There's hardly any action? Excuse me? Do these people WATCH cricket?? Baseball games can last 4 hours when they drag on. Cricket matches can go 4 days. You can turn on the cricket match and the same schlub is up to bat (or whatever they call it in cricket-speak, I don't care) for hours on end. He can just keep fouling the ball off indefinitely, except in cricket, every ball you decide not to run out is a foul ball. So you hit the thing and as long as it's not caught in the air, you don't have to budge. So while there might not be the down time where people are doing nothing, I much prefer at-bats that are only a couple of minutes, not hours and hours. With cricket, then, there's still plenty of stretches where there's no real action going on at all. In baseball, you know that every at-bat something important will happen.