I thought this was an original approach, and fairly good.

In my opinion, though, the single most important transformation is
this:  if cricket had a must-run rule, it would have gone a very long
way toward being baseball.  If in addition to a must-run rule a new
batsman came up every time an out was recorded or a run was scored, and
if a batsman although previously out continued to take his turn in that
rotation, then the two games would have gone more than halfway toward
being the same game.  Maybe with those two changes not quite as
genetically similar as humans and chimpanzees, but getting close.

Gary Williams