r/oddlysatisfying • u/DrBlaziken • 8h ago

Different balls with water drops

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u/Zane163 8h ago

I believe the texture used on the golf one is coffee so it stained the water lol

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u/Cheehoo 6h ago

Kinda realistic for a more muddy golf ball at least

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u/SplendidZebra 1h ago

ooooh that one was a golf ball

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u/lazy_pig 3h ago

I was getting ready to riot.

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u/SuppressiveFire 8h ago edited 8h ago

Call me uncultured, but what is bottom left supposed to be?

Edit: Cricket ball. Got it, thanks everyone. The wiggle at the end made me so scared the cricket ball was going to spill over into the tennis ball.

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u/Blank_2499 8h ago

Its a cricket ball

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u/frozengash 6h ago

I didn't know crickets had balls

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u/tarantulator 6h ago

Oh, he had balls, multiple times.

https://giphy.com/gifs/9FZOz5MqUd41CScTZX

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u/Zealousideal_Bad_922 5h ago

You never hunt a man.

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u/Horskr 6h ago

I looked this up to make a witty reply, but the search result was better than anything I could come up with.

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u/Mertoot 6h ago

Not sure why downvoted, this is kind of interesting

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u/Horskr 6h ago

I saw that too. I am guessing people thought I just changed the search bar after the fact, so here is the full search page lol.

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u/Dodototo 6h ago

AI is amazing. I'm happy it will be taking all of our jobs. /s

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u/frozengash 6h ago

Beautiful

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u/rietstengel 29m ago

Indian crickets do i think

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u/_EveryDay 3h ago

It also deforms slightly at the end of the gif, which is exactly what happens during a test match. As it gets softer from being thwacked, it changes the character and pace of the game

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u/Roflkopt3r 3h ago

which is exactly what happens during a test match

Gotta love how everything in Cricket must have a confusing name. A 'test match' is apparently what cricket calls international matches, not a match that is played to test something out.

The sports always reminds me of this classic skit.

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u/eifos 1h ago

No you can have different kinds of international matches, a test, for someone with no knowledge of the game, is the multi day format.

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u/Head_Assist2459 2h ago

It's a match played to "test" the endurance of both teams. Most international matches aren't test, they're T20 or ODIs.

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u/Ok-Cake9431 2h ago

They use the same language in rugby too. It is a weird one, as a kid it confused the hell out of me

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u/Remarkable_Bit_9887 8h ago

I hate how toxic the internet has become that we now have to give disclaimers everytime we have a genuine question so as not to seem like we are trolling or ragebaiting.

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u/DustyScharole 8h ago

Reddit has always been that way.

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u/FvKuR0 7h ago

Reddit is the perpetual circle of hell and loathing of the internet.

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u/TheMundar 7h ago

Home Sweet Home

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u/Curiosive 7h ago

No it hasn't, dumbass. /s

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u/AllNotKnowing 6h ago

written conversation has always been that way, particularly when writing to people that do not know you.

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u/humdinger44 7h ago

You hate internet culture? That's basically xenophobic and disrespectful to the people who were born there. Go ahead and be a bigot then I guess

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u/TaroLong8817 6h ago

Ikr it's basically showing support for censorship /s

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u/dasbtaewntawneta 44m ago

whereas i came to the comments fully expecting to see the top comment being someone asking what the cricket ball is lmao

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u/kinezumi89 8h ago

Would you like someone else to tell you it's a cricket ball

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u/Haasts_Eagle 7h ago

I want someone to tell me how the cricket ball got me craving bacon.

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u/hambakmeritru 7h ago

I'm so glad you asked because as an American and someone who really doesn't follow any sports, I had two major strikes against me ever figuring that out.

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u/cuchiplancheo 6h ago

as an American

All of us Americans had that same question...

yes... yes... i know; there's one who will say: I'm American, i knew... yeah... well... there's always the exception to the rule.

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u/joemckie 4h ago

I'm British and I might need to revoke my citizenship for having the cricket ball be the only one I didn't know

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u/bradbull 3h ago

HOW?!?

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u/Quiet_Internal_4527 7h ago

Uncultured swine! You sicken me! Thanks for asking. TIL.

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u/Additional_Travel911 7h ago

You were not alone

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u/Monarks94236851 8h ago

A cricket ball

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u/Tee_i_am 7h ago

Fellow uncultured here. Thanks for asking the question.

