I'm Scottish and i love cricket, test cricket especially, it was the 2005 ashes that got me hooked, before i knew nothing about it but learned very quickly just by watching it, i think after the first day i knew the basics, LBW`s, bowled, stumped, caught, its actually pretty easy to understand.
I’m an American, this summer, I decided to give Cricket a try. I started by watching videos on UA-cam to understand the rules. Then watched highlight videos, then watched the Ashes. Now I have a subscription to Willow and wake up at 4 in the morning to watch Australia vs India ODI’s. What have you done to me. Btw, Stuart Board seemed like a God. Too bad I missed 99% of his career.
@@SauravStatingFacts It’s not any more popular in Canada than the US. Maybe by a marginal amount, but certainly not by enough to make it seem like Americans don’t understand it and Canadians do.
Yes. As a South African, I will agree that cricket is the greatest sport in the world. It is the "chess" of physical sports. The strategy and mental strength needed is unsurpassable. Probably why so many women love cricket. 😉..........438💪
@@lisalinnow4402 I remember watching that match live on TV in India. I was rooting for SA that day. When SA started chasing Australia's world record score no one thought that Australia's record would only last for a few hours. It was a mammoth score that was difficult to chase down. Finally, when SA won in the last over of the match , it was like watching a thriller movie. For the next two days, SA's record chase was the only talk of the town.
@@amalkumar2775 I remember that day very well. Watching it at home in Cape Town. My mother and I almost had an aneurysm. The tension was insane. And that is what cricket is about. 8 hours of a rollercoaster ride of emotions🤣 We always root for India when they play other countries😅
What an absolute ribbing interview... Everyone screaming, looking serious but just having fun. Piers, this is the best interview you've done in your life... 😅😂
I was in India in 2011 during the Cricket World Cup. I attempted to give the sport a good effort by watching the games on TV and I even attended a game in person in Bangalore (England v Ireland). I can’t say after all that, that I truly understand the game fully. I am grateful to cricket however for giving Americans baseball.
@@anweshchatterjee7595 this is true. Of all the matches I could have gone to, that England/Ireland match couldn’t have been better for an first live in-stadium experience. I just remember that Kevin O’Brian dude just CRANKING deep blasts like it was batting practice.
'I am grateful to cricket however for giving Americans baseball.' I think that was rounders not cricket. Rounders generally tended to be the game played in summer by girls whilst the lads played cricket.
I agree with Pierce here. Cricket is related to life. Although football is the most popular sport, the challenges that every cricket faces with the ball are unique and pragmatic.
@@abeerqadir7672 the ashes don't say otherwise, people watch it out of curiousity now and no football being on. It's nowhere near the levels of popularity of football or even Rugby Union
@@overthewebbfootball is beautiful as beautiful as cricket. Both are long games might not produce results but it's the beauty of the game. You Americans want more ads than actual sport
Baseball is interesting in bits.. but Cricket is a real man's sport.. us Indians are basicaly rooted in it.. I remember growing up playing it in my street.. in the park.. in the school and in stadiums as well.. We grew up watching greats like Sachin.. Dravid.. Ganguly.. Dhoni..Kohli etc.. You need a lot of resilience.. mental toughness and perseverance to play this sport.. I've stood in the sun for hours as the opposite team batted.. we've played in the rain.. in fields strewn with thorns..Lol.. Cricket should be India's true national sport as it unites us all beyond state, language and cultural differences
Field hockey was the most played and loved sport in india until 1980s . It all changed with 1983 cricket world cup win. India totally disregarded any other team sports and focused on cricket.
Cricket to India is what Baseball is to Japan . Both Asian Countries are crazy about a Sport introduced by Westerners , much more than the original people
Cricket is a different sport but despite not understanding a sport, why not take the time to learn it? Seeing an "organic" teamwork come together is always a beautiful orchestration.
@@natethegr8230 The objective is to score more RUNS(points) than your opponent. 1. 11 v 11. Coin toss between captains. Winner decides whether to come out with the Bat or with the Ball. 2. If u chose to Bat then two Men comes out wearing helmets & pads & takes guard infront of the STUMPS(3 sticks) 3. Their objective is to score as much Runs as possible within the allotted number of deliveries. e.g 300 4. The team with the ball (called the fielding side) sets the field against the Batsmen's scoring opportunities 5. The Baller has to get the Batsman OUT. He can do so by going through the Batsman's defence & strike the Wicket. Or hit him in any body part that covers the wicket. Or make him concede a catch while trying to score big. 6 The baller at once can throw 6 legal deliveries. Then he is replaced by another. He can come back again but there are limits. therefore the Captain must rotate his ballers wisely 7. When a Batsman gets OUT he is replaced by another, this goes on until the 11th. 8. There must always be 2 batsmen on the crease. Because it takes 2 to run back & forth the crease to register RUNS. They must always touch the lines on their opposite end with their body or BAT whilst connected to their hand. 9. If a fielder crashes the STUMPS before a Batsman reaches his opposite end he'll be declared RUN-OUT 10. The Captain rotates among different types of bowlers to get the batsman OUT or atleast restrict their RUN flow. 11. Lets say the Batting side got ALL OUT before finishing 300 deliveries & scored 250. 12. After the break the Fielding side will come out to Bat try to score 251. 13 The previously Batting side will now field & try to contain them within 250.
"Why not take the time to learn it?" Your sentence has an error. The word 'not' should be removed. In reality, why should anyone take the time to learn a sport they are not interested in? I doubt you have a very successful career.
