wellAlbidarned
International Coach
Cricket strategy has been ridiculously conservative for decades. Unless you were the one guy with The License (e.g. Sehwag, Gilchrist, McCullum) you'd get roasted and often dropped for getting out to an aggressive shot.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.
I agree that what we're seeing at the moment is probably an exaggerated pendulum swing in the other direction. I expect what teams will naturally find is that there's an optional ratio of boshing to blocking.