+Frankie de Rossi He did say simple ... and the wide range of laws and technology in cricket would have definitely caused some confusion to those being introduced to the game so yeah just a tip of the icing is good enough for the novice or there is always Baseball...lol
indian lion it’s basically the harder version of cricket and before your argue just acknowledge that there was an episode of some sporting show where they had pro baseball players playing cricket and cricket players playing baseball and the cricket players were complete shit at baseball and the baseball players did fantastic playing cricket
Dead Doll yea cool. I’m talking about sexism against men. Many of their airports don’t even allow men to sit next to kids cause they think they’re pedophiles.
+DEVAPRASAD V KURUP those who are very new to cricket wont like test-cricket.For the globalization of this game i guess T20 format is the most suitable,its always very fast & busy, as preferred nowadays by genY all around the world!!
I grew up in Guyana and Cricket was and is our national pastime. It is often said that all West Indians are born with a bat in one hand and a ball in the other. Cricket is in our blood. I now live in the US and I can certainly understand why so many Americans love baseball. Don't get me wrong, and I may still be prejudiced in my opinion thst cricket is the greatest game ever developed by man, but truth be told come every country has its own national pastime and people can be just as fanatic about it as those of us cricket fanatics are about Cricket. Whst other bloody game last for 5 days and yes, could have an exciting draw...while breaking for lunch and tea? The 7th inning stretch can't even come close to that. lol.
Right but baseball is too simple to understand for indians but to americans it will take their lifetime 😂😂 that's why he used cricket for americans in his thumbnail😂😂 he knew baseball is too simple to understand for indians...
I love test matches; the ebbs and flows of the game. A few years ago the Ashes series was taking place in the UK. One evening I went to a wedding reception. When I left my house, England were winning. When I got to the reception someone told me Australia were now winning. An hour later someone arrived and announced England were back in control. Can't beat a good test match.
That's because it is. The Japanese and Korean teams simply aren't as good as the teams in the Mlb. If they played each other then America would simply win almost every time. Not to mention that the best Asian players are in the Mlb.
+Henchy Similarly whole world doesn't play the football, oh sorry, soccer world cup? The idea behind that is the best in the world compete. Now if NPB and MLB were to have a face-off in a final, I can understand an MLB all star team winning and being called the world series champions. In cricket, every team has a right to become world champions, just like in football, oh, I mean soccer!
I think after Chess, cricket is the game where you use your brain a lot. In cricket, your one wrong decision can cost you the game. After every ball/pitching, strategy changes continuously. That is why in Cricket, captain plays a very vital role as he is the one who takes every decision and if anything goes wrong, he is always in the receiving end. So in cricket, your captain has to be the best strategist to take bold and clever decisions and brave enough to face the wrath of fans and media if team loses the match .
Sadly, in the US, people that like to play chess are bullied by big wannabe American football athletes, which we know as jocks here in the US. Shows that many people in the US don't care about learning, which I hate, because I love to learn new things.
You didn't mention the most prestigious form of cricket; Test Cricket. International only. A test match is played for a maximum of 5 days. Usually there are 3 test matches in a test series, sometimes there are 2 or 4 matches in one series. There are 5 matches every time Australia play England, which is called The Ashes, and that's the biggest test series in world cricket. In one test match, Both teams generally bat & bowl twice in one match (4 innings, 2 batting innings & 2 bowling innings for each team). Let's say Team 1 reaches 300 runs & they have been bowled out (Team 1 loses all 10 wickets), OR the captain of team 1 declares (basically when the captain thinks his team has made enough runs, and also to make sure there is enough time for the remainder of the innings so there isn't a draw), Team 2 bats. Now we'll say Team 2 makes 320 runs and they are bowled out, Team 1 resumes batting, behind by 20 runs to take back the lead & extend it as much as possible. Team 1 makes 350 which gives them a lead of 330 runs. Team 2 bats but are either all bowled out OR they can't reach 331 runs before the end of the allotted time (end of day 5) they lose and Team 1 takes the victory. If Team 2 couldn't actually take the lead in their first batting innings, Team 1captain can decide to bat again, or enforce the Follow On, which makes Team 2 have to bat immediately after they just batted, and Team 1 resumes bowling again. After one test match is played, both teams have roughly a 1 week break, and then go on to playing the next test match. In cricket, the test arena is the fiercest, hardest & most prestigious format to play. Every cricketer dreams of playing test cricket. But there is the other side of that coin, the cricketers who play for $$$$$$$. The players who play for money are those who only really play T20 cricket. (20 overs each to bat & bowl once over.) For Australia, India & England, playing regular test cricket is the most wealthiest format. In Australia, 20(?) players sign a contract with Australia's cricketing board. I think every contract lasts 3-4 years. The minimum contract is $750,000 per year for new players, and the max contract is $1.5 million for Australia's best performers (Bonus for the captain.) India are the richest cricketers, as you can guess. Any player can play Test cricket, contract or not, and those who are contracted, are NOT guaranteed to play Tests. Currently right now (Jan 2017), half of Australia playing team don't have international contracts, and some contracted players haven't played Ted's. Cricket for 3-5 years. Yeah, I know that's confusing.
Also, for some players, they earn more money from sponsorships/advertisement/endorsement deals. Virat Kohli, Indian captain and cricket superstar earns around $40 million US per year. Including Indian contract, his millions of paying sponsors, and I mean millions. He has A LOT of endorsements from billion dollar companies.
+apatel303 no it needs brain bro, you have to understand the situation that you need a run or a leave. Even if you run well, your partner too have run same like you, and even both of you are running good, you have to keep an eye on the ball and the fielders to know how much time do you have to get how many runs and you'll have to return safe and your partner have to return safe at the same time and even if all that is done, it is to be assured that while running so strenuously and furiously you must enter the white lines properly at both sides
pahul gill People with heads full of shit do not understand easily. It's not about running only, there is a lot in it. Try to understand cricket then you will know, a whole team can loose if just one player runs wrong man.
I think cricket will hardly pass in America, i have tried to explain some of my states friends the game but they aren't interested in other games, they love there football(more like hand ball, can't call it rugby coz rugby needs balls.... Pun intended 😂) and baseball, they have no willingness to learn a new game.....and that's comming from an Indian....who see Notting more than cricket, still we love football, tennis, badminton, baseball and more..... I guess it's the same with every other cricket playing nation....we love other sports even if our country is not good at playing it doesn't mean sport is boring.. American call cricket boring.....yep wow.
I'm interested in learning about new sports. The problem is is we aren't exposed to it. I've seen a few videos here and there and it interested me so I wanted to learn more. Which is why I'm on this video in the first place. The problem is is we aren't being shown it and exposed to it to get to know the game. Blame TV not us.
American here trying to learn the rules. This video was very helpful. Always hungry for more sports. They’re starting a major league cricket here in the states soon I believe.
Cricket is the second most popular spectator sport in the world, with 2.5 billion estimated fans. Football (or Soccer) is the most popular with an estimated 3.5 billion fans.
Cricket is the most popular (played by more people) sport in the world. The second most popular is Netball. Soccer is a distant non contender. In first world countries, soccer is considered to be an excellent sport for women & children due to its soft, non-contact rule set.
T20 is an example of one of the strengths of cricket, its adaptability. Along wit T20 we have the one day format (40 or 50 overs) and the traditional 4-5 day game.
For those saying LBW rule is hard to explain. Well, I think it is easy. There was one commercial in India during world cup where each player is asked to explain rule. Sehwag is asked the LBW rule and he says in hindi poem line "Ball wicket pe aai jo apna dharam nibhaye. Balla tere hath me kahe taang adaye" whose english translation is "Ball which comes towards wicket is performing its duty. You have bat in your hand and why do you use your Leg(to hit ball)?". I think this simple line explains LBW rule as it helped me understand the LBW rule.