@@YD-uq5fi There's no grammatical error therefore his sentence is ok. Removing the "not" simply forms a different opinion not error. You sure displayed your successful career.
football is better than cricket, over 5 billion people watch it and imagine if India wasn't awful at football, the sport would hit 6 billion with your large 1.4 billion population, football ⚽reigns supreme
@@kingflockthewarrior202 u have no fokin idea what cricket means! Send Ronaldo to India and not even a dog wud bark ha ha ha because no body wud know him
The reason Cricket is Superior to Baseball is Simple. It's because it has a Pitch where after a Ball is delivered by the Bowler (Pitcher for Americans) lands, it does so many different things before it reaches a Batter hence more interesting to watch compared to Baseball where there is no Pitch hence can be played Anywhere in the world and looks and feels the same for a viewer. Different countries with different climates, and different soil used to make the pitches gives Cricket the Most variety compared to ANY sport around the world. Not to add the different kind of Bowlers (Pace to Spin) as opposed to throwing full tosses day in day out, however varied they may be. The number of permutations and combinations possible on Single Ball in Cricket outmatches Any other sporting minute across All team sport. I being an Olympics to a Chess fan, am first a lover of Any sport, but totally agree with Piers( unusual for me ) about Cricket being the most complex yet simple if understood sport invented by Man...Period
@@dyhale but you cannot bounce the ball while pitching. The magic lies in how the ball turns , swings after that. Sure you can swing it in air, but its not much . that's the difference.
Americans in the NE'ern part of the country have been playing "stickball" for over a 100 years. And the "pitcher" bounces a "pinkie" (pink rubber ball), and the batter tries to hit it. But they don't get a baseball bat, or a wide paddle that you all call a cricket bat. They have to hit it with a skinny broom handle. Other than that, the rules are very much like cricket. So I don't want to hear any crap about Cricket being too complicated for Americans. LOL That is complete nonsense.
Cricket feels like a more boring version of Baseball (which is crazy because baseball is already fucking boring), like Rugby is a much more boring version of American football (and yes, im aware that the US sports came AFTER and were likely modeled after those other 2. ) But original, does not always = better obviously. Soccer is regarded as the biggest sport in the world yet FIFAs yearly profit is 4x less than the NFL which is a national sport, and Soccer is supposidly loved worldwide..
@@RsChrisGcalling him a kid was wrong He should have called him an imbecile 😂 Can't even understand the rules of a game That Means must be an uneducated and with no brain to understand anything
As a Australian to educate Americans of the importance of the Ashes cricket series… Ok… think about USA vs Soviet Union during the tensest days of the space race age. You are both trying to get to the moon first, but it’s every 2 years (Aus vs Eng). This is how important this event is to Australia and England As the great Merv Hughes said (who was a shitshirrer to the Poms): “People always say the ashes are a matter of life and death, I disagree… it’s much more important” 😂
I'm an American and I don't have a problem with cricket at all I don't really know the sport But guess what, neither does France or Spain or Portugal or Germany or Russia Most countries in the world don't play cricket. America is just one of those many countries.
Comparing an England/Australia sports rivalry to The Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union is perhaps the daftest thing I've ever heard. Yeah, two countries which have never ever had anything approaching a bad relationship is the same as two superpowers who sat on the edge of nuclear war for 50 years. Please do some reading on the subject.
@@larrybuchannan186 who cares about those nation cricket is a man sport not for those who support lgbtq second india pakistan match is enough to blow away fifa final\
Firstly , most Americans don't understand that cricket has 5 formats . It has formats that finish in 1 hour,2 hrs,3 hrs ,8 hrs and 5 days . 5 day one is like tour de france ,it is an endurance test for players . Secondly you should've brought on jomboy instead
I'm primarily a football fan (not the American strain, but proper footy, as played mostly with the feet) but my second sport is cricket. I especially love the Test format.
@@hemutitu1870 I'm English. A City fan from an overspill town just outside Manchester. But at international level I've long been more a fan of our Test team than their footy equivalent, even despite how many Sky Blues make it up these days..
Same for me as an Indian. Football is my favourite sport and I hail from the Indian region which is unlike most other parts of the country is decent in football and is by far the most successful football wise in India's context, Bengal (Kolkata). However, I think, I rank cricket pretty high. Our home cricket IPL team is also the 3rd most successful. And I believe, the greatest moments of cricket including obviously test cricket can match the greatest moments of football and this is when football is actually a true global sport while cricket is not. Imagine if cricket was that global, then the last overs in tight matches and last sessions in a tight test cricket, how would they be. And I can't say this for many sports other than football, maybe none at all.
I love cricket, especially the Ashes. Lots of new Americans are enjoying cricket and new US online reactors identify with it and can relate due to similarities with baseball. The last Ashes test was majestic.
Those reaction clips from Americans isnt cause theyre interested its whats trending to potentially make them money. I do find it funny how when you have two Americans watching something they have no clue over, they will within 2 minutes start explaining it like they have a true understanding of the game.
You tend to appreciate the sports you played as a child. If Portnoy and Morgan had switched native lands, each would be arguing just the opposite of what they do here.
@@natethegr8230 Cricket is the second-most widely watched ball-based sport in the world (after only soccer). The reason you think it is dumb is that Cricket uses numbers greater than 100, which is higher than you can count.
