Can Cricket SUPERSTAR Harry Brook learn how to hit a baseball in just 1 day?! | MLB Europe

Watching this video feels like standing on the corner of Boring St and Dull Ave and you want more?

Japan vs India and USA vs England instead?

The cricketers would do better at baseball than the baseball players would at cricket

Cricket is more of Mind and skill game then Strength game.

Shoehei Ohtani Playing cricket would be a delight

They would get used to it with the right catching technique.

In Chicago and a few other places they play an interesting game called “16 inch softball” in which they don’t use any gloves. I found that pretty interesting.

I'm pretty sure most pro baseball players would be able to adapt pretty quickly.

@@obscuredictionary3263 The thing that surprised me was just how hard a cricket ball is. Some of the catches are made with one hand and are not that far from the batter.

@@brianfallon2607 Yeah it hurts a lot. I have felt one of those things they are solid.

And he had an MLB promo sticker on the back of his bat.

He could hardly get the ball off the square against the spinners though.

And he just won the T20 World Cup in November.
The young man has a bright future!

@@nayamsharjeelrafique369 he's only breaking through past year or two give him time

@@nayamsharjeelrafique369 he took a run a ball against the spinners leaving the other batsman to take them apart, then murdered the quicks when they came back. He understands how to enable his team to win, not just try to make himself look good.

Thats a big part of it.
You either have it or you dont.
Pro cricket players, definitely have it.

It's interesting because you don't actually swing at the ball. Your brain predicts where the ball is going to be...and then it swings at that area.
In cricket, it's hard for the brain to make a prediction due to the bounce.
In baseball, it's hard to predict due to the movement of the ball.

@@EverettBurger There's full toss in cricket though, it's both

They’re trained to hit short hops, and the only MLB player I’ve only seen do that was Vlad.

@@Virtuoso191 cricket swing is more similar to tennis than baseball, ichiro and baez also have hit shorthops for hits.

Covering off?

that was cool. good spot

Took guard? Of what?

@@flamingfrancis the stumps. In cricket you take guard in front of your stumps in order to protect them.

​@@clubequintafalcaoNone of that makes any sense to an American.

Yeah, Harry is all arms. His feet are kind of getting around, but he's getting no power from the legs. Most adults who played any little league have more power. Totally different things.

Yeah, the amount of power he would have if he engaged his lower half is kind of crazy. Hitting a ball 360 and 330 with a wood bat with all upper half, is pretty damn impressive.

Going the other way (an American who's played some cricket), I find it much easier to bat in cricket as a lefty, using my 2-handed tennis backhand. Nimble on your feet, responsive to a ball anywhere, and playing in 360*.
As you say, the cricket stance is fundamentally a mobile one, while the baseball swing is based on a firm foundation, foot plant and weight transfer. They're superficially similar but profoundly different. Like a golf swing and a baseball swing, they probably get in each other's way more than they help.

@@joshw7974 its incredible what fast hands can do, makes up for so many other things. giancarlo stanton hits bombs and is often in the bucket himself.

the hardest thing when hitting is going up against the nastiest junk the best MLB pitchers have.

He’s going to have a great ashes I reckon, we might actually compete this time

​@@domhayes5960 you might even win, English team is doing wonders in test cricket as of recent.

​@@mananghildiyal2675 yeah it's difficult for Aussies to stop the bazz ball english team

His defence is suspect specially against the spinners. He'll be easily gobbled up by Ashwin and company in India.

Forget ashes you should be worried about wc of test . Last time India under captaincy of rahane defeated Aussie badly ,he is back in team.

He faces more harsher challenges in the game he plays. I have found baseball to be pretty easier to adapt to as well, if your cricket basics are good you can excel in baseball as well.

@@WastingTime1878 While I wouldn’t necessarily disagree with you, there isn’t any tangible evidence to support that since to my knowledge there aren’t any cricketers that have become pro baseball players. Nor vice versa, for that matter.

@@WastingTime1878 You're lying.
Cricket and baseball are _wildly_ different in how the batter needs to judge the pitcher/bowler's motion as the ball leaves their hand, to say nothing of the various pitches employed in baseball to make the ball's behavior, trajectory, and speed dramatically deceptive (there no parallels whatsoever to that in cricket bowling). And this isn't even going into the wildly different fielding skills.
You have never played competitive baseball.

@@WastingTime1878 Why do people feel the need to diminish one thing when supporting another. Cricket does not hold "harsher challenges" than baseball hahahahha.

@@WastingTime1878 LOLOL. they were throwing him meatballs, Ace.

