Aussie here, I played Baseball for my school team back in the day. We had an American expat as our coach. I casually mentioned to him that using a baseball glove to catch the ball feels like cheating coming from a cricket background. He laughed and said you can't catch a baseball without a glove. I said try me, he sent me out deep in the field and began hitting balls out to me. Caught every ball he it out to me and he was shocked. I then pulled a cricket ball out of my bag and showed him. We use this in cricket and only the wicket keeper wears gloves......this was the beginning of his Australian sport education. Explaining rugby league and no helmets or protective gear absolutely blew his mind.
@@robert8552 It is a mixed blessing................ When rugby union was amateur the great majority of players trained a few hours each week, a few of the very best trained an hour or so a day. They all had jobs, officially, although many top flight players had "arrangements" with their employers. Since it became professional, all measures of fitness have improved/increased so injuries, especially impact injuries increased and got potentially worse. Rather than go for major changes to the kit, mostly for protection, the rules have changed a great deal to try to make injuries less likely, to compensate. In rugby, no bodily contact is alowed away from the ball/play either and entering something like a ruck at speed is also illegal - use as much force as you like, but not at speed.
You have two nice Americans trying to educate themselves about various subjects (in this case, Cricket) and there are so many comments calling them ignorant and insular. What exactly do you want, they are clearly trying, arent they?
I don't think experts in the game would make for good commentary. Their ignorance of the sport is what makes it interesting. Yep. A cricket ball is harder and heavier than a baseball (only half an ounce or so). It hurts to catch if not done correctly and broken fingers are a common injury, even for batsmen who wear gloves. The keeper wears gloves also as they have to constantly catch balls a 90 miles per hour plus. Interesting fact, you can legally catch the ball using your hat as a net, or any other part of your clothing, but it's never done other than by accident. Finally, a cricket bat is designed much better than a baseball bat, and can hit the cricket ball further than a wooden baseball bat. Its made exclusively from willow and engineered through compressing the timber and a space aged shape. A metal baseball bat on the other hand is a weapon, and whilst not legal for use in pro ball, can be used here in Oz.
Exactly !! I'm from the UK and love these two trying to learn more, watch all their videos. The only ignorant ones are the ones saying they're ignorant !!
As an avid cricket fan, here are answers to some questions you asked: 1. Like baseball, we call it a bat in cricket 2. Instead of a pitcher, they call the person throwing the ball a bowler, and the action of throwing the ball is called bowling instead of pitching. Ironically enough, the area where the batting and bowling occurs, is called the pitch 3. I don't know how far the pitcher in baseball is from the batter, but in cricket, the ball is thrown from 22 yards away. It travels at speeds that touch 90mph, and like you observed, they bounce on the ground! There are several rules for the bounce. First, the ball can bounce at most once from when the bowler bowls it to when it reaches the batsman. Secondly, you can bowl it without bouncing it (called a full toss), but bounce can provide several advantages, which are too detailed to go into here. Finally, if you choose to bowl a full toss, it must not be above the batter's waist height, else it's a fowl. 4. The reason batters wear gloves is that the ball travels at about 90 mph for only 22 yards. This means that the ball is traveling to the batter in about half a second! There are two factors at play here: one, if the ball heads towards their hand, because maybe it bounced too high, they have no time to react. If you watch lots of cricket, you will often see the cricket ball hitting the back of batters' fingers, which are protected by gloves. Second, the ball coming onto their hand is fast and hitting their hand in a rigid position (holding a bat's handle doesn't allow much movement or bending of fingers), so it is much easier to cause serious injury. Meanwhile, fielders have a lot longer to react, and they can get their hands into a much safer position to take the catch. If done with the right technique, catching without a glove causes the same amount of pain as clapping your hands (which means to say, no pain at all!). I used to play cricket with a proper cricket ball, which is how I know 5. You observed that the bowler runs while bowling. That is in fact a requirement in cricket! You run up to a line on the floor, called the crease, and you can step on (but not past) it to bowl 6. About the color of the cricket ball: there are three formats in the modern sport: test cricket, One Day cricket, and T20 cricket. Test cricket is the traditional form of cricket, and is still played in white uniforms these days. One Day and T20 cricket, on the other hand, are played in colored uniforms. You will notice that white balls are only used in games where players have colored uniforms. In test cricket, they use red balls for better visibility against the white uniform. 7. Finally, some (hopefully) interesting facts: first, a test cricket match is played over a course of up to 5 days! They start the match in the morning, play till evening with two breaks (a lunch break and a tea break), and pick up where they left off the next day. Second, some test matches start in the afternoon and are played into late evening (called day-night test matches). The format is the same, with two breaks, just that they start and finish later. These are relatively new to cricket, and are played with a pink ball, because the red ball is difficult to see after it gets dark. Third, there is a play position on the fielding team, called the wicket keeper, that actually wears gloves. The wicket keeper is analogous to the catcher in baseball. And finally, in cricket, it sometimes happens that the slightest of edges of the bat brush against the ball and fly to the wicket-keeper. Even if the ball makes the slightest of touches with the bat and is caught by the wicket keeper, the batter is out I hope this gave you some more insight and context for what you watched!
Catching the ball without gloves can hurt a bit but it doesn't (usually) do any serious damage. But if the ball hits your fingers at 100 miles an hour while holding the bat, it would crush or break them. That's why the batsman wear gloves.
@@sharonmartin4036 Yeah, I took a ball right on the end of the fingers at school. Didn't break anything but it hurt like hell. Worse still, I didn't catch it. :D
Yeah on the end of the finger can cause injury but i damaged fingers often with basket balls hitting the end of fingers. Its about technique and practice.
Cricket got its name from the original invention of the game as the batsman stood in front of a cricket gate where the middle three slats were the stumps as we call them. The bowlers are free to run as far as they like to gather speed in the delivery of the ball, some bowlers can deliver the ball at over one hundred miles an hour. Others called spin bowlers don't need to run in fast as their skill is in making the ball move off the ground in such a way that it defeats the batsman and either hits the wickets or his leg in line with the wicket and is out LBW leg before wicket. He can also be caught out. The ball is harder and heavier than a baseball. Red balls are used in county and test matches between countries whereas white balls are used in one day and limited over matches as these matches can run on under nighttime flood lights.
Also it's a part of the bat, so if it hits the gloves that are there for protection for the hands & wrist & the balls caught they're the batsman is out
Cricket is popular as we Brits introduced it wherever we went in the empire!! Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan and most of the Caribbean. It’s a cricket bat, you’d be lynched if you called it a paddle!!😂
Not most of the carribbean,just the english speaking carribbean not spanish or french speaking carribbean and they would outnumber the populaton of english speaking carribbean by at least 6 to 1
What is it with Americans and protection with sport? I played a game of Monopoly with three American guys recently in the States, three of them wore cups and one guy had a helmet on.....
It's a long time ago, but at school, they taught me to catch the ball if it is coming towards you ... with my hands cupped together, finger spread wide so that the fleshy part of your palms stop the ball, and you bring your hands in like shock absorbers. If the ball is flying past you, then you just grab it out of the air. As for the bowling, there are fast bowlers who can 'pitch to use the American term at over 100mph and there are spin bowlers who bounce the ball and they can make the ball go left or right. The bowlers' target is the 3 sticks behind the batsman, the stumps, or even just dislodge the bails, small bits of wood across the top of the stumps. The batsman's job is to defend the stumps. If the batsman knocks his own stumps or dislodges his own bails, he's still out. He also needs to score points. 6 if you hit it over the boundary at the edge of the pitch. 4 if it bounces before it crosses the boundary. Else, you and your partner run between the two sets of stumps the wickets. 1 point for every length completed. If you're not at the wicket when the ball is thrown back they can knock the bails off with the ball and the batsman is out too Yes, traditionally, the balls were covered in red leather, but that doesn't show up as well on camera or under floodlights, so they have changed.
@@Bullbotha When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s no one wore helmets even though fast bowlers could bowl up to 100 mph in international cricket. Americans should know that bowlers (pitchers in baseball) can legally hit the batsman with the ball as long as it bounces in front of the batsman first. Hence, this type of ball is called a bouncer. The international game in the 1970s let the bowling of these balls get out of hand and as a result helmets were introduced in the late 1970s before a batsman was killed. Sadly Philip Hughes was wearing a helmet that did not protect him sufficiently. It takes great courage to face a fast bowler even with a helmet on as serious injury can result still when hit by a ball traveling at or close to 100mph. The wicket keeper (backstop in baseball) is the only fielder who wears gloves. The fielders behind the batsman facing the bowlers balls can be 30 or more yards behind the batsman but with slower bowlers bowling at 50-60 mph the wicket keeper and fielders come up close to the wicket and batsman. As they field much closer the risk of getting hit by the batsman's shot is very much increased. The ball when hit can travel over 100mph off the bat and if the fielder is only 2-10 yards away from the batsman serious injury can occur. It takes courage to field up close!
Please have a look at Gaelic Football and hurling highlights and another interesting sport called road bowling.Gaelic football are still the most popular sports in ireland the championship games attract 82300 more than most superbowls and according to a Radio Poll Gaelic Football was the most popular at 40% and Hurling was 24%,rugby 15% ans soccer was 14% a bit high in my opinion but thats consistent with other polls.Anyway sports polls are generally more accurate than political polls as we have seen today
The rules of cricket: 1. There are two teams of 11 players, one team goes out on the field and the other team stays in. 2. The team that is in, sends two players out to bat. Those two players stay out until one player is out, then the player goes in. 3. Another player goes out when the player that was out is out. 4. When 10 players who were in go out and then become out, then the team that was out comes in and the team that was in goes out. 5 The team that is now in, also send two players out, until one of them becomes out, then the player goes in and a new player goes out. 5. When 10 players that are in go out and then become out, then the innings is over. 6. Sometimes, the team that was out at first, but came in, gets to go back out a second time (this is called a test match) and they repeat the process until the team that was in, but went out, also gets to go in a second time. 7. All this is adjudicated by the umpires, who stay out on the field all day and only come in for lunch. So in short, there are players out, who try to get the players in out, then they switch asn the players who were in come out and try to get the players who were out but now in out.
Baseball and criket have a few things in common. Two teams of people. A hard ball. A wooden stick. A field. That's it. They are completely different games; worth looking at the rules.
The first official international sports match was a cricket match between the United States and Canada in 1844. The game took place at St George's Cricket Club, which is now located at West 30th Street and Broadway in Manhattan.
To answer some of the questions raised in the video. The pitcher is called a bowler. When the ball is bowled, it is supposed to bounce. The bowlers also run up, to increase the speed, which can be delivered at speeds of between 40-95mph, with the record being 100.2 mph. The bat is called a bat. The bats have a thicker section in the middle at the rear of the bat. The ball is much harder than a baseball, if it hits your head at high speed, it can actually kill you, hence the helmets. Gloves are needed for batting as the bowl can smash knuckles. Wicket Keeps (catchers) also wear gloves, they can get broken fingers from catching balls even with gloves on. Catching the ball can hurt a lot, but there are ways of catching it that can avoid it hurting. Although a lot of the catches in this video, would have hurt for sure. In the next Olympics in the USA, cricket is to be included. The Cricket World Cup was co-hosted by the USA earlier this year, and introduced cricket to quite a few Americans. I enjoyed watching the USA play, they were exciting to watch. The red and white balls are for different formats of the game. White balls are for the shorter forms, which are from about 3 hours to all day. Red balls are for the longer form of the game, which can last up to 5 days. They even stop for Lunch and Tea. There are 2 batters on the field, and 11 fielders. The pitch is oval-shaped, and the wicket, the bit between the stumps where they bowl, is 22 yards, but it looks much shorter from the end camera. The distance between a pitcher and batter in baseball is about 20 yards, 1 foot. Cricket is the second-biggest game in the world, with soccer being the most popular. Cricket is played in many countries all around the world. Scores are much larger than in Baseball. 20 runs by a team in baseball is a lot, whereas in cricket scores are often in the 100s. In the shortest form, it is not unusual to see between 150-200 runs per team, and sometimes an individual player will score more than 100 on their own. When you bat, you do not have to run if you hit it, and you stay at bat until you are out. My late wife was from the USA, and she fell in love with cricket. In return, she introduced me to baseball, she was from Chicago, so Go Cubs!
