Its Okay ! Check IPL 🏏 matches once if you want to see more of cricket, IPL where you can find lots of stuff, Cool Catches, Insane Run Outs, Most thrilling finishes everything ! Even in the BIG BASH LEAGUE too
If you also really want to get a grip on the laws of cricket, I recommend watching a mini series by Stephen Fry. It basically just explains a few important laws that are the most often seen in a single game of cricket. I would also recommend watching many highlights of cricket matches (especially tests where they wear the white clothing, and these go on for 5 days straight) as you can also listen to the commentators and what they say to truly get a grip on the game and its many technicalities and wonders. I recommend watching the playlist below as it is one of the oldest sporting traditions in the world and is the most highly renowned version of cricket. th-cam.com/video/K7JlaKMRccI/w-d-xo.html
The Bad thing about Cricket is that its greatest videos aren't on youtube due to Copyright infringements . Cricket is way too private & doesn't even let any review stuff .
I know. It is sad, especially during the virus lockdowns it would be nice if the ICC and Indian cricket board released some highlights. I especially want to see some highlights from 2011 World Cup where NZ beat SA in the quarter final. I've never seen any highlights of that game and it was one of the classics. Why withhold them? Also there used to be an amazing 20min highlight package of Shane bond at the 2003 World Cup but that got taken down a year or so ago. It was my fav cricket video.
Hey bro, Despite the differences in delivery action, the delivery speeds are similar for both sports with the fastest bowlers and pitchers propelling the ball in the region of 95-100 mph (150-160 km/h): the fastest recorded cricket delivery is 100.2 mph (161.26 km/h) *Unpredictability* The most common reason for a person to get hurt is when he cannot predict the path of a ball. A cricket ball is bowled off the pitch, which makes it all the more unpredictable. Although there is some unpredictability in a curve-ball bowled in baseball, it is not as much unpredictable as that of a cricket ball off a pitch. It has both unpredictability of the swing in the air (sideways) and lateral (vertical). This unpredictability makes facing the cricket ball, especially bowled by a fast bowler, more dangerous.
There’s just no comparison between Cricket and Baseball truth be told.It’s almost like comparing apples to oranges. The things that are at stake in a cricket match is just too much for baseball to even come alongside in the whole picture.No disrespect intended! Americans have good taste in movies,music,technology,cars and all but when it comes to sports it’s a bit meh kinda
If you can distinguish the Uniqueness in each format then you can get idea of excitement each format to watch. Test is Harder for the players no doubt that's how it is calculated as the Best. But it is not easy getting for Batsmen to get 25+ in an over while chasing in the dead overs & a maiden over by bowler at any time of the game that's where the excitement is. I love both Test and Limited over (T20)
@@jasonasir2345 exactly. I hate it when people say t20 isn't real cricket cause it's just a different type of cricket. Different tactics etc. Bowlers have to bowl a lot more variations. It's just different and I wish people could just appreciate that.
@@RexyBing Bro you need to react to some run outs now . It's like running for the bases and getting tagged except in cricket they hit the wickets/stumps . Here's a link - th-cam.com/video/ilyWOLGo6zA/w-d-xo.html
You're right about it being more difficult to hit a baseball sweetly because the bat is round - but you're hitting full tosses (ie the ball doesn't bounce) - In cricket the bowler makes the ball bounce which makes the trajectory of the ball much harder to judge for the batsman - so it kind of evens out in terms of difficulty
No it doesn’t Andy. Hitting a baseball thrown by a professional hitter is the hardest thing to do in sports. You could take anybody from the stands and by luck they make a 3pointer in basketball or kick a ball thru the uprights in Football but nobody would be able to hit a home run in baseball
@@philmccracken179 The other key difference as I see it is that in cricket the batter chooses where to play the ball - back over the bowlers head, guided down to 3rd man, swept to the boundary, cut to the off-side etc depending on the ball bowled, whereas in baseball it seems that the batter has far less control over where the ball goes - he swings and hopes for a good connection and that seems pretty much it..
7:04 it is Pakistani batsman Umar Akmal with the catch. 9:24 it is Pakistan vs India-biggest rivalry in cricket history and also the most watched cricket match. 12:02 it is Inzamam-ul-Haq Pakistani batsman. Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
India vs. Pakistan is probably the most viewed due to sheer numbers but there's just something special about the Ashes series between England and Australia. It's so historic. Nothing else in cricket even comes close to it.
I've held both a cricket ball and a baseball - they're pretty much the same size and weight. The cricket ball is very slightly harder (but it softens slightly in play, so it's a touch softer by the end of the game). OK, I looked them up - cricket ball is 5.5 to 5.75 ounces, baseball is 5.0 to 5.25 (so the cricket ball is marginally heavier) cricket ball is 8.81 to 9 inches in circumference, baseball is 9.0 to 9.25 (so the cricket ball is marginally smaller). Both are leather balls with a cork interior, so the slightly denser cork used for cricket balls makes them a touch harder. And yes, catching a cricket ball without a glove hurts; this is why you'll hear commentators talk about soft hands; there are techniques you can learn to make the ball stick and to avoid it hurting.
Hi Alex, 1 thing I tell you cricket looks easy but when you get into the field of play then you find out what sort of technique, fitness & practice you required.
@@usmanghani9778 i played state level cricket and now im a footballer honestly i played hockey too but only on weekends when nobody comes for football practice and honestly football needs more stamina and mental awareness .and wat did expect to me huh? 😑
I often hear people say that hitting in baseball is much harder than in cricket. On any individual pitch (or bowl in cricket) this is true but it's important to remember that success is defined very differently. In baseball getting on base without getting out is considered a success. You only need to do this one time each time you bat, and if you do this 1/4 times you're considered pretty good. Conversely in cricket most times you need to bat for 100s of balls to have a successful innings.
Right and when a guy is scoring runs he’s also hitting dot balls. So even if he goes 1 0 0 0 4 0. That only 33% of hits are successful. It’s the same thing. It’s just baseball players don’t have the luxury to tap a ball to a fielder, not run and bat again.
