Realistically, how long would it take Rizzo to become the be

>>74370908

3 days to be best in the US, 2 and a half weeks to make Don Bradman look like an amateur.

>sport dominated by Pajeets
It wouldn't take any MLB player long to become a top cricket player

if they're only allowed to bowl little lollipops like that, then very very quickly

>>74371685
Do you honestly believe an MLB player would have trouble hitting a cricket bowl? Especially considering the fact they bounce off the ground first

>>74371685
Albert Pujols became elite by being poor as fuck in the DR. He practiced with a broom and bottle caps for balls. Pretty sure he can hit a baseball sized ball with essentially a 2x4

>>74370908
Rizzo would dominate

>>74371714
honestly, that's like asking if any human would struggle playing QB as it's easy to throw a football.

being able to hit a cricket ball is 0.1% of the battle.

The best in the US? Like a week. Anything remotely approaching one of the better ones in the world? I'm not sure it's even possible.

PLEASE

>>74371767
*Also, the swinging motion is completely different, and I imagine that if it was that easy to become a pro cricket player than the leagues in Australia and India and wherever else they play cricket would be absolutely dominated by Americans who didn't quite make it into Major League Baseball.

How long would it take LeBron to be an elite cricketer? Go check out ESPN Insider to know...

Lets see him on an actual crease against an actual bowler

Bowling a slow straight ball on grass may as well not even be cricket in comparison

>>74371782
You're assuming that they'd move to shitholes to hit rocks for poverty tier wages

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>>74371714
yes

>>74372361
fucking muh dick

>>74372261
Cricket is pretty popular, right? I'm sure the players in the Australian cricket league are making more money than minor league baseball players.

>>74372397
an english player just made a couple of million USD by playing in india for three months

It's easy to hit a baseball out of the ground. The area that you're legally required to pitch the ball into is almost never used in cricket since it's literally free runs, especially if the ball hasn't bounced, since that completely removes any variation in bounce and lets the batsman hit it at full pace

>>74372430
>It's easy to hit a baseball out of the ground.

It's insanely difficult. I get your point about not being able to just crush it 400 feet, but it's not even remotely easy.

>>74372430
People get paid 10s of millions of dollars to hit the ball 3/10 times every time they go up to the plate, they get paid 5 million to be a standard .250 hitter. Hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things to do in sports, not THE hardest but one of.

>>74372572
I'm sure

>>74370908
Minor league washout MLB players would be able to CRUSH any cricket team given a year to actually learn the sport.

The greatest Cricket players of all time have absolutely zero chance at all of even competing or even becoming good enough to get a try out somewhere. No matter how much time they were given.

its the difference between professional hockey and a bunch of drunk guys playing lacrosse in college in terms of the talent required for the sports. similar but just no comparison.

>>74372789
Hmm

>>74372789
And you base this on what? American arrogance?

Americans will never understand the depth of knowledge that goes into cricket. For example, in cricket a seasoned veteran can look at the colour of the pitch and get a good idea about how the game will play out, which bowlers will perform best, which batsmen will struggle and on which time of day wickets will fall.
I havent even gotten started on tactics. In baseball the tactics consist of, "let's hit the ball hard lmao." The Pitchers tactic is "Ayyyy let's through the ball fast". Just put three fielders on the designated fielder positions, have so comically dressed dude to act as wicket keeper and fuck it senpai just scatterthe rest in the designated 90 degree hitting wedge to which the batsman is limited. Field placments do not mater at all because the batsmen is forced, by the rules of the game, to hit it at the fielders.

Want to use the pace of the ball to angle a finely placed glance? lol fuck off you have to whack it in the designated hitting wedge faggot. Want to play a defensive stroke to keep out a good ball? Too bad dickhead you can't choose to do that just whallop it you goof! There is absolutely no vairiety in the game, no situational decision making required of the batsmen and no aspect of sustained mental fortitude.

All the nuances of the gentleman's game will never be understood by "lowest common demoninator" baseball fags who are more interested in how many toppings they can fit on their hotdogs, or how many roids they can put in their mexicans, than anything to do with their game. Baseball has about as much subtlety as american music, that is to say none at all.

Cricket is an ultimate game of skill.

In baseball you literally get a huge novelty sized padded and webbed catching glove, the ball soft and squishy and it is not even allowed to bounce!

In cricket you can unironically murder a batsmen without breaking a single rule. In baseball if you so much as through the ball anywhere outside of the batsman's designated swinging arc he doesn't even have to face another bowl, he just walks (walks) away and is spared from future embarrassment because some japanese dude didnt throw him a waste high full toss pie two feet outside off.

That's right, in baseball there is a pre-arranged bowl that inevitably is thrown every single fucking time. You can't bouce the ball (taking spin and seam completely out of the equation). You cannot change the angle of delivery. You cannot bowl boucer yorker combos. You cannot work on the bowl for half a day until it starts reverse swinging. There are no off cutter slow balls, there are no googlie wronguns there are no flippers or skidders or chinamen. Just full tosses outside off every single fucking ball.

Finally, and this is the clincher, the batsman unironically gets three chances. If you are playing in your back yard against your seven your old niece bowling heat you may just give her a second chance if you get her out first bowl, but otherwise in cricket you make one tiny error your day is over. In baseball, you can fuck up and the umpire is like "lmao take it back you can have two more goes at that."

>>74372825
Cricket is played by pakis and aussies (same thing), basedball is played by American alphas

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>>74372854
hmm

>>74372572

I'm sure Americans find it very difficult to hit a ball.

>>74372813
>>74372825
>>74372836
>>74372848
you just said it takes the athleticism of your average golfer.
hitting a MLB level baseball pitch is the most difficult thing to do in sports. world wide sports. even incredible batters in the MLB are gonna get burnt and strikeout.

and youre telling me
they dont even have different pitches
its more like bowling
a game you just said depends on hand eye coordination
and the ability to read a fucking green like some middle aged golfer

this cant be replicated by practice?
excuse me do they have fucking CRICKET CAGES over there on that island? because the in the 1st world we have automated batting cages that are everywhere with different speed pitches to practice.

but yeah. take the pitching out of baseball and Im sure it would be much more difficult.
Not like a bigger bat, slower pitches, less variation on pitches delivered and general shitty athleticism of the oppostion in cricket would make it much easier.

>you see its much more difficult because its more like golf or bowling
jesus christ this is why the emus almost wiped you guys out

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3981668

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYMhT_wgBwE

>>74373118
>less variation on pitches delivered
kek

KEK

K - E - K
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E
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K

>the best americans can only hit the ball 30% of the time

kek

KEK

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>>74373147
>>74373148
I can see why you guys got expelled from UK proper and banished to redneck island

>average of 92 MPH (i dont know how to put that in kilometers per metric sun dial) fastball with ability to alter curve, changeup speeds, knuckle the ball to alter its course on the way to the plate
>said ball travels so fast the batter actually cant see it the last 15 feet and has to possess the mental acuity to correctly judge and swing on said ball with a bat that has a smaller surface area
>batter has to start swinging before the pitch comes close and has a fraction of a second margin of error between a full power swing on his estimation of where the ball will be
vs.
>nigel pajeetistan winds up 14 paces from gerry falkiingham and prepares to hurly burly
>here it comes
>oh what a beautiful hurly burly the acceleration of the wimbly bimbly must have exceeded that of a soccer ball kicked really hard!
>here it comes the wimbly bimbly was thrown into the ground where it
wait for it
>BOUNCES and reduces speed thus giving the batter time to track this pathetic attempt at athleticism
>Oh the batter is winding up after the wimbly bimbly has struck the ground because its travelling so slow he actually has time to do that before it reaches him
>OH my he swung the sniggy snog hitty log with so much force that the wimbly bimbly was hit almost 20 meters from the fucking sticks we stuck in the ground behind him like some fucking aboriginal shrine to inferiority!
>of course not with enough force to crack an oak baseball bat like an MLB game, but certainly enough for the sniggy snog hitty log to make quit a loud noise
>three days from now when this game ends that will certainly be remembered as a series of events that happened!

>>74373346
Not reading this novel of a post

>>74373346
wrong in every way

I have no idea who's shitposting and who's just stupid anymore. So many short story-length posts that are almost entirely bullshit.

>it's the monthly cricket vs baseball thread between the dumbest american and australian posters on all of spee

both sports have a ball and bat and point of the game is to hit the ball.

The similarities literally stop there.

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>>74373370
>>74373360
what do you guys call a home run?
oh thats right they dont even have a term for such an occurrence. remember the aboriginal saying "why worry about lightning when you dont see rain"

jesus christ the rest of the world really thinks that if the USA pool of athletes actually had a culture shift they wouldnt entirely dominate soccer and cricket
because soccer and cricket are just the pinnacle of athletic prowess and thats why the USA doesnt dominate it like any other sport it bothers to care about. because its sooo difficult.