Hang on we need to further explain an complicate the sport for the Americans. There are two types of bowlers, fast paced like Brett Lee and spin aka Shane Warne. Then we need to explain the batting order and how that works Yes there are test matches 5 days, one dayers, T20 now the 100 which even im like wtf. Now every child of the 80s will remember back when there was only one tv in the house with like 4 channels. Dad insisted he had to watch all 5 days of a test match and it could be a draw. Basically like watching paint dry.
"Paddle" LOL It's a BAT! lol Edit: The cricket ball is heavier and harder than the baseball. The English took it [cricket] to many places of the British Empire as with all the other sports we invented.
Apple pie is English. Maybe stolen from the German strudle many centuries ago, but yeah, apple pie isn't American. Maybe tobacco apple pie is though...
4:21 Cricket batsmen wear gloves to protect their hands from the impact of fast balls, improve grip on the bat, absorb shock, and reduce strain on their hands and wrists. Cricket balls are hard, often bowled at speeds over 90 mph (145 kph). When batsmen play shots or fend off deliveries, their hands are directly in the line of impact. Gloves help protect their fingers, knuckles, and palms from serious injury caused by fast or bouncy deliveries.
There are also some rules around catching the ball inside the boundary ring - you have to catch the ball and not cross over the boundary line with your momentum or touch the boundary rope/line in any way otherwise the batting team are awarded 4 runs (which is what they would get for the ball being dropped/missed and running to the boundary rope without a fielder stopping it). The reason those last couple of catches are so incredible is because those players found ways to keep the catch in-bounds so they not only got the player out, but they also avoided adding on runs for the opposing team's total by running out of play after catching the ball =] You can catch the ball mid-air over the boundary line and throw it back to yourself inside the playing field too, so you catch it, throw the ball up in the air with it still going out of bounds, catch the ball again whilst in mid-air and throw the ball back into the circle, run back into the circle and catch it again to complete the solo version of what that number 1 catch demonstrated! There is a catch somewhere where the player does exactly this and it is one of the most incredible pieces of high-level thinking I've ever witnessed in sport...to realise there's no way to prevent the extra runs unless you catch and throw the ball in mid-air after jumping whilst outside the boundary, throwing it to yourself when you get back in the boundary is just next level!
I don't know whether you've already seen it, but there's a very good video with someone explaining cricket for baseball fans - or words to that effect. It explains the similarities and the differences... It's mostly accurate, and an excellent basis for figuring out what's really going on in a cricket match.
I'm from England, and I was surprised that baseball players wear gloves, I was like ''why would they wear gloves to catch that light ball'' 🤣 I often thought baseball would be soooooo easy to catch the ball with that massive glove and has always ruined me being impressed by that sport. It's the same with American football, why would they wear a suit of amour and dress like a field hockey goalie? you should watch Rugby :) FYI - Cricket balls are heavier and its called a Cricket Bat Cricket balls are different colours depending on the type of game being played - we have night matches where the ball is pink (called 20/20) like a quick fire game - all balls are standard and same weight across all ages (these balls are used in all ages, even school cricket matches across the country) Thanks you for your content, you two rock!
@@reactingtomyroots As usual in the US it's money. You don't need a glove to catch a baseball, but we (the sports manufacturers) will tell you you do - through newspaper articles, advertising and sponsoring some high level players to wear one - and you'll buy it and make us lots of money.
Batters wear gloves so their finger bones don't get shattered. 😁 Balls are basically the same leather ball except for colour, the red ball is for Test matches and the white ball for the limited quick version of the game. There are pink balls but i wouldn't worry about that at this point in your cricket journey
There are 2 manufacturers used in the world mainly Duke but the Australians have their own manufacturer kuckaburro both used in major matches. An the colour is different as limited over games can be played at night under floodlights which I'm guessing is the same reason a baseball is white.
All teams wear white clothing for test matches , played with the red ball. Coloured clothing are shorter variations of the games, played with a white ball.
For the last 125 years Kookaburra has been known as the top manufacturer of cricket balls in the world. All T20 and one day internationals use the white Kookaburra , most of the 12 test playing nations use the red Kookaburra, England, Ireland and West Indies use Duke, and India alone the SG.
Cricket is mentioned as early in history as the 13th century in England but it is known more widespread from the 18th century onwards. It is a game of eleven players each side and is played over varying lengths of overs ( consisting of 6 balls )or time ( international test matches are played over five days ). The wicketkeeper is the only player on the fielding side who wears gloves, aptly named as wicketkeeper gloves. This is because he/she will field the ball more than any other player, facing deliveries from some bowlers reaching up to nearly 100 mph. Hence the batsmen also wear gloves ( known aptly as batting gloves), to try to minimise damage to their hands from a direct hit or from shock absorption, blistering etc. I hope this helps a little, great content you two ❤️😊👍🏻
Alternatively, the game may be traced to its origins in the Krikkit Wars, as described in "Life, the Universe and Everything", the third book in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams. 🙂
G'day you two I think you are great the way you are looking into different sports like cricket and trying to learn and understand it I am an Australian and I gave up cricket about 20 years ago now and like everything you get used to it like catching that ball without a glove keep up the great work you two always put a smile on my face😂
My brother plays cricket for our County team, the bruises on his hands after a tough game are insane! I can confirm that getting hit by a cricket ball even ‘gently’ can be bloody painful 😭
Great to hear your reactions, I grew up playing cricket. The red ball is for test match cricket - which goes for 5 days and the white ball is the 1 day version of the game. The gloves are used by the batter because if it hits your hand it bloody hurts. And yes catching the ball also bloody hurts and takes a lot of practice, not everyone can do it. One of the greatest games, played by most Commonwealth countries, ie England. Australia, India, South Africa, America should play, you’d love it.
Oh my, you mentioning the batsman, reminds me of that old commentary piece from the game played by two men named Willey, and Holding, ( _unless_ that's a myth / urban legend type thing? - "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey!!" ...typical British humour, 😅😂 regardless of it possibly being a myth?!)
In Australia commentators often discuss catching technique especially when a catch is dropped. I have two broken fingers from playing, one from batting the other from catching, and that was just at the local level. The white ball is used in the short form of the game - either 20 "overs" (of 6 balls per over) or 50 overs - which is often played into the night under lights. The red ball is used in daytime cricket which can be played for up to five days with two innings for each side. Both red and white balls are all the same size and weight. The cricket ball is slightly heavier than a baseball (by up to 3/4th of an ounce) and might be a smidgen smaller. It's great to see Americans taking an interest.
When you're batting the back of your hand faces forward, if you get a ball bowled at 90mph hit you it hurts! The ball pinches your hand on the handle. When you're fielding you catch the ball in the palm of your hand and can cradle it. We're taught at a young age to not fear the ball. I was told "if you're scared of the ball it will hurt, if you're not scared it won't hurt".
Yeah... if you cop a cricket ball going 90mph to the back of the hand without gloves, you're looking at shattered fingers... a bit more than 'it hurts'... 😂
The white balls started when one day matches started. They'd often have the first innings in the afternoon, and then the second innings would be under lights. It turned out the red ball wasn't too good for that, so they went for a white ball.
Hey guys, great to see you exploring cricket. The guy batting has the gloves because the ball is bowled fast enough to injure fingers if it hits his hand while he is holding the bat. They wear pads on their legs for the same reason. Same as the wicketkeeper behind the stumps, he wears gloves as well.
Cricket! Love it! My favourite sport besides Rugby. The only players on the field that wears gloves are the wicketkeeper(the guy behind the batsman on strike) and the batsmen themselves. They protect their hands because the ball is going at it's fastest and hardest when directed at or near them and hands/fingers have been broken a few times, on occasion even with the gloves on.
When they are at the wicket being bowled to they wear gloves. The ball can be anywhere from 40 to 100 miles an hour depending on the speed of the bowler.
Righto, read this if you want your questions answered! There are two teams, the batting side and the bowling side. The batsmen wear gloves because they are much more likely to get an injury if the ball hits their hand (if that hand is holding the bat handle). Imagine the ball making a sandwich hitting the bat handle and the meat in the sandwich is your hand - that's going to hurt right? Well, players regularly get fractured fingers. When you catch the ball you are in control of the situation, you don't have to worry about getting your fingers pinched between ball and bat. At school from a young age you are taught how to catch the ball. There is a technique to it. It involves pulling your hand back at the moment of impact. That's why most field catches you see are done "under-hand". If you were to try catching over-hand you run the risk of missing the ball and it hitting you on the nose! The ball is supposed to hit the pitch once before reaching the batsman. A full toss is penalised if it is above the batsman's waist. Below the waist and it is free runs for a decent batsman, who should be able to slog it away. Fielders are not allowed to wear gloves (apart from the wicketkeeper, who is akin to a backstop in baseball). If you have a cricket ball try catching it. Remember, just as it is about to hit your palm, pull your hand back and it will lessen the pain! Cricket is a mans game! OMG it is a cricket bat, it's not a "paddle" they are not going round telling each other to touch their toes whilst I slog you with the paddle! Hopefully someone will send you a cricket bat and I'll offer to hit you with it and you see if it's a bat or a paddle! They can actually hit the ball like a tracer round if they get their timing right. That's when you make it look like you are going for the catch but oh darn, just missed it! Crickt wicket is 22 yards long (I believe). Red vs white cricket balls. They should be the same but stats say differently! A hot debate. Made of the same materials to the same specifications, but professionals will tell you they react in different ways. White balls and red balls are used in different forms of the game of cricket. I'm not going to explain that one to you! There is a video, that I think is called "Cricket explained for Baseball fans." Seems like it would tell you a lot....
A traditional cricket bat is made from English willow. By comparison, wooden baseball bats are usually something like maple, birch or ash. I have a roughly 12 minute video up showing how a top quality cricket bat is handmade with a little bit of trivia thrown in on cricket and the evolution of the bat etc "Made In Britain - How Gray-Nicolls cricket bats are made"
What happens if there is a disease in the willow tree population,like ash die back disease or duth elm disease,can the bat be made of a different wood.
@@Joseph13163 Willow trees grow in many, many countries around the world, unlike Dutch elm and Ash. They would be able to obtain willow from somewhere else until their problem is sorted out.
Rugby and Cricket the best having six brothers I played (badly) but still watch it. It is a bat not a paddle. Glad your covering it only the wicket keeper and bats man wear gloves
A few answers 1. 3 players wear gloves Batsmen to protect hands Wicket keeper who stands behind the wickets (3 stitches protected by the batsman) 2. The balls are the same, but can be different colours - white - night cricket , pink. 3. The ball is very hard all balls made the same. Hurts your hands 4. It is truly international. Second or third most popular game in the world. Rugby is played by the USA.
