Cricket Explained for Baseball Fans

Hey! Thanks for all the great comments. One thing that has come up a lot: At a few points I use the term "professional match" or "professional cricket" when I should have said "league" or "professional league match." International Cricket is also very professional! When I said "professional cricket" I was referring to the T20 cricket leagues that exist in India, Australia, etc. and are somewhat analogous to sports leagues in other countries, like Major League Baseball or the Premiere League. International cricket is also professional, and international play is the highest level of professional play.

I thought soccer was the most boring game, until I saw this game..lol

Only one ball is used until an official decides its too damaged to continue using,lf hit into the spectators it must be returned to continue play unlike baseball where the spectator can usually keep the ball.

I never thought that there was a sport more boring to watch than baseball

The most significant difference between cricket and baseball (which any player will notice immediately) is that a cricket ball is larger, harder and very much heavier than a baseball.

Are you guys excited for T20 cricket 2024 World Cup in US

I thought golf was bad but this sport takes the cake

One point you left out is that in test cricket, you not only need to outscore the other side to win, you also need to dismiss them all out. (In international test matches, twice.) You can outscore them by hundreds of runs, but if you don’t also take their last wicket, all you get is a draw. (Of course this also leads into a discussion about declaration and following-on, which would be beyond the scope of this video.)

Dont forget about the different rules for tackling in union and league

CRICKET WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD. MARK MY PREDICTION 🙏😎🇮🇳

I think the british make it quite clear. people who like sports are twits. how much money and time wasted. hours of monotomus inanity. and yet on we go! like downs syndrom dolts. good luck! fools.

Imagine if Ohtani played cricket

Dumb sport

Good job. Explained very well. Games can be drawn with no result. Different again between Test and Limited Over games. But that could be a whole other video.

Like all things british, in cricket you need to take permission to play or ask for confirmation from authority ( umpire). This game is every british stereotype ever.

A lot of the more obscure aspects become clearer during what are called "reviews", where the umpire gives a batsman out, but the batsman disagrees, or when the umpire doesn't give a batsman out, and the fielding side disagrees. Each side has a number of reviews, and either use one up if a review fails, or get it back if it succeeds. It is very good at explaining the intricacies of LBW, for example.

Wow, baseball is so simple… no further comment needed.

Someone has probably already comment about it, but here goes anyhow. Fielding positions. In baseball the shortstop might be as close to he batter as 85 feet. If you look at the cricket position "Silly Mid Off" (or "On"), you're about 30 feet from the batter. To play that position a bloke needs pretty good reflexes.

One big difference that I didnt see, although I admit I have not gone through all the comments, is the bowling/pitching. For starters, in Cricket, the bowling arm must be straight through the "pitch" unlike baseball which allows the ball to be "thrown" with a bent arm. If a Cricket bowler bends his arm during the pitch it is considered a "no-ball" and a run is awarded (plus the "over" gets another ball... eg 7 balls vs 6, unless the bowler cons=tinues to deliver "no-balls).
Another interesting and major difference is the type of bowling/pitching caused in the most part by the seam of the ball (straight in Cricket and twisted in baseball). Basically in Cricket there are two major categories - pace bowling (fast or movement in the air, like baseball fast pitch)) vs spin (movement off the pitch, either "leg" break .. movement toward a right handed batter's leg ... or "off" break .. movement away from the batter). Also, like baseball there are many other variants of bowling/pitching - bouncer, googlies, yorkers, etc etc.

Hey great videos. I think you missed a crucial detail. Wides and No Balls not only garner an extra run but the ball doesn’t count which means the bowler has to bowl another delivery to replace the illegal delivery. Another point is that batters can keep any additional runs scored by the faulty delivery. It’s not uncommon for a wide or no ball delivery to be hit or run the boundary for 4 or even 6

Excellent explanation. Looks so fun.

I really enjoyed that. You chose wisely to keep away from Duckworth Lewis. 😊

Horrible boring game

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One of the big differences also is that inI baseball the play is still "alive" when a batter is caught out but in cricket the play is "dead"

hey man thanks for the vid! cricket looks super fun now that I know a bit more about what's going on

One little item, only the wicket keeper has a glove, the fielder's field bare handed and cricket balls are as hard as a baseball. Other than that great video.

OK, finally someone who can whittle it down for me. Guess I should give T-20 cricket a watch. Is that what MLC in the US is?

Yeah, this is actually a great video, I don't see anything really wrong. I think you could simplify it by saying cricket is a game with 2 innings of 10 outs. Baseball is 9 innings of 3 outs. So in baseball, if a batter just clipped the ball very, very slightly, and the catcher caught it, would that be out? It would be in cricket, but I don't think I've seen it in baseball.

How the hell is the bowler supposed to knock thpegs when the batter is right in front of it with his goalie pads..

The very first international game of cricket was played by USA vs Canada

It is international because of the British Empire. When a colony was added the English rounded up the local lads and taught them cricket. Since then we English have had to sit in gloom watching the likes of Gavaskar and Kohli smack English bowlers all round the ground and been thinking that we might have made a mistake.

I'll give a better description. Its like lacrosse and broom ball... a sport that doesn't and shouldn't need to exist anymore.

Good explanation. Fell in love with Cricket whilst traveling in Australia and was staying the the Hilton (I don't think it's a Hilton any longer) across from the MCG. There was a test going on and my friend came down from Sydney and we'd go over and she would give me the run-down. We'd sit in the sun of the afternoon with a Foster's and just had a blast. So much fun. I am blessed now to be in the Atlanta, Georgia area, where there is a large Pakistani and Indian population and several Cricket leagues have popped up. So fun!

Explain it to me like I use inches and Fahrenheit

This is well done, and I now understand way more than I did about Cricket. That said, it feels a lot like I'm listening to an explanation of how a pumbus is made. It's downright bizarre in comparison to baseball.

But what happens in the 4th quarter if there's no field goals left?

Great explanation. Thank you. Seems like an awesome game. Definitely going to check it out.

Really helpful explanation! Cheers!

I thought i wanted to learn about cricket. I was wrong. 😅

Perfect. Well done.

I'm an american who goes to a mostly Indian school, so as you could guess this video helped, thanks

Each team’s turn at bat is called INNINGS not inning. There is always an s at the end. The foul ball (ball hit in the stand) has to be retrieved and used for its allocated life (number of overs or runs batted). The ball is bowled, not thrown or chucked. There are a maximum of ten outs in an innings not eleven (there could fewer than that if the batting team declared or decided to end their innings sooner. Only the wicket keeper wears gloves, fielders use their bare hands. There is no designated hitter or batsman. All batsmen field. There are no extra innings when time runs out - a Test match may end in a draw or a tie. Errors are not posted on the scoreboard. Cricket is like certain foods and cuisines - need an acquired taste.

Americans - hope you join the mainstream world and play the wonderful international game. Not - you are too impatient and judgmental. I was born overseas but have lived in America for over 45 yrs. I learned to enjoy baseball, American football (armored rugby), basketball, ice hockey (compared to field hockey) etc. Give it a shot

You miss to tell about variations of spin bowlers, fast bowlers and batsman.

Ok, I understood some, I guess playing or watching is best to fully understand it.

i have viewed a few cricket how to videos yours was the better or maybe the others combined with yours finally caught up the brain of understanding. thanks for sharing

Cricket explained for baseball fans: it’s the better game. Much better.