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Looking at the huge emphasis on batting in T20 cricket I feel that the ICC needs to do something to level the playing field for the bowlers. But what?

Giving the bowlers something in 50 overs feels better for the game. But in 20 overs? I thought it was expected that there is nothing for the bowlers.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Giving the bowlers something in 50 overs feels better for the game. But in 20 overs? I thought it was expected that there is nothing for the bowlers.

This World T20 was more of a bowlers tournament.

Flat pitches are fine for T20.

Boundaries need to be a bit longer though. 60m is way too short. 80m is fine.

Good topic

Having short boundaries just devalues the quality of batting, nothing more when an edge flies off for six. There should be a minimum measurement for boundaries, at least 70m.

dan08 wrote:

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Giving the bowlers something in 50 overs feels better for the game. But in 20 overs? I thought it was expected that there is nothing for the bowlers.

This World T20 was more of a bowlers tournament.

I presume this is about the IPL. I looked at the cards early in the competition, and it seemed scores were on the low side.

Maybe the pitches were ironed out because the crowds weren't enjoying it, and 6-4-6 is a better spectacle? I'm guessing from some posts on this site that the scores are up again.

The idea of a balance between bat and ball is an old Test match paradigm, because the format needs it, otherwise you get a tension free stalemate. That's not definitely true in T20. It doesn't have to be balanced. It can be a test of who can hit the most balls over the rope. It can be a test of who can get Danny Morrison squeal the loudest. Commentators seem to feel that the game hasn't been that successful if it hasn't been a sixorama.

funny enough their even some suggestion that T20 should be 20 overs for the team batting first and 19 overs for the chasing side since statically it is proven that chasing is 4-5 run advantage which is a massive advantage in T20 compared to ODI.

Having longer boundaries would help but when you see most of the 6s in the ipl or t20 their clearing it by 80M+ most of the time.

Biggest issue at the moment is that Range hitting is at a crazy level especially when you considering most batsman these days are such great golfer think most of them have low handicaps, the fact is grounds are not big enough, they can hit from ball 1 considering they have 10 Wickets to play with in 20 overs, the fact they can hit boundaries at will makes chasing such a breeze.

Really the biggest problem is the size of the pitch and the batsman being so good at hitting boundaries.
Really the bowlers need to improve their skill by either being quicker or getting the white ball to move.

It is the mis-hits going for 6 that annoy me. That is why I want to see decent size boundaries.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:The idea of a balance between bat and ball is an old Test match paradigm, because the format needs it, otherwise you get a tension free stalemate. That's not definitely true in T20. It doesn't have to be balanced. It can be a test of who can hit the most balls over the rope.