Boston red sox approach Gilchrist to trun to MLB

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I was watching sky sports news today, and apparantly Ledgendary wicket keeper, Adam Gilchrist, has been approached to join the boston red sox to play major league baseball.

If this is true (I ask this because i've looked on skysports.com and cricinfo.com and neither of these site have anythin on the matter), and Gilchrist did take up the offer (and I am by no means saying that he would..............even though he'd get paid a BOMB!!!!!) it could be modern crickets greatest loss.

Gilchrist and his team mates in aus have revolutionised modern test cricket to become the great thing it is today after a slightly lackluster spell in previous years.

It would be a massive loss to both Australian cricket but also to cricket in general.

I doubt he'd go myself, but you never know..........................................
 
I saw this to. Gilchrist is 33, he will be 35 nearly 36 in 2007 world cup, so i think he will retire and possibly take up Boston on that offer.
 
It'd be well easy for gilly.....................The ball doesnt bounce he'd be hitting full tosses (albiet with changes in pace and movement) down the ground crossbatted.

It'd be like facing indias bowlers hahahahaha
 
thanks for that!!!!

I never knew Brett Lee was approached!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 He should have tried out, he'd have got more playing doin that than he doesas 12th man for aus!!!!

I reckon gilly'd be good at baseball. I was watching it on tele the other night and it doesnt seem to be anywhere near as hard as cricket. The ball doesnt bounce. OK theve got "sliders" and that, but gilly'd hammer fast balls cos they dont move!!!
 
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Shahid Afridi was also approached by The boston Red sox,I dont know If That is true,But If Gilly given The offer Then shahid Afridi certinly.
 
LOL! may be some BS hype..which sane cricketer would play that boring game?
 
most australian cricketers between the 50s and late 70s played baseball at some level, many of them playing for Australia and both cricket and baseball.

If cricketers found baseball easy, they'd switch quicker than they can despatch a ball to the boundary. Just two years in MLB and they'd make more than in their entire cricket career.

Batting in baseball has it's own little nuances, that are nothing like batting in cricket. Firstly, you can only hit the ball in a 90 degree arc, not anywhere you like. Secondly, a home run fence is much, much further than a boundary fence. Thirdly a baseball bat does not have a flat surface, making it harder to hit the ball in a specific direction.

Gilchrist isn't the first cricketer to be approached by a MLB club. A few Australian's were approached in the 60s and 70s. Ian Botham was approached in the 80s, and Robin Smith came very close to accepting an offer from the New York Mets in the early 90s.

I'd suggest people read England player Ed Smith's book "Playing hard ball", if you want to understand why a cricketer couldn't easily make the switch to baseball.
 
DeLonge182 said:
As i understand it, botham actually tried out didn't he?
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He did play in a few exhibition games in England, but never actually had an official try out with an MLB club. It was towards the end of his cricket career, and I think he thought that his back wouldn't hold up to the demands of a baseball season.
 
Cool........................

back to the baseball thing with gilly, I reckon even if he couldn't hit bags of home runs he'd be good at just getting contact. I watched bb the other night and nobady seems to make contact (in the 90 degree thing). OK, the bat face is alot smaller and its round, but then gilly'd havd a decent idea of where the ball is ging to go. Its not gonna be completely changng direction unlike a cricket ball would with seam movement.

After all, he wouldn't have been asked unless they thought he had/has potential.
 
Not to sure bout Gilli but I know of a few gentleman who would just fit the bill for baseball .

L Klusener & M Rindell .

They both use to look like they are having an axe or a baseball bat with them while batting. This guyz wont have much probs


On a serious note I dont think anybody and by that I mean anybody and can shift his sport and be succesesfull in the international arena.
 
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