Then let’s not forget the length of matches. One-day matches take about seven hours. Test matches take five days. The longest baseball game was what – 17 innings? 19 innings? Puh-leeeeease!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_professional_baseball_game

Despite the similarities these are just two very different games.

I think they are similar enough that they’re quite comparable: they both involve batting, fielding, and running. There are several ways the batter can get out in each sport, and several of these overlap.

One can say that the batters in baseball wear less protection than the batsmen in cricket.

This is true; however, getting hit by the ball isn’t as much a part of baseball as it is of cricket, so padding is necessary to prevent injury. In baseball, the pitcher is punished for hitting a batter (hit-by-pitch); in cricket, the bowler is often rewarded for hitting a batter (leg before wicket). That’s pretty hardcore.

In baseball, the people who do actually get hit with the ball on a regular basis (the catcher and the ump) do wear lots of padding. And it’s not like baseball batters don’t wear any padding at all – they do wear protection while batting; unlike cricket, however, baseball players can remove their padding once they reach base safely. Cricketers have to keep running back and forth with all that padding. Oh, and then there’s the bat. Baseball players can just chuck it aside when they don’t need it anymore, whereas cricketers keep running with it.

Then there’s the field: baseball is played within the confines of a right angle. Cricket is played in a circle, so even if the ball goes behind the batter it’s still in play. Granted, there are two more fielders in cricket, but there are still 270 more degrees to cover.

In baseball, you get at least three plate appearances during a game to try and make your mark on offense. In cricket you get one chance.

Then let’s not forget the length of matches. One-day matches take about seven hours. Test matches take five days. The longest baseball game was what – 17 innings? 19 innings? Puh-leeeeease!

Yup, cricket’s SO much more hardcore.

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…he seems to be weighing it on the end of his fingers to get a sense of how much more dense it is than a baseball…

Baseball:

[The ball] shall weigh not less than five nor more than 5 1/4 ounces avoirdupois and measure not less than nine nor more than 9 1/4 inches in circumference.

Cricket:

The ball, when new, shall weigh not less than 5 1/2 ounces/155.9g, nor more than 5 3/4 ounces/163g, and shall measure not less than 8 13/16 in/22.4cm, nor more than 9 in/22.9cm in circumference.

The two balls are approximately the same size. MLB plays with 5 1/4 oz. balls and most cricket balls tend to be 5 1/2 oz. Not sure about the avg. circumference of each. Yes, cricket balls are denser, but only slightly, and unlike baseball, they get softer as the game goes on because they’re not changed all the time like they are in baseball.

What makes cricket more hardcore than baseball isn’t the size of the ball, but how it’s used – no gloves.

he always does. his nose also looks like the tail end of a roast chicken. anynohho, it IS nice to se him having fun instead of his usual antics…though he seem to enoy that a lot too.