Hi all,
First things first, I wish you all people a very happy and prosperous Diwali.
Now, any cricket fan would have been startled to see the number of records broken during the recently concluded ODI series between India and Australia.
What started as a dull series , but with the highest position in the game in stake, the numero uno status in ODI, went down to the wire each and every time.
Probably a dozen or couple of dozen records were broken, and it has become difficult to keep track of the records broken. I was very happy with the end result of the series obviously, but on a serious note I was not able to enjoy the success. The end result was in favor of Indians, the final decider was an epic cracker signifying Diwali.
We all know that with the advent of T20, ODI cricket is dying, and the number of rules being changed in the recent years is a testament to it.
Though cricket is not official national game in India, it is far more than that in India, for that matter through out the subcontinent.
With the new rules in place of having just four fielders outside the 30 yard circle, and two new balls the bowlers are facing the tune in batting friendly wickets, predominantly found in sub-continent.
The rules are favoring batsman now, with just four fielders outside the circle, batsman will always have the upper hand as most of the hits or even mishits can land in no mans land, and score runs at a good rate.
I do agree with the fact that, unlike the Super-Sub rule, the toss does not make a big difference here.
But its just the morality of the team which will get affected, which cannot be seen in the scorecard in the end of the game.
Rohit Sharma was brilliant in his innings of 200 as well as the other matches in this series, Virat Kohli, Shikar Dhawan everybody was awesome. Same with the cases of Aussies, the
batsman were doing good, Bailey though did not win the cup, but definitely would have got a good name as a batsman and the most surprising part, a smiling Australian skipper, can you imagine that !
No offense to Rohith Sharma, but why was not he able to score last year while this year he almost has thrice the average as last year's. May be some external factor is also playing an role here, may be the role change for him as well as the rule change has made him a better player that he was.
Coming back to the point, the rule change has made the game batsman friendly and the bowlers are facing tune. I agree with any rule change, the players have to adapt , whoever does that fast will turn to be the winner , but then the rules should not be biased. There was a time, a batsman scoring a century was making news, but now a bowler conceding 100 runs is almost becoming a common feature.
Even in post match conferences, they say batsman performed well, but bowlers were not able to execute their plans. That automatically can cause a divide within the team, a batsman not scoring decent amount of runs with this rules might be considered very bad, and probably wont make it to the squad next time, and same way a bowler who is conceding a large amount of runs, might not be given a chance, but with the new rule format may be that would have been a decent one.
With any sport or office, the person who is in the administration part, might not experience what the actual person involved in the activity feels, and that gap can easily widen up with time unless efforts are taken to reduce it.
Just to end with some statistics, in this series when compared to the number of balls bowled and no of sixes hit, ( Note : It is sixes, not boundaries ), a six was hit once in every 30 balls.
It just shows what bowlers are facing , and what batsman are facing. There is pressure in both the departments, in case of batting department, even if one does not perform well some other batsman can accelerate and manage, but in case of the bowling department, if the regular bowlers are getting hit out of the park, how could the part-timers manage.
Like MSD had said, we are not sure where the game is heading with this new rules, with power hitting for the full 7 hours of the ODI game.
May be we need all records to be realigned with respect to rule change and may be ICC comes up with some rule again like Duckworth-Lewis, which practically nobody could understand it.
The curtains have been put already for the part-time bowlers now, next in sequence would be the spinners and then probably the game itself.
May be ICC took it seriously to respect the Little Master's retirement from the ODI as the cue to the end of ODI itself.
Bye til next,
First things first, I wish you all people a very happy and prosperous Diwali.
Now, any cricket fan would have been startled to see the number of records broken during the recently concluded ODI series between India and Australia.
What started as a dull series , but with the highest position in the game in stake, the numero uno status in ODI, went down to the wire each and every time.
Probably a dozen or couple of dozen records were broken, and it has become difficult to keep track of the records broken. I was very happy with the end result of the series obviously, but on a serious note I was not able to enjoy the success. The end result was in favor of Indians, the final decider was an epic cracker signifying Diwali.
We all know that with the advent of T20, ODI cricket is dying, and the number of rules being changed in the recent years is a testament to it.
Though cricket is not official national game in India, it is far more than that in India, for that matter through out the subcontinent.
With the new rules in place of having just four fielders outside the 30 yard circle, and two new balls the bowlers are facing the tune in batting friendly wickets, predominantly found in sub-continent.
The rules are favoring batsman now, with just four fielders outside the circle, batsman will always have the upper hand as most of the hits or even mishits can land in no mans land, and score runs at a good rate.
I do agree with the fact that, unlike the Super-Sub rule, the toss does not make a big difference here.
But its just the morality of the team which will get affected, which cannot be seen in the scorecard in the end of the game.
Rohit Sharma was brilliant in his innings of 200 as well as the other matches in this series, Virat Kohli, Shikar Dhawan everybody was awesome. Same with the cases of Aussies, the
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| Re-birth of Ro-Hit- Sharma |
No offense to Rohith Sharma, but why was not he able to score last year while this year he almost has thrice the average as last year's. May be some external factor is also playing an role here, may be the role change for him as well as the rule change has made him a better player that he was.
Coming back to the point, the rule change has made the game batsman friendly and the bowlers are facing tune. I agree with any rule change, the players have to adapt , whoever does that fast will turn to be the winner , but then the rules should not be biased. There was a time, a batsman scoring a century was making news, but now a bowler conceding 100 runs is almost becoming a common feature.
Even in post match conferences, they say batsman performed well, but bowlers were not able to execute their plans. That automatically can cause a divide within the team, a batsman not scoring decent amount of runs with this rules might be considered very bad, and probably wont make it to the squad next time, and same way a bowler who is conceding a large amount of runs, might not be given a chance, but with the new rule format may be that would have been a decent one.
With any sport or office, the person who is in the administration part, might not experience what the actual person involved in the activity feels, and that gap can easily widen up with time unless efforts are taken to reduce it.
Just to end with some statistics, in this series when compared to the number of balls bowled and no of sixes hit, ( Note : It is sixes, not boundaries ), a six was hit once in every 30 balls.
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| First man in the planet to reach 200, and he is The superman from India |
Like MSD had said, we are not sure where the game is heading with this new rules, with power hitting for the full 7 hours of the ODI game.
May be we need all records to be realigned with respect to rule change and may be ICC comes up with some rule again like Duckworth-Lewis, which practically nobody could understand it.
The curtains have been put already for the part-time bowlers now, next in sequence would be the spinners and then probably the game itself.
May be ICC took it seriously to respect the Little Master's retirement from the ODI as the cue to the end of ODI itself.
Bye til next,
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