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[Dare]

You sure you're alright?

Its about scoring runs when you are faced with so many challenges (bowlers aiming at your stumps, fielders standing around you to catch the ball, fielders waiting to effect run outs, cant let the ball hit your pads without touching with bat, etc). Eventually, its about the batsman scoring runs by surpassing all these challenges.

Or is it about the bowler trying to hit those stumps that the guy is standing in front of? Trying to get him to hit it to one of your fielders? Trying to get the fielders in the best position? Trying to prevent the batsman from scoring the runs? Eventually all it comes down to is the bowlers getting those 10 wickets :sarcasm

To say that cricket is all about the batsman scoring runs is just plain stupid. Its a battle between batsman and bowler.

 

[TumTum]

Traditional Cricket

- Bowling attack
- Batting line-up, resembling a defensive structure.
- Batsmen play defensive strokes the most
- Defense always > Offense, hence 6 batsmen, 4 bowlers.
- Batsmen try to score as many runs for extra leway whilst the bowlers try to run through them.

This is all Cricket 101.

 

[Amiya]

Traditional Cricket

- Bowling attack
- Batting line-up, resembling a defensive structure.
- Batsmen play defensive strokes the most
- Defense always > Offense, hence 6 batsmen, 4 bowlers.
- Batsmen try to score as many runs for extra leway whilst the bowlers try to run through them.

This is all Cricket 101.

What about Australia vs. J'sburg? According to you that match also can't be considered....

 

[TumTum]

What about Australia vs. J'sburg? According to you that match also can't be considered....

That was a small ground and a flat pitch, however there was still pace and bounce on that pitch.

 

[SaiSrini]

That was a small ground and a flat pitch, however there was still pace and bounce on that pitch.

There was grass cover on this pitch and enough bounce to allow good strokeplay. Its not as if wickets that have pace and bounce are good wickets and wickets that dont have it as not good wickets. Get out of that Aussie mentality. Other country wickets offer a different type of challenge.

Your argument in favor of that "Jo'burg" match is laughable. Both (wicket of this match and that one) were incredibly flat pitches and also both team's batsmen were helped by their T20 mindset.

 

[TumTum]

I was never supporting the Jo'berg pitch, wtf are you guyz talking about?

Why the fearsome tweak did Amiya quote me anyway?

 

[SaiSrini]

I was never supporting the Jo'berg pitch, wtf are you guyz talking about?

Why the flip did Amiya quote me anyway?

You said this right?

That was a small ground and a flat pitch, however there was still pace and bounce on that pitch.

Thats what prompted to say that.

If yday's pitch was flat, the one at Jo'burg was also flat. If yday's match was a disgrace, the Jo'burg game was also a disgrace and cannot be considered a classic. According to me, flat pitches hurt test cricket more than ODI cricket because in ODI cricket, we have a winner in the end (even after tie) but in test cricket, there is a possibility that we wont get a winner even after 5 days if either team cant take 20 wickets.

 

[Mercules]

Fair enough.


The vast, vast majority of sports fans watch sports for the offense. In cricket, the division between offense and defense isn't as well-defined, but for most purposes, bowling can be thought of as defense and batting as offense. Similarly, but less so, most people don't watch cricket for the wickets, they watch it for the runs.

Um, no. In the true sense, bowlers are brought into the "attack" whilst the batsman "defend" their wicket. And, maybe I'm alone in this, but I find a session where 5 wickets fall much more interesting than if none fall.

That said, OD/T20 cricket arguably subverts all this. I don't really find the IND-SL scorecard loathsome in itself but making all the pitches flat for limited over matches means Test pitches too become flat which isn't a sacrifice I see as worthy

 

[TumTum]

You said this right?
Thats what prompted to say that.

I am not supporting the pitch, you guyz posted it for me to make a comment, and I did.

Hypocrite much??

 

[McLOVIN]

oh lord, Bangladesh is fu?ked

 

[Howsie]

Cricket is about 'scoring runs'.

I'm sorry but cricket isn't just about scoring runs. You could use that comment when talking about 20/20 cricket but proper "real" cricket is suppose to be a real battle between bat and ball.

 

[Params7]

Missed this match but caught the highlights. DAMN! Almost a repeat of Johannesburg.

 

[Harishan]

I'm sorry but cricket isn't just about scoring runs. You could use that comment when talking about 20/20 cricket but proper "real" cricket is suppose to be a real battle between bat and ball.

I've gotta agree with what Howsie is saying. Cricket is supposed to be a battle between bat and ball.

Fielding is also a vital part of the game and is arguably just as important as batting and bowling. I remember I had a cricket coach a few years ago who would always tell us "you can perform well with the bat and score a big total or bowl well and bowl the opposition out for a low score but the team that will win is the team that fields the best".

I know India have shown that you can still win even if you aren't that sharp in the field in this match, but the first twenty/20 match is a good example of why fielding is so important. India dropped about 5 catches and missed quite a few runout opportunities, which lead to Sri Lanka scoring a total of 200+ and by then the pressure was now on our batsman to win us the game but Sri Lanka were very sharp in the field and with the help of good bowling they were able to win the match.

 

[Chetan0304]

YES!

Saeed Anwar's record stays intact!

Not for long

Chetan0304 added 6 Minutes and 46 Seconds later...

I won't be so happy tbh. We fluked really. You just CANNOT allow someone to cross even 350 when they're chasing 400+!

A win by 3 runs > A win by 50 runs


Fans wants thrill, a competition. i dont know about the pitch but the match was real thrill to watch.

 

[SaiSrini]

@ chetan: We would have gladly taken a 50 run win over this "3 run win", especially with people always lurking around to ridicule and make fun of India's inability in whatever way possible.