Cricket - You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
Its a good video nicely explained. But in order to understand everything about cricket u need to be watching it for a long time. Not very difficult to understand as most people think. I started watching cricket at a young age and i did not have anyone to teach me about it. But after watchin a few games I got the idea. The point is it starts gettin really exciting and addicting after u understand a lot of the game. Then u will want to understand more. Fielding positions, bowling styles and techniques, batting shots etc.
There are/were a lot of folk variants of modern sports in existence. For example a lot of countries in medieval Europe had their own form of football (soccer). The modern rules of the game were produced by the British. Whichever country produced the rules for the modern game can claim to have "invented" the sport.
cricket is not a cousin of baseball, baseball is the infant kid that the family is embarrassed about mostly because the great-great-grandfather, who is still surprisingly alive, looks down on him so much, muttering, "cricketers hit full tosses all the time, baseballers don't know how to hit a bouncing ball."
+Ryan Kinley Some people have tried for decades to explain the offside rule in football. LBW is on a par with that. This would have been a feature length video if he'd have tried...
+1,000. Exactly. When I have to constantly hear cricket fans talk about how it's more complicated or more strategic, all I can do is laugh, when it quickly becomes clear they're talking about something they don't understand well enough to comment on.
Even if you do not respect the player that he was and though he loved stats a bit too much (like me) , just the sheer weight of expectations he bore on his shoulders for two decades should make him an all time great.
As someone who watches Cricket and Baseball (which was copied from Cricket) I must tell you that both are enjoyable in their own respects. Cricket is definitely baseball on steroids with the newer formats - T20 (20 overs per side instead of usual 50) and even the 50 over ODI (one day international). Cricket Test Matches, a 5 day affair, are also an investment and fun - 5 days still can be boring esp with no result at the end at times. Baseball rules like strike zone are very arbitrary and up for interpretation by umpires which adds the human element. Cricket has that too with wides and leg before wickets (which now can be challenged a few times (usually 3) per side and this involves replays for more accuracy in the game removing the human element). Baseball is fun but cricket is really exciting when you understand the sport. Next we need soccer vs football - I used to feel football (American one) is senseless and stupid till I understood the rules and games and followed along a year or two and now it is super exciting. IMO, Football = Cricket and Soccer = Baseball (fun at times but many times just boring)
"Baseball rules are"very abritrary".....really....would you like a set of Official Rules. Of course the strile zone varies....go and read the rule. It has a definition that states it effectively relies on the size of the player.
the best thing i like about cricket is that there is no pushing or shoving like in soccer or rugby,the batsman is free to play the kind of shots he wants and the bowler is free to bowl his best delivery,it's such a mental battle between the batsman and the bowler and ofcourse it's physically tiring as well with all the running...and there are fielders around the field trying to stop or catch the ball,such a beautiful and great game if u know it in and out....i don't know much about baseball,i am sure it must be a great sports as well...
Baseball is strictly non contact for the most part, except for very close in baserunning plays and unintentional player collisions during fielding, so yes, Baseball has very much the same mental appeal of the battle between batter and pitcher, just like batsmen and bowlers have their duels in Cricket.
Funny how this video starts with 'how confusing' cricket is but yet he doesn't cover the LBW rule or 'Leg Before Wicket'.... Really that is the most difficult part of the game, but essentially it was created to stop players blocking the ball from hitting the stumps intentionally. So if the umpire deems that the ball would of hit the stumps had they not prevented it with their leg then he can rule them as out..... I would be more exciting if they got rid of the LBW law and their pads then lets see how many are brave enough to block the ball with their legs :)
It’s weird how as only a fairly casual Aussie cricket fan, it honestly is pretty intuitive. But you don’t really realise how complicated the sport is until you try and explain it There’s so many parallel bits of information that you need to be aware of. As soon as I start trying to explain one element of the game, it brings up another thing worth mentioning before the first thing is even explained. It’s crazy
I am Australian of Asian ancestry and I have played both sports. All I can tell you is fielding is more difficult with cricket and batting is more challenging for baseball.
Duncan Douglas Leg Before Wicket. The Batsman is out if the ball was going to hit the wicket but he obstruct it using its leg. The catch is that the Umpire has to be convinced that the ball would have hit the wickets
Duncan Douglas Leg Before Wicket. The Batsman is out if the ball was going to hit the wicket but he obstruct it using its leg. The catch is that the Umpire has to be convinced that the ball would have hit the wickets
rajat goel Very similar to a baseball rule. A batter is not allowed to step on the plate, or lean into a pitch to get hit. They must make an attempt to get out of the way of the ball. If that happens, they can be called out.
For everyone talking about the leg before wicket (LBW) law: if the ball hits you anywhere on the body except the bat or your hand while it is holding the bat (typically it hits your leg as the name implies) and the umpire deems it would have hit the stumps without you standing there, you're out. There are also a few other provisos but they are very technical so pretty much the above description is good enough to have a basic understanding.
The ball must hit the batsmen on the pads or foot or body to be an lbw and the batsman hasn't hit the ball with he's or her bat first the batsman can be called lbw off the glove as long as the glove isn't touching the bat. Anything pitched outside the leg stump can not be out the ball must be pitched in line with the stumps and going on to hit the stumps then it's out if it's missing or jumping over the stumps then it's not out if it pitchers outside the off stump and hit him in line then it's out. the umpire make the call he raise his index finger for out or says no not out. If the umpire said out the batsman can use drs to reverse the call then they go to the third umpire if it's umpires call it's out if the umpire said not out the fielding team can use drs to turn it in to a wicket if it's umpires call it remains not out but if the third umpire overturned the call then the umpire on the field raises he's finger and the batsman is out. Umpires call is what the umpire gave it in the first place he gave it not out and its umpires call it's not out but if he gave it out in the first place and it's umpires call it's gonna be out.
George Washington no it is lbw if the glove isn't touching the bat if the glove is touching the bat then it is not lbw. as long it's pitched in line and hitting the stumps hitting the glove and the glove is not touching the bat its lbw. The glove is only considered as the bat as long as the glove is touching the bat if it is not touching the bat then it's a lbw can't be caught out its the rule.
It's weird watching this and seeing how confusing it can be. I can never remember learning about cricket, just seems I've always kind of known what's going on. Although it's obvious why (to keep it simple) it's still annoying that you take the one day game as the standard, the Test game is the greatest and purest form of cricket
I love soccer/ football, no other sports can take over it as my number 1. Saying that tho, I would love to know more about cricket. Looks like a very strategic sport and complex like chess which i really enjoy 😊
Cricket is gentleman game and 2 more popular sport in the world but playing few country but match is so entertainment than other sport 😀. Enjoy your life cricket and soccer 😆 then you enjoy your life 😊.
if u understand rules of cricket and follow this sport..like Big bash league australia.and IPL league....i bet you will love cricket more than any sports in world....lets try this........
As an American, I've watched cricket before without knowing the rules. I still found it fun, as it and baseball have some similarities though. Now, knowing the rules will make it more fun to watch.
The amount ICC spent on world cup,t20 world cup,series.... apart from that a country spends on their leagues is enough to feed and sponsor every team and every sport that's being played in USA for 100 years....shove ur aggression down ur throat
Do people realize that sports are most popular in countries where people like it? Because calling Americans dumb for not getting cricket is really dumb because it's never on tv here, nor any recreational leagues.
well ppl from all around the world know baseball even though it is an only american sport. yet Americans know nothing about cricket. Shows their ignorance and stupidity
+hiba J Baseball is simple though, and not the best example. Ice Hockey and American Football have much more complex rules/strategies. Nobody knows what a Blitz defence is, what a linebacker does, what icing is etc. Americans find these things simple and easy, but foreigners have no idea what's going on. Cricket is much the same.
