Is Covid’s timeline like a game of Cricket or Baseball?

Do you believe the timeline and events of Covid are more like a game of Baseball of Cricket?

There is a discussion in the US on how to start Baseball season. Check out this article from USA Today for those fans.

As a follow-up to my last post, thought a fun survey on the timeline for COVID would be to compare both sports and let people vote on their thoughts. Since we have a broad audience, let’s do a quick background on the 2 sports:

A Baseball game has 2 teams (of 9 players) taking turns trying to score runs. The pitcher throws the ball at the batter and runs are scored by a batter making it around 4 bases prior to the team hitting getting 3 batters outs. Once the team not hitting get their 3 outs, they switch sides and repeat. After each team bats, that inning of the game is over. A Major League Baseball game takes 9 innings or about 3 hours.

A First-Class Cricket game has 2 teams (of 11 players), both have 1 innings each, and are trying to score as many runs as possible. The bowler bowls the ball at the batter and runs are scored by either a) a hit and the batsman runs on the pitch between the wickets  – equals 1 run, or b) hits the ball to the boundary with more than 1 bounce – 4 runs or c) hits the ball over the boundary without bouncing at all – 6 runs. The winner is the team that scores the most points.

A cricket batsman can continue for as long as they are not out – by either hitting the ball and being caught, running between the wicket, being stumped before arriving at the crease or being bowled out. 11 people bat and then the sides switch – end of an innings. Once both sides finished the scores are analysed and the game is over with the highest scoring wins. A Test match cricket game, each team has 2 innings which are played over 1 to 5 days. There are two other forms of cricket that take less time. The Indian Premier League is the most famous cricket league and a Twenty20 takes around 3 hours.

Since both of these games have similarities (bats, balls, runs, innings) and differences (number of players, scoring of runs, time to play), which do you think best describes how our unique Covid situation will play out?

Put your Vote in the comments or send me a message and we will tally it up for a post with a few highlights next week.

Special thanks to Jonathan Clarke for the cricket edits