Random cricket vs. baseball question

[Brainfade]

Cricket's best batsman against baseball's best pitcher Baseball's best hitter against cricket's best (fast) bowler. No practice time. No previous preparation. Stick them straight into a match/game. Who would be more successful? Cricket's best batsman or baseball's best hitter? Why? Serious responses only, please ... thanks! :-)!

[bear23]

Serious response, What Bat would both be using, baseball bat or cricket. That will be the difference maker here.

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[Brainfade]

Serious response, What Bat would both be using, baseball bat or cricket. That will be the difference maker here.

Good point. Cricket batsman will be using a baseball bat against the pitcher. Baseball hitter will be using a cricket bat against the fast bowler.

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[punjabi_khota]

By far the baseball batter will have more success. The reason being that the best batsmen in cricket usually aren't the hardest hitting ones (Sehwag is the only exception)...sachin,ponting,dravid,steve waugh, gavaskar etc....the transferable skill from cricket to baseball is the hard hitting ability...so if I had to choose I would choose sehwag,uv,gayle etc to go bat for me in baseball game....

[Online]

People who play baseball have excellent hand eye co-ordination and can whack the cricket ball a long way...if they connect

[cowboysfan]

i think an average baseball pitcher will have a field day with most batsmen.most cricket batsmen will be clueless with a round bat especially if the pitchers start throwing sliders and other breaking balls.cricket batsmen are also not powerful enough to simply muscle the ball away.

[Serani]

There was some story on cricinfo ages ago that Kieron Pollard went to Cuba and tried to play a bit of baseball and after a while started smashing them out the ground. I know nothing about baseball so wont comment.

[Steyn]

Btw how many batsmen scored century in baseball or how many of them crossed only double figure?

[Brainfade]

i think an average baseball pitcher will have a field day with most batsmen.most cricket batsmen will be clueless with a round bat especially if the pitchers start throwing sliders and other breaking balls.cricket batsmen are also not powerful enough to simply muscle the ball away.

By the same token, could our bowlers sort out the baseball batters? They are not used to the ball bouncing and seaming. As far as muscling the ball away - does one have to? I haven't watched much baseball, but couldn't you hit ground balls? From a very naive, uninformed perspective, how hard can it be to handle a full-toss :-)?

[Brainfade]

Actually the baseball hitter will have serious issues against quality spinners more than fast bowlers.

Point. Wonder how they'd handle this: 9UHT3UIjwvE&feature=related

[Serani]

If you ever watch when baseball players try a bit of cricket, they hold the bat totally wrong to start with, really not going to be able to handle any kind of good bowling.

[cowboysfan]

By the same token, could our bowlers sort out the baseball batters? They are not used to the ball bouncing and seaming. As far as muscling the ball away - does one have to? I haven't watched much baseball, but couldn't you hit ground balls? From a very naive, uninformed perspective, how hard can it be to handle a full-toss :-)?

Baseball batters have excellent hand eye coordination and brute strength as someone else mentioned in the discussion.If they are playing in a cricket field where the whole field is fair game(as opposed to the baseball 'v')then they will be more successful that cricket batsmen playing baseball.The amount of movement the pitchers get on these "full tosses" is really amazing and big league pitchers excel in "breaking pitches".

[Serani]

You think professional cricketer batsman dont have excellent hand eye coordination? then the brute strength comes down to a few batsman like Pollard, Gayle etc.

[The Outsider]

Speaking from experience, a couple of my American friends tried their hand at cricket and were pretty clueless. They were unable to come to terms with the ball pitching on the ground and also a completely different bat swing required in cricket. The only transferable shot from Baseball to cricket is the cowlash. On the other hand, my experience of trying out Baseball was much better and while hitting home runs would no doubt require enormous power, but to connect and play was far easier for me than the Americans, when they tried cricket. I would have to go for cricket on this one.

[ludhianvi]

The cricket batsmen would look at the initial movement of a curve ball by the pitcher. Then he will try to assess the situation and tell himself there is initial swing movement of the ball so I must play out the balls and before he knows it he would be struck out. On a serious note, the baseball player would have a bigger bat but he would only have one or two shots in his repertoire. He would be able to slog and swing the bat for a while and could get a quick score under his belt but would lack consistency to build a bigger innings. If I am not mistaken, baseball is more pitcher(bowler) oriented game where the pitcher wins more often than not whereas cricket favors the batsmen. In baseball, a batter gets a base hit only 1/3 times on average if not even lower. But a cricket batsmen would only need to swing the bat and would need to click only once for it to be a homerun/base hit. Having played both, I would say it would be easier for a cricket batsman to adapt atleast in the initial stage than the other way around.

[Mr. Wicket]

Pujols or A-Rod would be screwed if they went up v. Steyn, Warne, McGraaa or Kumble. (SRT would boss around pretty much any pitcher, but that's because he's SRT. Doc pitching to anyone else would be fun though.)

[Sachinism]

Speaking from experience, a couple of my American friends tried their hand at cricket and were pretty clueless. They were unable to come to terms with the ball pitching on the ground and also a completely different bat swing required in cricket. The only transferable shot from Baseball to cricket is the cowlash. On the other hand, my experience of trying out Baseball was much better and while hitting home runs would no doubt require enormous power, but to connect and play was far easier for me than the Americans, when they tried cricket. I would have to go for cricket on this one.

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[Guest OriginalPrince]

baseball batter will obviously have more success against a bowler since it's a lot easier to hit the ball with a cricket bat. i can't see cricket batsmen getting any hits at all.