>except for china and ping pong. they fucking run that sport hands down.

Good points for American side
>cricket is played by Indians so they can't be any good

Good points for Australian side
>Americans are obese, but can't let on about goose

>>74373435
Hmm

>>74373118
I have seen that many morbidly obese or at the very least noticeably baseballers it's ridiculous, even now.

Cricketers stopped being overweight by the mid 90's.

>>74373346
I love when Americans try and make fun of the English. They have absolutely no idea of the existence of the world outside of them so they have to rely on incredibly vague and outlandish stereotypes. Did you get all of your cricket knowledge from that episode of Family Guy?

>>74373435
>what do you guys call a home run?
>oh thats right they dont even have a term for such an occurrence
wew

>>74373435
>You will never seethe this much

>The American understanding of Cricket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ3mdrQeTHE

>>74373435
Baseball is to cricket what pool is to snooker. One is a watered down version to appeal to tasteless retards such as yourself, the other is a highly intellectual sport.

>>74373446
*noticeably overweight.
I think the better question is whether or not cricketers could entirely dominate baseball if they chose to play it, especially considering a LOT of cricketers play baseball as well. We're a lot better at baseball than you are at cricket.You had to get removed from the fucking rankings because you were so shit. About five different fucking countries are better than you at softball as well with fucking NEW ZEALAND topping the Men's rankings.

This thread is still going

>>74373497
You ever seen the show "rules of engagement"? It's kinda like that one episode where Jeff and Timmy play cricket

>>74373516
Fucking hell I've seen that fucking one it's excruciating.

>>74373516
Nah but i'm gonna go watch it

>>74373529
Yeah, people only take an eyeful and assume ones easier then the other. The reality is both have Thier ups and downs

>>74373435
>what do you guys call a home run?
>oh thats right they dont even have a term for such an occurrence. remember the aboriginal saying "why worry about lightning when you dont see rain"
it's called a six m8

>>74373472
>>74373446
Cricket has never ever been portrayed in any way shape or form in any american mass media or pop culture.

Researching cricket to help fuel this thread
>matches can end in draws
>cricket is over complicated, long, boring, and insulated to prevent its exportation to actual countries that could destroy the countries pathetically sheltered enough to preserve it puroposefully
>every single actual comparison of cricket and MLB athletes has the baseball player BTFO the cricket guy at batting, pitching, whatever metric you want.

http://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2014/10/26/baseball-vs-cricket-9-reasons-baseball-wins-40397
their own media backs it up when you look into it.

I mean just like soccer, croquet, cricket or whatever else sports you guys have a league for over there, I'm not staying up to listen to a ham radio broadcast of a game or match or round or lap or whatever you call it from islamaabad because the sport doesnt even get televised properly just to hear it end in a tie which seems to be the goal of these "sports"

>>74373543
Yeah I was watching that Cubs final game, half players couldn't hit ball or identify when they should hit the ball.

Baseball looks just as difficult as cricket, but I don't even think they're that comparable seeing Cricket is played in three entirely different formats that completely change the aspects and nuances of the sport depending on which format is being played.

These threads are always cheeky but when mouth breathers actually start arguing which one is better it's time to stop posting.

>>74373580
>cites a satirical article in to support his argument

'Merica

>>74371714
That's precisely the reason they would have trouble hitting the ball.

>>74372397
Top players in Aus get $900k a year with the captain getting $1.12 mil. You'd get other money through ads. India has a hugggeee market so their top players earn millions.

>>74373580
There are different formats of the game. Tests last around 5 days and are the most prestigious but there are also ODI's and T20's which are much shorter and friendlier to an american tier attention span. Also, the sports not overcomplicated at all. The basic gist of it is very simple. Make more runs than the other team by hitting the ball. However, it quickly becomes extremely nuanced at the top level of play with all sorts of factors affecting how the game gets played out. For this reason it's probably one of the best sports around today.

>>74373580
there isn't any comparison between baseball and cricket athletes because there's no fucking similarities in skills
>cricket has never ever been portrayed in any way shape or form in any american mass media or pop culture
objectively incorrect, YOU just weren't alive to see it
You keep on talking about how cricket hasn't been exported to America, when it LITERALLY was the national sport of America before the revolutionary war

literally k y s

>>74373603
article wasnt satire. that was just facts and observations laid out. read it.
>>74373619
again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYMhT_wgBwE
watch it. that claim youre making is laughable.

>>74373583
this is the best post in the thread
>Yeah I was watching that Cubs final game, half players couldn't hit ball or identify when they should hit the ball.
thats because hitting a MLB baseball is beyond difficult and requires the reflexes of a god and even more superhuman training to actually hit the ball correctly

>Baseball looks just as difficult as cricket
Driving a F1 car competitively looks just as difficult as that stationary bike that replicates the tour de france.

>T20 was invented to mimic baseball because the actual sport was so boring it had to be re tooled to attract an actual audience
oh and for my fellow freedom flags, T20 is a form of cricket and a very sad attempt at poor baseball mechanics
look at this. this is a promotion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvTBmsPotU
NO WINNER is followed by an exclamation point. now compare that to the last world series.

>>74373714
And then we made it better

>>74373754
by stealing a girl's sport from England?
kek

>>74373751
try reading the comments of that video you keep posting

>>74373635
Yeah, that makes sense. So if cricket was really that easy, your league would be swamped with American guys who are just not quite good enough for MLB. Japan has limits on the number of foreign players in its baseball league for this exact reason.

$900k isn't much compared to MLB (I think the MLB minimum is like $700k), but still, it's a hell of a lot better than what you make in the average job.

>>74373635
where did you get those numbers from? Fatshit makes 5 million a year

>>74373583
>Yeah I was watching that Cubs final game, half players couldn't hit ball or identify when they should hit the ball

That's because hitting a pitch from a pro pitcher is obscenely difficult.

>Baseball looks just as difficult as cricket

Yeah, that's probably true. Generally, I think all the big pro sports are difficult purely because you have millions of people competing for spots as athletes and billions of dollars invested in those athletes. Cricket, as a concept, sounds pretty damn easy (underhanded pitching and you get a big paddle for a bat? Batter's heaven), but I'm sure it's actually really difficult.

>>74373751
The Tab is a student newspaper known for being absolutely shit. It's not a credible news source at all.

>>74370908
>yeah, unless he has to face a bouncer, yorker, x-cutter, off-break, leg-break, googly, doosra, or carrom ball.

lul wtf

>>74372397
You just play in the IPL, where you get a couple of million for a couple of months of play. They auction off every professional cricketer who wants in.

>>74373764
It would. Luckily, cricket's not that easy and not many skills are transferable between mlb and cricket.

>>74373774
http://www.totalsportek.com/cricket/australian-player-salaries/

>>74373714
>>74373714
>when it LITERALLY was the national sport of America before the revolutionary war

yeah and then freedom happened and now we get real sports.
perhaps someday when you faggots get tired of having a FOREIGN MONARCHY pictured on your fucking currency you guys can evolve into real sports also. dont tell me what the national sport was during the reign of tyranny by another nation that we ended unlike some people.

>>74372836
Lol what a fag

>>74373714
look it up.
holy shit he's right. cricket was big in america.
>only in ivy league and aristocratic clubs on the east coast

tell me do you guys have a professional rowing league also? thats pretty big with those faggots also and is at least more entertaining and athletic than cricket.

>>74373714
>You keep on talking about how cricket hasn't been exported to America, when it LITERALLY was the national sport of America before the revolutionary war

That's not really true. Cricket had a little popularity among the upper classes of the northeast as early as the 1750s, hell, the first international cricket match was Canada vs some guys from Philadelphia in the 1840s, but calling it the "national sport" is an absurd exaggeration.

Cricket failed to catch on here because it wasn't the national sport. It was something that a small group of elites played, and was tied up with Britain in everyone's imaginations at a time when Britain was still not that popular here (the USA-Britain love affair didn't start until the 1880s). For whatever reason, the lower classes made their own variation of it and ran with that instead.

Then the elites moved on to rugby, and that's how we got football.

>>74373118
>Not like a bigger bat
how many times does a baseball player hit a ball in a game? Once? Twice? It's supposed to be easy to hit the ball in cricket, that's not the point of the sport.
>slower pitches

>implying just throwing the ball fast makes it too difficult to hit

>less variation on pitches delivered
there's more variation in cricket, because you can manipulate the ball of the ground. You don't get that ability in baseball. Any throw in baseball you can replicate in a bowl, but it doesn't work the other way around

>and general shitty athleticism of the oppostion in cricket would make it much easier.

