Close but you missed a few points. Cricket is like baseball except without the excitement until right at the end. I heard an American comedian, whose name escapes me, on a show here describe it as, "counting backwards from one million; you tend to get a bit edgey as you reach the end."
It's a great game to watch on a sunday afternoon with a few beers as it doesn't require a lot of analysis and stats.

Americans (massive generalisation, I appologise) tend to think that baseball is the only game where the defenders have control of the ball.