And having seen a few unlucky hits it still hurts like hell, but probably won't end your chances of fathering children if your male, I'm not sure if female wear any protection (any women cricketers here?) but it's still gonna hurt I'm sure
@@terryloveukThey're not mandatory for women. They're a different size and called "abdo guards" although apparently the slang term is a "manhole cover".
For those who don't know, 66 feet, or 22 yards is one *_chain_* An area of measurement is the *_acre_* which has an area of one chain by one furlong; a furlong is 10 chains. Real physical chains were used for surveying because it has very little 'give', as well as optical surveying instruments. Best Wishes. ☮
Steve, it's called a cricket bat, not a paddle, LOL. The ball is both heavier and harder than a baseball. Also, helmets are optional, but 99,99% of batsmen will wear them when facing fast bowlers (Lindsay, they all do 'running pitches') and may not wear them while facing spinners (shorter run-up). There are 13 players on the field - the two batsmen are from one side, and then their 11 opponents who are the bowlers, wicketkeeper and fielders. There are two umpires on the field, and a third umpire in the viewing box for reviews.
... and those 11 fielders have to covar a full circle of the field, instead of a qaurter circle as in American Baseball. The cricket bat is altogether a more refined instrument than the baseball bat. It's flat face allows the ball to be "placed" anywhere in the circle, and it's carefully shaped and weighted towards the end away from the handle.
Maybe worth adding that batsmen have died on the pitch as a result of a ball hitting them. They had to change the design in recent years to protect the neck in particular. From memory.
@@grahamtravers4522The handle of a cricket bat is jammed into and extends in a “V” shape down into the body of the blade, forming a spring with some “give” when the ball is struck hard in the “sweet spot” of the blade of the bat. The spring-effect of the handle both reduces the shock to the batter’s hands (and wrists) from the very hard and quite heavy ball as well as providing additional impetus to the ball, thus sending it further when well hit. The shape of the back of the bat concentrates mass where it is needed to send the ball as far as possible. Modern bats also are shaped to increase the size of the “sweet spot”, so making big hits more likely. The dimensions of a bat are set in The Laws of Cricket and may not be exceeded.
A cricket pitch is 22 yards long. Cricket bowlers have to bowl with a straight arm so the maximum speed is slightly less than baseball. At maximum cricket bowling speeds (150 kph), the batter has 0.432 seconds from when the ball leaves the bowler. In baseball, the distance between pitcher and batter is 60 feet 6 inches and at the maximum speeds for pitchers (104 mph), the reaction time is 0.433 seconds, so for both, the reaction times are similar. I always found that interesting that the two reaction times are so close. In cricket of course there is the added issue that the ball is allowed to bounce.
Baseball is similar to our 'Rounders' normally played by schoolkids, where they move from spot to spot. Most countries in the World play cricket and take part in World Tournaments.
Cricket has aout 2.5 billion fans, followed by football (soccer) with over 4 billion, golf with 450 million, and both American football and rugby with around 400-500 million fans each.
um I am Australian, American Football has a big following here and in Europe since the 1980s i have no idea how you base your numbers i guess india provides 1.5 Billion Cricket fans but I think you underestimate NFL. Rugby is boring
Red balls are used for test matches (played during daylight, can last up to 5 days and considered the highest form of the game). The white ball is used for one day limited over matches which are often played in darkness under floodlights, making a red ball difficult to see against the darkened sky, hence the white ball. Having said that, there are now day/night test matches - not particularly common but they use a pink ball.
THE GOAT of fielding....jonty rhodes 👌it's interesting to hear you say there's more surface area of a cricket bat to hit the ball...the irony of that is, theres more chance to nick an edge and get out. Its a much more complex game than baseball. The ball manufacture is crucial and varies.
We minted a R5 coin with the shot of that phenomenal run out in the first Cricket World Cup we were allowed in after apartheid. He was definitely one of the best.
Imagine catching a baseball in the air bare handed ? Now imagine a pitch hitting your finger and trapping it against the bat ? That’s why gloves are worn for batting (that and for grip , cricketers bat for hours at a time, baseball players bat for minutes)
Hi, something I haven't seen mentioned. When you see players in all white it is a "test match" and goes on for 4 days. Each side has two "innings". An innings end when the batting side batters are "out". Each "bowler" {don't use the term "pitcher"") gets 6 bowls of the ball and the hands off to another bowler and bowls from the other end of the pitch. At the same time the fielders change position to compensate the change. A cricket pitch was originally 22 yards long before metrics was introduced; that is from "stumps" to "stumps" or wicket to wicket. A wicket is those three sticks ("stumps") behind the batter. They two pieces of wood across the top and are called "bails" and one, at least, must be dislodge by the ball for the batter to be "bowled out". BTW a cricket bat is not a "paddle" and made out of willow. It has a very specific shape. These days a batter are protected by the gloves, but also forearm guards, thigh pads and the "box" to protect the groin. A bowler must deliver the ball with an overhead straight arm; i.e. the elbow locked at delivery, otherwise the umpire will call the delivery a "no ball" or throw and the bowler has to bowl it again. As a penalty the batting side, not the batter, get a free run to its score called an "extra". Batters can run on a no ball and score extra runs at their peril. Typically, a fast bowler bowls around 140Km/h, sometimes slower 120-130Km/h to confuse the batter; e.g. the batter swings that bat thinking the ball is faster and misses and the ball careens into the wicket. There are more ways a batter can get out. A the other type of bowler is the "spin" bowler. As the name suggests he spins the ball as it leaves his hand. He often referred as a slow bowler and bowls anywhere from 70Km/h to 100km/h. With both types there are variation in style of delivery. Oh one thing that confuses newbies are the terms "off side" and "leg side". In simple context the leg side is the way the batter is facing and the off side is the direction his rump is facing. They can change if the batter is left handed or right handed and the fielders change over to compensate. Even if you have a right handed and left handed batter at each end of the pitch and they exchange ends in the same "over". When you see players in coloured uniforms they are playing limited over cricket. Limited means 20 (T20) or 40 (T40) overs per innings. Bowlers are limited to the number of overs they can bowl. Each side only has one innings to score the winning number runs. This style cricket is very fast compared to test cricket and usually is a "day/night" match under lights. They use a white ball to better see at night than the red ball used in test matches. The cricket ball is heavier than a baseball not by much and a little smaller but much harder. If think there are only two approved makers of regulation balls in the world, one in Australia and the other in England.
The most common by far injury in cricket is broken fingers. The ball is solid and will hospitalise you if it hits you. If you get chance go into a sports shop and look at and feel what a cricket ball (corkey) is like.
Red balls are for day play. White is for evening play. Because of light. If the ball crosses the rope without bouncing it is 6 runs so he knocked it back to keep it in play, then caught it.
@@Jimthehumanoid white balls also have disadvantages when playing test cricket at night because when they get dirty they are just as hard to see as a red ball. In test cricket you change the ball after 90 overs and in one day cricket it is half of that T20 even less. Australia experimented with a lot of different coloured balls before settling on the pink one that they are using for night time test matches today. English cricket is very much locked in tradition and changing anything over there is slow a lot of innovations used in todays game came from the World Series Cricket a breakaway international series that started in Australia in the 70s.Things like paying professionals big money, coloured clothing, helmets, stump camera. player cam, ball tracking and a lot of other technology that is used around the world today. The indians have taken the development of the T20 game to another level with the intriduction of their premier league.
@@Jimthehumanoid They play under floodlights in games specified as day night test matches. They stop for bad light in daytime test matches because they are still using the red ball.
Your questions answered: No, a cricket ball is heavier than a baseball: Cricket ball: Weight 5.5-5.75 oz (156-163 g) Baseball: Weight 5-5.25 oz (142-149 g) Cricket balls are also harder and smaller than baseballs: Size Cricket balls have a circumference of 224-229 mm, while baseballs have a circumference of 229-235 mm. Composition Cricket balls are made of a cork core wrapped in tightly wound string and covered in leather. Baseballs are commonly made of leather. The distance from the pitcher's plate to home plate is 60 feet and 6 inches The length of a cricket pitch is 22 yards - 66 feet. Glad to see you -taking time to learn about a very exciting sport.
Ohhhh WOW, what fantastic catches!! I remember being taught to not let the ball slap into my hand, but to move my hand with the ball, which lessens the impact. I was never interested in cricket because I found it boring, but then I was introduced to one day cricket, and I really enjoy that, definitely not boring! 😅
15:20 The no 1 catch, u can see the fielder throws the ball inside so that the batting team won’t be able to score a home run…. And the fact is that someone else caught it, that’s why the batsman was out. The fielder threw it to another fielder before going over the ropes
My son plays cricket and was hit on the head by the ball, lost a year of school with a TBI and huge memory loss. Still plays cricket, in fact it saved him as he coached under privileged children and shifted from a bowler to a wicketkeeper. Wicketkeeping help his brain recover with crossing his midline and reflexes. It nearly killed me watching him play after the injury but he felt in control and it was liberating, he is now studying medicine.
There is a video out in the UA-cam universe "Cricket explained for Baseball fans" which if you guys get time should react too as i think it will really explain in baseball terminology how cricket is played and some of the rules x
A men's cricket ball is 5-1/2 oz. A women's cricket ball is only 5 oz due to our smaller hands. A Baseball weighs 5 to 5.25 oz. IT IS A BAT. Cricket bats are made from wood and cane, and the process involves several steps: Selection of wood: Cricket bats are typically made from white willow, also known as Salix alba, because it's lightweight and resistant. Cutting: A cutting machine creates space for the handle. Splicing: The blade is connected to the handle using a tapered splice. This design was invented in the 1880s by Charles Richardson. Handle: The handle is made from thin, flexible strips of cane. It's glued to the bat and squeezed between metal molds to keep it in place. The handle absorbs shock and vibration when the ball hits the bat. Carving: The wood is carved and shaped into the final form of the bat. Finishing: The handle is wrapped in string glue and rubber, and a sticker is added. The shape, weight, and balance of the bat are all important. Cricketers often prefer bats that weigh around 2 lb 8 oz.
A cricket ball typically weighs between 155.9 and 163 grams, while a baseball is usually around 145 to 149 grams. So, the difference in weight between a cricket ball and a baseball is roughly 6 to 18 grams, with the cricket ball being heavier on average. The reason why the batter wears protection is because it is legal to bowl directly in the line of the batter and even hitting him . Cricket balls are all the same , the color can be white or red .
Hi Guys , my step dad was in a local cricket team for years , it's actually relaxing to watch we used to take a picnic and just enjoy in the summer sun 😊.
I was thinking the same - a poor day for world geo- politics and the start of more genocide in Ukraine. Putin must be smiling from cheek to cheek . A massive win for Pootin
the batter wears padding so the bowler cant target areas to injure. receiving a ball to the knuckles could break your hand, where as catching a ball in the palm of your hand is naturally padded if your hand is cupped.
