bounce, but doing that with a spinner isn't that simple. The bounce changes up a lot.

[@thejugglingriotguy]

They aren’t saying what sport is harder, they are saying which ball is harder to hit

[@muppet50yago36]

@@thejugglingriotguy Without a doubt baseball. But that doesn't mean baseball is a more difficult sport.

[@analcommando1124]

@@thejugglingriotguy Which is pointless. Its easier to hit a tennis ball than a golf ball but tennis players are 32423452352345234423523523445 times the athletes fat golfers are. Tennis is a far superior sport (if you can call golf a real sport) despite its being easy to his a tennis ball with a racquet.

[@stval]

Well if cricket got someone like Klusener and got some kid who is in the Indian national team of baseball, it would look exactly the opposite. Not to mention, every ball in Cricket is 'play'. Its a 360 deg playing area around the batter. Expect better from sports science. Idea of batting in cricket is to not get out as long as possible AND score as many simultaneously. That balance is the main objective. I think pure hitting is harder in baseball, batting as an art (of ehich hitting is a small subset) is harder in cricket.

[@PersonOfBook]

+Saint Val Cricket is a stupid game. It has very few fans outside India.

[@805Goodland]

+Blind Faith Um England Australia New Zealand South Africa Sri Lanka and the Middle East? It also has quite a few fans in the US especially in California where I'm from. They even had an all star game in dodger stadium recently

[@rockinitotherstuff9619]

+Blind Faith you obviously don't know what you are talking about if you make a statement as stupid as that.

[@stval]

+Blind Faith just around 90k Aussies that show up for boxing day? Yeah that's not much. How many show up for baseball games?

[@sudarsanvr]

+Blind Faith the irony, nobody cares about baseball outside of US

[@minimalisthealth]

I don't get this. The whole reason why cricket is so much more entertaining and happening than baseball is because it is continuous action. You don't spend half an hour without scoring runs, that's stupid and happens in baseball. Just because its more difficult to hit with a baseball bat doesn't make baseball better in anyway. Another point; that baseball guy managed to hit most of the cricket balls bowled to him by a 'slow' bowler, but did he hit them clean? No. Most of those would be out, caught. Look at those shots, he'd get out to even this unknown cricketer, leave alone someone like Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel or Mitchell Johnson who'd simply smash his skull apart.

[@reily6488]

The cricket batsmen was being thrown to at 80 mph and that is ridiculously slow, I knew kids in high school who could throw that fast/faster than that. I agree with you though, you can't just take two random guys, throw them in one test and make any sort of definitive answer. Also, whats the point, I know that hitting a 3 pointer in basketball is easier than throwing a hail mary in football, but that doesn't make one sport "better than the other"

[@jedlindorff]

There are people who enjoy baseball because of how relaxed it is. it allows us to pay attention to every little detail on the field. For people that appreciate baseball, a half an hour of not scoring runs can be a good thing, it means that the pitcher is dominating. I don't think there should be a competition between the two sports because they both require a different kind of skill.

[@jackgifford2310]

Reilly Yeah especially when you consider that guy isn't a decent bowler, I can bowl faster than him and I'm 15. Also those were some pretty shocking deliveries, needed some yorkers in there.

[@reily6488]

Jed Lin I agree with you, some of the best games to watch are good pitchers duels, I also want to point out that I don't hate or dislike cricket, they are two very different sports that share common elements.

[@minimalisthealth]

Jed Lin I'll agree with you. they're indeed different sports. My comment was such because the video kinda puts cricket down and its my duty to defend a sport that's given me so much of entertainment. Speaking of relaxing and taking in every detail, do look into test cricket.

[@shanilkalohitha7303]

Im a club cricketer , but i have played some domestic baseball games , just for fun and i have to agree that baseball bowls comes in a great speed but its not hard as cricket because , in cricket wide bat is almost useless when facing a great spinner or swing bowlers , and also even if the baseball bat is thinner when a 100mph full delivery coming at me that high , i can smash the bowl out of the stadium

[@gvsingh8750]

Someone Please show them the Ashes 2013-14 Mitchel Johnson's bowling Thank You.

[@funonthebun888]

Simply hitting the ball is so not the only thing batsmen are concerned about in cricket.. They must place the strategically according to the arrangement of fielders on the pitch, which will change for the specific type of bowling attack.. It's such a brutish and oafish way too compare the sports in this way.. Cricket it about precision in intention to place the ball, baseball is simply reflex and strength.. There is no mind in the American game..

