20/20 cricket

[marc71178]

Hogg did score a very rapid 50, but the rest of the time was a complete reverse of his CC form.

Mind you, he made up for it with the ball:

13 wickets @ 10.92 with an economy of 6.50...

 

[Arjun]

Would 20-20 cricket be good for India?

 

[Linda]

My opinion would be no, actually. I cant beleive that those grounds in India at the moment arnt bursting at the seams. This current series has been built up so much, and even though theyre not doing spectaculary, the support for Test cricket seems to be dwindling. They should focus on that, I reckon.

Having said that, I dont live in India and I dont know much about sponsering.

 

[Arjun]

My opinion would be no, actually. I cant beleive that those grounds in India at the moment arnt bursting at the seams. This current series has been built up so much, and even though theyre not doing spectaculary, the support for Test cricket seems to be dwindling. They should focus on that, I reckon.

Having said that, I dont live in India and I dont know much about sponsering.

The game will lose a lot of fans at the end of this series, though 20-20 cannot make up for that. But sponsorship and ticket sales are no issue.

But the way the game is played needs to change. All Indian batsmen are conservative. They're not too keen on hitting the big shots, and would rather play out a few dot balls. Not to mention the batting of the bowlers is nothing to write home about. This format would make good hard-hitting basmen and good hitters from the bowlers. Not to mention, on special high-bounce surfaces, with tennis balls, tearaway fast bowlers would benefit.

 

[marc71178]

And that would improve their Test efforts, how?

 

[Arjun]

If it worked for England, why can't it work for India?

 

[Neil Pickup]

Hardly any of the Test side have played any significant amount of Twenty20 cricket.

England's success is built on stability.

 

[marc71178]

The improvement in England's Test performances is not because of Twenty20!

 

[Scaly piscine]

Average fast bowling gets caned all around the park in 20 over cricket, bad fast bowling gets annihilated (10+ an over easily). Spin bowling has been very effective so far, but that could be more to do with the English county players than the bowling itself. I do think it'll in the very least improving death bowling/batting in ODIs, but as England players haven't played much 20 over cricket it's difficult to say. South Africa's ODI team have played more 20 over cricket domestically, but they're not a very good advert for it at the moment.

One last thing...

Name Mat O M R W Ave Best 4w 5w SR Econ Team
A McGrath 4 7.5 0 98 1 98.00 1-46 - - 47.0 12.51 YORKS

 

[marc71178]

Why are you picking on him?

He's marmite.

 

[twctopcat]

Anyone with a test batting average of 40 and a bowling average of 14 cannot be scoffed at. But Mcgrath can, because he's shite.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Why are you picking on him?

He's marmite.

Very thin marmite too, with 12.5 in economy rate...

 

[Scaly piscine]

Turns out Harvey did score the first century, he's scored 2 centuries in Twenty20. Hodge was leading run scorer in 2003 and second highest run scorer in 2004 - all of the Aussies have done well in it unfortunately.

The format for the English Twenty20 competition next year is supposed to be the same except for each county playing 8 games (4 home and 4 away), this kinda confuses me tho because there are 6 teams in the groups, seems a bit strange to play 3 teams home and away and two others just the once *if* that is what is happening...

Would be nice to see Durham tuck into McGrath twice tho

 

[marc71178]

It does sound strange, almost like the 22 game Championship of the late 80s!

Play 10 teams once, and 6 twice in a mixture of 3 and 4 day games.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Similar bemusement to the 8 matches in 6 team groups from Andrew Miller on an article on CricInfo:

http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2004/OCT/086858_ENG_27OCT2004.html

I hope the ECB don't fudge this and keep it relatively straight forward as a 20 over competition should be.

 

[Kiwi]

Err no it's a shame because they struggle to get the ball off the square.

As much as I want to comment on this.. I have managed to keep my mouth shut. Well.........no I won't start

 

[Scaly piscine]

As much as I want to comment on this.. I have managed to keep my mouth shut. Well.........no I won't start

Awww what a tease.

Would it help if I said the women cricketers did well to keep up with the rule allowing a small amount of time for the next batswoman to get to the middle after a wicket, after all it usually takes women hours to get ready - those helmets/caps must really mess their hair up too.

 

[Kiwi]

Awww what a tease.

Would it help if I said the women cricketers did well to keep up with the rule allowing a small amount of time for the next batswoman to get to the middle after a wicket, after all it usually takes women hours to get ready - those helmets/caps must really mess their hair up too.

No that wouldn't help. Not all woman are like that. Actually not even half are. And those girls wouldn't play a gam like cricket beause they would break there fingernails

 

[The Baconator]

it should just be kept simple

why make it complicated

 

[Scaly piscine]

it should just be kept simple

why make it complicated

Indeed, I think the ECB were going for a Blair-style middle way option instead of just keeping it the same or playing everyone home and away in the group stage.