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Originally Posted by chucksabr
I think all-rounders are basically guys in the middle of the order who can both bat and bowl, right? And the all-rounders who are better batsmen than bowlers bat higher in the order than all-rounders who are better bowlers than batsmen, do they not?
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The key point is that a fairly large proportion of cricket players can both bat and bowl competently, while almost all baseball pitchers are weak batters and hardly any position players can pitch even as well as the average pitcher hits. The reason why all-rounders are possible is that bowling is much less difficult than pitching.