Hey! Thanks for all the great comments. One thing that has come up a lot: At a few points I use the term "professional match" or "professional cricket" when I should have said "league" or "professional league match." International Cricket is also very professional! When I said "professional cricket" I was referring to the T20 cricket leagues that exist in India, Australia, etc. and are somewhat analogous to sports leagues in other countries, like Major League Baseball or the Premiere League. International cricket is also professional, and international play is the highest level of professional play.
Generally any game that is not a 5-day international test match (or 3-4 day "first class" match) is referred to as a "limited overs" match, in which there is always a winner. It might be worth mentioning that it is more than possible for a test or first class match to be drawn (i.e. there is no winner), which is an entirely foreign concept in baseball (aside from the very rare "called" draw that can happen in something like the All Star Game.) Otherwise, I thought that was an excellent introduction for someone entirely new to the game. Well done!
I thought you did a good job of explaining what could be a confusing and somewhat intimidating sport to wrap your head around with no experience or familiarity growing up with the game. On the professionalism question. Players have been paid domestically for decades but not at the same level of the international players. The high profile T20 leagues are relatively new. And players can make very good livings playing on the circuit which includes leagues in India, Australia, England, South Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, Nepal, Canada (yep Canada) and apparently there's a group looking to launch Major League Cricket in the US.
you have done really hard work, I will suggest you, people find cricket confusing because of they want to learn verbally rather than actual watching, same for baseball too
one thing was, cricket was always experimental than baseball, cricket was ready to change itself for better views, as it evolved from 5 day match to 3 hour match, many rule are changed to favor batsman , people want to see ball going out of stadium, but baseball policies are always restricted to american allys, never in the favor what people like to see, cricket also face critism for t20 format, but ultimately its most popular format of cricket and most understandable format for new ones in cricket, RICH baseball boards should do some different to gain spread in more countries. !!
A very small detail: If the target is 222, it means that the team that batted first scored 221 (not 222). The target is one run more than the opposing team's score. It may sound obvious, but South Africa once lost a World Cup game at least in part because they forgot that their target was one run MORE than the opposing team's total!
@@MiddleClassMafia True. But I'm not going to get into the Duckworth-Lewis formula in a reply to someone who isn't steeped in the details of the game. And anyway, I can't, because I never bothered to learn it myself.
@@MiddleClassMafia there are 10 ways. Bowled, caught, LBW, stumped, run out, hit wicket, hit the ball twice, obstructing the field, retired out, timed out. You cannot be given out 'handled the ball' now; that doesn't mean you can handle the ball, if you did, you would be given out 'obstructing the field.'
Something that I don't think you mentioned in this video that always comes up when baseball fans watch cricket is why the bowler's motion looks so strange. I'm sure it's obvious to cricket aficionados, but baseball fans need to understand that "bowling" the ball is biomechanically different to "throwing" it. Bowling is a very specific type of motion, in which only the rotation of the shoulder can be used to create the velocity for a bowled ball, whereas in baseball, the pitchers owe a great deal of their effectiveness to taking advantage of the extension of the elbow joint to create velocity. Throwing (aka chucking) the ball is illegal in cricket, and if the umpire judges that a ball has been thrown by the bowler, they will call a no-ball.
Great reply. I was actually wondering why they didn't throw it more like baseball players as to get more speed on the throw (or bowl). Thanks for that info!
@@g35tr Cricket language doesn't come naturally to a newcomer. A single delivery of the ball is not a throw or even a bowl. It's simply called a ball. So you would say "There is only one ball left in this over" or "That was a really good ball" or "That last ball was a bit wayward".
As a US sailor I spent 3 days aboard HMS Achilles in the Red Sea during the late70s. One afternoon, they introduced us to cricket on the flight deck of the frigate, and they got a huge laugh when we Americans threw down our bats and ran to the next 'base.' For all these years, I've wondered what the game was about and you did a great job of explaining it. Thanks much :)
You're gonna need your bat for the extra reach to the opposite wicket crease in a close run "home". It's allowed, extend the bat out to the crease line and you are "safe". The other guy, at the other end, might not be so lucky and get run out. Negating your run score, and costing your team a wicket. You both have to swap ends safely to score the run.
As a life-long baseball fan from South Korea who has never really watched or understood cricket before, this was a great beginner's guide to cricket for baseball fans. Thanks so much!
Just want to say that your English is basically perfect. If you aren't a native English speaker (as in, you didn't speak English as a kid), you need a standing ovation.
@@charlesedward5047 same here, you can watch a whole game and have no idea how it's played. I don't think it would take more than 5 minutes to explain baseball. Comparing the two when trying to explain one to the other is pointless really, The only thing they have in common is they use a bat and a ball, and even those are different. Now at least I feel I know how the game is played and can now with out thinking I might be missing something I would like, go on to ignore it completely.
Knowing cricket first then moving to the USA i would say both are similar in this aspect which is you don't have to be a good athlete. Hitting a cricket ball is easier than hitting a baseball, but catching a cricket ball is more difficult as you don't wear gloves.
I went to Australia as an exchange student from the States and had no idea what Cricket was, but started casually messing around with it with my school mates during afternoon tea break.......which is basically just a high school version of recess. Oddly enough, I ended up having a knack for bowling, especially spin bowling and I grew quite fond of the game. I never kept up with it after returning home, so this was a nice bast from the past. Thanks for the great video!
A friend of my wife just shared her ESPN+ subscription with her so she could watch NHL hockey. I was looking for something to watch and found the T20 World Cup. It instantly caught my interest, and it took me close to a week to wrap my head around all the basics. It's a tremendously fascinating game. Cheers to a great video!
Thanks to ESPN+ and Hulu, I found myself becoming hooked on cricket during the T20 World Cup last fall. And now this spring I've been pulled in again (again on ESPN+/Hulu) by the IPL (Indian Premier League), which is another T20-format league. It's a "franchise league", like MLB franchises, but while all the teams are Indian, each team has a (limited) number of "overseas" players, many of whom are stars for their national teams, or other teams, in other formats. Besides quickly realizing the difference not having gloves makes in trying to catch balls hit in the air, it was the variety of bowling styles that amazed me. Baseball pitchers have got NOTHING on the range of speed, spin, and length you can see in just one T20 innings!
Well said, sir. When one sees what actually happens on a cricket field, one is amazed how little throwing a ball through the air to a batter adds to a game. The 'bounce' is the crucial element. Faster is not always better........ Intrigue follows. Mystery can develop. See the career of SHANE WARNE as a guarantee of mystery. M 🦘🏏😎
don't mistake 20-rubbish for cricket. it's not real cricket. it's for children with no attention span. it's the equivalent of mini-golf, beach volleyball and video games. there are two forms of professional cricket: first class, which includes test cricket, the pinnacle of cricket; and list A cricket, which includes One Day Internationals (odi).
@@vladtepes97 I also think test cricket is the best form of cricket but belittling someone over the form of cricket they choose to watch is a great way to turn away new fans to a great sport. Grow up
I'm Canadian. I knew about the game but only started watching it (mostly World Cup T20 and IPL) on Willow each time the channel is on a free preview for a few weeks on my TV provider. It took me a few games to understand most of the basic rules. Your video is excellent and very informative for someone who knows baseball like me. It would have helped me immensely if I had found it a few years ago 🙂 Excellent job! I will be sharing this to Canadian and American friends who want to discover cricket.
@cricketexplained8526 Just got the confirmation today that Willow US and Willow Canada are going to show the Major League Cricket games. I paid the 5 CAD to add the channel to my programming here in Canada. Too bad I can't go to Texas or North Carolina this year to catch a game live. Maybe next year if the tournament is a success.
@@DesiGameChaser27 I do not have any preferred team or national team. I did watch a few of Canada's game recently. I still prefer T20 to ODI or Test games. Currently just watching highlights of the World Cup on Willow. I like all kind of T20 tournaments during the year.
@@PierreMailhot Well, if you like T20 tournaments, then next T20 World Cup is in the US :) I hope you will enjoy it and yeah LA going to host cricket in 2028 Olympics as well (Yay! Finally cricket in the Olympics!)
@@varunapathak2096 I know! 😁If I had known earlier I might have tried to go see the Major League Cricket in Texas earlier this year. That's when I suddenly realized that some international players go from one T20 league/tournament to the other depending on their affiliation with franchises in the IPL for example. I've shared this video here to a lot of my friends here in Canada and the USA who are baseball fans in order to better understand cricket. My major problem at one point was with the different statistics, but I am understanding more and more as I watch more games.
As one who grew up playing baseball nearly everyday I could and then discovering Cricket as an adult about 30 years ago and now watching it even more than Baseball, I say job well done with this video. Very easy explanation for Baseball fans. I think if Americans learned the game and starting watching T20, especially the IPL, they would fall in love with it and may even want to watch some ODI or Test. Thank you for doing this video.
i moved from india to the us when i was very little so watching cricket was mandatory in my household. Me and my freinds would play it everyday when they still lived in my neighborhood it was really fun
Thing is....USA never accept Sports they aren't the best at. World Series Hockey.....Really, AFL only played by a relative few. Wonder what the Football World Cup TV & attendance figures were?
@@timhannah4 if u.s.a play any sports they become best,they have best infrastructure and also sports culture, america is a rich country every sports wants to come to america but they want to put their money only isolated in America.
Aussie here! Been watching cricket all my life. Mate, you did a great job. Sure, there are some minor errors here and there, but I would definitely recommend your bud to anyone wanting to learn cricket!
Agreed - the best explanation of our beautiful game for American ears I've ever heard. Most Aussie cricket fans probably know baseball fairly well too, as many cricketers play - or certainly used to play - baseball in the off-season. In fact the sidearm-style baseball throws are normal now. In the old days, throws were always overarm but that baseball innovation has made its way into the game.
There's a great book from about 15 years ago called "Playing Hard Ball", by an English cricketer who discovered baseball and even spent a spring training with the Mets. The point from that which really struck me was that the key difference to understanding each game from the other perspective was that the relative roles of batting and delivering/fielding are swapped. In baseball, the advantage is with the pitcher/fielders to the point that the batter expects to make an out with every plate appearance and it's the pitcher who's dreading letting his team down by giving up a run while in cricket the bowler can't reasonably expect to not give up a run per ball on average but woe be unto the batsman who allows a wicket to be taken. The rate at which wickets typically get taken (at least in T20) lines up fairly well with the typical rate at which runs get scored in baseball.
What's the origin of the books title, cos around the same time an excellent history of soccer was written using the same title, taken from a World Cup winning coach; "the ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes, and everything else is just theorising"
This lines up well with something I've long said - that Cricket is a game of runs with rare game-changing outs, and Baseball is a game of outs with rare game-changing runs.
Life-long English cricket watcher here (test matches only). It's only when you watch something like this you realise what a mental game it is really. And you've only scratched the surface of the rules/etiquette really. There's so much more to do with weather, atmospheric conditions, the state of the ball, reviewing wickets, types of bowling, ground conditions, fielding positions and so on. I'd love to be able to come at it as an adult who knows nothing of it and see what I think about it all.
Im an Australian baseball player, so I know both sports inside out. This is a great video, you did quite well. Test Cricket is still the pinnacle of the sport, the Ashes Series (Australia vs England) is a very big deal here. We will be glued to our TVs for 5 matches of 5 days each :) Twenty 20 is a bit of hit and giggle designed to draw in people with short attention spans that just want to see big hitting. Test Cricket, especially towards the end of a match if it is close can be very exciting, nail-biting stuff.
Thank you for this. I recently became the manager of a department where 2/3 of the staff are hardcore cricket fans. I need to become more versed in the sport so that I have things other than work to talk about. The last time I worked with so many people who followed a sport new to me, I became an F1 fan and that was in 2007. I expect that within a year, I'll be watching cricket like my ma watches baseball. Cheers!
@@AsadAli-bz2zj I am Canadian and my staff are mostly Indian. They are all MAD for cricket. When I came in today and told my senior tech I was starting to learn about cricket, how I was wrong to compare it to baseball and I need to watch a twenty 20 match sometime soon. His eye lit up.
Stick to watching T10 on TH-cam . Test ODI and even T20 are boring for newcomers . Only people who grew up watching cricket are interested in Tests . England is changing that with with Bazball in Tests.
My niece once married an Englishman. I asked him to explain cricket to me in 5 minutes. He replied it would take 5 days and he still wouldn't be finished :)
It's very simple. So you have a bowler, and he's all like, 'Blimey, imma roll a wobbly, gov'na." To which you are supposed to respond," Oi, I don't think that's a right proper bowl, innit?" At this point, you need to call the "bowler" 'a manky git.'" Then you hoist a few pints and go home. As I said, simple.
@@I.R.S-r6y True, but you can argue neither is Australia despite enormous success, New Zealand and South Africa and you can in recent decades also add the West Indies. In all these countries they are not as Cricket loving as they used to be. There are a lot of reasons for this. But at the end of the day. No matter how much Cricket declines in popularity in these countries for various reasons. There will always be a small but very dedicated Cricket community who follow the sport passionately. Because the sport is a lot of fun and its a damn good sport. In a way its good. Because it seperates the fake cricket fans from the true genuinely dedicated Cricket fans. Like in England a lot of Cricket fans who are Cricket fans are genuine lovers of cricket. They don't follow it because its the latest fashion or something. While this means they will be small in number and not as numerous. Same in Aus, NZ,SA and WI. Before you could argue. WHen it was more popular if all the popularity was genuine. Like in SOuth Asia. You wonder if the greater number of fans are genuine or just following it because its the latest fad. Next year they will follow something else. Where as when the sport decline you would think those left behind are genuine fans and follow it because they genuine deeply love it. I prefer that situation. A sport being popular is not what its cracked up to be and really means nothing. Better to have a less popular but dedicated Cricket following I prefer that. Leave popularity to sports like Football that seem to have packed stadiums every match. Other sports can get by with less and we are just fine with that.
This video comes from an American and I have no idea of his cricket knowledge outside of this vid. But as an Australian who has been mad about cricket since I was a kid (now 47), I can’t fault it! Great vid! Obviously every single point you made could be stretched into an hour long video, but I was sitting here nodding at everything. You covered the main points, and covered them really well!
This is magnificent and honestly makes me want to follow cricket as an adult. I’m an American who grew up with a few Indian families on our street. We would play cricket, using a brick mailbox as the wickets and bowling a tennis ball from across the road, running back and forth touching the curbs. It was so much fun and makes me wonder how popular it really could be professionally in the states if it had the same history as baseball.
Using tennis ball takes away all the good things while adding bad things to the sport. I wud always advise against using a tennis ball. If you have not played using a leather ball on a playground, then you have no idea what real cricket feels like. I am saying that as one who has played Cricket using plastic, tennis, Cork and Leather balls and know the difference in the play as a result. Believe me, tennis ball is the worst!
I’m a passionate baseball coach and umpire who has always found cricket confusing. But this video cleared up a lot of that confusion, and I find myself quite intrigued by this interesting sport. Thanks for the great info and explanation!
@@119beaker That interesting. What is recourse for bad cricket umpires? Does it seem that there are more bad cricket umpires? (Since getting on umpires for bad calls has a way of getting rid of them, and keeping the good umpires on their ‘A’ game.)
@@JudeOneThree There are bad umpires. Steve Bucknor was a bad umpire (The cricket equivalent of Angel Hernandez but without the arrogance). But now they have a review system bad umpires are soon found out. Umpires now have to be selected annually so bad ones just drop out.
