Re: Ricky Ponting remains unconvinced on Twenty20 concept
We have seen at many occasion that teams DID come back after poor play so saying that "you only have to be good for short period" is wrong. Pakistan and India both have been 40-50 for 4 at many occasions but came back strongly to win the game from there.
You proved my point exactly.
Yuvraj came to bat yesterday when India were around 40-2 in 9 overs. If it was an ODI...do you think Yuvraj would have straightaway started to hit SIXES and FOURS. But he knew India needed to just bat for 11 more overs, so he had the license to kill.
So people who are good at Twenty/20 are just tullaybaaz? People like Yovraj, Misbah, Shoaib and Haden are bunch of tullaybaaz and are playing on their luck. That is simply ridicules.
Actually yes.
For example I have seen enough of Imran Nazir to conclude that he is an out-and-out Tullaybaaz....yesterday he hit sixes and fours off bowlers like Bond and Vettori. Does that mean he is technically gifted. The answer is a resounding NO.
Other batsmen like Yuvraj/Shoaib Malik/Gilchrist/Hayden are naturally gifted to adapt to all formats. And when they get the added freedom provided by the Twenty20 format, they can go berserk....but that does not prove anything.
The fact remains, Twenty20 rewards Tullaybaazs....where somebody like Afridi is preferable over Dravid.