+Cam Cook I'm American and have no idea what the hell a blitz is... and I've heard linebacker before and know it's football but no clue what they actually do
+hiba J Baseball only an American sport (And I assume you mean the US with that)? Where do you get that idea? Here's the top 15 of the world ranking of the World Baseball and Softball Confederation, the WBSC 1 Japan 2 United States 3 Chinese Taipei 4 Korea 5 Cuba 6 Venezuela 7 Mexico 8 Canada 9 Italy 10 The Netherlands (Ouch! We dropped from 5 to 10. That hurts) 11 Puerto Rico 12 Dominican Republic 13 Australia (This cricket nation actually has a professional baseball league as well. They qualified for the next World Baseball Classic, de facto the World Championship, next year) 14 Brazil 15 Nicaragua drive.google.com/file/d/0B8uqMNV2rcOmcmRSLWVaRVQ1Q28/view In my country (the Netherlands) baseball is a small sport but way bigger than cricket (around 40,000 players vs around 5,000 players)
Apparently you don't understand the game well enough. You've obviously never watched one of the hundreds of games that were won with a walk-off homerun or extra base hit. Seriously, I've watched some really, really boring cricket games. Generalizing always makes you look ignorant. FYI.
Fyi, the word "boring" is 100% subjective. I've lived in Britain, and I still feel test cricket is overrated. Except by those who grew up watching it. They love it. Just as those of us who grew up watching and playing Baseball love it. Talking about one as if it's much more strategic and technical is pure garbage. Period.
The bowlers swing, spin, york you at your feet. And fielders are placed differently for each bowler, depending on the style of their bowling to make it difficult for the batsmen to get runs. So the batsmen have to use their techniques and skills play shots and get the ball between fielding gaps and run between wickets to score. It's not easy to score 6's and 4's like it looks on TV, the bowlers bowl in 140+ kmph with swing or spin it using variations.
Imagine making fun of people trying to understand a sport that they haven't been exposed to their whole life😂 better than calling it shit without understanding it
For real, Cricket isn’t even on the radar in America. I’ve never seen or heard of people playing, it’s not on TV whatsoever. Sports center doesn’t give any coverage to Cricket, so no shit we don’t know the rules. There’s not really a similar sport to compare Cricket to. Baseball sure, but that’s really just the bat and ball, everything else is so different. There are so many rules and gameplay elements that ONLY happen in Cricket and no other sport has similar rules, I don’t get why Indians/Aussies/English can’t understand why Americans have a hard time grasping Cricket. They always say “well baseball and American football are even more confusing”, and it’s like no shit, you’ve never seen or played it before.
Dude! We really, really tried to follow you but to no avail! Whew! They must teach cricket at graduate level at the universities!!! LOL Thanks for the video.
3:23 It's like throwing a ball back to the catcher or pitcher if he is throwing to the bowler's end, then must have the ball touch the base instead of the runner to get the runner out. But since the runner has to run with the bat, (he doesn't have to on home runs and ground rule doubles (4's) though) the bat must behind the line (touch the base) before the runner's feet.
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Bro, Cricket IS a gentleman's game. But it is by no means a simple game. This video has probably explained the very basics. There is a huge book of laws to govern cricket and the more you learn of it the more confusing it gets.
Around 1 Min it's wrong. The length of grass is called the wicket. The two sets of "Sticks" are stumps. Therefore the stumps are the bowlers' target and the bales must fall for the batsman to have a chance to be declared out. Around 3 min. After each ball the batsmen can run but do not have to e.g. if the ball runs along to a fielder or goes to boundary or is caught without nick and declared dead by wiki. Around 4 min. It can also end if one team retires. This is usually done in test matches to preserve energy for future innings and can be called when the captain of the batting side feels they have done well enough to not be overtaken by the opponent's next innings of batting.
Man i love cricket but that was the most complicated explanation of cricket ever, you could have explained it in much much simpler terms referencing baseball and animations but then i guess the title wouldn't have worked. Like baseball fielding team and a batting team Like baseball you hit the ball and start running so you can score. Like baseball hit it out of the park you dont have to run you get automatic score Like baseball If someone in the field catches your hit your out Like baseball when you hit the ball and start running if the ball is thrown to where your running before you get there you out. In baseball if the pitcher skillfully throws the ball accurately behind the batsmen 3 times or 3 strikes he's out - in cricket if the pitcher or bowler skillfully throws the ball and if it hits the wooden wicket or bails your out. Like baseball the goal is for the fielding team to keep the other teams score low, get them all out, and get into bat and beat their score. The biggest difference is that cricket is played on an international stage where various countries vie to be crowned world champions. Baseball is only played at a national level. Thing i find amusing is how in baseball they call themselves the world champions yet its only an intra national competition
@@tabor721 baseball does lol. Baseball players are known to be all around athletes. Check mate. But then again it's like saying pizza is the greater than fried chicken because of all the ingredients it has.
Good explanation. Maybe one day USA & PRC can resolve their rivalry on a cricket pitch. Great thing about being former British Colonies, we are all united in our love of Cricket except well, Canada.
sanch Sanchayan well i would to play against india i got some serious speed in bowling but unfortunatly talent have no respect in pakistan i need tons of money and approch to play for pakistan i have seen magical players where i live my cousin swing the bowl you won't believe wasim waqar looks a joke to me when i see him bowling he couldn't get any chance how would Ii live in a small town in swat KPK i can't make you believe on what i am saying but bowler here are out of this world
I played a pickup game with a bunch of Indians at the park once. The first time I was up to bat, it came natural to me...i wasn't even thinking...I cocked it back from my shoulder and swung it as if I was holding a baseball bat. The guys stopped the game gave me another quick tutorial and restarted. Man that was a fun game.
I thought cricket was confusing for the longest time. It wasn't until I figured out the rules that I realized the reason it was so confusing to me was because it's so simple.
The reason behind the name "World Series" is thanks to Barney Dreyfuss who was the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1903, he wrote to the owner of the Boston Red Sox challenging them to a ‘World’s Championship Series’. The Pirates were the best team in the National League and the Red Sox were the best in the American League. Over time, the 'World’s Championship Series' name has been shortened to the World Series and has been played every year apart from 1904 and 1994.
LBW works like this: Batter has to defend their wickets, and they are supposed to use their bat to do so, but some batters once upon a time decided to use their legs instead, so the LBW rule was invented to stop them. If the ball hits the batter in any part of their body other than the bat or hands, they it can be given out provided the following conditions are met: 1. The ball would have hit the stumps if their body hadn't stopped it 2. The ball didn't touch the bat or a hand touching the bat 3. The ball didn't bounce on the ground outside the line of the stump opposite that of the batter's stance. example, a right handed batter stands in front of the stumps with their bat on the left side of their body (from the perspective of the bowler) and their backside on the right. If you draw one thick imaginary line between both sets of stumps (as wide as the stumps) on either end of the pitch, and the ball bounced to the right of this line (from the perspective of the bowler for a right handed batter) then even if it would have hit the stumps it's not out. Even if the batter was holding the bat behind their leg, and if their leg wasn't there it would have hit the bat instead, it can still be given out LBW because it hit the leg first. Even if it just clips the bat and would have still hit the stumps (if it hadn't hit their leg as well) it's not out because it hit the bat. The hardest part to explain is why.
LBW. In Baseball, there is a small strike zone - over the plate, between shoulder and knee. In cricket, the strikezone is the wickets. The cricket batsman is only allowed to protect that strike zone with the bat - nothing else, just the bat. If the ball hits the batsman's leg, and the umpire declares that had the leg not been in the way, that the ball would have continued on and hit the wickets ... then the batsman is called out, as if the ball had hit the wicket. This is termed "Leg Before Wicket" or LBW. LBW calls can be quite contentions as the condition of the ball, the condition of the ground and the amount of spin on the ball can all change the direction of the ball, making it difficult to judge if the ball would have hit the wickets or not. In modern times, cameras are used to assist umpiring decisions. Traditionally, however, cricket is a game for gentlemen, and the umpire's decision is accepted without argument. Compare this to football (soccer) where getting up in the face of the umpire happens more times per match that goals are scored.