Cricket bats are much heavier and harder than baseball bats, cricket balls are heavier and harder than baseballs, just as rugby players are harder than American football players. Americans want to wear a helmet and gloves for everything apart from riding a motorbike 😂
Some differences between baseball and cricket 1. The bat- baseball bat is like a wooden/metal pipe and cricket bat is like a wooden (it has to be wooden) plank. With the cricket bat there is a lot more control on the direction where the batter wants to hit the ball. 2. The ball- the cricket ball is made of leather (same as baseball) slightly heavier than baseball. The cricket ball is perfectly symmetrical with a seam passing through it splitting it in 2 symmetrical halves. They are same for all countries and all forms of cricket except their colors are different depending on the type of tournament. 3. Gloves- cricket batters’ gloves are padded to protect back of the palm because that’s where the ball can hit. The palm side of the glove is thin. Only 1 catcher the one standing behind the batter called as wicket keeper is allowed to wear gloves in cricket. Those gloves are different than batters as they are padded on the front side of the palm. All other catchers that are scattered on the ground can’t wear gloves. Yes it is painful to catch the ball with bear hands, but their hands are hard and seasoned due to practice. Yes fingers break if the ball hits at the tip of the finger. 4. Bowling- unlike baseball the cricket bowler is strictly not allowed to apply the power from their elbow so their elbow HAS to be straight. The cricket bowler applies power through their shoulder and is allowed to run and deliver the ball to give more speed and momentum to the ball. Bouncing the ball on the ground makes it harder for the batter to judge the ball that’s why the bowler bounces it on the ground. There are many more differences :)
In cricket the batter wears gloves because if the ball hits the back of their hand and it is unprotected they could end up with broken bones. There are large pads that go over the batters legs for the same reason as you really don't want to get one of those balls to the knee. They also wear a 'cricketers box' to protect their 'vitals' in case of impact in the groin area.
Color of ball depends on the format of game being played. Tests are played in white jersey so red ball comtrast perfectly. White balls are for shorter formats like t20 or odi, corlor jersey and night matches contrast well with white balls. Nowdays day and night test matches started which uses pink ball instead of red because of higher luminous under the lights at night
100% a game worth persevering with as its a great listen or watch on a good 5 day test. The weather plays a massive but subtle part. Us Brits love a cooling humid evening when the ball swings as its bowled. Can rip through teams in a session
It always amazes me that the Caribbean is such a laid back and easy place, where nothing is rushed but watch a game of cricket on any old patch of dirt and the energy belies the fact that it is hot and humid. Its no coincidence that Caribbean cricket is "Strictly Pace"
They used to call them ‘corky balls’ as the interior of the ball was made of cork wrapped and stitched leather. And the cricket bat has a slightly convex ‘flat area’ which enables a batter to direct the ball on contact in different directions. Cool reaction as ever guys 🤘😎👌
Cricket balls are approximately 1/2 ounce heavier than a baseball. Made of cork centre, wound with twine then covered with a lever shell. Red balls are used for the first class game (white clothing over multiple days, up to 5). White balls are used in the ‘limited overs’ formats, where coloured clothing is worn.
When the ball is dropping from a height most of the energy is taken out of the shot, but the athletisism is amazing. But when the ball is hit with full force straight at one of the fielders, then it hurts especially at close range. The rope you see is the "boundary", any catch of the ball has to be inside the boundary for a batsman to be caught out. When cricket ball is bowled by the bowler the ball is supposed to bounce, but there is one bowling action called a "yorker" aimed directly at the wickets which does not bounce.
Hi, a yorker is a delivery aimed at the feet. The ball doesn't "have to" bounce, as a full toss aimed at the stumps is legal, but above the waist is known as a beamer and a no-ball. Strangely, a bowler can legally make the ball bounce a maximum of two times.
@@Dave-wm2xg A yorker is actually aimed at around the popping crease and disguised in an attempt to entice the battter to advance down the pitch as if it were a slow or spin delivery. Only if he is fooled into doing so will the delivery end up around his feet. As a yorker is only a yorker is the batter is 'yorked', ie: beaten by the delivery. If a batter hits an attempted yorker full toss (before it bounces) than he hasn't been beaten by it (yorked). Therefore a yorker must bounce to be considered a yorker.
Cricket balls are a bit smaller, heavier and harder than baseballs. Broken or dislocated fingers are pretty common. When I was at school, we had a kid knocked out stone cold by a descending ball that hit him on the head. The "paddle" is a cricket bat, and the flat(ish) surface allows the batsman to steer the ball wherever he chooses on the field. If the last guy was in possession of the ball when he crossed the boundary rope, the batsman would not have been "out". I guess as American sports are so heavily monetized, the introduction of a "foreign" sport would be seen as a threat to business and thus not promoted. I think you should check out snooker next - but learn the basic rules first!
Back in my high school, the boys on our cricket team used to yell "two hands for beginners!" every time one of them went to make a catch. We could hear it from across the entire oval and through brick walls.
I love the way Americans are always surprised that protection isn't worn. I think that only the American sports have padding and gloves on. The rest of the world just gets on with it.
Red ball for traditional 5 day test matches. White ball for day- night games for better visibility at night sometimes even pink balls are used for special events but all balls are the same weight and hardness. Cheers
Making cricket bats is a very historic craft, could be worth looking into - there’s definitely videos out there, I’m not sure the best way to recommend specific ones as they often get lost here
The paddle is called a bat and usually the only players on the pitch to wear protective gloves are the batsmen and the wicked keeper ( he's the dude behid the wicket where the batsman stands) Check out Ben Stokes 'superman catch', one of the best ever. Great video
Called “soft hands”. Essential for completing a catch without injury. For a single-handed catch, if the ball hits the hand in the right place (palm of the hand about ⅓ down from the base of the fingers) the fingers will close automatically around the ball and the catch won’t hurt at all if the “soft hands” technique has been used.
I love cricket and I can assure you that ball is damn painful when it is caught or hits you. The only player to have gloves is the keeper behind the three stumps. When hit that ball travels at immense velocity horizontally. The ball breaks batsman fingers hence the gloves. That ball has killed batsman.
The ball doesn’t really hurt much, if at all, if it is caught properly with the correct technique. Soft hands it’s called. It’s a bit more difficult on a cold day, though, if you allow your hands to get cold. Pockets are a good thing!
A baseball is usually larger than a cricket ball. A regulation baseball has a circumference of 9 to 9.25 inches and a diameter of 2.86 to 2.94 inches. A cricket ball is heavier than a baseball. In men's cricket, a ball weighs 155.9 to 163 grams, while in women's cricket, it weighs 140 to 151 grams. A baseball weighs 5 to 5.25 ounces(148 grams).
The last catch is insane. He had to think freaking fast. Just insane reaction time, and he threw it to other fielder 30 ft away from him. insane game awareness.
Catching a baseball with above is so easy because the glove is designed to envelope and hold it securely practically on contact. It is a whole lot more convenient to use. A cricket ball can not only hurt but also bounce off the hand make you drop the catch.
Cricket Explained for Baseball Fans by Sports Explained, and Cricket and Baseball: More Similarities and Differences but the same channel are where you should both start. You could watch them both at the same time. Cricket for Americans by Slate is a good supplementary one
Aussie here, I played Baseball for my school team back in the day. We had an American expat as our coach. I casually mentioned to him that using a baseball glove to catch the ball feels like cheating coming from a cricket background. He laughed and said you can't catch a baseball without a glove. I said try me, he sent me out deep in the field and began hitting balls out to me. Caught every ball he it out to me and he was shocked. I then pulled a cricket ball out of my bag and showed him. We use this in cricket and only the wicket keeper wears gloves......this was the beginning of his Australian sport education. Explaining rugby league and no helmets or protective gear absolutely blew his mind.
LLLOL 👍
Need to taught them tough games
Americans appear to be softies when it comes to sport!
@@robert8552 It is a mixed blessing................
When rugby union was amateur the great majority of players trained a few hours each week, a few of the very best trained an hour or so a day. They all had jobs, officially, although many top flight players had "arrangements" with their employers.
Since it became professional, all measures of fitness have improved/increased so injuries, especially impact injuries increased and got potentially worse. Rather than go for major changes to the kit, mostly for protection, the rules have changed a great deal to try to make injuries less likely, to compensate.
In rugby, no bodily contact is alowed away from the ball/play either and entering something like a ruck at speed is also illegal - use as much force as you like, but not at speed.
Those are fly balls..try a line drive down the line without a glove
You have two nice Americans trying to educate themselves about various subjects (in this case, Cricket) and there are so many comments calling them ignorant and insular. What exactly do you want, they are clearly trying, arent they?
I don't think experts in the game would make for good commentary. Their ignorance of the sport is what makes it interesting. Yep. A cricket ball is harder and heavier than a baseball (only half an ounce or so). It hurts to catch if not done correctly and broken fingers are a common injury, even for batsmen who wear gloves. The keeper wears gloves also as they have to constantly catch balls a 90 miles per hour plus. Interesting fact, you can legally catch the ball using your hat as a net, or any other part of your clothing, but it's never done other than by accident. Finally, a cricket bat is designed much better than a baseball bat, and can hit the cricket ball further than a wooden baseball bat. Its made exclusively from willow and engineered through compressing the timber and a space aged shape. A metal baseball bat on the other hand is a weapon, and whilst not legal for use in pro ball, can be used here in Oz.
Exactly !! I'm from the UK and love these two trying to learn more, watch all their videos. The only ignorant ones are the ones saying they're ignorant !!
At least they are open minded
You expect intelligence from a youtube comment section? Lol.
Says the fellow american...hey dude find africa on the map 😂
As an avid cricket fan, here are answers to some questions you asked:
1. Like baseball, we call it a bat in cricket
2. Instead of a pitcher, they call the person throwing the ball a bowler, and the action of throwing the ball is called bowling instead of pitching. Ironically enough, the area where the batting and bowling occurs, is called the pitch
3. I don't know how far the pitcher in baseball is from the batter, but in cricket, the ball is thrown from 22 yards away. It travels at speeds that touch 90mph, and like you observed, they bounce on the ground! There are several rules for the bounce. First, the ball can bounce at most once from when the bowler bowls it to when it reaches the batsman. Secondly, you can bowl it without bouncing it (called a full toss), but bounce can provide several advantages, which are too detailed to go into here. Finally, if you choose to bowl a full toss, it must not be above the batter's waist height, else it's a fowl.
4. The reason batters wear gloves is that the ball travels at about 90 mph for only 22 yards. This means that the ball is traveling to the batter in about half a second! There are two factors at play here: one, if the ball heads towards their hand, because maybe it bounced too high, they have no time to react. If you watch lots of cricket, you will often see the cricket ball hitting the back of batters' fingers, which are protected by gloves. Second, the ball coming onto their hand is fast and hitting their hand in a rigid position (holding a bat's handle doesn't allow much movement or bending of fingers), so it is much easier to cause serious injury. Meanwhile, fielders have a lot longer to react, and they can get their hands into a much safer position to take the catch. If done with the right technique, catching without a glove causes the same amount of pain as clapping your hands (which means to say, no pain at all!). I used to play cricket with a proper cricket ball, which is how I know
5. You observed that the bowler runs while bowling. That is in fact a requirement in cricket! You run up to a line on the floor, called the crease, and you can step on (but not past) it to bowl
6. About the color of the cricket ball: there are three formats in the modern sport: test cricket, One Day cricket, and T20 cricket. Test cricket is the traditional form of cricket, and is still played in white uniforms these days. One Day and T20 cricket, on the other hand, are played in colored uniforms. You will notice that white balls are only used in games where players have colored uniforms. In test cricket, they use red balls for better visibility against the white uniform.