You're definitely right about the advantages of a flat bat, enabling you to guide the ball rather than just hit it, plus being able to go behind (e.g. shots like the pull, the cut, or the ramp) as well as in front.
But cricket balls are very heavy weight unlike a baseball, hence why for heavy cricket ball a more flat bat, and a light baseball, a more narrow, thin bat
Really enjoying your videos, it's great to hear a professional baseball player giving informed comment on cricket, a sport close to my Yorkshire heart. I'd like recommend a type of catch you don't really have a parallel to slip catches. They are pure reaction catches and can be really spectacular.
You talk about the flat bat however in cricket you only bat once so if you get out you’re done. And one miss hit and you’re done. Whereas in baseball you get out it’s sort of expected in a way. That’s the biggest difference
@@ashutosh3252 my point is cricket is allowed endless balls in play no matter where they go, as long as it’s on the ground, while baseball only gets one ball in play
@@philmccracken179 that doesn't make batting in cricket easy...watch highlights of test matches in england. Its not easy at all. You need extraordinary skill and mental toughness to survive in test matches
@@aryan8463 You meant 'taking' some English classes, right? This way, your sentence would actually make a bit of sense. This insult only works if you are targeting a native English speaker. Else, the joke is on YOU, like in this instance. :-)
This was perhaps a bit too heavy on boundary catches. The best really are from ones closer in, when the ball can still be going at 90 mph+, often taken one-handed, while diving. See (bit late to react now) here, as an example th-cam.com/video/WX9fRb9M_bY/w-d-xo.html And no, a catch doesn't hurt*. Unlike it baseball, you aren't just letting the ball hit hit your hand. If you take it right, it kind of cushions the impact. Cricket players are always a bit mystified as to why baseball fielders need a glove. The guys right behind the stumps (wicket keeper) do wear gloves, but they will be taking dozens of catches every day. * get it wrong, and yes it can hurt. It can snap fingers.
@@WSTRNS most younger folks have zero clue about the matches from 2004 and before. When those set of players left all the teams, the same level of excitement never came back.
@@asderven not exactly brother, our generation has not that much clue clue about 70s or 80s, even early '90s, for our elder generation '83 wc, B&H win is the best emotional ride, for us it's 2003 & 2011, it changes generation by generation, just like we say cricket isn't same after Dada Sachin Dravid etc '00 players retirement now a days young boys will say same when VK Rohit Sikhar will retire.
@@WSTRNS that is true, every generation has their own heroes they look up to. As long as people play this game for the love of the game, we will always enjoy it.
You have to remember that most people who play cricket have been playing the game their whole life and even at schoolboy level they play with a normal cricket ball. So over time their hands get toughened up to catching the ball so it doesn't hurt.
Just so you know (no mean tone), the bat is not completely flat, there is some curve on it (from left to right if the bat is upright). If you heard what the commentator started saying @3:52, you should also watch that (Herschel Gibbs @2007wc), it's slightly more impressive than this because it was a longer game (& a few years earlier), so the game wasn't as attacking as here, also this was at the end if the innings so players are more likely to slog (swing/hit & hope), whereas he was playing higher up the order, meaning you have to be more careful so as not to lose your wicket! The only other time it happened before that was by a west Indian in black & white times haha! The chucking the ball back inside the rope is not common per se, but has become more of a thing since the early/mid 2000's! One recent catch you should look up is the Spiderman catch by ab de villiers: he jumped up right on the edge & landed inside, although what you should really see him do is bat, known as Mr360 cause he can hit the ball anywhere in your regards to it being more challenging but also optional, you have to see him score 150runs off only 33balls (S.africa vs the wi), & he once got 149 off nearly the same. But there are many more batting, bowling & fielding performances which I'm sure you will slowly find along your path
Yeah man, these balls sting hard. You gotta condition your hands from an early age to get used to catching high velocity shots. I've had calluses in my hands since I was a kid, gotta desensitize if you want to catch and not injure yourself.
Two things to help you - 'spin' bowlers and 'swing' bowlers are different things. You often refer to 'spin' bowlers as 'swing' bowlers. Spin bowlers spin it off the wicket, so it bounces and then turns. Swing bowlers swing it in the air like a curve ball in baseball, so it swings before it bounces. The best swing bowlers can swing it before it bounces and then hit the hard, tall seam to make it move again off the wicket, Not spin, but 'seam' movement. The other thing was about these outfield catches where they throw the ball up to themselves or another player. It's really not all that common, I think it's just because you're watching a fair few of these great catch videos lately and they'll always pop up in those vids. Keep it up, I'm enjoying this! PS. I wrote my comment before finishing the video, but you also spoke about how in basketball, players have to regain their footing inside the court before touching it. It actually USED to be like that in cricket, where you'd have to establish yourself back in the field before touching the ball, but when this became a more regular thing that they changed the rules. (This throwing-the-ball-up-on-the-boundary-rope-and-catching-it-inside-the-rope phenomenon is actually very recent in cricketing terms. You never used to see it, but T20 cricket made it a more regular thing.)
I taught my 10 years old son how to catch a baseball without gloves as it's hard to find a cricket ball here. He got so much used to it that when he had to play baseball as part of his physical education class, he asked his coach permission to field without a glove and then caught the balls barehanded and converted double plays as well. The coach thought he was crazy that's 10 years old kid is doing all that.
The boundary rope throw in catch is really common in the shorter formats of the game like T20 and one day matches cause the players go a lot harder in those games
Yeah sometimes when you catch a cricket ball, it hurts. From a young age they teach you the right techniques on how to catch. The most common technique to reduce injury risk, is to catch with soft hands. Basically what that means is to meet the ball before it arrives, and as it makes impact, you follow a line so it takes away some of the impact. You'll see wicketkeepers (person behind wickets with gloves) commonly use this technique whenever the ball is missed where they'll get their hands out in front of their body, take the ball and then draw their hands back in towards their body. outfield/boundary catches are very difficult as the ball tends to dip and swing and spin and it makes it so hard to catch and you really have to be light on your feet in case you need to change and adapt. You should look at more close in-field catches, they are extremely difficult as well, because the balls come off the bats at around 90+ MPH and it's purely just reflex in their incredible catches.
