Recent glut of amazing ODI hundreds..

[0RI0N]

170 odd vs the Australians in Hyderbad in N0vember 2009

 

[NasserFan207]

Modern equipment makes a big difference imo. Its so easier to middle the ball with today's bats. You see total mis-hits going for six. Would never have happened even ten years ago.

 

[Nate]

What's Marsh's 100 doing there?

Shaun Marsh's hundred doesn't deserve to be there

Can only laugh at you both tbh.

Australia have just lost The Ashes, all the focus is on the World Cup and how important this series is leading up to it, he comes in at 4/33 and scores 110, when the next highest score from anyone on either side was 45. I love the unselfish way he played aswell, the shot to bring up his ton typifies his innings.

YouTube - Shaun Marsh 110 vs England 2011

EDIT: If it was Ponting or Pietersen or Tendulkar I'm sure you'd be in raptures. Play the innings, not the man.

 

[Top_Cat]

Yeah can't imagine why you'd question Marsh's knock as a great ton, only suffers in comparison to, say, Watto's. In addition to coming out at 4/33, he took the Aussies from 8/140-odd to 230 with Dougie 'If not for Tait, I'd be batting 11 today' Bollinger as his partner.

Was literally the only guy whose batting purred that day, everyone else was batting on treacle.

 

[abmk]

yeah, marsh's innings was a brilliant one

 

[ankitj]

So we saw another great innings today. My top 5 innings from the world cup so far would be :

1. Kevin O'Brien vs England
2. Ross Taylor vs Pakistan
3. RTD vs England
4. Andrew Strauss vs India
5. Tendulkar vs England

Any notable inning I have left out? Sehwag 's 175 vs Bangladesh not making it, tells you something!

 

[vcs]

Thanks Ankit.

Yeah, I'd go along with that.

 

[salman85]

I think Taylor's knock has to be the best of the lot.I know it's easy to go for the minnow century maker,and with good reasoning too,but the pure power of Taylor's innings,after a long dip of batting form,after he looked clueless early in the innings,and against arguably the best bowling attack in the torurnament,was just a treat to watch.

For the neutral or NZ fans ofcourse.

I smashed a glass in anger

 

[Jono]

It was obviously unbelievably awesome. But Pakistan didn't exactly bowl like the best team in the tournament.

 

[Howe_zat]

It was obviously unbelievably awesome. But Pakistan didn't exactly bowl like the best team in the tournament.

Pretty sure all these hundreds were against fairly terrible bowling.

 

[Spark]

Hmmm... Marsh's innings was against some decent seam bowling.

And whilst they faced poor bowling, they didn't face balls that could be feasibly hit for six every single delivery for three consecutive overs.

 

[Jono]

Pretty sure all these hundreds were against fairly terrible bowling.

Take your point, but no one argued that the other 4 knocks came against good bowling opposition.

 

[Howe_zat]

Hmmm... Marsh's innings was against some decent seam bowling.

And whilst they faced poor bowling, they didn't face balls that could be feasibly hit for six every single delivery for three consecutive overs.

Well, yes, I was only referring to the amazing innings of this World Cup. With you on Marsh, if anything the main reason it's here is that it was made against bowling that had trashed Aus' top order.

 

[vcs]

Tendulkar and Strauss's knocks were against OK bowling on a flat track. Not particularly good bowling, but not terrible either.

 

[vcs]

Since the last World Cup, the spirit of adventure, stirred by Twenty20 and sweetened by the advent of the batting Powerplay, has seen the pendulum swing to an intolerable degree. Consider the following exhibits. From January 1971 until shortly before the 2006 Champions Trophy, the average ODI total was 209; over the past two years that mean has surged to just south of 253. Of the 51 scores of 350 or more in the 3122 ODIs played up to midnight on Monday, more than 60%, 33, had been slammed and slugged in 626 games since February 1, 2007, along with more than half, eight, of the 15 highest successful all-time chases. And while South Africa boast the highest overall run-rate with 4.93 per over, and 4.86 up to the start of the 2009 Champions Trophy, the first major event to deploy the batting Powerplay, all eight senior nations have exceeded 4.96 since then, seven of them 5.13 or better. A question, assuredly, of extreme imbalance.

Rob Steen: South Africa's new bogeymen | Opinion | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo

Interesting stats. Things have swung quite drastically in the batsmen's favour in ODIs over the last 2 years.

 

[stephen]

Rob Steen: South Africa's new bogeymen | Opinion | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo

Interesting stats. Things have swung quite drastically in the batsmen's favour in ODIs over the last 2 years.

Those stats are a bit deceptive though. The real huge glut of big scores really started at the turn of the millenium.

Having said that the change of ball at the 35 over mark would have a large part to play, as would the extra five overs of fielding restrictions.

 

[slowfinger]

Dilshan's was deffo not bad today!

 

[GotSpin]

Was watching some of the classic cricket they show between innings changes and the difference in bats is truly outstanding. People speak of a change in attitude and approach to the game as a way of explaining the shift towards a batting dominated limited overs format, but surely this can also be attributed to a realisation that batsmen can now get away with more. It's far easier to play with greater freedom upon the knowledge that there's a good chance any edges will fly away for boundaries too.

 

[Jono]

It's not just the edges. The sweet spot is far larger.

 

[GotSpin]

It's not just the edges. The sweet spot is far larger.

Yeah for sure. I was watching Brian Lara in a 1997 ODI match yesterday and not even the class of his batting could match modern day bats. Shots that would sail into the stands today were just chipped down to long on.