7. Finally, some (hopefully) interesting facts: first, a test cricket match is played over a course of up to 5 days! They start the match in the morning, play till evening with two breaks (a lunch break and a tea break), and pick up where they left off the next day. Second, some test matches start in the afternoon and are played into late evening (called day-night test matches). The format is the same, with two breaks, just that they start and finish later. These are relatively new to cricket, and are played with a pink ball, because the red ball is difficult to see after it gets dark. Third, there is a play position on the fielding team, called the wicket keeper, that actually wears gloves. The wicket keeper is analogous to the catcher in baseball. And finally, in cricket, it sometimes happens that the slightest of edges of the bat brush against the ball and fly to the wicket-keeper. Even if the ball makes the slightest of touches with the bat and is caught by the wicket keeper, the batter is out
I hope this gave you some more insight and context for what you watched!
you forgot to tell them the closer you are to the batsmen the harder it is to catch the ball and only the wiki keeper wears gloves and why
Very good explanation
@ solid point, thanks for adding that on!
1st I have heard of this one bounce bowling rule and I was in top team in UK
Well done in the way you have explain the game of cricket to this lovely couple😊
Catching the ball without gloves can hurt a bit but it doesn't (usually) do any serious damage. But if the ball hits your fingers at 100 miles an hour while holding the bat, it would crush or break them. That's why the batsman wear gloves.
What they call "fingertip catches" have been known to dislocate or even break a fielder's fingers, but it is not very common.
@@sharonmartin4036 Yeah, I took a ball right on the end of the fingers at school. Didn't break anything but it hurt like hell. Worse still, I didn't catch it. :D
Try playing silly mid on and have the cricket ball part your hair... 😳
Yeah on the end of the finger can cause injury but i damaged fingers often with basket balls hitting the end of fingers. Its about technique and practice.
Cricket got its name from the original invention of the game as the batsman stood in front of a cricket gate where the middle three slats were the stumps as we call them.
The bowlers are free to run as far as they like to gather speed in the delivery of the ball, some bowlers can deliver the ball at over one hundred miles an hour. Others called spin bowlers don't need to run in fast as their skill is in making the ball move off the ground in such a way that it defeats the batsman and either hits the wickets or his leg in line with the wicket and is out LBW leg before wicket. He can also be caught out. The ball is harder and heavier than a baseball. Red balls are used in county and test matches between countries whereas white balls are used in one day and limited over matches as these matches can run on under nighttime flood lights.
The batman wears gloves because a delivery at 100 mph on your knuckles will break bones.
Yep I broke my fingers just like that. Also had a bat in my face.
@@rickgajewski5297 Was the bat in the face while playing cricket, or celebrating some other occasion? 😆
@ no the bowler ran into me and pushed the bat into my face.
@@rickgajewski5297 Ouch! 💥
Also it's a part of the bat, so if it hits the gloves that are there for protection for the hands & wrist & the balls caught they're the batsman is out
Watching this as a cricket player is hilarious
Cricket is popular as we Brits introduced it wherever we went in the empire!! Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan and most of the Caribbean. It’s a cricket bat, you’d be lynched if you called it a paddle!!😂
Not most of the carribbean,just the english speaking carribbean not spanish or french speaking carribbean and they would outnumber the populaton of english speaking carribbean by at least 6 to 1
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And yet us Aussies won the first Test Match in 1877
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I couldn’t watch all of this video. I find it hard to believe that anyone can be so ignorant about an international sport like cricket.
What is it with Americans and protection with sport? I played a game of Monopoly with three American guys recently in the States, three of them wore cups and one guy had a helmet on.....
That sounds reasonable protection for playing Monopoly with my family tbh. Games get violent sometimes!
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Must have been playing with my family. “ Everyone lie down so Dawn can kick your head in ‘cause she’s losing “.
Simples........ no NHS!
It's a long time ago, but at school, they taught me to catch the ball if it is coming towards you ... with my hands cupped together, finger spread wide so that the fleshy part of your palms stop the ball, and you bring your hands in like shock absorbers.
If the ball is flying past you, then you just grab it out of the air.
As for the bowling, there are fast bowlers who can 'pitch to use the American term at over 100mph and there are spin bowlers who bounce the ball and they can make the ball go left or right. The bowlers' target is the 3 sticks behind the batsman, the stumps, or even just dislodge the bails, small bits of wood across the top of the stumps. The batsman's job is to defend the stumps. If the batsman knocks his own stumps or dislodges his own bails, he's still out. He also needs to score points. 6 if you hit it over the boundary at the edge of the pitch. 4 if it bounces before it crosses the boundary. Else, you and your partner run between the two sets of stumps the wickets. 1 point for every length completed.
If you're not at the wicket when the ball is thrown back they can knock the bails off with the ball and the batsman is out too
Yes, traditionally, the balls were covered in red leather, but that doesn't show up as well on camera or under floodlights, so they have changed.
Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes died after being struck on the neck by a bouncer during a domestic match. He suffered a fatal brain injury.
The top of the neck right at the base of his skull. Most batters helmets now cover this area.
RIP Phillip ❤
And South African mark boucher lost the sight in one eye from a ball hitting it
@@Bullbotha When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s no one wore helmets even though fast bowlers could bowl up to 100 mph in international cricket. Americans should know that bowlers (pitchers in baseball) can legally hit the batsman with the ball as long as it bounces in front of the batsman first. Hence, this type of ball is called a bouncer. The international game in the 1970s let the bowling of these balls get out of hand and as a result helmets were introduced in the late 1970s before a batsman was killed. Sadly Philip Hughes was wearing a helmet that did not protect him sufficiently. It takes great courage to face a fast bowler even with a helmet on as serious injury can result still when hit by a ball traveling at or close to 100mph. The wicket keeper (backstop in baseball) is the only fielder who wears gloves. The fielders behind the batsman facing the bowlers balls can be 30 or more yards behind the batsman but with slower bowlers bowling at 50-60 mph the wicket keeper and fielders come up close to the wicket and batsman. As they field much closer the risk of getting hit by the batsman's shot is very much increased. The ball when hit can travel over 100mph off the bat and if the fielder is only 2-10 yards away from the batsman serious injury can occur. It takes courage to field up close!
That was ten years ago (2014), and happened on live TV.
Nope, a cricket ball is around half an ounce heavier and also harder than a baseball. Yes it stings when you catch a fast ball.
@@CeleWolf He asked if the ball was much lighter?
Cricket ball is 5 1/2 ounces
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Please have a look at Gaelic Football and hurling highlights and another interesting sport called road bowling.Gaelic football are still the most popular sports in ireland the championship games attract 82300 more than most superbowls and according to a Radio Poll Gaelic Football was the most popular at 40% and Hurling was 24%,rugby 15% ans soccer was 14% a bit high in my opinion but thats consistent with other polls.Anyway sports polls are generally more accurate than political polls as we have seen today
It only hurts if you drop it.
The rules of cricket:
1. There are two teams of 11 players, one team goes out on the field and the other team stays in.
2. The team that is in, sends two players out to bat. Those two players stay out until one player is out, then the player goes in.
3. Another player goes out when the player that was out is out.
4. When 10 players who were in go out and then become out, then the team that was out comes in and the team that was in goes out.
5 The team that is now in, also send two players out, until one of them becomes out, then the player goes in and a new player goes out.
5. When 10 players that are in go out and then become out, then the innings is over.
6. Sometimes, the team that was out at first, but came in, gets to go back out a second time (this is called a test match) and they repeat the process until the team that was in, but went out, also gets to go in a second time.
7. All this is adjudicated by the umpires, who stay out on the field all day and only come in for lunch.
So in short, there are players out, who try to get the players in out, then they switch asn the players who were in come out and try to get the players who were out but now in out.
nothing like cricket, all day game , village greens and pints love it.
20 Overs.....2 per man😃
The only game I grew up watching where you can play 5 days and still draw or if a team is losing the weather can save them and I love it.
Nothing like test cricket at Castle Corner at Kingsmead in Durban
@@sabinasabina2010Me too. I'm a cricket tragic - especially test cricket.
Civilised, cucumber sandwiches, tea, followed by a few pints of good beer
Baseball and criket have a few things in common. Two teams of people. A hard ball. A wooden stick. A field. That's it.
They are completely different games; worth looking at the rules.
Even that is different, in baseball they have rules, in Cricket they have laws.
@@sharonmartin4036Laws with a capital “L”.
If you catch the batter on the full they are out as well in both.
Even the rules in cricket don't always cover all the possibilities of things that can and do happen.
Thanks for your interest in this great international sport. Cheers from Sydney, AU.
The first official international sports match was a cricket match between the United States and Canada in 1844. The game took place at St George's Cricket Club, which is now located at West 30th Street and Broadway in Manhattan.
A cricket ball weighs 5 ounces.
Baseball was derived from cricket and rounders.
Yes, it was. Baseball is an adaptation of Rounders, an English school girl game.
Who won?
To answer some of the questions raised in the video.
The pitcher is called a bowler.
When the ball is bowled, it is supposed to bounce. The bowlers also run up, to increase the speed, which can be delivered at speeds of between 40-95mph, with the record being 100.2 mph.
The bat is called a bat. The bats have a thicker section in the middle at the rear of the bat.
The ball is much harder than a baseball, if it hits your head at high speed, it can actually kill you, hence the helmets.
Gloves are needed for batting as the bowl can smash knuckles. Wicket Keeps (catchers) also wear gloves, they can get broken fingers from catching balls even with gloves on.
Catching the ball can hurt a lot, but there are ways of catching it that can avoid it hurting. Although a lot of the catches in this video, would have hurt for sure.
In the next Olympics in the USA, cricket is to be included. The Cricket World Cup was co-hosted by the USA earlier this year, and introduced cricket to quite a few Americans. I enjoyed watching the USA play, they were exciting to watch.
The red and white balls are for different formats of the game.
White balls are for the shorter forms, which are from about 3 hours to all day.
Red balls are for the longer form of the game, which can last up to 5 days. They even stop for Lunch and Tea.
There are 2 batters on the field, and 11 fielders.
The pitch is oval-shaped, and the wicket, the bit between the stumps where they bowl, is 22 yards, but it looks much shorter from the end camera. The distance between a pitcher and batter in baseball is about 20 yards, 1 foot.
Cricket is the second-biggest game in the world, with soccer being the most popular. Cricket is played in many countries all around the world.
Scores are much larger than in Baseball. 20 runs by a team in baseball is a lot, whereas in cricket scores are often in the 100s. In the shortest form, it is not unusual to see between 150-200 runs per team, and sometimes an individual player will score more than 100 on their own.
When you bat, you do not have to run if you hit it, and you stay at bat until you are out.
My late wife was from the USA, and she fell in love with cricket. In return, she introduced me to baseball, she was from Chicago, so Go Cubs!
You should add to your comment to explain that different countries have different brands of ball like the Duke vs Kookaburra
There are two BATSMEN on the field, NOT batters.
@@cliffwheeler7357 I watch women's cricket more than men's, so it is batters to me.
@@cliffwheeler7357 batswomen??
Hang on we need to further explain an complicate the sport for the Americans. There are two types of bowlers, fast paced like Brett Lee and spin aka Shane Warne.
Then we need to explain the batting order and how that works
Yes there are test matches 5 days, one dayers, T20 now the 100 which even im like wtf.
Now every child of the 80s will remember back when there was only one tv in the house with like 4 channels. Dad insisted he had to watch all 5 days of a test match and it could be a draw. Basically like watching paint dry.
The 2nd guy, amazing catch and his hat didn't even fall off his head. Now that's a cool customer.
"Paddle" LOL
It's a BAT! lol
Edit: The cricket ball is heavier and harder than the baseball.
The English took it [cricket] to many places of the British Empire as with all the other sports we invented.
We also invented baseball btw. But I think we gave it to the Yanks in exchange for tobacco Mom's apple pie
@@darkpitcher5242 And their American 'football' is based of our rugby as they played rugby beforehand.