That pronounciation was spot on. (Yuvraj) 12:03 according to new rules that catch is no more allowed. You need to have your feet touched to the playing field in order to effect a dismissal.
I’m really enjoying your reactions and seeing you learn cricket as a baseball player. Here’s some things that you might find interesting in comparing and learning the sport. The bigger sweet spot on the bat makes batting a bit easier but what compensates that is that the bowler can bowl it anywhere you can reach. Out wide, at the stumps, at your toes or even at your head, so as a batsman you need to be ready for anything, playing so your weight can go to your back foot or front foot if you want to score. There’s no strikeouts and you don’t have to run if you hit it, so knowing when to defend and when to attack is super important, trying to hit everything for 6 is considered reckless as the chances are you’ll probably go out and then can’t score anything. Instead you can try and manipulate where the fielders stand, tempt them close to stop you running or push them back to stop the boundary, then hit the gaps and cash in. Or as the bowler, make them hit it to you put your fielders. Also, there’s basically only one ball used for each innings, so when it’s new it swings and then when it’s roughed up it usually stops and batting becomes easier, though taking care of the ball can get it to swing longer or again. On top of the changing ball, every pitch bounces and spins slightly differently so batters and bowlers both need to make sure they know how it’s reacting to get an advantage. Hope that’s interesting and helps a bit Here’s some quick reactions you could do, all 5 mins or under Steve Smith with some of the best infield catches th-cam.com/video/9nFsyajV5jI/w-d-xo.html Mitch Johnson (90mph+ bowler) bowling at the stumps, toes and chest/head, keeping the batsman guessing. th-cam.com/video/eQ5YfOayBlI/w-d-xo.html Shikhar Dhawan batting compilation showing the different types of shots you can play. th-cam.com/video/zAz0j7wa8yY/w-d-xo.html Some of the best run outs th-cam.com/video/uEfJZY1a3ZI/w-d-xo.html
the looks the bowler gives you when you drop a catch hurt way more than the bowl does (lol generally it doesn't hurt because either you don't catch it dead, but move with it to slow it down, or it's just reflex and you don't have time to notice the pain
you are right that its easier to hit the ball because the bat is flat but you also have to remeber that the ball is pitched up so its trajectory is completely different from what it is in baseball ,, its a lot easier to hit a ball that comes directly to you ,, in cricket its called a full toss and is the easiest ball to hit ,, 2:56 is a full toss ,,
Rachel Hill ah that’s a shame!! They have frozen all packages so surely they would make it free!?!? They upload all the best bits to TH-cam anyway!!! Great Bob Willis montage on their TH-cam if you have 20 minutes spare!
@@jordansullivan4150 cancelled it a few months, but nope still not free, you have to subscribe 😂 love Bob Willis, his bowling at headingley 81 was incredible
No gloves that's gotta hurt. Remember there's no Americans in this vid. Football-padded up Rugby- no pads. Baseball gloves- cricket fielders no gloves 😬
Also in cricket when your hit the ball the middle isn’t at the very end like a baseball bat. Each bat has a different middle and picks up differently. Basically what I’m saying is these games are similar but no where near the same. The base concepts of hitting a ball that has been bowled or pitched and running is the same but, the finer points of both the games are completely different.
Oh bud. You should so check out Yuvraj's story. He got diagnosed with Lung cancer after being the MVP of the World Cup tournament and then he beat cancer and got back into international cricket! He's an absolute gold!
You said about the flat bat... Well, if the bowler start to bowl like in baseball and the ball be bigger as baseball then every ball will be a sixer in cricket. 😄 Cricket & baseball both are different games, different format... Comparing cricket bat to the baseball will be foolish. Besides...all the respect to your reactions. 🙏
Ben stokes catching Voges off a thick edge at Trent Bridge in 2015 is one of the best reaction catches I have seen. Full steady he catches the ball behind him
One main difference, however, is that the ball in cricket is harder and heavier in weight. The legal weight for the ball in baseball is from 5 to 5.25 ounces (142 to 149 g); whereas the ball in cricket must weigh between 5.5 and 5.8 ounces (156 and 164 g).
The 360 field is a 50/50 thing between more places to hit the ball to, but also more places for the fielding team to set traps. The fielding team will position fielders in specific places and the bowler will bowl a plan to try and make the batter hit it in to the trap rather than just aiming at the stumps. Most outs in cricket are not direct hits on the stumps by the bowler, but a batter not hitting the ball where he wants it to go and hitting it where the bowler and his fielding team wants it to go. Imagine in Baseball if a pitcher threw every pitch in a way that meant any hit was going to right field, so the defense had no left fielder and had a deep and shallow right fielder. There's a huge gap on the left, but unless you are really lucky or the pitcher throws a bad one, the ball ain't going there.
