This thread is old AF, but I have no doubt that cricket players are very skilled and have great hand-eye coordination. However, India and Pakistan are objectively terrible at most traditional sports, so why should this be much different? I'm sure they're the best at cricket, but I don't think that would translate that well to anything else.
These types of threads come up a lot on the internet.
Cricket and baseball are completely different sports. They look a lot more similar than they are. I'll make some comparisons that hopefully help you see that they share very few similarities.
We can compare some aspects
General Batting:
-Cricketers have bats with a flat face that allows them to place the ball more accurately when they hit it. Placement of the ball is an extremely important aspect of cricket, and they have a full 360 degree field to make use of.
-Baseball players have rounded bats that are more aerodynamic and designed to impart the maximum possible amount of force on the ball. Hitting with power is more important than anything for baseball batters.
Facing bowlers/pitchers:
-Baseball: The location of the ball in baseball is more predictable and if it's outside the (small) strikezone, thats a big advantage to the (almost always). The difficulty in hitting the ball in baseball is the basically the speed (look up blindspot)
-Cricketers face balls that can be bouncing over their head or aimed at their toes. The ball can go behind their back or a yard in front of them. They do have the blindspot as in baseball, however that only generally occurs before the ball bounces. In cricket the batter sees the bowler release the ball, then looks where they think the ball will bounce to pick it up again before hitting it (for a fast bowler anyway).
Bowling:
-Cricket has a variety of bowling styles spin, swing, fast, medium, seamers. Each of these bowlers has variations fast ball/slow ball/curveball/cutter/googly/stock delivery, these variations also go with variations in where the ball is pitched (yorker/full/short/bouncer/full toss). A spin bowler and a fast bowler are wildly different but can both be as useful as each other.
-Baseball pitchers all fit into the "fast bowler" type from cricket. Then they have their variations fast ball/curveball/change up/knuckleball.
-The action of cricket bowlers and baseball pitchers are completely different. Cricket bowlers are not allowed to bend their arm and must generate some additional speed by using a runup, baseball pitchers can use a bent elbow to apply maximum velocity to the ball. Although there is significant technique involved for pitchers, I think it would be easier for a cricket bowler to transition to being a pitcher than the other way around.
Fielding:
-Baseball is more complex because of the way you can get outs from batters trying to steal a base and 2nd phase play.
-In cricket, the ball is "dead" between pitches so the players can not try to steal a run and there is no such thing as a 2nd phase play.
-Otherwise fielding in baseball is significantly easier. There is generally less ground to cover, you can catch with gloves, they can touch the walls of the stadium while catching with no penalty, they require less reflexes compared with cricket slips & silly mid on/silly point positions.
I think very few world class players could convert between the two sports successfully and doing so would require great dedication and cost them a lot financially.
As for players transitioning between sports:
I doubt any bowlers/pitchers could transition between the two sports. For batters, The biggest issue for baseball players would be technique, it would take years for a professional baseball player to be able to play spin or bat two balls in a row where one is crashing into their toes and the next is coming straight for their head. So that pretty much rules out that transition. All that is really left is a cricket batter transitioning to baseball which would be difficult, but wouldn't surprise me.
I actually think baseball has more complex rules and is therefore more difficult to watch and understand, whereas cricket is more complex to play because of the technique involved.
I like both sports but I wish people stopped trying to say one is better than the other and by extension all athletes in one would dominate in the other if given some training. They are completely different sports and this comparison would be like saying all MLB players could play soccer at the highest level because of .
Uh one reason they aren't great at "traditional" sports is simply because they have no interest in them and put all their resources into cricket.
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Uh one reason they aren't great at "traditional" sports is simply because they have no interest in them and put all their resources into cricket.
Javelin is picking up interest these days.
You do realize that the bowl which is thrown in baseball is called "Full toss ball" in cricket it's one of the easiest ball. In cricket there are multiple variations of throwing the ball and techniques more than the players playing in a baseball match.
Cricket requires a lot of discipline and also the ball is very heavier than the base ball and they are thrown faster than the baseball pitchers by pacers in cricket.
I think this is enough to say that which is harder.
And not every mlb player can adapt cricket. They can only play full toss balls and no balls.
What about in swing,out swing,googley,off spin,leg spin,Yorker,orthodox and bouncers with thrown with right or left arm?
Do you have any answer that. Baseball players can only hit the ball in the air, in cricket you need proper foot work and defense. You need to play a lot of shots like cover drive, straight drive,sloop shot,reverse shot and there are lot of variations. You also have to change your position to hit balls.
Baseball isn't even anywhere near cricket only thing which Baseball has is money.
And money doesn't mean better. Remember that. A lot of Indians find Baseball boring, your own mlb community invite cricketers as a guest and guess what those cricketers hardly seems interested. They also easily adapt Baseball in hrs.
