Cricket is arriving in America. Major League Cricket launched here, and prediction markets now list cricket next to the NFL. So people around me started trying to watch it. And they bounced off it every time, at the same place: the scoreboard. "311 & 126/7 (43 ov)" tells you nothing at all, not even who is winning. I could explain it. But explaining it live, ball by ball, to someone watching their first match, doesn't scale past one person on a couch. And every explainer out there is written for someone who already speaks the language. Nobody was translating live. So I built the translator. Pick a live match. Ask "who's winning?" and get it in baseball terms, plus a real win probability from a model fitted on thousands of matches. Ask "what just happened?" and get the last few balls decoded out of the jargon. T20, ODI, Tests, IPL, MLC, and the Hundred. Free, no sign-up. I'd love feedback from both crowds here: the cricket people telling me where the translation is wrong, and the baseball people telling me where it still doesn't land.

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Baseball fans: what would you want explained first?

I built this to translate live cricket into baseball terms, so the thing I most need to know is where the translation should start.

The ones I picked so far: wickets are outs (you get 10, not 27), "126/7" is a countdown rather than a fraction, an over is six pitches from one end, and a T20 innings is a fixed 120-ball budget rather than a fixed number of innings.

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Live cricket, explained in baseball terms

Live cricket, explained in baseball terms

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Baseball fans: what would you want explained first?

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Baseball fans: what would you want explained first?