You forgot lbw (leg before wicket). That's when the ball strikes the batsmen himself, but if the ball, when continued its trajectory when on to hit the wickets, then the batsmen is out. And you also forgot to mention no ball (if the bowler steps over the line when bowling). Those were two more fundamental things that you needed to know.
I guess he wasn't confident enough to explain the lbw rule.
+Frankie de Rossi LBW law, remember that cricket has laws, not rules haha.
SilentHotdog28 well I was being more specific when I was mentioning that.
+Frankie de Rossi to say nothing of the mankad out :P
+Frankie de Rossi He did say simple ... and the wide range of laws and technology in cricket would have definitely caused some confusion to those being introduced to the game so yeah just a tip of the icing is good enough for the novice or there is always Baseball...lol
+Frankie de Rossi or no balls which is quite important
I'm British and cricket seems simple to me but what I don't understand is baseball
Because most people think baseball is simply pitching an hitting and don't understand the aspects of the game
I can't even contemplate the "basics" of a "base"-ball lol
indian lion it’s basically the harder version of cricket and before your argue just acknowledge that there was an episode of some sporting show where they had pro baseball players playing cricket and cricket players playing baseball and the cricket players were complete shit at baseball and the baseball players did fantastic playing cricket
European Chicken Foundation cricket was made in England
European Chicken Foundation I'm indian and same here 😭
The only time Indians and Aussies can come together is bashing Americans cricket knowledge.
aussies and indians unite
so true
R2D2 from Star Trek are you kidding me we don't
@@calebking1608 Australia has done more to advance women's sport than any other. They're not super sexist at all.
Dead Doll yea cool. I’m talking about sexism against men. Many of their airports don’t even allow men to sit next to kids cause they think they’re pedophiles.
cricket is damn fun to watch. we don't get much of it on US TV, but I watch it whenever I see it.
Of course it's fun. Fortunate enough in Australia to watch cricket on TV every summer & play cricket for my local club team
+Travis Kale The real game is test cricket ..one game last for 5 days
+DEVAPRASAD V KURUP those who are very new to cricket wont like test-cricket.For the globalization of this game i guess T20 format is the most suitable,its always very fast & busy, as preferred nowadays by genY all around the world!!
watch ipl
+Travis Kale there is most famous cricket league is going on... google about IPL and you can watch online
try to explain the duckworth lewis method..if u can
234CHRISTY even duck worth Lewis cannot explain that lmao
ha ha good
234CHRISTY lmao 😂😂😂 nooo😭😭 i just hate DL 😤
NASA is working on it to understand..
They soon ganna make a Documentary on it..
By the way even 99% cricket fans don't know how it work..
It's just cutting down of overs. 😂😂😂
9 innings sounds like a lot in baseball.
...if you haven't watched a 5 day long test match.
Alan Taylor xactly 😂😂
for them 9 innings is like wow this is toughest because they didn't know about test cricket
Alan Taylor 50 over game is enough
ODI (50 over) lasts about 8 hours. The shortest format in cricket (t20) lasts about 3-4 hours. A regular Baseball game lasts about 3 hours.
9 innings is not a lot
Pretty Dank major league baseball teams play at least 6 days a week (18 hours/week)
I grew up in Guyana and Cricket was and is our national pastime. It is often said that all West Indians are born with a bat in one hand and a ball in the other. Cricket is in our blood. I now live in the US and I can certainly understand why so many Americans love baseball. Don't get me wrong, and I may still be prejudiced in my opinion thst cricket is the greatest game ever developed by man, but truth be told come every country has its own national pastime and people can be just as fanatic about it as those of us cricket fanatics are about Cricket. Whst other bloody game last for 5 days and yes, could have an exciting draw...while breaking for lunch and tea? The 7th inning stretch can't even come close to that. lol.
That's surprising to me, I thought the countries in that region preferred baseball. Interesting
The Trashman i dont understand anything in baseball
Nope. West Indies produce great cricketers
Brian lara for example
Canada also plays
There are tons of countries that play cricket
I'M FROM GUYANA TOO ,AYEE
iam from India too
Try explaining the LBW rule to Americans...now that's a challenge!
+Collins LFC Or a Test match, where you can play for 5 days and it ends in a draw!
+James Fenner The rule is changed now.
+Samuel White before whole ball must hit wicket in Hawks eye was LBW...now if only a tiny portion of ball hits stump is OIT
And the umpire's call stuff too...
you missed Duck worth lewis method :P :D :D
How Americans see this video:
Cricket for Americans
How Indians see this video:
Baseball for Indians
Lol
ha ha..that's a good one!
Right
Base-ball-homerun
Right but baseball is too simple to understand for indians but to americans it will take their lifetime 😂😂 that's why he used cricket for americans in his thumbnail😂😂 he knew baseball is too simple to understand for indians...
Yas cricket is awesome here in New Zealand we play it every summer and and it's great
So which is popular in NZ 🏉 or 🏏?
Mr sudheer Rugby has the highest viewership in New Zealand, but there are also quite a lot of NZ cricket fans. It’s a very sporty country.
Devon how's cricket doing in NZ now?
it seems weird to me. an american.
too many rules
@@pirateking705 Sailing and Rugby Union and Rugby League and Netball and Basketball and Baseball and Lawn Bowls and Rowing and many more.
If you want exciting cricket watch some 20 20 cricket or some of the Indian premiere league.
I love test matches; the ebbs and flows of the game. A few years ago the Ashes series was taking place in the UK. One evening I went to a wedding reception. When I left my house, England were winning. When I got to the reception someone told me Australia were now winning. An hour later someone arrived and announced England were back in control. Can't beat a good test match.
one day cricket is my favourite, a mix between 20 20 and test
20/20 is probably the easiest introduction to the game. Cricket can get addictive; before you know it you'll be following five day tests.
T20 matches are just slog-fests, 30% skill, 70% luck.
Yup :)
As an Indian, I have watched/played cricket like all my life. I find so hard to understand how people find this complicated??
+Dona Deric Do you think American Football is complicated? I've played/watched it all my life and I get why people don't understand.
I find American Football so complicated. I just don't understand it. I guess if I watched it more I would understand it.
Dona Deric It's very simple, but there are quite a few rules you need to know.
+Dona Deric Same man, Baseball confuses me but I watch cricket and enjoy it because I really don't see what's is so confusing about it.
+Dona Deric I love cricket but still Dont know How I understand it. It is complicated to anyone.
just remember these are the guys who play a sport among themselves and call it "World Series"...
That's because it is. The Japanese and Korean teams simply aren't as good as the teams in the Mlb. If they played each other then America would simply win almost every time. Not to mention that the best Asian players are in the Mlb.
lol still not a world series
+Henchy there's at least more than 2 countries...
yeah right...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series
One player from a different country playing in a team does not make a world series
+Henchy Similarly whole world doesn't play the football, oh sorry, soccer world cup?
The idea behind that is the best in the world compete. Now if NPB and MLB were to have a face-off in a final, I can understand an MLB all star team winning and being called the world series champions.
In cricket, every team has a right to become world champions, just like in football, oh, I mean soccer!
I think after Chess, cricket is the game where you use your brain a lot. In cricket, your one wrong decision can cost you the game. After every ball/pitching, strategy changes continuously. That is why in Cricket, captain plays a very vital role as he is the one who takes every decision and if anything goes wrong, he is always in the receiving end. So in cricket, your captain has to be the best strategist to take bold and clever decisions and brave enough to face the wrath of fans and media if team loses the match .
You could same the same about a ton of sports. American football for instance games can be decided by one split second decision as well.
Sadly, in the US, people that like to play chess are bullied by big wannabe American football athletes, which we know as jocks here in the US. Shows that many people in the US don't care about learning, which I hate, because I love to learn new things.
I can clearly say ths guy is a msd fan boy🤣🤣
lol - really ? you just hit a ball and run between two pegs. Baseball is much more fun and strategy is more more important.
