Baseball vs. Cricket Many people around here aren't very familiar with the game of cricket, but know enough of the basics to believe that it can be closely related to baseball, even though people were playing cricket long before baseball was even invented. Even though there are not factual evidence of where or when this game originated, there is some evidence of cricket being played dating all the way back to the 1500’s (A Brief History of Cricket.), rather than in baseball the first official game played was in the year of 1846 (Who Invented Baseball?). Yes, both sports are played with some sort of stick or bat and eleven players, but there are many more similarities than those basic two. Besides those two both sports have many more similarities, and along with those there are many differences. For example when playing baseball the players use gloves, and in cricket they do not. When on the topic of sports, baseball and cricket have been two of the most compared and contrasted sporting events in a variety of parts of the world for a many decades, and they still are today. CRACK! Goes the bat, the crowd starts …show more content…
They are both played with the goal in mind being to stop the opponent from scoring, when playing defense, and to score more runs than the opponent when playing offense. While doing this, the equipment used by both sports offensively is similar because it consists of a protective helmet and a bat or stick to hit the ball with. The equipment used defensively by cricket and baseball players differs because in baseball gloves are used to stop the ball and in cricket gloves are not used, but instead players use their bare hands. When comparing and contrasting these two sports a brief insight for each sport is given, and now people know how remarkable these two sports really