@@JudeOneThree Cricket has a review system. Each side gets a certain amount of reviews per innings (typically 2 or 3). Once the Umpire has made a call the team which had the call go against them has about 15 seconds to decide if they want to review or not. If a review is called then TV footage is analysed and the umpire's decision can be reversed. If the decision is reversed then the team keeps the review. If the Umpire's original decision is clearly correct the team loses their review. Finally, if the decision could have gone either way (common in LBWs) the Umpire's decision stands but the team keeps their review.
I never understood the attraction of cricket when I was young(I'm a Brit), until I saw an interview with Ian Botham which described the intimidatory nature of bowling in test matches. It is a legitimate tactic to hurt or scare a player into a mistake or just give up their wicket. Gladitorial combat hidden within a gentlemens game!
This was a key plot point in the Cricket episode of Bluey, which is an episode I highly recommend to anyone who likes cricket or just wants to learn the game.
I love the first 5 seconds of this video - Ben Stokes hitting a six on his way to an absolutely incredible victory over Australia at my local ground, Headingley. Australia may beat England more often than not but it's moments like this that keep me in love with test cricket.
@@Darfaultner Some of the best test matches come down to the final overs of the last day. Edgebaston (those who know) was a nailbiter of an Ashes test. Adelaide in the follow-up series was equally close. I remember one test Australia played against India was decided in the 3rd to last over by Michael Clarke taking 3(!) wickets in a single over. Classic stuff.
I am English, and my late wife was from the USA. She introduced me to baseball. And was from Chicago, so go Cubs! She learnt to understand cricket and loved it. Anyway, I understand both sports fluently, and this video explained things very well.
I'm British (Scottish, so not naturally a cricket fan) and after many attempts to understand cricket, I became a baseball fan and only now do I get what's been going on. Good job.
One of my best friends is Scottish and a very good cricketer. Cricket is very popular in Scotland. There is no reason why a Scottish person can not represent England at cricket, indeed England had a Scottish captain a few decades ago (Mike Denness)
As a blind guy, I want to say that I really appreciate the text on your headings being put into speech, I’m not sure if you do this all the time as this video just popped up in my recommended, but I really really appreciate it from an accessibility standpoint. I’m learning a lot, I’m only about a third of the way through the video at this point, but this has been the best explanation of cricket that I have yet seen, and as an avid baseball fan I really appreciate the content. Thanks!
@@serbobvegana8327 there are different ways to do it, I learned to touch type when I was a kid so if you feel the F and J keys on your keyboard they have bumps on them and you can learn the entire keyboard by sense of touch just by memorizing where the letters are. with new technology, new solutions, I’m writing this right now by speaking into my phone using dictation, where I relay the words and punctuation I want my comment to say through speaking and my phone adds them via text. I use a screen reader to read everybody else’s comments which is pretty cool. We’ve come along way in the last 20 years or so. I hope this helps!
@@serbobvegana8327 I have a limited amount of usable vision and I am happy to try to show how things work for me on a stream or video at some point, but the game has just enough assists to help me once in a while, though I have had to have my girlfriend with better vision complete a few missions and things for me. Not every game is perfect as far as accessibility options go, but some games have just enough to make it work for me.
I'm an Aussie who has watched cricket all of his life and I still loved this! I even didn't know that an appeal was compulsory for LBW. Looking forward to the fourth test of the Ashes tonight!
@@BustaNutt7138 I figured the reason the players appeal is to try and win over the umpire or sway their decision a bit. It has been a year since I posted that comment and I’m not about to rewatch the video to double check but IIRC the suggestion was that an appeal is compulsory which would mean the umpire won’t call LBW without an appeal first - which if true was news to me. Does that make sense?
Very good video. Another couple of differences you could have mentioned are: 1. A cricket ball is harder than a baseball; and 2. Cricket fielders don't wear gloves (only the wicketkeeper does). Put these two together and catching is so much more impressive.
@@PFNel considering how hard the ball is, and that it’s perfectly legal to hit the batsman with it, gloves and all the rest of the protective gear is definitely necessary. Now despite all of this, many many many batsmen break fingers when hit on the gloves. 6.5 oz. hard ball coming at over 90 mph can be quite deadly!
@@PFNel Yaa bcz in baseball you can't hit the batter bcz it's illegal but in cricket you are allowed to hit the batter anywhere...even in the head...One guy died in 2014 bcz of hitting of ball in his head so protection is needed for batter in cricket
I, a Canadian, just discovered cricket with my "Willow" cable channel. Thanks Sports Explained for the crash course. Concerning the not wearing of gloves, I have often wondered how different the game would be if fielders wore a type of (baseball?) fielding glove. Catching a flyball has to hurt!!!!
@@burkeshaw Well, accidents can happen, of course, and a cricket ball is hard and heavy. But it's not much of a problem for an experienced player; just a matter of presenting your hands to the ball correctly. Baseball players could do it if they had to. Cricketers in the outfield would probably prefer not to wear gloves! It's simply what you're used to.
As Australian cricket enthusiast ,I regard your video as a great introductory for baseball fans . You didn't get bogged down with the details,that would confuse people that don't know the game . Cheers.
There are a few of these out there and each time I watched them I have wondered if a novice viewer was more confused after than before. This was not that - this was excellent. Cricket fans cannot help themselves and use game terms constantly even when they are trying to explain them. You did a great job of limiting that.
@@prabhatpal2572 .. " if you are the only one following right way... you're wrong!" Lol.. That's a 'consensus = truth' argument. It's a logical fallacy and therefore false. The right way is the right way, regardless of whether or not others agree.
I was able to follow it pretty well and I knew little to nothing about cricket going in. But I must say, this game sounds a bit too complicated to just "pick up" on. I love American football, but if I hadn't been into it since I was a kid as well as played on a team in school, I doubt I'd get into it now because it too is a complicated sport with tons of rules and jargon. Baseball on the other hand is super simple. You don't even need to know all of the terms to understand the game or even play it.
I was born and raised in the U.S., and like many of my fellow Americans, I understand the rules of baseball. That said, I think cricket is a little easier to figure out. One can see how runs are scored in cricket after a bit of observation. In baseball, the batting team has to go all the way around the bases to get to home to score a run, a baserunner can overrun first base but not the other bases, the force out rules are different for different bases/situations, same with tagging up and doubling off, etc.. I once saw a test match between England and Australia at Old Trafford and I got the basic idea fairly quickly, despite having never seen a cricket match before in my life.
Yeah good point. I'm the reverse: Born and raised in NZ. Came across a baseball game when I was a kid on TV. Worked out the basics pretty easily. Then, being exposed to lots of American films and TV, you pick up more. I learned so much about American culture growing up, as I'm sure lots of kids did in NZ, Australia and the UK.
As a person familiar with Cricket, and who watched a Baseball game once while fully understanding and enjoying it, I think Baseball has much better pace and much more continuous tension than Cricket and Cricket has much more options and complexity than Baseball.
One thing that baseball fans might enjoy about cricket are the bowling styles. If you are into sliders, fast balls and the like, then you will enjoy cricket. There are two basic types of bowling: fast and spin. Within those two types there are many styles and methods of delivery. It’s whole world of fun to explore.
I've defidently enjoy watching cricket bowling in slo-mo. It's poetry in motion, and some of the best by the likes of Shane Warne defy physics and blew my mind.
One thing I want to add is in cricket the captains role is very important. He decides the strategy, fielding positions who should go next to bowl or bat. Take fielding or batting first based on the pitch and so many decisions. It's crucial, since usually it's not a one man show , it's a collective effort, but unlike football , there is lot more thinking that goes into the game even before every delivery of the bowl
I question the cricket having more thinking than football. Ever see a playbook? Quarterbacks, if successful, not only have a lot to think about but they know they are going to get hit pretty hard on every play. Until you talk to a player in any sport, I don’t think you realize how much thinking and strategy involved. Jai Alai looks like a reflex sport but it is pretty complex.
@@sirpercarde709 I am not too familiar with Football but there's a lot more thinking that goes into cricket. Bowling type according to batter, field position and layout that changes throughout the match, bowling length and line, lot of predictions on both sides, batter's fielding sense, running between the wickets requires a lot of communication, etc. Just a rundown for one of the most complex and interesting part of cricket- Bowling. It is divided into three types, fast pace, medium pace and spin (slow pace). Fast pace is the one with long runups and are generally 135+kmph and generally doesn't have that many variations. There types of swings, slower ball, bouncer, cutters, full toss, Yorker, being the more popular. Then there's spin (slow pace) which is divided into wrist spinners and finger spinners. These are ons slower end with 80 kmph. The have a lot of varieties, most importantly, off spin(finger spin) and leg break(wrist spin), other variations depend on finger positioning and speed. But it can change things by a whole lot like with carrom ball being the same type as off spin yet somewhat behaving like leg break( the difference in degrees of turn is a lot). Medium pace is just a mix. So, this alone is pretty complex and a batter have to predict the types of ball, length and pace(for more versatile bowls). There's also fielding positions that's a whole lot of important which also depends on powerplays, and are ever changing depending on the batsman, bowlers and conditions. Batting is also pretty complex but it's all upto batsman.
A very good statement that I once heard that goes a long way towards explaining the mindset differences between cricket and baseball is this: In baseball, outs are cheap and runs are expensive In cricket, runs are cheap and outs are expensive That explains why DEFENCE is such a big part of the cricket batting game, while it's not such a big deal in baseball. In cricket, especially in test cricket, preserving one's wicket is vital as you don't get another chance in that innings. So you leave balls, you play defensive shots, and you decline runs if you don't think you can make your ground. Great video!
Not always , depends on the format and situation. For eg you have 6 balls remaining and have to score say 18 runs. Then you start whacking to get a six (home run ) aggressively. Else you lose the game
As a cricket fan, I found this to be a very good explanation of the game. Cricket rules, especially the way of being out can be complicated and you didn't fall into the trap of trying to explain this and go into too much depth. Nice one. Thanks.
I’ve started getting into watching cricket (mostly Test cricket) during the baseball offseason in the last couple of years, and I’m still trying to learn and understand all the rules. This is a pretty good video!
Even as a South African who's much more familiar with cricket than baseball, I found this immensely entertaining and even learned a couple of things! Rugby is my favourite sport, and I reckon a "rugby explained for NFL fans" or vice versa would be just as interesting. Excellent video, well done!
One aspect about rugby football that does not happen in American football is "putting teammates onside" after a kick has been made. If a teammate kicks a ball foreward in rugby soon after a scrum, the teammates in front, where the scrum was, are considered offside, and have a duty under the rules to get back onside by getting back either even with or slightly behind the kicker - or even with or slightly behind any other teammate who is already onside. The person kicking the ball will of course usually try to assist the process by running foreward, but will be sometimes noticeably be initially slowed from being temporarily off balance from making the kick, or might stay back in expectation of a counter kick in his direction. In that situation, a speedy back at the far edge of the field who was onside at the time of the kick or has put himself onside soon after the kick can dash straight forward in an effort to get as many teammates as possible onside as fast as possible, thus allowing as many of them as possible to legally run forward toward the opponent trying to catch the kick. In American football however, a couple of people on the punting team might be 30 yards in front of the kicker at the time a punt is made, and might be 10 yards ahead of all the rest of their teammates when diving at the opposing kick returner for a possible tackle a fraction of a second after he makes contact with the ball. In American football that's a legal tackle (unless the kick returner has raised up one of his forearms and waved his hand and ideally his forearm as well in a sideways back and forth motion to clearly enough signal for a fair catch as can be done in rugby football as well), but in rubgy football that type of tackle with the tacklers' teammates all still so far behind just after the ball gets caught would be a clear offside violation, due to the two advanced tacklers clearly being unquestionably ahead of the rest of their team for the entire time after the kick.
Learning cricket is like learning a language. One must be born to a cricket-playing or cricket-following family to master the rules and be able to appreciate various intricacies. I take my hat off to those who take the trouble of learning it as a "second language". The word "wicket" has at least three different meanings, "pitch" at least two and many such. Well done for having a go at learning and explaining cricket.
@@LoneVocalist 😂 What is 'Leg before wicket'?🦵 One side of the ground is called the 'Leg side' 🦵. There are fieldsmen kept at 'Fine Leg', 'Short Leg', etc. If the batsman misses the ball while trying to hit it and he was able to get 'runs' those are called byes and count as extras. If the ball hits any part of the body of the batsman and goes for runs they are called 'leg byes'. What's the fascination with legs?🦵🤣🤣
@@NhwNews You're not allowed to put your leg in front of the ball and stop it from hitting the wicket. You have to use the bat. But if the ball bounced on the leg side or hit anywhere other than in front of the wicket or wasn't going to hit the wicket, it isn't LBW. The leg side is the side towards the batter's leg. A bye (leg or otherwise) is where the batsman scores any runs despite not hitting the ball with the bat, and the ball was hittable (otherwise it is a wide). A leg bye in particular is when the ball hits the batsman's leg and they run and LBW doesn't apply. Note: When I say "leg" in the context of "hits the leg", it could be any part of the body, except the hand when it is holding the bat.
Me too I really appreciate Americans especially who take the time to learn the sport and then explain it to others. When really Americans don't need any reason. They have their own sports. American culture dominates the world. They really don't have to follow sports like Cricket or take the trouble to learn the rules. Hats off to Americans who make the effort. Shows despite their power and success in the world a lot of Americans are still very humble people and appreciate other sports and don't denigrate it. I respect that.
As someone who has played both cricket and baseball, I can say this is a great explaination. Few things you can add. 1)A red ball is used in Test cricket while a white ball is used in Limted overs cricket. A pink ball (newest) is used in Day and night Test Cricket. 2) When an over is finished, the next over is bowled from the other end of the pitch. 3)In limited overs cricket there are limits for bowlers too. One day - Maximum 10 overs per bowler t20 - Maximum 4 overs per bowler 4)There are mainly 2 types of bowlers in cricket (Fast bowlers - Spin bowlers). 5)Captain plays a big role in the game, unlike other sports. There are so many quick on-field decisions and changes captain has to do.
Two more things I would add: 1. The bowler's delivery is restricted so the elbow is (mostly) straight. 2. County cricket is also considered first-class cricket, but is played over four days. It is now professional, but long ago was a mixture of amateurs and professionals. (The amateurs were typically wealthy or aristocrats and looked down on the lower class professionals.)
@araparseghian2 Coaches do exist in cricket however during the game, they cannot make decisions. They can run suggestions out to the captain on the field but it's not like football where the manager is calling plays from the sidelines
@@billycox475 To add the missing cases to SynthMusicFan 501's explaination. In limited overs, if the team "defending the target" (team bowling last), bowl out the overs, ie reach the over limit, before the "chasing" team (team batting last) reachs the target, they win by runs, as if they had bowled the team out (taken all 10 wickets). In First Class or Test Matchs, if time runs out (often because rain stops play) before the match is complete, the match is drawn. A Tie is a completed match where the runs scored by both teams are considered equaled. Usually they are equal, but in limited overs sometimes the second innings is shortened and the target modified (this is really complex), if the chasing team is 1 run short of the target the game is tied.
ok so baseball fan here....sorry if I mess up the terms... Question about #2........So you put the ball in play but only score 1 run. That would mean that the batsmen switched ends of the pitch....so now for the next ball the batsman is switched?
Lifelong MLB fan here. Seen more games than I care to count and have passed-on my love for the game to my children and their friends. I LOVE Baseball. So, you can imagine that to my eyes cricket has *always* seemed really weird, and frankly silly. Until now. I stopped to devote 15 minutes of my time to take in your video offering, since I really seemed like the target audience. I found that I really genuinely appreciate the explainer, spoken in my language, if you will. And now, I might even take in a few cricket games now, thanks to you!!
