Cricketers convert into baseball players

[slippy888]

Guys do you think there are many that can do it

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Kieron Powell the boss.

Good Shortstop

 

[Red]

From Aus, I reckon Warner would be a great baseballer. Darcy Short's skills would transfer across. I think you could turn Starc into a pitcher.

 

[slippy888]

Why do teams like India kinda suck in baseball maybe resources not been put in to help players develop

 

[Red]

Why do teams like India kinda suck in baseball maybe resources not been put in to help players develop

None of the former British colonial nations are particularly good at baseball.

 

[slippy888]

Should be easier than cricket

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Should be easier than cricket

Not according to Rodk's opinion

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Chris Duval was a pretty good baseballer, it showed through in his cricket, wouldn't want to take a quick single on his arm.

He also has the dubious honour of being the only First Class wicket for Usman Khawaja

 

[Red]

Guys like Ian Chappell represented South Aust and was an all Australian at baseball. His grandfather Vic Richardson was good at baseball too.

Fairly sure Neil Harvey played at a high level too. Maybe Allan Border? Think a lot of cricketers who werent footballers of some code played baseball in winter back in the day to keep fit. Nowadays there is no time.

 

[cpr]

Ed Smith wrote a whole book about it. Turns out he used to train with the New York Mets too.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Why do teams like India kinda suck in baseball maybe resources not been put in to help players develop

I think they'd probably suck at basically every sport and are just relatively good at cricket through sheer weight of numbers

 

[mr_mister]

Good at hockey too

 

[vcs]

Those days are long gone. I think we turned crap at hockey around the time when the rule changes turned it from a skillful dribbling based game to a set-piece fest. At least that's the explanations I've read. I do find it dire to watch though.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Those days are long gone. I think we turned crap at hockey around the time when the rule changes turned it from a skillful dribbling based game to a set-piece fest. At least that's the explanations I've read. I do find it dire to watch though.

Absolutely. Played it for a year as a kid when I wasn't allowed to play any actual sports and it was kind of fun to play, but boring af to watch every 4 years when the Olympics roll around .

 

[Second Spitter]

The fact there has been only one person in the history of both sports to play both first-class cricketer and appear in the Majors suggests the answer is no.

Like I;ve said a million times, hitting in baseball is considerably different from batting. Hitting through the line of the ball and playing with soft hands, considered good technique in cricket, is bad technique in baseball (hitching).

 

[stephen]

The fact there has been only one person in the history of both sports to play both first-class cricketer and appear in the Majors suggests the answer is no.

Like I;ve said a million times, hitting in baseball is considerably different from batting. Hitting through the line of the ball and playing with soft hands, considered good technique in cricket, is bad technique in baseball (hitching).

Well the main impediment to code switching is not techniques (I'm sure that a number of modern T20 specialists would be able to adapt pretty well to baseball hitting) but location. There's not really a huge overlap in the countries or regions that play either sport, so there's a lot less incentive to code hop.

 

[Second Spitter]

This is simply not true. For instance, nobody i know plays both in Sydney Grade Cricket and in the Sydney Winter Baseball League or vice versa. UNSW and Sydney Uni both field clubs in both comps, across numerous grades, no common players.

The skill sets are simply not interchangeable.

 

[stephen]

This is simply not true. For instance, nobody i know plays both in Sydney Grade Cricket and in the Sydney Winter Baseball League or vice versa. UNSW and Sydney Uni both field clubs in both comps, across numerous grades, no common players.

The skill sets are simply not interchangeable.

They probably don't want to play both. Winter cricket competitions don't have huge numbers of people that play them.

Both games take out an entire Saturday.

The skills are similar but not exactly the same. Someone who is good at cricket could be good at baseball and vice versa.

 

[TheJediBrah]

This is simply not true. For instance, nobody i know plays both in Sydney Grade Cricket and in the Sydney Winter Baseball League or vice versa. UNSW and Sydney Uni both field clubs in both comps, across numerous grades, no common players.

The skill sets are simply not interchangeable.

I don't really get what you're trying to say here. It's obvious that they are different sports, if that's your point. No one's claiming they are the exact same.

But the skill sets have more overlap than most random 2 sports you were to compare.

 

[stephen]

Yeah I'd rather pick a cricketer to play baseball than a cricketer to play basketball or soccer. Even if Ellyse Perry was a champion of both sports at the top level.