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.
you will never know the depth of your mother's vagina
Henry Sanchez
is Gideon's book on said picture any good?
Xavier Peterson
got it last week I'll let you know when I get around to reading it
cricinfo made it sound interesting
Jordan Williams
reminder that Trumper was the original Bradman
Ian Hernandez
Is this /hoc/?
Joseph Peterson
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."
Jonathan King
Is this some semen slurping please watch our sport pasta? Cuz I hope you didn't actually have these thoughts yourself and think they were correct
Liam Gomez
debate me you can't
Landon Mitchell
Yeah because a sport where poo in loos understand must really take a lot of fucking knowledge.
Eli Barnes
I won't, because you'll just "hurt durr merifat XD"
There is no debate, just memes
Camden Carter
reminder asians are demonstrably smarter than the white man
Aiden Brown
This.
>greatest player of all time is a pajeet >the depth of knowledge that goes into cricket
kek
Camden Jones
Gooks love baseball too
Gooks > Poo in Loos
Jordan Cox
>>greatest player of all time is a pajeet who the FUCK told you that
It's Don Bradman you LITERAL retard
If you google "best cricket player" every result WILL be Don Bradman
Dominic Reed
Yeah Cricket is a sport where literally the worst athletes on the planet dominate. Fucking Indians, ZERO gold medals in 2016 with over 1 billion people.
It really activates my almond.
Brandon Stewart
Any player that played the majority of their career before 1990 is irrelevant and only dominated because it was a shit tier era.
Tendulkar is the best of all time.
Jeremiah Foster
reminder Usain Bolt grew up wanting to play cricket but was too shit
Adam Bell
That's a funny way of spelling Sir Garfield Sobers
Statpadwoman was a war-dodging coward who made a ""career"" out of padding his precious fucking average against literal amateurs
Jackson Reyes
>this whole post
Charles Stewart
>please watch our sport
fuck off, baseball is literally both more entertaining and complex in terms of strategy
Leo Mitchell
>In baseball the tactics consist of, "let's hit the ball hard lmao." The Pitchers tactic is "Ayyyy let's through the ball fast
Wrong. Also
>through the ball fast >through
Angel Powell
kek
KEK
K-E-K
Brayden Wood
4u
Nicholas Jones
get absolutely fucking recked
will the white """""""""""man""""""""""" ever recover ?
Isaac Peterson
>professional athletes / cricket
yes this is what I asked for thanks
Jaxson Lewis
It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, Though my own red roses there may blow; It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, Though the red roses crest the caps, I know. For the field is full of shades as I near a shadowy coast, And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost, And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host As the run stealers flicker to and fro, To and fro: O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago ! It's Glo'ster coming North, the irresistible, The Shire of the Graces, long ago! It's Gloucestershire up North, the irresistible, And new-risen Lancashire the foe! A Shire so young that has scarce impressed its traces, Ah, how shall it stand before all-resistless Graces ? O, little red rose, their bats are as maces To beat thee down, this summer long ago ! This day of seventy-eight they are come up north against thee This day of seventy-eight long ago! The champion of the centuries, he cometh up against thee, With his brethren, every one a famous foe! The long-whiskered Doctor, that laugheth the rules to scorn, While the bowler, pitched against him, bans the day he was born; And G.F. with his science makes the fairest length forlorn; They are come from the West to work thee woe! It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, Though my own red roses there may blow; It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, Though the red roses crest the caps, I know. For the field is full of shades as I near a shadowy coast, And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost, And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host As the run stealers flicker to and fro, To and fro: O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago !
Zachary Hughes
There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight – Ten to make and the match to win – A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of the ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote – 'Play up ! play up ! and play the game !' The sand of the Desert is sodden red – Red with the wreck of a square that broke; – The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel's dead, And the regiment's blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed its banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up ! play up ! and play the game !' This is the world that year by year, While in her place the school is set, Every one of her sons must hear, And none that hears it dare forget. This they all with joyful mind Bear through life like a torch in flame, And falling fling to the host behind – 'Play up ! play up ! and play the game !'
