There are 17 countries with professional or semi-professional baseball teams. 500 million people wordwide say they are keen baseball fans. There are also 17 countries with professional cricket leagues, though 108 countries have some level of cricket leagues. Cricket is the second most popular sport globally, with 2.5 billion regular fans.
Cricket is big because at one time England ruled the world and forced its culture and sports on everyone.People watch baseball because they love baseball not because they were forced into it.
There are probably more cricket fans in India alone than there are baseball fans on the planet. They have over a billion people and most of them are cricket fanatics. See also neighbouring Pakistan and Sri Lanka where the love of cricket is equally strong. The second most popular sport in the world after Association Football(aka Soccer)
@@hifijohn The use of the word "forced" is a bit of a stretch. I like eating curry but nobody forces me to! Oh and just so as you know (as you seemingly do not) baseball has its roots in England too (although not exclusively in England) so perhaps England "forced" it on Americans too, eh?
@@hifijohn Nobody can force anyone to play a particular sport. Canada was a major British dominion for centuries, but is useless at cricket. Afghanistan was never a British colony, but is a major cricket nation. And where is baseball mostly played? In countries with major US influence, such as Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, S Korea, and Mexico.
@@peterdavidson3890 Yeah, he is a typical US dude. He thinks everything is more popular in the US. Like baseball is called the World Series with only one country taking part. They think the US is the world, lol. 🙄
Your going to watch a full game ?? Thats up to five (5) days you do realise, there is T20 and limited over but test matches like you have seen are FIVE days long
I just need to correct your comment about cricket’s popularity - 2.5 billion people follow cricket, second only to football (soccer to you🤣) who have about 3.5 billion fans - basket ball has 2.2 billion fans!!! Cricket is a huge sport, you just don’t know about it in America!
Oh Joel, you've forgotten everything you've learned over the last several years. Just because the USA doesn't play cricket, doesn't mean it's less popular than baseball. Go Google the stats for numbers of players, spectators, countries in which played, and you'll see that baseball hardly manages to make it into the table.
I doubt that any of those catches rate in the top ten. Very good catches without a doubt but I have seen better. I actually have my doubts about the last 2
@@Yorci62 I think it is well ahead of Rugby, just thinking of India, Pakistan, sri Lanka, Bangladesh and West Indies by population size playing cricket alone. These not including Australia, New Zealand, and of course MCC , Marylebone cricket club better known as England.
@@stephaniearmstrong9547Similar speeds are achieved for pitchers in baseball and fast bowlers in cricket: just over 160km/h or 100mph. Baseball pitchers have that big wind up, body twist and shoulder effort and throw with a straightening arm, but otherwise they are stationary at their pitching mound while cricket bowlers have a high speed run up and a back foot thrust and running leap while bowling in an overarm windmill fashion with shoulder effort and body twist while keeping the bowling arm straight during the windmill. So it works out to be much the same: very fast.
I’m a 63 yr old Aussie mum who started going to the cricket from the age of 5 with my beautiful grandpa and uncle to the Boxing Day test match in Melbourne Australia, which was a tradition in our family. My aunt and I still absolutely love cricket, and I can tell you that those balls are way harder than a baseball as I was watching my husband play and took my eyes off the ball and the batsman hit it straight into my shin bone, I dropped like a suck of spuds and to this day I have a dent in the bone, it hurt like heck!! I was sitting watching from behind the boundary so it was a 6, just stopped by my leg 😂 I always hit the like button for you, but not this time. You need to research before opening your mouth. This is a much more technical and tactical game than baseball and way more popular than your game where they just throw the ball at someone with a stick!
I think he meant baseball was the most popular game inside United States, where you know, US teams play against each other and crown themselves as world champions. There is no comparison between baseball and cricket. Baseball is a caveman's game in comparison. It has zero finesse - just a bunch of hyper-muscled gorillas swinging their clubs at a ball as big as a basketball, relative to the cricket ball.
@@pissupehelwan I like your name. He should have done some research on what he was talking about. Let him see Shane Warne with his freaky spin bowling or watch the fast bowlers like Jeff Thompson, Dennis Lillee and so many others. Baseball is as you said a caveman’s game compared to this, and I do love baseball. He gave me the pip!!
Well said. As someone who is a keen cricket follower from England I agree. Second most popular sport after football ( or soccer as the Americans call it!)
i was surprised to find out that they do actually play cricket in the US just eclipsed by the NFL and NBL. but there are a lot of sports that are run but don't get the coverage. like rallying of cars. massive worldwide but most americans have never heard of the WRC. The paradox is that there is a quite healthy american rally series. same with australian footbal. its beginning to make inroads into america as well as anyone can play no matter gender.
@@dewimudd5692 yikes i just looked it up 96 to a 120 balls per mlb game. with a pitcher able to ditch a ball if it doesn't feel right. cricket the ball has be all but falling apart or 80 overs old before being replaced.
The two most popular sports on the planet are soccer, (called football outside of North America), and cricket. Both in terms of levels of participants, crowd size and viewers. For example, cricket in India is a national obsession. And that's a country with a billion people.
@@AliDeans No need to be arrogantly "sorry" because you aren't, I explicitly said "I imagine", and as 99% of NZ regards rugby as football I think you are are in an incredible minority and a troll.
1435 million people in India. 245 million in Pakistan 172 million in Bangladesh 22 million Sri Lanka Therefore about 1,850 million people in the Indian sub-continent where cricket is by FAR the most popular sport.
every American comments on the lack of gloves used in cricket - but the wicket keeper (the guy crouching behind the batsmans wicket) does wear heavily padded gloves to protect his knuckles. Apart from that, for everyone else, cricket balls hurt when you learn to catch them! The balls are made of a cork centre, then a thin layer of wood, which is then encased in leather and stitched. it hurts like hell if you get it wrong
The wicket keeper will handle the ball far more often than any other fielder and so they wear gloves to protect all of their hands but mainly their fingers and palms when catching, more so than for their knuckles. It is more batsmen who wear gloves when batting in order to protect their knuckles and fingers and even then, they offer limited protection and broken and/or damaged fingers are not uncommon if the ball hits their gloves from a fast bowler.
I can vouch for that. Americans don't understand how HARD a cricket ball is when it's hurtling at you. It can indeed be lethal. And bare hands are your protection for all but the wicket-keeper.
But if you catch it correctly, even off the biggest hit, it does NOT hurt. And we all learnt to catch correctly when we were first learning to play. I played weekend competitive local cricket for years, took many catches, some of which could be described as “screamers” and was only hurt once. I remember it well. In attempting to take the catch, I didn’t jump quite high enough so the ball missed the palm of my hand (it was a single-handed catch attempt off a full-blooded hit, with me leaping into the air close to the batsman) but instead the ball hit my fingers forcing two of them apart and so it split the webbing between those two fingers. I dropped that catch, too, which hurt me initially more than the injury. I was unable to play for the rest of the afternoon and on the next weekend also. So yes, the ball can hurt sometimes but not at all if the catch is taken correctly.
Yes (cricketer here) the bats are softer and I would think the bat swings in general are a lot harder/faster in baseball so the ball speeds must be a lot faster in baseball hence the glove. Cricket balls mess up a lot of fingers being so hard...