Example- Harry brook
kwbat wrote:
These types of threads come up a lot on the internet.
Cricket and baseball are completely different sports. They look a lot more similar than they are. I'll make some comparisons that hopefully help you see that they share very few similarities.
We can compare some aspects
General Batting:
-Cricketers have bats with a flat face that allows them to place the ball more accurately when they hit it. Placement of the ball is an extremely important aspect of cricket, and they have a full 360 degree field to make use of.
-Baseball players have rounded bats that are more aerodynamic and designed to impart the maximum possible amount of force on the ball. Hitting with power is more important than anything for baseball batters.
Facing bowlers/pitchers:
-Baseball: The location of the ball in baseball is more predictable and if it's outside the (small) strikezone, thats a big advantage to the (almost always). The difficulty in hitting the ball in baseball is the basically the speed (look up blindspot)
-Cricketers face balls that can be bouncing over their head or aimed at their toes. The ball can go behind their back or a yard in front of them. They do have the blindspot as in baseball, however that only generally occurs before the ball bounces. In cricket the batter sees the bowler release the ball, then looks where they think the ball will bounce to pick it up again before hitting it (for a fast bowler anyway).
Bowling:
-Cricket has a variety of bowling styles spin, swing, fast, medium, seamers. Each of these bowlers has variations fast ball/slow ball/curveball/cutter/googly/stock delivery, these variations also go with variations in where the ball is pitched (yorker/full/short/bouncer/full toss). A spin bowler and a fast bowler are wildly different but can both be as useful as each other.
-Baseball pitchers all fit into the "fast bowler" type from cricket. Then they have their variations fast ball/curveball/change up/knuckleball.
-The action of cricket bowlers and baseball pitchers are completely different. Cricket bowlers are not allowed to bend their arm and must generate some additional speed by using a runup, baseball pitchers can use a bent elbow to apply maximum velocity to the ball. Although there is significant technique involved for pitchers, I think it would be easier for a cricket bowler to transition to being a pitcher than the other way around.
Fielding:
-Baseball is more complex because of the way you can get outs from batters trying to steal a base and 2nd phase play.
-In cricket, the ball is "dead" between pitches so the players can not try to steal a run and there is no such thing as a 2nd phase play.
-Otherwise fielding in baseball is significantly easier. There is generally less ground to cover, you can catch with gloves, they can touch the walls of the stadium while catching with no penalty, they require less reflexes compared with cricket slips & silly mid on/silly point positions.
I think very few world class players could convert between the two sports successfully and doing so would require great dedication and cost them a lot financially.
As for players transitioning between sports:
I doubt any bowlers/pitchers could transition between the two sports. For batters, The biggest issue for baseball players would be technique, it would take years for a professional baseball player to be able to play spin or bat two balls in a row where one is crashing into their toes and the next is coming straight for their head. So that pretty much rules out that transition. All that is really left is a cricket batter transitioning to baseball which would be difficult, but wouldn't surprise me.
I actually think baseball has more complex rules and is therefore more difficult to watch and understand, whereas cricket is more complex to play because of the technique involved.
I like both sports but I wish people stopped trying to say one is better than the other and by extension all athletes in one would dominate in the other if given some training. They are completely different sports and this comparison would be like saying all MLB players could play soccer at the highest level because of .
Are you a foreigner?
There are thousands of guys with power that never sniff MLB. The most important skills are pitch recognition and bat speed. Pitch location can be up/down, in/out and at your melon. The different type of pitches make it even more difficult. If there was a blind spot in baseball, a lot guys would be getting beaned. I don’t know about pitching vs bowling but no one is transitioning from one sport to other. Without the muscle memory gained by an early start, it would be impossible to throw strikes with curves, sliders, fastballs and change-ups. The Red Sox did sign a cricket batter and got nowhere.
Good god. Fielding is easy in baseball? That opinion confirms that you are indeed, a foreigner.
In addition to having the best American players, MLB also has the best from the Dominican Republic and Japan so have far more great athletes. Yeah, baseball is far better than cricket. Baseball, more less, started from cricket, but when Americans realized the sport kind of sucked, changes were made to turn it into baseball.
This isn’t a baseball forum!
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Cricket players BOWL, they don't throw or pitch like baseball players. Batting in cricket definitely takes far more technique, such as different styles of defense shots, sweeps (including reverse sweeps), forward drives etc. Plus players like the wicket-keeper have a far more important role that takes a lot more skill than the catcher in baseball. I'm American myself but was intrigued by cricket and started learning the rules/following it and it definitely is a more involved sport than baseball.
And okay, North America (only some countries), South America (again only some countries), and Japan play baseball but cricket is played across the world including Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America.
A lot of Americans don't know the rules of cricket, how it works etc. and don't understand but I can give a better perspective knowing both the rules of baseball and cricket (and follow both to an extent).
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