I’m an American who prefers cricket over baseball ( still like baseball) after I discovered it like 10 years ago..now I’m totally hooked! You don’t get to sit down and rest after a few swings when your struck out or finished running the bases. In cricket the batter could be out there for a very long time for several overs and there’s not much time to relax…gotta score those boundary 4’s and grand slam 6’s while trying to preserve your wickets! 😰 And there is a lot of pressure on the bowlers as well…it’s a test of both physical endurance and mental toughness ! 🔥🏏
It is possible, but when has 0-0 over a 5+ test series actually happened? There have been a few 1-0 Ashes scorelines, but never 0-0 and not since 1975.
@richpiana6930 10 countries play it...seems like a decant mix to me. More people know about the cricket world Cup that ANY American played sports....don't they? If you put the topics 5 british sports sports against the top US sports which do you think are more popular world wide. UK ⚽️ football Rugby Tennis Golf Squash Boxing modern US Football 🏈 Basketball Baseball Le cross Roller Derby
Cricket gets to you once you've spent hours winning a particular match. I remember fights at the end of many matches between us back during childhood. Its one of things England brought here in India.
Americans could definitely get into 20 over cricket and if you know baseball rules, cricket is very easy to understand. I've explained twenty over cricket to my american friends and within 10 minutes they understood all of the basics of the game and they all really got into it!
Cricket has so much variations. You can play it however you want. You can tweak around with rules according to your ground. I played cricket my whole childhood. But it's very tricky for someone who has zero exposure to game.
Piers singlehandedly reduced the respect that Americans might have had for cricket. When even David Lloyd doesn't want to sink to this level, you know what is going on here.
@@philmccracken179 Cricket is more of a Strategical game than just a bat and ball game, small things like even changing the fielder's position and the pitch variations also comes under "actual play" And they will show how the fielders are placed to the viewers as well so it won't be boring to wait for that 1 minute it will take before 2 balls to be bowled.
For pizza review lovers, seeing Dave here in a suit and tie talking about Cricket is like seeing a guy you always see at the bar teaching a class. Piers - please pass along this deeply needed app Share the Meal that helps kids!!
Been an active supporter and user of Share The Meal for almost a year now and cannot echo your thoughts enough. It’s an affordable and effective way for everyday people to support children and communities globally.
@@mcleezy4171 Very happy to hear that!! Thank you for sharing that, it means a lot to hear it, and for your support for Share the Meal! I want to do all I can to spread this far and wide. Do continue passing it along! All my best!
As an Indian, I would love if more countries play cricket & there's more competition and tough competition for us. Because right now there's only few teams left that give us a good competition. Without tough competition, it's not fun. I would rather enjoy defeat rather than a boring one sided victory.
@@thebritishbushman8389 Yup, Australia deserved to win that final. They bowled really well & their fielding was great too. Only regret that I will have is the fact that Rohit didn't kept giving overs to pacers & he brought spinners instead of Mohammad Siraj when there was a pressure on Australian batsmen. I think that was a bad decision on Rohit's part that nobody's talking about. I know why he did that because he was worried that there will be a dew during that time, So he gave chance to spinner when there's a pressure on batsmen. But in my opinion we wouldn't have won that match anyway if match went till 35 to 40 overs. So it could have been better if he kept on giving 5 to 6 overs to pacers instead of spinners because that decision gave Australian batsmen a chance to set on the pitch.
Without using any superlatives , i just want to say that CRICKET has got everything you want from a SPORT . With sports , you want entertainment, technicalities & nuances and international reach , with cricket you've got it all.
Cricket is not a game for everyone, its complicated and time consuming but a very interesting and mature sport with various rules compared to other sports like football, basketball or baseball. UK and commonwealth nations have a better grasp as it was the commom sport at the time then while other nations have no clue just like rugby or US "football".
I’m an american. I don’t think anyone here is anti cricket. If you love cricket and want to play it and watch it, thats great. Life is short, enjoy yourself.
Piers Morgan and David Lloyd (great player though he is) are all wrong to say that cricket is played by England, Australia, and a few other countries. Ashish Nandy set the record straight many years ago: "Cricket is an Indian game accidentaly discovered by the English."
I one year attended the boxing day test in Melbourne and got talking to an American in the hostel I was staying at, and he was very keen on cricket. I asked him how he got into the sport? He replied that when I first arrived in Australia, I was struggling to sleep with the jet lag so my Aussie friend said here's something that'll put you to sleep and she turned the tv onto the cricket, instead of putting him to sleep he was intrigued and watched it for hours becoming a cricket junkie.
The irony of cricket being casually dismissed, with Piers and David trying to make fun of American sports. The reality is that virtually everyone in the UK has no Idea who David Lloyd was
I love how Dave is not on the show to argue but they try and corner him in hopes he bites back. LOL How can any sport that sounds like its played in a Harry Potter movie could be great!
Bros invited an American on just to wind him up 😂😂
He took a long time to get wound up! This was an unprovoked anti-american assault on David.
@jessesleight9631 yeah I know 🤣 it's funny
Cricket has gone woke here in Australia = I don't watch it anymore
Oh and wasn’t it glorious 🤣😆
@@JIMDEZWAV bro just watch the game, I don't get why it matters what Patt Cummins thinks personally.
I'm Scottish and i love cricket, test cricket especially, it was the 2005 ashes that got me hooked, before i knew nothing about it but learned very quickly just by watching it, i think after the first day i knew the basics, LBW`s, bowled, stumped, caught, its actually pretty easy to understand.