In baseball that’s called the “shift” buddy. Sometimes they leave the entire right side empty. So what are you talking about? And baseball pitchers pitch to induce ground balls when the situation calls for it. Man you cricket people talk so arrogantly about baseball but you don’t know anyh
@@philmccracken179 Well, "buddy", I know more about baseball than you know about cricket, so rather than cum in your panties about "Another damn alien is attacking muh country", try to gain some comprehension skills and process what I wrote. At NO time during a baseball game will ALL fielders move to one side of the field. At NO time in baseball will a SS suddenly be 5 yards from the batter and between the batter and 3B inside the diamond. At NO time will 1B be stood level with the pitcher and 10 yards off the field. The conical shape of the baseball field limits very much where fielders can and will position themselves. A 360 field makes defending that field much more difficult, so it much less a game of "shifting the outfield" and more a game of patience and setting fielders in very specific places to set a trap. Pitchers in baseball may well try to induce a ground ball or a high fly ball, but it is not exactly the same as setting 4 fielders at 45 degrees behind the batter and trying to get him to nick the ball specifically there with a millisecond for the fielder to react. Baseball is more about fielders playing the percentages with positioning and knowing a line drive will go to X,Y or Z and I have to cover all 3 and a pop up will give the OF time to get underneath it because each covers a zone of the OF with a foul line as barrier. In cricket you can stand in X position, but the ball could go 40 yards wide of you and it's still your ball with nobody else anywhere near you to cover you. The 360 field means the ball can go behind the catcher and you better damn run after it because there are no foul lines to give you no need to chase the ball. I have never in any way tried to imply that baseball is easy or is not a sport with extreme levels of skill and a high degree of strategy. I will however maintain that cricket involves more strategy, more variables and more stamina. The sports both come from the exact same source and have a lot in common, but like Rugby & NFL also have enough differences to make them distinct from each other. There is room for both and none is "better" than the other, it's just what a person prefers over the other.
I now know that the other team in the video besides England is India thanks to about a hundred of you!
Sorry, won't happen again :)
Its Okay !
Check IPL 🏏 matches once if you want to see more of cricket, IPL where you can find lots of stuff, Cool Catches, Insane Run Outs, Most thrilling finishes everything ! Even in the BIG BASH LEAGUE too
If you also really want to get a grip on the laws of cricket, I recommend watching a mini series by Stephen Fry. It basically just explains a few important laws that are the most often seen in a single game of cricket. I would also recommend watching many highlights of cricket matches (especially tests where they wear the white clothing, and these go on for 5 days straight) as you can also listen to the commentators and what they say to truly get a grip on the game and its many technicalities and wonders. I recommend watching the playlist below as it is one of the oldest sporting traditions in the world and is the most highly renowned version of cricket.
th-cam.com/video/K7JlaKMRccI/w-d-xo.html
Trust me, just watch AB De Villiers bat!
Hey why you have turned the comment section off in your new video. How can we make you understand ?
dude ur talking so lightly as if all the matches has six sixes
The Bad thing about Cricket is that its greatest videos aren't on youtube due to Copyright infringements . Cricket is way too private & doesn't even let any review stuff .
Agreed , it is just recent that some boards have decided to make TH-cam channels , even then BCCI still doesn't have one😔
Baseball has the same problem
Yes, we can find most of football matches on YT but not cricket matches.
England and Wales Cricket Board started in 2008 on YT some are still playing catch up
I know. It is sad, especially during the virus lockdowns it would be nice if the ICC and Indian cricket board released some highlights. I especially want to see some highlights from 2011 World Cup where NZ beat SA in the quarter final. I've never seen any highlights of that game and it was one of the classics. Why withhold them? Also there used to be an amazing 20min highlight package of Shane bond at the 2003 World Cup but that got taken down a year or so ago. It was my fav cricket video.
If you want to see brilliant catching - Jonty Rhodes from South Africa
no 1 fielder in the world jonty rds 💪✌🏾
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Check out Ben Stokes vs Australia 4th Ashes 2016.
@@aqibrahmaniofficial8933 he good but jonty better
@@stubbsy3413 we can't recognise any player in a single match
The guy who hit 6 in 6 has a different story too. You will be surprised after knowing that part of his story :)
🤣🤣🤣 if you hit on my ego, i will hit your ball 😅😅
@@nitin9110 he's speaking abt cancer
@@shanmugasundaram.m1313 yes i got this 😉😉 thanks for convey this
Hey bro, Despite the differences in delivery action, the delivery speeds are similar for both sports with the fastest bowlers and pitchers propelling the ball in the region of 95-100 mph (150-160 km/h): the fastest recorded cricket delivery is 100.2 mph (161.26 km/h)
*Unpredictability*
The most common reason for a person to get hurt is when he cannot predict the path of a ball.
A cricket ball is bowled off the pitch, which makes it all the more unpredictable.
Although there is some unpredictability in a curve-ball bowled in baseball, it is not as much unpredictable as that of a cricket ball off a pitch. It has both unpredictability of the swing in the air (sideways) and lateral (vertical).
This unpredictability makes facing the cricket ball, especially bowled by a fast bowler, more
dangerous.
A Billiôn Dreâms adding to everything, the cricket bowler cannot bend his arm as the pitcher in baseball.
That delivery was bowled by Shohaib Akhtar a Pakistani player
Also it's perfectly legal to Target the batsman to scare him as long as you bounce the ball first. Shoaib akhtar was famous for this.
There’s just no comparison between Cricket and Baseball truth be told.It’s almost like comparing apples to oranges.
The things that are at stake in a cricket match is just too much for baseball to even come alongside in the whole picture.No disrespect intended!
Americans have good taste in movies,music,technology,cars and all but when it comes to sports it’s a bit meh kinda
@@pranjalsupratim612 Very protective of thier limited sports. Baseball world series only open to American teams.
Personally I prefer test cricket to limited overs matches , it’s more tactical and difficult to play ?
Robert Mcwilliams test cricket is real cricket.
I don't
Even one day matches are enough to see skills . But t20 is shit as skill
If you can distinguish the Uniqueness in each format then you can get idea of excitement each format to watch. Test is Harder for the players no doubt that's how it is calculated as the Best.
But it is not easy getting for Batsmen to get 25+ in an over while chasing in the dead overs & a maiden over by bowler at any time of the game that's where the excitement is.
I love both Test and Limited over (T20)
@@jasonasir2345 exactly. I hate it when people say t20 isn't real cricket cause it's just a different type of cricket. Different tactics etc. Bowlers have to bowl a lot more variations. It's just different and I wish people could just appreciate that.
this was a poor collection of good catches RIP -_-
www.iplt20.com/video/17809/ipl-2014-best-catch-of-the-season These are the best
How would you think I'd go about getting the best?
