There is a long history of crossover between cricket and baseball. In the Guardian, Josh Burrows talks to the men who are looking for the next link: the baseball slugger who becomes a T20 star:

The important thing to understand about JB Bernstein is that he is no charlatan. Because when this sharply dressed American sports agent says that he is going to turn an aspiring baseball player into the first US citizen to win a contract in cricket's Indian Premier League (IPL), at first it is difficult not to scoff at him.

But Bernstein is serious. And for those who need evidence of his sanity, the fact that exactly the same feat of sporting alchemy is being attempted by Julien Fountain, a former fielding coach to international cricket teams, should provide it.

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