ODI Rules Change - Batting Team Choose Powerplay

[irottev]

I don't like the rule. I've thought a lot about it. I like it for the team batting first, but I think Chasing is already an advantage in ODI cricket and being able to choose when in your chase to use it knowing what's on the board gives a side too much of an unfair advantage. I think the game should go back to being 10 overs fielding restrictions and then a 5 over block of power plays. maybe the second block too. t seemed to be fine before.

It's become too much of a batsmen's game.

 

[khalek]

I told you so

I hate the rule too, ICC should stop making Cricket a batsman's game.

 

[angryangy]

Bangladesh got 0/34, not a negative result, but not a blinder and it was already a 5+ runs per over partnership. It could also have been smart to not take it, protecting the batsmen as much as possible and assuring victory, but Ashraful is the boss and as it turns out, it really didn't hurt them.

NZ got one run more out of their powerplay, 1/35, which in context was quite a boost. However, they also gave up that key partnership. Mills and Southee are both able strokemakers, possibly even more capable of big shots than Vettori, so maybe the game would have gone the same way whether that wicket fell or not.

Both teams used it as best they could, but I would argue they were both late on the call. For Bangladesh, Naeem Islam, Abdur Razzak and Mashrafe Mortaza were the death bowlers. NZ didn't convince Ashraful into using any of them early and all it really meant was that the more expensive Shahadat Hossain was taken off. If they'd taken that Powerplay a few overs earlier, it might have stretched the attack. Of course, it might have been a bigger risk, but for a worthwhile reward. For the chase, well, it was apparent things were going to end soon one way or another, but Vettori still had overs of pace up his sleeve.

 

[irottev]

Nothing to do with the game.

But what's the best thing about ODI's? Those games which go close. How many games are going to be ruined because a team has a batting powerplay left for the last 10 overs? Most chases will be totally ruined.

This rule is stupider than the supersubs.

 

[angryangy]

We'll just have to wait and see if that is really an issue. On current evidence, one can be more fearful of a comfortable team squandering its position through a Powerplay than a team wrapping up a victory 5 overs early.

Today, Oram only hit 1 six and 2 fours in the entire 3rd Powerplay, 2/27, but in the last over of the innings, he hit 3 sixes and a four. Bangladesh, 3/35, managed to score at 7 an over, but really considering they were already 5 wickets down, it was a period of total chaos.

Currently, international teams are really only using the batting Powerplay to shaft themselves, but we're also looking at two fairly poor sides. I think it's also important to remember that a lot of players who come in late in the innings bank on the defensive field. I mean you can't really set a field for Oram's sixes, but you can set a field for his edges.

 

[JD10]

When batsmen are just "seeing the ball like a beach ball" They'll just take it then right?

 

[angryangy]

You'd think that would be sound.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

I'd imagine if you have Viru and Gambhir on song, or someone like Yuvi or Symonds out there batting for like 10 overs, then you could use the powerplay on them.

Or a pinch hitter. Runrate slowing, take the powerplay and the pinch hitter. If the bowling side is forced to use a few part-timers, then you could pull the powerplay out and whack away. Maybe from the 35th over onwards, to give some momentum coming into the final ten.

But I don't like it. It would be more exciting if they were decided on random. Like after every five overs a ball is pulled out of one of those lottery machines, with 'Powerplay' or 'No-Powerplay' written on it. Then there could be a siren blaze around the field, and the umpires dance around for a bit before the inning resumes. And in the mid-innings break we could have a massive dance party, and have balloons and streamers and cheerleaders. And maybe we could rename it from Cricket to Ultra Uber Hi Fi Supersonic Crazy Fun Bat and Ball Game, and the players could be Ball Whackers and Ball Throwers, with 'keepers being called SuperFly Alien Men with Gloves. And there could be car races around the track, and clowns doing tricks every time a four or six is hit (Which could now be called Lots of Runs and WAYYY More Runs!), and there could be a Disco in the pavillions, with celebrities doing the commentating while plugging their new movies. And ofcourse, by now the ICC is run by the BCCI, so cricket is now called The Tata-Sky/Indicom/Birla/Reliance Mega Hyper Fun Sporting Event, and no other countries play apart from India, India A, India B, India Has-Beens, India Superstars, Pakistani Legends, Bangladesh superheroes, and a Rest of The World team picked full of players who have nothing else but nice things to say about India...

