keep it to da politics chris lol kidding hehe

btw it makes sense SD lol

but then chirs u said "we have baseball which is much more fun and has less armor" lol

then you compare American football to Rugby with the armour thing lol

anyway NZ ftw!!

hahaha nice

"Baseball has less patting than cricket because the ball is more likely to be directed towards the batsman in cricket than baseball, especially at the batsman's legs which is the biggest, most obvious piece of padding in cricket."

you obviously don't watch much baseball.  I loved Don Drysdale doing radio for the Dodgers, whenever either team had a pitcher throw a beanball, Drysdale would spend a half hour explaining why every pitcher MUST keep the batter in fear of the plate whatever the rules say about trying to hit batters on purpose

"At least cricketers can actually catch on their own without the need of a novelty sized glove to help them out"

haven't seen cricketers leap fences to catch stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ70wtD-fLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcpwNpP0bHM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZBjhTd4Z9M
And there are many more

As for catches, there are some spectacular cricket catches around. You probably haven't seen cricketers jumping fences for two reasons (1) you haven't watched much cricket and (2) cricketers don't jump fences because in cricket if the ball crosses the boundary without bouncing then it scores six and the batsman isn't out, whether the ball is caught or not

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zuotL4utiY

In baseball if the ball is caught the batter is out and they have a chance to tag out anybody who left their bases

If the batter knocked it into the parking lot and a fielder made it out there before it hit the ground it would be an out

So that's one reason for a bigger glove

I would support Sri Lanka against Pakistan. I am supporting West Indies against India though, but I think that one may be a losing cause!

Yell, so why do the infielders wear the huge glove then? And why is that they may have to catch it further back a reason for the glove? In fact, is a baseball field even any bigger than a cricket field? So the guys may not be catching from further back in any event even if that was a valid reason.

That's what we use fingers for over this side of the pond

cricketers have padding coz they often actively stop the ball with there legs and stuff.  You wouldn't do that without padding, and you don't do it in baseball.

Well in baseball the pitch is supposed to be over the plate and between the batter's shoulders and knees to be a strike so baseball pitchers aim higher than a cricketer, and standing over the plate is an out. So they won't deliberately stop a ball. Also they're not STUPID.

If you do get hit, you remember you're an American, you rise manfully without a sob or cry, and you sprint the 90 feet to the pitcher and you punch him until three guys pull you off him.

You couldn't expect to do that wearing leather greaves

Noooo Go New zealand!!!!

England ftw! Not that i've seen any of the games or anything. Is there a gd pub in Leam to watch the games SD? oddly enough I don't have sky here

And i think you all seem to have missed the main reason for padding in cricket. Cricket balls are heavier, smaller(more dense), and harder. People have in fact died in professional cricket. So maybe that's why we have padding?

ireland played a good game today, malinga the slinger hammered them though

England batting first, depends on the top order...with our  performance recently i can see us pulling it off, but then again when people play in their home-land anything is posible