T20 Format: Lesser Sides’ Feast?
December 17, 2007 by Dinsa Sachan
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After India’s T20 championship victory, Andrew Symonds said something along the lines of T20 being a format where “the lesser sides can beat you easily”. Of course, Australia lost to Zimbabwe and then India, the two lesser sides he was referring to.
India has since kept Australia on toes in T20, and they seem to be innately made for this version.
Further, SA just lost to Windies in a T20 tie, and it wasn’t a close match by any means.
Could there be any truth to what Roy said?
Same old rubbish from Roy taking a dig again… he is in the form of his life, so he can say anything… there were so over-confident during the T20 WCup, that they thought they could just play as they pleased… they were not serious about it. The other successful teams made intelligent squad changes and planned out how to approach this format.
It is only after the loss to India in that one off game after the one-day series, that they realized that this format too needed some thought, as Ponting later admitted. And they had indeed planned things well for the T20 match against NZ and then steamrolled them.
The Aussies in the ODIs normally tend to come back strongly to close out the match… especially with their bowling… as in you can often see them getting knocked all over within the first 20 years, then come back and steamroll the opposition at a later session… they believe they can win a game from any point… so my theory is that they are probably used to the time and space available in a 50 over format and didn’t adapt during the WC.
In cricket, anybody can beat anybody… perhaps Symonds has a memory loss considering Bangladesh beat them in a ODI.
If the Australians still consider T20 to be ‘inferior’ then they are in for a rude awakening.
Unfortunate.
they just cant take beating gracefully…had they won the t20 worldcup…i bet they would have been singing different tunes…
In my view, there’s no room for 3 types of cricket formats in international cricket. T20 seems to fulfill the needs of introducing one day cricket better than one day cricket. Eventually, I think T20 will replace one day cricket. Test cricket is the pure form of the game that has been there for ages. It will remain as it is.
So, Aussies better start taking T20 seriously.
Go Aussie Go,
India are getting a good THRASHING.
HaHa
You think it’s funny, Carlos?