It was in the ODI World Cup in 1992, when we first saw that opening the ball did not necessarily mean playing new football. Mark Greatbatch suggests that given the constraints of the field, perhaps this is the best time to launch an attack that makes the midfield’s job easier.
Sri Lankan parasites Sanath Jayasuriya and Romesh Kaluwitharana took the suggestion and took it to another level four years later – an approach that has become the goal of most teams worldwide in limited cricket.
While ODI has, from time to time, allowed for limited range on a portion of open gear, the dynamics of T20 cricket require a completely different gear. Teams looked to get out of the penalty areas quickly, and 50 became the minimum in the first six passes to boost total competition.
But the T20 is constantly evolving and what looked brilliant five years ago is often called below the current level. We’ve seen that the front batting teams always find themselves under pressure from the start. Pursuing parties can comfortably hit more than 180 goals on the good court. It has a lot to do with the fact that the fear of having to go all out in 20 passes is much less, and that gives the second batting team time to go and continue being aggressive in the first place. .
Perhaps to negate this favorable factor for chasing teams that in recent times, we have seen a change in the approach of some parties, especially England and Australia. In the first six passes, with those in power at the top, they’re targeting something in the 80 range, which is setting the ground up for 200 – an extremely difficult target to chase. even with lovers.
With Cameron Green and Aaron Finch at the top, Australia has succeeded a few times in India. And now with the return of David Warner, it’s more likely they’ll try doing it at home. England, too, have done so with a degree of success in the recently concluded series against Australia and will look to continue with Alex Hales and Jos Buttler during the T20 World Cup.
And this is where the challenge for the Indian team comes in. KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma were great openings for T20, but they’ve long since gotten used to the 50 par. Both are good strikers with the ball, but they are not lazy. Add to that the mindset, calibrated for the 50 mark.
“People like Rahul, Rohit and Virat grew up playing traditional cricket. It’s not that their speed is poor, but they are not Pant, Ishan Kishan generation whose game was built with the T20 cricket in mind. But I don’t see why they should try and imitate the likes of Warner or Hales, because India could have achieved the same number of runs in a different way. There aren’t too many teams that have likers Suryakumar Yadav or Hardik Pandya down, who can be penalized even if the ball is a little softer,” former India opener WV Raman told TOI.
It is the Australian turf that has allowed some openers to try this groundbreaking method. The bounce can be trusted and with the hard and new ball, players like Warner and Finch have played their best. The fact that it’s a little harder to clear large boundaries against a softer ball in the back may have prompted them to try this method.
But Sachin Tendulkar, in a recent interview with TOI, suggested that hitting the line in front of the new ball might not be so easy in the next World Cup. Cricket is not usually played in October and early November in Australia and Little Master suggests that the pitch may be new.
“If there’s not enough sunshine and there’s grass on the pitch, the shots won’t be difficult. It would be better to focus less on the ratio of shots and keep the players in the hands. Teams won’t meet. tough in strength match and you Tendulkar said.
His advice to Indian openers is to “focus on getting off to a good start” instead of getting frustrated, which Rohit, Rahul and Virat have the class and quality to do. It will lay the groundwork for India’s great middleweight order to take over and get results that will help them move deep into the league.
