• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

Recent content by rodk

  1. R

    Cricket v/s Baseball

    Overstated. The two players, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel did about as well as one could expect for kids without any prior baseball experience. Neither emerged from the lowest professional leagues, but they did not embarrass themselves the least. Rinku ended up having surgery and is now doing...
  2. R

    Cricket v/s Baseball

    1. Always do when right is on your side. 2. If I'm not mistaken, didn't you ask for this exact discussion? There was post after post about how baseball is child's play compared to cricket, invariably by people without any sense of it who needed to appreciate what was really happening, not their...
  3. R

    Cricket v/s Baseball

    Some of you noted the amount of time players spend learning the various hitting maneuvers. Nobody said anything about learning how to play in the field correctly. Here's a glimpse into that: the footwork at second base on a steal. It is one of about thousands of things that need to be mastered...
  4. R

    Cricket v/s Baseball

    This is what happens if you fall asleep playing baseball. (Note: it cost the Dodgers the series, and about two days later, it cost Dodger Manager Don Mattingly his job.) No cricket counterpart.
  5. R

    Cricket v/s Baseball

    Here's a non-subtlety that doesn't have a cricket counterpart. This produced nasty booing, headhunting and other repercussions that left bad blood. Doesn't that make a game interesting?
  6. R

    Cricket v/s Baseball

    When did you get that idea? While sitting on the bench all day waiting to bat, or if you were done batting, back in the air conditioned office at the arena or at the hotel while your team bats its last innings? During tea break and lunch hour? During the four days off between matches? Cricket...
  7. R

    Cricket v/s Baseball

    IDK who that guy is either, but FWIW, he had 72 not out vs. Ireland in a qualifier of some kind in 2010. Does that do anything for you? http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8040/scorecard/439502/ireland-vs-united-states-of-america-7th-match-group-a-icc-world-twenty20-qualifier-2009-10 The video...
  8. R

    Cricket v/s Baseball

  9. R

    How many runs?

    Fine. http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/12325-cricket-v-s-baseball.html
  10. R

    How many runs?

    Yes. But headhunting (hardly "pinging") as a bloodsport is often deemed in the category of fighting fire with fire so the other team is deterred from doing its own illegal stuff, like barrelling the other team's player. Fosse never made it back to baseball, so the back and forth between...
  11. R

    How many runs?

    Agreed, but don't know a way around it. There's contact between the players (on plays that cricket would call run outs) and pitchers want to own the hitting zone and not let batters get comfortable hitting them and retribution when your own batters get hit, and that's going to mean rough play...
  12. R

    How many runs?

    I would not try baseball if I were you and were thinking that. https://www.mlb.com/news/marlins-giancarlo-stanton-upbeat-thankful-hit-to-face-wasnt-worse/c-95316098 A number of pitchers use fear as a tactic, and when they do, it also precipitates fights, so there's two ways to get hurt.
  13. R

    How many runs?

    Are you saying the eye test is more significant than the data sets? That's pretty old school, but I like it. For instance, economy is great unless not getting wickets against is the opponent's strategy is just to burn overs until the match ends in a draw, in which case economy achieved by...
  14. R

    *Official* West Indies Tour of Bangladesh 2018

    I thought you didn't want me comparing other sports. What is it going to be? Do I show you up or not?
  15. R

    *Official* West Indies Tour of Bangladesh 2018

    How do supporters, especially children, follow the matches with the 11 hour time difference between WI and Bangladesh? Aren't all the matches played overnight on West Indies time? How can interest be maintained if watching the matches is so complicated? How does the team get paid for appearing...
See more

Top