[@osamahsalim2794]

Finally someone understands that cricket requires thought, baseball is just swing

[@92Vreid88]

That same strategy is deployed in baseball with every batters swing adjusting to the fielding and vice versa. The American game glorifies those with strength yes, but the entire name of the game is much more than just strength.

[@GingerJesus28]

Baseball is the same way, defenses change their positions based on the situation in the game and hitter tendencies all of the time. Players are asked to hit the ball in certain locations all of the time. There is plenty of strategy in baseball, not saying there isn't strategy in cricket, because every sport worth playing has strategy.

[@DroopusTunes]

I'm going to take a wild guess that you have never seen a baseball game.

[@DroopusTunes]

osamah salim "Just swing?" I'm going to assume you also have never even watched baseball.

[@M1dnightRunner]

Just recently a professional baseballer from the States (can't remember his name) came here (Australia) to promote a exhibition game even admitted it would be harder to hit a cricket ball because of the bounce, also he did mention that baseball has more leeway when it comes to performance. I mean that if you aren't performing in cricket your out where are baseball has a bit more leeway. Which I was actually surprised to hear considering all the money involved.

[@frasstvhs6141]

You are an idiot And the words of your friend mistake

[@suuwooski6416]

He lied

[@irpmedia6600]

A cricket bowler can deliver a ball at the speed of upto 95 mph (160 kmph) without chucking the hand.

[@fearecho7736]

in cricket the bat is way heavier you face bowlers that have speeds of 90-100mph and you have 0.2 millisecond to think and react and adjust everything to take the shot whereas is baseball is double. The ball is harder, heavier and has caused 114 deaths 84 of which are in international despite the halmet and the pads, the ball is so heavy with such a greater force that it requires impressive strength to even play it at 80mph forget 90. Also cricket bowling is about thinking, bouncers swing it or spin it or York it, what length, high or low, bouncers and players have to have there arm straight bit bent. The pitch is way bigger and your baseball players may not be able to think and may smack but not far. The bat is heavy and reduces the swing time by 30% than that in base ball. The game requires thinking. The bowlers set the batsman up. The batman have to decide quick. Its the second popular and hardest sport and dangerous.

[@BlueSparks25]

I'm a huge baseball fan, and recently been watching cricket videos to get a little insight. I don't know the sport at all, but I find it interesting! it looks difficult, and I have much respect for those athletes. In all, they're both terrific sports and it's kind of sad to see people bicker over which is better.

[@leonardomatthee8019]

can u hit a outswinger, inswinger, back of a lenth, we bowl full tosses inswing full toss or out smilar to baseball pitch with out bouncing..., thats not all offcutter legg cutter, knuckle balls, the yorker , inswing or out swingers , loopy bouncers .

[@DavidHoughton17]

Mike Romero coming as a cricket fan I agree with what you said. I am not very familiar with the game of baseball but I do respect the game. One day I would like to see Major League Baseball team play in the states.

[@aryanraj-vx6ff]

+Leonardo Matthee lol but if a bouncer hit head....even worse thing can happen

[@pizzaki582]

I agree, Baseball has improved cricket fielding, (Cricket use to be semi-professional sport)Teams use to bring out Baseball fielding coach... No one use to slide and gather in the field.. now if you want to be pro cricketer in t20 u have to. Throwing Techinques have been adopted from Baseball, Some Former Australian Cricketers played baseball as a kid. It's only last 20 years that players have trained to a "Professional Standard" I think alot of professional Cricketers could adopt to baseball and vice versa.

[@swapnanilnag3713]

Mike Romero that's what I said in my comment ... The two games are separate . I really want to play baseball to just enjoy . In India we play cricket and for us (for the whole country) cricket is not just a game it's a religion .

[@cantworkitout]

i wonder how many the base ball guy would hit if they actually got a pace bowler in instead of an all rounder who bowls spin... my guess would be less or the same as the cricketer could hit the baseball, lol

[@dancepro67]

Both the pitcher and bowler were told to use about 70-80% of their actual strength.. seeing as how the cricket ball has to bounce it made it easier to hit

[@timwilliams3315]

***** I don't think he swung and missed 30% of the time. They used "in play" as a description, but didn't elaborate. He was also swinging big on every bowled ball.

