Original sentence: "Baseball is to cricket, what checkers is to chess," claim cricket's supporters, although it is reasonable to suspect the knowledge of baseball of most people who claim this.For example, substitutions of pitchers often are combined with substitution of another player who takes the pitcher's traditional spot in the batting order so that the pitcher will come to bat later (pitchers are almost uniformly poor hitters).In leagues which do not allow designated hitters, strategic thinking also enters into substitutions.Whatever the exact relationship of baseball to cricket to chess is, cricket is a more complicated game and probably requires more strategic thinking than baseball
Edited sentence: "Baseball is to cricket, what checkers is to chess," claim cricket's supporters