Apple pie is English. Maybe stolen from the German strudle many centuries ago, but yeah, apple pie isn't American. Maybe tobacco apple pie is though...
The Americans take our sports put on loads of protection and make the game easier 🤔 Plus apple pie is British too
A cricket ball is harder, but a baseball is about the same weight.
4:21 Cricket batsmen wear gloves to protect their hands from the impact of fast balls, improve grip on the bat, absorb shock, and reduce strain on their hands and wrists. Cricket balls are hard, often bowled at speeds over 90 mph (145 kph). When batsmen play shots or fend off deliveries, their hands are directly in the line of impact. Gloves help protect their fingers, knuckles, and palms from serious injury caused by fast or bouncy deliveries.
There are also some rules around catching the ball inside the boundary ring - you have to catch the ball and not cross over the boundary line with your momentum or touch the boundary rope/line in any way otherwise the batting team are awarded 4 runs (which is what they would get for the ball being dropped/missed and running to the boundary rope without a fielder stopping it). The reason those last couple of catches are so incredible is because those players found ways to keep the catch in-bounds so they not only got the player out, but they also avoided adding on runs for the opposing team's total by running out of play after catching the ball =]
You can catch the ball mid-air over the boundary line and throw it back to yourself inside the playing field too, so you catch it, throw the ball up in the air with it still going out of bounds, catch the ball again whilst in mid-air and throw the ball back into the circle, run back into the circle and catch it again to complete the solo version of what that number 1 catch demonstrated! There is a catch somewhere where the player does exactly this and it is one of the most incredible pieces of high-level thinking I've ever witnessed in sport...to realise there's no way to prevent the extra runs unless you catch and throw the ball in mid-air after jumping whilst outside the boundary, throwing it to yourself when you get back in the boundary is just next level!
I don't know whether you've already seen it, but there's a very good video with someone explaining cricket for baseball fans - or words to that effect. It explains the similarities and the differences... It's mostly accurate, and an excellent basis for figuring out what's really going on in a cricket match.
Might have been better to have seen that first and then used accurate terminology .
I think it was Jomboy.
@@IcyTorment The channel for 'Cricket Explained for Baseball Fans' is called 'Sports Explained'.
I'm from England, and I was surprised that baseball players wear gloves, I was like ''why would they wear gloves to catch that light ball'' 🤣 I often thought baseball would be soooooo easy to catch the ball with that massive glove and has always ruined me being impressed by that sport. It's the same with American football, why would they wear a suit of amour and dress like a field hockey goalie? you should watch Rugby :)
FYI - Cricket balls are heavier and its called a Cricket Bat
Cricket balls are different colours depending on the type of game being played - we have night matches where the ball is pink (called 20/20) like a quick fire game - all balls are standard and same weight across all ages (these balls are used in all ages, even school cricket matches across the country)
Thanks you for your content, you two rock!
There is a smaller ball used by juniors (under 14) and female players.
Americans are wusses
haha yeah, now that we know what the "original" sports were it does seem kinda comical with all the protection and padding. 😂
@@reactingtomyroots As usual in the US it's money. You don't need a glove to catch a baseball, but we (the sports manufacturers) will tell you you do - through newspaper articles, advertising and sponsoring some high level players to wear one - and you'll buy it and make us lots of money.
Maybe to avoid the litigation Lawyers?
I enjoyed your responses ... having spent YEARS at matches ... you reminded me of how exciting it can be.
Batters wear gloves so their finger bones don't get shattered. 😁 Balls are basically the same leather ball except for colour, the red ball is for Test matches and the white ball for the limited quick version of the game. There are pink balls but i wouldn't worry about that at this point in your cricket journey
There are 2 manufacturers used in the world mainly Duke but the Australians have their own manufacturer kuckaburro both used in major matches. An the colour is different as limited over games can be played at night under floodlights which I'm guessing is the same reason a baseball is white.
@@philipking6590Kookaburra. Pronounced as it is spelt. Kookaburra. An Australian kingfisher bird and a brand of cricket ball.
All teams wear white clothing for test matches , played with the red ball. Coloured clothing are shorter variations of the games, played with a white ball.
For the last 125 years Kookaburra has been known as the top manufacturer of cricket balls in the world. All T20 and one day internationals use the white Kookaburra , most of the 12 test playing nations use the red Kookaburra, England, Ireland and West Indies use Duke, and India alone the SG.
Batsmen, not Batters.
Cricket is mentioned as early in history as the 13th century in England but it is known more widespread from the 18th century onwards. It is a game of eleven players each side and is played over varying lengths of overs ( consisting of 6 balls )or time ( international test matches are played over five days ). The wicketkeeper is the only player on the fielding side who wears gloves, aptly named as wicketkeeper gloves. This is because he/she will field the ball more than any other player, facing deliveries from some bowlers reaching up to nearly 100 mph. Hence the batsmen also wear gloves ( known aptly as batting gloves), to try to minimise damage to their hands from a direct hit or from shock absorption, blistering etc. I hope this helps a little, great content you two ❤️😊👍🏻
Alternatively, the game may be traced to its origins in the Krikkit Wars, as described in "Life, the Universe and Everything", the third book in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams. 🙂
@ Was his best score 42? 😊
G'day you two I think you are great the way you are looking into different sports like cricket and trying to learn and understand it I am an Australian and I gave up cricket about 20 years ago now and like everything you get used to it like catching that ball without a glove keep up the great work you two always put a smile on my face😂
Rugby no padding, cricket no glove. UK no wimps :D
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Neither are the Aussies or the kiwis 😊
@@dilligaf4219 Who are they? :P ;)
Don't forget Hurling! Ok, it's Irish!
Actually the uk are wimps..
My brother plays cricket for our County team, the bruises on his hands after a tough game are insane! I can confirm that getting hit by a cricket ball even ‘gently’ can be bloody painful 😭
Which country team?
His name?
Rubbish. Never had any bruise but a staived pair of fingers in one bad catch and I played in top team all through my youth
Great to hear your reactions, I grew up playing cricket. The red ball is for test match cricket - which goes for 5 days and the white ball is the 1 day version of the game. The gloves are used by the batter because if it hits your hand it bloody hurts. And yes catching the ball also bloody hurts and takes a lot of practice, not everyone can do it. One of the greatest games, played by most Commonwealth countries, ie England. Australia, India, South Africa, America should play, you’d love it.
The one with the ball is a "bowler" not a "pitcher". The bat is traditionally made of willow
That a variety of wood for the American readers
@@RD-xv5fnyes. It’s not made from a diminutive wizard
@@JimforbesRitteLmao
@@JimforbesRitte in training.
A cricket bat is normally a hand in width, a hand being 4 inches.
You are far more likely to get a hand injury batting, from the ball hitting the hand, rather than fielding..hence the batman's gloves.
Oh my, you mentioning the batsman, reminds me of that old commentary piece from the game played by two men named Willey, and Holding, ( _unless_ that's a myth / urban legend type thing? -
"The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey!!" ...typical British humour, 😅😂 regardless of it possibly being a myth?!)
@brigidsingleton1596 a myth sadly..ua-cam.com/video/D0a-FOoM9ms/v-deo.htmlsi=LOACmuAX0QM6qR45
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@brigidsingleton1596 no myth! There was silence in the commentary box after that......
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I am glad to learn that I have not spread misinformation. Thank-you for letting me know. 🤭🖖
In Australia commentators often discuss catching technique especially when a catch is dropped. I have two broken fingers from playing, one from batting the other from catching, and that was just at the local level. The white ball is used in the short form of the game - either 20 "overs" (of 6 balls per over) or 50 overs - which is often played into the night under lights. The red ball is used in daytime cricket which can be played for up to five days with two innings for each side. Both red and white balls are all the same size and weight. The cricket ball is slightly heavier than a baseball (by up to 3/4th of an ounce) and might be a smidgen smaller. It's great to see Americans taking an interest.
When you're batting the back of your hand faces forward, if you get a ball bowled at 90mph hit you it hurts! The ball pinches your hand on the handle. When you're fielding you catch the ball in the palm of your hand and can cradle it. We're taught at a young age to not fear the ball. I was told "if you're scared of the ball it will hurt, if you're not scared it won't hurt".
Yeah... if you cop a cricket ball going 90mph to the back of the hand without gloves, you're looking at shattered fingers... a bit more than 'it hurts'... 😂
The white balls started when one day matches started. They'd often have the first innings in the afternoon, and then the second innings would be under lights. It turned out the red ball wasn't too good for that, so they went for a white ball.
Hey guys, great to see you exploring cricket.
The guy batting has the gloves because the ball is bowled fast enough to injure fingers if it hits his hand while he is holding the bat. They wear pads on their legs for the same reason.
Same as the wicketkeeper behind the stumps, he wears gloves as well.
Cricket! Love it! My favourite sport besides Rugby. The only players on the field that wears gloves are the wicketkeeper(the guy behind the batsman on strike) and the batsmen themselves. They protect their hands because the ball is going at it's fastest and hardest when directed at or near them and hands/fingers have been broken a few times, on occasion even with the gloves on.
ex wicketkeeper and batsmen here at club level. broken a finger keeping even with the gloves and inners on. Ol Mate put down a pelter.
With you mate cricket in summer rugby union in winter
When they are at the wicket being bowled to they wear gloves. The ball can be anywhere from 40 to 100 miles an hour depending on the speed of the bowler.
100 mph clears the pitch in 0.45s
Righto, read this if you want your questions answered! There are two teams, the batting side and the bowling side. The batsmen wear gloves because they are much more likely to get an injury if the ball hits their hand (if that hand is holding the bat handle). Imagine the ball making a sandwich hitting the bat handle and the meat in the sandwich is your hand - that's going to hurt right? Well, players regularly get fractured fingers. When you catch the ball you are in control of the situation, you don't have to worry about getting your fingers pinched between ball and bat. At school from a young age you are taught how to catch the ball. There is a technique to it. It involves pulling your hand back at the moment of impact. That's why most field catches you see are done "under-hand". If you were to try catching over-hand you run the risk of missing the ball and it hitting you on the nose! The ball is supposed to hit the pitch once before reaching the batsman. A full toss is penalised if it is above the batsman's waist. Below the waist and it is free runs for a decent batsman, who should be able to slog it away. Fielders are not allowed to wear gloves (apart from the wicketkeeper, who is akin to a backstop in baseball).
If you have a cricket ball try catching it. Remember, just as it is about to hit your palm, pull your hand back and it will lessen the pain! Cricket is a mans game!
OMG it is a cricket bat, it's not a "paddle" they are not going round telling each other to touch their toes whilst I slog you with the paddle! Hopefully someone will send you a cricket bat and I'll offer to hit you with it and you see if it's a bat or a paddle! They can actually hit the ball like a tracer round if they get their timing right. That's when you make it look like you are going for the catch but oh darn, just missed it!
Crickt wicket is 22 yards long (I believe).
Red vs white cricket balls. They should be the same but stats say differently! A hot debate. Made of the same materials to the same specifications, but professionals will tell you they react in different ways. White balls and red balls are used in different forms of the game of cricket. I'm not going to explain that one to you! There is a video, that I think is called "Cricket explained for Baseball fans." Seems like it would tell you a lot....
A traditional cricket bat is made from English willow. By comparison, wooden baseball bats are usually something like maple, birch or ash. I have a roughly 12 minute video up showing how a top quality cricket bat is handmade with a little bit of trivia thrown in on cricket and the evolution of the bat etc
"Made In Britain - How Gray-Nicolls cricket bats are made"
What happens if there is a disease in the willow tree population,like ash die back disease or duth elm disease,can the bat be made of a different wood.