Wait, where were we?

 

[angryangy]

I'm tempted to delete every post in this thread and just leave that one.

 

[Harrypotter_fan]

I'd imagine if you have Viru and Gambhir on song, or someone like Yuvi or Symonds out there batting for like 10 overs, then you could use the powerplay on them.

Or a pinch hitter. Runrate slowing, take the powerplay and the pinch hitter. If the bowling side is forced to use a few part-timers, then you could pull the powerplay out and whack away. Maybe from the 35th over onwards, to give some momentum coming into the final ten.

But I don't like it. It would be more exciting if they were decided on random. Like after every five overs a ball is pulled out of one of those lottery machines, with 'Powerplay' or 'No-Powerplay' written on it. Then there could be a siren blaze around the field, and the umpires dance around for a bit before the inning resumes. And in the mid-innings break we could have a massive dance party, and have balloons and streamers and cheerleaders. And maybe we could rename it from Cricket to Ultra Uber Hi Fi Supersonic Crazy Fun Bat and Ball Game, and the players could be Ball Whackers and Ball Throwers, with 'keepers being called SuperFly Alien Men with Gloves. And there could be car races around the track, and clowns doing tricks every time a four or six is hit (Which could now be called Lots of Runs and WAYYY More Runs!), and there could be a Disco in the pavillions, with celebrities doing the commentating while plugging their new movies. And ofcourse, by now the ICC is run by the BCCI, so cricket is now called The Tata-Sky/Indicom/Birla/Reliance Mega Hyper Fun Sporting Event, and no other countries play apart from India, India A, India B, India Has-Beens, India Superstars, Pakistani Legends, Bangladesh superheroes, and a Rest of The World team picked full of players who have nothing else but nice things to say about India...

Wait, where were we?

Thats too good mate . Thats the way cricket is going .

 

[tassietiger]

I'd imagine if you have Viru and Gambhir on song, or someone like Yuvi or Symonds out there batting for like 10 overs, then you could use the powerplay on them.

Or a pinch hitter. Runrate slowing, take the powerplay and the pinch hitter. If the bowling side is forced to use a few part-timers, then you could pull the powerplay out and whack away. Maybe from the 35th over onwards, to give some momentum coming into the final ten.

But I don't like it. It would be more exciting if they were decided on random. Like after every five overs a ball is pulled out of one of those lottery machines, with 'Powerplay' or 'No-Powerplay' written on it. Then there could be a siren blaze around the field, and the umpires dance around for a bit before the inning resumes. And in the mid-innings break we could have a massive dance party, and have balloons and streamers and cheerleaders. And maybe we could rename it from Cricket to Ultra Uber Hi Fi Supersonic Crazy Fun Bat and Ball Game, and the players could be Ball Whackers and Ball Throwers, with 'keepers being called SuperFly Alien Men with Gloves. And there could be car races around the track, and clowns doing tricks every time a four or six is hit (Which could now be called Lots of Runs and WAYYY More Runs!), and there could be a Disco in the pavillions, with celebrities doing the commentating while plugging their new movies. And ofcourse, by now the ICC is run by the BCCI, so cricket is now called The Tata-Sky/Indicom/Birla/Reliance Mega Hyper Fun Sporting Event, and no other countries play apart from India, India A, India B, India Has-Beens, India Superstars, Pakistani Legends, Bangladesh superheroes, and a Rest of The World team picked full of players who have nothing else but nice things to say about India...

Wait, where were we?

There are fair few players who might have to decide which of these two teams they'll play for.

 

[KBC]

They should make another rule, Batsmen Should use the power play in the first 30 overs. That'll be a better adjustment for the fielding side.

Tbh, my opinion has changed and i'm currently a neutral to this rule.