What does that matter? It's a game of skill, being a freak athlete only lets you hit the ball harder or make a few more runs.

Lmao excellent thread

Dumb Americans

>>74373855
>how many times does a baseball player hit a ball in a game? Once? Twice?

It's anywhere from 3 to 5 times. If you're hitting more times than that, either it went to extra innings or your team is fucking dominating.

>implying just throwing the ball fast makes it too difficult to hit

I'm not saying cricket is easy or anything, not getting into "my bat and ball sport is better than yours!", but the speed is a huge part of what makes it so tough to hit. The reflexes involved are insane.

>Any throw in baseball you can replicate in a bowl, but it doesn't work the other way around

Well yeah, because if you were stupid enough to throw the ball into the ground the batter would just not swing.

>>74370908
hitting a cricket bowl is a hell of a lot different than hitting a baseball pitch.

it would take a hell of a long time for him to be able to adjust.

>Americans are proud of playing sports no one plays and has little to no international involvement

LOL world series

>>74373810
yorkers are the patricians choice of bowls.

>>74372864
That's Konishiki from Japan, yo.

>>74373855
>implying just throwing the ball fast makes it too difficult to hit

yes. I dont argue with the laws of physics. youre actually "implying" that increased speed wouldn't make it more difficult to hit.

you might be able to doge an arrow shot from the pitching mound.
you would not be able to dodge a bullet.
because bullets travel faster. being much more difficult to avoid.

the islanders we didnt have the good grace to turn into proper states or even american territories are now arguing against the laws of physics using meme arrows unironically.

the clown duo of ausfalia/old zealand are getting so BTFO itt it is time to do the right thing and just sell those shitbag countries to china

>>74372864
That's a japanese team.

>>74373934
Baseball is the #1 sport in Japan, Cuba, Panama, Taiwan, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic. It's a major sport in South Korea, Canada, Mexico, and iirc Colombia.

Baseball doesn't have the global reach of soccer, but it does have a lot of international appeal. "World Series" is more of a traditional name than anything else, I don't remember exactly why that name was first chosen but like everything else in baseball we stick with it because it's a tradition. It's been the name since the 1880s. And I do think you can say without a shadow of a doubt that the best team in MLB is the best team in the world, so I don't mind the name "world series" anyway.

>>74373957
I don't really like how we're turning sports discussion into /int/ shitposting.

>http://www.dreamcricket.com/articles/dreamcricket-usa-news/when-babe-ruth-tried-his-hand-at-cricket/

>According to NY Times, Babe tried to adjust his stance without too much luck. So he went back to his baseball methods and smacked everything that Fairfax and his students served. When he was done, the bat had a broken handle and the reporters noted that he had edged so many balls that the edges had nearly disappeared.

>>74373953
but we're not talking about the difference in speed between an arrow and a bullet. increased speed to not correlate linearly with difficulty to hit. It's all about rhythm and timing, and if something is at the perfect speed, you can time your swing easier, which can make something that's faster easier to hit.

This isn't about the laws of physics, this is body physiology.

>>74373968

Nice commie club, big boy

>>74373934
the entire western hemisphere. and korea. and japan. it became such an industry in latin america that an entire island nation (like yours) the Dominican Republic became nothing more than a baseball farm camp on a national level.

maybe some day when you guys arent being taxed on your herbal tea and get sick of paying for royal jewelry and new mosques you guys could field a decent baseball team
but I understand bases and diamonds are too much of an architectural strain for NZ as well as Pakistan so you can stick to public parks and barren fields for your "sport"

>>74373997
Only two of those countries are communist.

>>74374004
Why would New Zealanders ever want to field a baseball team? They like rugby.

>>74373994
>increased speed to not correlate linearly with difficulty to hit. It's all about rhythm and timing

the ball travels so fast the batter is unable to see it and must react full force in milliseconds
that sounds like rhythm and timing. in fact most things involved with rhythm and timing, become much more difficult with increased speed or velocity. you are saying otherwise.

but Im sure a bouncey wouncey bally wall thrown at half the speed from half the distance by some malnourished skeletal darky is much more difficult to hit with a wider surface area because thats what the laws of physics say.

this thread has now reached critical mass. AUS and NZ have been completely shut down and are actually arguing against physics and demonstrable comparisons of "talent"

>AUS and NZ havent been this BTFO since pangea cast those faggot islands off to develop gods own abortions the marsupials

now tell me about how having a pouch makes it more difficult for you to carry things before the petrol (gasoline) your huffing renders you unconscious

>>74370908
it would take less than a year for any MLB team or even NCAA team to actually take over international cricket

there is no comparison between skill sets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RENLMum5wz4

compare these two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcQe-FBLaCo
vs what bowling looks like in cricket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG-5lj69gsw

I'm beginning to think I would be able to step in there and give a decent run at it cold. cricket just seems so pathetically entry level. really there is no fair comparison of it. a bobcat and a tiger arent in the same weight class.

>>74374094
>the ball travels so fast the batter is unable to see it and must react full force in milliseconds
so you have to react a little faster? Yeah, not that tricky. Swinging earlier doesn't take a massive amount of effort.

>but Im sure a bouncey wouncey bally wall thrown at half the speed from half the distance by some malnourished skeletal darky is much more difficult to hit with a wider surface area because thats what the laws of physics say.

please point to where I said anything like that. In fact I said the opposite. All I was saying that based on your own sense of rhythm, a faster ball can be easy to hit. once again, not physics, but biology. Continue to ignore the point because you can't refute it, I already know you're retarded. Hell, one of my points was that cricket is designed to hit the ball as easy as possible, because the aim of the game is to hit the ball hundreds of times. In baseball the aim of the game is to hit the ball.

I mean, argue with me all you like, just don't lie and make shit up, it makes you look pathetic.

the fact that there have been baseball scouts who have gone to india to find pitchers and have never once found even one person who could throw faster than 85 mph is all the evidence you need.

in america, nearly every high school team has a kid who can throw faster than 85. in an entire country of billions of people in india, they can't even find one person.

can't we all just agree that it's extremely difficult to hit a MLB pitch and a professional bowl?

a professional in either sport COULD NOT play the opposing game. the sports are just too different.

>>74374286
>going to India to find fast pitchers
what is your point? It's very well known that Indians don't make good fast bowlers, due to their literally shitty living conditions, poor fields and weak genetics. Why are your scouts going to one of the slowest bowling countries in the world for fast pitchers?

Fast bowlers are found in affluent countries where training facilities, specialised fast bowling coaches, healthy living conditions and good nutrition are commonplace.

>>74374330
babe ruth proved mlb players could absolutely play at the highest level of cricket with minimal training.

name a cricket kid who proved the same

>>74374350
they go to the dominican and find scrawny skeletors who can throw 100 all the time

they went there because out of BILLIONS of people there should statistically exist at least 1 MLB level talent. but alas there are NONE

>>74374356
There's drug testing in cricket.

>>74374377
babe ruth precedes the steroids era by 40 years fucktard

>>74374371
Forgot about the last part, culture. Indian children don't grow up want to bowl fast. They want to be able to spin the ball in any way they want, just like Indian bowlers. Dominican kids want to throw the ball fast like Dominican throwers. So they intuitively practice. All of these factors mean it's no use trying to find fast bowling Indians. That is no reflection on which sport is better though, and I don't know why you even bothered to bring it up.

>>74374274
a faster ball can be easy to hit. once again, not physics, but biology.

MLB pitches are thrown so fast and variably that 0.000000001% of the population worldwide is even able to attempt it at a semi professional level.
The hand eye coordination is so unforgivingly complex and the reaction time and combined muscle memory involved are so incredibly difficult that it cant be replicated by other athletes.

not physics but biology he says
Swinging earlier doesn't take a massive amount of effort he says

okay let me tell you this way. when a ball is thrown PHYSICALLY faster at a much higher velocity it becomes BIOLOGICALLY much more difficult to accurately react to something in milliseconds, so much so that its a rare skill only developed by top tier athletes

bro I've been watching cricket bowling now. its pathetic. not only does the batter have time to adjust stance, they can actually move and still hit the ball. this bowling is so slow and low that you actually have time to adjust, PHYSICALLY MOVE YOUR FEET TO ANOTHER LOCATION and still swing and hit the ball.

>>74374394
just a bit of banter senpai. Anyway, which cricket team did Babe Ruth play for?

>>74370908
What about that clip where professional NFL players beat up the Rugby players?

