Trust me, you couldn't hit a 90 mph fastball. I played baseball for 12 years (in high school started on my team and won the state championship that year) and baseball is definitely not a sport that is easy to pick up. I'm sure cricket has it's own difficulties as well. But you are performing a hasty generalization fallacy in your assessment of baseball. Considering that is illogical, I'm going to discard it as such.
Having played baseball for so long, it is not something that you just pick up and play. Especially when you get into more serious competition. There is a reason why in the MLB, having a batting average of .300 (3 hits out of 10 at bats) is good. You are going to get out more than not because it is so difficult to hit a round ball with a round faced bat. But don't take anything off of pitching. Being able to throw overhand at 90 MPH consistently for 100 pitches while mixing in curves, sliders, changeups, etc is a thing of finese and practice. Tie that all in with accuracy as the strike zone isn't something that is large.
Then of course we haven't even gotten to fielding positions. I can almost guarantee how many would try to catch a groundball and instead get out of the way due to fear. Catching a flyball is maybe one of the easier things in baseball but still takes time and practice to be able to judge it. But of course being a catcher is something not many will ever pick up due to the difficulty of the position.
It might be easy for someone on the outside to be able to call something easy but until you really play it competitively, you are just speaking out of your ass. Which is why I will not simply call Cricket and easy sport that a bunch of silly men play. I respect that when playing competitively it is a sport of technique and strength like most of the others. And it is because I say that, that I am completely logical and you aren't.