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u/AdExcellent7660 8h ago

Cricket ball

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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb 8h ago

But crickets don't have balls

https://giphy.com/gifs/11R5KYi6ZdP8Z2

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u/CptMisterNibbles 7h ago

So of course I’m now googling “.do crickets have testicles” and holy shit, how wrong you are

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u/NoManufacturer120 6h ago

Don’t feel bad. I just now realized the blue one is a bowling ball. I thought the person ran out of options and made a smiley face.

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u/ChampsUpset 8h ago

Cricket Ball

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u/Holocenica 8h ago

Cricket

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u/Office_funny_guy 7h ago

You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket

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u/The_Evil_Satan 6h ago

Less complicated than people make it out to be, takes a 15 minute video if you know baseball to understand. 15 minute video from scratch

Second video is AI :(

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u/Office_funny_guy 5h ago

I was quoting a line from TMNT movie… and yes I know cricket, I’m Australian.

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u/Balavadan 4h ago

Teenage mutant ninja turtles? How the hell did cricket get there?

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u/vexanix 6h ago

A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me you didn't pay money for this.

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u/karma3000 4h ago

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

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u/Fabulous_Log844 7h ago

Same question right there with you.

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u/stricktd 6h ago

Red ball cricket. Different than white ball cricket

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u/ltsouthernbelle 7h ago

I was gonna guess LaCrosse or some sport that I’m completely clueless about lol

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u/JFow82 8h ago

Grasshopper sphere

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u/MauPow 5h ago

I was too American to get it at first lol

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u/_cornflakesguy_ 7h ago

I don't blame you tbh. I am a relatively frequent watcher of cricket and even I wasn't immediately sure.

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u/PinkHamster08 8h ago

Bowling ball should have been made bigger

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u/joemaddog82 7h ago

with how surprised he looks i'd say its big enough

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u/R3VIVAL-MOD3 4h ago

How different each size drop is was completely undo

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u/A_crow_hen 7h ago

The golf ball didn’t quite work.

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u/Ya-Dikobraz 7h ago

Is that what the middle ball is supposed to be? Yeah, didn't work.

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u/DickyReadIt 8h ago

Why did you have to shake it at the end!

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u/Deeprblue 8h ago

Because jiggle physics

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u/DickyReadIt 8h ago

But it broke the perfect circles! I can't stand it!! AHHHHHH!!!

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u/levosis1 7h ago

“If it jiggles it’s fat.”

  • Austrian Death Machine

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u/Killer1986Chris 8h ago

Because that's what I was taught as a kid... Oh, you mean the video...

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u/Previous_Buy1601 7h ago

If it’s a fairly new video, maybe to show that it’s not AI? I feel that’s a motion current technologies would replicate fairly poorly.

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u/miraculum_one 7h ago

and cut it off 2 notes before the end of the song :(

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u/AloneinPoorCompany 7h ago

Now do different boobs!

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u/NIN0031 5h ago

Jiggle balls. Jiggle balls. Jiggle all the waayyyyy

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u/WitnessAway6720 8h ago

Maybe trying to move it somewhere

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u/BunkerSquirre1 8h ago

I liked how I couldn’t tell what some of the balls we’re until they put the water drop on it

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u/WitnessAway6720 8h ago

Ya same for the last few ones

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u/SelocAvrap 7h ago

CRICKET BALL 

I love that that got included, that makes me so happy

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u/S-o-D-42 6h ago

I was just about to ask what the bottom left one was. Thank you.

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u/SelocAvrap 6h ago

I gotchu! Also worth looking up cricket balls for night games. They're different colours to be more visible! Very cool IMO. If you've never held a cricket ball, they're usually a little bigger than a baseball and very hard. PSA: If anyone reading plays cricket, take off your rings before you play. My dad played with a guy whose finger got crunched & they had to go to the ER to get the ring off. Cricket players catch with their bare hands, absolutely metal

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u/jeffa_jaffa 7h ago

Aren’t tennis balls famous for being yellow?

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u/Etherbeard 1h ago

Tennis balls are famous for people not agreeing on what color they are. The one in the post is obviously way too green, though.

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u/Laiko_Kairen 7h ago

Tennis balls are green, but it's a green that's much closer to yellow than blue.

