Twenty20 cricket isn't about balance between bat and all. It is what it is.Ok, since the unprecedented and exciting changes cricket has been going through thanks to Standford 20/20 and IPL, what can be done to help try to balance the game between bat and ball in the one-day cricket specially 20/20. Any Ideas?
Love how IPL and Stanford getting credit when it was the usually conservative guys that run English cricket took the brave step to introduce Twenty20. They brought about all these changes and should be credited (or criticised depending on POV). Noone else would have done what they did and they were laughed at.Ok, since the unprecedented and exciting changes cricket has been going through thanks to Standford 20/20 and IPL, what can be done to help try to balance the game between bat and ball in the one-day cricket specially 20/20. Any Ideas?
Twenty20 isn't supposed to have a balance between bat and ball. That's the whole point - it's supposed to favour bat (not batsmen, but bat), and if it doesn't then it's a letdown. That's why I find it so extremely boring.
There's only one thing that can be done to improve the balance between bat and ball in one-day cricket - play 60 instead of 50 overs.
Well, actually, there's a few other things - longer boundaries, slower pitches, better-quality cricket-balls. But these are minor compared to an increase in overs. OD cricket needs to be as different from Twenty20 as possible.
Just today we had an example of great bowling by the Daredevils, which took wickets and kept the runs down.Twenty20 cricket will never reward good bowling - it may allow bowling (both good and bad) to take wickets but it will never allow economical bowling other than in freakish circumstances.
A game where a "good" economy-rate is 7 (and it's that, really, not 6) -an-over does not have a balance between bat and ball.Balance is the same if you just change the way in which you gauge it. Bowling at 6 or under for an over means you've done superbly. Because in this game a bowler is aiming to go for as few runs as possible, in Test for as many wickets, in One dayers a mixture of the two.
While in Test cricket, bowling em out for 100-300 is the aim of the bowler, in a T20 the aim is to keep em below 150, if you do that you've done as much as you can as a bowler for your team.
Try 300 there mateBut in an ODI that awesome, you get 360