What's inside a Kookaburra Cricket Ball?

- [Dan] Sorry, little bird,
but I'm gonna cut right through you.
(dramatic music)
I'm born to be a cricket bowler.
- There's a bird.
- That's a kookaburra. - It's a funny word.
- Does that mean anything or--
- I think it's an Aboriginal word.
- Welcome back to What's Inside,
I'm Lincoln and this is Dan and...
How am I supposed to...
(laughing)
Welcome back--
Welcome back to What's Inside.
I'm Lincoln and this is Dan
and today we're back in Australia
with our friends from How Ridiculous.
- We did a video on a cricket ball a long time ago.
It was one of our first videos.
- [Voiceover] And now we know
what's inside of a cricket ball.
We've never played cricket before.
I don't know if we ever will,
but we can know what's inside the ball, kind of.
- Then it was really funny
'cause I just bought the thing off of Amazon
and then I saw this hatred in the comments.
The main comment was, "Cut open a Kookaburra ball.
"That's just a cheap American ball,
"that's not even a cricket ball that you have."
(laughing)
I didn't know what the heck they were talking about,
but while we're down here in Perth, Australia,
I asked our friends from How Ridiculous
what a Kookaburra ball is.
And apparently it's a lot different
than our $10 ball that we got in America, right?
- A lot different.
- Yeah, it's a legit,
the one they use in the proper professionals.
- [Google Voice] Proper.
- So we'll see if it's a little different
from the one we cut open a while back.
But rather than just cutting open a ball,
we have to first learn a couple of things,
because I don't even know why
there are three sticks in front of me.
I legitimately don't.
- I don't either.
- And I don't understand why you have this giant paddle
like you're going canoeing.
(relaxing music)
How do you hit a home run?
Do you even have home runs? (laughing)
There's a bat, there's a ball, it looks similar.
So we're gonna learn a little bit
and teach you guys a little bit about cricket
and have some fun with it,
and then cut this thing open
to see what a real cricket ball looks like.
A Kookaburra, Kookaburra...
- Kooka-bur-ra. - Kookaburra.
- So here we go, it's cricket time.
(intense music)
- These the shoes that they use?
- [Man] Yeah, they use that on the turf.
- [Google voice] Turf.
- What we're playing on is astro, so it's like hard.
So you're just playing on like that.
- I see white pants or sorry, white and cream trousers.
- [Google voice] Trousers.
- And white and cream shirts.
Does everybody just wear white?
- Mostly, some players prefer to play in the cream
which is a bit of an off-white.
- Both teams?
- Unless it's at night on a 20-20
where they have a team strip which is like bright yellow.
The Aussies might come out in bright yellow.
In the test format, which is a much longer duration,
like five days--
- I have no idea what you're talking about.
(intense music)
Okay, I don't really trust that this is an athletic cap
that you would actually do something sporty in it,
other than like sit by a river and fish.
(intense music)
Oh, that's perfect.
I got my hat on.
Do I look legit now?
(intense music)
- First you need to learn how to bowl.
- Bowl?
- Like bowling.
- [Google voice] Bowling.
- The pitcher, like you're throwing it.
- Well you don't throw exactly, there's a technique to it,
but you're gonna decide whether you're gonna spin the ball
or whether you're just gonna bowl it fast.
- [Man] I think you've gotta keep it simple.
- How much more simple can you get?
(intense music)
- [Google voice] Burn.
- [Man] So you sorta teach him how to bowl.
Like as if you were teaching a kid how to bowl.
- I'm gonna go stand down here, right?
- [Lincoln] And I just throw the ball.
- Is the goal to make it so the ball doesn't hit this?
- [Man] Yeah, if the ball hits the stumps,
those things there, you're out.
- Does it matter how far you hit the ball?
Or do you just want it to not hit this?
- [Man] Uh...
If you hit it to the edge of the field,
you get an amount of points.
Or we call them runs.
- This is getting quite complicated.
- So the ball's gonna come.
I don't want it to hit this.
I got the bat.
I just don't want it to hit this
but I also wanna hit it out.
If I run down to that guy, down to the other wooden thing,
is that a point?
- Yep, you get one run.
- And then do I come back?
- Then you get two runs.
- Do you just keep going?
- But if you get run out, which means
somebody hits that before you get back here,
you're out.