>>74373751
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYMhT_wgBwE

Nice fake news ameritard

>>74374396
why can't any of these indian kids throw a half decent curveball then?

i bring it up because you're "sport" is useless and if people who shit in the streets are eat only rice and curry are capable of being dominant players, let alone in the league at all, it's a fake sport.

baseball's talent gap over cricket is so immense, there have been thousands of indian cricket players and never an indian mlb player. think about that. that means the quality of the MLB vastly exceeds any cricket league

>>74374402
>okay let me tell you this way. when a ball is thrown PHYSICALLY faster at a much higher velocity it becomes BIOLOGICALLY much more difficult to accurately react to something in milliseconds, so much so that its a rare skill only developed by top tier athletes

as I said famalam, swing earlier. It's really not that hard.

>bro I've been watching cricket bowling now. its pathetic. not only does the batter have time to adjust stance, they can actually move and still hit the ball. this bowling is so slow and low that you actually have time to adjust, PHYSICALLY MOVE YOUR FEET TO ANOTHER LOCATION and still swing and hit the ball.

Once again, like i've said twice before now, cricket is about stamina, not raw power and speed. It's not about adjusting the hit the ball, it's about doing it hundreds of times a game. I don't know why you're so annoyed that cricket and baseball are different games with different skillsets.

But Americans wouldn't know anything about stamina, am I right? :^)

>>74373482
>softball

kek

there are """"""""""people"""""""""""""" who view cricket as a legitimate sort and not a 3rd world distraction, sad

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>>74374330
no. one is a professional sport played worldwide by actual athletes that requires skill.

the other is a fucking past time played by tech support 3rd worlders and the rejected anglosphere.
there have been multiple examples of baseball players fucking crushing cricket pitcher or bowlers or whatever.

Now what I'd like to see is a MLB pitcher actually go into cricket. that would actually demonstrate the insurmountable disparity in actual skill and talent levels.
An MLB pitch would never have a problem breaking those sticks or striking a faggot batter out in cricket. There is just no way once they can bounce the ball and combined with speed.
I think you can intentionally hit batters in cricket also.
Team MLB cricket would literally kill or disable the opposing team.

tl;dr any minor league baseball player can play professional cricket, not a single cricket player in the history of the world could play minor league baseball

>>74374415
Because Indians BOWL. They don't throw. They BOWL. Why would they bother throwing curveballs. That's illegal in cricket.

>it's a fake sport.

Now you're just getting pathetic. A fat swarthy pig walks in here and tells me that no, the second most popular sport in the world doesn't count as an actual sport, yet a game where players are required to take a life-threatening amount of drugs to even compete, and where weighing 300 pounds, yet that not being enough of a detriment to keep them out of the highest league for that 'sport', is? Get on your mobility scooter and ride on out of here seppo. Ride out until your battery runs flat and you die of starvation 20 metres from a KFC.

found the American who hates truthbombs lads

>>74374413
leave it to third world shitholes to not recognize objective evidence when they see it

i guess i'll just continue living in the greatest country the world has ever seen
>>74374404
none, he didn't want the poverty-tier wages.

> baseball (luckswing)

> fat niggers and spics on steroids
> literally all you fucking do is close your eyes and hope you hit the ball, no technique in batting
> No bounce, no variation in pitching
> Just throw it as fast as possible
> No tactics - fields are ALWAYS in the same position
> Lucky to hit the ball 3 times a game
> Played by two countries in the world
> """World""" Champions despite only teams from America competing

> Cricket

> Patrician white upper class sport
> Variation in bowling (spin vs pace)
> Ball can swing, cut, turn
> Varied fielding tactics depending on the state of the game
> Batsmen have a variety of shots they can employ depending on the ball
> Played by a wide variety of countries (UK + Ireland, Netherlands, Caribbean, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand)
> True world Champions

hmm really makes me think

>>74374487
wait... so he wasn't good at cricket? Hmm

Should move this thread to /int/. It's just lazy as fuck national insults. I don't know what's sadder, Aussies going after Americans or Americans actually trying to insult Pacific Canada. They've got their own weird little thing, leave them alone.

>>74374496
except he was good at cricket, the cricket guys kept sucking his dick and begging him to play but he told them to fuck off with their povertyball garbage

>>74373346
Grade A fagot

>>74374506
>he thinks he's subtle

>>74374511
Of course BSA, they totally wanted him and his meme hits as well. :)

>>74374402
Cricketers can bowl at 90+ mph too, they just don't because raw pace alone isn't enough to get wickets

>>74374470
>Why would they bother throwing curveballs. That's illegal in cricket.

its not illegal it just takes skill. or is anything that requires actual athleticism against the rules in cricket?

again the debate is over. let me repeat.
YOU CAN INTENTIONALLY THROW THE BALL AT THE BATTER
MLB PITCHERS WOULD INCAPACITATE OR OUTRIGHT MURDER THE OPPOSING TEAM

its already been demonstrated that any MLB player can crush any cricket bowler or whatever
its already been demonstrated that no professional cricket player could ever hit an MLB level pitch

>>74374556
KEK I can feel the INTENSITY of your tantrum through my screen. YOU are pathetic, and I will NOT read any more of your worthless posts.

>>74374556
No they wouldn't, they wouldn't be able to bowl a ball past 100 kph because the skills are so different.

People keep on telling you that raw lace doesn't mean shit in cricket and you keep on ignoring it and going on autistic rants. Some of the fastest bowlers of all time barely played international cricket because they got smashed every time they played. Cricket is about being smart, not being quick.

You're literally and unironically retarded.

>>74372361
>A complete random throw purely decided by luck
>MUCH BALL OF LE CENTURY

>>74374556
Actually it is illegal. Throwing a curveball requires a bent elbow to get the curve action happening. You're not allowed to bend your arm when bowling in cricket.

>YOU CAN INTENTIONALLY THROW THE BALL AT THE BATTER
MLB PITCHERS WOULD INCAPACITATE OR OUTRIGHT MURDER THE OPPOSING TEAM

Why? You are aware that cricketers wear pads? Not to mention that it's easy to flick the ball behind you if you ball right at them.

>its already been demonstrated that any MLB player can crush any cricket bowler or whatever

No it hasn't

>its already been demonstrated that no professional cricket player could ever hit an MLB level pitch

no it hasn't.

What are you honestly doing here? What made you like this? Please tell me.

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>>74374494
>> No bounce, no variation in pitching
>> Just throw it as fast as possible
what is a changeup. curveball. knuckleball. those are nasty fucking pitches that your inbred british genes would be unable to cope with.

as opposed to chucking a fucking croquet ball off the ground at some faggot 10 feet away from you

> Batsmen have a variety of shots they can employ depending on the ball

Batman is fucking american and he wouldnt need variation he would just crush it out the park like all patriots

>constellations
>comprised of less than a dozen stars
>on a flag
>we had to stop at 50 with ours
pic fucking related

>>74374587
kys

>>74373118
>sports science

>>74374591
>what is a changeup. curveball. knucklebal
All have a cricket equivalent
The same is not true for breaks, spin, flippers, doosras, googlies, chinamen, carrom balls, flippers, sliders or cutters.

>>74374591
> changeup. curveball. knuckleball.

woah it changes direction slightly how impressive :^)

>>74374587
That's not the ball of the century you retarded fuck, that was bowled to Gatting

>>74374567
I love reading these posts outside /cric/

>>74374591
I bet you think handegg is better than rugby

>>74374622
Oh and reverse swing is impossible by definition in baseball since they constantly replace the ball instead of letting its condition be another variable in play

>>74374622
Don't forget seamers and cross seamers

>>74373813
that's the best players though, no american is going to play for the Australian national team. Much of cricket's competition is international, so that wouldn't help any Americans who want to make a living out of it since there's no market for it here. All they can do is the t20 leagues

looks like the salary cap for the big bash league is about 1M, that's maybe 50k per player on average? less for shittier ones. Looks like the IPL minimum is 50k. That's really not that much, though the leagues aren't very long. Still it wouldn't be worth learning a whole new sport for, I'm sure some players could but it would take years. And not much more money than an average job.

the japanese and korean baseball leagues pay far more than this, and the mexican and taiwanese pay at least as much. minor league lifers, as in if you're still in minor league baseball past your mid 20s then you're probably in AAA, these guys make about 20k a year minimum, though some make a lot more, for about 6 months of work and of course the pay potential is huge if they can make the major league team or even just make the 40 man roster. plus if you don't mind going to shitholes there's opportunity to play in winter leagues, I think guys in the mexican and venezuelan winter leagues make another 10-20k for 2 months or so of play.

