Thread by @iowahawkblog

No American gives a crap about the rest of the world's indifference to American football. Meanwhile the rest of world seems hellbent on saving America's soul from its soccer indifference, like a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses

https://twitter.com/RyanRinsler/status/1414544740394098690

personally, if I were in charge of selling a foreign sport to Americans, I would have started with rugby

I attended the 2015 cricket World Cup in Sydney, and pestered my hosts with questions about the basic rules, which I will tell you are much simpler and more intuitive than baseball. Fun to watch once you get the hang of the basics.

https://twitter.com/torreymspears/status/1414646900805013510

Here's my ignorant American understanding of cricket translated into baseballese:

1. There are 2 home bases
2. Each side has 11 players
3. Pitcher throws on the run
4. Batter is out when ball hits the 3 sticks, knocking the dowel thingies off

/1

5. Batter is also out if ball is caught on the fly
6. On a hit, batter runs back & forth between bases, scoring a run for each base
7. A home run is worth 6 runs
8. It's totally cool for pitcher to bean or hit batter
9. Batter stays at bat until he's out

/2

10. inning ends when 10 batters are out
11. Also, I forgot the batter has a teammate on the other base who runs in tandem with him in opposite direction
12. most games nowadays also have limited # of pitches; e.g. 20/20 format limits each team to ~120 pitches per inning

/3

13. The game is over after a single inning, with a lunch break between
14. Game is also over when the team batting in the bottom half of the inning outscores the team who batted first

think that's about it, I invite cricket fans to correct anything

/fin

by the way, I know cricket has an image in the US as a languid sissy sport of posh Victorian nobility in starched white suits, but the game I saw was more like a monster truck rally with exploding fire cannons and heavy metal hype tunes on the loudspeakers