Postby David » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:46 pm
Oh, Please don't bring the IPL into a debate about REAL cricket! PLEASE!
The IRL is about money. It's about glamour. It's about coloured uniforms and helmets that look like the macaroni I sprayed with gold paint in junior primary school. Glamour is "large amounts". Runs and wickets. Simple. It looks cool.
Believe me, with cricket fans, the strike rate and average come into play a lot when talking about the quality of someone.
And to compare batsmen with bowlers is just plain silly as well. Damien Martin wasn't overly slow. He built an innings around a sensible style and solid defense. In fact it was the way he "went about it" that ensured his place in the side.
A small handful of people in the worlds might agree with you. But, the rest won't. Including the selectors who test after test and series after series put Warne in the team before MacGill. Surely that counts for something.
Numbers and stats are only part of a story, nowhere near the entire book though. Watching the games tells you a rich description of what a bowler is, and their value. How many games you turn, how many times you come on and get a wicket right at that crucial moment. The frustration you give batsmen, and that "X" factor that adds to much intangibility to the result.
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