@@Joseph13163 Willow trees grow in many, many countries around the world, unlike Dutch elm and Ash. They would be able to obtain willow from somewhere else until their problem is sorted out.
Rugby and Cricket the best having six brothers I played (badly) but still watch it. It is a bat not a paddle. Glad your covering it only the wicket keeper and bats man wear gloves
A few answers
1. 3 players wear gloves
Batsmen to protect hands
Wicket keeper who stands behind the wickets (3 stitches protected by the batsman)
2. The balls are the same, but can be different colours - white - night cricket , pink.
3. The ball is very hard all balls made the same. Hurts your hands
4. It is truly international. Second or third most popular game in the world.
Rugby is played by the USA.
You need to watch “cricket explained for baseball fans” given some flaws in it, it’s the best effort I have seen on UA-cam.
No gloves, but a box for your balls.
And having seen a few unlucky hits it still hurts like hell, but probably won't end your chances of fathering children if your male, I'm not sure if female wear any protection (any women cricketers here?) but it's still gonna hurt I'm sure
@@terryloveukthey wear a gum guard
@@Driskyle 🤣😂 That would help I'm sure
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@@terryloveukThey're not mandatory for women. They're a different size and called "abdo guards" although apparently the slang term is a "manhole cover".
It’s 66ft between the wickets, it’s foreshortened by the camera.
For those who don't know, 66 feet, or 22 yards is one *_chain_*
An area of measurement is the *_acre_* which has an area of one chain by one furlong; a furlong is 10 chains.
Real physical chains were used for surveying because it has very little 'give', as well as optical surveying instruments.
Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmerwhat’s a fathom
@@MiningForPies Working something out ?
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One fathom is six feet.
@@gbulmerI remember all these measurements from schooldays in the fifties
“I remember how hard those balls are” had me crying laughing 😂Thank you 😂
Steve, it's called a cricket bat, not a paddle, LOL. The ball is both heavier and harder than a baseball. Also, helmets are optional, but 99,99% of batsmen will wear them when facing fast bowlers (Lindsay, they all do 'running pitches') and may not wear them while facing spinners (shorter run-up). There are 13 players on the field - the two batsmen are from one side, and then their 11 opponents who are the bowlers, wicketkeeper and fielders. There are two umpires on the field, and a third umpire in the viewing box for reviews.
... and those 11 fielders have to covar a full circle of the field, instead of a qaurter circle as in American Baseball. The cricket bat is altogether a more refined instrument than the baseball bat. It's flat face allows the ball to be "placed" anywhere in the circle, and it's carefully shaped and weighted towards the end away from the handle.
Maybe worth adding that batsmen have died on the pitch as a result of a ball hitting them. They had to change the design in recent years to protect the neck in particular. From memory.
@@grahamtravers4522The handle of a cricket bat is jammed into and extends in a “V” shape down into the body of the blade, forming a spring with some “give” when the ball is struck hard in the “sweet spot” of the blade of the bat. The spring-effect of the handle both reduces the shock to the batter’s hands (and wrists) from the very hard and quite heavy ball as well as providing additional impetus to the ball, thus sending it further when well hit. The shape of the back of the bat concentrates mass where it is needed to send the ball as far as possible. Modern bats also are shaped to increase the size of the “sweet spot”, so making big hits more likely. The dimensions of a bat are set in The Laws of Cricket and may not be exceeded.
@@DeepThought9999 Yeah, I know. My dad used to play cricket, and made and repaired bats.
Helmets are not optional for any medium or fast bowler, they are now required.
The normal camera angle (from behind the bowler) seems to foreshorten the distance of the pitch; it's actually 22 yards from end to end.
its 1 chain long which is 1/80th of a mile
A cricket pitch is 22 yards long. Cricket bowlers have to bowl with a straight arm so the maximum speed is slightly less than baseball. At maximum cricket bowling speeds (150 kph), the batter has 0.432 seconds from when the ball leaves the bowler. In baseball, the distance between pitcher and batter is 60 feet 6 inches and at the maximum speeds for pitchers (104 mph), the reaction time is 0.433 seconds, so for both, the reaction times are similar. I always found that interesting that the two reaction times are so close. In cricket of course there is the added issue that the ball is allowed to bounce.
0:10 the reason: to get Indian viewers 😂😂
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Yall with your 1.4b population are lucrative what can I say 😂
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i don't even like cricket but i appreciate it as a sport... i like that your checking it out atleast
2:49 that "maybe a paddle" is called a bat 😂
The cricket bat is made of willow and specially shaped to take the force of the ball.
Baseball is similar to our 'Rounders' normally played by schoolkids, where they move from spot to spot. Most countries in the World play cricket and take part in World Tournaments.
Cricket has aout 2.5 billion fans, followed by football (soccer) with over 4 billion, golf with 450 million, and both American football and rugby with around 400-500 million fans each.
um I am Australian, American Football has a big following here and in Europe since the 1980s i have no idea how you base your numbers i guess india provides 1.5 Billion Cricket fans but I think you underestimate NFL. Rugby is boring
So why don't you go and do some research? Rugby got a world cup... NFL like Baseball?? World Series😂😂. Talk about boring?? NFL is unwatchable...
Red balls are used for test matches (played during daylight, can last up to 5 days and considered the highest form of the game). The white ball is used for one day limited over matches which are often played in darkness under floodlights, making a red ball difficult to see against the darkened sky, hence the white ball.
Having said that, there are now day/night test matches - not particularly common but they use a pink ball.
They sound like me watching baseball learning the rules.
It is super cool to see people learning new things and about other people
THE GOAT of fielding....jonty rhodes 👌it's interesting to hear you say there's more surface area of a cricket bat to hit the ball...the irony of that is, theres more chance to nick an edge and get out. Its a much more complex game than baseball. The ball manufacture is crucial and varies.
or Chris Harris
We minted a R5 coin with the shot of that phenomenal run out in the first Cricket World Cup we were allowed in after apartheid. He was definitely one of the best.
Jonty Rhodes was consistently the best fielder I saw play, great player
AB De Villiers is a close 2nd
Best fielder is jadeja
Imagine catching a baseball in the air bare handed ? Now imagine a pitch hitting your finger and trapping it against the bat ? That’s why gloves are worn for batting (that and for grip , cricketers bat for hours at a time, baseball players bat for minutes)
Yep, that explanation makes sense!
Hi, something I haven't seen mentioned. When you see players in all white it is a "test match" and goes on for 4 days. Each side has two "innings". An innings end when the batting side batters are "out". Each "bowler" {don't use the term "pitcher"") gets 6 bowls of the ball and the hands off to another bowler and bowls from the other end of the pitch. At the same time the fielders change position to compensate the change. A cricket pitch was originally 22 yards long before metrics was introduced; that is from "stumps" to "stumps" or wicket to wicket. A wicket is those three sticks ("stumps") behind the batter. They two pieces of wood across the top and are called "bails" and one, at least, must be dislodge by the ball for the batter to be "bowled out". BTW a cricket bat is not a "paddle" and made out of willow. It has a very specific shape. These days a batter are protected by the gloves, but also forearm guards, thigh pads and the "box" to protect the groin. A bowler must deliver the ball with an overhead straight arm; i.e. the elbow locked at delivery, otherwise the umpire will call the delivery a "no ball" or throw and the bowler has to bowl it again. As a penalty the batting side, not the batter, get a free run to its score called an "extra". Batters can run on a no ball and score extra runs at their peril. Typically, a fast bowler bowls around 140Km/h, sometimes slower 120-130Km/h to confuse the batter; e.g. the batter swings that bat thinking the ball is faster and misses and the ball careens into the wicket. There are more ways a batter can get out. A the other type of bowler is the "spin" bowler. As the name suggests he spins the ball as it leaves his hand. He often referred as a slow bowler and bowls anywhere from 70Km/h to 100km/h. With both types there are variation in style of delivery. Oh one thing that confuses newbies are the terms "off side" and "leg side". In simple context the leg side is the way the batter is facing and the off side is the direction his rump is facing. They can change if the batter is left handed or right handed and the fielders change over to compensate. Even if you have a right handed and left handed batter at each end of the pitch and they exchange ends in the same "over".
When you see players in coloured uniforms they are playing limited over cricket. Limited means 20 (T20) or 40 (T40) overs per innings. Bowlers are limited to the number of overs they can bowl. Each side only has one innings to score the winning number runs. This style cricket is very fast compared to test cricket and usually is a "day/night" match under lights. They use a white ball to better see at night than the red ball used in test matches. The cricket ball is heavier than a baseball not by much and a little smaller but much harder. If think there are only two approved makers of regulation balls in the world, one in Australia and the other in England.
4:34 the speed those balls are bowled at, the last thing you want is a that ball directly hitting your fingers by accident
The most common by far injury in cricket is broken fingers. The ball is solid and will hospitalise you if it hits you. If you get chance go into a sports shop and look at and feel what a cricket ball (corkey) is like.
Also depending on the pitch one may encounter a pitch wher 80% ball will git you not the bat
Red balls are for day play. White is for evening play. Because of light. If the ball crosses the rope without bouncing it is 6 runs so he knocked it back to keep it in play, then caught it.
White balls are used for one day matches, day or night, but have obvious benefits when playing in the evening.
@@Jimthehumanoid white balls also have disadvantages when playing test cricket at night because when they get dirty they are just as hard to see as a red ball. In test cricket you change the ball after 90 overs and in one day cricket it is half of that T20 even less. Australia experimented with a lot of different coloured balls before settling on the pink one that they are using for night time test matches today. English cricket is very much locked in tradition and changing anything over there is slow a lot of innovations used in todays game came from the World Series Cricket a breakaway international series that started in Australia in the 70s.Things like paying professionals big money, coloured clothing, helmets, stump camera. player cam, ball tracking and a lot of other technology that is used around the world today. The indians have taken the development of the T20 game to another level with the intriduction of their premier league.
@@Davo-i1s I thought they stopped for ‘poor light’ in tests anyway or do they play under floods?
@@Jimthehumanoid They play under floodlights in games specified as day night test matches. They stop for bad light in daytime test matches because they are still using the red ball.
Also, as all Orks know, red balls are faster.
Your questions answered:
No, a cricket ball is heavier than a baseball:
Cricket ball: Weight 5.5-5.75 oz (156-163 g)
Baseball: Weight 5-5.25 oz (142-149 g)
Cricket balls are also harder and smaller than baseballs:
Size
Cricket balls have a circumference of 224-229 mm, while baseballs have a circumference of 229-235 mm.
Composition
Cricket balls are made of a cork core wrapped in tightly wound string and covered in leather. Baseballs are commonly made of leather.
The distance from the pitcher's plate to home plate is 60 feet and 6 inches
The length of a cricket pitch is 22 yards - 66 feet.
Glad to see you -taking time to learn about a very exciting sport.
Ohhhh WOW, what fantastic catches!! I remember being taught to not let the ball slap into my hand, but to move my hand with the ball, which lessens the impact. I was never interested in cricket because I found it boring, but then I was introduced to one day cricket, and I really enjoy that, definitely not boring! 😅
Ah, yeah I'm sure that little tip/technique helps a lot.
I think we all were, I know we certainly were at my school.
@@reactingtomyrootsactuallyy it helps a lot.