The basics are easy to understand, but both baseball and cricket have their subtleties.
You’re not Scottish.
@@RD-jr8nv I'm not Scottish, and how do you come to that conclusion?
@@RD-jr8nv What kind name have you? Are you a droid fae star was, janitor bot HA.
Ashes 2005 when flintoff was at his peak and ripped Ponting off in that glorious over❤
I’m an American, this summer, I decided to give Cricket a try. I started by watching videos on UA-cam to understand the rules. Then watched highlight videos, then watched the Ashes. Now I have a subscription to Willow and wake up at 4 in the morning to watch Australia vs India ODI’s. What have you done to me. Btw, Stuart Board seemed like a God. Too bad I missed 99% of his career.
Damn, welcome to the club 💪
World Cup is going on mate
I hope you are into it
And today is semifinal
World Cup is going on mate
I hope you are into it
And today is semifinal
You watching wc?
The final is between Australia vs India
I’ve watched every match. I get home from work at 3:30am just in time for the matches to start.
Canadian living in India for the last 7 years. I am very much in love with cricket.... not surprised our southern neighbours don't get it
Cricket isn't popular in Canada either lol
@@OldScratchJohnsonit is.. Only quebec white population don't understand it
@@SauravStatingFacts It’s not any more popular in Canada than the US. Maybe by a marginal amount, but certainly not by enough to make it seem like Americans don’t understand it and Canadians do.
@@OldScratchJohnson It is popular, alright. Considering half of Canada will be Punjab 2.0 soon...
@@kunaljanvalkar2850it’s not any more popular in Canada than it is in the US
Yes. As a South African, I will agree that cricket is the greatest sport in the world. It is the "chess" of physical sports. The strategy and mental strength needed is unsurpassable. Probably why so many women love cricket. 😉..........438💪
'438'. Is it related to that south Africa vs australia match where Gibbs went absolute bonkers.
@@farukhsheikh5790 that's the one. An incredible game.
One of the greatest chase done buy SA in cricket history. Hershelle Gibbs 👍
@@lisalinnow4402 I remember watching that match live on TV in India. I was rooting for SA that day. When SA started chasing Australia's world record score no one thought that Australia's record would only last for a few hours. It was a mammoth score that was difficult to chase down.
Finally, when SA won in the last over of the match , it was like watching a thriller movie. For the next two days, SA's record chase was the only talk of the town.
@@amalkumar2775 I remember that day very well. Watching it at home in Cape Town. My mother and I almost had an aneurysm. The tension was insane. And that is what cricket is about. 8 hours of a rollercoaster ride of emotions🤣
We always root for India when they play other countries😅
What an absolute ribbing interview... Everyone screaming, looking serious but just having fun. Piers, this is the best interview you've done in your life... 😅😂
Cricket is too intelligent for Americans to enjoy 😂
Lol! We do hate dumb sports like we hate British food--- we have better. ❤🇬🇧 🇺🇸
@mangai3599 dumb. We won't ever welcome that pretentious game here. It's horrid 🤮
I watched one video on how to play it and its not complicated
@@Sleepydill exactly 💯 👏
Just because your rules don’t make sense and you wear slacks on the field doesn’t make you intelligent lol
I was in India in 2011 during the Cricket World Cup. I attempted to give the sport a good effort by watching the games on TV and I even attended a game in person in Bangalore (England v Ireland). I can’t say after all that, that I truly understand the game fully. I am grateful to cricket however for giving Americans baseball.
England vs Ireland was sensational. Greatest moment in Irish cricket history.
Too many games in USA already.
@@anweshchatterjee7595 this is true. Of all the matches I could have gone to, that England/Ireland match couldn’t have been better for an first live in-stadium experience. I just remember that Kevin O’Brian dude just CRANKING deep blasts like it was batting practice.
It's no good
'I am grateful to cricket however for giving Americans baseball.'
I think that was rounders not cricket.
Rounders generally tended to be the game played in summer by girls whilst the lads played cricket.
I agree with Pierce here. Cricket is related to life. Although football is the most popular sport, the challenges that every cricket faces with the ball are unique and pragmatic.
Cricket in the uk is like baseball in the u.s. Used to be the most popular sport in both countries but became long boring and past it’s time
@@jacksonsmith4935 cricket will never be past it's time. Pure genius and class is everlasting.
@@jacksonsmith4935the ashes say otherwise
@@abeerqadir7672 the ashes don't say otherwise, people watch it out of curiousity now and no football being on. It's nowhere near the levels of popularity of football or even Rugby Union
@@overthewebbfootball is beautiful as beautiful as cricket.
Both are long games might not produce results but it's the beauty of the game.
You Americans want more ads than actual sport
Most of us South Africans don't like cricket!We love it😊
I was about to say ,how can you be a South African and not like…
Yeah for saffers ,rugby and cricket are massive
Cricket has gone woke here in Australia = I don't watch it anymore
Ha! A lot of the kids on here don’t get the reference
@@VARMOT123 football or soccer is still the most popular sport in SA
Pleasure seeing Bumble. Hope he's doing well.
