Base Ball-ization of Cricket!!!!!!!!!!?

Question

Gigantic players like Gilchrist,Hayden,Pietersen are butchering bowlers all over the ground ~ these we saw in the World Cup Cricket."PowerPlay" is replacing "touch play" in every games like we saw in Hockey & Tennis in last decade.This is sad to see the bowlers become the victims.Don't you think due to this (commercialisation) we & the next generation of viewers are going to miss "late cut", "leg glance","flicks" & touch player like Vishwanath is never to be born?
This americazation of games is really harmful........

Answer 1

no i don't think so- yes players these days have to be more adapted and able to play the big shots but you still see some real finesse and you still see good bowlers taking bags of wickets ,but 20/20 cricket is another story-this is truly a baseball-ization of our game and the real danger to what we know as traditional cricket.

Answer 2

U r right but the batting technique of the players u mentioned improved quite a lot. G R Vishwanath was not a good player & failed miserably in the last one year of his career & was completely helpless & proved to be ordinary against reverse swings , swinging boomerangs & tornado like speeds of Imran Khan & Sarfraz Nawaz & whizzings in whirlpool of Abdul Qadir in 1982-83. Indian batting was always fragile againt fast bowling. Remember how Shoaib Akhtar clean bowled Tendulkar on the very first ball in Kolkata in 1999 such that he didn't even know what happend.

Answer 3

I don't think it's too bad. I do agree that the "wides" signaled for the ball going down leg side, when it nearly chops the batsman's leg off, is a blight on the game. Leg glance, late cuts etc, will continue in the longer version of the game.

Answer 4

I fully agree with you. The real style and class of batsmanship are missing in the ODI

Answer 5

We all need to work for making better bowlers who would be able defend this kind of power attack.