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Posted by dharpe guje on December 23rd 2006 in Rants
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So I was reading some past posts that talked about baseball and cricket in the same breath. Didn’t get a chance to get on that tar baby,but instead I figured I might as well start another one. So I decided that I would instigate a debate between the purists on what would happen if we assembled a group of cricketers and baseball players and asked to play a game of cricket first and then baseball. What would happen?

Just to get a frame of reference set and some ground rules in before some smart ass comes with some lame ass questions. The teams would include the following–Cricket XI, Gavaskar, Sobers, Bradman, Richards, Waugh, Dujon, Lillee, Warne, Akram, Marshall, Walsh. The Baseball XI would have Nolan Ryan, Dimaggio, Ruth, Bonds, Johnson, Clemens, Aaron, Mays, Rose, Williams and Maddux.

While the games are completely different and in many ways almost not comparable in their technical and strategic orientation. The question that is key to this exercise is, which sport allows the athletes to better adapt to the other game. But maybe we ought to make this more interesting, what if we created hybrid teams from the two and asked them to play the same sport. Who would have the advantage? My own bias would be that cricketers have a better chance to succeed than baseball players. After all how hard is it to hit a full toss, eh? What gives?