@@Shivian124 from memory, there's another reason they all wear a glove, something around being easier to use both hands to throw or something stupid like that
So don't cricketers wear gloves and helmets? In fact cricketers under 18 HAVE to wear batting helmets, and 99% of them continue to wear them as senior players. Baseball batters wear them for the same reason. You would have to be a looney not to wear protection for ice hockey!
Cricket is WAY bigger than baseball in the world. Most where the former British colonies [Caribbean/South Africa/Pakistan/India/Bangladesh/Sri Lanka/Australia/New Zealand] as well as England are the main countries that play then a lot of others are playing now too: Ireland/Scotlamd/Wales/Netherlands/Argentina to name a few. Hardest game ball and no gloves [except wicket keeper and the batsmen. Helmets only [and optional depending on who's bowling] for close in fielders [silly point], batsmen and wicket keeper. Pads for batsmen and wicket keeper [leg] as well as arm/thigh etc. [again optional] for the batsmen.
Cricket is not recent in Ireland/Scotland/ Wales/ Netherlands/ Argentina. It has been played in those places for well over a hundred years and more than 200 in some. Recent converts are the likes of Mongolia and Uzbekistan.
@@tinaunderhill5412 When American journalists show their video segments on visits to the West Indies or Australia, they cover golf, basketball, track and field even pretend that baseball is a thing there. In sum, they cover the sports Americans already know. But cricket, never. So, blame their media's slanted international coverage for Americans' exceptional (and much mocked) lack of knowledge of things abroad. Most Americans that I meet (I live in Southern California) are interested, given the opportunity to learn. It's their media's bias that lets them down.
@@ArmageddonIsHere Cricket is the second most played sport in the world after football (soccer), maybe you should try it in the USA , but it can last for five days!
thats due to the kids of imigrant indian, pakistani, sri lankans, who have started there own leagues, and now have thier own national team "the american eagles", u19 cricket team. in the cricketing world they are seen as a "delevolping nation".
Cricket is a highly anticipated game worldwide, with 2.5 billion spectators from Asia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. It is also popular in countries with Test Cricket, a more exclusive club. The Indian Premier League (IPL) typically draws over 100 million watchers per match. Big TV audiences also follow short-format matches in most cricketing nations.
yep in sri lanka my parents whilst on holiday were witness to one hotel challanging another to a cricket match. not a sports team a hotel, thats how fanatical they are over cricket that even companies and hotels can field a team if challanged.
@@Dr_KAP Yes but Joel likes to be informed, so this is informing him..he's an adult so hopefully no offence meant or taken..Of course baseball is more popular, but 30 years ago soccer was new to the USA..he needs to know that Cricket is more than throwing a ball at a bunch of sticks
@@andrewmole745 Wrong on two counts. If you throw a ball in cricket it's ruled as a "no ball". The ball is bowled at a point on the pitch chosen by the bowler, not at a strike zone. Pay attention.
@@narabdela OK... I see where you are coming from now. But I am following the Merriam dictionary definition: "to propel through the air by a forward motion of the hand and arm".
I took up watching cricket about 10 years ago. I now know the game extremely well, but it's rare for me to watch a match and not learn something new. Cricket is an endlessly fascinating sports.
Mishits that you describe isn't a fault of the batsman, it's the skills of the bowler. That is the essence of cricket, bowler outfoxing the batsman. Making him hit to the fieldsmen..
Add in the condition of the pitch - deviations (cracks, rough patches, grass density on the entire pitch) can make you miss-read the line, length, bounce and pace.
@@kingy002 Well, that depends on what you get out of the game, isn't it? I find it incredibly boring watching golf, but others find it fascinating. Some hate watching soccer for the same reason, some can't stand watching sport at all. Each to their own, but don't try and discourage ithers from what you like or dislike.
@@kingy002 What's to see about golf ? someone hits a ball 300 yards and has to go after it himself and we all wait until he finds it before he hits it again.
@@79BlackRose There's only 4 bowlers in history that have surpassed the 100mph mark, Jeff Thomson, Shaun Tait, Brett Lee and Shoaib Aktar. It'd be more fair to say fast bowlers are more 85-95mph, those that exceed that are freaks.
Cricket is actually an extremely complex , technical game. Far more than throwing a ball at a stick to get someone out. What the commentator also probably doesn't realise is a cricket ball is cork wrapped in leather, which is far heavier and harder than a baseball.
Hit the LIKE button? Hit the bleedin' like button! The second you said that Cricket is basically throwing a ball at a stick, I hit the UNLIKE button and as for much more popular than baseball, you have lived outside of Murica but still have the insular mindset of a squirrel. Oh, and no glove elevates the game, well, thank you, very much!
@@BenjWarrant and cricket bowler has beamers, bouncers, yorkers, length, inswing, outswing, slower ball, legbreak, offbreak, googly, armball, Doosra, Carrom, top spinner, Flipper and slider. To name a few.
@@Daniean Ooo, somebody's been googling 'different types of ball in cricket' haven't they? I'm not interested in such a silly argument. In my view, stating that cricket is more 'difficult' than baseball is foolish.
Jonty was very good in one position. Punter Ponting was excellent in various fielding positions from slip, through silly mid off, to backward(Jonty) point. Easily the best all round fielder I have seen, Marl Waugh would be #2. Rhodes somewhere int he top 10. I would have IVA Richarda above Rhodes.
I was at a televised game at Taunton, Somerset, the cameraman was in front of us standing behind the boundary. The batsman hit a six towards us and amazingly the cameraman stuck out his hand, caught the ball whilst continuing to film the action. It was an incredible reaction, you can imagine how the crowd went wild - especially after a few ciders!🤣
Cricket takes me back to when I was a kid (many years ago) going to watch my brother compete in an inter school friendly on the village green. The sound of leather on willow, teams dressed in white and a little club house that served teas. Those were gloriously long summer days.😊
"Cricket, a sport I'm not very familiar with but honestly, cricket is a pretty simple sport, you're just throwing the ball at a stick". This is Americans in a nutshell. They don't let a lack of familiarity stop them from immediately having uninformed opinions and making ignorant statements. The sport isn't simple mate, but you obviously are.
No, it's the whole art of the game. The subtle nuances of one man bowling a ball at a target and another man using a small piece of wood to defend or hit this ball travelling at anything upto 100 mph and to try and place his shot away from the 10 other fielders and the bowler to score runs. The bowler must try to outwit the batsman.
In short: There is a Cricket World Cup where countries from around the world compete in. There is a World Series where local clubs from around the US compete in...
I think cricket is gaining a lot of popularity in the US. Good. Soon, we'll have one day matches that last 3 days due to commercials and 'sponsors', and 5-day test matches will last indefinitely until they wear full body armour and the ball (sponsored by Budweiser) is made 'a bit softer'.
Lets be Fair to this young American gentleman, we do play a version of 2:27 Baseball in the UK But it's known under a different name...its called rounders. And generally played by school girls!!!!😂😂😂😂
Sorry Joel but please google total numbers of cricket fans worldwide and then the same for Baseball fans worldwide. You may be surprised to find the most populous country in the world has cricket as its major sport followed by millions.
