Cricket vs baseball

The Boston Globe has an interesting interview with Amartya Ray, an Indian cricket fan working for the local baseball team. Ray admits his first love is still cricket, a game which the Globe describes as follows:

"...the British game in which batters hit bounced pitches with flat bats and run back and forth between two posts to tally runs."

I love it when Americans try to describe the game. I mean, what the hell is that?