I guess if you're really fucking shitty and can't even make AAA or the mexican pacific league and you have some money and time to spare and if you are literally gay then I guess you can try cricket

>>74374591
>Batman is fucking american and he wouldnt need variation he would just crush it out the park like all patriots
I laughed senpai

>>74374585
>Cricket is about being smart, not being quick
explain how that makes sense in any way. what is the defining characteristic that seperates cricket from baseball. the sport the demands less reflexes, ball speed, strength and any other measure of athleticism.
MLB pitchers throw balls from 90 freedom feet away with such power they routinely break bones in catchers hands through the glove and with such control that AERODYNAMICS of the fucking ball flying through the fucking air contort the flight path of the ball drastically enough to be considered different sub sets of pitches entirely

You cant bounce a fucking heavy ass ball travelling at such slow speeds off the ground in ways that are going to fool an MLB batter. it just wouldnt happen. and hasnt happened. ever.
I get a ball bounces differently on different surfaces. that would take all of a week to figure out for any MLB player.

>I think Lebron James and the Cavs could defeat the Australian national basketball team
>NOPE not here! our courts are concrete not parquet floors and our hoops are 3 feet lower!

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>>74374692
it's 60 feet 6 inches away faggot
unless you're carter capps

>>74374692
It literally would happen. If Yasir Shah, Ravi Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Mitchell Starc or Dale Steyn bowled to a baseball player they would have no fucking clue what to do.
Similarly a player like Steve Smith, Joe Root or Kane Williamson would have difficulty landing a legal hit off a baseball pitcher

>>74374591
The objective truth is baseball is retardedly simple which is the only reason it can be popular in america.

Cricket is a sport that takes a lifetime to understand, nobody could ever be good enough to play professional cricket after picking it up on a whim.

You could put a big dumb american ex-football player in a rugby team and he might do OK, put an ex baseball player in a cricket team and he wouldn't even understand what he was supposed to do, it would be a complete embarrassment.

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>>74374470
> the second most popular sport in the world

>>74374760
Based Daniel

>>74374768
It is and this is an objective fact. You LITERALLY cannot argue against it.

>>74374760
Ivana here, please have sex with me while shouting out your muscular and intelligent opinions.

>cricket matches last a week and end in a tie half the time
>teams actually stall for days to force a tie

>>74374643
I entertain a lot of correct opinions
so like is moana gonna be realesed there? is it gonna be a national holiday for you maori cunts?

>>74374785
>You will NEVER be this delusional
>You will NEVER be this terrible at banter

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>>74374716
yeah I'm sure a Ravi Shankar pitch would just blow kris bryants mind

Kenny Powers could throw the ball faster than fuck and he rather play minor league ball in mexico than lower himself to dabble in this fag sport
the only sport ever that curry niggers have gone professional at mind you

>never have a season of eastbound and downunder where kenny goes to australia and destroys cricket while engaging in casual racism against fucking lebs and abo's

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>>74374776
Huh? Baseball players make way more money than cricket players. Ergo, baseball players are far more popular with little green, paper rectangles than are cricket players.

A baseball player would be passable in cricket far more quickly than vice versa. they would at least be able to consistently put the bat on the ball after seeing a few hundred balls. They wouldn't be good by any stretch but they wouldn't be an automatic easy out, and they'd easily have the power to mash a few sixes in t20

cricket players would struggle more to hit the ball, and even if they could hit the ball it doesn't mean shit in baseball if you can't hit the ball with power, pajeet would struggle to get the ball out of the infield. Plus fielding is a far more important and difficult skill in baseball that takes as much practice as hitting (unless you're a DH in the fake baseball league), fielding in cricket is all about positioning so the baseball player can just stand wherever he's told to

>>74374768
>Canadian education
I guess sports can't really be taught in between the Muslim dick sucking class and the American dick sucking class, takes up too much of your time.

>>74374884
Baseball players will NEVER get a delivery that they're used to hitting in baseball and would be utter shit

The sports are completely different and any comparisons are retarded

>>74373764
The NBL is pretty much exclusively NBA rejects over here it's fucking hilarious. AFL I attest to being unskilled as all fuck because rugby players and Americans come down here all the fucking time to play it.

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>>74373974
was there ever a greater example of a great american BTFO yuro's and islanders?

top cricket coach says he could easily turn you pro
>Alan Fairfax was happy about the progress his new celebrity student appeared to be making. "In a fortnight, I could make one of the world's greatest batsmen out of him," he told the assembled press.

belittle the sport as unpopular and beneath you
>Babe Ruth smiled and said, "They tell me that $40 a week is top pay for cricket. I think I will stick to baseball." Babe Ruth was already the highest paid professional ball player in the world by 1929. His pay was $70,000.

remark how they cant even do it right on easy mode even with a bigger bat
>Ruth said "I wish I could use a wide bat like this in baseball.

unlike all europeans and islanders the great american patriot actually PUT HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH IS
>Ruth argued that a baseball pitcher is faster than a cricket bowler against the prevailing sentiment among the British onlookers. He said, "if anybody thinks Larwood throws a faster ball than Walter Johnson, they can have my money.

its a shame that wackety wickety pitcher postponed like a pussy and back out last second cause babe ruth woulda crushed him easily

so almost a hundred years ago cricket was BTFO and ridiculed by a professional athlete as some feeble facsimile of baseball
really makes you think....

>>74373781
>underhanded pitching
That happened ONCE and was widely condemned by everyone in the community. Nearly caused an international incident with New Zealand, too. You know what fuck me there's a movie idea right there.

The MLB thread a few days ago was full of webms of players fucking up easy fielding and making terrible pitches

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>>74374004
>>74374004
>but I understand bases and diamonds are too much of an architectural strain for NZ
Really makes me think

>>74374933
rugby seems like a pretty low skill sport also desu

>>74374973
what the fuck new zealand, why not just play baseball instead, softball is a women's sport, only played by men while drinking

>>74374692
>You cant bounce a fucking heavy ass ball travelling at such slow speeds off the ground in ways that are going to fool an MLB batter.
Do you have any idea how cricket works at all?

>>74374941
>Alan Fairfax was happy about the progress his new celebrity student appeared to be making. "In a fortnight, I could make one of the world's greatest batsmen out of him," he told the assembled press.

Coach hypes the fuck out of his player. Hmm.

>Babe Ruth smiled and said, "They tell me that $40 a week is top pay for cricket. I think I will stick to baseball." Babe Ruth was already the highest paid professional ball player in the world by 1929. His pay was $70,000.

Greedy American stays greedy. Hmm

>Ruth said "I wish I could use a wide bat like this in baseball.

American wants to use different sporting equipment to make his job easier. Hmm

>>Ruth argued that a baseball pitcher is faster than a cricket bowler against the prevailing sentiment among the British onlookers. He said, "if anybody thinks Larwood throws a faster ball than Walter Johnson, they can have my money.

American argues about ball speed, which doesn't even matter in cricket. Hmm

Seriously, where is the BTFO? Nothing here insults cricket or people who enjoy cricket at all.

>>74374884
You know most cricketers play baseball in their spare time, right? How many baseball players play cricket?

>Plus fielding is a far more important and difficult skill in baseball that takes as much practice as hitting
Pffffthahahaha mate I played baseball, was fucking shit at it and even I thought fielding was the easiest shit ever. I mean for fuck sake you have a giant fucking glove to catch and trap the ball.

>>74375031
>only played by men while drinking
You know what Maoris are, right?

>>74375059
>You know most cricketers play baseball in their spare time, right?
no, I had no idea, why

and baseball players don't play cricket because nobody here does

and fielding is a huge part of baseball. Often times the bat is ready in the minor leagues but the glove is so shit that they can't make it in the majors. It's really noticeable how much better fielding is in the majors than in the minors if you watch enough of both, kind of shockingly so desu. The difference is mostly in consistency, though range, quickness, arm strength etc are important too. Just like batting or pitching it's not something that can just be done at a major league level without innate talent and years of practice. Fielding is the best part of baseball in my opinion tbhwyj, it's just smooth as fuck usually, fielding highlights are GOAT

Meanwhile in cricket you just stand there and don't drop the one ball that flies in your direction every few days

>>74374957
shit happens senpai

>>74372397
Way more popular than baseball or indeed any other american sport

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>>74374434
>>74374494
>>74374549
>>74374585
>>74374590

lets be clear. these posts demonstrate that oceania here clearly think that
>we can throw that hard we just dont wanna
right. like a fucking petulant 5th grader would say.
>you guys couldnt throw that hard because there are more throwing involved
you are not aware of how long a baseball season is, how many pitches there are in an inning yet alone a full game and also the fact these niggers are throwing with such velocity so repeatedly they literally destroy their arms with such violent kinetic force so often they have a standardized surgery to repair it now called tommy john surgery
>besides its easy to dodge a 100+mph fastball thrown directly at a player from 20 feet away aimed at the body of the batter because "its's easy to flick the ball behind you if you ball right at them"
thats less than 200 milliseconds. thats faster than you can blink an eye before that fastball is lodged in your ribcage.
>No they wouldn't, they wouldn't be able to bowl a ball past 100 kph because the skills are so different.
youre right. people throwing faster from a further distance would and able to alter the direction the flight path of the ball with subtle manipulation learned over years of practice would never be able to replicate throwing a fucking ball 50 mph into the fucking dirt in front of a guy

please just give me one metric you are confident that a cricket player exceeds or even matches anything a baseball player can do

>>74374760
Cricket is a sport that takes a lifetime to understand, nobody could ever be good enough to play professional cricket after picking it up on a whim.

