Cricket talk with Jimmy 'Jomboy' O'Brien & Bob Lorenz 

Do it mate, it's great! Grew up watching and playing cricket, started watching baseball about 25 years ago. Both sports have basically the same aims, getting runs and outs, but they do it in completely opposite ways. I prefer the long version of cricket, so baseball plays the part that T20 does for others I guess. Really good explanation by Jomboy. It's worth remembering that transitioning from cricket to baseball means watching the pitcher not the batsman. The equivalence of a six in cricket is really a strikeout in baseball, not a home run.

@@jimb9063 Thanks! I really like your explanation.

@@jayfloramusic Ed Smith (the most recent England cricket selector) wrote a good book almost 20 years ago called "Playing Hard Ball", which is the first place I saw the role reversal between pitching/bowling and batting noted (he writes that watching baseball was the first time he felt sympathy for the "deliverer" of the ball). I came from baseball to cricket (and after reading Smith's book), and I do sometimes feel that T20 is too artificial; part of the appeal of baseball is that it's preserved the "timeless test" quality of the game never having to end (part of me even feels that the 5-day Test limit is a bit artificial, though the tactical decision of whether to declare is a nice angle), but the only way to preserve that and have a game almost certainly finish in a few hours is to stack the deck in favor of the batter being dismissed before 10 balls (forbidding runs from scoring if the ball is hit outside of the quadrant in front of the batter (meaning no fielders in the other 270 degrees), requiring the batting side to run if the ball is hit in that quadrant, letting every fielder wear a glove to have bigger hands being the main ways the deck is stacked: three strikes and the different treatment of a hit batsman do not make up for this).

Catchers and Keepers definitely share the same DNA.

But Stanton is too bulky for a keeper​@@jimb9063

I agree he is very good and underrated.

Same here and agreed. Yes the mechanics are different, but that's about elite performance levels. Both are games of running, throwing, catching, and hitting. Can't imagine many other sports professionals being better at baseball than cricketers, and vice versa.

Yes but I think they will be relatively quicker in picking the other sport up

Yes baseball 🤢

Virat kohli's cover drive>>>>>baseball

You are. Giant one

Ur mum

Yes baseball 😂

its not your fault bud that you did not understood cricket because basically its for people with brain. But don't worry u stick to baseball