[@JAMESWELCH1980]

***** You're a prideful idiot

[@timwilliams3315]

***** I don't even disagree with you, and I think you're being incredibly dense here. So congrats on that.

[@JFAC423]

***** Put in play means the ball goes forward here. In baseball the ball, in most cases, is not playable when it is hit backwards, unlike cricket. Next here is the fact that a baseball is harder to hit in every circumstance. The ball is thrown harder, some pitches move and do not go in a straight line, crazy right? The bat being used also makes it more difficult. I don't even know why I'm saying this it's in the video, but hey I guess science is wrong.

[@rev.b.ryngksai]

The cricket bat certainly makes it easier for the batsman to hit a ball. Baseball's batters can hit! But in cricket, if all you do is swing to hit the ball and don't look at the ball, then you will find out how hard it is to hit it and how easy it is to get yourself out. Even an amateur can figure out how to get this "batter" out in this video. For example: bowl one round his legs, or a couple of fast balls then beat him with a slower pace, or place some silly point fielders and slips and test him with shorter deliveries, or countless other strategies that the bowling team can think up. It would be fun to watch a baseball team and a cricket team play each other in both games. Edit: or York him out (as some have suggested), OR just keep him on strike by balling record numbers of maidens and conceding only 1s and 2s at the odd over or two... strategy, strategy, strategy...

[@pranavgandhar4604]

They will hire sherlock homes for playing against ashwin , for where is bowl going😂😂

[@shermainewillis8083]

OMG Americans showing their density yet again..Lol...Sigh..

[@jonfoster5863]

jealousy does not suit you well

[@mast420kalandar]

Jon Foster​ make that baseball guy face a mich johnson or a Brett Lee bouncer or a dale steyn toe crushing yorker, let's see if he is able to make any contact with the ball whatsoever. he has 32 Sq inches of sweet spot at his advantage. let's see. You too know that these test were bullshit and a farce and were just really an ego boosting exercise.

[@notsauer]

+Mayank Rungta dafuq you just say? 😹 dale steyn toe chrushing Yorker?

[@rileem1]

Since y’all are so sour about the video, remake it to back up your claims. Or is American media truly so superior that we have to create everything y’all watch?

[@tyhandsom8963]

@Dutt Patel Not all Americans are like that. You sound dumb ass fuck.

[@Macconator2010]

I know people have short attention spans but test cricket (the full 2 innings - maximum 5 day match) is one of the hardest games to play. It can get brutal when a pace bowler bowls a short ball at your head. There are even mind games at work in test standard. The shorter forms of the game seem to get more publicity these days but test standard is the ultimate standard. On an unrelated note the baseball player's batting technique is not really that great. The bowler is bowling fairly generically and will be easy to play. Keep in mind a cricket ball isn't completely round, it can deviate, not to mention spin bowling.

[@Macconator2010]

Sought of, batting technique is different, and is much harder than this video suggests.

[@dazuza95]

***** No one is trying to diminish the difficulty of baseball or the quality of the sport itself. It requires faster reflexes and hand-eye coordination in general, meaning the baseball batter will be able to get bat on ball easily to begin with, but will struggle against Cricket's many variations in bowling when trying to successfully play the game. However pitching has much less variation than bowling does, meaning initially the cricket player will find it hard, but will ultimately transition faster as there is much more technicalities in batting in cricket than in baseball in my opinion.

[@dazuza95]

***** I totally agree. I doesn't help that the level of baseball is high in the US (and I'm guessing Mark is pretty good at what he does) while cricket is quite low to be fair since it's not too popular over there. I've been watching Cricket for most of my life and I've never heard of this player (or anyone from the US that is world class for that matter) so comparison is quite unequal to begin with.

[@JFAC423]

***** Well of course his technique for batting against a bowler is terrible. HE DOESN'T PLAY CRICKET WHY ON EARTH WOULD HE HAVE GOOD TECHNIQUE FOR A SPORT HE DOESN'T PLAY? God you're an idiot.

[@JFAC423]

Aaron D'Souza You really know nothing about baseball do you? Pitching has many more variations than cricket does. First off the amount of pitches there are compared to cricket is greater. The amount of movement is greater and sharper than cricket. It's not even close here.

[@pp1studios868]

Cricket is not about contact but placing the ball in gap and scoring more runs,he faces more balls than baseball .baseball is about contact and faces very fewer balls.