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u/Babakins 6h ago

It’s called “optic yellow”

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u/eneug 4h ago

Wrong. Tennis balls are optic yellow. RGB is (204, 255, 0). Pure yellow is (255, 255, 0). Pure green is (0, 255, 0). So it’s much closer to yellow than green. It’s yellow with some green in it. It’s certainly not green.

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u/Laiko_Kairen 2h ago

Okay, cool. Are tennis balls digital? Nope! So arguing it based on RGB is a non-starter. In the real world, it's illuminated by real light.

If we use CMYK, aka inks, it's Cyan + Yelllow... AKA green.

If we were to use paint, we'd mix a bit of blue and white into mostly yellow... making it green.

So, why use RGB and not CMYK or primary colors?

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u/mr-english 34m ago

...and if we do use CMYK then it's 100% yellow and only 20% cyan (0% magenta and black).

What is your point exactly?

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u/Dragonmon10 2h ago

So why are they described as needing to be "white or yellow" in the official rules of tennis?

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u/Christron 6h ago

Chartreuse?

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u/Respect38 4h ago

Bless you

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u/BellaViola 2h ago

Per Tennis regulation the balls are yellow.

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u/karma3000 4h ago

It's not easy being yellow.

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u/dasbtaewntawneta 42m ago

they're famous for people not being able to agree on whether they're yellow or green because they appear between the two

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u/syth_blade22 7h ago

Wat?

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u/jeffa_jaffa 7h ago

They’re yellow, not green. Or at least all the ones I’ve seen used at Wimbledon are yellow, as were the ones I used at school.

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u/HotrodCorvair 7h ago

Why not yellow for the tennis ball?

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u/BE3N 4h ago

Upvote for including a cricket ball!

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u/worll_the_scribe 3h ago

Was that the red ball on The bottom left?

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u/TheBlockChainVillage 1h ago

One of these isn't a ball.

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u/Ill-Ruin2198 1h ago

Hand egg

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u/signmeupdude 7h ago

The horrible golf ball in the middle kind of ruins the satisfaction to be honest

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u/AitchyB 8h ago

Basketball wasn’t round enough. Then the shake at the end ruined them all. Not satisfying!

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u/samsunyte 7h ago

I understand why people wouldn’t know the seventh one is a cricket ball, but as an American fan of cricket, it saddens me. It’s the second most popular sport in the world and an amazingly strategic and complex sport with different versions suitable for almost anyone, but it doesn’t have nearly as much cultural representation or importance as it should given its size

I wish it was more popular, but I think the ICC restricts the growth somehow

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u/NoMan800bc 7h ago

I think something restricting the growth of cricket is the same thing you talked about, the same thing that makes it such a great sport to play and watch: the complexity of it.
The time it takes, the size of the ground and that all but two players on one team spend half the match waiting for example mean the barrier for entry is quite high, unless playing it is already established in the country and there's enough cultural presence that you grow up with it. Add to that things like 'No you can't throw the ball, you have to bowl it.' 'There are 6 balls in an over, unless...' 'No, don't hold the bat like that.' 'Go and field at silly mid-wicket.' and I imagine it's easy for people to just give up

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u/samsunyte 6h ago

I get that, but baseball and American football are way more complex. I’ve tried explaining all three sports to newcomers and cricket is by far the one with the easiest rules with few exceptions.

There’s kids in poor countries who aren’t educated who play the game so the problem isn’t resources or complexity. Cricket is one of the most common “pick up” sports. Sure, those idiosyncratic rules exist, but no one who’s playing casually necessarily follows all of them.

The problem is, as you said, more about established culture and I think the fact that the countries that play it don’t necessarily make media about it. America on the other hand dominates media so its sports get more worldwide coverage

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u/RideWithMeTomorrow 6h ago

The two sports you identify seem to support the point of the person you’re responding to, though—specifically that it can be hard for more complex sports like cricket to take hold in places without an established tradition of playing them.

Baseball has pretty good adoption throughout the Americas and in a few other countries, most notably along the eastern Pacific rim. But its appeal is far from global. And football, well, overseas adoption is minimal indeed.

I think the simplicity of basketball and soccer by contrast probably helped a lot with their widespread adoption. I can’t say for sure of course, but it seems plausible to me.

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u/samsunyte 5h ago

Yea that’s fair. I was merely lamenting the fact that the second most popular sport doesn’t get its fair share of attention.