@@yodhin79 lol in baseball someone just chucks a ball and you hit it as hard as you can. Cricket is much more fun and strategy is more important.
You didn't mention the most prestigious form of cricket; Test Cricket. International only. A test match is played for a maximum of 5 days. Usually there are 3 test matches in a test series, sometimes there are 2 or 4 matches in one series. There are 5 matches every time Australia play England, which is called The Ashes, and that's the biggest test series in world cricket.
In one test match, Both teams generally bat & bowl twice in one match (4 innings, 2 batting innings & 2 bowling innings for each team).
Let's say Team 1 reaches 300 runs & they have been bowled out (Team 1 loses all 10 wickets), OR the captain of team 1 declares (basically when the captain thinks his team has made enough runs, and also to make sure there is enough time for the remainder of the innings so there isn't a draw), Team 2 bats. Now we'll say Team 2 makes 320 runs and they are bowled out, Team 1 resumes batting, behind by 20 runs to take back the lead & extend it as much as possible. Team 1 makes 350 which gives them a lead of 330 runs. Team 2 bats but are either all bowled out OR they can't reach 331 runs before the end of the allotted time (end of day 5) they lose and Team 1 takes the victory. If Team 2 couldn't actually take the lead in their first batting innings, Team 1captain can decide to bat again, or enforce the Follow On, which makes Team 2 have to bat immediately after they just batted, and Team 1 resumes bowling again.
After one test match is played, both teams have roughly a 1 week break, and then go on to playing the next test match. In cricket, the test arena is the fiercest, hardest & most prestigious format to play.
Every cricketer dreams of playing test cricket. But there is the other side of that coin, the cricketers who play for $$$$$$$. The players who play for money are those who only really play T20 cricket. (20 overs each to bat & bowl once over.) For Australia, India & England, playing regular test cricket is the most wealthiest format. In Australia, 20(?) players sign a contract with Australia's cricketing board. I think every contract lasts 3-4 years. The minimum contract is $750,000 per year for new players, and the max contract is $1.5 million for Australia's best performers (Bonus for the captain.) India are the richest cricketers, as you can guess. Any player can play Test cricket, contract or not, and those who are contracted, are NOT guaranteed to play Tests. Currently right now (Jan 2017), half of Australia playing team don't have international contracts, and some contracted players haven't played Ted's. Cricket for 3-5 years. Yeah, I know that's confusing.
Also, for some players, they earn more money from sponsorships/advertisement/endorsement deals. Virat Kohli, Indian captain and cricket superstar earns around $40 million US per year. Including Indian contract, his millions of paying sponsors, and I mean millions. He has A LOT of endorsements from billion dollar companies.
T20 is nice
Cricket - Brain = Baseball
+PerfectDark Running back fourth between 2 stumps requires no brains at all
apatel303 I agree , but cricket is not just running between wickets ,the game has a strategy which needs brains unlike Baseball ...
+apatel303 no it needs brain bro, you have to understand the situation that you need a run or a leave. Even if you run well, your partner too have run same like you, and even both of you are running good, you have to keep an eye on the ball and the fielders to know how much time do you have to get how many runs and you'll have to return safe and your partner have to return safe at the same time and even if all that is done, it is to be assured that while running so strenuously and furiously you must enter the white lines properly at both sides
+Sagarmoy Jana awww, I think
running is difficult. That's so cute!! :) In cricket that is the least of ur problems.
pahul gill People with heads full of shit do not understand easily. It's not about running only, there is a lot in it. Try to understand cricket then you will know, a whole team can loose if just one player runs wrong man.
This was very helpful, thank you very much!
Lindsey Harris are you americans ???
Lindsey Harris! Do you want to know about the game of Cricket from me
akhtar iqbal ask for bob and vegene later mate!
your bf is indian.admit it.
:D
Come on guys can an American just not simply comment without half a dozen people replying to him/her
cricket is far better than other sports.Every bowl bowled has excitement. love the game
Well football ⚽️
@@anuradhaherath674 football isn't a bat and ball game.
@@theonlybigsmoke He said all sports.Since football is played all over the world,it is definitely better than cricket.
Football is the greatest sport.
@@anuradhaherath674 i respect football
Lol I can't believe Americans don't know cricket... cricket is Bae, btw I'm Aussie
Do they know who the poms are
I think cricket will hardly pass in America, i have tried to explain some of my states friends the game but they aren't interested in other games, they love there football(more like hand ball, can't call it rugby coz rugby needs balls.... Pun intended 😂) and baseball, they have no willingness to learn a new game.....and that's comming from an Indian....who see Notting more than cricket, still we love football, tennis, badminton, baseball and more..... I guess it's the same with every other cricket playing nation....we love other sports even if our country is not good at playing it doesn't mean sport is boring.. American call cricket boring.....yep wow.
Cricket is NOT "Bae".
I'm interested in learning about new sports. The problem is is we aren't exposed to it. I've seen a few videos here and there and it interested me so I wanted to learn more. Which is why I'm on this video in the first place. The problem is is we aren't being shown it and exposed to it to get to know the game. Blame TV not us.
sethogrady32 ipl is live ???
U watching???
This video surprisingly made sense
American here trying to learn the rules. This video was very helpful. Always hungry for more sports. They’re starting a major league cricket here in the states soon I believe.
I like that this video had the good grace to take the appropriate mickey out of cricket, AND baseball. Lads, never take anything too seriously.
So there are people on the earth who don't know what is cricket. Okkk.
out of 7 billion ppl on planet 4 billion knows cricket .
ayush kumar The good thing is majority knows
ayush kumar more like 2 billion at the most
Cricket is the second most popular spectator sport in the world, with 2.5 billion estimated fans. Football (or Soccer) is the most popular with an estimated 3.5 billion fans.
Cricket is the most popular (played by more people)
sport in the world.
The second most popular is Netball.
Soccer is a distant non contender.
In first world countries, soccer is considered to be an excellent sport for women & children due to its soft, non-contact rule set.
Start with watching youtube videos of T20 matches. You'll find cricket exciting I promise !
T20 is an example of one of the strengths of cricket, its adaptability. Along wit T20 we have the one day format (40 or 50 overs) and the traditional 4-5 day game.
Good explanation for the beginners.But cricket is much much more then that..
Part of my family is from Australia so I love this sport, whenever I talk about it people are so confused
For those saying LBW rule is hard to explain. Well, I think it is easy. There was one commercial in India during world cup where each player is asked to explain rule. Sehwag is asked the LBW rule and he says in hindi poem line "Ball wicket pe aai jo apna dharam nibhaye. Balla tere hath me kahe taang adaye" whose english translation is "Ball which comes towards wicket is performing its duty. You have bat in your hand and why do you use your Leg(to hit ball)?". I think this simple line explains LBW rule as it helped me understand the LBW rule.
Cricket - You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
+Ian M Ah the classic explanation.
+Ian M Being not completely fluent in english, your explanation has given me a seizure
+Ian M I am not sure if you are just trying to confuse me with the words "out" & "in " in every sentence...
I'm a Pakistani nd after readin yor comment i forgot how to play cricket.
Mind your language!!! mate 😂😂
If you really love Baseball.. Just watch one complete T20 match of Cricket
You'll Love Cricket
Not true. There's no ordained rule that if you like one you'll like the other.
No
Its a good video nicely explained. But in order to understand everything about cricket u need to be watching it for a long time. Not very difficult to understand as most people think. I started watching cricket at a young age and i did not have anyone to teach me about it. But after watchin a few games I got the idea. The point is it starts gettin really exciting and addicting after u understand a lot of the game. Then u will want to understand more. Fielding positions, bowling styles and techniques, batting shots etc.
Good to see cricket becoming more popular in the U.S. Few rule errors but mostly accurate
Jamess Its not really there even isnt a camp, club, or school team for it.