- What if I hit it so far that I could do this 20 times?
- Okay, so if you hit it over the boundary,
which is like your home run, that's six runs.
- So there's a home run.
- And you don't need to run at all.
You can just stay here.
- The big difference between a pitch or a throw
and a bowl in cricket--
- [Google voice] Bowl.
- Is that your arm has to be straight the whole time.
Pretty hard.
So you have to, when you come through
you have to keep the arm straight the whole time.
Do you want me to do the first one?
- I've got it.
- You've got it?
(laughing)
I wanna say you were close but you weren't.
(intense music)
- [Man] It's overarm, Lincoln.
- [Lincoln] Oh, man.
- [Man] You do it the other way.
(laughing)
Ah, that's a throw.
(laughing)
It's like a windmill.
Does that make sense?
- I mean, you can start off with a bent elbow
but when you come down,
it has to remain straight the whole time.
- [Man] That's better.
Oh!
- Then you charge them down and-- (laughing)
- Okay, I'm ready to bowl someone.
- [Batter] Do you want me to hit this?
- [Dan] Yeah.
If you can.
Oh, he hit it!
I'm gonna do another one.
Here we go.
(epic orchestral buildup)
- [Man] Oh!
Get outta here!
(epic orchestral music)
Look at him, he's chuffed about that.
Why wouldn't you be?
- [Google voice] Chuffed.
- I'm a pro bowler, what do you call it?
I bowled someone.
- [Man] You bowled someone.
- You're playing fast bowler.
To represent America.
- Turns out we don't just need a t-shirt
and a fancy fishing hat.
When you're gonna bat you need the helmet, gloves,
your bat obviously, these guys and these guys.
- I don't have those guys.
- Alright, bowl it.
(Lincoln screaming)
- Lincoln's gonna put one in, is that alright?
- [Dan] Yeah, I prefer the kid.
- [All] Oh, yeah! (laughing)
- [Lincoln] Yeah!
- [All] And again, yeah!
Aw!
- [Lincoln] Ow.
(laughing)
- [Man] Out.
(Lincoln cheering)
- [Lincoln] No!
Last one.
Better hit it good.
Yeah!
- There we go, I am sweaty, hot.
Man, that's tricky.
This is how it's really done.
- [Google voice] Proper.
- [Dan] Oh, dang!
(pop music)
You know I gotta hit one in the ocean,
let's see if this thing will float.
(pop music)
We learned a lot about cricket.
- Yeah we did.
- Wearing that outfit, standing in there,
seeing these balls come flying at me.
It's actually a pretty fun sport.
Alright, Kookaburra time.
Let's cut this thing open.
See what's inside of it.
Sorry, little bird but I'm gonna cut right through you.
(pop music)
It's burning.
I was really hoping it would just catch on fire.
This is not the right saw to be cutting open a cricket ball,
but it's what we have in Australia.
Yeah, it's almost there.
It's almost there, we could actually just bonk it.
- I wanna bonk it.
Kay, we got it.
- This one's a little burnt.
It's not a good indicator of what's actually inside
of a Kookaburra because it's all melted.
But we got an extra one from How Ridiculous team.
- Aw, look at us.
We're so resourceful.
- Check it out.
This is cork right here.
And then you have the different string layers.
Nice, look at all those threads, similar to a baseball.
That's definitely the big difference between a cheap ball
and a very expensive, nice game ball that you would use
in an actual match.
The American cricket ball, the cheaper version,
it was just this fabric, this really soft fabric inside.
This one has a ton of cork.
It's like cork and then a layer of string.
Then cork and another layer of string.
So check this out, if we pull on it
it's got multiple layers.
They're all the way down to the middle.
- [Man] Ooh, it's kind of glued.
- Yeah, that one doesn't have the string in between it.
My guess is that this plastic layer would keep it
so the water doesn't get into the cork
and make it too heavy.
So there you go, thanks to the How Ridiculous team.
That's what's inside of a Kookaburra cricket ball.
At least this time we learned something about cricket.
- We did learn something. - It's pretty cool.
- Pretty cool sport, right?
- I think it's a great game.
- It was an adventure, we learned a ton about cricket
and cut open a cricket ball that saw that yes,
there really is a difference on the nicer balls that we get.
It's interesting inside.
- Yeah, it is.
(happy music)

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