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.
>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 Is that supposed to be a good thing
Oliver Bailey
We use Cubans and Dominicans.
James Campbell
Thanks for the laugh europoor
Parker Green
Isn't cricket that game they play in Harry Potter?
Do they play that in Kangaroo land?
Where do you get the flying brooms?
Oliver Stewart
Is this /gong/?
Adrian Perez
> europoor cmon man. Youre making us look bad. The problem with cricket it the length of time it takes to complete a game
Andrew Allen
that's the best part of the game you literal fucking mong
lobotomise yourself
Jose Diaz
t. Arthur Srivastava Ganesh
Cameron Cook
Lol calm down pants backwards man. Way to distinguish yourself from the lowbrow, lowest common denominator hahaha
Jacob Hughes
you're a fucking idiot and you have no understanding of baseball whatsoever. I was originally going to kind of defend cricket because I have nothing personally wrong with it, but fuck you.
Any professional baseball player would absolutely run shit in a pro cricket league. They would probably be looked at as a generational talent and have statues made of them n shit. The only reason they dont become cricket all-stars is because the worst players in the mlb make more than the best cricketers.
John Martinez
The pinnacle of American Football is viewed as the ad break.
Every rule in the entire game is geared towards maximising the amount of ad breaks that can be attempted within an hour. Its great viewing. What a thrilling sport.
Cricket is OK but I can't deal with all that sport. Sometimes several hours can pass without a single break! Can you imagine? I hardly ever get to sit and watch advertisements for eight minutes while commentators frantically create stats to read out in cricket. If cricket wants to compete they need far more of it.
Also, there's far too much strategy in cricket. They bowl in too many areas in too many ways and they preplan their intricate game plan for the next four days far too frequently. What cricket needs to do is make the game shorter, so less time is spent actually watching the sport. Did you guys see the latest Broncos vs 49ers game? 15 television breaks to 34! The 49ers had no answer to Bronco's tactics of generating advertising revenue by constantly ending plays to cut to an ad break.
Its this level of corporate support that is missing in cricket, where as you rightly point out, its just a bunch of athletic guys playing a sport against each other for five days. Yawn
Brody Barnes
>cricket >soccer
literal 3rd world shithole sports
Daniel Gray
>posts something retarded and gets proven wrong about baseball >'lol lets shitpost about football'
you arent getting off that easy
Brody Taylor
this is my favourite pasta
bonus points for being factual
Owen Nelson
>youre making us look bad
Fuck off
Ian Thompson
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."
Ethan Morales
I find football to be almost as boring as cricket (can you imagine?).
They both are dreadfully dull, but at least there's a couple seconds of athleticism in Football.
Tactics are nice. Go play Rugby or soccer :)
Benjamin Taylor
>you can't bounce the ball >you cannot change the angle of delivery >there are no off cuffer slow balls >bunch of retarded words that I assume are the same as curveballs, sinkers, sliders, backfoot sliders/curves/etc, knuckleballs, splitters, etc
you are so wrong it hurts.
Also people literally have died from getting hit by pitches in baseball, and although thrown at similar speed the fastest pitch in baseball is faster than the fastest bowl in cricket. And if you fuck up you're just out in baseball too, but because there's so much variety in delivery of pitches it makes hitting the ball extremely difficult.
literally the whole basis for baseball pitching is change elevation, moving side to side and changing speed/rotation to get desired breaks
Aiden Price
looks like the kind of shit you'd see a third grade part time bowler put out in cricket
you LITERALLY CANNOT debate the fact that there is a tiny fucking region that the laws of baseball demand the ball go into and that this severely constrains any kind of variation in delivery
Brandon Gutierrez
reminder this is literally impossible in baseball
Angel King
>it's an americans convince themselves that baseball is """complex""" episode
yawn seen this one already
Luis Carter
reminder the laws of baseball ban this sick filth
Nolan Thompson
Baseball and cricket are both boring as shit anyways so who cares. Most Americans don't even like baseball anyways and only watch the world series.
