> running even when you may not have liked how well you hit it. How many times are you expected to run in baseball though? In cricket, it could easily be 100+

> running even when you may not have liked how well you hit it. How many times are you expected to run in baseball though? In cricket, it could easily be 100+ (22-yards a time). Same with bowlers - a 10-20 yard run up for potentially hundreds of balls is a not insignificant amount of work. I feel like you are comparing two things that are _different_, and just deciding one is lesser for no clear reason (both sports seem quite athletic to me). I'm also not sure what difference the size of the bat makes to athleticism (they also aren't _that_ much different in size: <4.25in width vs. ~2.7in for baseball, <38in length vs. ~42in for baseball, and weigh roughly the same: ~1.2kg for a cricket bat, ~1kg for a baseball bat).