Livingstone too

​@@priyanshudas9083he has the bat swing, but he relies a lot on his wrists

Have you considered the fact that one English assistant coach is a former MLB player / coach and national Australian baseball coach. The influence to cricket fielding, bowling grips (e.g. knuckle ball) and, to some eyes, for some batting, is very evident.

Arsenals Goalkeeper has a video of taking baseball hitting lessons and looked better than Brook when doing so.

@@davon7100 I never said that he'll be a great Baseball player or he did well. I compared his batting with baseball. Doesn't mean he'll be good at baseball.

Never heard of this guy.
If he's all that good why isn't he in the English team playing the World Cup against Sri Lanka today?
The English team batting is clearly struggling against the Lankans and they could have done with a hitter like him. If they left him out it must have been for good reason?

@@ArmageddonIsHere because ben stokes decided to reverse his retirement so he didn't get spot in the squad

​@@yahiyaking8488 that was quite selfish
And seeing how English team performed as a defending champion was very hard to digest

The losing focus may be just a habit from your baseball days.

i can relate to the ignoring the ball after the bounce part- my brain is wired to take it every time

that would be a hard habit to break. a lot of comments on this video are saying about his feet position. do you find the difference between the styles of play affects that as well? i always thought of the base skills being transferable like hand eye coordination and reaction time but when you think about it old habits can be hard to break and throw you off. I'm hopeless at cricket and baseball. so i have no perspective of it.

That is why you get into a good position. Rest is prediction. Above a certain speed it is impossible to see the ball all the way through. Which is why you have a set stance and a trigger. You move your head over the ball since it is the heaviest portion of your body. Your feet follow where your head goes and you just swing either on backfoot or front. It is more muscle training/reaction rather then watching the ball through. It is impossible to watch the ball under your eyes after it bounces. At that point it is just your best judgement and body positioning.

But you wouldn't be allowed to throw or 'chuck' like you do, in baseball. And nobody bowls full in cricket intentionally

Yep. The only times in cricket you might not really celebrate getting someone out is when it's a lost cause and you know you are not going to win.

Probably because of the differences in bat/ball dimensions and shapes....it's often been said that hitting a round ball with a round bat is one of the hardest things to do in sports. In Cricket the bat is a huge flat board and the ball is a bit smaller than a baseball (I believe anyway?).

Unless its test cricket in India, Australia, England

​@@tyslink The balls are very similar in size and weight. Cricket ball is about a quarter inch smaller in circumference but about 1/2 an ounce heavier than a Baseball it is also a much harder object. Batting wise it definitely is much harder to hit a baseball because of the round bat and more power because the boundaries of the field are much bigger but Cricket requires a more varied technique because of the 360⁰ field of play, much longer at bats, and increased bowling variety, relative to pitching. Reaction times are similar though, Baseball pitching is generally faster than Cricket bowling but they throw from further away.

@@michaelscott7166 baseball pitches are thrown from closer than cricket, when the pitcher releases the ball it's often 54 feet away or even closer.

Also not known probably by Brits.
Its a rivalry inside the state of Illinois itself. Illinois is a little bit bigger than the UK, geographically speaking (12 million and 10 million live in Chicago).
Its only major city is Chicago and it dominates everything.
St louis fans are supported by mostly rural farmers in southern illinois and the cubs represent the urban north of illinois.
Southern Illinoisians hate and resent Chicagoans, almost to an unhealthy degree. While Chicagoans barely acknowledge them.

​@@pahwraith I'm an American baseball fan and didn't know this. I assume most people in Illinois would be White Sox or Cubs fans.

Too bad for us Cubs fans you have our former catcher Contreas.....SIGH!! Molina was a beast!!

@@user-ij2fi3ku8q nah, south of springfield its all cardinal fans. Central IL is 50/50z
Iowa is mostly cubs fans. Go figure.
White sox dont have many fans outside the Chicago suburbs. But its about 50/50 inside the city and suburbs so thats still about 5 million people that like them.

@@pahwraith I'm originally from NYC, and now live in Central New York, so I understand, because you have much of the same thing going on here.
(Yes, there is no small contingent of Red Sox fans in this part of the state, and weirdly enough, many of them are also NFL Giants fans.)
That said, I've also lived in Da Region for 10 years of my life, and when it comes to the Crosstown Classic... the good guys wear black. Go White Sox!

Yeah the most confusing thing in baseball is knowing where to throw the damn thing with no thinking time. Being used to fielding in cricket your instincts would be completely different so it'd be really difficult.

