Andrey Rublev tries out cricket (don't quit your day job)

The number 6 is an important one in tennis—it is, of course, the number of games necessary to win a set.

In cricket, 6 is also significant: it's the number of runs a team is given when a batter hits the equivalent of a home run in baseball.

That's where the similarities of the two sports ended, as Andrey Rublev found out.

The Russian, in Melbourne for the Australian Open, got a taste of a host country pastime when he traded in a tennis racquet for a cricket bat.

It went about as well as you might expect for a rookie:

Rublev tried a few things he was very well on the tennis court in the cricket oval:

"How you hit hard?" he asked, when just hitting the ball at all would do.

"Let me try backhand," he offered, after a few more swings and misses.

Then, Rublev tried bowling—in baseball parlance, pitching. Was he better on the mound?

"Is this one disaster?" he asked after one delivery.

Say this, though: Rublev made sure he had a good time.

"This most important thing is to do a healthy life and to do sport," he said, "and then which sport any kid like is their own choice.

The 26-year-old may still be a kid at heart, but I don't think this Grand Slam title contender will be choosing cricket as a serious pursuit any time soon.