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Lot of rules have be rewritten to protect the safety of players in cricket. But for such restriction it would have been a far more intimidating and dangerous game. Despite guys being in plain white clothes it is a nasty game where you can get killed. Sure they may not run 100 meter in 9.83 seconds. West INdies cricketers can easily outrun anybody in MLB.. Even a part time cricketer can outrun them.. for example this guy :cantstop: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WHCeXdYxZc]Blake's six damage car at cricket match - YouTube[/ame]

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Lot of rules have be rewritten to protect the safety of players in cricket. But for such restriction it would have been a far more intimidating and dangerous game. Despite guys being in plain white clothes it is a nasty game where you can get killed. Sure they may not run 100 meter in 9.83 seconds. West INdies cricketers can easily outrun anybody in MLB.. Even a part time cricketer can outrun them.. for example this guy :cantstop:
I can ask the same question why batsman wear pads but it is all for player safety.
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I can ask the same question why batsman wear pads but it is all for player safety.
Because gets to you under a second? With catching you get plenty of time to catch. Also in cricket within rules you can kill a batsman. In baseball you have to break the law. There is no concept of yorkers in baseball. There is no concept of bouncers.. Then pitch contributes a lot. Sometimes ball won't climb , sometimes it will. Those external factors are not coming into play in baseball. There is so much unpredictability in cricket.
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Still there is no such stat in cricket. Frankly it would be a laughable state for anyone who knows about cricket. Guys like Dhoni' date=' Raina, Kohli are as fast as anyone out there.[/quote'] These guys are good but not that blazing fast nos I have stated.
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Because gets to you under a second? With catching you get plenty of time to catch. Also in cricket within rules you can kill a batsman. In baseball you have to break the law. There is no concept of yorkers in baseball. There is no concept of bouncers.. Then pitch contributes a lot. Sometimes ball won't climb ' date=' sometimes it will. Those external factors are not coming into play in baseball. There is so much unpredictability in cricket.[/quote'] Pitch contributes but takes 40% of the pace off. The ball is coming so slow.
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There reflexes are good so they can avoid the balls hitting their bodies' date=' gloves in hand means they have to catch everything.[/quote'] Let them do that in cricket without pads and helmet . Then you can talk. IN cricket hitting a batsman is legal. In baseball it is illegal. Let them make it legal. Let them survive a bouncer from Vinay kumar first before surviving against Johnson.
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Let them do that in cricket without pads and helmet . Then you can talk. IN cricket hitting a batsman is legal. In baseball it is illegal. Let them make it legal. Let them survive a bouncer from Vinay kumar first before surviving against Johnson.
In cricket it is a no ball.
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In cricket it is a no ball.
Dont be disingeneous. *some* baseball pitches can be ruled a no-ball. Not all pitches would be a no-ball in cricket's context. Take a look at this picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Strike_zone_en.JPG As you can see, the majority of the strike zone in MLB is below a batter's hip, so its not a no-ball, since full tosses are no-balls only if they are above hip height. Cricket is definitely more brutal in baseball, in cricket you are allowed to target a batsman's head, period. Whether the ball bounces or not is irrelevant, it is an assault to the head. In baseball, by default that is illegal.
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