>babe ruth picks it up for a weekend as a lark, is approached to play professionally, rejects the offer because of the simplicity of the sport and low pay

or did cricket change in the past century?

India has 9 Olympic gold medals TOTAL. Throughout their entire history, yet they're a dominate force in cricket.

Literally the only argument any of us need. MLb players would dominate.

>>74376007
can confirm you have no clue

ITT - retarded Americans who don't know shit about physics.

>>74376030
Hi Pajeet. At least you're good at one sport no one cares about.

>>74376048
Anuj, please take break from computer and help dad cook kebab.

>>74376066
Capital reposte, Ameriburger. To think the world considers your country uneducated!

Checked, by the way.

>>74373497

>>74376007
the sport was also dominated by a couple million Caribbean islanders for a couple decades, says a lot about the level of competition

And it's a good comparison since this same region also plays baseball, and the combined population of the islands that play baseball is 10 times that the ones that play cricket, and while they're pretty good they have never come close to dominating the sport.

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where the fuck is /cric/ at?

listen the objective truth is that these fucking island nations arent gonna give it up no matter how many times or how many ways you prove them wrong.
they are just gonna go back to
>muh magic bouncey ball is soooo difficult to hit
>physics, biology (despite all the evidence of physics and biology lending itself to the fact that any cricket player could never even compete in baseball and any moderate talent at baseball could dominate cricket)
>muh shiggy shug chinaman cross seam rolly woll pitches are so advanced and difficult

yeah 3rd world colonies that never developed freedom still buy that and you can import all the paki's and poo in loo's you want but you will never see one in the MLB

Just keep praying at your local mosque the eye of fucking mordor doesnt ever deign your sport respectable enough to actually compete in because just like soccer this fucking sham of a sport would be dominated by americans in less than a decade and then for the rest of your lives and the only thing you would hear besides the call to prayer in arabic from the minaret nearby you would be the fucking USA national anthem played over and over again before games and during medal awarding ceremonies like any other sport that matters

>>74376327
Baseball is literally cricket for kids. No particular skills needed.

>>74376327
mexicans and degenerates

>>74376327
hahahaha america made a funny

>>74376388
>cricket
>skills

throwing a ball 40kph into the dirt and hoping for a weird bounce in front of a guy a couple meters away isnt skill

and there is no chance in hell any cricket pitchy throwy man could ever master the skill set of baseball pitching while any baseball pitcher marginally talented would completely dominate cricket if it ever paid enough for him to waste his actual athletic talent on it

>>74376417
you can't throw the ball ignorant lad, you can't bend your elbow

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>>74376388
>>74376410
>>74376416
read the entire thread and dispute the video evidence and facts presented against your bogus sham of a sport

invite your friends to get shut down, maybe after another 8 hour tie between (let me check) the riveting power houses the
>Peshawar Zalmi
>Quetta Gladiators

make sure you gas up those generators so your village doesnt lose its stream being broadcast in the town center!

>>74376426
someone else said that. so you cant even throw curve balls or generate actual velocity.

what happens if people run too fast? do they get a red card for vulgar display of athleticism?

I mean what kind of penalties can you incur for throwing a ball too fast or putting effort into it besides skipping a few paces and windmilling a stiff striaght arm like some bad impersonation of an old frankenstein movie?

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Imagine being American, makes my left arm numb tßh

how is a curveball different to a topspinner?

>>74376484
thats an overweight dominican that can throw farther, swing harder, and run faster than any limp wristed faggot in your sport designed for patients with cerebral palsy recovery process

How an MLB player's innings would go if he learnt cricket for a year
>6
>6
>Swing and a miss
>Out

Congrats, you scored 12

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>>74376524
silly delusional Trumplican

>Dominican Republic isn't in The Americas.

Loving that education system you got going there.

>the guy whose "National Pastime" is dominated by Cubans & Dominicans talking shit about 3rd world countries sports

lel

>>74376552
a MLB batter wouldnt miss any pitch you faggots could throw at him. it wouldnt happen. there is such a ridiculous difference between actually hitting a professionally thrown baseball and a parquet ball thrown at half the speed at half the distance that it wouldn't happen.

not a debate even. now could a cricket player actually hit a pitch with a real bat instead of a 2X4 thrown by someone who can actually generate velocity?
no. not a chance. yes I'm serious.

>>74376555
a sport that includes elite athletes from latin countries vs a sport dominated by countries without gold medals and with no representative in any actual real sport beyond cricket

cricket is the consolation prize made for punjabis and the genetic cast offs of the anglosphere unable to compete in anything else

i feel like americans don't really get that the aim of the game in cricket isn't really to score, it's to get wickets.

the "attacking" side in cricket is the fielding team. as a batter, being able to hit the ball more than one in every four attempts isn't the point. the point is to be able to defend your wicket for hours, even days on end without making a mistake.

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>>74376552
actually it would go more like
>6
>6
>6
>6
a dozen pitches later
>6
>6
oh come on is this guy gonna just skip the ball off the ground in front of me all day? I'm just gonna switch stance and hit lefty for a while
>6
>6
>6
and so on until he became hungry enough to quit or the mercy rule came into effect

iirc there has never been a near relevant american cricketer. meanwhile the last time we had a top class baseballer playing in the mlb he got shot and killed by niggers in a drive by. boreball is unironically so easy that you have to literally murder strapping aussies to stop us from dominating your shit sport

Really really good thread.

>you now realise the autists who have dumb sports arguments on youtube videos are actually just american baseball fans on /sp/

Just a friendly reminder to any american angrily posting in this thread that I would literally murder them or any of your professional MLB heroes with my ruthless chin music if they played me and I felt like it.

I'm not a professional, only played for my high school's top side, but I'd like to see them try and bat when I'm putting every fucking ball (which is harder and heavier than a baseball) at their head, at 120kph (proper professionals can reach 150).

This is of course assuming the soft cock americans don't have a mental breakdown from the banter first.

I look forward to your furious replies which I will not be reading.

Why don't cricket players lift? Strong upper body would make them better batters. Is lifting conaidered too barbaric among cricket elitists who dine on crumpets and tea?

>>74376769
why would it make them better batters?

>>74372413
3 months of having the runs from their """"""food"""""" is worth it?

>>74376774
More power Nigel. All cricketers look like they do only cardio.

HEY FAGGOTS
The baseball episode of the Simpsons is on channel 4+1 right now

>>74376613
>the aim of the game is not to score
So cricket is the /r9k/ of sports?

>>74376745
>>74376745
>>74376745
aim at the guys head
batter is wearing a helmet
flight of the conchords is a fucking 165 pound 5'8 manlet
MLB batter is 6'3 225 roided out freak

the kiwi wasnt aware of what happens to pitchers that try to brush back batters intentionally or intentionally hit a batter in baseball

they get fucked up. even in professional baseball. this isn't some fucking rinky dink island founded by effeminate pansies.
that guy is gonna charge the mound and lay you the fuck out. if he catches you of course. because you would immediately start running away of course.

>>74375031
rugby has some of the most specialised skill sets per position of any team in the world. I can guarantee that you could pick any 3 athletes from the NFL, give them a year to train, and even then they would snap their actually snap their necks in a scrum against an international front row.

>>74376613
you dont play to win! you play not to lose!
just like soccer
defense and draws are the real goal!
just like soccer
is there a game that actually rewards aggressive sportsmanship

>the newest sport craze to sweep through the UK and AUS is the professional bus parking championships
at least it would make sense when you guys give up and park the bus then

>>74376893
You didn't understand his post, and that's okay.

>>74376858
kek I'm 6'4 and ripped you utter embarrassment.

If I hit him in the head and he bitches about it like a little pussy then no one will care because if he actually had any cricketing talent then he'd be able to hit the ball before it hit his head.

>>74376858
bruv, do you know how many players have been killed by a cricket ball? it's many more than the ONE baseball player killed by a baseball.

don't even compare the two.

>>74370908
*unsheathes spin bowling*
*teleports in front of you*

Heh
Nothing personnel kid.

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Remember that American sports "science" show where they got an amateur cricketer playing in some irrelevant US pub league to bowl at a pro baseball star so they could conclude how great baseball is? Lol yanks are such tryhard faggots.

>>74373580
Cricket was literally the most popular bat and ball game in Amerifat until dumbshits realized that you can get children and niggers to fill stadiums if you play a glorified version of rounders instead.