Baseball is very much a MINORITY sport. As are all American sports as they are predominantly played only in America. Whereas cricket is a global sport as is ⚽️ football.
@robertomoi2044 … and Taiwan, Cuba, Canada, Mexico, and others… around the same number that play cricket. The difference is in numbers… India plays cricket… nuff said…
Cricket is actually the second most popular sport in the world after football. But it is very focused on Commonwealth countries, and is overwelmingly popular in South Asia.
Did you know that George Washington and Abe. Lincoln regularly played Cricket ? Of course this was before the English game of Rounders ,became Base ball.
You need to see the Australian John Dyson's catch from 1982 . It's a candidate for best catch ever . You will be surprised that it's over his head running backwards , yes he uses 2 hands but he used to play Soccer so the effort would remind you of a great Goalie catch . He stunned the world with his catch . I saw it live and still think it's better than the throw back over the rope catches .
The local cricket club (Co Kildare in Ireland, another country where cricket is rather popular) is just down the road from me and cricket season is starting shortly, I feel a desire to return to watching the game. It's so peaceful and calming somehow.
If the players are wearing coloured clothing than it is a 50 or 20 over match, white uniform means that it is test match played over five days. Different rules for which type of match. being played. In Aussie it is the national game😎
Just for clarity on the rules surrounding the number 1 and 2 catch... If there was no fielder involved, and the ball touches ground (for the first time) outside the boundary, the batsman gets 6 runs added to his score (just for interest, if the ball touches ground before the bloundary, and sfill crosses it, the batsman get 4 runs added to his score). If there is a fielder involved, if the fielder touches ground outside the boundary, while having the ball in hand, the batsman gets 6 runs. In catch number 2 the the fielder had to throw the ball back "in bounds" and catch it again, since he did not yet have the ball under control before he crossed the boundary. In catch number one, catching it again after throwing it was not required, since he had the ball under control after catching it the first time. He didnt have to throw it to another player after the catch, i think the only reason he did that was: in case the catch was not legit, the other player could then still throw the ball to the wicket keeper to prevent more runs. Even if the catch was legit, it is still a good idea to throw to another fielder. There are always 2 batsman working in partnership. Without getting too deep into it, on some occations, it is possible to get both batsman out at the same time. I think the fielder was keeping that in mind when he was throwing to the other fielder, in case there was a chance to also get the other batsman out.
Cricket in India population of 1,4 billion is there national sport it is so big in India that sorry it is bigger than anything anywhere . Cricket is popular in India, Australia , England , New Zealand , Pakistani, Bangladesh, the West Indies . Sri Lanka , South Africa , Nepal, Afghanistan , Ireland , Netherlands
Rules of cricket: You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in the field goes out and when he’s out comes in and the next man goes in until he’s 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. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Sometimes there are men still in and not out. There are men called umpires who stay out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter whether they’re in or out. When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished.
If you liked this, I recommend watching a video of the best cricket deliveries. Catches are great but it's so satisfying to see a batsman get clean bowled. Even better, watch a video of Shane Warne highlights.
Fun Fact: the first ever International sporting competition was a cricket match between Canda and the USA, this game pre-dates the first Test match between Australia and England. George Washington was reportedly a big cricket fan
These videos never include slips catches, which are in some ways even more amazing because of the lack of reaction time, plus being behind the batsman means the fielder doesn’t get a good look at the ball until it’s on them. Baseball has no equivalent to slips catches, which can be extraordinary even off slow spin bowling. That would be something to check out next.
Agreed. I struggle to see how this is the top 10 best catches. Subjective of course, but you could do a top 10 relay catches alone. Then top 10 slip or close fielder catches. Top 10 c&b etc
What you may have missed is that not only have the players to catch the ball but once caught it must not touch the ground hence the reason for some of the acrobatic moves you witness.
Caught and bowled are some of the best, bowler coming in at speed and batter cracking it straight back up the crease it's almost self defence with reactions being instant. Cheers JP keep exploring outside the USA, the world is a big place, from the place they call Middle Earth little old New Zealand.
The more amazing catches take place when they're just a few feet from the batter and it's pure instinct. "In the slips", or even better at "Silly Mid-On" or "Silly Mid-Off" [these are real positions, so-called because you have to be silly to stand so close and try to catch it before it kills you].
Jonty was good in one fielding position. Mark Waugh, Ricky Ponting, Viv Richards Dereck Randall and a host of others were better all round fielders who could also do what Jonty did from Backward Point. People suffer from Jonty cool aide far too often. He would not have got a game in most Test teams, couldn't bat, couldnt bowl, decent fielder...
Baseballs (145g) are pitched at about max 100mph, the denser cricket balls (160g) are also bowled at max 100mph. We also play baseball as a children’s game (same rules) called rounders. The two major differences are the bat size and ball.
Joel, the thing which makes these catches even more amazing is that the weight of the red ball is between 5.5. - 5.75 ounces. That's quite heavy for a ball of 2.8 - 2.86 inches in diameter. If you catch it wrong, you can end up with a busted finger. ouch!
If you mean geographically, possibly not. Numbers of people playing, definitely. One of the issues that cricket faces is that the pitch, and particularly the wicket, has to be very carefully prepared, which is a skilled job. You could play baseball in a supermarket car park.
@@HerMaj0509 Tell that to the kids playing cricket in their backyards, to the thousands playing beach cricket, those in the driveway of their homes, on the street, in the school playground... The wicket is three stumps (wooden sticks) in the ground, but we use milk crates, rubbish bins, cardboard boxes...anything can be a wicket if the batter stands in front of it. Careful preparation isnt necessary at all. Not only is cricket more widely played than baseball across the world, it is a heaps better game too. Go to a test at the MCG, Lords or Eden Gardens, you'll see
@@HerMaj0509 When I was growing up in Australia every primary and high school had a cricket field. That's just for the kids at school and local junior clubs to play on. Then you add on the larger fields around the country. You will find that most countries in the world that play cricket have no problems with fields to play on.
Throwing a ball at a stick,that’s all cricket is. Hmmmm. Yes quite. It’s called bowling and if a bowler “threw” a ball at “the sticks” (wicket) it would be called a no ball and a possible censure for the bowler involved. The nuances and skill level involved confirm the talent and fitness required. Cricket is loved by approximately 2billion people worldwide,so it’s not a minority sport in the slightest. JPS,just because it’s not played in the US doesn’t mean it’s not a great sport. Delve a little deeper into cricket and you’ll learn it is a complex sport.
Plenty of fingers have been broken trying to catch a cricket ball, It's heavier and harder than a baseball, even arms/wrists/jaws have been broken by fast deliveries.
It’s great to see you doing another Cricket reaction Joel. There are some great catches here but any top 10 catches without the Stokes and Strauss catches is not a real top 10.
Maybe cricket should have a World Series which would include England, Ireland, Australia, India , Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies etc. as opposed to Just America
@@Ron-uq2hg Nah, USA is all you require for a "world series", didn't ya know? They have a word series in Baseball, in Basketball, in AMERICAN football, etc. Didn't ya know USA IS the world??? Jeez man!