Adam Moore
>implying pakipaddle isnt dominated by pakis get a load of this guy
Jeremiah Bailey
>inb4 Cook passes Tendulkar's record and then everyone says that he's the best ever
Cooper Mitchell
Twice a week the winter thorough Here stood I to keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow For the young man’s soul. Now in Maytime to the wicket Out I march with bat and pad: See the son of grief at cricket Trying to be glad. Try I will; no harm in trying: Wonder ’tis how little mirth Keeps the bones of man from lying On the bed of earth.
Colton White
"Bailey bowling, MacLean cuts him late for one. I walk from the Long Room into slanting sun. Two ancients halt as Statham starts his run. Then, elbows linked, but straight as sailors On a tilting deck, they move. One, square-shouldered as a tailor's Model, leans over, whispering in the other's ear: 'Go easy. Steps here. This end bowling.' Turning, I watch Barnes guide Rhodes into fresher air, As if to continue an innings, though Rhodes may only Play by ear."
Charles James
he could, but he wont because England automatically drop all players when they turn 34 irrespective of their ability
Nathan Rogers
how do i get into cricket bros? is it actually televised anywhere?
Cameron Wood
nah it's the second most popular sport in the world but we all just listen to it on the radio
Camden Ortiz
Well that's stupid
Are there pictures in the newspaper at least?
Julian Jones
yeah but black and white only
Liam Green
How clearly can you see the blacks?
Adam Martinez
the blacks are very black and it distinguishes the colours well
Isaac Baker
only sachin of those would make a best ever xi
and even that might be a stretch
Aiden King
>a fucking paddle
Evan Flores
>best cricket player >comes up with kohli and dhoni
Julian Garcia
Is cricket a high test sport?
Charles White
ye
John Brooks
PLEASE
Robert Sanders
Did she get a C-section or something?
Charles Morales
No because there is no debate its just complete lack of knowledge about baseball and memes
do 'strayans, andor the general oceania, consider themselves to be asian?
Charles Martinez
>colour
Carter Hill
>pitch color determines how the game will go i dont think this semen slurping sport is for me lads
William Harris
I know next to nothing about this sport but that looks like it would make the CallCenter Top Ten for sure.
Alexander Williams
>please watch our sport
Cooper Thompson
>sport >pls watch
Brody Diaz
Cricket has the drinks cart. Case closed.
Luke Wood
how did the wickets not fall? Does it matter?
Gabriel Jones
Fuck no
Levi Gomez
>being proud of intentionally misspelling words
wow you sure are a badass dude my man
Nathaniel Allen
thats what i'd thought.
but, if not asian, then what are they?
is ANZAC the closest pseudo nation/ethnicity?
because y'all are too far to be SE Asian.
Jacob Lopez
Ok
> In baseball the tactics consist of, "let's hit the ball hard lmao Objectively false as there are a plethora of hits, for example you can do a sacrifice fly to get a runner up to the next base, chop it into the ground etc. shows complete lack of knowledge about baseball >The Pitchers tactic is "Ayyyy let's through the ball fast" Literally only Aroldis Chapman does that, and its so meme that he is only designated as a closer meaning he almost always pitches a single inning to clean up a game when the starter and bullpen pitchers get tired and have a drop in performance. There are many pitches such as a slider, sinker, curveball, meme knuckleball, and only one kind (fastball) involves just throwing (not throughing) the ball hard. Again shows complete lack of baseball knowledge.
>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. No idea what that even means but if you mean the shape of the field its to prevent the batter from forcing constant dropped balls.
>Field placments do not mater at all because the batsmen is forced, by the rules of the game, to hit it at the fielders. yes it does matter as each batter usually hits the ball in a certain way to a certain area, making it optimal to do shifts to move your fielders over to make it easier to get him out. It is also never guaranteed that they will catch the ball because like in cricket the field is large.
>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...There is absolutely no vairiety in the game, no situational decision making required of the batsmen and no aspect of sustained mental fortitude. Objectively false, if you can't do different hits in baseball then you can't do it in cricket.
Bentley Green
>a """sport""" where they literally have tea time
Jordan Kelly
Why do you only call us out? We're not the only country that doesn't play cricket, you know.
Easton Rogers
Babe Ruth fucking dominated in an exhibition cricket match. He said if he was given a paddle to hit baseballs, he'd home run each time.
Never forget that cricket will always be an Olympic tier sport (NOBODY really fucking cares unless something big happens, ie. Olympics).
