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Tom Evans

23 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read

Baseball is hardly anything like cricket at all. I don’t know why people keep saying it is. It gives me a headache.

Yeah they’re both throwing/hitting/catching games but the dynamic is completely different. Literally no change to the laws of cricket has ever made the game more “like baseball”.

A full-length baseball game has 54 outs and usually neither side makes double figures in runs.

And yet, AND YET “they’re trying to make it like baseball” is the go-to slur whenever anyone suggests anything that might make cricket games higher-scoring. IT MAKES NO SENSE.

Bradman scored an average of 100 runs every time he batted. Ty Cobb got off the mark less than 2/5 of the time and his average is the best ever. THEY ARE NOT COMPARABLE SPORTS.

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