A typically boring ODI tournament. England decided to chase; Bangladesh hit 179/2 in 34 overs! In typical ODI fashion, they will most likely try and reach 220 by the 40th over and then try and hit 100-120 runs in the last 10! England will then chase 330 or so in 48-49 overs maybe?
Looks like this is headed towards a very boring T20like finish (5:33 PM IST)
So, Bangladesh finally manage 305/6. Can their fast bowlers do what the Indian fast bowlers did to them a couple of days ago? Maybe Mustafizur will fire away. Otherwise, this largely looks like England's game. (6:45 PM IST)
There's one innovation in ODIs of late (I guess this started around the time of the 2015 World Cup) - teams have started accumulating in the first 15 overs. Rather than score at 10 an over in Power Play, they seem content to be in the 5-6 Runs per over range and keep wickets in hand. They now seem to be using the last 15 overs to accelerate. Not quite been able to get the logic behind this, but it seems to work well for chasing sides. Unless they are chasing 350+, the teams batting second don't seem to get bothered by a 5.5 run rate at the start. Towards the end they operate in T20 mode! Maybe T20 is the explanation for this then. Look at England today - 95/1 in 18 overs. Need close to 7 an over from here to win, but they are perfectly calm (maybe a loss of 2 more wickets will cause some panic, who knows). So, the fun has gone from the ODI game :( . Sigh! 8:20PM IST
And so - England win a really boring ODI by 8 wickets with 16 balls (nearly 3 overs) to spare! I first thought that maybe this was because they were facing Bangladesh, but now it appears that it is something else :
1. The 50 over format doesn't excite even the players enough because of all the T20 they play! So, they spend most of the game going through the motions and then crank it up only in the end.
2. Teams are not afraid of chasing anymore - they chase more than 8 an over in T20 anyway. So what is 6.5 or 7 runs an over?
3. Pitches are so batsmen friendly now that teams have decided they are better off with bowlers who can bat than bowlers who can bowl! That sucks!
Lets hope there are some exciting matches in this Champions Trophy, but if the rest of the matches go anything like this - we are better off playing only Test matches!
Looks like this is headed towards a very boring T20like finish (5:33 PM IST)
So, Bangladesh finally manage 305/6. Can their fast bowlers do what the Indian fast bowlers did to them a couple of days ago? Maybe Mustafizur will fire away. Otherwise, this largely looks like England's game. (6:45 PM IST)
There's one innovation in ODIs of late (I guess this started around the time of the 2015 World Cup) - teams have started accumulating in the first 15 overs. Rather than score at 10 an over in Power Play, they seem content to be in the 5-6 Runs per over range and keep wickets in hand. They now seem to be using the last 15 overs to accelerate. Not quite been able to get the logic behind this, but it seems to work well for chasing sides. Unless they are chasing 350+, the teams batting second don't seem to get bothered by a 5.5 run rate at the start. Towards the end they operate in T20 mode! Maybe T20 is the explanation for this then. Look at England today - 95/1 in 18 overs. Need close to 7 an over from here to win, but they are perfectly calm (maybe a loss of 2 more wickets will cause some panic, who knows). So, the fun has gone from the ODI game :( . Sigh! 8:20PM IST
And so - England win a really boring ODI by 8 wickets with 16 balls (nearly 3 overs) to spare! I first thought that maybe this was because they were facing Bangladesh, but now it appears that it is something else :
1. The 50 over format doesn't excite even the players enough because of all the T20 they play! So, they spend most of the game going through the motions and then crank it up only in the end.
2. Teams are not afraid of chasing anymore - they chase more than 8 an over in T20 anyway. So what is 6.5 or 7 runs an over?
3. Pitches are so batsmen friendly now that teams have decided they are better off with bowlers who can bat than bowlers who can bowl! That sucks!
Lets hope there are some exciting matches in this Champions Trophy, but if the rest of the matches go anything like this - we are better off playing only Test matches!
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