I am a big baseball fall but know nothing about cricket. A good friend of mine is a huge cricket fan, and I would like to know something about this sport. Is it like baseball?

In many games like cricket, golf, tennis and baseball, we notice that a spinning ball deviates from its parabolic trajectory as it moves through air.
I know that this deviation can be partly explained on the basis of Bernoulli’s principle, I already have text regarding this topic, I was just wondering if someone could explain the phenomenon in simpler words.
Thank you very much.

Hi, I’d like to know how to play cricket, could someone please outline roughly what the rules are?