15:20 The no 1 catch, u can see the fielder throws the ball inside so that the batting team won’t be able to score a home run…. And the fact is that someone else caught it, that’s why the batsman was out. The fielder threw it to another fielder before going over the ropes
My son plays cricket and was hit on the head by the ball, lost a year of school with a TBI and huge memory loss. Still plays cricket, in fact it saved him as he coached under privileged children and shifted from a bowler to a wicketkeeper. Wicketkeeping help his brain recover with crossing his midline and reflexes. It nearly killed me watching him play after the injury but he felt in control and it was liberating, he is now studying medicine.
There is a video out in the UA-cam universe "Cricket explained for Baseball fans" which if you guys get time should react too as i think it will really explain in baseball terminology how cricket is played and some of the rules x
Just a small hint to help you. If you are "batting" then you are using a bat, not a paddle. That would be "paddling".
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A men's cricket ball is 5-1/2 oz. A women's cricket ball is only 5 oz due to our smaller hands. A Baseball weighs 5 to 5.25 oz. IT IS A BAT. Cricket bats are made from wood and cane, and the process involves several steps:
Selection of wood: Cricket bats are typically made from white willow, also known as Salix alba, because it's lightweight and resistant.
Cutting: A cutting machine creates space for the handle.
Splicing: The blade is connected to the handle using a tapered splice. This design was invented in the 1880s by Charles Richardson.
Handle: The handle is made from thin, flexible strips of cane. It's glued to the bat and squeezed between metal molds to keep it in place. The handle absorbs shock and vibration when the ball hits the bat.
Carving: The wood is carved and shaped into the final form of the bat.
Finishing: The handle is wrapped in string glue and rubber, and a sticker is added.
The shape, weight, and balance of the bat are all important. Cricketers often prefer bats that weigh around 2 lb 8 oz.
A cricket ball typically weighs between 155.9 and 163 grams, while a baseball is usually around 145 to 149 grams. So, the difference in weight between a cricket ball and a baseball is roughly 6 to 18 grams, with the cricket ball being heavier on average. The reason why the batter wears protection is because it is legal to bowl directly in the line of the batter and even hitting him . Cricket balls are all the same , the color can be white or red .
And the seams are stitched proud, while they're internal in a baseball.
Hi Guys , my step dad was in a local cricket team for years , it's actually relaxing to watch we used to take a picnic and just enjoy in the summer sun 😊.
A great excuse for drinking in the sun all day. Who knows, perhaps even watch the cricket being played in the background.
That sounds like a fun experience!
My Dad was an umpire, I was taught how to do the scoring and absolutely loved it because I learnt the rules as a kid and would get cake.
@@reactingtomyroots Sorry i have to give you the Thumbs down you disrepsected the came cricket you mentioned its stupid lousy and
By the way enjoyed your reaction enough to be a new sub.
Much rather watch this than hear anything else about American politics. 🤦🏻♀️
Trump won!!!!
Why? Today was a great day in US history! :)
I was thinking the same - a poor day for world geo- politics and the start of more genocide in Ukraine. Putin must be smiling from cheek to cheek . A massive win for Pootin
@ gonna be fun to watch tho!
Wrong @@wayn3h
you never gonna understand cricket, unless you stop comparing it to bloody baseball!!!!
There's nothing more relaxing than spending the day at a quiet cricket game. A lovely excuse to sit around and do nothing, much like fishing.
the batter wears padding so the bowler cant target areas to injure. receiving a ball to the knuckles could break your hand, where as catching a ball in the palm of your hand is naturally padded if your hand is cupped.
Cricket bats are much heavier and harder than baseball bats, cricket balls are heavier and harder than baseballs, just as rugby players are harder than American football players. Americans want to wear a helmet and gloves for everything apart from riding a motorbike 😂
Some differences between baseball and cricket
1. The bat- baseball bat is like a wooden/metal pipe and cricket bat is like a wooden (it has to be wooden) plank. With the cricket bat there is a lot more control on the direction where the batter wants to hit the ball.
2. The ball- the cricket ball is made of leather (same as baseball) slightly heavier than baseball. The cricket ball is perfectly symmetrical with a seam passing through it splitting it in 2 symmetrical halves. They are same for all countries and all forms of cricket except their colors are different depending on the type of tournament.
3. Gloves- cricket batters’ gloves are padded to protect back of the palm because that’s where the ball can hit. The palm side of the glove is thin. Only 1 catcher the one standing behind the batter called as wicket keeper is allowed to wear gloves in cricket. Those gloves are different than batters as they are padded on the front side of the palm. All other catchers that are scattered on the ground can’t wear gloves. Yes it is painful to catch the ball with bear hands, but their hands are hard and seasoned due to practice. Yes fingers break if the ball hits at the tip of the finger.
4. Bowling- unlike baseball the cricket bowler is strictly not allowed to apply the power from their elbow so their elbow HAS to be straight. The cricket bowler applies power through their shoulder and is allowed to run and deliver the ball to give more speed and momentum to the ball. Bouncing the ball on the ground makes it harder for the batter to judge the ball that’s why the bowler bounces it on the ground.
There are many more differences :)
In cricket the batter wears gloves because if the ball hits the back of their hand and it is unprotected they could end up with broken bones. There are large pads that go over the batters legs for the same reason as you really don't want to get one of those balls to the knee. They also wear a 'cricketers box' to protect their 'vitals' in case of impact in the groin area.
They can also wear thigh pads under their trousers, forearm guards, etc. - all personal preference!
Color of ball depends on the format of game being played. Tests are played in white jersey so red ball comtrast perfectly. White balls are for shorter formats like t20 or odi, corlor jersey and night matches contrast well with white balls. Nowdays day and night test matches started which uses pink ball instead of red because of higher luminous under the lights at night
Number 1 catch was complicated by Angelo Mathews and TM Dilshan of Sri Lanka!!! So proud of them!!!!
100% a game worth persevering with as its a great listen or watch on a good 5 day test. The weather plays a massive but subtle part. Us Brits love a cooling humid evening when the ball swings as its bowled. Can rip through teams in a session
It always amazes me that the Caribbean is such a laid back and easy place, where nothing is rushed but watch a game of cricket on any old patch of dirt and the energy belies the fact that it is hot and humid. Its no coincidence that Caribbean cricket is "Strictly Pace"
@clivewilliams3661 absolutely loved a pace attack
They used to call them ‘corky balls’ as the interior of the ball was made of cork wrapped and stitched leather. And the cricket bat has a slightly convex ‘flat area’ which enables a batter to direct the ball on contact in different directions. Cool reaction as ever guys 🤘😎👌
We not pussies
Cricket balls are approximately 1/2 ounce heavier than a baseball. Made of cork centre, wound with twine then covered with a lever shell.
Red balls are used for the first class game (white clothing over multiple days, up to 5).
White balls are used in the ‘limited overs’ formats, where coloured clothing is worn.
When the ball is dropping from a height most of the energy is taken out of the shot, but the athletisism is amazing. But when the ball is hit with full force straight at one of the fielders, then it hurts especially at close range. The rope you see is the "boundary", any catch of the ball has to be inside the boundary for a batsman to be caught out. When cricket ball is bowled by the bowler the ball is supposed to bounce, but there is one bowling action called a "yorker" aimed directly at the wickets which does not bounce.
A yorker does bounce, a delivery that doesn't is called a 'full toss'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorker
Hi, a yorker is a delivery aimed at the feet.
The ball doesn't "have to" bounce, as a full toss aimed at the stumps is legal, but above the waist is known as a beamer and a no-ball. Strangely, a bowler can legally make the ball bounce a maximum of two times.
@@Dave-wm2xg A yorker is actually aimed at around the popping crease and disguised in an attempt to entice the battter to advance down the pitch as if it were a slow or spin delivery. Only if he is fooled into doing so will the delivery end up around his feet.
As a yorker is only a yorker is the batter is 'yorked', ie: beaten by the delivery. If a batter hits an attempted yorker full toss (before it bounces) than he hasn't been beaten by it (yorked). Therefore a yorker must bounce to be considered a yorker.
@@Dave-wm2xg Yes, thanks, I didn't know about the double bounce, but although frowned upon, aren't they allowed to bowl underarm too ?
@@rorymackie4016 Such clarity, I am glad I am not an umpire, although slowmo replays and technology take human error out of the equation,
Cricket balls are a bit smaller, heavier and harder than baseballs. Broken or dislocated fingers are pretty common. When I was at school, we had a kid knocked out stone cold by a descending ball that hit him on the head.
The "paddle" is a cricket bat, and the flat(ish) surface allows the batsman to steer the ball wherever he chooses on the field.
If the last guy was in possession of the ball when he crossed the boundary rope, the batsman would not have been "out".
I guess as American sports are so heavily monetized, the introduction of a "foreign" sport would be seen as a threat to business and thus not promoted.
I think you should check out snooker next - but learn the basic rules first!
Back in my high school, the boys on our cricket team used to yell "two hands for beginners!" every time one of them went to make a catch. We could hear it from across the entire oval and through brick walls.
I love the way Americans are always surprised that protection isn't worn. I think that only the American sports have padding and gloves on. The rest of the world just gets on with it.
Even better is the 'Best Run-Outs'!
Red ball for traditional 5 day test matches. White ball for day- night games for better visibility at night sometimes even pink balls are used for special events but all balls are the same weight and hardness.
Cheers
Making cricket bats is a very historic craft, could be worth looking into - there’s definitely videos out there, I’m not sure the best way to recommend specific ones as they often get lost here
The paddle is called a bat and usually the only players on the pitch to wear protective gloves are the batsmen and the wicked keeper ( he's the dude behid the wicket where the batsman stands) Check out Ben Stokes 'superman catch', one of the best ever. Great video
🎉 when catching you can move your hand back to reduce the impact.
Called “soft hands”. Essential for completing a catch without injury. For a single-handed catch, if the ball hits the hand in the right place (palm of the hand about ⅓ down from the base of the fingers) the fingers will close automatically around the ball and the catch won’t hurt at all if the “soft hands” technique has been used.
There are some great videos of top cricketers learning to hit baseballs - great entertainment. 😂😂😂
I love cricket and I can assure you that ball is damn painful when it is caught or hits you. The only player to have gloves is the keeper behind the three stumps. When hit that ball travels at immense velocity horizontally. The ball breaks batsman fingers hence the gloves. That ball has killed batsman.
The ball doesn’t really hurt much, if at all, if it is caught properly with the correct technique. Soft hands it’s called. It’s a bit more difficult on a cold day, though, if you allow your hands to get cold. Pockets are a good thing!
A baseball is usually larger than a cricket ball. A regulation baseball has a circumference of 9 to 9.25 inches and a diameter of 2.86 to 2.94 inches.
A cricket ball is heavier than a baseball. In men's cricket, a ball weighs 155.9 to 163 grams, while in women's cricket, it weighs 140 to 151 grams. A baseball weighs 5 to 5.25 ounces(148 grams).
SO A BASEBALL WEIGHS AS MUCH AS A GIRL'S CRICKET BALL. Sounds about right.
The last catch is insane. He had to think freaking fast. Just insane reaction time, and he threw it to other fielder 30 ft away from him. insane game awareness.
Catching a baseball with above is so easy because the glove is designed to envelope and hold it securely practically on contact. It is a whole lot more convenient to use. A cricket ball can not only hurt but also bounce off the hand make you drop the catch.
Cricket Explained for Baseball Fans by Sports Explained, and Cricket and Baseball: More Similarities and Differences but the same channel are where you should both start. You could watch them both at the same time.
Cricket for Americans by Slate is a good supplementary one
Cricket is wonderful. Don't know why but we love it. 😂