Jack Thompson
Is it pretty comfy to be able to make a thread before you go to sleep and then wake up to how your bait fared?
Andrew Sullivan
>world >series
Bentley Price
What the fuck is even going on here, looks stupid
Jaxson Morgan
cricket is for pussies and pakis
/thread
Gavin Moore
You know what else is literally impossible in baseball? A game lasting five days and still ending in a tie.
Mason Lewis
Well that's what makes it so challenging for the pitcher, but pitchers throw outside the strikezone all the time to get lower risk swings and misses. If you just pound the strike zone you'll get lit up and probably wont be in the majors long (unless you're aroldis chapman and can just throw it through a brick wall and get by on ridiculous genes).
Pitchers bounce pitches all the time, sometimes on purpose. You're also forgetting that its way fucking easier to hit a cricket ball than a baseball because you have a paddle instead of a stick thinner than your arm, and what would be foul balls in baseball are just crickets version of a homerun because you can hit it wherever the fuck
Chase Diaz
Just goes to show how retarded baseball is.
Hudson Phillips
>what would be foul balls in baseball are just crickets version of a homerun because you can hit it wherever the fuck
kek
KEK
K-E-K
a legal delivery in baseball is the cricket equivalent of a home run. Anyone who bowled that trash would be instantly dropped from a fucking under 12s side
>Pitchers bounce pitches all the time, sometimes on purpose >sometimes on purpose LMAO M A O
>You're also forgetting that its way fucking easier to hit a cricket ball than a baseball because you have a paddle instead of a stick thinner than your arm
LAUGH OUT LOUD
Jose Nguyen
those aren't arguments, you're losing whatever tiny bit of credibility you had
Landon Young
prove me wrong you can't
Michael Sullivan
just won another argument on the internet lads
Luis Phillips
Cricket's really fucking simple too.
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
Jose Johnson
based, muscular and intelligent cricGODs strike again
Christian Hernandez
I already did
Wyatt Smith
>Americants will never experience the hype of a hat trick in cricket
you are LITERALLY seething right now because you KNOW that I'm right. I've struck a nerve in that tiny little brain of yours with my elite truth bombs, and this fact disturbs you greatly.
Instead of facing the truth, YOU chose to pretend otherwise in a desperate attempt to save face, except all it's achieved is making YOU look even more pathetic than before.
It's over. YOU cannot recover from this. Every time YOU see a post with an Australian flag, YOU will become deeply troubled as you remember the verbal beatdown YOU received in this thread. YOUR heart will begin to race and the blood will pump through YOUR body, and YOU'LL make another similarly flustered post, which will only further diminish YOUR standing on Sup Forums
Reminder that I'm in YOUR head. 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 my truthbombs like a little bitch again, YOUR status among the Sup Forums community will decline
There is no way out. YOU have NEVER met anyone as dedicated as I am, and I WILL dedicate all of my attention to wiping YOU off the face of this board.
Keep on digging your own grave though, you literal piece of shit.
Dominic Diaz
>guy with ball tries to knock a stick off other sticks >guy with a bat tries to block said ball >for five days Super complicated
Is twenty20 crickets answer to baseball?
Justin Parker
what a bitch nigga sport
Jeremiah Hughes
cricket is gay
Christopher Harris
"kek" "lmao" and "laugh out loud" are not arguments
Also, cricket bowlers throw slower from farther away, giving the batter way more time to hit the ball. Just look at this video, these aren't even guys in the majors either, just minor league players. If you think hitting that is easy you're delusional. By the time you can react to the pitch its already about 20feet away from you and you have to start swing.