@@RexyBing im not blaming you lol
@@RexyBing Bro you need to react to some run outs now . It's like running for the bases and getting tagged except in cricket they hit the wickets/stumps .
Here's a link - th-cam.com/video/ilyWOLGo6zA/w-d-xo.html
@@RexyBing Do you play in the major league or the minor ?
You're right about it being more difficult to hit a baseball sweetly because the bat is round - but you're hitting full tosses (ie the ball doesn't bounce) - In cricket the bowler makes the ball bounce which makes the trajectory of the ball much harder to judge for the batsman - so it kind of evens out in terms of difficulty
No it doesn’t Andy. Hitting a baseball thrown by a professional hitter is the hardest thing to do in sports. You could take anybody from the stands and by luck they make a 3pointer in basketball or kick a ball thru the uprights in Football but nobody would be able to hit a home run in baseball
@@philmccracken179 The other key difference as I see it is that in cricket the batter chooses where to play the ball - back over the bowlers head, guided down to 3rd man, swept to the boundary, cut to the off-side etc depending on the ball bowled, whereas in baseball it seems that the batter has far less control over where the ball goes - he swings and hopes for a good connection and that seems pretty much it..
Jonty Rhodes was the best fielder ,some amazing catches and run outs !
7:04 it is Pakistani batsman Umar Akmal with the catch.
9:24 it is Pakistan vs India-biggest rivalry in cricket history and also the most watched cricket match.
12:02 it is Inzamam-ul-Haq Pakistani batsman.
Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
India vs. Pakistan is probably the most viewed due to sheer numbers but there's just something special about the Ashes series between England and Australia. It's so historic. Nothing else in cricket even comes close to it.
I've held both a cricket ball and a baseball - they're pretty much the same size and weight. The cricket ball is very slightly harder (but it softens slightly in play, so it's a touch softer by the end of the game).
OK, I looked them up - cricket ball is 5.5 to 5.75 ounces, baseball is 5.0 to 5.25 (so the cricket ball is marginally heavier)
cricket ball is 8.81 to 9 inches in circumference, baseball is 9.0 to 9.25 (so the cricket ball is marginally smaller).
Both are leather balls with a cork interior, so the slightly denser cork used for cricket balls makes them a touch harder.
And yes, catching a cricket ball without a glove hurts; this is why you'll hear commentators talk about soft hands; there are techniques you can learn to make the ball stick and to avoid it hurting.
Hi Alex,
1 thing I tell you cricket looks easy but when you get into the field of play then you find out what sort of technique, fitness & practice you required.
Nah its way easier than football 😶
random voices .. American football 🏈 or you mean Soccer ⚽️ ?
random voices
Have you ever played Cricket,
I’ve played field Hockey, Cricket & football.
Hockey is most skill full & then Cricket.
@@usmanghani9778 i played state level cricket and now im a footballer honestly i played hockey too but only on weekends when nobody comes for football practice and honestly football needs more stamina and mental awareness .and wat did expect to me huh? 😑
@@raidang fu for f'ness
8:22 not swing bowler. they are called spin bowler.
Baseball as similar to Cricket as Earth is to Jupiter .
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Ye Baseball players sochtahe ki cricket easy.Jab ek tadga bouncer padega na tab ye log sochenge kya hai ye game....
Are you drunk?
I often hear people say that hitting in baseball is much harder than in cricket.
On any individual pitch (or bowl in cricket) this is true but it's important to remember that success is defined very differently.
In baseball getting on base without getting out is considered a success. You only need to do this one time each time you bat, and if you do this 1/4 times you're considered pretty good.
Conversely in cricket most times you need to bat for 100s of balls to have a successful innings.
Right and when a guy is scoring runs he’s also hitting dot balls. So even if he goes 1 0 0 0 4 0. That only 33% of hits are successful. It’s the same thing. It’s just baseball players don’t have the luxury to tap a ball to a fielder, not run and bat again.
You're definitely right about the advantages of a flat bat, enabling you to guide the ball rather than just hit it, plus being able to go behind (e.g. shots like the pull, the cut, or the ramp) as well as in front.
But cricket balls are very heavy weight unlike a baseball, hence why for heavy cricket ball a more flat bat, and a light baseball, a more narrow, thin bat
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Really enjoying your videos, it's great to hear a professional baseball player giving informed comment on cricket, a sport close to my Yorkshire heart. I'd like recommend a type of catch you don't really have a parallel to slip catches. They are pure reaction catches and can be really spectacular.
These aren't even Top 50 Catches
You are right...
They need to watch AB de Villiers catch for RCB in the IPL
Paul Collingwood undoubtedly had taken one of the greatest catches
I know because baseball catches are way better. And the barehanded catches made by baseball fans are better than these
You talk about the flat bat however in cricket you only bat once so if you get out you’re done. And one miss hit and you’re done. Whereas in baseball you get out it’s sort of expected in a way. That’s the biggest difference
But you can just keep tapping the ball in play, not run and keep batting while in baseball you only get one ball in play
@@philmccracken179 keep tapping lol...watch test matches and see if the players can tap that easily lol
@@ashutosh3252 my point is cricket is allowed endless balls in play no matter where they go, as long as it’s on the ground, while baseball only gets one ball in play
@@philmccracken179 that doesn't make batting in cricket easy...watch highlights of test matches in england. Its not easy at all. You need extraordinary skill and mental toughness to survive in test matches
You shuould see the SUPERMAN catch of ABD Villiers in IPL......most amazing catch i ever saw in my life😍
Yes... I have seen that so many times.
You should really consider some ENGLISH classes
@@aryan8463 oh well......i am not so good in english....it's ok bro...but thanks
@@aryan8463 You meant 'taking' some English classes, right? This way, your sentence would actually make a bit of sense. This insult only works if you are targeting a native English speaker. Else, the joke is on YOU, like in this instance. :-)
That was one of his best catches. But you can't forget Steve Smith's catch against New Zealand in the pink ball test match.
