When I got seriously into baseball starting in the early 2010s, I read some Wikipedia articles about cricket. I figured it was British baseball, but the articles left me confused.
Earlier this year I stumbled on a streaming channel devoted to cricket. Watching games let me figure out a few basics so when I looked at the Wiki articles again, they now made sense and explained the game to me.
Which definitely isn’t baseball. I think it’s more dissimilar than not, but it can be viewed through a baseball lens. This post is an attempt to explain cricket for those who know the basics of baseball.
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My first thought was to call this “Baseball Blues”, but that title didn’t fit, because I’m not particularly blue about it — whether that means depressed, naughty, or playing the. Nor did I intend any reference to an old, often pejoratively used, slang term for baseball umpires. As in, “Hey, Blue! Ya blind?! That pitch was way outside!”
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