What in the flying f*** are you talking about, child!? Baseball more popular than cricket around the world!? No. No, it is not. And it is not even remotely close. JFC, that hurt to hear.
Even when you get everything right with a catch it can still hurt like hell, pain subsides pretty quickly when you see the guy going back to the pavilion.
Cricket is many times more popular than baseball. Then again what can you expect from a country that calls its finals the 'World Series' when only a few countries take part.
He’s American, so tends to reflect that mindset. Just because something isn’t popular in the U.S. doesn’t mean it is not popular elsewhere. Cricket actually has a higher viewership than any other sport comparing with NBA and NFL.
Most catches are from hits off the bat that aten't from the middle of the bat, which means they weren't perfectly timed strikes or the stroke wasn't perfectly to the pitch of the ball because most strikes off the middle of the bat go for 4/6. Sometimes tho the catches are from perfectly timed and struck deliveries, those are even more incredible.
Worth pointing out that a cricket ball is travelling at around 87mph when it leaves the bat, and is made from cork wound with string and then with leather over the top, and as you've seen is not caught with a glove; a baseball however is cork, yarn and leather so is generally softer, leaves the bat at around the same speed but of course is caught with a glove
There are 17 countries with professional or semi-professional baseball teams. 500 million people wordwide say they are keen baseball fans. There are also 17 countries with professional cricket leagues, though 108 countries have some level of cricket leagues. Cricket is the second most popular sport globally, with 2.5 billion regular fans.
Cricket is big because at one time England ruled the world and forced its culture and sports on everyone.People watch baseball because they love baseball not because they were forced into it.
There are probably more cricket fans in India alone than there are baseball fans on the planet. They have over a billion people and most of them are cricket fanatics. See also neighbouring Pakistan and Sri Lanka where the love of cricket is equally strong.
The second most popular sport in the world after Association Football(aka Soccer)
@@hifijohn The use of the word "forced" is a bit of a stretch. I like eating curry but nobody forces me to!
Oh and just so as you know (as you seemingly do not) baseball has its roots in England too (although not exclusively in England) so perhaps England "forced" it on Americans too, eh?
@@hifijohn what a moronic comment.
@@hifijohn Nobody can force anyone to play a particular sport. Canada was a major British dominion for centuries, but is useless at cricket. Afghanistan was never a British colony, but is a major cricket nation. And where is baseball mostly played? In countries with major US influence, such as Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, S Korea, and Mexico.
"I guess cricket must be pretty big in Australia" - understatement of the year!
bluey a kids show that had grown men crying at the end of the cricket episode.
Yeah, I've heard those whispers too! 🎯
Australia are 6 time World champions lol
@@RuanAntunes7 Yeah, we & India both play the odd game...
What about India and all the British colonies
This guy thinks Baseball is more popular world wide than Cricket..Hahaha
Cricket is played as an international sport and as a national sport within many countries.
Well, he is American
@@peterdavidson3890 Yeah, he is a typical US dude. He thinks everything is more popular in the US. Like
baseball is called the World Series with only one country taking part. They think the US is the world, lol. 🙄
I believe they play baseball in Japan outside of N America.
Because of the British empire
Sorry but I think you will find that Cricket is played in more countries around the world than Baseball.
and some of them are Quite Big
Factzz, muricans need to sometimes look out of their bubble 😅
Indeed Cricket is the 2nd most watched international sport.
Pardon him, he is American.
Jonty Rhodes …what a player!
When I was a kid growing up in England baseball was a very popular children's game. We called it rounders.
And it was played by girls
I was going to say yes and played by schoolgirls
Your going to watch a full game ?? Thats up to five (5) days you do realise, there is T20 and limited over but test matches like you have seen are FIVE days long
@@andirutherford2615 Five days of joy
Yep, test matches lasting up to 5 days, and even then can end in a draw, and even then still be completely gripping throughout.
I just need to correct your comment about cricket’s popularity - 2.5 billion people follow cricket, second only to football (soccer to you🤣) who have about 3.5 billion fans - basket ball has 2.2 billion fans!!! Cricket is a huge sport, you just don’t know about it in America!
Well one and a half billion Indians can't be wrong.
@@jimbo6059 indeed, well after all it is the best sport!!!😁🤣
@@jimbo6059 And how many people tune into an Ashes match? (England vs Aussies for JPS's benefit) One of the greatest rivalries in the whole of sport.
Americans only want to know about a sport if they invented it, otherwise forget it. The worlds most insular country.
Oh Joel, you've forgotten everything you've learned over the last several years. Just because the USA doesn't play cricket, doesn't mean it's less popular than baseball. Go Google the stats for numbers of players, spectators, countries in which played, and you'll see that baseball hardly manages to make it into the table.
It’s bred into them from a very early age that the whole world is America and by extension,the only country that matters.
USA USA USA
India, Pakistan, England, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa you name it 🏏🫵
Way more popular than baseball
+ Ireland, Holland, USA, Canada, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, to name a few other ones too.
@@WildBoreWoodWind Yes the list is endless;
@@WildBoreWoodWind zimbabwia, namibia
Kenya also plays as well, as does in this year's 20/20 World Cup, Scotland, P.N.G., Nepal, Oman and Uganda, along with all the others mentioned here.
I doubt that any of those catches rate in the top ten. Very good catches without a doubt but I have seen better. I actually have my doubts about the last 2
I think cricket is the second most popular sport in the world after football
Probably third just after rugby
@@Yorci62no 2
@@Yorci62 I think it is well ahead of Rugby, just thinking of India, Pakistan, sri Lanka, Bangladesh and West Indies by population size playing cricket alone. These not including Australia, New Zealand, and of course MCC , Marylebone cricket club better known as England.
@@Yorci62 rugby don't stand a chance. Cricket is like a religion in asia
"Throwing a ball at a stick to get someone out". C'mon Jps, there is more to cricket than that. Also the wicket is three 'sticks'.
That's a great way to describe baseball though
The speed the bowler throws the ball can be extremely fast at the guy with the bat
@@stephaniearmstrong9547 They do not throw the ball, it is bowled overarm.
@@79BlackRose sorry I don’t know the terminology of cricket I don’t watch the games or take a interest in it .
@@stephaniearmstrong9547Similar speeds are achieved for pitchers in baseball and fast bowlers in cricket: just over 160km/h or 100mph. Baseball pitchers have that big wind up, body twist and shoulder effort and throw with a straightening arm, but otherwise they are stationary at their pitching mound while cricket bowlers have a high speed run up and a back foot thrust and running leap while bowling in an overarm windmill fashion with shoulder effort and body twist while keeping the bowling arm straight during the windmill. So it works out to be much the same: very fast.
I’m a 63 yr old Aussie mum who started going to the cricket from the age of 5 with my beautiful grandpa and uncle to the Boxing Day test match in Melbourne Australia, which was a tradition in our family. My aunt and I still absolutely love cricket, and I can tell you that those balls are way harder than a baseball as I was watching my husband play and took my eyes off the ball and the batsman hit it straight into my shin bone, I dropped like a suck of spuds and to this day I have a dent in the bone, it hurt like heck!! I was sitting watching from behind the boundary so it was a 6, just stopped by my leg 😂 I always hit the like button for you, but not this time. You need to research before opening your mouth. This is a much more technical and tactical game than baseball and way more popular than your game where they just throw the ball at someone with a stick!
