♪ >> And a look at sports news.

Every 4 years we get the soccer World Cup and Olympics.

Well, this Saturday is the final match of the cricket World Cup.

Kentucky additions.

Do Leffler has this explainer on the game with help from the cricket players in Kentucky?

♪ >> At a park in prospect you can play football, soccer or cricket.

>> But to use some kind of baseball just to expend cricket because in the heart of it, the 2 sports are very similar.

You have about.

This is the bat, which is a little bit different than a baseball bat.

It's has a flat surface.

So, you know, you're able to actually will be down and give the ball or detection, which and the baseball cages and they were able to, I'm sure some this can do it.

The ball is similar to baseball in size this a little bit harder.

This thing can really, really heard.

>> If you got hit by a baseball as a kid, know that countless people across the globe have been beamed by cricket ball just as hard.

I love 6, I have But this.

>> I'm doing this the audience to break a kid on time to time.

10 days and maybe go to the dawn.

That is far then my home.

>> Basically it could get this by the fuss in India.

And then that same does that app and then decided.

And then once you come your like the first thing that most of us.

I don't like to do is like a sports that below.

And that's what I found.

Little Cricket Club.

>> Louisville Cricket Club started just over 10 years ago.

It was small but has grown to about 90 players.

A game of cricket made somewhat 11 players.

So before every match we would be calling into that.

Hey, are you available for that game tomorrow?

We had just one team at the time that the population from South Asia growing in Louisville could could also took be provided a platform for people to come >> But the sport is gaining fans and players who are born and bred in the U.S.. >> I went to the University of Louisville.

I was walking around on campus and there's a group of guys playing it and I'm like, hey.

When do you guys play?

I'd love to join you some time.

But baseball's see the ball hit the ball run.

And this has so many more aspects to it.

It's about strategy, setting the field and trying to set traps for the batters and it's it's just so different than any sport played in America.

>> While baseball is similar, the playing field is totally different.

There's no baseball diamond in cricket.

There's a verdict in the strip.

So that every time that really big to people in there.

But if it is safe for you to run, they been back and forth their own back and forth.

And this guy teaches other side is that it is the site.

It's one that now also the free list to 60 degrees.

So, you know, there's no followed ball.

You can hit the ball and even in the field.

>> Like baseball, you can hit a home run in cricket that 6 points.

Also the same.

It's a fielder catches a fly ball.

The better is out.

But all that action starts with the pitch.

If you.

>> Slice it down to the smallest first arrived with picture is I'm willing to about and that time it's a one-on-one battle.

I love.

The key difference is that when the pitcher throws the ball can bounce.

It did not go get it to the back.

>> A good picture or bowler works.

The spouts.

>> Seeing was that on these?

You know, it's living tribute to play because you don't know who it said.

The bald eagle says all depend upon how you it really grieve the ball right?

Based on your great.

And the Vatican menu believes the ball.

The body can go outside on the anything but quiet outing an instant.

>> And you'll see a piece of equipment not in any other sport.

>> If the border, it's that that set out the stops, the batsman is out.

There is no part strike.

One thing or one strike.

You're gone.

>> But not gone.

For long cricket is a lifelong passion for 56 year-old Santos Pandey.

>> Everybody that is attending you know, when the batsman is going to take distracted, you >> The city of Louisville saw that interest and built this cricket field in 2017.

>> The feat is named after one of the greatest players in what cricket as Mister Slater, Dallas Kerr.

It's a ghost gun.

Was here him 7 going to 70.

And that is one of the greatest moments in the history of our club.

And he was here.

He pitched the first pitch he batted for the first time on this pitch that's how he not get the more highlights for the Louisville Cricket Club.

>> Regional championship wins in 2022.

2023 this years season will wrap in September when the Louisville Cricket Club will or won't bring home another title for Kentucky edition.

I'm Ju Leffler.

>> Looks like a lot of find the Louisville Cricket Club also host a tournament that welcomes players across the nation.

That's happening this Labor