Jonathan Mariner, Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, Major League Baseball is visiting India in his role as a member of the Technology Frontiers Ltd. board. He has said that cricket and baseball share similarities – like they both use a bat and a ball? – and he hopes to explore this correlation in the future.
That will be the day. The IPL has taken us a step closer to that dream (is that the word I am looking for?) and if baseball were to take India by storm as Mariner is hoping it will, that will be the last nail on Test cricket’s coffin. I fervently hope and strongly believe that it will not happen.
Even with the T20 format, at the end of around three hours, we have a total score of about 300 runs. Compare this with baseball where after 9 innings – and approximately 3 hours – the score could be 1-0. Very exciting and action-filled as compared to cricket, right?
This does not take in the extra innings thing which, like in all sports that Americans are fond of, brings “closure”. I cannot understand this obsession. If the teams are evenly matched on that day, I guess a tie/draw is a perfectly acceptable result.
Oh! well, I will continue this rant against baseball later. Once the IPL starts, probably I will change my mind. 