This was perhaps a bit too heavy on boundary catches. The best really are from ones closer in, when the ball can still be going at 90 mph+, often taken one-handed, while diving. See (bit late to react now) here, as an example th-cam.com/video/WX9fRb9M_bY/w-d-xo.html And no, a catch doesn't hurt*. Unlike it baseball, you aren't just letting the ball hit hit your hand. If you take it right, it kind of cushions the impact. Cricket players are always a bit mystified as to why baseball fielders need a glove. The guys right behind the stumps (wicket keeper) do wear gloves, but they will be taking dozens of catches every day.
* get it wrong, and yes it can hurt. It can snap fingers.
to see best acrobats in cricket, one should witness one and only Jhonty...
@@WSTRNS most younger folks have zero clue about the matches from 2004 and before. When those set of players left all the teams, the same level of excitement never came back.
@@asderven not exactly brother, our generation has not that much clue clue about 70s or 80s, even early '90s, for our elder generation '83 wc, B&H win is the best emotional ride, for us it's 2003 & 2011, it changes generation by generation, just like we say cricket isn't same after Dada Sachin Dravid etc '00 players retirement now a days young boys will say same when VK Rohit Sikhar will retire.
@@WSTRNS that is true, every generation has their own heroes they look up to. As long as people play this game for the love of the game, we will always enjoy it.
shaheen afridi broke his hand in psl 5
You have to remember that most people who play cricket have been playing the game their whole life and even at schoolboy level they play with a normal cricket ball. So over time their hands get toughened up to catching the ball so it doesn't hurt.
Yuvraj is the only batsman to hit 6 sixes in 6 balls in international cricket match
Hershell Gibbs also hit 6 sixes in 6 balls in a world cup match
If u grow cricket in America thn i will grow ur channel to 10 million...😎
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@@ishanpant9922 sure bhai
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And how will you do that Satya Pratap Nayak?
Video starts 1:06
He actually hit "11" sixes in 12 legal deliveries in that match.
Wow cricket sounds really hard. 🥴
@@philmccracken179 To be fair, that's practically unheard of
Just so you know (no mean tone), the bat is not completely flat, there is some curve on it (from left to right if the bat is upright). If you heard what the commentator started saying @3:52, you should also watch that (Herschel Gibbs @2007wc), it's slightly more impressive than this because it was a longer game (& a few years earlier), so the game wasn't as attacking as here, also this was at the end if the innings so players are more likely to slog (swing/hit & hope), whereas he was playing higher up the order, meaning you have to be more careful so as not to lose your wicket! The only other time it happened before that was by a west Indian in black & white times haha! The chucking the ball back inside the rope is not common per se, but has become more of a thing since the early/mid 2000's! One recent catch you should look up is the Spiderman catch by ab de villiers: he jumped up right on the edge & landed inside, although what you should really see him do is bat, known as Mr360 cause he can hit the ball anywhere in your regards to it being more challenging but also optional, you have to see him score 150runs off only 33balls (S.africa vs the wi), & he once got 149 off nearly the same. But there are many more batting, bowling & fielding performances which I'm sure you will slowly find along your path
Yeah man, these balls sting hard. You gotta condition your hands from an early age to get used to catching high velocity shots. I've had calluses in my hands since I was a kid, gotta desensitize if you want to catch and not injure yourself.
Two things to help you - 'spin' bowlers and 'swing' bowlers are different things. You often refer to 'spin' bowlers as 'swing' bowlers. Spin bowlers spin it off the wicket, so it bounces and then turns. Swing bowlers swing it in the air like a curve ball in baseball, so it swings before it bounces. The best swing bowlers can swing it before it bounces and then hit the hard, tall seam to make it move again off the wicket, Not spin, but 'seam' movement.
The other thing was about these outfield catches where they throw the ball up to themselves or another player. It's really not all that common, I think it's just because you're watching a fair few of these great catch videos lately and they'll always pop up in those vids.
Keep it up, I'm enjoying this!
PS. I wrote my comment before finishing the video, but you also spoke about how in basketball, players have to regain their footing inside the court before touching it. It actually USED to be like that in cricket, where you'd have to establish yourself back in the field before touching the ball, but when this became a more regular thing that they changed the rules. (This throwing-the-ball-up-on-the-boundary-rope-and-catching-it-inside-the-rope phenomenon is actually very recent in cricketing terms. You never used to see it, but T20 cricket made it a more regular thing.)
I'm a Pakistani and when I see shadab
I just come for this video
I taught my 10 years old son how to catch a baseball without gloves as it's hard to find a cricket ball here. He got so much used to it that when he had to play baseball as part of his physical education class, he asked his coach permission to field without a glove and then caught the balls barehanded and converted double plays as well. The coach thought he was crazy that's 10 years old kid is doing all that.
He was one of the best cricketers india has ever had.... But had a very tragic end to his career
Who?
@@assadullah7233 Yuvraj Singh and cancer
@@imaginx806 ok
Watching ur video for the first time. It's really good. Love from India. Good luck
Thank you sir!
The boundary rope throw in catch is really common in the shorter formats of the game like T20 and one day matches cause the players go a lot harder in those games
Great content Alex.
Pls review Ben stokes’s the catch in the 2019 word cup a match against South Africa
Yes that catch was unbelievable
I didn’t see it
Yuvraj Singh, hands down, has to be the most elegant of all left handed batsmen at least. His bat flow is amazing.
Lol nigga obviously never heard of Barry bonds
Where is thumbnail catch and catch by shadab khan from Pakistan
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India is so dirty. Just type "dirty India" on YT
There are pretty much dope catches than these..... Bro... I luv your work man. Cheers
Yeah sometimes when you catch a cricket ball, it hurts. From a young age they teach you the right techniques on how to catch. The most common technique to reduce injury risk, is to catch with soft hands. Basically what that means is to meet the ball before it arrives, and as it makes impact, you follow a line so it takes away some of the impact. You'll see wicketkeepers (person behind wickets with gloves) commonly use this technique whenever the ball is missed where they'll get their hands out in front of their body, take the ball and then draw their hands back in towards their body. outfield/boundary catches are very difficult as the ball tends to dip and swing and spin and it makes it so hard to catch and you really have to be light on your feet in case you need to change and adapt. You should look at more close in-field catches, they are extremely difficult as well, because the balls come off the bats at around 90+ MPH and it's purely just reflex in their incredible catches.