I think he meant baseball was the most popular game inside United States, where you know, US teams play against each other and crown themselves as world champions. There is no comparison between baseball and cricket. Baseball is a caveman's game in comparison. It has zero finesse - just a bunch of hyper-muscled gorillas swinging their clubs at a ball as big as a basketball, relative to the cricket ball.
@@pissupehelwan I like your name. He should have done some research on what he was talking about. Let him see Shane Warne with his freaky spin bowling or watch the fast bowlers like Jeff Thompson, Dennis Lillee and so many others. Baseball is as you said a caveman’s game compared to this, and I do love baseball. He gave me the pip!!
I gotta say, every time I go to learn about cricket, the fans are such a-holes it puts me off.
Easy mama ..they know no our lovely cricket..
Well said. As someone who is a keen cricket follower from England I agree. Second most popular sport after football ( or soccer as the Americans call it!)
"Baseball is much more popular than cricket" 🤣😂🤣Er........not quite!
No bro keep dreaming 😂😜
Oh, sweet summer child... it is always fun to see americans realise there is quite alot more to the planet than their own continent.
The USA plays baseball. The rest of the world plays cricket.
Not much playing there too..Most of the time is spent talking, arguing..
i was surprised to find out that they do actually play cricket in the US just eclipsed by the NFL and NBL. but there are a lot of sports that are run but don't get the coverage. like rallying of cars. massive worldwide but most americans have never heard of the WRC. The paradox is that there is a quite healthy american rally series. same with australian footbal. its beginning to make inroads into america as well as anyone can play no matter gender.
And they use on average 45 balls each innings
@@dewimudd5692 yikes i just looked it up 96 to a 120 balls per mlb game. with a pitcher able to ditch a ball if it doesn't feel right. cricket the ball has be all but falling apart or 80 overs old before being replaced.
Baseball is huge in Japan. Korea, all of Latin America. Dwarfed by soccer/football but far from insignificant.
I think you just described baseball cricket is far more than that
Cricket has more viewership than baseball
You throw the ball ( bending the elbow) in Baseball , in Cricket you bowl ( elbow has to be straight) the ball .
Except if your name is Murili....
Must!* just stronger word
The two most popular sports on the planet are soccer, (called football outside of North America), and cricket. Both in terms of levels of participants, crowd size and viewers. For example, cricket in India is a national obsession. And that's a country with a billion people.
Aaah, no, it's soccer in Australia too (and I imagine NZ)
@@vtbn53 Nope, sorry. It's football here in NZ. The other one with the funny shaped ball here is rugby.
@@AliDeans No need to be arrogantly "sorry" because you aren't, I explicitly said "I imagine", and as 99% of NZ regards rugby as football I think you are are in an incredible minority and a troll.
1435 million people in India.
245 million in Pakistan
172 million in Bangladesh
22 million Sri Lanka
Therefore about 1,850 million people in the Indian sub-continent where cricket is by FAR the most popular sport.
@@HerMaj0509 Yeah but English speaking countries beat you regularly, it's our game regardless.
'Throwing', 'throwing!' There you touch on a whole can of worms in the history of cricket BOWLING!
Exactly it’s about batters and bowling and field cricket is a professional sport .
every American comments on the lack of gloves used in cricket - but the wicket keeper (the guy crouching behind the batsmans wicket) does wear heavily padded gloves to protect his knuckles.
Apart from that, for everyone else, cricket balls hurt when you learn to catch them! The balls are made of a cork centre, then a thin layer of wood, which is then encased in leather and stitched. it hurts like hell if you get it wrong
The wicket keeper will handle the ball far more often than any other fielder and so they wear gloves to protect all of their hands but mainly their fingers and palms when catching, more so than for their knuckles.
It is more batsmen who wear gloves when batting in order to protect their knuckles and fingers and even then, they offer limited protection and broken and/or damaged fingers are not uncommon if the ball hits their gloves from a fast bowler.
I can vouch for that. Americans don't understand how HARD a cricket ball is when it's hurtling at you. It can indeed be lethal. And bare hands are your protection for all but the wicket-keeper.
Wicket keepers wear gloves to protect the ends of their fingers and the palms of their hands, the batters wear gloves to protect their knuckles.
But if you catch it correctly, even off the biggest hit, it does NOT hurt. And we all learnt to catch correctly when we were first learning to play. I played weekend competitive local cricket for years, took many catches, some of which could be described as “screamers” and was only hurt once. I remember it well. In attempting to take the catch, I didn’t jump quite high enough so the ball missed the palm of my hand (it was a single-handed catch attempt off a full-blooded hit, with me leaping into the air close to the batsman) but instead the ball hit my fingers forcing two of them apart and so it split the webbing between those two fingers. I dropped that catch, too, which hurt me initially more than the injury. I was unable to play for the rest of the afternoon and on the next weekend also. So yes, the ball can hurt sometimes but not at all if the catch is taken correctly.
Cork is wood.
Also keep in mind.... a cricket ball is harder than a baseball, so the lack of a glove is even more impressive.
yeah, baseballs have a soft leather, whereas cricket is a hard leather, plus less padding with string on inside of a ricket ball
....and weighs more than a baseball
Yes (cricketer here) the bats are softer and I would think the bat swings in general are a lot harder/faster in baseball so the ball speeds must be a lot faster in baseball hence the glove.
Cricket balls mess up a lot of fingers being so hard...
@@Shivian124 from memory, there's another reason they all wear a glove, something around being easier to use both hands to throw or something stupid like that
Baseball = gloves and helmets . American football = padding and helmets. Ice hockey = padding and helmets there’s a theme.
Soft LOL
So don't cricketers wear gloves and helmets? In fact cricketers under 18 HAVE to wear batting helmets, and 99% of them continue to wear them as senior players.
Baseball batters wear them for the same reason.
You would have to be a looney not to wear protection for ice hockey!
Americans like sports with a lot of equipment.
@@joyfulzero853 I wouldn't play ice hockey on a console. Its too scary lol
Tbf, with ice hockey, you need the helmets and padding. It's brutal
Cricket is WAY bigger than baseball in the world. Most where the former British colonies [Caribbean/South Africa/Pakistan/India/Bangladesh/Sri Lanka/Australia/New Zealand] as well as England are the main countries that play then a lot of others are playing now too: Ireland/Scotlamd/Wales/Netherlands/Argentina to name a few.
Hardest game ball and no gloves [except wicket keeper and the batsmen. Helmets only [and optional depending on who's bowling] for close in fielders [silly point], batsmen and wicket keeper.
Pads for batsmen and wicket keeper [leg] as well as arm/thigh etc. [again optional] for the batsmen.
Pretty poor by us British, we invent a sport then get beat by everyone else lol
@@tobytaylor2154 Yes,same as football ! 😂
@@MrSinclairn mind you, we win at war so I know what I'd rather be good at
You forgot Afghanistan, their team also came to Australia as part of the International competition here! 😄
Cricket is not recent in Ireland/Scotland/ Wales/ Netherlands/ Argentina. It has been played in those places for well over a hundred years and more than 200 in some. Recent converts are the likes of Mongolia and Uzbekistan.
