kiwiviktor81
International Debutant
And by 'ever' I mean 'within the next 20 years'.
T20 as a format is growing on me, but I wonder about one thing. In the recent T20 between the BCs and Pakistan, the BCs were chasing and after 10 overs they had lost 0 wickets but were behind the run rate.
Now, of course, Guptill and KW had that chase under control and we duly won easily.
But consider this. Let's say there was a situation in which a chasing team didn't open with a striker like Guptill but with two reasonably sedate batsmen who struck at 110 or so.
The optimal strategy for the team defending a total in this situation might literally be to try and take no wickets but to bowl 20 overs to the openers without letting the hitters get in.
This might mean the fielding team deliberately drops catches so as to keep the relatively slow scoring openers in the game.
My question is this - will this even happen in T20s? Will we ever see a fielding side deliberately dropping catches at international, IPL or BBL level?
T20 as a format is growing on me, but I wonder about one thing. In the recent T20 between the BCs and Pakistan, the BCs were chasing and after 10 overs they had lost 0 wickets but were behind the run rate.
Now, of course, Guptill and KW had that chase under control and we duly won easily.
But consider this. Let's say there was a situation in which a chasing team didn't open with a striker like Guptill but with two reasonably sedate batsmen who struck at 110 or so.
The optimal strategy for the team defending a total in this situation might literally be to try and take no wickets but to bowl 20 overs to the openers without letting the hitters get in.
This might mean the fielding team deliberately drops catches so as to keep the relatively slow scoring openers in the game.
My question is this - will this even happen in T20s? Will we ever see a fielding side deliberately dropping catches at international, IPL or BBL level?