[@BiG420ToMaTo420BuDs]

Nice it’s really informative but it didn’t answer my question as to which does more damage to the human body when you hit someone with each bat

[@jonnyhan]

A cricketer (batsman) faces a wide array of deliveries (balls/pitches) at high speed that bounce off the pitch and cut inside or outside in unpredictable ways. The deliveries they prepare for even include the wrist/waist level full tosses well above 90 mph which are far easier to prepare for than a delivery that bounces off the pitch. Pietro Modena, if you are so passionate about baseball, take up Cricket and you will automatically get better at baseball. Its simple logic. If you are able to chase a chicken running around randomly, you wont have a problem catching it if it only runs straight. Heed my advice and thank me later.

[@pietromodena8790]

Let me tell you the bigger cricket bat and the mostly bunting they do will oxidate the skill of a baseball player. One more thing in baseball balls move on the air and pitcher put them all over the place, from the ground to batter head. It is clear that baseball requieres higher speed and strength, and in baseball they more things a bowler just bowls a pitcher must take care of running men and cover home plate first base and third base on plays. in baseball they must decide in a split second where to throw, in cricket they have only one place to throw to.

[@pietromodena8790]

Oxidation is what you get when exposing steel to salt water. You ignorant. I can not be your english teacher

[@jonnyhan]

So how does one's baseball skill get oxidized Pietro?

[@pietromodena8790]

jonnyhan I think it would on bigger bat much slower swing speed and no power require, cricket batting is like a zero gravity environtment for a baseball hitter.

[@jonnyhan]

Haha, you might as well be his shrink.

[@lewiszim]

Why is there always so much animosity between fans of the two great bat and ball sports? They're both very deep and well conceived games rich in history and tradition. I just happen to be a baseball fan. As for whether it's harder to hit a baseball or a cricket ball, I don't know. What I do know is that this very unscientific "experiment" doesn't tell us much of anything.

[@ui6144]

Even though the comparison seemed a bit biased, the only thing this experiment revealed is that cricket fans are easily butt-hurt when their sport is scrutinzed in some way.

[@philmccracken179]

They honestly think cricket is unique and their players are “gods”. It’s embarrassing and cringe. I’m glad you noticed

[@user-gn7wb7ht1b]

That's why American international cricket team can't even compete with some of the street players in India, Australia or England....

[@teehee1604]

As a cricketer, I can honestly say it is much easier to hit a cricket ball because of the shape of the bat and the fact that you are further away from the bowler. There's also a lot of pace lost by the bounce of the ball, so when it actually reaches the batsman, it's maybe 60% the speed it was out of the bowler's hand. The difficulty is the fact that you need a much wider range of strokes to excel, whereas a baseball player just swings through the line of the ball every time and smacks it as hard as he can. Then there's also the fact that it's legal to aim at the batsman's body, so it's always in the back of a batsman's mind.

[@teehee1604]

A cricket pitch it 22 yards long actually, which is 66ft. Check your facts before you start acting as if you know me!

[@marlowej6302]

teehee1604 That's 22 yards for the full pitch. The distance from where the ball is released by the bowler and where the batter stands (sometimes even outside of the crease further down the pitch) is 17 or less yards.

[@RedlegFan19]

All you Cricket fanboys, shutup about who they used for the the Cricket side. For the baseball side, they used the guy that has struck out the most since like 2006

[@shikhareish]

Your best baseball hitter wud've struck out against the amateur bowler in the video, if he was bouncing the ball at his toes, and not feeding him 50mph pies in his strike zone.

[@LiveAllegroDieAdagio]

***** Chris Young is a pitcher... so its not like he ever focuses on hitting... How about we get the best bowler vs our best batter, and your best hitter vs our best pitcher... I recommend Miguel Cabrera as our hitter, and Clayton Kershaw as our pitcher... so lets go?

[@gamerdareswins2825]

Pfft like that means fuck all to any cricket fan.

[@arjunroy7204]

I love both sports. Virat kohli and Giancarlo Stanton are my favorites. I watch all Yankees matches.

[@mrmenace9400]

Go see the video when Alex Hales and Jos Butler play Baseball, It might be easy to get the ball on bat in cricket but harder to play proper cricket.