“I guess cricket must be pretty big in Australia” ! I’m chuckling
Why? Is it not?
@@ArmageddonIsHere It’s massive!
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When American journalists show their video segments on visits to the West Indies or Australia, they cover golf, basketball, track and field even pretend that baseball is a thing there. In sum, they cover the sports Americans already know. But cricket, never.
So, blame their media's slanted international coverage for Americans' exceptional (and much mocked) lack of knowledge of things abroad.
Most Americans that I meet (I live in Southern California) are interested, given the opportunity to learn. It's their media's bias that lets them down.
@@ArmageddonIsHere Cricket is the second most played sport in the world after football (soccer), maybe you should try it in the USA , but it can last for five days!
I read recently that Cricket is one of the fastest growing sports in the USA
thats due to the kids of imigrant indian, pakistani, sri lankans, who have started there own leagues, and now have thier own national team "the american eagles", u19 cricket team. in the cricketing world they are seen as a "delevolping nation".
@@mej6519 Interesting,,thanks
Not just them but also immigrant Caribbeans as well.
@@jimbo6059 yep.
Also in China as well, read an article that due to the number of international schools teaching the British curriculum
Cricket is a highly anticipated game worldwide, with 2.5 billion spectators from Asia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. It is also popular in countries with Test Cricket, a more exclusive club.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) typically draws over 100 million watchers per match. Big TV audiences also follow short-format matches in most cricketing nations.
yep in sri lanka my parents whilst on holiday were witness to one hotel challanging another to a cricket match. not a sports team a hotel, thats how fanatical they are over cricket that even companies and hotels can field a team if challanged.
The south asian population makes up about 2.1 of that lol - and not just in south asia .
I suspect cricket is more popular than baseball. Big in India.
Pakistan, Aus,NZ, SA. Sri Lanka...the list goes on
He was saying baseball was more popular than cricket in the U.S.
way bigger
@@Dr_KAP Yes but Joel likes to be informed, so this is informing him..he's an adult so hopefully no offence meant or taken..Of course baseball is more popular, but 30 years ago soccer was new to the USA..he needs to know that Cricket is more than throwing a ball at a bunch of sticks
@@Dr_KAP I agree
"Throwing a ball at a wicket to get someone out" Wtf? You have a LOT to learn JPS. Cricket is to Baseball as Chess is to Checkers(Draughts).
@narabdela : actually that is almost exactly a description of baseball - “throwing a ball at a strike zone to get a man out”.
@@andrewmole745 Wrong on two counts. If you throw a ball in cricket it's ruled as a "no ball". The ball is bowled at a point on the pitch chosen by the bowler, not at a strike zone. Pay attention.
@@narabdela OK... I see where you are coming from now. But I am following the Merriam dictionary definition: "to propel through the air by a forward motion of the hand and arm".
I took up watching cricket about 10 years ago. I now know the game extremely well, but it's rare for me to watch a match and not learn something new. Cricket is an endlessly fascinating sports.
The basics of cricket are (as you say) "simple", but the rules are complex.
And the bowling variations, fielding placements, batting techniques, speed of the bowl, strength of the batsman, the running between wickets ..
It's the Laws! Baseball rules are very complex as well; up to 191 pages.
@@jenniferharrison8915yes 150km\h speed😂😂
@@JaipurDelhi1 YES! 😱👍
the only complex law in cricket is the LBW law...and no-one has agreed upon it in 300 years
Baseball 500 million fans, Cricket 2.5 billion fans, says it all.
India only 1 billion 😂
@@sh124.1 still more than base Ball
Mishits that you describe isn't a fault of the batsman, it's the skills of the bowler. That is the essence of cricket, bowler outfoxing the batsman. Making him hit to the fieldsmen..
Add in the condition of the pitch - deviations (cracks, rough patches, grass density on the entire pitch) can make you miss-read the line, length, bounce and pace.
You have the mishits? You can get tablets for that.
@@robertomoi2044 hehe mis-hits
@gkkes oh miss hits
Thought u were saying "me shits"
"I must watch a full game" don't make it a test match unless you have a few spare days🙂
Exactly, I'd suggest a T20 for starters.
And want to fall asleep from sheer fuckin' boredom.
@@kingy002 Well, that depends on what you get out of the game, isn't it? I find it incredibly boring watching golf, but others find it fascinating. Some hate watching soccer for the same reason, some can't stand watching sport at all. Each to their own, but don't try and discourage ithers from what you like or dislike.
@@utha2665 That's a bit rich, isn't it? You just said golf is incredibly boring. Why are you discouraging others from watching that?
@@kingy002 What's to see about golf ? someone hits a ball 300 yards and has to go after it himself and we all wait until he finds it before he hits it again.
Joel remember that that ball weighs 5.5 ounces (160 grams) and is travelling at around 70 miles per hour
Unless it’s Jofra Archer who averages over 90mph.
Mark Wood is also very quick.
Fast bowlers bowl at 90-100 mph.
@@79BlackRose There's only 4 bowlers in history that have surpassed the 100mph mark, Jeff Thomson, Shaun Tait, Brett Lee and Shoaib Aktar. It'd be more fair to say fast bowlers are more 85-95mph, those that exceed that are freaks.
@@utha2665 My comment still stands. Thanks for confirming it.
A baseball weighs about the same
"you're basically throwing a ball at a stick". I need to lie down, heavily sedated, in a darkened room.
Cricket is actually an extremely complex , technical game. Far more than throwing a ball at a stick to get someone out. What the commentator also probably doesn't realise is a cricket ball is cork wrapped in leather, which is far heavier and harder than a baseball.
Hit the LIKE button? Hit the bleedin' like button!
The second you said that Cricket is basically throwing a ball at a stick, I hit the UNLIKE button and as for much more popular than baseball, you have lived outside of Murica but still have the insular mindset of a squirrel. Oh, and no glove elevates the game, well, thank you, very much!
Cricket is more difficult than baseball
That's a silly thing to say.
@@BenjWarrantcricket is hard to face if the balls bounce depending on spin or swing
@@frankfernandes718 Baseball pitches have fastballs, curve balls, knuckle balls, sliders, screwballs....
@@BenjWarrant and cricket bowler has beamers, bouncers, yorkers, length, inswing, outswing, slower ball, legbreak, offbreak, googly, armball, Doosra, Carrom, top spinner, Flipper and slider. To name a few.
@@Daniean Ooo, somebody's been googling 'different types of ball in cricket' haven't they?
I'm not interested in such a silly argument. In my view, stating that cricket is more 'difficult' than baseball is foolish.
Rhodes who was the number 3 catch is considered by most cricket lovers to be the greatest fielder of all time he was a freak and awesome to watch
He was phenomenal
It should be #1
Jonty was very good in one position. Punter Ponting was excellent in various fielding positions from slip, through silly mid off, to backward(Jonty) point. Easily the best all round fielder I have seen, Marl Waugh would be #2. Rhodes somewhere int he top 10. I would have IVA Richarda above Rhodes.