Actually Cricket and Baseball have a great deal in common, they are sibling sports. Both derive from the middle ages game Rounders.
so then the british invented baseball as it is literally the same as rounders
There are/were a lot of folk variants of modern sports in existence. For example a lot of countries in medieval Europe had their own form of football (soccer). The modern rules of the game were produced by the British. Whichever country produced the rules for the modern game can claim to have "invented" the sport.
Cricket is much older though
caveman Versace I heard that
Cricket was NOT derived from "rounders". It has been a sports on its own since middle ages in UK.
cricket is not a cousin of baseball, baseball is the infant kid that the family is embarrassed about mostly because the great-great-grandfather, who is still surprisingly alive, looks down on him so much, muttering, "cricketers hit full tosses all the time, baseballers don't know how to hit a bouncing ball."
Forgot lbw
Ryan Kinley he just didnt have the courage to explain that....lol
+Ryan Kinley
Some people have tried for decades to explain the offside rule in football. LBW is on a par with that. This would have been a feature length video if he'd have tried...
+jipster2020 most women understand the lbw rule thus it is simpler than the offside rule js
he also forgot how many runs you can score in a cricket game compared to baseball.
I'm new to cricket but I don't understand this community's compulsive need to belittle baseball. Can't someone enjoy both sports?
+1,000. Exactly. When I have to constantly hear cricket fans talk about how it's more complicated or more strategic, all I can do is laugh, when it quickly becomes clear they're talking about something they don't understand well enough to comment on.
jmbeers93 are you americans
Kunal Nagarkoti are you americanz???
4:30 God Of Cricket :)
Only in Indians' minds. For the rest, he's just an ordinary player.
well thats line holds true for SIR DON BRADMAN coming from an indian
@@tinkerer67 he's not ordinary. I don't call him god but nothing short of the great. Comes from an English cricket fan.
@@tinkerer67 he is really a god , coming from Martian fans
Even if you do not respect the player that he was and though he loved stats a bit too much (like me) , just the sheer weight of expectations he bore on his shoulders for two decades should make him an all time great.
One of the best explanations I've seen. Well done.
Now just imagine Chris Gayle playing baseball , Babe Ruth will be sorry he was born .
Lol you don't even know Babe Ruth
As someone who watches Cricket and Baseball (which was copied from Cricket) I must tell you that both are enjoyable in their own respects.
Cricket is definitely baseball on steroids with the newer formats - T20 (20 overs per side instead of usual 50) and even the 50 over ODI (one day international).
Cricket Test Matches, a 5 day affair, are also an investment and fun - 5 days still can be boring esp with no result at the end at times.
Baseball rules like strike zone are very arbitrary and up for interpretation by umpires which adds the human element. Cricket has that too with wides and leg before wickets (which now can be challenged a few times (usually 3) per side and this involves replays for more accuracy in the game removing the human element).
Baseball is fun but cricket is really exciting when you understand the sport.
Next we need soccer vs football - I used to feel football (American one) is senseless and stupid till I understood the rules and games and followed along a year or two and now it is super exciting. IMO, Football = Cricket and Soccer = Baseball (fun at times but many times just boring)
fxp it's HANDEGG not American football
Joker you don't understand why it is called that. Try to do some research?
"Baseball rules are"very abritrary".....really....would you like a set of Official Rules.
Of course the strile zone varies....go and read the rule. It has a definition that states it effectively relies on the size of the player.
Americans play football with ✋, I don't understand.
It is called football because the ball is exactly 1 foot long
@@19th_sam17 It's 11 inches (in NFL), 12 inches make a foot😒
@@sanjul_kumar ok then about 1 foot long...
@@19th_sam17 😂😂😂😂
@@19th_sam17 Lets play 'almost football'
the best thing i like about cricket is that there is no pushing or shoving like in soccer or rugby,the batsman is free to play the kind of shots he wants and the bowler is free to bowl his best delivery,it's such a mental battle between the batsman and the bowler and ofcourse it's physically tiring as well with all the running...and there are fielders around the field trying to stop or catch the ball,such a beautiful and great game if u know it in and out....i don't know much about baseball,i am sure it must be a great sports as well...
Baseball is strictly non contact for the most part, except for very close in baserunning plays and unintentional player collisions during fielding, so yes, Baseball has very much the same mental appeal of the battle between batter and pitcher, just like batsmen and bowlers have their duels in Cricket.
Funny how this video starts with 'how confusing' cricket is but yet he doesn't cover the LBW rule or 'Leg Before Wicket'.... Really that is the most difficult part of the game, but essentially it was created to stop players blocking the ball from hitting the stumps intentionally. So if the umpire deems that the ball would of hit the stumps had they not prevented it with their leg then he can rule them as out.....
I would be more exciting if they got rid of the LBW law and their pads then lets see how many are brave enough to block the ball with their legs :)
Almost any game would take an very long video to cover; so, obviously they had to decide what to cover, and what not to.
Adam Simpson trust me, the rules of cricket take some time
And trust me, the details of the rules of baseball would take far, far longer than this video as well.....and your point?
If the get rid of LBW and Pads then ICC need to ban Fast bowlers like Shoiab Akhtar and brit lee or waqar Younus the toe crusher etc
It’s weird how as only a fairly casual Aussie cricket fan, it honestly is pretty intuitive. But you don’t really realise how complicated the sport is until you try and explain it
There’s so many parallel bits of information that you need to be aware of. As soon as I start trying to explain one element of the game, it brings up another thing worth mentioning before the first thing is even explained. It’s crazy
the person at 3:32 is a great successful captain and he is the captain of india upto 2017 , he is a legend ❤👑,
*CRICKET IS NOT JUST A GAME, ITS AN EMOTION*
If he explained LBW
AMERICANS : Daaaaamnnnn !!!!!
Are you going to do the Master's course in Test Cricket next? This was all pretty undergraduate stuff ;)
+ludocrat lol..
I am Australian of Asian ancestry and I have played both sports. All I can tell you is fielding is more difficult with cricket and batting is more challenging for baseball.
lbw?
Duncan Douglas Leg Before Wicket. The Batsman is out if the ball was going to hit the wicket but he obstruct it using its leg. The catch is that the Umpire has to be convinced that the ball would have hit the wickets
Duncan Douglas Leg Before Wicket. The Batsman is out if the ball was going to hit the wicket but he obstruct it using its leg. The catch is that the Umpire has to be convinced that the ball would have hit the wickets
rajat goel Unless of course it hits outside the line of the wicket...
rajat goel Very similar to a baseball rule. A batter is not allowed to step on the plate, or lean into a pitch to get hit. They must make an attempt to get out of the way of the ball. If that happens, they can be called out.
Duncan Douglas Also left out stumped, hit wicket, handling the ball, timed out & a couple of others that are rare
For everyone talking about the leg before wicket (LBW) law: if the ball hits you anywhere on the body except the bat or your hand while it is holding the bat (typically it hits your leg as the name implies) and the umpire deems it would have hit the stumps without you standing there, you're out.
There are also a few other provisos but they are very technical so pretty much the above description is good enough to have a basic understanding.
Dang, I'm guessing you need to pay attention to where you're standing if you're a batsman then.
Xavier Stanton you need to hit the ball with bat rather than hitting it with your leg
Explain the boundry counting rule after a tie in super over. 😂😂😂
It is like
In football if match ties then, who made more no. Of passes , that team will win...
I'm an Indian. Basically learnt cricket before learnt the alphabet. Why am I watching this?