​@@jhfh3112 nah in cricket once you catch it instinct would be throw back to the middle to get a run out or get it back to the bowler

​@@jhfh3112 cricket is actually either at the same level or even harder when it comes to fielding. You need to catch a pretty hard leather ball with your bare hands, no gloves. Then you need to decide if you have to throw it to the bowlers end or the keepers depending where the two batsmen are. You also need to quickly judge how you're going to throw it, whether you are aiming for the stumps directly or going to throw it at a fielder who has got to the stumps and will break it after you throw it to him. Quite often, it's just the fielder having to throw the ball at an inanimate set of stumps and hit the stumps direct. They should also make a note to see if a fielder has positioned themselves to stop the ball from going to the boundary if the throw doesn't hit the stumps or is not collected by a fielder.

@@lonerbetch I don't think baseball is harder inherently, and I know how cricket works. Just commenting that the change of instinct on where to throw and when would be hard for someone who is very well practiced in one sport.

@@lonerbetch that's not true at all, cricket fielding is far simpler than baseball, baseball fielding involves knowing the outs, base runners, force plays, tag plays, which base to throw to, how to do run downs, precise footwork and glove work, and requires much better overall athleticism and arm strength than cricket, there's a reason many top cricket teams hire baseball fielding coaches and never the other way around.

See you there! Go Cards!!!

went to a driving range here in hamburg once. After a of couple swings the instructor asked if i play baseball, there seems to be a pattern.

You do realise that the baseball swing is a horizontal one (unless Asian) Golf is a vertical full arc...look at a pro.

Thats an interesting point I wonder how many who attend are brits and how many are Americans?

@@hifijohn Tickets are too expensive for my liking. I think it might be on TV.

And failed in rest other matches

The majority. MLB is not joke. It's the hardest professional league of any sport to get into.

@@ihatejpmorgan Absolutely. Limited amount of high level baseball I've seen....fielding, reaction time and mobility- and throwing- power and accuracy- is insane.

@@MyCousin82 where are you from brother and which sport is most popular sport in your country???

@@akshaychaudhar6926 South Africa. Rugby and soccer most popular spectator sports, cricket also up there.

I can tell you already they can be the best in the world only thing holding them is the game has not catched on. We had a baseball player come in and play cricket it took him few balls to get used to it. Once he did boy oh boy he was only hitting out of the park no half measures. Fielding was exceptional because he had a rocket arm and could throw the ball like a trace of bullet.

Look up this guy's shot highlights, he's a cricket beast in the making.

You have to have it budd, international cricket is merciless.

As a UK fan, it was enjoyable but I wish they hadn't brought the MLB concept of overpriced concessions over too!

But every ball is not cricket ball .

Theres different types of pitches in baseball, its not all 90mph fastballs. If that was the case, baseball players would easily be making contact. Pitches will also purposely switch there pitches to trick the hitter/batsman. There's different types of pitches including splitters, cutters, sliders, curveballs, knuckleballs, forkball, eephus, breakingball, and more. Also u have to keep in mind baseball players use baseball bats, which have smaller widths. If baseball players used the cricket sticks they would easily make contact with the ball. And u also need to know where to place your hits. Making contact with the baseball wont win games if you don't know where to place your hits.

I lived in Midrand, a suburb of Johannesburg from 2010 to 2016, and while I was there I was fortunate to have found a baseball league. I played for the Mark's Park Mustangs!

Yeah batting in cricket is easier,but bowling is harder,,

being able to hit out of the park doesn't make you good at cricket. it just shows you don't understand the game

Based on your comment you looks like a terrible cricketer or you know nothing about cricket.

​@@ziadelsissy3088 but to become an international player is very tough as just swinging is not enough got to know various other things.

He faced BP. Any 14 year old can hit just as good.

​@@olik5652 BP ?

1-1. I'd be 99% sure of that.

​@@cricketexplained8526 depends because baseball catching is much easier so if they catch out all the baseball team and then get a few good hits who knows. I think virat kohli could get a few homeruns and joffra archer could get some dangerous pitches off (he might still be injured)

@@samuelpinder1215 Winning a baseball match ultimately comes down to who score most runs. It is hard to see a team of cricketers score more runs in a baseball game than baseball players, who even at God-level only hit 30-35% of balls into play.

If it was taken even remotely seriously it would be too dangerous for the baseball players to play cricket. Their clubs wouldn't agree to it

@@frebbbreeze2841 True, they wouldn't know how to deal with bouncers.

If I'm right the London games will be on the BBC someplace.

My son played the game here in the United States.
B O R I N G !