The player who takes the front flip catch was Corey Anderson who was a New Zealand cricketer now playing for USA in this world cup
What about ball in baseball compared to cricket? Soft or hard.
The skill of the camera operators never ceases to astonish me, how they can zoom in on a ball high in the air and then pull out to see tha catch.
I was at a televised game at Taunton, Somerset, the cameraman was in front of us standing behind the boundary. The batsman hit a six towards us and amazingly the cameraman stuck out his hand, caught the ball whilst continuing to film the action. It was an incredible reaction, you can imagine how the crowd went wild - especially after a few ciders!🤣
Baseball is a children's game.
Cricket is gentleman's game.
Cricket takes me back to when I was a kid (many years ago) going to watch my brother compete in an inter school friendly on the village green.
The sound of leather on willow, teams dressed in white and a little club house that served teas.
Those were gloriously long summer days.😊
Also, he doesn’t realize that a cricket ball is rock hard. 😮….and you don’t throw a ball, you bowl it. 😅
Hi JPS greetings from England 🇬🇧 and Cricket is the National Sport of Australia and the Aussies are absolutely Cricket mad.
"Cricket, a sport I'm not very familiar with but honestly, cricket is a pretty simple sport, you're just throwing the ball at a stick". This is Americans in a nutshell. They don't let a lack of familiarity stop them from immediately having uninformed opinions and making ignorant statements. The sport isn't simple mate, but you obviously are.
No, it's the whole art of the game. The subtle nuances of one man bowling a ball at a target and another man using a small piece of wood to defend or hit this ball travelling at anything upto 100 mph and to try and place his shot away from the 10 other fielders and the bowler to score runs. The bowler must try to outwit the batsman.
Even the coin toss is fiercely contested.
In short:
There is a Cricket World Cup where countries from around the world compete in.
There is a World Series where local clubs from around the US compete in...
I think cricket is gaining a lot of popularity in the US. Good. Soon, we'll have one day matches that last 3 days due to commercials and 'sponsors', and 5-day test matches will last indefinitely until they wear full body armour and the ball (sponsored by Budweiser) is made 'a bit softer'.
It’s gaining popularity among the Indian immigrants in the U.S. not among the actual American people
Lets be Fair to this young American gentleman, we do play a version of 2:27 Baseball in the UK But it's known under a different name...its called rounders. And generally played by school girls!!!!😂😂😂😂
And the irony is that cricket was probably invented in Ireland…
Sorry Joel but please google total numbers of cricket fans worldwide and then the same for Baseball fans worldwide. You may be surprised to find the most populous country in the world has cricket as its major sport followed by millions.
0:24 cricket is a simple sport 😂😂😂
The cricket ball is solid with a leather covering. They're really really hard.
Baseball is very much a MINORITY sport. As are all American sports as they are predominantly played only in America. Whereas cricket is a global sport as is ⚽️ football.
Baseball is hugely popular in Japan and Korea.
@@ancientrockman7111 lol
@robertomoi2044 … and Taiwan, Cuba, Canada, Mexico, and others… around the same number that play cricket. The difference is in numbers… India plays cricket… nuff said…
Cricket is actually the second most popular sport in the world after football. But it is very focused on Commonwealth countries, and is overwelmingly popular in South Asia.
Literally played by one third of the world
fun fact: player who catch at number 4 is now playing cricket for USA in this T20wc - Corey Anderson
Dude, cricket is like the second most popular sport in the world! Far more popular than baseball.
Did you know that George Washington and Abe. Lincoln regularly played Cricket ? Of course this was before the English game of Rounders ,became Base ball.
You need to see the Australian John Dyson's catch from 1982 . It's a candidate for best catch ever . You will be surprised that it's over his head running backwards , yes he uses 2 hands but he used to play Soccer so the effort would remind you of a great Goalie catch . He stunned the world with his catch . I saw it live and still think it's better than the throw back over the rope catches .
Watched that catch live and couldn't believe it was possible back then.
The local cricket club (Co Kildare in Ireland, another country where cricket is rather popular) is just down the road from me and cricket season is starting shortly, I feel a desire to return to watching the game. It's so peaceful and calming somehow.
Congratulations 100k Bro❤
Jonty Rhodes was a SPECIAL man in the field (not a bad batsman either)
Have a look at some of the runouts where Jonty throws at the wickets
Jonty was a pretty good fielder and a god awful batsman that would not have made most first class teams, let alone Test teams...
Ive never heard an American say "cricket is a pretty simple sport" ...wow!
If the players are wearing coloured clothing than it is a 50 or 20 over match, white uniform means that it is test match played over five days. Different rules for which type of match. being played. In Aussie it is the national game😎
or a hundred now
Actually, Australia doesn't wear white, we still don the traditional creams.
Just for clarity on the rules surrounding the number 1 and 2 catch...
If there was no fielder involved, and the ball touches ground (for the first time) outside the boundary, the batsman gets 6 runs added to his score (just for interest, if the ball touches ground before the bloundary, and sfill crosses it, the batsman get 4 runs added to his score).
If there is a fielder involved, if the fielder touches ground outside the boundary, while having the ball in hand, the batsman gets 6 runs.
In catch number 2 the the fielder had to throw the ball back "in bounds" and catch it again, since he did not yet have the ball under control before he crossed the boundary.
In catch number one, catching it again after throwing it was not required, since he had the ball under control after catching it the first time. He didnt have to throw it to another player after the catch, i think the only reason he did that was: in case the catch was not legit, the other player could then still throw the ball to the wicket keeper to prevent more runs.
Even if the catch was legit, it is still a good idea to throw to another fielder. There are always 2 batsman working in partnership. Without getting too deep into it, on some occations, it is possible to get both batsman out at the same time. I think the fielder was keeping that in mind when he was throwing to the other fielder, in case there was a chance to also get the other batsman out.
Cricket in India population of 1,4 billion is there national sport it is so big in India that sorry it is bigger than anything anywhere .
Cricket is popular in India, Australia , England , New Zealand , Pakistani, Bangladesh, the West Indies .
Sri Lanka , South Africa , Nepal, Afghanistan , Ireland , Netherlands
Rules of cricket:
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that’s in the side that’s in the field goes out and when he’s out comes in and the next man goes in until he’s 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.
When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.
Sometimes there are men still in and not out.
There are men called umpires who stay out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out.
Depending on the weather and the light, the umpires can also send everybody in, no matter whether they’re in or out.
When both sides have been in and all the men are out (including those who are not out), then the game is finished.
If you liked this, I recommend watching a video of the best cricket deliveries. Catches are great but it's so satisfying to see a batsman get clean bowled. Even better, watch a video of Shane Warne highlights.
Fun Fact: the first ever International sporting competition was a cricket match between Canda and the USA, this game pre-dates the first Test match between Australia and England.
George Washington was reportedly a big cricket fan
Cricket is more Famous than Baseball. USA now Co Hosting T20 Cricket World Cup.
These are all amazing. My personal favourite is #9 - Ravindra Jadeja. And, yes, many of these guys are superb athletes.
I really appreciate that he is enjoying great sportsmanship - it is great whatever sport is being played.