You forgot abt how a "batsman" aka batter can get out by L. B. W (leg before wicket)
Too difficult to explain
Cause it's basically just an extension of the bowled dismissal
The ball must hit the batsmen on the pads or foot or body to be an lbw and the batsman hasn't hit the ball with he's or her bat first the batsman can be called lbw off the glove as long as the glove isn't touching the bat. Anything pitched outside the leg stump can not be out the ball must be pitched in line with the stumps and going on to hit the stumps then it's out if it's missing or jumping over the stumps then it's not out if it pitchers outside the off stump and hit him in line then it's out. the umpire make the call he raise his index finger for out or says no not out. If the umpire said out the batsman can use drs to reverse the call then they go to the third umpire if it's umpires call it's out if the umpire said not out the fielding team can use drs to turn it in to a wicket if it's umpires call it remains not out but if the third umpire overturned the call then the umpire on the field raises he's finger and the batsman is out. Umpires call is what the umpire gave it in the first place he gave it not out and its umpires call it's not out but if he gave it out in the first place and it's umpires call it's gonna be out.
Glove isn't LBW because it counts as bat, that's why when someone gets hit on the glove and get caught they're out.
George Washington no it is lbw if the glove isn't touching the bat if the glove is touching the bat then it is not lbw. as long it's pitched in line and hitting the stumps hitting the glove and the glove is not touching the bat its lbw. The glove is only considered as the bat as long as the glove is touching the bat if it is not touching the bat then it's a lbw can't be caught out its the rule.
This was really good to watch as somebody who plays regularly in Britain. Cricket really is a simple game.
baseball way more confusing than cricket
Very well presented.
It's weird watching this and seeing how confusing it can be. I can never remember learning about cricket, just seems I've always kind of known what's going on. Although it's obvious why (to keep it simple) it's still annoying that you take the one day game as the standard, the Test game is the greatest and purest form of cricket
+Peter McCall I agree with you . I can't stand 20/20 ,what were the Aussies thinking .Give me a test match or a regular o.d. game any day .
+Peter McCall it is not easy at first..but when u learn it it is really interesting...just watch some good t20 matches on you tube
This is sick. Why is this not on ESPN top 10?
I love soccer/ football, no other sports can take over it as my number 1. Saying that tho, I would love to know more about cricket. Looks like a very strategic sport and complex like chess which i really enjoy 😊
Cricket is gentleman game and 2 more popular sport in the world but playing few country but match is so entertainment than other sport 😀.
Enjoy your life cricket and soccer 😆 then you enjoy your life 😊.
if u understand rules of cricket and follow this sport..like Big bash league australia.and IPL league....i bet you will love cricket more than any sports in world....lets try this........
As an American, I've watched cricket before without knowing the rules. I still found it fun, as it and baseball have some similarities though. Now, knowing the rules will make it more fun to watch.
jimbo 2346 watch cricket its a very tough game to play needs more knowledge
@@gv1gv297 Not really. They're about even.
Don't see many American comments here
cause we Americans don't care about cricket, to us a cricket is an insect and only an insect.
The amount ICC spent on world cup,t20 world cup,series.... apart from that a country spends on their leagues is enough to feed and sponsor every team and every sport that's being played in USA for 100 years....shove ur aggression down ur throat
@@huzainbinmasood6840 cant argue with them amercans,they invent a sport only they play and then proceed to call themselves world champions
@@mehforreal6954 lmao ikr that's pretty dumb 😂😂 'World champions' but only in America.
@@eamonmcauliffe4104 Americans are only interested in getting banged
watched three videos on cricket before you finally explained it in a way I could fully understand. Thank you!
Do people realize that sports are most popular in countries where people like it? Because calling Americans dumb for not getting cricket is really dumb because it's never on tv here, nor any recreational leagues.
well ppl from all around the world know baseball even though it is an only american sport. yet Americans know nothing about cricket. Shows their ignorance and stupidity
+hiba J Baseball is simple though, and not the best example. Ice Hockey and American Football have much more complex rules/strategies. Nobody knows what a Blitz defence is, what a linebacker does, what icing is etc. Americans find these things simple and easy, but foreigners have no idea what's going on. Cricket is much the same.
Alan Smithee true, I see ur point
+Cam Cook I'm American and have no idea what the hell a blitz is... and I've heard linebacker before and know it's football but no clue what they actually do
+hiba J Baseball only an American sport (And I assume you mean the US with that)? Where do you get that idea? Here's the top 15 of the world ranking of the World Baseball and Softball Confederation, the WBSC
1 Japan
2 United States
3 Chinese Taipei
4 Korea
5 Cuba
6 Venezuela
7 Mexico
8 Canada
9 Italy
10 The Netherlands (Ouch! We dropped from 5 to 10. That hurts)
11 Puerto Rico
12 Dominican Republic
13 Australia (This cricket nation actually has a professional baseball league as well. They qualified for the
next World Baseball Classic, de facto the World Championship, next year)
14 Brazil
15 Nicaragua
drive.google.com/file/d/0B8uqMNV2rcOmcmRSLWVaRVQ1Q28/view
In my country (the Netherlands) baseball is a small sport but way bigger than cricket (around 40,000 players vs around 5,000 players)
Now they gonna ask why the batsman is leaving the ball
crickets are more dynamic than baseball, but not as dramatic.
Baseball gets boring as there is not build-up of tension that thrill or shocks an audience. It's just hit and run.
When someone runs 66 feet to score a run, that's not particularly exciting either. Sorry to break the news to you.
Apparently you don't understand the game well enough. You've obviously never watched one of the hundreds of games that were won with a walk-off homerun or extra base hit. Seriously, I've watched some really, really boring cricket games. Generalizing always makes you look ignorant. FYI.
Fyi, the word "boring" is 100% subjective. I've lived in Britain, and I still feel test cricket is overrated. Except by those who grew up watching it. They love it. Just as those of us who grew up watching and playing Baseball love it. Talking about one as if it's much more strategic and technical is pure garbage. Period.
KOBAYASHI So you want dramatic just search"India vs Bangladesh T20 world cup 2015 last over" believe me that is more dramatic than a movie
The bowlers swing, spin, york you at your feet. And fielders are placed differently for each bowler, depending on the style of their bowling to make it difficult for the batsmen to get runs. So the batsmen have to use their techniques and skills play shots and get the ball between fielding gaps and run between wickets to score. It's not easy to score 6's and 4's like it looks on TV, the bowlers bowl in 140+ kmph with swing or spin it using variations.
Imagine making fun of people trying to understand a sport that they haven't been exposed to their whole life😂 better than calling it shit without understanding it
Sad, some people can't control their excitement.
For real, Cricket isn’t even on the radar in America. I’ve never seen or heard of people playing, it’s not on TV whatsoever. Sports center doesn’t give any coverage to Cricket, so no shit we don’t know the rules.
There’s not really a similar sport to compare Cricket to. Baseball sure, but that’s really just the bat and ball, everything else is so different.
There are so many rules and gameplay elements that ONLY happen in Cricket and no other sport has similar rules, I don’t get why Indians/Aussies/English can’t understand why Americans have a hard time grasping Cricket. They always say “well baseball and American football are even more confusing”, and it’s like no shit, you’ve never seen or played it before.
Dude! We really, really tried to follow you but to no avail! Whew! They must teach cricket at graduate level at the universities!!! LOL Thanks for the video.
2:31 you're shaming dale steyn!!
LOL, the old man will retire after the Indian Test Series. Steyn's 125kph half-volleys are not going to scare anyone. 3-0 India, whitewash!
pahul gill Bhai Thora jyada ho gya 😂😂
pahul gill 😐
I understand cricket but this man was even making me confused about it
Technically it is the worlds most popular sport, but thats only true because the Indians own half the world soooo
Just like how 'Muricans are the only big contributor to baseball.
@@bumblebee-ml1xo wtf
Hectopath well baseball also is big in the Caribbean and in Asia
Life is too short to explain cricket to an american
#Americans, do you know,
#cricket is #2nd sports on popularity......?
ইতিহাসবেত্তা The Historian #no #fucking #way #my #nigga
bro, why don't you learn to detect sarcasm. Also google yourself some English lessons while you're at it?
trin she is a girl....
