what do u think is better cricket or baseball?
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Well, it depends on what excites you. \n\nCricket will be more of a run feast than Baseball given that it is easier to strike the ball in cricket than in baseball, both due to larger bat size, and the fact that the ball on an average will come slower in the case of cricket.\n\nHowever to compensate for these factors, the ball is almost always pitched in cricket, offering the bowler an opportuinty to release innumerable variations to baffle the batsman unlike in baseball. \n\nBoth games involve catching the line of the ball very early. However from the aspects outlined above, we see that the challenge in cricket is to be watchful till the last moment for any 'deviation'; in baseball, reflexes matter more for the striker.\n\nSo depending on what excites you, you'll find one of them better. I personally prefer cricket, though a lot of it has to do with cricket being a part of my life from a young age!
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Allen Border was skilled in both sports and you could see it in his hitting and fielding.  Baseball skills give you good fielding skills, either as an infielder who can throw down the stumps or an outfielder who has a strong arm and can calmly catch the skiied balls.  The world champion Australian cricket team currently use a US baseball fielding coach.\n\nBatting is harder to learn as it requires a lot of technique coaching but the core skills such as hand eye coordination and power crossover.  A strong baseball hitter could become a very effective batsman.\n\nBowling is the hardest skill of all to pick up and there is nothing in baseball that maps across.  Baseball pitching is nothing like cricket bowling.
74488
soccer...but since this is posted under baseball, i'm going with baseball (for now!)
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of course football (soccer) is better that stupid baseball!!! baseball is even not recognized as olympic sport and FIFA world championship is the biggest sports event in the world, even bigger than olympic games!\n\nonly north americans don't get it, in the rest of the world every male child plays football in the street
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I guess cricket goes for me.. footballs not bad either..but its only in european countries..otherwise.. its not sucha great fever elsewhere.. whereas if you go to see.. cricket is a craze everywhere in the world.. !!!
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I love 'em both.\n\nIronically, contrary to first impressions, from a spectator's point of view football is a *thinker's* sport, and baseball is the *faster* sport.  \n\nHere's why:\n\nFootball is about planning, designing new innovations to the game, anticipating the other team's moves.  While baseball is also a bit of a chessgame, (when to bring in the infield, when to send up the pinch hitter, when to bring in the left-handed reliever), you don't see coaches trying to invent a new play, or entirely new tactics, strategy, or even an entirely new philosophy to offense or defense.\n\nBaseball has the reputation of being both a slow sport, and the thinker's sport ... but a good spectator understands that baseball is one of the fastest games there is!  It's *all* about preparation, anticipation, tension, and then sudden release of a flurry of action ... more can happen in a 3 to 5- second play in baseball than happens in almost any sport.  Anyone who says that baseball is boring, just has no understanding of the game.\n\n(Note, the above is just from a spectator's point of view ... as a player, and I've played both ... there is a completely different viewpoint.)
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BASEBALL IS NOT ENTERTAINING.\nYOU HAVE TO WAIT ALL THE DAY TO WATCH A HOME RUN..\nTIRING BOWLING AND MISSING GAME..\nTHE GUYS PLAY AGAIN AND AGAIN TO DECIDE A WIN.\nBUT CRICKET HAS THE THRILL,SUSPENSE,UNPREDICTION.\nCRICKET IS CLEARLY ENTERTAINING.
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Cricket is a team sport. The team which scores the most amount of runs, and gets the other team out, wins. Nothing simpler.\n\nThere are two forms of the game:\n\n1) Test cricket—which takes place over five days. Think of it as akin to the novel with all the running dramas, climaxes, anti-climaxes, intrigues and counter-intrigues of that artform. Test cricket is the original and only true form of cricket.\n\n2) Pyjama or One-Day cricket—the shortened form. It is to test cricket as a bad TV advertisment (wheredyagedit?) is to a superb film. Loud, noisy, predictable, wholly lacking in subtlety and eye-jarringly colourful. To be watched only if there is no test cricket available.\n\nFor obvious reasons, I will largely be discussing test cricket.\n\nCricket is played on an oval. A large expanse of green grass usually surrounded by a white picket fence. The grass is kept at a specific height by the groundsman. In the centre of the oval is the cricket pitch (or wicket) which is a strip of paler grass. The wicket (or cricket pitch) is also carefully presided over by the groundsman, but once the game begins grass is left to grow and the wicket to deteriorate. Thus the conditions for playing change over the five days of a test. The condition of the oval and pitch has a large effect on whether the cricket played on it will be high or low-scoring. Some afficionados argue that the groundsman is the most important person in cricket. I think this is going a tad too far.\n\nAt either end of the cricket pitch (or wicket) are the stumps (or wicket). The stumps are a wooden constuction of three stakes (Buffy would have plenty of weapons available should she have to deal with a nest of vampires while attending a cricket match) impaled in the ground, with two smaller pieces of wood, known as the bails, balanced on top. In front of these stumps (or wicket) at either end is a white painted line which marks the crease.\n\nTwo teams of twelve people play (though the position of the twelfth man is that of gofer. They don't actually play unless one of the fielders needs to leave the oval for a short amount of time). The two teams take turns fielding and batting. In test cricket each team has two innings. In pyjama (or one-day) cricket they have one innings each.\n\nThe team batting has the job of protecting the stumps (or wicket) and trying to score runs. Two batsmen at a time are on the field (unless one of the batsmen is injured in which case they have a runner and there are three batsmen on the field). One batsman is at either end of the cricket pitch (or wicket) defending the stumps (or wicket) and trying to score runs.\n\nRuns are scored by hitting the ball (made of cork covered with red leather) with a cricket bat (traditionally made of willow—thus the expression "the glorious sound of leather on willow" which sound dirty if you're thinking of a certain character from Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and running up and down the cricket pitch (or wicket). Although only one batsmen can hit the ball at any one time, both must run and get safely behind their crease. If the ball is hit all the way to the boundary (typically a thick white rope, not the fence) it is deemed to be four runs. If it is hit over the boundary it is six runs. The batsmen need not run for these boundaries.\n\nOnce a batsmen has run safely from one end of the cricket pitch (or wicket) to the other they have scored one run for themselves and also for their team. The batsman who is facing the bowling is said to be on strike. You do not have to hit each ball. You do not have to run if you do hit the ball. Hitting the ball to the boundary is the most efficient way of making runs because you accumulate runs faster and you don't have to exhaust yourself running.\n\nGetting fifty runs is good for an individual batsman, getting one hundred (or a century) is better, and getting more still is even better. The most amount of individual runs ever was 380 scored by the A
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Its cricket for me all the way....
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BASEBALL!!\n\nGo White Sox!!
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I would say Football. Baseball lost so many fans with their strike a few years back, it will never have the same popularity it once did. Basketball season is too long, and there's been far too many antics off court by players to make it a serious game any more. Football has by far the most fans, as proven with Superbowl Sunday... it has the highest cost for commercials, and more drunk driving tickets are given on that day than any other.
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To me baseball is the #1 sport because a lot of people can be on a team, it's relatively easy, and is really fun because you get to run, hit, and best of all YELL!!!!!!! But that's just my opinion.
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baseball, i dont wanna see a 0-0 tie or a 1-0. i wanna see a win, and baseball is the way to go!!!
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i would say cricket\nb
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BASEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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the full form of cricket is that it is very exciting if u know it and it as equally boring if u know nothing about it \nit is a gentlemans game and it is equally beautyfull\ni enjoy every bit of it , even more than football
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Baseball--the greatest tradition in the world.  It very well may be the perfect game.