"Jeff Lawrence" <jeff.lawrence@zonnet.nl> writes:

>Am I right in thinking a cricket ball is harder than a baseball?

I don't think that a new cricket ball is appreciably harder than a
baseball.  Their size and construction is very similar, so it's hard to
see that they would be greatly different in hardness.  I'm fairly sure,
however, that a typical cricket ball in use in a game is softer than a
basebal lin use in a game.  Baseballs are regularly removed from play as
soon as they've been damaged in any way, so players never encounter one
that's softened from use.  In major league baseball, for instance, umpires
are required to ready six dozen balls before each game, and they routinely
use most of them. 

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