Twenty20

Twenty20 is a great game which rewards good skill and teams that play with a plan. It also weeds out players who cannot think on their toes, or adjust quickly to knew scenarios. This is because a game can change in one over, there is no time to sit back and let things play out. Its 100% commitment 100% of the time with no place for screw ups.

In a normal 50 over ODI, your “short term” is 5 overs. Typically your opening bowlers do their 5 overs, then you change. Why they dont change bowlers every over is beyond me. The problem is with all the “old dogs” in the cricket fraternity that cant learn the new tricks.

In comes Twenty20:

At last there is a game that forces captains to stop being so predictable in EVERYTHING they do. We are seeing spinners open the bowling, big hits and also front foot no balls properly punished.
Gone are the days of “consolidation”. Hell man, you have a bat, use it! If a bowler is pinning you down, you’ve got to man handle your way out from under him! You’re not “teaching him a lesson” by blocking.

Now thats what twenty20 is all about. Owning the bowler!

To add to that, stroke play is a farce! Is it not true that one only notices stroke play when it gets a result? That is, 4 or 6 runs? If kallis didn’t hit boundaries, he might as well resign. We need to get to the root of it, runs is ALL that matters. People remember runs, not poses. And runs win matches.

Twenty20 is teaching batters to grab the game by its ears and steer it!!

Smith has this ability, so does Kallis if you piss him off correctly. AB has luck on his side most of the time, he’s simply not strong enough to clear the ropes.

I would like to see our national twenty20 side consist of 8 batsman some of which to be part time bowlers, and 3 all rounders. That is all! you dont need proper bowlers. The slower the bowler, the better because u cant get them away.

The short term in twenty20 is.. wait for it.. 1 over. You need to TOTALLY REACCESS the situation every over, otherwise you’re going to lose touch, just like botcher did the other day, he totally forgot how many overs there are in a 20 overs game and started “consolidating” when it was 8 overs from the end.

His mistake was that you cannot use percentages and compare the game to a 50 overs game. Over 25 in a 50 over game is ABSOLUTELY NOT the same as over 10 in a 20 over game. You’re 10 overs from the end!! Start hitting a$$hole!!!

I do not know why I have to tell people this, I surely can’t know more than the captains or coaches?? Or could I?? Most of these guys are jock rippers of the nth degree who have never grown up.. they’re all boy-tjies with the maturity of an angst ridden teenager.

Anyone have an email address for the cricketing society?

-old man tucker