I've played both cricket and baseball a lot throughout my life, I'm now too old to play either! I enjoy them both and have no bias for one over the other. If you want to learn every single rule and nuance, I would say cricket is more complicated than baseball, but only if you want to know absolutely everything the game has to offer. On the subject of which game is easier to play, as a batter it is harder to hit the ball in cricket - there are more variations of delivery a bowler can master, than a pitcher in baseball. A batter in cricket has the added difficulty of trying to judge the bounce of the ball off the surface of the wicket - and the surface you play on has a huge effect on how the ball behaves - this is much more difficult than dealing with a ball that does not bounce before reaching you. There is also seam movement, cut, drift, swing, reverse swing, several variations of slower balls, faster balls, bouncers, yorkers, full-tosses and many types spin bowling to master in cricket. Yes, cricket is harder to master than baseball, at least that was my experience, but both games are fantastic to play and to watch. I love them both.
The width of Baseball tops all the factors you mentioned. Hitting a ball in Baseball is much more difficult. Just look at the average strike rate or misses in both the games.
I went to England with a group from college 20 years ago. We were watching TV one day and a cricket match was on. Of course being Americans we knew nothing about it... When we asked one of our hosts to explain it he just said it's complicated. 😂 Fair enough I guess. After your explanation I know way more than I did! Great job!
Here’s a fun fact: England and Australia are seen as the traditional cricket nations. They played the first official Test match in 1877 in Melbourne, Australia, which was roughly around 100 years before the first limited overs international (50 overs per side). However the first time two countries played each other in cricket was three decades earlier between United States and Canada! This is the forerunner to baseball having some origins in cricket.
@araparseghian2 Well that is most appropriate. The Cincinnati Reds (Major League Baseball team) were founded in 1881. The National League of Major League Baseball was founded in 1876 while the American League came about in 1893. They joined together into the MLB in 1903. There are a few other teams still in existence today that are close to being as old as the Reds but are still a few years younger. I would like to point out that Baseball draws directly from Rounders rather then Cricket but I realize that even then it still has roots in Cricket. I find the the shared history between all of them awesome. The same as the origins of American Football really although that one gets a bit complicated at points.
Yeah, unless I knew everyone in your group was engaged and wanted to listen, and we had probably at least 20 minutes to focus, I don’t think I would bother getting into an explanation of cricket with Americans lol
@@kevinyoung5728 The laws of cricket were first codified in 1744 (the game dates back about 200 years earlier). The first international was the US vs Canada in 1844 in New York. The MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) was founded in 1787 and used to be the governing body of the sport, and is still seen as the home of cricket. Hambledon Club goes back to 1750.
"P" means power play There are three power plays in ODI 1. 1 to 10th over. In this power play you can have only two fielders out side the 30 yard circle marked on the field 2. 11 to 40th over. You can place 5 fielders out side the 30 yard circle. 3. 41 to 50th over you can have only 4 fielders out side the 30 yard circle In t 20s there's only one power play 1 to 6 th over. In this power play you can have only two fielders out side the 30 yard circle. From 07 to 20th over you can have only five or less fielders out side the 30 yard circle
11:41 Just a small correction to clarify for everyone: when we see ‘Target 222’, it means the previous team has scored 221 runs, and the current batting team needs to score 222 (or one run more) to win. However, if it says ‘ENG|222’ (where ENG stands for England), that means England has scored 222 runs. Similarly, ‘IND|222’ (where IND stands for India) would mean India has scored 222 runs. ‘Target|222’ and ‘IND|222’ represent different things. I hope this helps clear up any confusion. (by the way, I absolutely love this video! thanks for making it and simplifying such a broad topic.)
I have played cricket my entire life and watched this whole video just because it’s interesting seeing cricket explained through the lens of a baseball fan.. it’s made me more interested in following baseball
As a life-long cricket viewer, I can say that this is a very well put-together video. It explains all the main stuff without going into too much detail (which can get confusing). Well done!
For a person with a non-cricket background, you did a pretty good job of explaining the basics. Possibly could have compared the speed of the ball in both games and possibly the types of bowls (spin, fast, etc).
I've been a cricket fan for over 50 years, and this video is extremely well done. 1 or 2 very tiny mistakes. Too tiny to be even worth mentioning. Again, congratulations on a very good job.
12:25 (Batsmen are not compelled to run) - This is a big one, and it helps to explain how the game can run so long and score so highly. If a batter hits a ground ball to an infielder, that at-bat is almost certainly over, probably with a force out. A batsman can just stay put and try again. In fact that’s usually the best choice since outs (wickets) are so precious. (Limited-over formats encourage more aggressive play, so you may occasionally see someone try to leg it out.)
T20 makes it costly to not run. If the bowler can go through his 6 bowls, and the at-bats only manage to run on 2 of the bowls, the at-bat team has lost precious points, and has make it harder to reach the target, or build one of sufficient size. TL/DR: Every time a bowl is made correctly and there are no run-attempt, the bowler has succeed.
That is the LAMEST thing I have ever heard about a sport! "Oops, let me try that again..."; No; You are OUT! In baseball, if you hit it in the air, and the fielders can catch it, you're OUT!
@@brentfarvors192 You completely misunderstood him. Just like in baseball if the ball bounces and then is caught that doesn't mean the batter is out. What he is trying to say is that a batsman can not run if he doesn't wish to attempt to score. The batsman is never compelled to run and can deliberately play without attempting to score. So no its not about trying again. You get nothing from refusing to run. Its not about being given chances its about strategy. Sometimes its optimal not to score. I don't see why people like you have to be antagonistic about sports. Especially when you go on the offensive even though you completely misread his comment. Different people enjoy different sports.
@@obscuredictionary3263 Yeah, BUT, the batter is required to run, no matter where the ball is hit...So, YES; I "understood"; It's just it doesn't make any logical sense!!! Hence, my comment about them being forced to run...Name 1 other sport where the player doesn't get penalized for not completing a round...? There is none! Even in baseball, a foul is a strike against you!!!
@@abirlal5877 Spoilers: I KNEW THAT! That is the DUMBEST non-rule in the entire HISTORY of SPORTS!!! "Tom Brady throws the ball away"..."Do over...?" NO; You lose a down!!! No other sport allows this! NONE!!! The batter should be required to run, no matter WHERE on the field the ball is hit; It's basic logical sense...Wait a minute; Now I am starting to "get it"...
Extremely well done. As a cricket fan living in the US I have tried to explain this many many times with varying degrees of success. Your rundown is an excellent introduction. I always tell folks in the US that if you enjoy the pace, the game play, and the stats of baseball, you will most likely enjoy cricket for the same reasons.
very helpful. I saw USA did well at T20 and wanted to watch the highlights. I didnt know wtf was going on. As a USA boy this helped me understand what i was watching! A little embarrassed i didn't know earlier since this is the second most popular sport in the world. but hey we live and learn. I like the differences between Cricket and baseball, cool to see there is so much more interaction from the fielding team as a whole. Go Team USA!
Nothing to be embarrassed about, Baseball and Cricket have more in common than not. A few friends are into the Australian cricket pro leagues which is played in the MLB off season. Once you get the basics you're 90% there.
This is wonderful. I am a lifelong cricket fan, so loved hearing cricket explained to baseball lovers. You've asked for comments and corrections. I think you kind of touched on this when you spoke about "appealing" - when the bowling side asks the empire to decide whether they have managed to get the batter "out" or not. This is why we say that the batter was "given out", rather than "put out". "Put out" in British English means: inconvenienced. The batter is given out on the pitch, but if he/she doesn't agree with the decision, will definitely feel very put out that they're now walking back to the changing room 😆
@@cshairydude Yes...that's true actually. Funny, the same as when someone's fired. And the wicket is called a dismissal. This is going to sound so odd to Americans.
Another thing to point out is the decision itself. There is no such judgement in Cricket as "In" (or "Safe" as in Baseball), the decision is either "Out" or "Not Out". Similar in court:"Guilty" or "Not Guilty".
T20 worldcup in USA was ruined by bcci and icc. The timing and the ticket price omg it was supposed to promote cricket in USA and they exactly did the opposite w ticket price over the roof and such fucked up match timing because indian fans would watch the game at night.
Some years ago I worked with an American from WV who had spent some time working in the UK, during which he got really into watching cricket. He told me he did not understand why it was not more popular in the US as it is a sport that you can watch for up to 5 days straight, drink beer all day and scores are in the hundreds. As he put it, "what is more American than that?"
that's because cricket will eat up some share of the baseball market..US companies has invested significantly in the baseball over the decades .. they can not afford cricket getting popular..the media companies as well are not putting any efforts in understanding the game of cricket..they always first mention that a game of cricket lasts for few days and that's the perception of average american about cricket. if you go in depth, americans tend to simplify things when it comes to sports .. Baseball -> batters hit the ball and run, fielders will try to catch or run you out .. basketball -> keep putting the ball in the ring while opponents try to stop you .. ice hockey -> score goals without worrying about the puck going outside the boundary.. only football has some complexity but it does not have a flow in the game, there many many interruptions .. anything complex than that, americans don't spend time in understanding it. there is another aspect of physical strength .. all american sports require the players to push the limits of physique..so much so that average person can rarely make any career in those sports..also these sports have physical contact involved in the game play..so there are chances of 'fights' during the gameplay especially considering the body built of the players.. these fights or the physical involvement in the game, somehow, excite the crowd here.. That's not the case with the cricket..cricket requires to have an agile body..being bulky is a disadvantage in the cricket..person with an average body can make a career in cricket .. but in america, commercially, everything has to be big - go big or go home.
That's why inorder to tap into that market, they are bringing MLC (Major League Cricket), a T20 tournament going to be held in july-august in Texas and North Carolina. But, that 5 day match you are talking about is a Test Match. Only big nations play because of the huge money involved. Now, Currently USA is an associate cricketing nation, who will soon be participating in the World Cup qualifiers
@@joeldipopsyep. Plus you can legally smash the ball into the batter in cricket. Baseball you can’t even flick the shirt with a pitch, or you’ll put the batter on first.
@@MrBrenosand the bounce is what makes a cricket delivery dangerous. It can pitch wherever on the floor before you and can fail all your calculations after the bounce.
Great job on the video. I'm an Australian who's been watching cricket and playing cricket at school his entire life and I never knew that Australian broadcasts place the number of wickets first and then runs, while other places do it backwards. You'd think I would've noticed that 😅
I've always been interested in cricket, although it's not practiced in my country (Mexico), and this is the first true and clear explanation of cricket I've ever seen. Being a baseball fan, it was relatively easy to grasp the concepts, although I struggle a little in the scorekeeping. Nevertheless, it was a very good video and thanks for the explanation.
LoNg story but hope this helps : Im a batsman , the first bowler has 6 balls to get me out . I leave the first ball bowled alone, it goes straight to wicket keeper .The second I hit the ball but goes to a player and i cannot risk a run and Yell at my other batsman " wait" . Third ball I hit and i place it in the gap so I judge by the time a fielder runs to it and throws it back at the wicket and or wicket keeper I can run up to other end and be back at my end, Crossing the white line with my bat grounded running hard . So I yell to my other batsmen in loud voice TWO !! He knows what i will be doing and I get back before my wicket is broken , Im safe my score is 2 not out. Fourth ball lifts off the pitch enough I can really hit to the boundary for FOUR . The other batsman also watches and we both run until the ball hits the boundary then I can stop even if I made the other end and go back to facing the bowler . My Score is now 6 not out. The Fifth ball I clip behind me and my batsman is my eyes and yells at me really loud so i know the intention "THREE''!! So I run down , back again then again to the end where the bowler comes in . My score 9 not out AND I dont face that bowler anymore ,the other batsman does. He faces the sixth ball and hits it high and straight over the oval fence for SIX . The Umpire signals that to the bowler and then back to where the scorers are to say " its his judgement that it was a 6. The other batsman is now 6 not out , I am 9 not out . The bowler has lost 15 runs for no wicket for just 6 balls . His Captain in the field will look his way until he gets his attention and hope he gets better when his next 6 are after the next bowler. Due to the next bowler starting at me from the other end and I face the 1st ball again. If I was Steve Smith I would be doing this for 5 hours and make 120 runs
Mexico has both a Men's and women's national cricket team. They are an affiliate country so would only be playing ODI and Twenty20 matches. Nations are ranked by the ICC - International Cricket Council and very few nations are given the status to play Test matches
ironically the hispanic community in LA play it on the streets, they also follow the etiquette which was prodominately the point of teaching it, as it`s not an aggressive game but played with manners, mostly, dunno if it still is though but i seen a tv thing on it a few years ago and found it interesting.
2 Years later, not only it has 1M+ views, almost every TH-camr now uses this video and react to it with the title "American learns cricket for the first time" and ends up gaining an audience. This video in itself is a success over TH-cam. Sad that we didn't got "Baseball explained for cricket fans" video 😭
I just watched my first cricket match after watching this video. And I was able to keep up and understand it and have a lot of fun. Thank you for this!
South African here!.. I'm very impressed with how you explained the game to other Americans.. Well done!.. I can hear that you have the jest of what cricket is about.. 😊
One little detail you didn’t mention about overs. Each over is bowled from alternate ends. Also, all balls are thrown over arm with a straight elbow and the ball does not have to bounce. And another important detail is 10 out, all out. The 11th batsman can’t bat alone.
When a player is out, does that mean actually off the field? Must be, I'm thinking, otherwise the 11th wouldn't be alone. Or does it just mean no player can bat more than once per over? I got the impression any player can bowl as many times as they want, just not consecutively, so two good bowlers could switch back and forth.
@@grizwoldphantasia5005 Sometimes there are limitations on how many overs a bowler can bowl. Typically it is 10 overs in a 50 over match, so you need 5 bowlers (at least). You could use more. But I think the presenter did well to avoid minor details. It's not a hard game to understand if explained simply and it's been done very well here.
@@grizwoldphantasia5005 When a batter is out, they leave the field and - provided there are unused batters left - are replaced by the next team mate and the over continues. If needed, everyone on the team must bat - there are no pinch hitters in cricket. When the 10th batter is out, the innings comes to an end, and his batting partner is left high and dry; in the scorebook he will have a little star by his score, showing he was "not out" at the end of the innings. Batters are often ranked by their "batting average" which is the number of "at-bats" divided by the number of times they were out, so these "not-outs" help improve a batter's ranking. Bowlers who expend a lot of energy in their action will usually need to take a break after 8 to 10 overs or so; it's the job of the captain to keep the bowlers fresh and make tactical changes based on the pitch, the weather conditions and the strengths of the opposing batters.
This videos back in the algorithm and it made a Brit who played cricket his entire adolescence but stopped over a decade ago all warm and fuzzy inside. Cheers m8
Great video. I'm a lifelong '67 yrs' lover and player. That was cool. Even I understood it. One thing that I love about the game is the influence 'fast' or 'slow' bowlers can have on the behaviour of the ball after it has hit the ground. Also, the sneaky influence the groundsmen can have as they prepare the wicket for a game.... Naughty boys. Great game, great video.
I feel that I should clarify: Groundsmen prepare the Pitch. They cannot prepare “the wicket”. The Pitch is often misnamed by many people who should know better (commentators and others) but the Laws Of Cricket are quite clear on this. There are two physical wickets in cricket. The wickets are the stumps and bails. As mentioned in the video, there are also the “wickets” which occur when a batsman (batter?) is put “out”. See the “Laws Of Cricket”.
