Baseball is king in South Korea – but for a few weeks at least, there’s a new sport in town.
Cricket is being held at the Asian Games in Incheon, and as hosts, the Koreans are putting out a team.
Most of them had never played cricket until a year ago, but their baseball careers have helped them adapt – while their skill with chopsticks has been an unlikely aid to spin bowling.
Paul Rhys reports.
They have no chance…
cody vegas You are “hopeless”.
Same was said for Afghanistan not a very long ago.
The Gay Version of Baseball
Grand dad of baseball.
really are u that ignorant.In cricket a bowler/pitcher has the right to knock off the batsmen head whereas in baseball the pitcher can throw only where the bat is.Try facing a fast bowler and i bet you will piss your pants becoz u not only have to hit the ball you u have to protect yourself from it.there are no catching gloves in cricket
baseball itself is a whored out version of cricket,read its history.
your baseball have no chance against cricket ..stupid yank
+Professional Pussy Petter hmmm in some West Indies countries, to teach the basics of cricket, children learn a game called rounders. Rounders is very similar to baseball; in fact you could say baseball is a “glorified version of rounders”. This is the reason why some people in the West Indies see baseball as a child’s game; while cricket is a man’s sport.
They are going to get steamrolled.
Look at all those fat high carb, low fat, rice and noodle munchers. Carbs FTW! Go South Korea!
playing Cricket with Baseball’s skill killed Korean team. They lost many wickets because batsmen lift the bat too high like Baseball bat and swing. Cricket batting is not just swinging bat. It requires Swing, knock, long drive, sweap or defensive shot……
+Le NGuyen what is the future for the Korean team now ?. I want to see them in the world cup
Le NGuyen well said bro
Right
The similar way India never played Baseball in professional level. “The Million Dollar Arm” is a different story 🙂
Black King I never understood one thing, given the wider range of shots needed for batting in Cricket, and that too against so many types of deliveries, why did they not try to find a batsman ( whatever they call it in baseball) from India. It could have saved them a lot of trouble. Visiting one city would have been enough. But then chose find bowlers instead, and the bowling techniques are completely different in these two games
LOL. pan to baseball glove.
Bas ball is boring game ….
Good luck, don’t make anything let you down , hold your head high and keep moving forward. someday you will be a great cricket team.
That young man hitting ball there has prove my long held belief that it’s a crime to bowl near legs of any Asian. Asian batsmen are so good on anything bowled around their legs.
Their batting technique is rubbish. No footwork, just slogging across the line. If one of them can play a cover drive I’ll be slightly impressed.
Why r we even comparing cricket with baseball! Cricket is way more technical and difficult Nd baseball, my friend, is for the burger bellied, fast food butted americans’ sport, naturally can’t blame them bcz they can’t be so technical n skillfull
Monkey D. Luffy who me lol
I ain’t tellin my opinions to any one just was tryin to correct this man lol
@Abhishek Verma Said like a true moron
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Koreans should hire a good coach from Test playing nations. Most preferably from India, Australia, England, South Africa or Pakistan. Cricket is a beautiful game and I want to see South Korea playing CWC in next 10-15yrs. Good luck!
jinz0001
Unfortunately, Cricket is one of the most technical and sophisticated game. It begs the necessity to be run like a Gentleman’s club. Otherwise, matches would be highly one sided and existing fans would lose interest. It would hurt the game more than it would help. Have you seen matches of Zimbabwe vs the likes of Australia, India and South Africa? Zimbabwe rarely puts up a wining fight. Some people don’t even bother to tune in. It’s the same case for the other nations you specified. Well, at least be glad Ireland and Afghanistan were given Test status. When countries fulfill the necessary stipulations and show some results, ICC will definitely reward them.
Shadow Sage 15 years ago Zimbabwe had a competitive team and we’re rising quickly to become a force in the game…the problem is the icc don’t invest in nations such as Kenya,Zimbabwe, Nepal etc and that’s the problem, I’m already getting bored with the same top ten teams always playing regularly against each other look at football for example there are so many competitive nations that play professionally…there needs to be more nations playing cricket competitively
jinz0001
Don’t compare football with cricket. Like I already said, cricket is one of the most technical and sophisticated game, that results one sided matches, when there is a difference in experience. It cannot expand as quickly as football did. I agree that the ICC does not have the best management and are definitely not impartial. But it’s not the only factor.
Shadow Sage I know it’s two different game, my point is that cricket needs to grow and expand because it’s boring watching the same teams play each other regularly that’s all! The ICC needs to help promote the game for example they done want t20 cricket to be an Olympic sport, now if it did become am Olympic sport China would be very interested in getting involved in the game and I’d love to see China play cricket competitively but I don’t know why the icc doesn’t want this to happen it’s baffling
Wow same hear
best sport
good luck south Korea
I love cricket from Pakistan
I want south Korea team qualify for world cup
You can tell they’re used to playing baseball by the way they hold their bat quite high up.
I like to see s Korea, China , Japan will be come strongest competitors in cricket world soon …
Mohammed Javed if the icc allow t20 to be an Olympic sport you’ll see the Chinese take a massive interest in cricket and become a new world power in the game
If that happens Cricket may overtake football/soccer in popularity. But probably not. I wish t20 world cup could be at least with 32 teams instead of just 8 or 10 like we currently have.
The Caribbean have the strong players so look out
blasttrash
Yup!👍 agree with u
good korea inter in korea
Let Cricket flourish in Korea.
Common South Korea cricket team
….🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩..Bangladesh…
good luck cricketer korean
there is no game that could be played for 5 days…cricket is amazing.
Cricket in asian games????
Learning spin from chopsticks is the most creative method to learn something. Best of luck to South Korean cricket.
Wowww. .that is cricket
Chopsticks and cricket.
icc should improving cricket infrastructure in south korea,,come on bcci
thy will rule world cricket m sure if get enough chances
I really appreciate it.
0:42 the guy ran to the crease was way too much fast 😍
A good thing indeed.
I can’t wait for the WHOLE world to be playing the incredible game that is CRICKET ! 😃❤
Masha Allah …Cricket❤
cricket is a magnificent sports and I am sure with the t20 format in another few years the game will be more popular
Good to see More Asian teams coming in cricket.
Baseball is more different sport than cricket they just need to organise domestic 4 day Match tournament so that they can perform well is international matches to become best you have to play the hardest format of the game that is test match so that these fresh korean player can handle the pressure after wicket get fall
*They look better than most of new comers*
Amazing!!
Kim Jong un he will play cricket
Common South Korea cricket awaits it’s new champions