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Can baseball players become good cricketers?

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Even I know very less about baseball so forgive my terminology. Essentially, need not. A full toss ball is considered a bad ball in cricket irrespective of its pace. read more

Baseballers are better at fielding, especially throwing. Cricket players could adapt to pitching, but most won't be good at it initially. Baseball players won't adapt to bowling, which is a far more unnatural action. Modern cricketers and baseball batters will be able to adapt to the other sport's batting with a bit of practise. read more

1) Many, if not most(or almost all), MLB players could easily pick up cricket and would be at least as good as the world's best cricket players. There is no way on the other hand, that very many cricket players would be able to make it in MLB. read more

Julien Fountain, the former fielding coach for Pakistan's Test cricketers who also played baseball for Great Britain, is recruiting American players to a scheme he calls Switch Hit 20-- aimed at taking the inherent aptitude and athleticism of ballplayers and training them in the nuances of Twenty20 cricket. read more

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