@@DeepThought9999 Yes, commentators often call the 'pitch' the wicket, and tbh its perfectly fine, every cricket viewer who is watching it deeply enough to listen to the commentators already knows that by wicket, they mean the pitch. I've been watching cricket my whole life, and really, its not a big deal to use either word for that dusty patch between the big green oval.
Once you start watching it gets more clearer. Watch a t20 match with a person who knows cricket. If you have Indian friends they will surely know and would be glad to teach you
Being an English man that never really got into cricket (I'm an association soccer man), this was a very well put together, simple explanation of a sport that can be intimidatingly complicated. As I have grown up with this sport, I understood most of it, as cricket, whether you like it or not is part of our culture.
"Association Soccer"..... You tried so hard, but in the end, got it completely wrong. It's officially "Association Football". "Soccer" is short for "Association", and came about as a counterpart to "Rugger" or "Rugby Football".
'soccer' is a slang term for 'association' that originated in England when the standardising of rules was called: Association Football ( the origin of the FA of course ) - but it became a really formalised only use in England but was continued in use in the USA to differentiate from their 'football' ( which is mostly handball )
That was outstanding. I spent several years in China as an international sports anchor and occasionally had to narrate cricket highlights. No one in our department knew anything about the game, so I took some time to ask some British citizens I knew. This was 15 years ago. Happily I seem to have gotten all of the rules right and made my presentation compelling enough not to insult our Australian, Indian, British, and Pakistani audience.
Just wanted to say thanks for this. I've been trying to get into cricket off and on since 2019. After watching this, I caught the end of the West Indies v. India ODI game and actually understood what was going on.
I actually can't thank you enough for this, Ive been meaning to understand these rules and particularities for quite some time now and youve been a HUGE help, especially understanding the scores and numbers you see everytime on the screen, mystery solved and im grateful
@@ericvansickle4305 or if you're Indian, perhaps a 'DHL Maximum...' (I have no idea if that's still the phrase used to placate sponsors in the IPL, but it's one of the main reasons that I can't stand to watch it. Put the tactical timeout in that basket too.)
@@SportsExplained like every other cricket explained video you also got one thing wrong. The most professional a cricket game can be is TEST cricket. I don't know why you guys consider it as not professional and not on tv. Test cricket is the highest form of cricket and is also broadcasted everywhere every series. Test cricket is real cricket rest is fun and frolic. There is a saying in cricket TEST CRICKET SEPERATES MEN FROM BOYS. I know guys like you who are new to game don't enjoy it but trust me the day you understand everything about the game you will start enjoying test cricket.
@@SportsExplained Originally the game was played out to a result and time was irrelevnt. Like some baseball games play was going on for too long. Playing times were reduced and games became four or five days duration. The inevitable "lunch" and "tea" breaks were introduced to make sure the English gentlies were adequately sustained. Pitches were not covered overnight as per today's game. Realise that the variants did not come about will after 1970 with the ODI resulting from England and one Test game where the first four dys were washed out. The T20 game came about in early 2000's after an enterpreneur recognised the potential for night games a la MLB. It took some years to happen and some wish it never had happened.
I think the most important thing to understand is that in baseball you get excited when there is a run; in cricket you get excited when there is an out,
A really good explanation is in the Foreword to the International Edition of Calico Joe by John Grisham. Grisham does a really good job of explaining not only the game, but also its key tactical elements.
I'm a former (youth) cricket player trying to understand baseball. This was a fantastic video. The descriptions were clear and on point, the editing had some subtle genius to it like demonstrating the full field of play before/after making the point to highlight that aspect. The only thing I can think missing would have been strategies or detailed aspects which obviously is far beyond the scope of the video. Whilst I did play I don't watch so I might be missing a few details, but overall it was an incredibly impressive explanation of the game. Very well done.
Best description of cricket I have heard. Cricket experts and players often make their descriptions too complex by trying to cover all the details immediately. The baseball analogy works well and does simplify several points.
One of the most interesting aspects of cricket is the bowling/fielding strategy. Imagine in baseball placing out-fielders in certain positions depending on where the pitcher intends to pitch the ball. This is an essential part of cricket.
Exactly that is what happens in baseball. Charting of hitters means managers place fielders in likely positions. Observe in a game how both infielders and outfielders move laterally. They also move inwards or deeper depending on the game situation
Cricket does not have rules. It has 42 laws 😛. No really. They are called the Laws of Cricket. They have a lot of subdivisions, but the number (42) does not change.
This is a great video. I've watched and loved cricket since I was a child, and later I became quite fond of watching baseball. Cricket can be complicated if explained poorly but you've done a great job.
Fair effort. I'd only add that an innings comes to an end after ten wickets fall, because that means that there isn't a batter at both ends. There are many live streams of cricket on YT. Finally, cricket is a superb sport for the radio.
An excellent summary, well done. One thing that no-one else seems to have mentioned: you point out that cricket fields can be of different shapes and sizes, so the distance you have to hit the ball to score a boundary can vary considerably. BUT the distance between the two wickets is always 22 yards (20.12m), so the distance the batsmen have to run to score "one run" is the same everywhere.
One important aspect of the game that you’ve missed is that the number of overs a particular bowler can bowl is limited in limited overs cricket. In a 50 overs game, a bowler can bowl a maximum of 10 overs. While in T20, a bowler can bowl a maximum of 4 overs. It basically means that you have to bowl at-least 5 different bowlers.
As a lifelong sports fan that's been playing/watching different sports for over 50 years, I have watched many different sporting events, even some Rugby, Aussie Rules stuff, Table Tennis, Volleyball, especially women's Beach Volleyball, bowling, and even recently, Cornhole. But I've never really given Cricket a shot for more than a few minutes. You did a great job giving a clear overview to a knowledgeable baseball fan. I'm going to dive straight into your follow up video (Baseball and Cricket Compared Some More) and then I'm going on a hunt to watch some Cricket matches. Great job. Thank you. 🏏
If you want to understand the different flow of the game between the two sports, it's important to think of who the attack is. In baseball, the batting team is on the offence, they're trying to score runs before they all get out. In cricket, the bowling team is the offence, they want to take wickets before allowing too many runs. The overs to at-bats comparison is good imo, because it reflects this sort of, different member of the offence coming up to try their hand, and if it doesn't work, don't worry, there will be another over or at-bat.
I gave a 2 hour version of this talk to my American coworkers at Bell Labs in 1982 and I'm not sure I did as good a job. However I did cover some areas that you left out probably to keep it short namely bowling techniques: fast, slow, swing, seam, spin, and batting techniques: forward and back, drives, cuts, hooks, sweeps and glances (no reverse sweep in 1982).
Great job!!! I'm 72 and grew up in New Zealand - a cricket-loving country. I never really understood more than the basics of cricket. You've grasped not only the rules of cricket but know what to explain and what to stay the hell away from. There are some pretty confusing names for things in cricket. LIke one way a bowler bowls the ball is called a "Googly". (Don't ask me what that is i wouldn't have a clue) . And how one of the fielding places is called "Silly Mid Off" . (Again, dont ask me! but that fielder is standing just a few feet from the batsman, with a rock-hard ball rocketing by at 90+ MPH. Hence the 'silly' ) Only the wicket keeper wears gloves too. The bowler or the team captain of the fielding team will change the placement of their fielders so they are in best position to make a catch before the bowler delivers a ball. The game becomes a strategy game. A bowler might, for example, deliver a lot of balls similarly to lull the batsman into losing concentration, then without warning bowl a completely different kind of ball. Faster slower, spinning, curving, bouncing, even deliberately outside the batsman's reach to try to lure him out of his safe zone so the fielders there can stump the batsman.
As a lifelong cricket player and watcher, and an Aussie, I found the explanation really good indeed. The biggest "hole" for me however, was the lack of explanation of the art of bowling. There are fast (swing) bowlers - who are nearly as fast as baseball pitchers - medium-pace (seam) bowlers, who are usually batsmen who are also decent bowlers, and slow (spin) bowlers who make the ball deviate off the pitch,. in all sorts of clever ways. It could also be explained that, of the eleven players, six are specialist batters (but one or two might be decent bowlers too), four are specialist bowlers (and generally aren't great batters), and one is the wicketkeeper ('catcher') who might also be a very good seventh batter. Three or four of the very best players who have ever played the game were 'all-rounders' - meaning they were world-class batters, bowlers, and fielders too. Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Kapil Dev, Greg Chappell, Garfield Sobers, Jacques Kallis.
I have always thought Cricket was impossibly complicated, and I can't imagine a game where the matches that go on for days and days. And even after watching I still think it's impossibly complicated! I grew up in a baseball household - my dad coached college ball for 36 years and was on the NCAA Rules Committee for about 10 of those years. We don't even consider Cricket a real sport in our house! LOL *BUT* this showed up in my TH-cam suggestions (no idea why!) so I took a chance. Overall, a great introductory video. I didn't realize that the batter was also like a goalie protecting the wickets. That's wild, but really helped me understand it better. I may watch this video again to get a better handle on it. And I would enjoy a video of someone trying to explain Baseball to a cricket fan!
I think its all about the good feeling that you get when you hit a ball in long distance with a bat, or when you throw (in cricket we have to rotate our bowling arm) a quick and swinging ball to the batter or catching a ball that is very high in the air. Some other similarities may also exist in both these games. I have been playing cricket for the last 15 years and still it is so addictive to me. It may be because of its complicated yet being so basic and fun in nature. It would make more sense if you watch cricket keeping a perspective in mind that the main goal of the team is to score more than the other team and the other team are trying various techniques(within the laws of the game) to defend their score.
Lol, only an American can consider a sport with frequent international World Cup series and over two billion fans, not a real sport compared to a sport where the games is played between teams from one country and considered a WORLD series, lmao.
Its like baseball, but with just one inning instead of 9 and two bases instead of 4. Both runners need to reach ech other's base to score 1 run . You can do it multiple times for multiple runs. If you hit a home run its automatic 6 runs, and if it bounces before reaching boundary it's an automatic 4. And no fielder is allowed to use gloves other the guy behind the batter.
Hey! Thanks for all the great comments. One thing that has come up a lot: At a few points I use the term "professional match" or "professional cricket" when I should have said "league" or "professional league match." International Cricket is also very professional! When I said "professional cricket" I was referring to the T20 cricket leagues that exist in India, Australia, etc. and are somewhat analogous to sports leagues in other countries, like Major League Baseball or the Premiere League. International cricket is also professional, and international play is the highest level of professional play.
Generally any game that is not a 5-day international test match (or 3-4 day "first class" match) is referred to as a "limited overs" match, in which there is always a winner. It might be worth mentioning that it is more than possible for a test or first class match to be drawn (i.e. there is no winner), which is an entirely foreign concept in baseball (aside from the very rare "called" draw that can happen in something like the All Star Game.) Otherwise, I thought that was an excellent introduction for someone entirely new to the game. Well done!
@@timbrom There's not always a winner in the limited formats. They do occur though they are very rare these days.
I thought you did a good job of explaining what could be a confusing and somewhat intimidating sport to wrap your head around with no experience or familiarity growing up with the game.
On the professionalism question. Players have been paid domestically for decades but not at the same level of the international players. The high profile T20 leagues are relatively new. And players can make very good livings playing on the circuit which includes leagues in India, Australia, England, South Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, Nepal, Canada (yep Canada) and apparently there's a group looking to launch Major League Cricket in the US.
you have done really hard work,
I will suggest you, people find cricket confusing because of they want to learn verbally rather than actual watching,
same for baseball too
one thing was, cricket was always experimental than baseball,
cricket was ready to change itself for better views, as it evolved from 5 day match to 3 hour match, many rule are changed to favor batsman , people want to see ball going out of stadium,
but baseball policies are always restricted to american allys, never in the favor what people like to see,
cricket also face critism for t20 format, but ultimately its most popular format of cricket and most understandable format for new ones in cricket,
RICH baseball boards should do some different to gain spread in more countries. !!
A very small detail: If the target is 222, it means that the team that batted first scored 221 (not 222). The target is one run more than the opposing team's score. It may sound obvious, but South Africa once lost a World Cup game at least in part because they forgot that their target was one run MORE than the opposing team's total!
Yes, thanks!
I did not know about South Africa! Yikes. At least this means I'm not the only one who has made this mistake.
That insident is not as simple as you're telling him here. Its a way more complexed issue. The match was inturrpted by rain and all that Duckworth BS
@@SportsExplained there are 11 ways that a batsman can get out.
And leg before wickets is totally a different thing.
@@MiddleClassMafia True. But I'm not going to get into the Duckworth-Lewis formula in a reply to someone who isn't steeped in the details of the game. And anyway, I can't, because I never bothered to learn it myself.
@@MiddleClassMafia there are 10 ways. Bowled, caught, LBW, stumped, run out, hit wicket, hit the ball twice, obstructing the field, retired out, timed out.
You cannot be given out 'handled the ball' now; that doesn't mean you can handle the ball, if you did, you would be given out 'obstructing the field.'
The Best explanation of cricket for an American I’ve seen
Awesome.
Agree.
I’m Canadian but I also found it helpful
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Hope you put it to test and watch a game (or some of) of cricket.
By a long shot. I feel like I could probably start to understand after watching a few matches. Prior to this. I was completely lost.
Something that I don't think you mentioned in this video that always comes up when baseball fans watch cricket is why the bowler's motion looks so strange. I'm sure it's obvious to cricket aficionados, but baseball fans need to understand that "bowling" the ball is biomechanically different to "throwing" it. Bowling is a very specific type of motion, in which only the rotation of the shoulder can be used to create the velocity for a bowled ball, whereas in baseball, the pitchers owe a great deal of their effectiveness to taking advantage of the extension of the elbow joint to create velocity. Throwing (aka chucking) the ball is illegal in cricket, and if the umpire judges that a ball has been thrown by the bowler, they will call a no-ball.
@SynthMusicFan 501 Watch Jeff Thompson
Great reply. I was actually wondering why they didn't throw it more like baseball players as to get more speed on the throw (or bowl). Thanks for that info!
@@g35tr Cricket language doesn't come naturally to a newcomer. A single delivery of the ball is not a throw or even a bowl. It's simply called a ball. So you would say "There is only one ball left in this over" or "That was a really good ball" or "That last ball was a bit wayward".
@SynthMusicFan 501 jeff thompson.a former javelin thrower and argubly the quickest bowler ever
@SynthMusicFan 501 a srilankan spinner (not murali) i guess. His dusra was banned but was allowed to bowl the regular ones
Decades! Decades! I have been waiting for someone to explain this sport to me for decades! Many thanks!
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Why ?. Could have asked the first indian you ever met lol ?
@@VARMOT123 Ha! Ha!
The amount of times I thought about asking the tobacco shop guy about it. @@VARMOT123
What do you think of the sport after understanding the concept?
As a US sailor I spent 3 days aboard HMS Achilles in the Red Sea during the late70s. One afternoon, they introduced us to cricket on the flight deck of the frigate, and they got a huge laugh when we Americans threw down our bats and ran to the next 'base.' For all these years, I've wondered what the game was about and you did a great job of explaining it. Thanks much :)
You got it! Thanks 👍
The Achilles ahh funny shaped ship, took ages to make smoke
You're gonna need your bat for the extra reach to the opposite wicket crease in a close run "home". It's allowed, extend the bat out to the crease line and you are "safe". The other guy, at the other end, might not be so lucky and get run out. Negating your run score, and costing your team a wicket. You both have to swap ends safely to score the run.
