Cricket Explained for Baseball Fans
What is Cricket? How is Cricket played? Is Cricket like baseball? Is baseball like Cricket? These are all good questions. Cricket is …
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Hey! Thanks for all the great comments. One thing that has come up a lot: At a few points I use the term "professional match" or "professional cricket" when I should have said "league" or "professional league match." International Cricket is also very professional! When I said "professional cricket" I was referring to the T20 cricket leagues that exist in India, Australia, etc. and are somewhat analogous to sports leagues in other countries, like Major League Baseball or the Premiere League. International cricket is also professional, and international play is the highest level of professional play.
That was very funny. I've never heard an American try to explain cricket before 😂 it was pretty much correct, plenty was left out, but it would have just confused the yanks to include it 😄 one thing I will say is, it is much more common than "not unheard of" for a batsman to score 100. But it was a pretty good explanation for Americans.
Sorry but even after this solid explanation, cricket seems even stupider than when I had no clue what was going on. Other countries sports are just weird. USA USA USA
holy cow! as a baseball player all my life, these cricket rules are as confusing as hell! Made my head spin! 😂
I gave up at 26 seconds
So extremely overly unnecessarily complicated baseball got it
I’m just saying, they make fun of us for playing “football” with our hands, but play a game named after a bug
Awww we’re friends?
In regard to the "P2" number on the TV scoreboard, this signifies whether a "powerplay" is in progress where fielding restrictions apply. I forget now how many in each innings but they only apply to limited overs cricket viz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerplay_(cricket). A batter can also be out "hit wicket", where a part of their body or bat break the bails in the process of playing a delivery. Bowlers can also be stopped from bowling if they are deemed to either be bowling dangerously (e.g. at the head) or if they deliberately run through on the wicket to affect its surface. Maybe that's for another video. Fielding teams are able to play a substitute fielder if the main 11 have an injury, but they can only field, i.e. they cannot bat or bowl. I am from England and have played and watched cricket for many years and I enjoy all its forms, including amateur cricket (sometimes known as village cricket).
This sport is so bad. Please keep this crap in India or wherever they play this bs at
When you said India made 222 and the target for England is 222, you were wrong. India made 221 so England in order to win the match needs at least one more run than that. If England would score only 221 than the match would end up as a 'tie'. In case of tie it ends there or in certain formats the two teams play a super over each to break the tie.
I lost interest once he said there were only two bases.
Still doesn't matter how you explained it it's still boring and stupid and shit 😂😂😂
A game to play when you are no good at actual baseball.
Do the bowlers have to bounce the ball?
Hi. Well done. Nice description. I am cricket though to my bones! Would love to see the great game grow. Guess that the cwc matches in texas and florida/ nyc helped. Bless you!
Best explanation video of cricket I’ve ever seen. Thanks!
Australia vs South Africa in 1999 world cup semi final is the best match ever played in history of Cricket.
I remember being stuck watching cricket when I was a kid… Was hard to figure out by watching, so I got on my bike and went to the library for a book on it… No the Internet didn't exist yet. 🤙
Having watched a few cricket matches, it seems to me that LBW is roughly the equivalent psychologically of a called third strike n baseball.
OK, but one more question..or more:
You mention that there are two "batters" up at any given time…and we can see there are two out there…..but you never explained how it's determined which one of them pitches, or which side of wickets is pitched to and why….is it rotated every pitch, groupings of pitches or once one guy is gotten "out" then it goes to other batter of the two? How many "outs" to "an inning?" One? Is all the pitcher and/or D has to do is knock the wickets once or catch the ball once and his turn at bat is over?
We can see that after the batter connects each runner runs back and forth for however long they can get away with it and not be thrown out. But then you didn't explain a couple of things.
1. So do they go back and forth between the two batters up at a time? Or is the other "batter" just there to run with the main batter? Or does it just go with one batting until he/she is out, then the other?
2. And also, we can see the moments the ball rolls towards the outer wall but doesn't hit it (for four runs) and we can see the fielder relaying the ball back in…..but then what? Is there something like an automatic stoppage once the ball gets thrown back in a certain distance? Or is it just that the runners stop continuing to run for runs when they know the fielders are close enough to hit the wickets? It seems they could get more runs out of some of those but maybe there's little need for risk of a good throw knocking the wickets off when by playing it safe with the baserunning you get to stay up forever.
Thanks for any more clarity.
Cricket proves there is no god. What an incredibly boring sport.
Very interesting stuff. I'll stick with baseball, though.
Good video! I spent a summer a few years ago becoming familiar with Cricket and its history. I even had a couple of Cricket apps that I played to get a taste of the experience.
So many years later, I'd lost the tenuous grasp of the game I had acquired – yet I still have a respect for Cricket that most Baseball fans lack. It's not that I'm a better person – I just took the time to appreciate something different from my experience, something appreciated around the World.
Yawn… Cricket who???
GO BLACK CAPS
-an American
looks dumb
Really great explainer! Thank you! I've bought a book and watched multiple other clips to try to get in it and this is the most clear!
These Baseball fans are so racist and this comment section proves it even though white countries like australia,new zealand, england, south africa, afghanistan plays this sport 😂
Stupied
Stupied sport
8:55 please do a video on test cricketer given how popular this video is for reactors
Fantastic video
It can have six over because of no balls
Least athletic sport I've ever seen. Perfect for Indians
13:26 Pwobabwy
This game sucks!
I'm baseball fan,but I found cricket (T20) much more exciting to watch than baseball.
Great explanation! Something about fielding gloves, maybe?