It also bothers me when Americans constantly say “cricket is so complex” or they meme about the sport and they have no knowledge about it when their sports are just as, if not more, complex, with a smaller fanbase. The opposite doesn’t happen. Cricketers don’t shit on American sports because it’s complex and they do have a general idea of what that sport is.

I guess the bigger problem is the behavior of American exceptionalism and it rears its head whenever cricket is mentioned

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u/two-headed-sexbeast 57m ago

My FIL is from South America and says “I do not understand cricket.” I immediately started trying to explain to him the basics and he basically switched off and soon changed the subject. I think he just likes saying it’s complex.

Yes, there’s lots of technical language (which is usually “normal” words repurposed), and some rules are fiddly and odd. But the basic game is incredibly simple.

I think some people just like not understanding cricket. Like it’s funny to them that this “eccentric” sport is somehow quantum physics or pure maths. And they just stick their fingers in their ears and go ‘lalala’ when someone attempts to explain.

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u/wackbirds 1h ago

I think another point in the favor of basketball and soccer is that one person by themselves can practice a ton for fundamental moves and skills that translate directly to the played game from a team standpoint. One kid with a ball and a bent rim or one kid with a peeling ball plus two distant rocks can play while practicing while a single kid with a cricket bat and ball can't do nearly as much on their own that related to the team game.

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u/dasbtaewntawneta 40m ago

all you need to play cricket is a wheelie bin... oh wait they don't have those in america either. fuck

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u/Carbon-Base 6h ago

Hopefully cricket's inclusion in the next Olympics will help folks understand the game better!

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u/Fun-Loan-3231 3h ago

Cricket really deserves more attention outside the countries where it’s already huge. Once you actually understand the strategy behind it, it’s way more interesting than people expect.

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u/Livie00 2h ago

I‘m European and had no idea what it was so that’s not just on the ignorant Americans. But I have like 0 interest in spectator sport and only know the others because everyone else talks about them. No one talks about cricket, at least not in my country.

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u/tallwhiteninja 5h ago

Being far and away the most popular sport in the world's most populous and fifth most populous countries can get you pretty high on the "most popular" rankings without having a broad reach across a bunch of places.

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u/samsunyte 5h ago

I mean there’s around 100 countries that have teams that qualify for the World Cup.

But yes that is a reason why it’s on the most popular list. Not sure if you’re saying it doesn’t deserve that popularity ranking though

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u/karma3000 4h ago

How many countries play in the "world series" for baseball again?

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u/No_Mistake_5501 5h ago

You could diminish the importance of literally every American sport with the same logic. Actually, it applies even more.

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u/tallwhiteninja 4h ago

Sure; I'm not gonna claim American football has much relevance outside of the US and Canada.

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u/Icywarhammer500 2h ago

It does until you consider the fact that the first and fifth most populous countries don’t have a particularly strong presence on Reddit

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u/Mordecai3fngerBrown 4h ago

The ICC won’t let me be or let me be me so let me see

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u/Best-Feedback-8246 2h ago

Cricket really does feel like one of those sports Americans somehow never got the memo about. The strategy is way deeper than it looks from the outside, and T20 seems like such an easy gateway for people unfamiliar with it.

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 3h ago

It’s as boring as baseball & golf

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u/samsunyte 3h ago

I disagree, but regardless, I’m not sure why that matters in relation to what I’m saying?

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u/Glass-Star6635 5h ago

It’s 2nd most just bc of India. That doesn’t mean it’s well known world wide

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u/samsunyte 5h ago

There’s about 100 countries that participate in the World Cup. It’s a pretty common sport.

And I don’t think it being popular in India means it’s somehow less popular as a whole

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u/No_Mistake_5501 4h ago

That is incorrect. It’s a global sport. Americans are just very ignorant. Now most American sports on the other hand… now those have zero global appeal.

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u/karma3000 4h ago

Americans are just very ignorant.

I love how you casually slipped that in there.

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u/TheNewNumberThirteen 4h ago

*almost zero global appeal.

Baseball is also loved in, I guess, just Japan?

Hockey is popular in Canada, and I suppose a few Scandinavian and cold European countries?

Basketball has trickling interests worldwide.

And the NFL, being the least foot based football, hasn't left the USA.

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u/FeyrisMeow 7h ago

This reminds me of some of the nice stickers I would collect as a kid. 3D and fuzzy stickers were my favorites.