As a life-long baseball fan from South Korea who has never really watched or understood cricket before, this was a great beginner's guide to cricket for baseball fans. Thanks so much!
good to see new fans of the worlds greatest game(well not with t20 but test is)
I wish I could go to a Korean baseball game. The fan participation is like that of soccer matches, and the food is off the wall, good and affordable.
Just want to say that your English is basically perfect. If you aren't a native English speaker (as in, you didn't speak English as a kid), you need a standing ovation.
as someone who grew up watching cricket, but now living in the US, i'm looking forward to seeing a 'Baseball explained for Cricket fans' video
yes, we want that too. great idea for the next content.
Knowing baseball first, cricket seems far more complicated.
@@justandardprocedure Exactly. You can pick up 90% of how baseball is played by watching just one full game. I tried with cricket and, nope, no idea.
@@charlesedward5047 same here, you can watch a whole game and have no idea how it's played.
I don't think it would take more than 5 minutes to explain baseball.
Comparing the two when trying to explain one to the other is pointless really,
The only thing they have in common is they use a bat and a ball, and even those are different. Now at least I feel I know how the game is played and can now with out thinking I might be missing something I would like, go on to ignore it completely.
Knowing cricket first then moving to the USA i would say both are similar in this aspect which is you don't have to be a good athlete. Hitting a cricket ball is easier than hitting a baseball, but catching a cricket ball is more difficult as you don't wear gloves.
American here who has never understood cricket. I watched the video and was easily understand the World Cup final yesterday. Thanks so much!
I went to Australia as an exchange student from the States and had no idea what Cricket was, but started casually messing around with it with my school mates during afternoon tea break.......which is basically just a high school version of recess. Oddly enough, I ended up having a knack for bowling, especially spin bowling and I grew quite fond of the game. I never kept up with it after returning home, so this was a nice bast from the past. Thanks for the great video!
Spin bowlers are the intellectuals
Were you a leggy, or an off spinner?
@@geoffheard5768 leg spin. I'm a righty
@@michaeldoyle8733true smart people do spin, good physical parameters do fast bowling
@@michaeldoyle8733 To some degree, yes. They hang back until all the hard work has been done by the opening quicks.
A friend of my wife just shared her ESPN+ subscription with her so she could watch NHL hockey. I was looking for something to watch and found the T20 World Cup. It instantly caught my interest, and it took me close to a week to wrap my head around all the basics. It's a tremendously fascinating game. Cheers to a great video!
Just run through some games bro i know you'll love it
Next world is partly hosted by USA. Make sure to watch a game
Best thing to do is tell others about the game. Once America (Finally) catches on with Cricket, the game will explode.
Cricket is love
Nothing like admitting publicly that you are a theif.
Thanks to ESPN+ and Hulu, I found myself becoming hooked on cricket during the T20 World Cup last fall. And now this spring I've been pulled in again (again on ESPN+/Hulu) by the IPL (Indian Premier League), which is another T20-format league. It's a "franchise league", like MLB franchises, but while all the teams are Indian, each team has a (limited) number of "overseas" players, many of whom are stars for their national teams, or other teams, in other formats.
Besides quickly realizing the difference not having gloves makes in trying to catch balls hit in the air, it was the variety of bowling styles that amazed me. Baseball pitchers have got NOTHING on the range of speed, spin, and length you can see in just one T20 innings!
Well said, sir. When one sees what actually happens on a cricket field, one is amazed how little throwing a ball through the air to a batter adds to a game.
The 'bounce' is the crucial element.
Faster is not always better........ Intrigue follows. Mystery can develop. See the career of SHANE WARNE as a guarantee of mystery.
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don't mistake 20-rubbish for cricket. it's not real cricket. it's for children with no attention span. it's the equivalent of mini-golf, beach volleyball and video games.
there are two forms of professional cricket: first class, which includes test cricket, the pinnacle of cricket; and list A cricket, which includes One Day Internationals (odi).
@@markdowse3572 Yeah, the bounce which amplifies the spin, is the crucial element of this game the narrator missed out on.
@@Śiśna3633 Precisely, madam / sir.
That's WHY I tried to help him out.
@@vladtepes97 I also think test cricket is the best form of cricket but belittling someone over the form of cricket they choose to watch is a great way to turn away new fans to a great sport. Grow up
I'm Canadian. I knew about the game but only started watching it (mostly World Cup T20 and IPL) on Willow each time the channel is on a free preview for a few weeks on my TV provider. It took me a few games to understand most of the basic rules. Your video is excellent and very informative for someone who knows baseball like me. It would have helped me immensely if I had found it a few years ago 🙂 Excellent job! I will be sharing this to Canadian and American friends who want to discover cricket.
@cricketexplained8526 Just got the confirmation today that Willow US and Willow Canada are going to show the Major League Cricket games. I paid the 5 CAD to add the channel to my programming here in Canada. Too bad I can't go to Texas or North Carolina this year to catch a game live. Maybe next year if the tournament is a success.
Which team do you support in cricket by the way?
@@DesiGameChaser27 I do not have any preferred team or national team. I did watch a few of Canada's game recently. I still prefer T20 to ODI or Test games. Currently just watching highlights of the World Cup on Willow. I like all kind of T20 tournaments during the year.
@@PierreMailhot Well, if you like T20 tournaments, then next T20 World Cup is in the US :) I hope you will enjoy it and yeah LA going to host cricket in 2028 Olympics as well (Yay! Finally cricket in the Olympics!)
@@varunapathak2096 I know! 😁If I had known earlier I might have tried to go see the Major League Cricket in Texas earlier this year. That's when I suddenly realized that some international players go from one T20 league/tournament to the other depending on their affiliation with franchises in the IPL for example. I've shared this video here to a lot of my friends here in Canada and the USA who are baseball fans in order to better understand cricket. My major problem at one point was with the different statistics, but I am understanding more and more as I watch more games.
As one who grew up playing baseball nearly everyday I could and then discovering Cricket as an adult about 30 years ago and now watching it even more than Baseball, I say job well done with this video. Very easy explanation for Baseball fans. I think if Americans learned the game and starting watching T20, especially the IPL, they would fall in love with it and may even want to watch some ODI or Test. Thank you for doing this video.
i moved from india to the us when i was very little so watching cricket was mandatory in my household. Me and my freinds would play it everyday when they still lived in my neighborhood it was really fun
American will of course like cricket if they understand the laws of cricket properly.
@@kaustubhborde8148 True
Thing is....USA never accept Sports they aren't the best at. World Series Hockey.....Really, AFL only played by a relative few. Wonder what the Football World Cup TV & attendance figures were?
@@timhannah4 if u.s.a play any sports they become best,they have best infrastructure and also sports culture, america is a rich country every sports wants to come to america but they want to put their money only isolated in America.
Aussie here! Been watching cricket all my life. Mate, you did a great job. Sure, there are some minor errors here and there, but I would definitely recommend your bud to anyone wanting to learn cricket!
Agreed - the best explanation of our beautiful game for American ears I've ever heard. Most Aussie cricket fans probably know baseball fairly well too, as many cricketers play - or certainly used to play - baseball in the off-season.
In fact the sidearm-style baseball throws are normal now. In the old days, throws were always overarm but that baseball innovation has made its way into the game.
How many world cups you guys have, aren't you bored , now let us win 😭😭
@@samarpanverma5790 😀😀
Yeah, Pom here, and I agree with the Aussie. It's not easy to explain cricket, and you did a good job.
@@dansheppard2965 bloody poms
There's a great book from about 15 years ago called "Playing Hard Ball", by an English cricketer who discovered baseball and even spent a spring training with the Mets. The point from that which really struck me was that the key difference to understanding each game from the other perspective was that the relative roles of batting and delivering/fielding are swapped. In baseball, the advantage is with the pitcher/fielders to the point that the batter expects to make an out with every plate appearance and it's the pitcher who's dreading letting his team down by giving up a run while in cricket the bowler can't reasonably expect to not give up a run per ball on average but woe be unto the batsman who allows a wicket to be taken. The rate at which wickets typically get taken (at least in T20) lines up fairly well with the typical rate at which runs get scored in baseball.
What's the origin of the books title, cos around the same time an excellent history of soccer was written using the same title, taken from a World Cup winning coach; "the ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes, and everything else is just theorising"
@@stalfithrildi5366 Yeah, actually I got the titles confused... it's "Playing Hard Ball"
This lines up well with something I've long said - that Cricket is a game of runs with rare game-changing outs, and Baseball is a game of outs with rare game-changing runs.
@@NemoThorx Nice summary
Good explanation, the constant batting(bunting to be more accurate) in cricket is really boring.
Life-long English cricket watcher here (test matches only). It's only when you watch something like this you realise what a mental game it is really. And you've only scratched the surface of the rules/etiquette really. There's so much more to do with weather, atmospheric conditions, the state of the ball, reviewing wickets, types of bowling, ground conditions, fielding positions and so on. I'd love to be able to come at it as an adult who knows nothing of it and see what I think about it all.
What are "test matches"?
Im an Australian baseball player, so I know both sports inside out. This is a great video, you did quite well. Test Cricket is still the pinnacle of the sport, the Ashes Series (Australia vs England) is a very big deal here. We will be glued to our TVs for 5 matches of 5 days each :) Twenty 20 is a bit of hit and giggle designed to draw in people with short attention spans that just want to see big hitting. Test Cricket, especially towards the end of a match if it is close can be very exciting, nail-biting stuff.
Well said sir.
How's your baseball going, BTW?
What do you think of the loss of legends like Marsh, Warne and Symonds in a few months? 😢😢
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@@markdowse3572 Baseball I haven't played for a few years. I'm 44 now. I have plans to return and play in our local veterans comp in summer.
Test cricket is one of the most beautiful things in sport. Like the Ind v Aus series in 2020-21.
@@positivegradient The border gavaskar trophy
@@kiranfrancis8325 yes
Thank you for this.
I recently became the manager of a department where 2/3 of the staff are hardcore cricket fans. I need to become more versed in the sport so that I have things other than work to talk about. The last time I worked with so many people who followed a sport new to me, I became an F1 fan and that was in 2007. I expect that within a year, I'll be watching cricket like my ma watches baseball.
Cheers!
Are u American if yes then the staff will be of subcontinent or Caribbean background.
@@AsadAli-bz2zj I am Canadian and my staff are mostly Indian. They are all MAD for cricket. When I came in today and told my senior tech I was starting to learn about cricket, how I was wrong to compare it to baseball and I need to watch a twenty 20 match sometime soon.
His eye lit up.
Stick to watching T10 on TH-cam . Test ODI and even T20 are boring for newcomers . Only people who grew up watching cricket are interested in Tests . England is changing that with with Bazball in Tests.
@@DrTedEsq lol his eyes lit up 🤣
W boss
As a British Sri Lankan, this is probably the best explanation of Cricket by an American I've ever seen!
My niece once married an Englishman. I asked him to explain cricket to me in 5 minutes. He replied it would take 5 days and he still wouldn't be finished :)
England isnt the cricket loving nation that it once used to be.
It's very simple. So you have a bowler, and he's all like, 'Blimey, imma roll a wobbly, gov'na." To which you are supposed to respond," Oi, I don't think that's a right proper bowl, innit?" At this point, you need to call the "bowler" 'a manky git.'" Then you hoist a few pints and go home. As I said, simple.
@@I.R.S-r6y True, but you can argue neither is Australia despite enormous success, New Zealand and South Africa and you can in recent decades also add the West Indies. In all these countries they are not as Cricket loving as they used to be. There are a lot of reasons for this. But at the end of the day. No matter how much Cricket declines in popularity in these countries for various reasons. There will always be a small but very dedicated Cricket community who follow the sport passionately. Because the sport is a lot of fun and its a damn good sport. In a way its good. Because it seperates the fake cricket fans from the true genuinely dedicated Cricket fans. Like in England a lot of Cricket fans who are Cricket fans are genuine lovers of cricket. They don't follow it because its the latest fashion or something. While this means they will be small in number and not as numerous. Same in Aus, NZ,SA and WI. Before you could argue. WHen it was more popular if all the popularity was genuine. Like in SOuth Asia. You wonder if the greater number of fans are genuine or just following it because its the latest fad. Next year they will follow something else. Where as when the sport decline you would think those left behind are genuine fans and follow it because they genuine deeply love it. I prefer that situation. A sport being popular is not what its cracked up to be and really means nothing. Better to have a less popular but dedicated Cricket following I prefer that. Leave popularity to sports like Football that seem to have packed stadiums every match. Other sports can get by with less and we are just fine with that.
This video comes from an American and I have no idea of his cricket knowledge outside of this vid. But as an Australian who has been mad about cricket since I was a kid (now 47), I can’t fault it! Great vid! Obviously every single point you made could be stretched into an hour long video, but I was sitting here nodding at everything. You covered the main points, and covered them really well!
who do you support in the BBL- im a perth scorcher and WACA(in the shield) fan
This is magnificent and honestly makes me want to follow cricket as an adult. I’m an American who grew up with a few Indian families on our street. We would play cricket, using a brick mailbox as the wickets and bowling a tennis ball from across the road, running back and forth touching the curbs. It was so much fun and makes me wonder how popular it really could be professionally in the states if it had the same history as baseball.
It's literally the 2nd most popular sport. It better than Baseball if you check stats
Cricket is great for casual games (as you only need about 3+ people), so I hope it catches on in the states more
@@aquanoxopu07 better? You mean more popular?
Using tennis ball takes away all the good things while adding bad things to the sport.
I wud always advise against using a tennis ball. If you have not played using a leather ball on a playground, then you have no idea what real cricket feels like.
I am saying that as one who has played Cricket using plastic, tennis, Cork and Leather balls and know the difference in the play as a result. Believe me, tennis ball is the worst!
@@manubhatt3that is easy to play for a casual player. Others are heavy, more injury prone, the ball will deteriorate each time you play.
I’m a passionate baseball coach and umpire who has always found cricket confusing. But this video cleared up a lot of that confusion, and I find myself quite intrigued by this interesting sport. Thanks for the great info and explanation!
Nice!
A big difference between cricket and baseball is respect for the umpires. You don't give the umpire so much as a dirty look for a bad decision.
@@119beaker That interesting. What is recourse for bad cricket umpires? Does it seem that there are more bad cricket umpires? (Since getting on umpires for bad calls has a way of getting rid of them, and keeping the good umpires on their ‘A’ game.)
@@JudeOneThree There are bad umpires. Steve Bucknor was a bad umpire (The cricket equivalent of Angel Hernandez but without the arrogance). But now they have a review system bad umpires are soon found out. Umpires now have to be selected annually so bad ones just drop out.
@@JudeOneThree Cricket has a review system. Each side gets a certain amount of reviews per innings (typically 2 or 3). Once the Umpire has made a call the team which had the call go against them has about 15 seconds to decide if they want to review or not. If a review is called then TV footage is analysed and the umpire's decision can be reversed. If the decision is reversed then the team keeps the review. If the Umpire's original decision is clearly correct the team loses their review. Finally, if the decision could have gone either way (common in LBWs) the Umpire's decision stands but the team keeps their review.
I never understood the attraction of cricket when I was young(I'm a Brit), until I saw an interview with Ian Botham which described the intimidatory nature of bowling in test matches. It is a legitimate tactic to hurt or scare a player into a mistake or just give up their wicket. Gladitorial combat hidden within a gentlemens game!
This was a key plot point in the Cricket episode of Bluey, which is an episode I highly recommend to anyone who likes cricket or just wants to learn the game.
