The importance of the longer format of Cricket
In recent events happened in cricket, people says age is just a number, but i analyze it differently, If you could look at overall quality, technique, skills and temperament of the cricketers in current cricket setup all around the world has been reduced, People with less knowledge of cricket get excited about the shorter format of the game (T20) they want to see big, unorthodox and innovative shots played by the batsmen, which results in reduction of skills, technique and temperament of a batsman, cricketers who came from a proper cricket background where T20 was not used to play like it has been played all around the world are more successful, If you could see the successful batsmen in this shorter format surprisingly are those who have played less amount of T20s during their career's peak.
The likes of ADB, Chris Gayle, Dilshan, Smith, Kohli, Malik, Joe Root, Kane Williamson and many more all are/were successful test players.
What i want to point here is, If you want to be a successful batsman at any format of cricket then you need to have proper technique, skills and temperament to flourish and you can only improve your technique, skills, temperament and game awareness at test level where you have to play for days.
To me as much cricket as you can play on the ground whether it's batting or bowling will benefit you in your skills, as a batsman the more time you spend on the crease the more you will learn the art of batting.
Why India produces good batsmen?
Because they provide them the pitches where they score tons of runs and when you score runs you become used to it and at the same time you develop your skills as well.
And one more thing, batsmen all around the world do struggle with moving and bouncing ball, So flat track bullies doesn't apply here.
In recent events happened in cricket, people says age is just a number, but i analyze it differently, If you could look at overall quality, technique, skills and temperament of the cricketers in current cricket setup all around the world has been reduced, People with less knowledge of cricket get excited about the shorter format of the game (T20) they want to see big, unorthodox and innovative shots played by the batsmen, which results in reduction of skills, technique and temperament of a batsman, cricketers who came from a proper cricket background where T20 was not used to play like it has been played all around the world are more successful, If you could see the successful batsmen in this shorter format surprisingly are those who have played less amount of T20s during their career's peak.
The likes of ADB, Chris Gayle, Dilshan, Smith, Kohli, Malik, Joe Root, Kane Williamson and many more all are/were successful test players.
What i want to point here is, If you want to be a successful batsman at any format of cricket then you need to have proper technique, skills and temperament to flourish and you can only improve your technique, skills, temperament and game awareness at test level where you have to play for days.
To me as much cricket as you can play on the ground whether it's batting or bowling will benefit you in your skills, as a batsman the more time you spend on the crease the more you will learn the art of batting.
Why India produces good batsmen?
Because they provide them the pitches where they score tons of runs and when you score runs you become used to it and at the same time you develop your skills as well.
And one more thing, batsmen all around the world do struggle with moving and bouncing ball, So flat track bullies doesn't apply here.
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