But cricket has one fundamental edge over baseball, which is that the ball bounces, adding another variation to the game that rounders, sorry, baseball, lacks and makes cricket clearly the superior game.
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I suspect thatās true. I was a half decent bowler as a teenager through practicing so much. When I started playing again 15 years later my bowling had naturally gone to pot as expected, but I was totally unable to revive it.
Batting, however, eventually came back once I started playing tennis regularly and regained the ball to eye co-ordination.
Well, ACTUALLY, playing cricket is super fun. I had an English prof in university 20 years ago, he used to set up games we would go out and play on the soccer field.
Thereās also an active game in one of the Toronto parks where I walk my dog.
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It is and thatās from a scotsman 
Edit: I go up to the park sometimes and watch the guys play as its all Asians from India V Pakistan and we have a smoke tooā¦ Great fun during the hot days.
One of your fellow Scots became England captain, you know. 
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Douglas Jardine?
Only reason I know his name is because of the football player famous for Scotlandā¦
Great player, wrong team though. 
I mean Mike Denness (Kent). Jardine sounds Scots but was born in India.
Ahhhhā¦ My pop was wrong then
Itās also a super big deal to change balls during a testā¦
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Iāve played it before. I used to work with a bunch of people from India. It was fun. I hit a homer and I donāt care what you call it. But then they put in a guy who actually knows how to pitch and it was miserable. Zero chance to do anything but bunt and even that was near impossible.
I even understood how balls and strikes and whatever that in-between thing is worked. For about 5 minutes.
Did you run between the wickets and ground your bat?
American Baseball has a field 1/4 the size of a cricket field and the ball is only in play if stays within the boundaries of the field. A ball that is struck by the batsman and lands outside the field of play before being touched by an opposing player is considered a foul ball and counts as either the 1st or 2nd strike against the batsman.
Unless it lands in fair territory but in the stands. Then it is a glorious home run and fireworks are launched. USA! USA! USA!
Donāt tell me this isnāt beautiful art:
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I did whatever I was told to do. I want to say it got us 3 runs or googlies or whatever. Someone was on base.
I think I had to run back and forth a few times? I creamed that sucker to right-center - my power alley.
It was fun to watch them all back up the next time I came up. But then I grounded it. And then they put in the good pitcher who knew how to bounce it with spin and I was truly fucked.
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Now I understand how you guys feel when I post about sumo.
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The biggest problem with teaching children to play cricket is that it fucks up their throwing motion because of that weird straight arm pitching nonsense. And the swing is more suited for golfing than for actually hitting something. Zero transferrable skills.
Everything fucks up everything. My golf swing will never be any good because of tennis and baseball. I just want to Happy Gilmore the golf ball.
Screw golf, why let that stupid fucking ball mess up a good hike?
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Right there with you. Although I do have fun at the driving range sometimes where I can just rip it and every now and then hit a thing of beauty. And then the next shot goes straight sideways and comes alarmingly close to the person next to me. I rarely whiff any more though!
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Yeah, I think I averaged <10 good shots in a round when I playedā¦