I love the first 5 seconds of this video - Ben Stokes hitting a six on his way to an absolutely incredible victory over Australia at my local ground, Headingley. Australia may beat England more often than not but it's moments like this that keep me in love with test cricket.
Ah the ashes ....
I actually understand what ‘hitting a six’ means now thanks to this video. Feels kinda awesome, ngl.
As an Aussie, it's also those rare aoccassions where we lose that keeps it interesting.
@@Darfaultner 🤣🤣
@@Darfaultner Some of the best test matches come down to the final overs of the last day. Edgebaston (those who know) was a nailbiter of an Ashes test. Adelaide in the follow-up series was equally close. I remember one test Australia played against India was decided in the 3rd to last over by Michael Clarke taking 3(!) wickets in a single over. Classic stuff.
who is here after USA defeated Pakistan in T20WC
Those Pakistani players will be lucky to get off the plane in Karachi, let alone through the airport. I hope their families are ok.
US figured out how to play easy Baseball. The world better watch out.
me lmfao
“chants” USA USA USA USA 🇺🇸 😂
*raises hand* USA! USA! USA! (what even is this game?) USA! USA! USA!
I am English, and my late wife was from the USA.
She introduced me to baseball. And was from Chicago, so go Cubs!
She learnt to understand cricket and loved it.
Anyway, I understand both sports fluently, and this video explained things very well.
I'm British (Scottish, so not naturally a cricket fan) and after many attempts to understand cricket, I became a baseball fan and only now do I get what's been going on. Good job.
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One of my best friends is Scottish and a very good cricketer. Cricket is very popular in Scotland. There is no reason why a Scottish person can not represent England at cricket, indeed England had a Scottish captain a few decades ago (Mike Denness)
Actually incredible that you have made me understand cricket in like 2 minutes when I have tried and failed for at least like a decade
Me too and I'm not even American nor do I understand how baseball is played very well at all.
As a blind guy, I want to say that I really appreciate the text on your headings being put into speech, I’m not sure if you do this all the time as this video just popped up in my recommended, but I really really appreciate it from an accessibility standpoint. I’m learning a lot, I’m only about a third of the way through the video at this point, but this has been the best explanation of cricket that I have yet seen, and as an avid baseball fan I really appreciate the content. Thanks!
A friend of a friend plays Blind cricket . maybe you will search how they do that ?
What the actual fk man how does that even work
@@serbobvegana8327 there are different ways to do it, I learned to touch type when I was a kid so if you feel the F and J keys on your keyboard they have bumps on them and you can learn the entire keyboard by sense of touch just by memorizing where the letters are. with new technology, new solutions, I’m writing this right now by speaking into my phone using dictation, where I relay the words and punctuation I want my comment to say through speaking and my phone adds them via text. I use a screen reader to read everybody else’s comments which is pretty cool. We’ve come along way in the last 20 years or so. I hope this helps!
@@blindovermatter3054 okay but how do you play red dead on you channel? Im genuinely curious
@@serbobvegana8327 I have a limited amount of usable vision and I am happy to try to show how things work for me on a stream or video at some point, but the game has just enough assists to help me once in a while, though I have had to have my girlfriend with better vision complete a few missions and things for me. Not every game is perfect as far as accessibility options go, but some games have just enough to make it work for me.
I'm an Aussie who has watched cricket all of his life and I still loved this! I even didn't know that an appeal was compulsory for LBW. Looking forward to the fourth test of the Ashes tonight!
You watch cricket but don't know that an LBW needs to be appealed?
@@BustaNutt7138 I figured the reason the players appeal is to try and win over the umpire or sway their decision a bit. It has been a year since I posted that comment and I’m not about to rewatch the video to double check but IIRC the suggestion was that an appeal is compulsory which would mean the umpire won’t call LBW without an appeal first - which if true was news to me. Does that make sense?
Very good video. Another couple of differences you could have mentioned are:
1. A cricket ball is harder than a baseball; and
2. Cricket fielders don't wear gloves (only the wicketkeeper does).
Put these two together and catching is so much more impressive.
Well, the batsmen wear gloves too!
@@PFNel considering how hard the ball is, and that it’s perfectly legal to hit the batsman with it, gloves and all the rest of the protective gear is definitely necessary. Now despite all of this, many many many batsmen break fingers when hit on the gloves. 6.5 oz. hard ball coming at over 90 mph can be quite deadly!
@@PFNel Yaa bcz in baseball you can't hit the batter bcz it's illegal but in cricket you are allowed to hit the batter anywhere...even in the head...One guy died in 2014 bcz of hitting of ball in his head so protection is needed for batter in cricket
I, a Canadian, just discovered cricket with my "Willow" cable channel. Thanks Sports Explained for the crash course. Concerning the not wearing of gloves, I have often wondered how different the game would be if fielders wore a type of (baseball?) fielding glove. Catching a flyball has to hurt!!!!
@@burkeshaw Well, accidents can happen, of course, and a cricket ball is hard and heavy. But it's not much of a problem for an experienced player; just a matter of presenting your hands to the ball correctly. Baseball players could do it if they had to. Cricketers in the outfield would probably prefer not to wear gloves! It's simply what you're used to.
As Australian cricket enthusiast ,I regard your video as a great introductory for baseball fans .
You didn't get bogged down with the details,that would confuse people that don't know the game . Cheers.
There are a few of these out there and each time I watched them I have wondered if a novice viewer was more confused after than before. This was not that - this was excellent. Cricket fans cannot help themselves and use game terms constantly even when they are trying to explain them. You did a great job of limiting that.
Thanks!
But if you are the only one following right way... you're wrong!
@@prabhatpal2572 ..
" if you are the only one following right way... you're wrong!"
Lol.. That's a 'consensus = truth' argument. It's a logical fallacy and therefore false. The right way is the right way, regardless of whether or not others agree.
@@paspax "I agree. Let's go Brandon"
I was able to follow it pretty well and I knew little to nothing about cricket going in. But I must say, this game sounds a bit too complicated to just "pick up" on. I love American football, but if I hadn't been into it since I was a kid as well as played on a team in school, I doubt I'd get into it now because it too is a complicated sport with tons of rules and jargon.
Baseball on the other hand is super simple. You don't even need to know all of the terms to understand the game or even play it.
My parents are British and I moved to the United States when I was 5. You did an excellent job explaining cricket in terms of baseball.
I was born and raised in the U.S., and like many of my fellow Americans, I understand the rules of baseball. That said, I think cricket is a little easier to figure out. One can see how runs are scored in cricket after a bit of observation. In baseball, the batting team has to go all the way around the bases to get to home to score a run, a baserunner can overrun first base but not the other bases, the force out rules are different for different bases/situations, same with tagging up and doubling off, etc.. I once saw a test match between England and Australia at Old Trafford and I got the basic idea fairly quickly, despite having never seen a cricket match before in my life.
Yeah good point. I'm the reverse: Born and raised in NZ. Came across a baseball game when I was a kid on TV. Worked out the basics pretty easily. Then, being exposed to lots of American films and TV, you pick up more. I learned so much about American culture growing up, as I'm sure lots of kids did in NZ, Australia and the UK.
As a person familiar with Cricket, and who watched a Baseball game once while fully understanding and enjoying it, I think Baseball has much better pace and much more continuous tension than Cricket and Cricket has much more options and complexity than Baseball.
I never realized how absolutely bizarre baseball really is until my son started playing as a six year old and I had to explain the game to him.
Excellent work mate. I've been in the game as a player and umpire for 35 years, and I couldn't have done a better job myself. Bravo.
Thanks!
You are Aussie🇦🇺 right???
One thing that baseball fans might enjoy about cricket are the bowling styles. If you are into sliders, fast balls and the like, then you will enjoy cricket. There are two basic types of bowling: fast and spin. Within those two types there are many styles and methods of delivery. It’s whole world of fun to explore.
I've defidently enjoy watching cricket bowling in slo-mo.
It's poetry in motion, and some of the best by the likes of Shane Warne defy physics and blew my mind.
@@666kingdrummer check out Brett Lee, murali and Kumble too, they are legendary bowlers
@@666kingdrummer check out Kumble, Murali , and Brett Lee too, legendary bowlers
@@666kingdrummer check out Kumble, Murali , and Brett Lee too, legendary bowlers
Not true cricket blows
As a big baseball fan in the US, Ive always wanted to understand cricket. This video did more than any other video I've watched. Thanks!
One thing I want to add is in cricket the captains role is very important. He decides the strategy, fielding positions who should go next to bowl or bat. Take fielding or batting first based on the pitch and so many decisions. It's crucial, since usually it's not a one man show , it's a collective effort, but unlike football , there is lot more thinking that goes into the game even before every delivery of the bowl
Not to forget a, captain also decides on the players fielding positions and when to declare.
I question the cricket having more thinking than football. Ever see a playbook? Quarterbacks, if successful, not only have a lot to think about but they know they are going to get hit pretty hard on every play.
Until you talk to a player in any sport, I don’t think you realize how much thinking and strategy involved. Jai Alai looks like a reflex sport but it is pretty complex.
@@sirpercarde709 I am not too familiar with Football but there's a lot more thinking that goes into cricket. Bowling type according to batter, field position and layout that changes throughout the match, bowling length and line, lot of predictions on both sides, batter's fielding sense, running between the wickets requires a lot of communication, etc.
Just a rundown for one of the most complex and interesting part of cricket- Bowling. It is divided into three types, fast pace, medium pace and spin (slow pace).
Fast pace is the one with long runups and are generally 135+kmph and generally doesn't have that many variations. There types of swings, slower ball, bouncer, cutters, full toss, Yorker, being the more popular.
Then there's spin (slow pace) which is divided into wrist spinners and finger spinners. These are ons slower end with 80 kmph. The have a lot of varieties, most importantly, off spin(finger spin) and leg break(wrist spin), other variations depend on finger positioning and speed. But it can change things by a whole lot like with carrom ball being the same type as off spin yet somewhat behaving like leg break( the difference in degrees of turn is a lot).
Medium pace is just a mix.
So, this alone is pretty complex and a batter have to predict the types of ball, length and pace(for more versatile bowls). There's also fielding positions that's a whole lot of important which also depends on powerplays, and are ever changing depending on the batsman, bowlers and conditions.
Batting is also pretty complex but it's all upto batsman.
A very good statement that I once heard that goes a long way towards explaining the mindset differences between cricket and baseball is this:
In baseball, outs are cheap and runs are expensive
In cricket, runs are cheap and outs are expensive
That explains why DEFENCE is such a big part of the cricket batting game, while it's not such a big deal in baseball. In cricket, especially in test cricket, preserving one's wicket is vital as you don't get another chance in that innings. So you leave balls, you play defensive shots, and you decline runs if you don't think you can make your ground.
Great video!
Awesome! I had never heard this, and it's a great way of looking at it.
You have to be tactical with your bat and know when to go on the offensive and defensive ,a mistake in this can cost your team the game.
Not always , depends on the format and situation. For eg you have 6 balls remaining and have to score say 18 runs. Then you start whacking to get a six (home run ) aggressively. Else you lose the game
As a cricket fan, I found this to be a very good explanation of the game. Cricket rules, especially the way of being out can be complicated and you didn't fall into the trap of trying to explain this and go into too much depth. Nice one. Thanks.
I’ve started getting into watching cricket (mostly Test cricket) during the baseball offseason in the last couple of years, and I’m still trying to learn and understand all the rules. This is a pretty good video!
Even as a South African who's much more familiar with cricket than baseball, I found this immensely entertaining and even learned a couple of things! Rugby is my favourite sport, and I reckon a "rugby explained for NFL fans" or vice versa would be just as interesting. Excellent video, well done!
South Africa has participated at Olympic level in baseball.....Sydney 2000.
@@flamingfrancis I was 3 at the time and my favourite sport was probably picking my nose or something.
@@tinglydingle There is probably a league for that somewhere.
One aspect about rugby football that does not happen in American football is "putting teammates onside" after a kick has been made. If a teammate kicks a ball foreward in rugby soon after a scrum, the teammates in front, where the scrum was, are considered offside, and have a duty under the rules to get back onside by getting back either even with or slightly behind the kicker - or even with or slightly behind any other teammate who is already onside. The person kicking the ball will of course usually try to assist the process by running foreward, but will be sometimes noticeably be initially slowed from being temporarily off balance from making the kick, or might stay back in expectation of a counter kick in his direction. In that situation, a speedy back at the far edge of the field who was onside at the time of the kick or has put himself onside soon after the kick can dash straight forward in an effort to get as many teammates as possible onside as fast as possible, thus allowing as many of them as possible to legally run forward toward the opponent trying to catch the kick.
In American football however, a couple of people on the punting team might be 30 yards in front of the kicker at the time a punt is made, and might be 10 yards ahead of all the rest of their teammates when diving at the opposing kick returner for a possible tackle a fraction of a second after he makes contact with the ball. In American football that's a legal tackle (unless the kick returner has raised up one of his forearms and waved his hand and ideally his forearm as well in a sideways back and forth motion to clearly enough signal for a fair catch as can be done in rugby football as well), but in rubgy football that type of tackle with the tacklers' teammates all still so far behind just after the ball gets caught would be a clear offside violation, due to the two advanced tacklers clearly being unquestionably ahead of the rest of their team for the entire time after the kick.
Learning cricket is like learning a language. One must be born to a cricket-playing or cricket-following family to master the rules and be able to appreciate various intricacies. I take my hat off to those who take the trouble of learning it as a "second language". The word "wicket" has at least three different meanings, "pitch" at least two and many such. Well done for having a go at learning and explaining cricket.
Wicket = Out
Wicket = Stumps
Wicket = Pitch
Cricket should've been named Wicket
@@LoneVocalist 😂 What is 'Leg before wicket'?🦵 One side of the ground is called the 'Leg side' 🦵. There are fieldsmen kept at 'Fine Leg', 'Short Leg', etc. If the batsman misses the ball while trying to hit it and he was able to get 'runs' those are called byes and count as extras. If the ball hits any part of the body of the batsman and goes for runs they are called 'leg byes'. What's the fascination with legs?🦵🤣🤣
@@NhwNews You're not allowed to put your leg in front of the ball and stop it from hitting the wicket. You have to use the bat. But if the ball bounced on the leg side or hit anywhere other than in front of the wicket or wasn't going to hit the wicket, it isn't LBW. The leg side is the side towards the batter's leg. A bye (leg or otherwise) is where the batsman scores any runs despite not hitting the ball with the bat, and the ball was hittable (otherwise it is a wide). A leg bye in particular is when the ball hits the batsman's leg and they run and LBW doesn't apply.
Note: When I say "leg" in the context of "hits the leg", it could be any part of the body, except the hand when it is holding the bat.
Me too I really appreciate Americans especially who take the time to learn the sport and then explain it to others. When really Americans don't need any reason. They have their own sports. American culture dominates the world. They really don't have to follow sports like Cricket or take the trouble to learn the rules. Hats off to Americans who make the effort. Shows despite their power and success in the world a lot of Americans are still very humble people and appreciate other sports and don't denigrate it. I respect that.
As someone who has played both cricket and baseball, I can say this is a great explaination.
Few things you can add.
1)A red ball is used in Test cricket while a white ball is used in Limted overs cricket.
A pink ball (newest) is used in Day and night Test Cricket.
2) When an over is finished, the next over is bowled from the other end of the pitch.
3)In limited overs cricket there are limits for bowlers too.
One day - Maximum 10 overs per bowler
t20 - Maximum 4 overs per bowler
4)There are mainly 2 types of bowlers in cricket (Fast bowlers - Spin bowlers).
