There is a way of “grooming into a professional cricketer”, which includes lots of good habits, discipline for the game. It’s true for every game not only cricket. This good habits may include diet, life style, on games skills.
What T20 does is, it forces players to deviate from the core skills of the game. For example, in cricket four skills area are batting, keeping, pace & spin bowling. What are the key success factors for each of those - for batting, itÂ’s the shot selection, judgement, defence, mental endurance. For spinners turn, loop, flight, drift and control; for keepers basic gloves work; for pacers pace, bowling skills, control; above all for both types of bowlers - the ultimate is wicket taking skills penetrating batsmenÂ’s defence, when batsmen are trying to survive.
In T20, hardly any of these fundamental skills are primary requirements. A 19 ball 35 is better than 89 balls 91; 0/23 is better than 3/43; instead of 3 catches & 2 stumping, teams prefer a WK who can gather throws and score 12 balls 23.... as the performance criteria is different, players have to adjust their game for T20s, for skills that are not core to cricket. ItÂ’s probably manageable for a 29 years old complete cricketer, but not for a cricketer still learning his traits. More damaging is that this constant experiment and improvisation often results into bad habits and technical flaws in to their games. ThatÂ’s exactly what has cost Hasan, Faheem, Shadab and our Miraz, Soumya.