This made my laugh. Sometimes you just want to argue cause you want to argue 😂
Hahaha
This is the British thing
Baseball is interesting in bits.. but Cricket is a real man's sport.. us Indians are basicaly rooted in it.. I remember growing up playing it in my street.. in the park.. in the school and in stadiums as well.. We grew up watching greats like Sachin.. Dravid.. Ganguly.. Dhoni..Kohli etc.. You need a lot of resilience.. mental toughness and perseverance to play this sport.. I've stood in the sun for hours as the opposite team batted.. we've played in the rain.. in fields strewn with thorns..Lol.. Cricket should be India's true national sport as it unites us all beyond state, language and cultural differences
Field hockey was the most played and loved sport in india until 1980s . It all changed with 1983 cricket world cup win. India totally disregarded any other team sports and focused on cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar.........mesmerizing to watch.
Tf would Indians know about “real men” stuff 😂 “real men” don’t scam elderly people off google play cards and sexually harass women on social media
@@lisalinnow4402 Indeed.. he was a joy to us Indians in the 90's and the early part of the 2000's ... a legend for sure
Cricket to India is what Baseball is to Japan .
Both Asian Countries are crazy about a Sport introduced by Westerners , much more than the original people
Dave talking about Cricket 😂😂 that’s hilarious lmao
That's the funniest debate I've ever watched😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Cricket is a different sport but despite not understanding a sport, why not take the time to learn it? Seeing an "organic" teamwork come together is always a beautiful orchestration.
Tell you what.
If you can explain the rules and objective of cricket, I'll read it and try to understand it.
@@natethegr8230 The objective is to score more RUNS(points) than your opponent.
1. 11 v 11. Coin toss between captains. Winner decides whether to come out with the Bat or with the Ball.
2. If u chose to Bat then two Men comes out wearing helmets & pads & takes guard infront of the STUMPS(3 sticks)
3. Their objective is to score as much Runs as possible within the allotted number of deliveries. e.g 300
4. The team with the ball (called the fielding side) sets the field against the Batsmen's scoring opportunities
5. The Baller has to get the Batsman OUT. He can do so by going through the Batsman's defence & strike the Wicket. Or hit him in any body part that covers the wicket. Or make him concede a catch while trying to score big.
6 The baller at once can throw 6 legal deliveries. Then he is replaced by another. He can come back again but there are limits. therefore the Captain must rotate his ballers wisely
7. When a Batsman gets OUT he is replaced by another, this goes on until the 11th.
8. There must always be 2 batsmen on the crease. Because it takes 2 to run back & forth the crease to register RUNS. They must always touch the lines on their opposite end with their body or BAT whilst connected to their hand.
9. If a fielder crashes the STUMPS before a Batsman reaches his opposite end he'll be declared RUN-OUT
10. The Captain rotates among different types of bowlers to get the batsman OUT or atleast restrict their RUN flow.
11. Lets say the Batting side got ALL OUT before finishing 300 deliveries & scored 250.
12. After the break the Fielding side will come out to Bat try to score 251.
13 The previously Batting side will now field & try to contain them within 250.
Cricket has gone woke here in Australia = I don't watch it anymore
"Why not take the time to learn it?"
Your sentence has an error. The word 'not' should be removed. In reality, why should anyone take the time to learn a sport they are not interested in? I doubt you have a very successful career.
@@YD-uq5fi There's no grammatical error therefore his sentence is ok. Removing the "not" simply forms a different opinion not error. You sure displayed your successful career.
Cricket is definitely the best sports ever❤. Its life for us in India
This discussion about cricket not india
football is better than cricket, over 5 billion people watch it and imagine if India wasn't awful at football, the sport would hit 6 billion with your large 1.4 billion population, football ⚽reigns supreme
0 gold in Olympics
The passion and enthusiasm of fans of cricket is only riveled by football fans ( the real football)
@@kingflockthewarrior202 u have no fokin idea what cricket means! Send Ronaldo to India and not even a dog wud bark ha ha ha because no body wud know him
@@kingflockthewarrior202
What’s so special about football?
Damn the first ashes match so freaking interesting.What a thriller.
Aussie Aussie Aussie oh oh oh. One nil Australia.
@@Tigertime.-fj1so Ngl I want England to win the next match to spice things up.
@@omarqueensc979Yup I hope England square the series up next game.
Cricket has gone woke here in Australia = I don't watch it anymore
@@JIMDEZWAV What do you mean "got woke"?
Dave Portnoy has no clue what he’s doing there… They keep attacking him and he’s so confused about what’s happening 😂😂
This is one of the most pointless segments piers has done
The reason Cricket is Superior to Baseball is Simple. It's because it has a Pitch where after a Ball is delivered by the Bowler (Pitcher for Americans) lands, it does so many different things before it reaches a Batter hence more interesting to watch compared to Baseball where there is no Pitch hence can be played Anywhere in the world and looks and feels the same for a viewer.
Different countries with different climates, and different soil used to make the pitches gives Cricket the Most variety compared to ANY sport around the world. Not to add the different kind of Bowlers (Pace to Spin) as opposed to throwing full tosses day in day out, however varied they may be.
The number of permutations and combinations possible on Single Ball in Cricket outmatches Any other sporting minute across All team sport.
I being an Olympics to a Chess fan, am first a lover of Any sport, but totally agree with Piers( unusual for me ) about Cricket being the most complex yet simple if understood sport invented by Man...Period
tennis has different surfaces
You basing baseball on the United States. In East Asia and Caribbean they are different type of fields for baseball.
In baseball there are other ways to throw/pitch a ball
@@dyhale but you cannot bounce the ball while pitching. The magic lies in how the ball turns , swings after that. Sure you can swing it in air, but its not much . that's the difference.