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>>74373974
>he had edged so many balls that the edges had nearly disappeared.
Kek

>>74374814
That show was pretty shit, vice principals > eastbound and down
Absolute fact

>>74376790
how much are you making m8

>>74376805
If you're technique is correct and you're making contact with middle of the bat the return of energy is enough to hit boundary, it's not about hit the ball as hard as you can, it's about placement.

>>74374587
>random

kys you idiot

Cricket is more about decision making than whacking the ball.

Of course a baseball player could smack a six, but could he stay in all afternoon and notch up a century?

>>74371741

Don Bradman practiced by hitting a golf ball against a corrugated iron shed with a stump all day, what's your point?

This thread is totally missing the point of the game. A test cricket batsman needs survive so many deliveries to do well its totally incomparable.

Example is Cooks batting figures against India at Birmingham

His figures were:
AN Cook c Raina b Sharma 294 773 545 33 0 53.94

For you spectics this means that cook batted for 773 mins of play without getting out. He faced 545 balls in ONE INNINGS and scored on average half a run per ball. scoring a total of 294.

His ability to hit a single given delivery or 10 or 50 is pretty much irrelevant.

> two games totally different but americans want to compare due to inferiority complex over never getting to compete internationally.

It is a tale as old as /sp/

>>74377799
You're forgetting a cricketbaddle is fucking wide as shit and the batsman can just hold it down in front to tap balls and he is not required to run. You can't do that in baseball. You can't pick which hit is good enough for you to run on.

>>74378229
It's almost as if they were different game or something...

>>74378250
That is objectively easier. You have a single base and a permanent runner on that base so when you stop tapping balls and find a hit good enough to run on, you constantly get runs. What a joke. No wonder Pajeets can compete.

>>74378297
What a Joke!

>>74378297

>not knowing about overs
>not knowing about fast vs spins
>not knowing about fielders' positions

>>74372413
1 month

>>74375253
the fastest pitch in baseball and the fastest ball in cricket both reach the batter in 0.4 secs

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In the sport of war dodging, who would win: Cassius Clay or Don Bradman?

>>74373118
you do realise 3 cricketers went to the us on holiday in the 80s, got invited to a baseball stadium and offered professional contracts on the spot after hitting it out the park. only botham out of them was an international, other 2 where run of the mill county cricketers

>>74378388

hello Dankush!

>>74379429

>Surprisingly, in light of his batting prowess, a routine army test revealed that Bradman had poor eyesight.[119]

AHAHAHAHAHA

>>74373346

Top kek. This triggers Australians

>>74377554
you forget that you don't use the chest to generate power due to the stance in cricket, so adding mass onto your chest is basically worthless and slows your hand speed down. all the power is generated by delts and hand speed mainly so it's literally pointless having the large chest bodybuilder look for a batter unlike the roided up monkeys playing baseball

The real question is..

Do they serve cheeseburgers at cricket grounds?

>>74379976

haha! epic.

>>74377626
>Of course a baseball player could smack a six, but could he stay in all afternoon and notch up a century?

yeah. whatever that means. there is absolutely no comparison between the reaction speed and batting prowess. crickets a fucking joke obfuscated by dumb rules and relegated to the 3rd world.

> A test cricket batsman needs survive so many deliveries to do well its totally incomparable.

batman survived having his back broken

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listen faggots it doesnt take a lifetime to learn.
it doesnt take amazing skill to master.

its some guy trying to trick you with a bad bounce off the deck. that's all it is. just a little ball thrown from a short distance away and you gotta predict how it's gonna break bad on you.

oh and all you have to do is protect those sticks behind you. and you get a 2x4.

>but the game lasts hours
no red blooded american athlete is going to have any problem crushing that little faggot ball made of wood out of the park for hours on end

The antipodeans are morons. The answer to this question is easily demonstrated by The Market. Scarcity. How scarce is the demanded skill? The salaries show that it's pretty scarce for cricket!
Virat Kohli :$6.9m (IPL & BCCI Central Contract)
MS Dhoni $5.7m (IPL & BCCI Central Contract)
Chris Gayle $4.5m (Various T20 leagues)
But the Market values baseball skills higher.
Clayton Kershaw Starting Pitcher $35,571,428
Zack Greinke Starting Pitcher $34,000,000
David Price Starting Pitcher $30,000,000
Cricket skill is therefore less scarce. And considering cricket is the more popular sport, the baseball salaries truly illustrate the gap in skill scarcity.

>americans using ridiculous metrics to determine things and laughing at people using objective facts
/sp/ in a nutshell. used to think you guys where ironic shitposters but you really are just mongs

>>74383847
american patriots using nothing but comparative facts, videos, and metrics of skill to prove that MLB players are much more skilled and that cricket is incredibly simplistic compared to baseball

island nations with stupid fucking accents that cant pronounce the letters H or R in words
>no you have to defend sticky wicks with a 2x4 and your whole body from a slower ball that bounces
>its sooooooo difficult compared to hitting 102mph fastballs and 82mph curveballs from 60 feet away
>reacting in milliseconds with full power swings accurately with a smaller bat surface area is easier than just stepping in front of a bouncing ball skipped off the ground at you with so much time to react you can actually move your body into another position and reset
>our pitchers have to wind up and triple jump into a throw with a straightened arm to hurl a ball out of purely centrifugal force from a much closer distance with almost zero accuracy praying for some backspin or english
which is much more difficult than
>your pitches have to throw a lighter ball, from more than twice the distance away, in excess of 90+ mph, within a strike box smaller than a mans torso, accurately and reliably or else the batter walks, and only using the seams and aerodynamics of the ball to alter its flight path without it hitting the ground is more difficult than bouncing a fucking cue ball off some dirt for effect from half the distance away

yeah and driving on the left side of the road takes ten times more skill than yank driving on the right side of a motorway up mountains

>>74375159
>using a fucking glove to catch a ball
Kys

>>74390006
using more padding than a hockey goalie and a rowboat oar as a bat

I genuinely feel embarrassed for this burger lads

24 hours later and he's STILL seething and begging Big Strong /cric/ to post in this thread so he can demonstrate his idiocy

>>74391531
>chicago cubs win the world series!! the curse is over!! now lets watch the celebrations go on for an entire city all night!! they did it, they came back down 3-1 in the series and won it!!
vs
>rashik khan has done it! he's postponed the game for another 3 days to force the brisbane cucky ducks to forfeit the game resulting in a tie!

You literally lose if you think that cricket is more difficult than baseball. After this point every post by a 3rd world country including new zeal and, Australia and England does not count. Your sport is shit and you don't know what it is like to play a real sport.

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>>74392963
>>74392986
Kill YOURself, you retarded, poor, obese, balding, homosexual piece of yank shit. Reminder that I am in your head and won't be going away. Reminder I control you now, you little fucking bitch. Every reaction that YOU make is a calculated, planned reaction by ME. Whether you choose to foolishly reply, or ignore the posts like a little bitch again, YOUR status among the /sp/ community will decline.

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>>74373346
>wimbly bimbly
jesus christ anon, you got me

>>74374274
>so you have to react a little faster? Yeah, not that tricky. Swinging earlier doesn't take a massive amount of effort.
A LITTLE FASTER, HE SAYS.
You have literally 125ms to locate and attempt to predict a pitch's location. That's less than half the time it takes to blink.

Then, throw that in against breaking balls, having to time off-speed pitches and STILL remain alert enough not to let that fastball by you. Oh, and of course, location. Not every pitch is coming right down the middle on the fat part of the plate.

A good pitcher works locations, setting the batter off-balance. If they've got a nasty fastball and even a decent breaking ball or off-speed pitch, the effort to fucking hit off of them is herculean. It's not just 'swing a little faster.'

>>74392990
You are delusional my friend, you know baseball is more difficult, deep down you know and you will cry your tears tonight but only you will suffer.

>>74393032
All true for cricket too Tbh

You do know bowlers can bowl at over 90 mph too, right? It would be embarrassing if you didn't

>>74372572
It's not hard to hit the ball dickhead. A hit in baseball is when you actually reach base. Dumb cunt.

>>74393032
>different speed pitches
>pitches thrown in a slightly different area

Woah...

>>74393086
Do you actually think it's not hard to reach base in baseball or are you just fucking with everyone?

Honestly, both of you goofs arguing back and forth for hours are wrong. Kill yourselves.