These videos never include slips catches, which are in some ways even more amazing because of the lack of reaction time, plus being behind the batsman means the fielder doesn’t get a good look at the ball until it’s on them. Baseball has no equivalent to slips catches, which can be extraordinary even off slow spin bowling. That would be something to check out next.
Agreed. I struggle to see how this is the top 10 best catches. Subjective of course, but you could do a top 10 relay catches alone. Then top 10 slip or close fielder catches. Top 10 c&b etc
What you may have missed is that not only have the players to catch the ball but once caught it must not touch the ground hence the reason for some of the acrobatic moves you witness.
Jonty Rhodes was almost specialist fielder, catcher. He could bat too. Awesome to watch.
Caught and bowled are some of the best, bowler coming in at speed and batter cracking it straight back up the crease it's almost self defence with reactions being instant.
Cheers JP keep exploring outside the USA, the world is a big place, from the place they call Middle Earth little old New Zealand.
More than 2.5 billion fucking fans . Put some respect to this sport.
The more amazing catches take place when they're just a few feet from the batter and it's pure instinct. "In the slips", or even better at "Silly Mid-On" or "Silly Mid-Off" [these are real positions, so-called because you have to be silly to stand so close and try to catch it before it kills you].
Two thirds of earth is covered with water, the rest is covered by Rodes (Jonty) . Got to luv the little fella the first specialist fielder in cricker.
Great fielder... awful batsman and a shockingly bad bowler. Shakib Al Hasan, Glenn Maxwell, Ian Botham, Garfield Sobers were light-years ahead of him.
@@glenmale1748 never said he was a bowler and he never claimed to be, and became a good batter even if he ran out most of his team mates at first.
Jonty was good in one fielding position. Mark Waugh, Ricky Ponting, Viv Richards Dereck Randall and a host of others were better all round fielders who could also do what Jonty did from Backward Point. People suffer from Jonty cool aide far too often. He would not have got a game in most Test teams, couldn't bat, couldnt bowl, decent fielder...
Baseballs (145g) are pitched at about max 100mph, the denser cricket balls (160g) are also bowled at max 100mph. We also play baseball as a children’s game (same rules) called rounders. The two major differences are the bat size and ball.
Cricket is played in most Commonwealth countries, a number of European and Pacific countries as well as the US
Joel, the thing which makes these catches even more amazing is that the weight of the red ball is between 5.5. - 5.75 ounces. That's quite heavy for a ball of 2.8 - 2.86 inches in diameter. If you catch it wrong, you can end up with a busted finger. ouch!
The first ever international cricket matcj was in 1844. Canada beat USA in Toronto!
The Men's T20 Cricket World Cup is on right now, with some games being played in the US. You should tune in.
I'm pretty sure cricket is more widely played than baseball.
If you mean geographically, possibly not. Numbers of people playing, definitely.
One of the issues that cricket faces is that the pitch, and particularly the wicket, has to be very carefully prepared, which is a skilled job.
You could play baseball in a supermarket car park.
@@HerMaj0509 Tell that to the kids playing cricket in their backyards, to the thousands playing beach cricket, those in the driveway of their homes, on the street, in the school playground... The wicket is three stumps (wooden sticks) in the ground, but we use milk crates, rubbish bins, cardboard boxes...anything can be a wicket if the batter stands in front of it. Careful preparation isnt necessary at all. Not only is cricket more widely played than baseball across the world, it is a heaps better game too. Go to a test at the MCG, Lords or Eden Gardens, you'll see
@@HerMaj0509 When I was growing up in Australia every primary and high school had a cricket field. That's just for the kids at school and local junior clubs to play on. Then you add on the larger fields around the country. You will find that most countries in the world that play cricket have no problems with fields to play on.
Bro would have a heart attack if he had seen the Akash Chopra catch at short leg..😂😂😂
Throwing a ball at a stick,that’s all cricket is.
Hmmmm.
Yes quite.
It’s called bowling and if a bowler “threw” a ball at “the sticks” (wicket) it would be called a no ball and a possible censure for the bowler involved.
The nuances and skill level involved confirm the talent and fitness required.
Cricket is loved by approximately 2billion people worldwide,so it’s not a minority sport in the slightest.
JPS,just because it’s not played in the US doesn’t mean it’s not a great sport.
Delve a little deeper into cricket and you’ll learn it is a complex sport.
Plenty of fingers have been broken trying to catch a cricket ball, It's heavier and harder than a baseball, even arms/wrists/jaws have been broken by fast deliveries.
It’s great to see you doing another Cricket reaction Joel. There are some great catches here but any top 10 catches without the Stokes and Strauss catches is not a real top 10.
I am surprised there are no slip catches.Where you need super reflexes.
Maybe cricket should have a World Series which would include England, Ireland, Australia, India , Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies etc. as opposed to Just America
There basically is and it's called a Test. :)
😂
I guess that technically Baseball sort of has a World Series now as there is a Canadian team which won.
@@Ron-uq2hg Nah, USA is all you require for a "world series", didn't ya know? They have a word series in Baseball, in Basketball, in AMERICAN football, etc. Didn't ya know USA IS the world??? Jeez man!
Oh dear I stand humbly corrected. Not.
JPs, Australia were world champions for best part of 20 years. Where have you been?
What in the flying f*** are you talking about, child!?
Baseball more popular than cricket around the world!?
No.
No, it is not. And it is not even remotely close.
JFC, that hurt to hear.
Even when you get everything right with a catch it can still hurt like hell, pain subsides pretty quickly when you see the guy going back to the pavilion.
"Cricket not popular" 😂🤣😂 cricket is the sport of the most populace country on this planet - 1.4billion Indians are cricket crazee by birth!
Base ball is a gloved kids' game; while Cricket IS NOT A SIMPLE SPORT, it is a bare knuckle man's game Joel!
Cricket is many times more popular than baseball. Then again what can you expect from a country that calls its finals the 'World Series' when only a few countries take part.
"a country that calls its finals the 'World Series" when only a few countries take part"
Ahem? A FEW countries? I thought it was only TWO...
Great reactions! thanks for sharing
Any one thought to mention where the word "HOWZAT" came to mean a lot in cricket?
Catches 10 and 2 are the same guy: Trent Bolt of New Zealand. FYI the "Australian" commentators in 10 and 9 are New Zealanders.
ball not going where it was intended to go at 6:05 is a fantastic observation.
He’s American, so tends to reflect that mindset. Just because something isn’t popular in the U.S. doesn’t mean it is not popular elsewhere. Cricket actually has a higher viewership than any other sport comparing with NBA and NFL.
Most catches are from hits off the bat that aten't from the middle of the bat, which means they weren't perfectly timed strikes or the stroke wasn't perfectly to the pitch of the ball because most strikes off the middle of the bat go for 4/6.
Sometimes tho the catches are from perfectly timed and struck deliveries, those are even more incredible.
Worth pointing out that a cricket ball is travelling at around 87mph when it leaves the bat, and is made from cork wound with string and then with leather over the top, and as you've seen is not caught with a glove; a baseball however is cork, yarn and leather so is generally softer, leaves the bat at around the same speed but of course is caught with a glove