5)Captain plays a big role in the game, unlike other sports.
There are so many quick on-field decisions and changes captain has to do.
Two more things I would add:
1. The bowler's delivery is restricted so the elbow is (mostly) straight.
2. County cricket is also considered first-class cricket, but is played over four days. It is now professional, but long ago was a mixture of amateurs and professionals. (The amateurs were typically wealthy or aristocrats and looked down on the lower class professionals.)
@araparseghian2 Coaches do exist in cricket however during the game, they cannot make decisions. They can run suggestions out to the captain on the field but it's not like football where the manager is calling plays from the sidelines
I may have missed this in the video but what determines a win, runs or wickets?
@@billycox475 To add the missing cases to SynthMusicFan 501's explaination.
In limited overs, if the team "defending the target" (team bowling last), bowl out the overs, ie reach the over limit, before the "chasing" team (team batting last) reachs the target, they win by runs, as if they had bowled the team out (taken all 10 wickets).
In First Class or Test Matchs, if time runs out (often because rain stops play) before the match is complete, the match is drawn.
A Tie is a completed match where the runs scored by both teams are considered equaled. Usually they are equal, but in limited overs sometimes the second innings is shortened and the target modified (this is really complex), if the chasing team is 1 run short of the target the game is tied.
ok so baseball fan here....sorry if I mess up the terms...
Question about #2........So you put the ball in play but only score 1 run. That would mean that the batsmen switched ends of the pitch....so now for the next ball the batsman is switched?
Lifelong MLB fan here. Seen more games than I care to count and have passed-on my love for the game to my children and their friends. I LOVE Baseball.
So, you can imagine that to my eyes cricket has *always* seemed really weird, and frankly silly.
Until now. I stopped to devote 15 minutes of my time to take in your video offering, since I really seemed like the target audience.
I found that I really genuinely appreciate the explainer, spoken in my language, if you will.
And now, I might even take in a few cricket games now, thanks to you!!
"Silly" ?...it's only "wierd" and "silly" to wierd and silly people.
I've played both cricket and baseball a lot throughout my life, I'm now too old to play either! I enjoy them both and have no bias for one over the other. If you want to learn every single rule and nuance, I would say cricket is more complicated than baseball, but only if you want to know absolutely everything the game has to offer. On the subject of which game is easier to play, as a batter it is harder to hit the ball in cricket - there are more variations of delivery a bowler can master, than a pitcher in baseball. A batter in cricket has the added difficulty of trying to judge the bounce of the ball off the surface of the wicket - and the surface you play on has a huge effect on how the ball behaves - this is much more difficult than dealing with a ball that does not bounce before reaching you. There is also seam movement, cut, drift, swing, reverse swing, several variations of slower balls, faster balls, bouncers, yorkers, full-tosses and many types spin bowling to master in cricket. Yes, cricket is harder to master than baseball, at least that was my experience, but both games are fantastic to play and to watch. I love them both.
The width of Baseball tops all the factors you mentioned. Hitting a ball in Baseball is much more difficult. Just look at the average strike rate or misses in both the games.
I went to England with a group from college 20 years ago. We were watching TV one day and a cricket match was on. Of course being Americans we knew nothing about it... When we asked one of our hosts to explain it he just said it's complicated. 😂
Fair enough I guess. After your explanation I know way more than I did! Great job!
Here’s a fun fact: England and Australia are seen as the traditional cricket nations. They played the first official Test match in 1877 in Melbourne, Australia, which was roughly around 100 years before the first limited overs international (50 overs per side). However the first time two countries played each other in cricket was three decades earlier between United States and Canada! This is the forerunner to baseball having some origins in cricket.
@araparseghian2 Well that is most appropriate. The Cincinnati Reds (Major League Baseball team) were founded in 1881. The National League of Major League Baseball was founded in 1876 while the American League came about in 1893. They joined together into the MLB in 1903. There are a few other teams still in existence today that are close to being as old as the Reds but are still a few years younger.
I would like to point out that Baseball draws directly from Rounders rather then Cricket but I realize that even then it still has roots in Cricket. I find the the shared history between all of them awesome. The same as the origins of American Football really although that one gets a bit complicated at points.
Yeah, unless I knew everyone in your group was engaged and wanted to listen, and we had probably at least 20 minutes to focus, I don’t think I would bother getting into an explanation of cricket with Americans lol
@@BD-yl5mh That's fair enough! 😂
@@kevinyoung5728 The laws of cricket were first codified in 1744 (the game dates back about 200 years earlier). The first international was the US vs Canada in 1844 in New York. The MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) was founded in 1787 and used to be the governing body of the sport, and is still seen as the home of cricket. Hambledon Club goes back to 1750.
"P" means power play
There are three power plays in ODI
1. 1 to 10th over. In this power play you can have only two fielders out side the 30 yard circle marked on the field
2. 11 to 40th over. You can place 5 fielders out side the 30 yard circle.
3. 41 to 50th over you can have only 4 fielders out side the 30 yard circle
In t 20s there's only one power play 1 to 6 th over. In this power play you can have only two fielders out side the 30 yard circle.
From 07 to 20th over you can have only five or less fielders out side the 30 yard circle
11:41 Just a small correction to clarify for everyone: when we see ‘Target 222’, it means the previous team has scored 221 runs, and the current batting team needs to score 222 (or one run more) to win. However, if it says ‘ENG|222’ (where ENG stands for England), that means England has scored 222 runs. Similarly, ‘IND|222’ (where IND stands for India) would mean India has scored 222 runs. ‘Target|222’ and ‘IND|222’ represent different things. I hope this helps clear up any confusion. (by the way, I absolutely love this video! thanks for making it and simplifying such a broad topic.)
I have played cricket my entire life and watched this whole video just because it’s interesting seeing cricket explained through the lens of a baseball fan.. it’s made me more interested in following baseball
As a life-long cricket viewer, I can say that this is a very well put-together video. It explains all the main stuff without going into too much detail (which can get confusing). Well done!
For a person with a non-cricket background, you did a pretty good job of explaining the basics. Possibly could have compared the speed of the ball in both games and possibly the types of bowls (spin, fast, etc).
Thank you! I’m a 46 year old American who grew up with baseball and never understood Cricket. This is the first time I could grasp the concepts of it
I've been a cricket fan for over 50 years, and this video is extremely well done. 1 or 2 very tiny mistakes. Too tiny to be even worth mentioning. Again, congratulations on a very good job.
Yes, and other people have probably already brought those errors up a couple dozen times, haha!
Thanks for the kind words.
12:25 (Batsmen are not compelled to run) - This is a big one, and it helps to explain how the game can run so long and score so highly. If a batter hits a ground ball to an infielder, that at-bat is almost certainly over, probably with a force out. A batsman can just stay put and try again. In fact that’s usually the best choice since outs (wickets) are so precious.
(Limited-over formats encourage more aggressive play, so you may occasionally see someone try to leg it out.)
T20 makes it costly to not run. If the bowler can go through his 6 bowls, and the at-bats only manage to run on 2 of the bowls, the at-bat team has lost precious points, and has make it harder to reach the target, or build one of sufficient size.
TL/DR:
Every time a bowl is made correctly and there are no run-attempt, the bowler has succeed.
That is the LAMEST thing I have ever heard about a sport! "Oops, let me try that again..."; No; You are OUT! In baseball, if you hit it in the air, and the fielders can catch it, you're OUT!
@@brentfarvors192 You completely misunderstood him. Just like in baseball if the ball bounces and then is caught that doesn't mean the batter is out. What he is trying to say is that a batsman can not run if he doesn't wish to attempt to score. The batsman is never compelled to run and can deliberately play without attempting to score.
So no its not about trying again. You get nothing from refusing to run. Its not about being given chances its about strategy. Sometimes its optimal not to score.
I don't see why people like you have to be antagonistic about sports. Especially when you go on the offensive even though you completely misread his comment. Different people enjoy different sports.
@@obscuredictionary3263 Yeah, BUT, the batter is required to run, no matter where the ball is hit...So, YES; I "understood"; It's just it doesn't make any logical sense!!! Hence, my comment about them being forced to run...Name 1 other sport where the player doesn't get penalized for not completing a round...? There is none! Even in baseball, a foul is a strike against you!!!
@@abirlal5877 Spoilers: I KNEW THAT! That is the DUMBEST non-rule in the entire HISTORY of SPORTS!!! "Tom Brady throws the ball away"..."Do over...?" NO; You lose a down!!! No other sport allows this! NONE!!! The batter should be required to run, no matter WHERE on the field the ball is hit; It's basic logical sense...Wait a minute; Now I am starting to "get it"...
Extremely well done. As a cricket fan living in the US I have tried to explain this many many times with varying degrees of success. Your rundown is an excellent introduction. I always tell folks in the US that if you enjoy the pace, the game play, and the stats of baseball, you will most likely enjoy cricket for the same reasons.
Is there any future of cricket in US
very helpful. I saw USA did well at T20 and wanted to watch the highlights. I didnt know wtf was going on.
As a USA boy this helped me understand what i was watching! A little embarrassed i didn't know earlier since this is the second most popular sport in the world. but hey we live and learn.
I like the differences between Cricket and baseball, cool to see there is so much more interaction from the fielding team as a whole. Go Team USA!
Nothing to be embarrassed about, Baseball and Cricket have more in common than not. A few friends are into the Australian cricket pro leagues which is played in the MLB off season. Once you get the basics you're 90% there.
@@goodshipkaraboudjan who do they support? im a perth scorchers fan so...
@@ExampleName-j2n I'm a Queenslander so they're Heat fans just because that's what they started watching with me.
You guys did well. It's good to see the US open up to more international sports
This is wonderful. I am a lifelong cricket fan, so loved hearing cricket explained to baseball lovers. You've asked for comments and corrections. I think you kind of touched on this when you spoke about "appealing" - when the bowling side asks the empire to decide whether they have managed to get the batter "out" or not. This is why we say that the batter was "given out", rather than "put out". "Put out" in British English means: inconvenienced. The batter is given out on the pitch, but if he/she doesn't agree with the decision, will definitely feel very put out that they're now walking back to the changing room 😆
And don't forget the call (appeal to the Umpire) of; "HOWZAT?"
("How's that" meaning, did we get him out or not?))
The usual term, the one used in the Laws, is "dismissed".
@@cshairydude Yes...that's true actually. Funny, the same as when someone's fired. And the wicket is called a dismissal. This is going to sound so odd to Americans.
Another thing to point out is the decision itself. There is no such judgement in Cricket as "In" (or "Safe" as in Baseball), the decision is either "Out" or "Not Out". Similar in court:"Guilty" or "Not Guilty".
This Aussie cricket lover approves of this video! Well done.
After the announcement of T20 World Cup coming to USA, a lot of people will use this video as a reference. Job well done sir.
T20 worldcup in USA was ruined by bcci and icc. The timing and the ticket price omg it was supposed to promote cricket in USA and they exactly did the opposite w ticket price over the roof and such fucked up match timing because indian fans would watch the game at night.
Some years ago I worked with an American from WV who had spent some time working in the UK, during which he got really into watching cricket. He told me he did not understand why it was not more popular in the US as it is a sport that you can watch for up to 5 days straight, drink beer all day and scores are in the hundreds. As he put it, "what is more American than that?"
that's because cricket will eat up some share of the baseball market..US companies has invested significantly in the baseball over the decades .. they can not afford cricket getting popular..the media companies as well are not putting any efforts in understanding the game of cricket..they always first mention that a game of cricket lasts for few days and that's the perception of average american about cricket.
if you go in depth, americans tend to simplify things when it comes to sports .. Baseball -> batters hit the ball and run, fielders will try to catch or run you out .. basketball -> keep putting the ball in the ring while opponents try to stop you .. ice hockey -> score goals without worrying about the puck going outside the boundary.. only football has some complexity but it does not have a flow in the game, there many many interruptions .. anything complex than that, americans don't spend time in understanding it.
there is another aspect of physical strength .. all american sports require the players to push the limits of physique..so much so that average person can rarely make any career in those sports..also these sports have physical contact involved in the game play..so there are chances of 'fights' during the gameplay especially considering the body built of the players.. these fights or the physical involvement in the game, somehow, excite the crowd here..
That's not the case with the cricket..cricket requires to have an agile body..being bulky is a disadvantage in the cricket..person with an average body can make a career in cricket .. but in america, commercially, everything has to be big - go big or go home.
Facing down fast bowlers requires nerves of steel though. Pretty badarse if you ask me
That's why inorder to tap into that market, they are bringing MLC (Major League Cricket), a T20 tournament going to be held in july-august in Texas and North Carolina.
But, that 5 day match you are talking about is a Test Match. Only big nations play because of the huge money involved. Now, Currently USA is an associate cricketing nation, who will soon be participating in the World Cup qualifiers
@@joeldipopsyep. Plus you can legally smash the ball into the batter in cricket. Baseball you can’t even flick the shirt with a pitch, or you’ll put the batter on first.
@@MrBrenosand the bounce is what makes a cricket delivery dangerous. It can pitch wherever on the floor before you and can fail all your calculations after the bounce.
Great job on the video. I'm an Australian who's been watching cricket and playing cricket at school his entire life and I never knew that Australian broadcasts place the number of wickets first and then runs, while other places do it backwards. You'd think I would've noticed that 😅
I've always been interested in cricket, although it's not practiced in my country (Mexico), and this is the first true and clear explanation of cricket I've ever seen. Being a baseball fan, it was relatively easy to grasp the concepts, although I struggle a little in the scorekeeping. Nevertheless, it was a very good video and thanks for the explanation.
@SynthMusicFan 501 Go figure, I never knew it was practiced in Mexico. Anyway, thanks for your video. It made cricket easy to understand. Cheers.
LoNg story but hope this helps : Im a batsman , the first bowler has 6 balls to get me out . I leave the first ball bowled alone, it goes straight to wicket keeper .The second I hit the ball but goes to a player and i cannot risk a run and Yell at my other batsman " wait" . Third ball I hit and i place it in the gap so I judge by the time a fielder runs to it and throws it back at the wicket and or wicket keeper I can run up to other end and be back at my end, Crossing the white line with my bat grounded running hard . So I yell to my other batsmen in loud voice TWO !! He knows what i will be doing and I get back before my wicket is broken , Im safe my score is 2 not out. Fourth ball lifts off the pitch enough I can really hit to the boundary for FOUR . The other batsman also watches and we both run until the ball hits the boundary then I can stop even if I made the other end and go back to facing the bowler . My Score is now 6 not out. The Fifth ball I clip behind me and my batsman is my eyes and yells at me really loud so i know the intention "THREE''!! So I run down , back again then again to the end where the bowler comes in . My score 9 not out AND I dont face that bowler anymore ,the other batsman does. He faces the sixth ball and hits it high and straight over the oval fence for SIX . The Umpire signals that to the bowler and then back to where the scorers are to say " its his judgement that it was a 6. The other batsman is now 6 not out , I am 9 not out . The bowler has lost 15 runs for no wicket for just 6 balls . His Captain in the field will look his way until he gets his attention and hope he gets better when his next 6 are after the next bowler. Due to the next bowler starting at me from the other end and I face the 1st ball again. If I was Steve Smith I would be doing this for 5 hours and make 120 runs
Mexico has both a Men's and women's national cricket team. They are an affiliate country so would only be playing ODI and Twenty20 matches. Nations are ranked by the ICC - International Cricket Council and very few nations are given the status to play Test matches
ironically the hispanic community in LA play it on the streets, they also follow the etiquette which was prodominately the point of teaching it, as it`s not an aggressive game but played with manners, mostly, dunno if it still is though but i seen a tv thing on it a few years ago and found it interesting.
