Yahoo sports features South African Toronto Blue Jays infielder Gift Ngoepe who grewq up playing cricket:-
“My hand-eye coordination is good so when I played cricket that wasn’t too tough for me, ” he says. “Practicing cricket helped me with baseball because when I put a glove on it was a little bit easier for me. I was used to working with my hands on the cricket field. My skills in both sports transitioned from one to the other and helped me better at both.”
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