Americans in the NE'ern part of the country have been playing "stickball" for over a 100 years. And the "pitcher" bounces a "pinkie" (pink rubber ball), and the batter tries to hit it. But they don't get a baseball bat, or a wide paddle that you all call a cricket bat. They have to hit it with a skinny broom handle. Other than that, the rules are very much like cricket. So I don't want to hear any crap about Cricket being too complicated for Americans. LOL
That is complete nonsense.
Just remember every ball in baseball is a Full toss in cricket..And that's the worst ball in cricket..
Such a dumb thing to say
This is hilarious!!! You can't force anyone to learn and play a specific sport. It's okay if Americans don't understand cricket. 😂
Cricket feels like a more boring version of Baseball (which is crazy because baseball is already fucking boring), like Rugby is a much more boring version of American football
(and yes, im aware that the US sports came AFTER and were likely modeled after those other 2. )
But original, does not always = better obviously.
Soccer is regarded as the biggest sport in the world yet FIFAs yearly profit is 4x less than the NFL which is a national sport, and Soccer is supposidly loved worldwide..
@my_father_sorry_i_am_lying_now They are both boring, to clarify.
@my_father_sorry_i_am_lying_now Also calling a 28 year old man a kid is weird, this isn't 2008 youtube anymore pal, learn some new lingo.
@@RsChrisG American football is rugby but for pussies😂😂
@@RsChrisGcalling him a kid was wrong
He should have called him an imbecile 😂
Can't even understand the rules of a game
That Means must be an uneducated and with no brain to understand anything
As a Australian to educate Americans of the importance of the Ashes cricket series…
Ok… think about USA vs Soviet Union during the tensest days of the space race age. You are both trying to get to the moon first, but it’s every 2 years (Aus vs Eng). This is how important this event is to Australia and England
As the great Merv Hughes said (who was a shitshirrer to the Poms):
“People always say the ashes are a matter of life and death, I disagree… it’s much more important” 😂
I'm an American and I don't have a problem with cricket at all
I don't really know the sport
But guess what, neither does France or Spain or Portugal or Germany or Russia
Most countries in the world don't play cricket. America is just one of those many countries.
Bro relax... You're comparing the Cold War to a cricket match. You're head of state is still King Charles.
Comparing an England/Australia sports rivalry to The Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union is perhaps the daftest thing I've ever heard. Yeah, two countries which have never ever had anything approaching a bad relationship is the same as two superpowers who sat on the edge of nuclear war for 50 years. Please do some reading on the subject.
@@larrybuchannan186 who cares about those nation cricket is a man sport not for those who support lgbtq second india pakistan match is enough to blow away fifa final\
@@AbdulLatif-ob5juHe just meant the sporting rivalry bruh.
Firstly , most Americans don't understand that cricket has 5 formats . It has formats that finish in 1 hour,2 hrs,3 hrs ,8 hrs and 5 days . 5 day one is like tour de france ,it is an endurance test for players . Secondly you should've brought on jomboy instead
"Hand cricket" is the sixth format 😜
Long live test cricket
I'm primarily a football fan (not the American strain, but proper footy, as played mostly with the feet) but my second sport is cricket. I especially love the Test format.
Same with me , I love cricket a tad bit more, but both sports are absolute gems for me.
Btw r u australian?Did i get it bang on?
@@hemutitu1870 I'm English. A City fan from an overspill town just outside Manchester. But at international level I've long been more a fan of our Test team than their footy equivalent, even despite how many Sky Blues make it up these days..
Same for me as an Indian. Football is my favourite sport and I hail from the Indian region which is unlike most other parts of the country is decent in football and is by far the most successful football wise in India's context, Bengal (Kolkata). However, I think, I rank cricket pretty high. Our home cricket IPL team is also the 3rd most successful.
And I believe, the greatest moments of cricket including obviously test cricket can match the greatest moments of football and this is when football is actually a true global sport while cricket is not. Imagine if cricket was that global, then the last overs in tight matches and last sessions in a tight test cricket, how would they be. And I can't say this for many sports other than football, maybe none at all.
I love cricket, especially the Ashes. Lots of new Americans are enjoying cricket and new US online reactors identify with it and can relate due to similarities with baseball. The last Ashes test was majestic.
Those reaction clips from Americans isnt cause theyre interested its whats trending to potentially make them money.
I do find it funny how when you have two Americans watching something they have no clue over, they will within 2 minutes start explaining it like they have a true understanding of the game.
You tend to appreciate the sports you played as a child. If Portnoy and Morgan had switched native lands, each would be arguing just the opposite of what they do here.
Nope. Cricket's dumb.
@@natethegr8230your comment shows you are actually. Someone gives you a sensible, balanced explanation and you say that.
Nope. Cricket is objectively dumb.
@@natethegr8230 Cricket is the second-most widely watched ball-based sport in the world (after only soccer). The reason you think it is dumb is that Cricket uses numbers greater than 100, which is higher than you can count.
@@natethegr8230That's your opinion. Cricket is awesome to so many people in the World.
Cricket is very simple game at beginner level. Cricket is complicated when you understand the game.
I’m an American who prefers cricket over baseball ( still like baseball) after I discovered it like 10 years ago..now I’m totally hooked!
You don’t get to sit down and rest after a few swings when your struck out or finished running the bases.
