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Loading ...I don’t think 20-20 can have a major influence on the conventional 50 over game anyway.
The whole concept of “building an innings” is obsolete in T20, but highly relevant in an ODI.
The thing that didn’t happen
By Scott 3 years ago, mid-October Add your comment below
Watching glimpses of the India vs Australia and Sri Lanka vs England ODI series, I’ve been struck by just how conventional these ODI games have been. We were told last month that the arrival of the Twenty20 game would revolutionise tactics and game-plans in the 50 over game.
But it hasn’t happened. The Sri Lanka vs England games were especially low-scoring, attritional affairs, and that played right into England’s hands. No doubt the slow and difficult batting conditions contributed to that. But even in relatively free-scoring Indian venues, the same old rhymes and rythyms of the 50 over game have continued.
It is early days, of course, but what this might point to is that there is little real impact that the two games can have on each other. Those extra thirty overs are clearly making a difference to the way that teams go about their business. I cheerfully confess to being surprised by this turn of events.
Tags: australia, england, india, ODI, sri-lanka, tactics, twenty20 cricket |
3 Responses to “The thing that didn’t happen”
October 15th, 2007 at 7.11 pm
October 16th, 2007 at 7.33 am
Neither do I see the ODI game changing too much owing to the influence of Twenty20.
But even Twenty20 cricket requires the “building of an innings”, albeit on a smaller scale. The Indian and Pakistani (to an extent) teams showed that to an extent, by attempting to keep wickets in hand and lay a strong foundation for the batsmen lower down in the line-up.
Just a thought…
the time may not be too far away, when specialist bowlers are brought in to bowl only at the death-end of an ODI innings, much like what Gul did for Pakistan. Especially with the mandatory ball change rule in place now, that may be the way forward for some teams – to get introduce a bowler in about 30th over of an inning.
October 16th, 2007 at 7.34 am
(Gul in the 20-20)
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