Cricket is actually a pretty simple sport. I think it gets a reputation as unknowable arcane labyrinth bc the terminology is unintuitive
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Replying to @CelticAnarchy
Well what adds to it is cricket and baseball evolved from rival branches of the same family tree
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So cricket is vaguely similar seeming to baseball fans but different in ways that run directly against baseball players' intuition
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The nasty way of saying this is to call Rounders (proto-baseball played in England) "cricket for children"
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Bc replacing running between the wickets with rounding the bases "simplifies" the game
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Tbh JK Rowling's Quidditch vs Quodpots analogy makes more sense with cricket vs baseball than soccer vs gridiron football
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The latter being unquestionably the more Byzantine game
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Anyway cricket & baseball are the same in that they're both stupidly complicated and both now far more popular as exports to the colonies
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They're similar in that they both generate by nature a ton of highly ambiguous situations that require judgment calls
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Orwell wrote how cricket was British upper-class sport bc of that, the enforcement of "fair play" and honor, the expression "not cricket"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Baseball occupies a similar cultural space in the US - lots of classist/subtly racist shit abt the proper comportment of baseball players
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Policing foreign-born players for bat-flipping or other "excessive celebration"
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