Are the cricketing rules becoming batting friendly just like the pitches??
By hero27
@hero27 (17)
India
January 24, 2007 1:13pm CST
In India West Indies match more than 600 runs were scored that day..earlier South Africa chased more than 400 runs against Australia..Don't u think that the rules are just to good for batting friendly..I know that audiences enjoy high scoring matches But doesn't it make a mockery of the bowlers..
should the BCCI think of changing some rules and provide more breathing space o the bowlers??
9 responses
@abhiquest (579)
• India
7 Feb 07
I think teams are themselves becoming competitive. Also I think more runs and breaking records are one thing which drive the cricket fans.
@nilzerous1 (2434)
• India
5 Feb 07
First of all, yes rules are there to make stroke play easy. Visitors come to see good strokes in a One Day match, and that is how the pitch is prepared and rules are also set to make the game more interesting. I do not think BCCI is going to take any initiative to change these rules.
@vinaykiran28 (5149)
• India
5 Feb 07
ofcourse yes, you can see by the scores scored by the team, and now the field restrictions make merry for the batsman and hard for the bowlers.
@amitavroy (4819)
• India
30 Jan 07
Yes nowadays all the rules in the international one-day cricket favouring the batsmen with the introduction of the new powerplay system which emphasises on having 20 overs in total where the fielders cannot go out of the circle and this makes the life of the batsmen very easy. Anything if the batsmen can keep their wickets when they can fully capitalise on the overs and scored huge runs. We can see that nowadays most of the matches have huge totals. Teams scoring less than 250 think that this is not a very defendable total and also nowadays lot of teams are losing matches after scoring even more than 300 runs which clearly states that the shorter version of cricket is very much betting friendly
@Stunner_rocks (458)
• India
30 Jan 07
Cricketing is now becoming more a batsman game than a bowler's game... though we all enjoy it this is not good for the health of the game ... if this continues then in the future we will not good bowler.... if there are only batsmans then who will bowl for them....
@nrmrreddi (356)
• Germany
24 Jan 07
ya many pitches recently are prepared for batting. But I think we have laso seen some bowling pitches in New Zealand where teams even could not have scored more than 100. But I think its to attract crowd who modtly like to watch more shots. But i do not agree with rules becoming friendly, through addition uf some rules like a bouncer in each over.
@kkaammlleesshh (91)
• India
27 Jan 07
cricket is the game where most of us like to watch, ask any body who is the lover if cricket that what would you like to watch bowlers game or a batsman game 90% of the public will say that they like batsman game so looking at the public point of view bcci have put such rules