2 Years later, not only it has 1M+ views, almost every TH-camr now uses this video and react to it with the title "American learns cricket for the first time" and ends up gaining an audience.
This video in itself is a success over TH-cam.
Sad that we didn't got "Baseball explained for cricket fans" video 😭
I just watched my first cricket match after watching this video. And I was able to keep up and understand it and have a lot of fun. Thank you for this!
South African here!.. I'm very impressed with how you explained the game to other Americans.. Well done!.. I can hear that you have the jest of what cricket is about.. 😊
One little detail you didn’t mention about overs. Each over is bowled from alternate ends. Also, all balls are thrown over arm with a straight elbow and the ball does not have to bounce. And another important detail is 10 out, all out. The 11th batsman can’t bat alone.
When a player is out, does that mean actually off the field? Must be, I'm thinking, otherwise the 11th wouldn't be alone. Or does it just mean no player can bat more than once per over? I got the impression any player can bowl as many times as they want, just not consecutively, so two good bowlers could switch back and forth.
@@grizwoldphantasia5005 Sometimes there are limitations on how many overs a bowler can bowl. Typically it is 10 overs in a 50 over match, so you need 5 bowlers (at least). You could use more. But I think the presenter did well to avoid minor details. It's not a hard game to understand if explained simply and it's been done very well here.
@@nickoakley8465 Thanks. My reason for thinking he did a bangup job is that it interested me in learning more.
@@grizwoldphantasia5005 When a batter is out, they leave the field and - provided there are unused batters left - are replaced by the next team mate and the over continues. If needed, everyone on the team must bat - there are no pinch hitters in cricket. When the 10th batter is out, the innings comes to an end, and his batting partner is left high and dry; in the scorebook he will have a little star by his score, showing he was "not out" at the end of the innings. Batters are often ranked by their "batting average" which is the number of "at-bats" divided by the number of times they were out, so these "not-outs" help improve a batter's ranking.
Bowlers who expend a lot of energy in their action will usually need to take a break after 8 to 10 overs or so; it's the job of the captain to keep the bowlers fresh and make tactical changes based on the pitch, the weather conditions and the strengths of the opposing batters.
Related: When you list the batsmen in an inning, you list how each was put out along with their runs, but the last batsman is listed as "not out."
This videos back in the algorithm and it made a Brit who played cricket his entire adolescence but stopped over a decade ago all warm and fuzzy inside. Cheers m8
Great video. I'm a lifelong '67 yrs' lover and player. That was cool. Even I understood it. One thing that I love about the game is the influence 'fast' or 'slow' bowlers can have on the behaviour of the ball after it has hit the ground. Also, the sneaky influence the groundsmen can have as they prepare the wicket for a game.... Naughty boys. Great game, great video.
I feel that I should clarify: Groundsmen prepare the Pitch. They cannot prepare “the wicket”. The Pitch is often misnamed by many people who should know better (commentators and others) but the Laws Of Cricket are quite clear on this. There are two physical wickets in cricket. The wickets are the stumps and bails. As mentioned in the video, there are also the “wickets” which occur when a batsman (batter?) is put “out”. See the “Laws Of Cricket”.
@@DeepThought9999 Yes, commentators often call the 'pitch' the wicket, and tbh its perfectly fine, every cricket viewer who is watching it deeply enough to listen to the commentators already knows that by wicket, they mean the pitch. I've been watching cricket my whole life, and really, its not a big deal to use either word for that dusty patch between the big green oval.
This is the first time in my life I’ve actually understood cricket. Thank you so much, A+ video.
Once you start watching it gets more clearer. Watch a t20 match with a person who knows cricket. If you have Indian friends they will surely know and would be glad to teach you
Being an English man that never really got into cricket (I'm an association soccer man), this was a very well put together, simple explanation of a sport that can be intimidatingly complicated. As I have grown up with this sport, I understood most of it, as cricket, whether you like it or not is part of our culture.
"Association Soccer"..... You tried so hard, but in the end, got it completely wrong. It's officially "Association Football". "Soccer" is short for "Association", and came about as a counterpart to "Rugger" or "Rugby Football".
A British without Cricket is not a real British! I think you/ your family migrated from Africa or others.
'soccer' is a slang term for 'association' that originated in England when the standardising of rules was called: Association Football ( the origin of the FA of course ) - but it became a really formalised only use in England but was continued in use in the USA to differentiate from their 'football' ( which is mostly handball )
That was outstanding. I spent several years in China as an international sports anchor and occasionally had to narrate cricket highlights. No one in our department knew anything about the game, so I took some time to ask some British citizens I knew. This was 15 years ago. Happily I seem to have gotten all of the rules right and made my presentation compelling enough not to insult our Australian, Indian, British, and Pakistani audience.
Just wanted to say thanks for this. I've been trying to get into cricket off and on since 2019. After watching this, I caught the end of the West Indies v. India ODI game and actually understood what was going on.
Awesome!
Wow !! Now that is called a great student who goes beyong just class work. 👍👍👍 Thumbs up to you and credit to the poster of this video.
Are you from the Carribean or USA?
@@smoothy7873 American
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Huge baseball fan. Never understood cricket. I feel like I have a pretty decent starting place thanks to this video. Much appreciated
I already know how to play cricket, I have no idea why I watched this whole thing. Nice video
Me too😂
I actually can't thank you enough for this, Ive been meaning to understand these rules and particularities for quite some time now and youve been a HUGE help, especially understanding the scores and numbers you see everytime on the screen, mystery solved and im grateful
Once again, you've hit it out of the park, but, I guess in this case, that's not a home run, that's a boundary. :) Thanks!
Haha, thanks!
Or it's a Sixer.
He's hit a six
NIcely put
@@ericvansickle4305 or if you're Indian, perhaps a 'DHL Maximum...'
(I have no idea if that's still the phrase used to placate sponsors in the IPL, but it's one of the main reasons that I can't stand to watch it. Put the tactical timeout in that basket too.)
I'd looked up written explanations before and been mostly confused by them, this video was so much better. Great stuff, looking forward to more!
Thanks!
@@SportsExplained like every other cricket explained video you also got one thing wrong. The most professional a cricket game can be is TEST cricket. I don't know why you guys consider it as not professional and not on tv. Test cricket is the highest form of cricket and is also broadcasted everywhere every series. Test cricket is real cricket rest is fun and frolic.
There is a saying in cricket TEST CRICKET SEPERATES MEN FROM BOYS.
I know guys like you who are new to game don't enjoy it but trust me the day you understand everything about the game you will start enjoying test cricket.
@@rishabhsharma8189 Probably should have said "league cricket"
@@SportsExplained Originally the game was played out to a result and time was irrelevnt. Like some baseball games play was going on for too long. Playing times were reduced and games became four or five days duration. The inevitable "lunch" and "tea" breaks were introduced to make sure the English gentlies were adequately sustained. Pitches were not covered overnight as per today's game.
Realise that the variants did not come about will after 1970 with the ODI resulting from England and one Test game where the first four dys were washed out.
The T20 game came about in early 2000's after an enterpreneur recognised the potential for night games a la MLB. It took some years to happen and some wish it never had happened.
@@flamingfrancis I agree with T-20. It's not real. I call it 'children's cricket' because it's for the kids whose attention span is not really long.
As a lifetime cricketer, I have to say this explanation is really rather good - well done, mate...
I think the most important thing to understand is that in baseball you get excited when there is a run; in cricket you get excited when there is an out,
Iwas really impressed with how well you did here - makes me want to look up Baseball explained for cricket fans 😅
Thanks!
@SynthMusicFan 501 sign me up too ;)
A really good explanation is in the Foreword to the International Edition of Calico Joe by John Grisham. Grisham does a really good job of explaining not only the game, but also its key tactical elements.
Ninh Ly @ninhly has a real good channel where he explains the rules of practically every sport in the world, including many I'd never heard of
Well done! I've been playing & watching cricket for 50 years and know how difficult it is to explain. That was a fine innings!
I'm a former (youth) cricket player trying to understand baseball. This was a fantastic video. The descriptions were clear and on point, the editing had some subtle genius to it like demonstrating the full field of play before/after making the point to highlight that aspect. The only thing I can think missing would have been strategies or detailed aspects which obviously is far beyond the scope of the video. Whilst I did play I don't watch so I might be missing a few details, but overall it was an incredibly impressive explanation of the game. Very well done.
Best description of cricket I have heard. Cricket experts and players often make their descriptions too complex by trying to cover all the details immediately. The baseball analogy works well and does simplify several points.
11:55 It's cause they're down under. If you sit upside down (like people in Australia) the scores will be the right way around.
This is a great fcking comment.
One of the most interesting aspects of cricket is the bowling/fielding strategy. Imagine in baseball placing out-fielders in certain positions depending on where the pitcher intends to pitch the ball. This is an essential part of cricket.
Exactly that is what happens in baseball. Charting of hitters means managers place fielders in likely positions. Observe in a game how both infielders and outfielders move laterally. They also move inwards or deeper depending on the game situation
Cricket has like million tons of rules.
Well for a newbie this video is spot on. Neither confusing nor misleading
As an Australian who plays both sports, Baseball rules are far more difficult !!
Cricket does not have rules. It has 42 laws 😛. No really. They are called the Laws of Cricket. They have a lot of subdivisions, but the number (42) does not change.
Cricket has laws there is no rules
Honestly, as long as you know the basics of the game, you're good to go.
This is a great video. I've watched and loved cricket since I was a child, and later I became quite fond of watching baseball. Cricket can be complicated if explained poorly but you've done a great job.
Fair effort. I'd only add that an innings comes to an end after ten wickets fall, because that means that there isn't a batter at both ends. There are many live streams of cricket on YT. Finally, cricket is a superb sport for the radio.
After ten wickets fall or the overs are finished.
An excellent summary, well done. One thing that no-one else seems to have mentioned: you point out that cricket fields can be of different shapes and sizes, so the distance you have to hit the ball to score a boundary can vary considerably. BUT the distance between the two wickets is always 22 yards (20.12m), so the distance the batsmen have to run to score "one run" is the same everywhere.
The same is true in baseball: the infield is standard, but the outfield can vary in size and shape.
One important aspect of the game that you’ve missed is that the number of overs a particular bowler can bowl is limited in limited overs cricket.
In a 50 overs game, a bowler can bowl a maximum of 10 overs. While in T20, a bowler can bowl a maximum of 4 overs. It basically means that you have to bowl at-least 5 different bowlers.
As a lifelong sports fan that's been playing/watching different sports for over 50 years, I have watched many different sporting events, even some Rugby, Aussie Rules stuff, Table Tennis, Volleyball, especially women's Beach Volleyball, bowling, and even recently, Cornhole. But I've never really given Cricket a shot for more than a few minutes. You did a great job giving a clear overview to a knowledgeable baseball fan. I'm going to dive straight into your follow up video (Baseball and Cricket Compared Some More) and then I'm going on a hunt to watch some Cricket matches. Great job. Thank you. 🏏
How it's going mate ❤
If you want to understand the different flow of the game between the two sports, it's important to think of who the attack is. In baseball, the batting team is on the offence, they're trying to score runs before they all get out. In cricket, the bowling team is the offence, they want to take wickets before allowing too many runs. The overs to at-bats comparison is good imo, because it reflects this sort of, different member of the offence coming up to try their hand, and if it doesn't work, don't worry, there will be another over or at-bat.
I gave a 2 hour version of this talk to my American coworkers at Bell Labs in 1982 and I'm not sure I did as good a job. However I did cover some areas that you left out probably to keep it short namely bowling techniques: fast, slow, swing, seam, spin, and batting techniques: forward and back, drives, cuts, hooks, sweeps and glances (no reverse sweep in 1982).
Great job!!! I'm 72 and grew up in New Zealand - a cricket-loving country. I never really understood more than the basics of cricket. You've grasped not only the rules of cricket but know what to explain and what to stay the hell away from. There are some pretty confusing names for things in cricket. LIke one way a bowler bowls the ball is called a "Googly". (Don't ask me what that is i wouldn't have a clue) . And how one of the fielding places is called "Silly Mid Off" . (Again, dont ask me! but that fielder is standing just a few feet from the batsman, with a rock-hard ball rocketing by at 90+ MPH. Hence the 'silly' ) Only the wicket keeper wears gloves too. The bowler or the team captain of the fielding team will change the placement of their fielders so they are in best position to make a catch before the bowler delivers a ball. The game becomes a strategy game. A bowler might, for example, deliver a lot of balls similarly to lull the batsman into losing concentration, then without warning bowl a completely different kind of ball. Faster slower, spinning, curving, bouncing, even deliberately outside the batsman's reach to try to lure him out of his safe zone so the fielders there can stump the batsman.
As a lifelong cricket player and watcher, and an Aussie, I found the explanation really good indeed.
The biggest "hole" for me however, was the lack of explanation of the art of bowling. There are fast (swing) bowlers - who are nearly as fast as baseball pitchers - medium-pace (seam) bowlers, who are usually batsmen who are also decent bowlers, and slow (spin) bowlers who make the ball deviate off the pitch,. in all sorts of clever ways.
It could also be explained that, of the eleven players, six are specialist batters (but one or two might be decent bowlers too), four are specialist bowlers (and generally aren't great batters), and one is the wicketkeeper ('catcher') who might also be a very good seventh batter.
Three or four of the very best players who have ever played the game were 'all-rounders' - meaning they were world-class batters, bowlers, and fielders too. Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Kapil Dev, Greg Chappell, Garfield Sobers, Jacques Kallis.
I have always thought Cricket was impossibly complicated, and I can't imagine a game where the matches that go on for days and days. And even after watching I still think it's impossibly complicated! I grew up in a baseball household - my dad coached college ball for 36 years and was on the NCAA Rules Committee for about 10 of those years. We don't even consider Cricket a real sport in our house! LOL *BUT* this showed up in my TH-cam suggestions (no idea why!) so I took a chance. Overall, a great introductory video. I didn't realize that the batter was also like a goalie protecting the wickets. That's wild, but really helped me understand it better. I may watch this video again to get a better handle on it. And I would enjoy a video of someone trying to explain Baseball to a cricket fan!
I think its all about the good feeling that you get when you hit a ball in long distance with a bat, or when you throw (in cricket we have to rotate our bowling arm) a quick and swinging ball to the batter or catching a ball that is very high in the air. Some other similarities may also exist in both these games. I have been playing cricket for the last 15 years and still it is so addictive to me. It may be because of its complicated yet being so basic and fun in nature. It would make more sense if you watch cricket keeping a perspective in mind that the main goal of the team is to score more than the other team and the other team are trying various techniques(within the laws of the game) to defend their score.
The most popular form of the game is actually T20. Which goes on for 4 hours including breaks.
Lol, only an American can consider a sport with frequent international World Cup series and over two billion fans, not a real sport compared to a sport where the games is played between teams from one country and considered a WORLD series, lmao.
@@rabiyaashraf950 Exactly.. the muricans are really something.. they think nothing outside their country actually exists.. 🤣😂
Its like baseball, but with just one inning instead of 9 and two bases instead of 4. Both runners need to reach ech other's base to score 1 run . You can do it multiple times for multiple runs. If you hit a home run its automatic 6 runs, and if it bounces before reaching boundary it's an automatic 4. And no fielder is allowed to use gloves other the guy behind the batter.