bigfluffylemon wrote:A player who comes in at the end of the innings and clobbers 2 sixes, a 4 and holes out and gets out scores 16 runs off 4 balls and gets 46 points - not that far behind really, and I'm not sure in proportion to the value of their innings.
but then that is also the nature of T20 cricket. It's those short explosive innings at the end that get a team to a defendable total and the job of the top order is to get them to a position where they can do that, so I think the FL reflects that quite well. The risk with picking one of those players is that they either don't get the chance to bat or they end up scoring 7 runs off 3 balls.
Similarly with front line bowlers. As you point out their figures can be totally ruined in their 4th over bowled at the death. But big Bravo often used to pick up 2 or 3 wickets in his last over as batsmen with nothing to lose holed out in the deep, and from having earned no points at all in his first 3 overs, suddenly walked away with 60 or 85 points in the bag. The value of those late wickets which change games is also reflected quite well, I think. Andrew Tye seems to have had that knack in recent years. I take your point about dibbly dobbly bowlers bowling a couple in the middle overs and David would be an example of that, but he's only bowled in 3 of his 10 matches and so the risk is he doesn't bowl or only gets to bowl one over.