I don't know what any of that means, but he seems super nice- I hope he does extremely well.

Replace 'batsman' with 'batter' or 'hitter' and that statement would read exactly the same for a baseball player.

He got off in IPL tho 🤣

​@I AM EVERYWHERE ! That one literally one game and he came in after a wicket maiden first over

@@iameverywhere8551 scored a century the other day

Baseball is arcade cricket I’m not surprised

A low backlift might have to be compensated for by more physical power in order to get the baseball past the diamond.

They set the template back in the 1930s, when they made Japan baseball-mad.
"Yakyu" is its own distinct cultural institution in Japan nowadays...and it's more fun to watch than MLB.

thats what the world baseball classic is, its just not a series.

@@peterron924 yeah, I know that. It would just be cool if baseball was as ubiquitous as soccer.

did you really just leave out Latin America bro lmao come on now

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Latin America had any individual teams or organizations that played to the same standard as the MLB or NPB. I knew they had individual players but not individual teams or organizations.

Can't leave out the KBO.

Try the video "Cricket meets Baseball | WIN Francisco Lindor signed glove and bat!!"

cricket ball is 10-15% heavier and singnificantly significantly significantly harder, they catch the ball barehanded, and cricket fielders dont just hurl the ball to the bases, they have to aim at the sticks planted there

Well cricket was invented first so...
Cricket - brain= baseball

Really? I haven't heard much about him compare with England's other superstars such as Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler.

Liam Livingstone would have been my preference.

​@@grevious01Stokes and Butter are the established senior players for England. This guy is a proper up and coming star. Watch out for him

Yeah he’s been THE player for England. Keen to see how he goes in The Ashes.

@@djstuc What are you on about? His form has been astonishing... 4 centuries in his 1st 10 tests, averaging over 80, scoring at roughly a run a ball. Man of the series against New Zealand in February. He's the most exciting young player to have emerged onto the cricket Test scene for a long time.

lindor did it before krplus.net/bidio/k8uwY4GCk5DUdHo

There's a great video of Lindor trying out cricket from about 4/5 years ago. It's worth checking out.

@@stepsinpairs Now that you mention it, I may remember that. Will have to go back and check it out.

@Kevin L I think a lot of other teams aren’t covered enough too. But the mlb posts the smallest things the Yankees or Red Sox do but not big things teams like the cardinals or Athletic’s do. It’s unacceptable for a major league sports franchise to be favoring teams just because of popularity. Thinking this isn’t an issue screams privilege of being a fan of a big team and not having to worry about this sure leagues like the nhl still do this a little, but they are much better. It’s part of the reason baseball is dying.

This isn't exactly high-level baseball. More of a 101.

Cricket with its technicalities in batting and bowling is much more harder and requires more skills and mental strength to be good at it. There are so many intricacies in Game of cricket that it's really hard to make someone understand how it's played.. and top of that cricket has different formats and each format has its own level of difficulty and different rules

@@wasimibitpu bullshit, you've never played baseball to compare.

I am not so sure how a baseball batter or a pitcher can fare well in cricket. A baseball batter won't know what to do when there is a bouncer or a spinner, similarly a pitcher won't know what to do when he is asked to bowl with his hand straight.

@@user-vy5uy9fo8p that's a lie, go watch eric sim easily adapting to both bowling and hitting

I think they'd get smashed. Whereas in reverse, the baseball player would score runs in a baseballers vs cricket players cricket match, but may get out cheaply.

@@cricketexplained8526 theres no chance a baseball players could ever make a run in cricket match, baseball player would get retired hurt easily.

@@sangamb8429 I think they would make a few runs but get out cheaply.

@@cricketexplained8526 yeah, you are saying same thing in a humble way😂😅

Cards will lose to my Blue Jays.

@@rickd438 yep they sure did gave up 2 dingers to our lead off hitter 😂

@@joshualee6765 It’s Early.

Theres different types of pitches in baseball, its not all 90mph fastballs. If that was the case, baseball players would easily be making contact. Pitches will also purposely switch there pitches to trick the hitter/batsman. There's different types of pitches including splitters, cutters, sliders, curveballs, knuckleballs, forkball, eephus, breakingball, and more. Also u have to keep in mind baseball players use baseball bats, which have smaller widths. If baseball players used the cricket sticks they would easily make contact with the ball. And u also need to know where to place your hits. Making contact with the baseball wont win games if you don't know where to place your hits.

No that 150 m was fake. Error.

perhaps you stopped following cricket for some time ig, this guy is a recent sensation

@@mananghildiyal2675 overratted