Cricket is a sport of bat and ball. No matter what format, situation or number of overs, it's the batsman's ability to play the ball and the bowler's ability to stop that from happening. Good cricketers adapt to any situation presented to them. The more condensed the format the more pressure on the players. I love this added factor of "pressure" in the Twenty20 and less room for error and recovery. This is a phenomenal development in the history of cricket and we are lucky to be witnessing it.
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One reason why everybody here seems to have fallen for this format is because India/Pak did not get booted out by two-bit teams in the preliminary rounds like in the 50/50 WC.
But believe you me....this format has the ability to throw up upsets much more than ODIs. Its a blessing for minnows......in this form of game even Australia is vulnerable to Zimbabwe as we found out. It is only a matter of time before we see "upsets" becoming a regular feature in this format.
Again I quote Symonds - *"It is easier to be good when you have to be good only for a very short period of time". *
I hope our public remains just as awe-struck by Twenty20 even when India is beaten by BD in not so distant future.
Cricket is a sport of bat and ball. No matter what format, situation or number of overs, it's the batsman's ability to play the ball and the bowler's ability to stop that from happening. Good cricketers adapt to any situation presented to them. The more condensed the format the more pressure on the players. I love this added factor of "pressure" in the Twenty20 and less room for error and recovery. This is a phenomenal development in the history of cricket and we are lucky to be witnessing it.
PS. Some posters above use words like "sportainment" as if they invented it two minutes ago. bhai hum bhi Cricinfo parhtay hain. :)
Agree with every word in that post. Really, I don't see a need for ANOTHER discussion on this topic.
Agree with every word in that post. Really, I don't see a need for ANOTHER discussion on this topic.
But you may not have noticed that Imran Khan has n't said a word about Twenty-20 World Cup even though Pakistan made it to the final which just about sums up what he thinks of this particular format. Not that he's against limited overs cricket. He's usu. quite involved in how our team is doing even though he stopped playing cricket some 15 years ago. He was regularly in the news giving out statements, writing articles even in some British newspapers during the main World Cup but on this very occasion he has n't bothered to say anything.
^ Or simply trying to stay out of prison, for now. Pak politics are in a state of boil right now, so Immi Khan may just have too many other things on his mind.
But you may not have noticed that Imran Khan has n't said a word about Twenty-20 World Cup even though Pakistan made it to the final which just about sums up what he thinks of this particular format. Not that he's against limited overs cricket. He's usu. quite involved in how our team is doing even though he stopped playing cricket some 15 years ago. He was regularly in the news giving out statements, writing articles even in some British newspapers during the main World Cup but on this very occasion he has n't bothered to say anything.
Imran Khan has a million other things to worry about at the moment. And honestly, his recognition or lack there of doesn't take away from the legitimacy of Twenty20.