Bat and Ball Games

Cricket and baseball have many similarities but just as many differences.  Innings are the same, pitching in baseball is bowling in cricket.  Bowling in the US is an entirely different thing, that’s a ball and pin game.  In cricket the field is shaped in an oval, in baseball it’s a diamond.  Games go on for days in cricket, but only hours in baseball. Both sports have their fans and detractors, and they are sports that invite geek-dome, people reciting arcane statistics about players that are lo