Off topic - cricket ball

arnold140@verizon.net arnold140@verizon.net
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:36:24 PDT
 John:

Well if you look closely it appears both of us were kind of right.

There's a range to the size of the different projectiles.

Arnold
 

On 07/06/12, John T Lonsdale wrote:

Well who'da thunked that? I couldn't have been more wrong - sorry Arnold.
I played cricket a lot for 20 years and my (false) memory had the cricket
ball bigger than a baseball. Maybe it got downsized like Cadbury's Cream
Eggs and Magnum ice cream bars?

Best,

J.

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> 
> By definition, a baseball is "9 to 9.25 inches or 22.86 to 23.495
> centimeters in circumference." That means that the diameter is between
> 2.864788975 and 2.944366447 inches or 7.276564 and 7.478691 centimeters
> (an average of 2.904577711 inches or 7.377627 centimeters).
> 
> 
> What is the size of cricket ball?
> 
> The ball, when new, shall weigh not less than 5 1/2 ounces/155.9g, nor
> more than 5 3/4 ounces/163g, and shall measure not less than 8 13/16
> in/22.4cm, nor more than 9 in/22.9cm in circumference.
> Arnold
> Never liked baseball, the real ball is round and kicked around by folks
> wearing shorts.





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