Only because some of the shit holes it is played in the people breed like flies.
yesh C. M you need to learn english
3:23 It's like throwing a ball back to the catcher or pitcher if he is throwing to the bowler's end, then must have the ball touch the base instead of the runner to get the runner out. But since the runner has to run with the bat, (he doesn't have to on home runs and ground rule doubles (4's) though) the bat must behind the line (touch the base) before the runner's feet.
He didn't explain lbw , drs or test matches
Cool Dude I already knew that I was just pointing it out
Cricket learning starter pack:-
1)Mexican wave
2)Stimulating the atmosphere with the best chants-Gum tha lakadi gala gala gala ooh aah ooh aah
3)Outchanting the opponent team's name-Indiaaa,Indiaaa or Csk Csk Csk
Now try explaining them Duckworth Lewis method. 😂😂
By the way Americans, you do have a cricket team, they are ranked somewhere in the bottom in ICC ranking though
cricket the game of gentleman and is more simple than baseball which is unable to understand in 4mints just think about it.
Bro, Cricket IS a gentleman's game. But it is by no means a simple game. This video has probably explained the very basics. There is a huge book of laws to govern cricket and the more you learn of it the more confusing it gets.
Around 1 Min it's wrong.
The length of grass is called the wicket. The two sets of "Sticks" are stumps. Therefore the stumps are the bowlers' target and the bales must fall for the batsman to have a chance to be declared out.
Around 3 min.
After each ball the batsmen can run but do not have to e.g. if the ball runs along to a fielder or goes to boundary or is caught without nick and declared dead by wiki.
Around 4 min.
It can also end if one team retires. This is usually done in test matches to preserve energy for future innings and can be called when the captain of the batting side feels they have done well enough to not be overtaken by the opponent's next innings of batting.
Cricket is best in the world game.
Like kids play base ball
Men play football
Legends play cricket
I really like cricket.
+jabykoay this might help you know about cricket
Man i love cricket but that was the most complicated explanation of cricket ever, you could have explained it in much much simpler terms referencing baseball and animations but then i guess the title wouldn't have worked.
Like baseball fielding team and a batting team
Like baseball you hit the ball and start running so you can score.
Like baseball hit it out of the park you dont have to run you get automatic score
Like baseball If someone in the field catches your hit your out
Like baseball when you hit the ball and start running if the ball is thrown to where your running before you get there you out.
In baseball if the pitcher skillfully throws the ball accurately behind the batsmen 3 times or 3 strikes he's out - in cricket if the pitcher or bowler skillfully throws the ball and if it hits the wooden wicket or bails your out.
Like baseball the goal is for the fielding team to keep the other teams score low, get them all out, and get into bat and beat their score.
The biggest difference is that cricket is played on an international stage where various countries vie to be crowned world champions. Baseball is only played at a national level. Thing i find amusing is how in baseball they call themselves the world champions yet its only an intra national competition
cricket is far better than baseball.
balu k your opinion
@@aaronrodriguez1410 He is right. As an American, I have to say cricket is greater than baseball. You even have cricket for blind people.
@@tabor721 his opinion isn't fact. No one's is
@@aaronrodriguez1410 What he said is fact. Not an opinion. Baseball doesn't encourage wide range of talents making it inferior to cricket.
@@tabor721 baseball does lol. Baseball players are known to be all around athletes. Check mate. But then again it's like saying pizza is the greater than fried chicken because of all the ingredients it has.
can you make video to understand baseball
americans watch ipl-big bash t20 series in youtube............................
series?
Good explanation. Maybe one day USA & PRC can resolve their rivalry on a cricket pitch. Great thing about being former British Colonies, we are all united in our love of Cricket except well, Canada.
being a pakistan i see my future playing cricket
Good
+Fawad Shah Be prepared to be beaten by india
sanch Sanchayan well i would to play against india i got some serious speed in bowling but unfortunatly talent have no respect in pakistan i need tons of money and approch to play for pakistan i have seen magical players where i live my cousin swing the bowl you won't believe wasim waqar looks a joke to me when i see him bowling he couldn't get any chance how would Ii live in a small town in swat KPK i can't make you believe on what i am saying but bowler here are out of this world
They have this thing called full-stops in English.
Fawad Shah Pakistan is shit in cricket
I played a pickup game with a bunch of Indians at the park once. The first time I was up to bat, it came natural to me...i wasn't even thinking...I cocked it back from my shoulder and swung it as if I was holding a baseball bat. The guys stopped the game gave me another quick tutorial and restarted. Man that was a fun game.
66ft pitch.....wtf.... has no1 else noticed this stupid mistake! 66ft my daiz.....need a robot arm for that!!!
well 22 yards comes to 66 ft
its rite..... 22yards is equal to 66ft
People bowl the ball up to like140 mph/kph (Im not sure which unit it is, but I know that it is stupidly quick)
James Meakin it's Kph.
I thought cricket was confusing for the longest time. It wasn't until I figured out the rules that I realized the reason it was so confusing to me was because it's so simple.
>indians and brit bongs call Americans fat and baseball a sport for overweight people
>Americans proceed to win gold in almost every Olympic event
Mostly from Non Americans who settled in the country and became citizens later on.
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those who play for america are actually not from AMERICA they are either caribbean islands or are from africa
The reason behind the name "World Series" is thanks to Barney Dreyfuss who was the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1903, he wrote to the owner of the Boston Red Sox challenging them to a ‘World’s Championship Series’. The Pirates were the best team in the National League and the Red Sox were the best in the American League.
Over time, the 'World’s Championship Series' name has been shortened to the World Series and has been played every year apart from 1904 and 1994.
Cricket is Infinity % better than Baseball
As an American, I easily agree. There is even cricket for blind people.
I think Playing cricket game virtually from mobile or computer will teach Better about the game
LBW works like this:
Batter has to defend their wickets, and they are supposed to use their bat to do so, but some batters once upon a time decided to use their legs instead, so the LBW rule was invented to stop them. If the ball hits the batter in any part of their body other than the bat or hands, they it can be given out provided the following conditions are met:
1. The ball would have hit the stumps if their body hadn't stopped it
2. The ball didn't touch the bat or a hand touching the bat
3. The ball didn't bounce on the ground outside the line of the stump opposite that of the batter's stance. example, a right handed batter stands in front of the stumps with their bat on the left side of their body (from the perspective of the bowler) and their backside on the right. If you draw one thick imaginary line between both sets of stumps (as wide as the stumps) on either end of the pitch, and the ball bounced to the right of this line (from the perspective of the bowler for a right handed batter) then even if it would have hit the stumps it's not out.
Even if the batter was holding the bat behind their leg, and if their leg wasn't there it would have hit the bat instead, it can still be given out LBW because it hit the leg first. Even if it just clips the bat and would have still hit the stumps (if it hadn't hit their leg as well) it's not out because it hit the bat.
The hardest part to explain is why.
I kept up until the "over" section then I got lost.
LBW.
In Baseball, there is a small strike zone - over the plate, between shoulder and knee. In cricket, the strikezone is the wickets. The cricket batsman is only allowed to protect that strike zone with the bat - nothing else, just the bat. If the ball hits the batsman's leg, and the umpire declares that had the leg not been in the way, that the ball would have continued on and hit the wickets ... then the batsman is called out, as if the ball had hit the wicket. This is termed "Leg Before Wicket" or LBW.
LBW calls can be quite contentions as the condition of the ball, the condition of the ground and the amount of spin on the ball can all change the direction of the ball, making it difficult to judge if the ball would have hit the wickets or not. In modern times, cameras are used to assist umpiring decisions. Traditionally, however, cricket is a game for gentlemen, and the umpire's decision is accepted without argument. Compare this to football (soccer) where getting up in the face of the umpire happens more times per match that goals are scored.
You forgot lbw (leg before wicket). That's when the ball strikes the batsmen himself, but if the ball, when continued its trajectory when on to hit the wickets, then the batsmen is out. And you also forgot to mention no ball (if the bowler steps over the line when bowling). Those were two more fundamental things that you needed to know.