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Trescothick’s bangers mashed
By Will 1 month ago, 3 Comments »
If Marcus Trescothick was attempting to prove cricketers’ natural hand-eye co-ordination could allow them to switch to other sports - namely baseball - then it didn’t really work. In a match held at Taunton for his benefit year, Trescothick’s side of Somerset-cider-swiggers and some England players lost 21-1 to the Great Britain side. A trouncing. A whalloping. A whipping. But some interesting snippets came of the event, as told by the American-sounding (but who I think is British)
3 Comments »In cricket, fielders have decisions to make when throwing the ball but unsure how to reconcile their instinct with a foreign sport, Trescothick’s men rushed throws to incorrect locations. “When we play cricket we know the percentages when we throw it in from the field,” Giles said after pitching two innings and conceding 11 hits and 14 runs, although many of those runs were caused by defensive miscues. “It’s different with baseball.”
Stephan Rapaglia, the Britain coach, said after the contest: “The deficit is in the knowledge of the game. Many of these guys are capable based on arm strength, fielding ability and hand-eye co-ordination and could be pretty good at baseball after ten or 15 games.”
