Allan Border calls for international Twenty20s to be dropped

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Re: Allan Border calls for international Twenty20s to be dropped

@Southie

Earlier you mentioned Test cricket is technique but T20 is skill.

Actually good technique is skill. The style of a pure Test batsman cannot be matched by the hathaudi style batting of T20. The straight drives, square cuts, leg glance, cover drive.
The flight of a spinner in Test cricket cannot be matched by the guy who bowls flattish and does not give air to the ball.

The fury of a fast bowler with 4 slips and a gulley cannot be seen in T20. Placing a forward short leg and inducing a catch - see some Eknath Solkar catches.

T20 is cricket without a soul.

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I would have agreed with you if there were no straight drives, square cuts, leg glance, cover drives, flighted bowlers ( Muralitharan played in IPL ) or slip fielders in T20. The fact is, those shots are still played, those bowls are still bowled and field setting changes in response to situations.

As for the flattish spinners, T20 did not cause that. The flighted spinners were already a dying breed before T20.