[@jaffertv]

I play both games, so I think my perspective could be seen as objective. I think they're pretty equal in difficulty, because of the nuance that comes with each sport. I can hit the ball more often in cricket, however the placement of that hit is more crucial than in baseball. While in either game, I don't want to get caught out, I fond baseball to be easier to find open space. Point is, they're both skill based games with different skill sets. Comparison is pointless, like what you like. No one is saying you have to watch either sport

[@rcddolancer]

I played both Cricket and Baseball, and I think I can put a fair comment here. If I would bowl to this baseball player he wouldn't be able to hit more than 10% either. you know why?? Because I would bowl him full pitch delivery (meaning the ball bounces at your legs). He is hitting those balls in the video only because, all of them were juicy half volley, which is the comfortable zone of a baseball batter. Also, there was no spin or swing which is very essential in ball. I have tried that with my american baseball player friends. Each time they get a half volley delivery it's out of ground but they don't have any answer for yorkers :D

[@Max-ou3hp]

It's not just about getting bat on ball, because you could hit the ball up and get caught. You can hit the ball anywhere in cricket to be in play and in baseball you have to hit it infront so even is he edges it in cricket it would count whereas in baseball it wouldn't. Also in baseball it wouldn't count as a ball unless it is in a smaller area so he can pre meditate a shot, if it's outside of that he can miss it and it wound be legal whereas a cricketer has to see the ball that could go anywhere on the cut strip and judge what shot to play. Also movement off of the pitch and in the air in cricket is going to make it harder to hit.

[@ankitdhali1284]

OBVIOUSLY IT'S EASY TO HIT A BALL WITH A CRICKET BAT BECAUSE IT HAVE GOT MORE SURFACE AREA THAN THE BASEBALL BAT. IT'S UNFAIR COMPARISION

[@jonnostanhope-smith6814]

bit of a flawed test really, bowler is teeing it up perfectly for the guy to just do a baseball swing

[@notsauer]

Same with the baseball player. 80 MPH right down the middle?

[@philmccracken179]

It’s funny you say “just do a baseball swing” in a demeanor way. Why couldn’t the cricket guy even connect on 80 mph fastballs with no movement by a non professional pitcher with “just a baseball swing”

[@Matt-ff3xg]

@@philmccracken179 dude i play u15 i face better bowling than that guy and i could bowl better bowl are yorker

[@cricuts1]

I wish Shoaib Akhter or Brett Lee could have a go at this baseball star. He wouldn't have seen ball coming at him.

[@wombat2628]

Mark Reynolds would've seen speeds of 100mph before mate. Who even is Mark Reynolds anyway lol

[@aryanraj-vx6ff]

+Wombat after watching this u can't even dare to ask what is fast or slow

[@cricuts1]

Wombat He wouldn't have an idea of toe crushing in-swinging yorkers & lethal bouncers.

[@wombat2628]

Usmaan Sial That's because he hasn't played cricket before you dumbass, you're saying that he should be able to go in and destroy it. Trust me pal, from experience, any cricketer would have 0% chance hitting a curveball. Baseballers would be able to throw the bat out and make contact with an inswinger in cricket. Also I don't know why you Indians are arguing with me, it's be scientifically proven that Baseballer is the harder sport out of the two.

[@cricuts1]

Wombat Harder sport my foot. Bloody Americans think that every shit they do has to be the best. You don't have a darn idea of Cricket. I only objected coz they'd put a pro up against a rookie. If this is a just comparison and is your science than the argument is over.

[@asharullah353]

The bowling action is impossible for baseball athletes. Because you can't bend your arm during the throw thus you have to compensate it with running which is another burden on the bowler. And it's way harder to bowl against is batsman than a baseball athlete

[@raez3351]

It’s an unfair test as the baseball guy was pitching at around 80-90mph, which is around average speed for him, whereas the bowler was bowling at around 50mph when that is no where near what he normally bowls.

[@seanmorrow5719]

u should of gotten someone who actually plays for a national team, plus Why don't I get that baseball guy to try and hit one of Mitchell Johnson's bouncers aka 145 k.m coming at ur head!

[@seanmorrow5719]

u**

[@Jcoch_27]

The same could be said for either side. You're cricket batterc couldn't even touch an Aroldis Chapman fast at 102 mph. The speed at which the baseball pitcher was throwing was very slow for even college level players.

[@mfm386]

+Jordan Cochran We have players spanking guys bowling 95mph+

[@airman1nyc]

Boy MLB pitchers pitch faster than that

[@seanmorrow5719]

airman1nyc Maybe faster, but mlb pitchers don't pitch at someones body, they pitch away from it over the plate, while in cricket, most of the balls that are bowled are coming to ur legs, waist, chest and head!

