Benno

This Baseball vs Cricket debate feels so personal because I used to be a professional American baseball player. I played Single-A before moving to India for some business work. I had to stay in India for a long time, so I started watching live cricket. Once I understood the game, I decided to try playing it at a small ground. A baseball player like me, who thought he could smash every ball for a six, struggled to even hit one. I got bowled twice in my first three balls. I managed to connect with a few full tosses, but you rarely get those deliveries because bowlers usually bowl them by mistake. Yorkers, bouncers, everything felt like I was putting my life at risk. 😭 I became so fascinated with cricket that I eventually opened a cricket-related page. Hitting a pitched baseball and hitting a cricket ball after it bounces are two completely different things. If even half of India's cricket-playing kids started training for baseball, they could give America some serious competition. You have no idea how difficult cricket actually is until you step onto the pitch.