American reacts to CRICKET bat vs BASEBALL bat

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• AU

  @AussieWazza · 1 year ago

  As an Aussie who played cricket my whole childhood. I find it hilarious that the bat is the focus.<br>Have you seen or felt a cricket ball? It’s the cricket ball coming at you is why we have to wear helmets and pads. If you’ve ever been hit by a fast bowler and cricket ball on fire, you wouldn’t give a toss about the bat.

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• HO

  @homeandalone1640 · 1 year ago

  Now we all want to see this guy hitting cricket balls with both bats.

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• JE

  @Jeni10 · 1 year ago (edited)

  “A cricket ball is harder than a baseball. Cricket balls are made with a cork core, tightly wound string, and a leather covering, making them denser and heavier than baseballs.”<br><br>Distance isn’t the first goal in cricket, it’s protecting the stumps and doing it in such a way that the fields men have to chase after the ball, so you can get more runs.

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• IV

  @ivanaytor93 · 1 year ago (edited)

  In cricket, a ball not bouncing off the pitch and comes through around waist height like a baseball, is called a &quot;full toss.&quot; It&apos;s one of the easiest bowls to hit out of the park.

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• JE

  @JeffBurn-b1i · 1 year ago

  You won&apos;t get the luxury of standing and hitting straight down the ground every time. The variation of bounce, swing, seam movement, wind, speed and pitch conditions, make batting an art form and endurance of entertaining skills.

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• SE

  @septemberstarlight9362 · 1 year ago

  seeing a cricket bat swung like a baseball bat is so cursed lmaoo

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• ME

  @meateaw · 1 year ago (edited)

  Hilariously, you said you&apos;d like to see someone like Don Bradman using a baseball bat, Don Bradman famously practiced batting using a cricket stump. &nbsp;Which is basically a 1 inch completely cylindrical stick of wood. &nbsp; It was like batting on super-hard mode. &nbsp;Probably one of the reasons he was so good as an actual batsman was he was <b>dead fucking accurate</b> with his placement on the bat.<br><br>Also, he was batting ~90 mph balls, which is similar pace as the speed of a fast-bowler bowled ball.

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• NI

  @nickpriest803 · 1 year ago

  A cricket ball getting bowled at you at 90mph is terrifying

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• WI

  @WilliamSmith-j9r · 1 year ago (edited)

  The purpose of cricket is not to smack the ball into the bleachers every single time. A baseball batter&apos;s ideal is to face a single pitch per inning and smack it into the stands. A cricket batsman wants to stay there as long as possible. The longest innings in Test cricket by number of balls faced (ie pitches sent to the batter in a single inning) was 847 balls and took 13 hours of playing time.

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• MA

  @markymarc7833 · 1 year ago

  Guy tries a bat from one of the oldest, surviving, organised sports and says, &quot;I didn&apos;t know they would know how to make decent bats!!&quot;

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• RO

  @rosemaryt9375 · 1 year ago (edited)

  You don&apos;t hold the bat like that 🤯 Freaking me out here 😂😂😂

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• JO

  @johnfoster6412 · 1 year ago

  As a child, Don Bradman practiced hitting a golf ball with &nbsp;a cricket stump against a water tank. &nbsp;I think he could hit almost anything with anything in his day.

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