In cricket the batter could be out there for a very long time for several overs and there’s not much time to relax…gotta score those boundary 4’s and grand slam 6’s while trying to preserve your wickets! 😰
And there is a lot of pressure on the bowlers as well…it’s a test of both physical endurance and mental toughness ! 🔥🏏
His expression after hearing a 0-0 score was possible after 25 days x 8 hours
It is possible, but when has 0-0 over a 5+ test series actually happened? There have been a few 1-0 Ashes scorelines, but never 0-0 and not since 1975.
@@AW_77 .. around 1972-73 New Zealand played a Test series against the West indies and every match (5 in all) ended in a draw...i,e,0-0
Americans have mostly world sports that only America compete in....
🤣💦... it's because they have plenty
of immigrants from around the world
all searching for that so called
American Dream!! 😆
World Series only in America, whats that all about??
Very funny!
Not many countries in Europe plays cricket either. Only Pakistan,India, Australia, New Zealand, England and a very few other countries that likes it
@richpiana6930 10 countries play it...seems like a decant mix to me. More people know about the cricket world Cup that ANY American played sports....don't they?
If you put the topics 5 british sports sports against the top US sports which do you think are more popular world wide.
UK
⚽️ football
Rugby
Tennis
Golf
Squash
Boxing modern
US
Football 🏈
Basketball
Baseball
Le cross
Roller Derby
Why is this such an aggressive argument? 😂😂😂😂
Piers is trying to create a WWE-style version of talk show. Contrived arguments for entertainment.
this is a fun topic to debate bout lmao.
Cricket gets to you once you've spent hours winning a particular match. I remember fights at the end of many matches between us back during childhood. Its one of things England brought here in India.
"that's because you're an Arsenal fan !!" 🤣 awesome segment
Americans could definitely get into 20 over cricket and if you know baseball rules, cricket is very easy to understand. I've explained twenty over cricket to my american friends and within 10 minutes they understood all of the basics of the game and they all really got into it!
Seems like a comedy bit where the 3 agreed to do it because they had to. Made me teary. 🤣🤣🤣
“Where? At the local YMCA” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 best interview ever
Cricket truly is the only sport that matters !
LMAO this was hilarious. I'll be honest I'm not the biggest cricket fan but I did enjoy playing it in school.
Certainly, cricket is among the best outdoor field sport. It has more action more drama and more a lot more thrill.
They brought on Portnoy just to troll him🤣
Cricket has so much variations. You can play it however you want. You can tweak around with rules according to your ground. I played cricket my whole childhood. But it's very tricky for someone who has zero exposure to game.
"You guys are the ones that need respect for cricket..." 🤣🤣
That was on point
Who needs TV shows when you have content like this on live television wrapped as newscast 😂😂
This is the strangest interview ever. What was the point even having Portney on? 😂 poor guy should validate his engagement in the future
Cricket is the best sport ever. It is life learning. It teaches patience, temperament, adaptation, and all science involved in the game.
Cricket is truly a 'if you know, you know' sport.
I don't interested who like cricket and who dont ,but as english lerner this is the perfect example of difference between british and american english
Piers singlehandedly reduced the respect that Americans might have had for cricket. When even David Lloyd doesn't want to sink to this level, you know what is going on here.
Americans respect dont mean anything.
@@ozanozenir2503 Clearly it does
@@mattolson7037 no
@@ozanozenir2503 It obviously does. Look how desperate Piers is to get American approval about cricket.
@@YD-uq5fi he is mocking americans and you are just not smart enough to get it.
an NFL match goes for over 2 hours but averages only 13 minutes of actual play
How much “actual play” is in cricket?
@@philmccracken17930 hours a game, t20 is probably 3 hrs
@@skarv3c yeah but how much “actual play”? I’d be shocked if it was more than ten minutes
@@philmccracken179 Cricket is more of a Strategical game than just a bat and ball game, small things like even changing the fielder's position and the pitch variations also comes under "actual play" And they will show how the fielders are placed to the viewers as well so it won't be boring to wait for that 1 minute it will take before 2 balls to be bowled.
For pizza review lovers, seeing Dave here in a suit and tie talking about Cricket is like seeing a guy you always see at the bar teaching a class.
Piers - please pass along this deeply needed app Share the Meal that helps kids!!
Been an active supporter and user of Share The Meal for almost a year now and cannot echo your thoughts enough. It’s an affordable and effective way for everyday people to support children and communities globally.
@@mcleezy4171 Very happy to hear that!! Thank you for sharing that, it means a lot to hear it, and for your support for Share the Meal! I want to do all I can to spread this far and wide. Do continue passing it along! All my best!
Cricket is my third favourite sport (after mma and rugby)
Cricket is the best sports invented. Those rules and formats is just so amazing.
Enjoyed it so much. Wonderful topic, Piers.
As an Indian, I would love if more countries play cricket & there's more competition and tough competition for us. Because right now there's only few teams left that give us a good competition. Without tough competition, it's not fun. I would rather enjoy defeat rather than a boring one sided victory.
You got that on Sunday mate. We silenced and cleared out 120,000 Indian fans in the greatest ODI WC Final ever. Mic drop........
@@thebritishbushman8389 Yup, Australia deserved to win that final. They bowled really well & their fielding was great too. Only regret that I will have is the fact that Rohit didn't kept giving overs to pacers & he brought spinners instead of Mohammad Siraj when there was a pressure on Australian batsmen. I think that was a bad decision on Rohit's part that nobody's talking about. I know why he did that because he was worried that there will be a dew during that time, So he gave chance to spinner when there's a pressure on batsmen. But in my opinion we wouldn't have won that match anyway if match went till 35 to 40 overs. So it could have been better if he kept on giving 5 to 6 overs to pacers instead of spinners because that decision gave Australian batsmen a chance to set on the pitch.