That pronounciation was spot on. (Yuvraj)
12:03 according to new rules that catch is no more allowed. You need to have your feet touched to the playing field in order to effect a dismissal.
React to the 2019 cricket world cup final final over plus super over... most dramatic thing ever like fully
You got Yuvraj Singh's pronunciation spot on!
"That's gotta hurt" :) it absolutely does my man
Baseball fans catch balls barehanded every game . It’s not a big deal
@@philmccracken179 you haven't played cricket have you 🙂
@@hasuramapa4639 no but I’ve been surfing. My board wasn’t as big as yours tho
The bouncing ball on dirt completely changes the experience. If baseballers had to hit a toe breaking yorker, you'd want a wide bat.
Cricket Contents!
Immediately subbed.
Great work.
keep it up.
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we just won the U19 Worldcup this year.
I’m really enjoying your reactions and seeing you learn cricket as a baseball player.
Here’s some things that you might find interesting in comparing and learning the sport.
The bigger sweet spot on the bat makes batting a bit easier but what compensates that is that the bowler can bowl it anywhere you can reach. Out wide, at the stumps, at your toes or even at your head, so as a batsman you need to be ready for anything, playing so your weight can go to your back foot or front foot if you want to score.
There’s no strikeouts and you don’t have to run if you hit it, so knowing when to defend and when to attack is super important, trying to hit everything for 6 is considered reckless as the chances are you’ll probably go out and then can’t score anything. Instead you can try and manipulate where the fielders stand, tempt them close to stop you running or push them back to stop the boundary, then hit the gaps and cash in. Or as the bowler, make them hit it to you put your fielders.
Also, there’s basically only one ball used for each innings, so when it’s new it swings and then when it’s roughed up it usually stops and batting becomes easier, though taking care of the ball can get it to swing longer or again. On top of the changing ball, every pitch bounces and spins slightly differently so batters and bowlers both need to make sure they know how it’s reacting to get an advantage.
Hope that’s interesting and helps a bit
Here’s some quick reactions you could do, all 5 mins or under
Steve Smith with some of the best infield catches
th-cam.com/video/9nFsyajV5jI/w-d-xo.html
Mitch Johnson (90mph+ bowler) bowling at the stumps, toes and chest/head, keeping the batsman guessing.
th-cam.com/video/eQ5YfOayBlI/w-d-xo.html
Shikhar Dhawan batting compilation showing the different types of shots you can play.
th-cam.com/video/zAz0j7wa8yY/w-d-xo.html
Some of the best run outs
th-cam.com/video/uEfJZY1a3ZI/w-d-xo.html
These videos should be fine copyright aswell, I hope
@@jeremyjohn2575 here's a link to the best catches in cricket - www.iplt20.com/video/17809/ipl-2014-best-catch-of-the-season
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God damn, spot on pronunciation of Yuvraj Singh xD
top 10 cricket catches these catches wouldn't get into top 500 ohh my god what a shame
Nikhil Maheshwari send me your top 10 then!
@@RexyBing you'll get copyright strike
@@RexyBing Nikhil is right
True bro
I know mate. There's soooo many better than this.
the looks the bowler gives you when you drop a catch hurt way more than the bowl does (lol generally it doesn't hurt because either you don't catch it dead, but move with it to slow it down, or it's just reflex and you don't have time to notice the pain
"I'm sure he's one of the best hitters. If there is" ..
You bet!
He's one of the best who recently retired from cricket
You should watch Chris gales half century (50) in 12 balls
react to ms dhoni insane wicket keeping skills. trust me your gonna be amazed by his reflexes.
you are right that its easier to hit the ball because the bat is flat but you also have to remeber that the ball is pitched up so its trajectory is completely different from what it is in baseball ,, its a lot easier to hit a ball that comes directly to you ,, in cricket its called a full toss and is the easiest ball to hit ,, 2:56 is a full toss ,,
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Comparing baseball with Cricket is like comparing checkers with Chess
I recommend you to watch catchs by johnty Rhodes and yuvraj singh
Let's go! These catches were crazy!
jadeja, mc cullum, dhoni, abd r ⚡ in the field. ✌🏼😍
10:42 they are actually trained that way so they go one with and act like it dint happen but the technique is that u let the ball come to your hand
Subbed, looking forward to seeing your rugby reaction
No we want cricket
@@arpan_mondal shut up
@@sadanandapatel6123 For what?
The ball can also move sideways off the wicket pitch. Depending on the wicket pitch, the ball can move around a lot.
Plz grow cricket in ur country
Why???
The power of Yuvraj Singh is phenomenal. Just a flick and its gone for 6🤯
I thought you were reacting to cricket catches and broken bats.
@7:25 hussey showed it was 6 😂
These are not the best catches for sure.You have to react to Steve Smiths and Brad Haddin's catches
nice job bro :)
Boundary re-throws seem over-represented here. Some of the very close to batsman catches by Allan Border, Jonty Rhodes, or Jadeja should be included.
Great Content Good Job your subscriber from Islamabad , Pakistan .
Yuvraj singh is king ❤love from India ❤
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Yuvraj Singh is the man apart from any one.... Who had a great role in 2011 worldcup which India won under Captain Dhoni
You just need to watch a Ben Stokes compilation from 2019. Best player in the world with the bat, ball and in the field!
The entire last hour of him and leech is on TH-cam at the minute, plus one where he gives his commentary on it. It's brilliant
Rachel Hill watched that live on sky last week where he commentated over it, epic!