[@nostromoau]

I just watched this today. The cricket guy was bowling lollipops even someone's grandma could have hit. Some of them were descending towards the bat and were obvious gentle full tosses. Do it again with a real top bowler.

[@Bigbrodonateddollarsthroughsup]

I know this is 8 yrs old, but my 10 year old cousin bowls faster and I wish I was joking

[@universenerdd]

Just get a highschool bowler since they got a HS caliber pitcher

[@prathmesh4049]

You consider that as bowling? Seriously? Wow! He didn't even took a proper run up and threw every ball under his bat.

[@cricketexplained8526]

At time of filming (looks about 2010), I don't think the USA national cricket team had contracted professional players. So it's pro (even if not the best pro) vs amateur.

[@RRM__________]

have Lasith Malinga bowl him yorkers or Sunil Narine bowling mystery spin.. then you will see what is hard to hit.

[@Epimpin101]

Yeah, and try to hit Arlondis Champan's 105 mph fastball. And then try to hit R.A. Dickey's knuckleball.

[@muhammadalam7368]

For ur 105mph... cricket has legends .. such as Brandon mcculum , Sachin Tendulkar, virat kohli , shahid afridi and dozens of more

[@brannie276]

I'm Australian, so can't really believe I'm saying this (I feel like a dirty traitor to Australian cricket), but I now officially prefer the company of Poms to Yankees

[@MusaddikChand]

damn that amarican ✨✨✨✨ STAR CRICKETER ✨✨✨✨was bowling the way brother use to bowl for me when I was 7🤣🤣🤣

[@philmccracken179]

Why couldn’t the cricket guy even touch 80 man h lollipops? You thought 0full tosses”?we’re so easy

[@NPC-kr3cx]

People saying cricketers throw 96+mph pitches to the head even though the batters have a helmet. That's great! Giancarlo was hit right in the jaw on a 90mph fastball. And many MLB pitchers have been hit in the head with an exit velocity of the baseball of 90-100mph.

[@piercecollins6562]

Exactly!!! Thank you. That's what many of these Cricket fans don't get . The exit velocity in Baseball is so much greater than that of Cricket. Hence why you where the glove. I would love to see one of their Cricket heroes attempt to catch a line drive from Giancarlo Stanton or Aron Judge barehanded and multiple times over the course of a 162 game season. Their bones would literally be powder after the first attempt. Baseball players hit with so much more sheer force and power than their cricket counterparts.

[@cyrushanleone]

Here's an excerpt from an article in "The Telegraph" reviewing "Playing Hard ball" (book about a cricket player playing baseball) which was written by Ed Smith (A county cricketer who played only 3 Test Matches and failed in them): "Another gripping episode comes when, during a Mets' training session, he steps up to the batter's plate to face a pitcher for the first time. Understandably nervous after watching the huge American batters in action, Smith feels that he is representing the entire cricket world as he takes strike. Fortunately, he does not let his profession down, hitting cleanly and, in the process, destroying some US preconceptions about the limpness of cricket. "Now that's what I call an athlete", said one of the Mets' coaches." This County Cricketer was able to hit a NY Mets pitcher easily without any prior baseball training and even receive praise from the NY Mets Coach. Enough said.....

[@tomlornawestlake2393]

I looked up Ed Smith on the all-time New York Mets roster. There is no Ed Smith on the all-time NY Mets roster. Nuff said. Did not have one at bat in Major League Baseball.

[@JaiJaiBean]

@@tomlornawestlake2393 you really are daft. It's a full book, look it up. The bloke was a cricketer he had no interest in baseball, he just trained with the Mets and made a comparison of the sports into a book. I can't believe you call that single Google search the equivalent of research.

[@roberttyner5809]

@@tomlornawestlake2393, honestly it isn’t even that hard to detail the veracity of this story. You must be in a massive stage of denial or incapable of using a simple search engine. Best of luck in the future.

[@Mackem1985]

14 out of 20 balls went into a fielder's hands. The other 6 hit the stumps.

[@rupam1842]

An all-rounder (neither specialist bowler or batsman) that too playing for America, was probably the most prudent choice to prove baseball as the better sport.

[@patmyles8597]

70% in play is not a stat as there is no out of play in cricket. You could block 300 balls and they would all still be in play, it can hit you in the face and still be in play. It's like comparing netball and basketball same, same but different.