Also 90% of the hits in cricket would be outs in baseball because of the fact that fielders in baseball have way better arms and are way more athletic. Literally the only thing cricket fielders have on them is being able to catch with their barehands, which as shown in this video baseball players can do as well (better than cricket players).
that motherfucker wasn't even looking at it and caught that shit no problem. Its just why fuck your hand up when you can just wear a glove and not be in pain when catching?
get fucked, I can't wait to see the next delusional verbal diarrhea you shit out of your keyboard
Baseball is superior in every way. Even Rounders and Wiffle Ball are better
Nathan Nguyen
>muh speed
the greatest pace bowler in modern cricketing history bowled at 75 mph, while a guy that bowled at 90+ was too shit to get a game
>Also 90% of the hits in cricket would be outs in baseball what
>(better than cricket players). kek
the catch in this webm was made in less than 0.2 of a second, and it's fairly pedestrian by cricket standards youtube.com/watch?v=XFvdkmuvY7s shit like this happens at least once every series
Daniel Ramirez
I suppose it's good for NEETs like yourself who have literally nothing better to so with their days
Dominic Nguyen
never seen a baseball player do this Tbh
Elijah Jenkins
redpill me on crcicket. is it like baseball but slower?
Ayden Ross
>but muh athleticism in baseball
reminder Usain Bolt wasn't good enough to play cricket and chose sprinting instead reminder numerous West Indian bowlers were so fast that they were given a standing offer to represent their countries in the olympics reminder just a few months ago one cricketer literally spent the entire five day duration of a cricket game running back and forth on the ground reminder baseball is literally filled with overweight spics
Charles Garcia
>is it like baseball
I guess, if the seven times tables are like Connes's noncommutative geometry
>don't use a glove >this is considered impressive in the decrepit hovel of canada
Joshua Lee
What did you mean by this?
Alexander Myers
based bairstow
Aiden Miller
Cricket is almost as boring as baseball lmfao
Ethan Sanchez
wrong image sorry lads
Landon Nelson
well there's a reason the poorest MLB players make more than the richest of cricketers. For a sport that only 2 countries really watch and enjoy (and I guess central america, but they all want to be american anyways so whatever) its funny how much money is put into it.
Its almost, like, we have more disposable income over here and aren't living in poverty on a beach or indian shitriver that they call a street.
Benjamin Bennett
Why are Australians so insecure? You never see Americans or Canadians starting threads like this about baseball
Christopher Campbell
I meant baseball is almost as boring as cricket, don't smoke weed kids
Thomas Ortiz
>there's a reason the poorest MLB players make more than the richest of cricketers are the poorest MLB players multi-millionaires? You do know literally billions of people watch cricket, right?
Jayden Young
Billions of Indians
Thomas Parker
Stop pandering to the BSAs lad. The game is overloaded with pleb filth as it is.
Nathan Bailey
it's a major sport in over 50 countries covering literally every continent
Julian Long
pretty much, the absolute minimum a player can be paid in the MLB is around 500k/year. Although I just looked it up and the top cricketers make more than I thought, the top guys make around the average MLB salary (not including endorsements). with endorsements its sort of comparable to a top MLB player's salary not including their endorsements. Although kershaw is making like $36mil a year I think before endorsements and bonuses
Grayson Rivera
That's just their national contracts you're looking at. They're also contracted to domestic T20 sides around the world and receive substantial bonuses for doing their job in games.
AFL is the 9th largest sporting league in the world by revenue, and the highest paid players in the league don't come close to what an international cricketer makes in a year.
Camden Ward
>AFL is the 9th largest sporting league in the world by revenue, and the highest paid players in the league don't come close to what an international cricketer makes in a year. Source? Not doubting just wanna see lad
Kevin Flores
Nvm here it is. Not 9th but up there.
William Barnes
>2 month earnings for the IPL extrapolated to a whole year for some entirely unknown reason
Nicholas Martinez
highest paid cricketer in the IPL made about 2M last season
those are the actual average salaries for the American sports at least which for the IPL is under 400k
they barely get paid for anything else
Robert Nguyen
Ashes history will next year be made in Western Australia, with either the WACA Ground hosting its final Australia-England Test Match for the foreseeable future, or Perth Stadium hosting its first clash between international cricket’s most fierce rivals.
Western Australian cricket fans will once again have the opportunity to potentially see an Ashes series decided in Perth after today’s announcement by Cricket Australia that the state will host next season’s Third Test from 14-18 December 2017.
The venue for the match will be determined at a later stage and based on the readiness or otherwise of Perth Stadium.