@@jordansullivan4150 urgh I don't have sky cricket at the minute, I have to make do with TH-cam 😔
Rachel Hill ah that’s a shame!! They have frozen all packages so surely they would make it free!?!? They upload all the best bits to TH-cam anyway!!! Great Bob Willis montage on their TH-cam if you have 20 minutes spare!
@@jordansullivan4150 cancelled it a few months, but nope still not free, you have to subscribe 😂 love Bob Willis, his bowling at headingley 81 was incredible
10:38 yh it kinda stings but after alot of practice your hand kinda gets tuff and used to it i guess.
Except for the last catch by Dwayne Bravo... All other catches were definitely not the best ones
www.iplt20.com/video/17809/ipl-2014-best-catch-of-the-season
Alex after watching best baseball catch caught near audience....
Alex :- Wow....what a catch
Cricketer :- That is six runs in cricket
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No gloves that's gotta hurt. Remember there's no Americans in this vid. Football-padded up Rugby- no pads. Baseball gloves- cricket fielders no gloves 😬
In India , Baseball is called as Softball for a reason 😆😂😃😂😆
Visiting again after 2 years...
Ben Stokes catch in the WC and Ravi Jadeja's catch against New Zealand are by far the greatest catches of all time.
04:31 the best moment of the video, I'm sure he s one of the best hitters of cricket
You got more views and likes than subscribers. Good luck pal !!
8:15 what was that clip doing inside good cricket catches video?
The man who hit 6 sixes was an excellent fielder too..u should also react to his fielding skills.. Yuvraj Singh 💜🇮🇳
Also in cricket when your hit the ball the middle isn’t at the very end like a baseball bat. Each bat has a different middle and picks up differently. Basically what I’m saying is these games are similar but no where near the same. The base concepts of hitting a ball that has been bowled or pitched and running is the same but, the finer points of both the games are completely different.
Here's a link to best catches - www.iplt20.com/video/17809/ipl-2014-best-catch-of-the-season
Yuvraj is one of the best hitters in the world. But the best hitter in the world is the person on the Non Strikers End 😉 #MSDhoni Remember the name!
Dude that’s really kool that you are learning cricket
Oh bud. You should so check out Yuvraj's story. He got diagnosed with Lung cancer after being the MVP of the World Cup tournament and then he beat cancer and got back into international cricket! He's an absolute gold!
Did you played cricket
Cool video👍
Before yuvraj singh hits 6 sixes opponent's team's said that to yuvraj that you are playing non cricketer shots 😂😂
He is the only person in international cricket to git six sixes in a row in an over
As if Hershell Gibbs didn't do that prior to him.
@@jamesbond4810 idk
Best catch i’ve ever seen - Ben Stokes outfield catch vs South Africa in the ICC World Cup 2019!
“Ben Stokes... You can’t do that!”
You said about the flat bat... Well, if the bowler start to bowl like in baseball and the ball be bigger as baseball then every ball will be a sixer in cricket. 😄
Cricket & baseball both are different games, different format... Comparing cricket bat to the baseball will be foolish. Besides...all the respect to your reactions. 🙏
Ben stokes catching Voges off a thick edge at Trent Bridge in 2015 is one of the best reaction catches I have seen. Full steady he catches the ball behind him
One main difference, however, is that the ball in cricket is harder and heavier in weight. The legal weight for the ball in baseball is from 5 to 5.25 ounces (142 to 149 g); whereas the ball in cricket must weigh between 5.5 and 5.8 ounces (156 and 164 g).
The 360 field is a 50/50 thing between more places to hit the ball to, but also more places for the fielding team to set traps. The fielding team will position fielders in specific places and the bowler will bowl a plan to try and make the batter hit it in to the trap rather than just aiming at the stumps. Most outs in cricket are not direct hits on the stumps by the bowler, but a batter not hitting the ball where he wants it to go and hitting it where the bowler and his fielding team wants it to go. Imagine in Baseball if a pitcher threw every pitch in a way that meant any hit was going to right field, so the defense had no left fielder and had a deep and shallow right fielder. There's a huge gap on the left, but unless you are really lucky or the pitcher throws a bad one, the ball ain't going there.
In baseball that’s called the “shift” buddy. Sometimes they leave the entire right side empty. So what are you talking about? And baseball pitchers pitch to induce ground balls when the situation calls for it. Man you cricket people talk so arrogantly about baseball but you don’t know anyh
@@philmccracken179 Well, "buddy", I know more about baseball than you know about cricket, so rather than cum in your panties about "Another damn alien is attacking muh country", try to gain some comprehension skills and process what I wrote.
At NO time during a baseball game will ALL fielders move to one side of the field. At NO time in baseball will a SS suddenly be 5 yards from the batter and between the batter and 3B inside the diamond. At NO time will 1B be stood level with the pitcher and 10 yards off the field. The conical shape of the baseball field limits very much where fielders can and will position themselves. A 360 field makes defending that field much more difficult, so it much less a game of "shifting the outfield" and more a game of patience and setting fielders in very specific places to set a trap. Pitchers in baseball may well try to induce a ground ball or a high fly ball, but it is not exactly the same as setting 4 fielders at 45 degrees behind the batter and trying to get him to nick the ball specifically there with a millisecond for the fielder to react. Baseball is more about fielders playing the percentages with positioning and knowing a line drive will go to X,Y or Z and I have to cover all 3 and a pop up will give the OF time to get underneath it because each covers a zone of the OF with a foul line as barrier. In cricket you can stand in X position, but the ball could go 40 yards wide of you and it's still your ball with nobody else anywhere near you to cover you. The 360 field means the ball can go behind the catcher and you better damn run after it because there are no foul lines to give you no need to chase the ball.
I have never in any way tried to imply that baseball is easy or is not a sport with extreme levels of skill and a high degree of strategy. I will however maintain that cricket involves more strategy, more variables and more stamina. The sports both come from the exact same source and have a lot in common, but like Rugby & NFL also have enough differences to make them distinct from each other. There is room for both and none is "better" than the other, it's just what a person prefers over the other.