>>74393092
I don't know what that means, I haven't watched a game of baseball in my life. I'm just laughing at this fucking sperg

>>74393032
bro>>74392990
these fucking inbred anglo islands have no concept of reaction time, milliseconds or objects travelling faster than hand eye coordination to intercept
>just swing it earlier lad
when before the fucking ball is thrown?

the same people have peddled non athletic sports to the 3rd world for the sake of popularity to bolster its claims as legitimate
>soccer
>cricket
they think these require more athleticism than the NFL or MLB because
>muh stamina
yeah jogging or standing still and falling down when people walk past you is really taxing

the only area the world is on equal footing with is basketball
number of AUSSIES imported to the NBA
>1 or 2 maybe?
number of merricans imported to yurop and convict island and asia for their basketball "leagues"
>80%

honestly go to cric and just imagine being stuck in a room with those morose little faggots having to walk on eggshells so you dont set off a tantrum, not yelling to loud if a game gets exciting because then they would take their ball and go home back to pakistan

>>74393109
Do you ACTUALLY think anyone here plays basketball?

kek

KEK

K-E-K

>>74393067
yeah but you dont have a strike zone. or batters box. or pitch count.

you faggots can walk in front of the sticks and tilt that little faggle paddle straight down and walk in front of the ball

come the fuck on. get a clue.

>>74393109
KEK I can LITERALLY feel the absolute rage you were in when you made this post.

YOU are objectively a freshcunt from /b/ or /pol/

YOU unironically spent the past 24 hours in a furious and confused state of seething rage after getting utterly PTFO by muscular southerners

YOU will furiously write an entire essay in response to this post, which I may give you the privilege of reading if I'm bored enough

YOU will never have sex

YOU are pathetic

I eagerly await your reply

>>74393120
I know there is at least one aussie in the NBA. and a lot in NCAA football as kickers. they have some camp or school over there to poach rugby players for kickers.

>Do you ACTUALLY think anyone here plays basketball?
no that would require money and stadiums and athletic ability
you guys just choose to let your blacks huff gasoline and pay for their crime reservations instead of forcing them to be entertaining hoop niggers

>>74393127
I don't think you've seen a single game of cricket in your life

>>74393137
So what poignant comment were you trying to make about barely any Australians playing NBA?

In all my years on /sp/ I have NEVER encounted a SINGLE poster as absolutely furious as this American.

You can LITERALLY see him sitting at his desk with a monster energy drink and furiously smashing his fists onto his keyboard every time someone disagrees with him.

kek

KEK

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>>74393135
bro no lie. the following posts were all me.
>>74372789
>>74373118
>>74373346
>>74373435
>>74373580
>>74373751
>>74373816
>>74373953
>>74374004
>>74374094
>>74374402
>>74374454
>>74374591
>>74374692
>>74374814
>>74374941
>>74375253
>>74376327
was all me and I havent had so much fun in a thread in years. this is some like 2011 football season funposting ITT.
I have had such a good time with all the islanders who have posted here and I love you cunts. I would love to grow up somewhere where you didnt even need to build a wall in the first place.
but.....
I'm also fucking correct and I'm pretty sure you guys know it. Lord knows the rest of the world does.

>>74393170
America wins again, congrats you btfo ausfalia out so hard i'd be surprised if they post on /sp/ ever again

>>74393170
senpai this post is gay as fuck

>using a giant wooden dildo in your "sport"
why is baseball so gay lads

>>74393170
you're fucking pathetic and any attempt to redeem yourself or one-up yourself from here is lost.

you're grade A fuckwit and should hang yourself plz

they're two totally different sports with different skill-sets, comparing the two is a fucking joke.

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>I havent had so much fun in a thread in years

This is absolutely code for "I am SEETHING" if ever I've seen it. Palpable damage control.

>>74376457
>what is swing bowling
Fast bowlers can bowl at over 90mph as well.

>>74378229
If you just hold the bat you'll edge it outside and get caught.

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>>74393170
I really enjoyed those posts. Thank you anon.

lmaoing at everyone in this thread 2bh, you're all morons

>>74393337
>they're two totally different sports with different skill-sets, comparing the two is a fucking joke.
two sports involving a pitcher throwing a ball and a batter
> different skill-sets
bat. ball. reaction speed. power, throwing motion. pitch variation. bat speed. fielding. actually making plays.
all similar skill sets.
> comparing the two is a fucking joke
no comparing the two is allright, the joke is actually thinking cricket is on the same level as MLB baseball is insulting.
>they're two totally different sports
so is badminton and tennis. you can compare them but they arent comparable when it comes to the athletes and skill.

go back to greece or lebanon if you cant handle the bantz mate

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>>74393430
>>74393242
thanks guys. any time you have to chance to BTFO some self righteous little island, you do gods will and make sure they know how wrong they are.
pay it forward guys.

>>74393446
Compare t20 and baseball all you like but test cricket literally has entirely different objectives. It's barely a sport, it's basically solitaire on grass, there is literally no way an american can even attempt to understand why autists even watch it.

>>74393453
The hurly burly one was definitely my favorite. Goodnight anon.

>>74393356
australian gun rights.gif

Really glad Ai don't come from a country where this shit is funny

Cricket is basically a dumb and boring version of baseball. The amount of subtlety and tactical and athletic ability on display in baseball makes cricket looks like the shitty joke that it is.

Cricket will NEVER be able to match the tradition and history and folklore of baseball either.

And don't even get me started on attendance and revenue. Baseball attracts 75 million people annually just in the MLB. Further 25 million people attend Japanese baseball and add other millions in caribbean and other nations. On the other hand, if you add up all the cricket attendances worldwide, they would struggle to cross even 10 million ROFLOL.

And oh, MLB is a $9.5 BILLION annual industry! Cricket is not even 1/10th of that LMAO.

All in all, cricket can fuck right off.

>>74393532
I wouldnt worry about it
it would take human intelligence to develop artificial intelligence first, so straya's safe on that front

Why the FUCK are the BSAs so obsessed this weekend lads?

>>74393549
bangladesh
overthrows the shackles of oppression from India and rejects its fucking weak ass attempts at sports

nz and aus
still sucking the dick and paying tribute to the crown defending some fucking lawn game made up for women and children during the 1800's

maybe its just a freedom thing?

americans get all ass blasted when a pitcher sends one at their heads.

They wouldn't know what the fuck to do if mitch johnson sent down a few bouncers.

>he cant catch a ball without a massive glove
>he needs 9 innings to score any runs
>muh charge the mound
>muh 50 year old "knuckleballers"

baseball is a peasant's game

>>74393567
Bangladeshis love cricket overall anon.

>>74393583
Your sport is named after an annoying insect

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>I rate (((baseball)))

>>74393109
there's been about 20 Aussies in the NBA, about 10 there right now.

I just don't get it bros. How the FUCK can cricket complete?

>>74393583
>americans get all ass blasted when a pitcher sends one at their heads.

FUCK OFF you fucking FUCKTARD! In cricket, the batsmen starts crying and whining like LITTLE BITCHES the moment someone bowls a full toss above waist high. In fact, bowl that twice and the bowler is FUCKING BANNED from bowling.

That's how gutless coward little bitches cricketers are. They can't handle the regular FULL TOSSES without throwing a hissy fit over it. Whereas baseball hitters face similar pitches EVERY SINGLE TIME!!

Oh and don't even get me started in getting on the head. In baseball, hitters regularly get hit by 95 mph FULL TOSSES. Whereas, in cricket not only are beamers banned, but you can't even bowl bodyline nowadays.

Fucking cowardly and pathetic """"sport"""" is cricket.

please watch the wbc

>>74393594
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>>74393604
holy shit. based bangladesh bringing the fucking heat.
its over gentlemen.
we actually have an inside man that knows what he is talking about and can repudiate all these faggot cricket fans claims.

truly these are the end times.
now all we need are a couple tsunamis to take care of uk, nz, aus and the caribbean followed by some form of bacterial outbreak spread by unhygienic conditions in asia to take care of india and pakistan.

>>74393668
That's our gimmick

>>74370908
friggin beefcakes. who's the bigger hunk? kris bryant or rizzo?

Cricket is comfy desu

>>74371741
I thought Pujols went to school in the US.

I think this is the first time I've seen somebody actually win an arguement on 4chan. Absolutely halarious thread watching these two go at it.

>>74372836
>fedora.jpg

I very much enjoy cricket and don't even watch baseball but none the less MLB baseball players would dominate cricket after a short amount of training. It would literally change the entire mechanics of the game. Look at how superior Australia became at fielding after they realized cricket coaches/players were shit at fielding and hired an MLB coach for specialized fielding training.

300th for cricket

>>74393453
This is the true American spirit and why >we (the good guys) always win

>>74375209
you'll never get apples to apples comps across different sports if you use things like ratings. But cricket/rugby/basketball/baseball are all kind of the same tier in terms of number of countries where they are popular/populations of those countries

>>74393170
>this is 6 hours of constant posting

people have that much spare time

this thread is terrible lads