MRSN
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- Oct 20, 2010
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We know the cricket especially in ODIs has changed in the last 7 years or so. Now 300+ scores are frequent especially if you are playing top ODI teams like India,England,SA and Aus. These teams also have batting depth to chase down big totals.
Now common thing in these teams is they have some very good stroke making batsmen or batsmen who play risk-free attacking cricket and love to take on the bowlers irrespective of the situation of the match. Wether it's PP overs or post PP overs or 20-30th overs period and so on. Point is they are not bound to loft ball into the stands only in the last few overs.
For Pakistan, attacking cricket is either early on in PP or in the last 10 overs. But this strategy is now considered an out-dated, and now most top teams have batsmen that consistently look for boundaries even if they are 3 down. the change of bowling rules in favor of batsmen also help.
My question is if a Pakistani batsman tries to adopt modern day batting ODI style like AB,Rohit,Warner...if he is successful then everything is great and he is hailed as great batsman and great talent but if he gets out he is labelled as a slogger who should be dropped.. and then that's what happened after few poor games a batsman who is more of attacking nature is dropped and when he finally makes a comeback he bats like Ahmed Shehzad who was a very attacking batsman when he first started but him getting dropped again and again made him change his batting style.
so are we ready to move on with the rest of the world and find some players who can clear ropes and find boundaries consistently and back them even if they fail?
Now common thing in these teams is they have some very good stroke making batsmen or batsmen who play risk-free attacking cricket and love to take on the bowlers irrespective of the situation of the match. Wether it's PP overs or post PP overs or 20-30th overs period and so on. Point is they are not bound to loft ball into the stands only in the last few overs.
For Pakistan, attacking cricket is either early on in PP or in the last 10 overs. But this strategy is now considered an out-dated, and now most top teams have batsmen that consistently look for boundaries even if they are 3 down. the change of bowling rules in favor of batsmen also help.
My question is if a Pakistani batsman tries to adopt modern day batting ODI style like AB,Rohit,Warner...if he is successful then everything is great and he is hailed as great batsman and great talent but if he gets out he is labelled as a slogger who should be dropped.. and then that's what happened after few poor games a batsman who is more of attacking nature is dropped and when he finally makes a comeback he bats like Ahmed Shehzad who was a very attacking batsman when he first started but him getting dropped again and again made him change his batting style.
so are we ready to move on with the rest of the world and find some players who can clear ropes and find boundaries consistently and back them even if they fail?
