> Take a look at cricket -- it's both longer, more boring and dramatically more popular than baseball. There has been a lot of innovation in cricket to make th

> Take a look at cricket -- it's both longer, more boring and dramatically more popular than baseball. There has been a lot of innovation in cricket to make the limited overs form of the game more spectacular for modern audiences. Test cricket is the purest form of the sport and contains elements that are missing from the shorter versions but limited overs has experimented with a lot of rule changes over the years in an attempt to balance the game for the audience. They limit the number of deliveries for any single bowler(pitcher). This means you have all rounders in the team who perhaps get hit a bit more. Imagine if a baseball team was required to share the load amongst 5 pitchers. And they have fielding restrictions in the game to balance things otherwise teams tend to start slow so they don't get out and chase runs towards the end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_overs_cricket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_overs_cricket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty20