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@zion3335 Stop guessing. Learn exctly how cricket balls are manufactured and then graded. FYI you will find articles by manufacturers like Kookaburra and Duke on YT that explain thouroughly but they do not align with your comment. The outer leather cupped case of the ball is covering a core of rubber composite matterial that is wound with a string material once made from wool. Specifications and Standards exist and have to be complied with. Baseball hitters are coached to roll their wrists in a similar manner to what cricketers learn for the flick shot off their pads or play a pull shot.I speak as a person that coached both sports for several decades. They are also coached to swing the bat such that a pitch strikes through the cross grain of the wood. Your comment re hardwoods not flexing is also garbage given MLB baseball bats must be made from American Ash to comply with records being legal. You can easily find an old image of Mark McGuire swinging at a pitch from the 1980's and the end / head of his bat is literally four inches / 100mm bent along the shaft from the velocity of his swing.
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@tajj7 How about you quote us the specifications for both of the balls and produce testing results from a calibrated hardness testing device. Any perceived difference in hardness relates to the cricket ball having a lacquer on it at the start whereas the Rules of baseball require the sheen on all game balls to be removed (with a Standardied mud material) before entering a game. If you are so confident that a baseball is less hard then how about I get a talented juniord to throw both at you at 70mph / 110kph and we'll see how you hold up. Cricket balls are changed much less than balls in baseball games so therefore baseballs do not get the opportunity to soften anywhere near as much. A baseball also has a longer seam and with more proud stitching which is more damaging to the skin. Baseball bats vary in barrel diameter and length but their diameter is approximately the same as the ball making for a smaller sweet spot for contact. Nobody here arguing their points has yet mentioned the very nature of the handle of the cricket bat. The flexibility of the bats comes largely from the cane veneered handle which is layered with rubberised layers. Willow bat blanks are compressed because that wood, by nature, has thicket cellulose layers than the actual growth ring layers. It's clear you know little about baseball so don't go belittling that sport.
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@reddyuta True and can be verified by looking up the manufacturing specifications. What cricketing people do not know is the regularity with which baseballs are turned over in elite level games. It is not uncommon to see 30 or more being used. Cricket balls always soften even in T20 games where two are used per innings. It is the lacquer on new cricket balls that makes the leather feel harder.
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@qwill8254 He is and he is correct. It is easy enough for you to check the specificcations. Don't show your ignorance just because you are too lazy to look it up.
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Your knowledge of climate science is about par with your knowledge of tree growing. Any wood is strongesst when the grain layers are closer together...the closer, the stronger. Close growth rings result from slow growth in times when lower rainfall is recorded.
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Onf Australian bat maker started in 1855 and another in 1890...they don't have issues with longevity
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Indeed, most comments have not recognised that the flexing and impact deadening of ALL bats comes from the construction design of that cane / rrubber composite layered handle.
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Sarawak cane is used in the veneer composite handles that are spliced into the blades.
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