@@thebritishbushman8389 Also your profile name has "British" written in it. 😂 What about England's humiliating fiasco?
@@lonewolfe2502 Nod to ancestry but yes, dreadful performance. Probably the most disappointing team performance and showing given expectations.
@@thebritishbushman8389 Oh boy did you have to remind me that??? Take the W and bask in it.
Cricket is most interesting, entertaining, painful, wonderful, sport in the world 🌎🌎🌎❤❤❤
Ridiculous idea for a segment lol good stuff
Without using any superlatives , i just want to say that CRICKET has got everything you want from a SPORT . With sports , you want entertainment, technicalities & nuances and international reach , with cricket you've got it all.
Cricket is not a game for everyone, its complicated and time consuming but a very interesting and mature sport with various rules compared to other sports like football, basketball or baseball.
UK and commonwealth nations have a better grasp as it was the commom sport at the time then while other nations have no clue just like rugby or US "football".
interesting thing is india plays cricket but not rugby and france plays rugby but not cricket
@@ANDY1985UK2011 South Africa, Australia, & New Zealand plays both
@my_father_sorry_i_am_lying_now people in france have no clue what cricket is
@my_father_sorry_i_am_lying_nowFrance cricket team = indian + pakistani+ Sri Lankan origin player 😂
@@ANDY1985UK2011of course they would not play it. They would not touch anything that was played or “ created” by the English.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video
Cricket is in my blood🔥
Greatest sport is cricket. Its just that it is so complicated that it takes years to understand the beauty of the game.
Piers should do bits on Major League Cricket to help promote the game in the US!
As an Indian, greatest sport is Chess but yeah we do absolutely love cricket.
Man I laughed way too hard at this 😂😂
“We don’t do anything underhand with the ball!”😂
I’m an american. I don’t think anyone here is anti cricket. If you love cricket and want to play it and watch it, thats great. Life is short, enjoy yourself.
Cricket is the sound I hear when this sport comes up
Good one.
This is hilarious banter! Wicked!...
Piers Morgan and David Lloyd (great player though he is) are all wrong to say that cricket is played by England, Australia, and a few other countries. Ashish Nandy set the record straight many years ago: "Cricket is an Indian game accidentaly discovered by the English."
What are you smoking? Cricket was stolen from the Caribbean it started with coconut branches turn bat go look it up.
Tf are u on??
@@alexis.k6224 😆 the colonizers brought cricket to the Caribbean.
It was rude of him to leave out India.
@@Tigertime.-fj1so in that case it was rude of him to leave out every other cricket playing nations aswell.
'bore you into submission,' 'we got absolutely to nowhere.' 🤣😂
Isn't cricket the father of baseball??
No step father buddy
I think "rounders," which we also invented in the UK was the gateway for baseball.
Rounders is
We
Lol….Happy Fathers Day y’all!,😂😂
This crossover is fantastic
100% Test Cricket is by far the greatest sport ever devised!
So much fun 😂😂debate
Piers cant live a day without arguing
Indian here, and cricket is awesome.
I went to a cricket game once and I genuinely didn't know it started until it was already over.
Clearly if you’re an American then we dont blame you. The world doesn’t understand why a mentally incapable man is still President of your country.
😂
You must’ve been asleep for 6 days, it’s that coma inducing
T20s finish in 3 hrs . T10s in an hour
Yes, math is hard for Americans.
I love Bumble just looking at these two fuckers 😭😭😭
I could not be happier 😃🇦🇺
Thanks for doing this Piers!!
The most pointless segment ever
0:34 - hey what's that song. I've been trying to figure that out for like a decade now. Steel drums and just such an island vibe man.
In Zimbabwe the stadium is always full whenever Zimbabwe has a match but I guess that's mainly because of the colonial history
Not the first time you took our language and mangled it!
You've got to love prime Piers 😹😹
It’s not complicated, it’s pretty simple
Next generation Indians will be like the American if team BCCI doesn’t get it’s bloody act together 😢
Cricket is more than just a sport to us, it's a religion.
Dave Portnoy watches golf lol
I one year attended the boxing day test in Melbourne and got talking to an American in the hostel I was staying at, and he was very keen on cricket. I asked him how he got into the sport? He replied that when I first arrived in Australia, I was struggling to sleep with the jet lag so my Aussie friend said here's something that'll put you to sleep and she turned the tv onto the cricket, instead of putting him to sleep he was intrigued and watched it for hours becoming a cricket junkie.
If there's One thing I agree with Piers - Its Cricket is the Greatest Sport on earth - I've been debating this for over a decade now 😅
Bro that shit when your alone surround by the opps it’s a different feeling man. Big game matches is fucking crazy
The irony of cricket being casually dismissed, with Piers and David trying to make fun of American sports. The reality is that virtually everyone in the UK has no Idea who David Lloyd was
How and why?
This is so silly. They got an American who has no clue about cricket and rant how great cricket is.
Cricket is about as entertaining as cricket
This is pure banter😂😂😂. Poor American guy was just confused.
I love how Dave is not on the show to argue but they try and corner him in hopes he bites back. LOL How can any sport that sounds like its played in a Harry Potter movie could be great!
Now, now...
Cricket is the best sport on earth and the most popular.
@@StuTheDon17 Second most popular. Behind the greatest sport ever invented... Football.