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*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

PlayerComparisons

International Vice-Captain
You absolutely cannot be just fiddling around scrounging singles on a deck like this. Usually I'm all for knuckling it down and gritting your way through it, but not here. Not only is it the only way you'll ever really score, it's also the only chance you have of knocking bowlers out of their rhythm.
Yea I’m not criticizing them on this pitch. I think in general though, the quality of batting around the world is going down as strike rates have started to go up a bit.
 

thierry henry

International Coach
This isn't just a bazball or t20 thing. Pant and head were doing this before mccullum took over on some horrid pitches, and head was a bad t20 cricketer until 2024. The whole "bat aggressively because you’re gonna get one with your name on it" approach for hard batting conditions has been around for ages in FC cricket, no?
I’m not saying there’s no logic to that theory, I’m wondering why I rarely used to hear it and now I seem to hear it (and see it via crazy batting) every other innings. It must be either that batters are bottling it or that for whatever reason curators around the world have decided to prepare unplayable pitches.
 

RossTaylorsBox

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I’m not saying there’s no logic to that theory, I’m wondering why I never used to hear it and now I seem to hear it (and see it via crazy batting) every other innings. It must be either that batters are bottling it or that for whatever reason curators around the world have decided to prepare unplayable pitches.
Sure you're not watching a videotape of the same game over and over?
 

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
The whole T20 bash if you cant survive approach also has one other factor going for it. Mumbai is a small ground and the ball does fly here because of the higher altitude a bit like Jo'burg.
 

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