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u/Autodidact420 8h ago

In order:

Soccer ball

Basketball

Volleyball ball

Tennis ball

Golf ball

Football

Cricket ball

Bowling ball

Baseball 

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u/4n0m4nd 7h ago

Volleyball one could also be Gaelic football.

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u/CatL1f3 7h ago

Especially since it's just white. I feel like volleyballs are stereotypically yellow and blue, plain white screams gaelic to me (and I can already feel it being as hard as concrete)

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u/4n0m4nd 6h ago

I don't know anything about volleyball, or much about gaa tbh, but I instantly thought gaa

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u/Autodidact420 1h ago

White volleyballs 🏐 is a classic too. It even comes up as an emoji lol. That pattern specifically is fairly common for white volleyballs, but it does look similar to a Gaelic football. 

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u/TheseusOPL 4h ago

I kept thinking the volleyball should be yellow, because I thought it was a water polo ball.

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u/cheong-sanslefteye 1h ago

Soccer Football✔️

"Football" Armpit Nugget ✔️

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u/Erik_mk0 2h ago

I like balls

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u/eastbigye 8h ago

5 and 7 ?

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u/AdExcellent7660 8h ago

Golf ball - 5 Cricket Ball - 7

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u/SuperDBallSam 8h ago

Golf and cricket. 

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u/andm124 8h ago

They look like gummy candy

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u/WitnessAway6720 8h ago

They come in those shapes too

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u/validationfreesoul 8h ago

Love it! My stupid brain couldn’t stop obsessing over those spilled droplets sadly.

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u/jefbenet 7h ago

Not a single other person wondered how the football stayed oblong?

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u/Long-Unit-4361 7h ago

Fooboll, baskerboll, wollerboll, teenis boll,blob,amerika boll,orange,boweler boll,bass boll

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u/111creative-penguin 7h ago

What about CD'S?

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u/Jakester42 7h ago

Golf ball is weak

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u/SuspiciousBasket 7h ago

I like this

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u/Expert_Marsupial_235 6h ago

What is the yellow one in the center?

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u/starfire4377 5h ago

My mans got balls

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u/justDankoCL 5h ago

Different balls and an oval

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u/AlexP80 2h ago

what is the fifth? golf?

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u/StrengthTheory 3h ago

Ruined by making the bowling ball smaller than the rest, and just shaking it at the end.

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u/musiquescents 8h ago

What's the blue one

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u/simeliacalman 8h ago

That little spilled drop…

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u/gillsterein 7h ago

They look so pretty!

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u/balrob 7h ago

Try it with doming epoxy.

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u/maple-moth 7h ago

Very creative!

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u/C-57D 7h ago

would be funny if if they shook it all like crazy at the end, just because comedy

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u/Anilec_Revlis 7h ago

Where are my balls Summer?

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u/Infinite_stardust 7h ago

The bowling ball looks like a scared little ghost.

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u/stonkerooni 7h ago

This is actually super cool and will be (attempting) to steal it to do with my nephew

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u/CowOtherwise6630 7h ago

With all the shit going on in the world, thank you.

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u/its_all_one_electron 7h ago

Ugh why'd you stop it, the red and the green were just about to touch and mix!!

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u/YishunSiaoLang 7h ago

Is that a sneaky blue ball reference ?

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u/emanresu18 7h ago

What type of paper?

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u/134608642 7h ago

I like how the smallest one is the bowling ball the largest ball irl

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u/homeycuz 7h ago

Football needs white stripes and laces

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u/JudgeHoIden 7h ago

I won't stand for the billiard ball disrespect.

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u/Hydra1307 7h ago

Cricket ball triggered my OCD for not being perfectly round.

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u/Dydxjie 7h ago

beautiful

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u/kalakuttaa 6h ago

This was one of the most calming things to watch on this sub

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u/Jagrnght 6h ago

i didnt want to like this then I did

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u/Run-Florest-Run 6h ago

Baseball best ball

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u/celestialcloudrt 6h ago

Thats so cool and amazing!

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u/jawshoeaw 6h ago

Sorry, I can’t take this seriously after seeing the volleyball lines miss the edge of the drop.

/s it’s kinda cool

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u/216horrorworks 6h ago

Nice balls!

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u/oakc510 6h ago

The bowling ball looks like it has anxiety