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Posted December 28, 2015 03:25 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:29

I dunno, it was impressive, but power-hitting by itself doesn't really do it for me tbh. You see so many 6s and 4s in T20s that a batsman doing it in an ODI on a good pitch when his team are chasing barely more than a hundred is nothing to get the blood pumping. There's no tension, no drama - if he'd got out playing like that the balance of the game wouldn't have shifted at all.

Plus, it was the second game in 3 days at the same venue, where SL batted first and folded meekly and then we tonked a few as we easily chased it down. We've played what, 8 or 9 ODIs against Sri Lanka in New Zealand in the last year or so? With 3 more to go. How does that scheduling make sense? I would rather have had a 3rd test and 3 ODIs.

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Unknown editor edited March 18, 2021 07:29

I dunno, it was impressive, but power-hitting by itself doesn't really do it for me tbh. You see so many 6s and 4s in T20s that a batsman doing it in an ODI on a good pitch when his team are chasing barely more than a hundred is nothing to get the blood pumping. There's no tension, no drama - if he'd got out playing like that the balance of the game wouldn't have shifted at all.

Plus, it was the second game in 3 days at the same venue, where SL batted first and folded meekly and then we tonked a few as we easily chased it down. We've played what, 8 or 9 ODIs against Sri Lanka in New Zealand in the last year or so? With 3 more to go. How does that scheduling make sense? I would rather have had a 3rd test and 3 ODIs.

ConanTroutman edited December 28, 2015 03:31

I dunno, it was impressive, but power-hitting by itself doesn't really do it for me tbh. You see so many 6s and 4s in T20s that a batsman doing it in an ODI on a good pitch when his team are chasing barely more than a hundred is nothing to get the blood pumping. There's no tension, no drama - if he'd got out playing like that the balance of the game wouldn't have shifted at all.

Plus, it was the second game in 3 days at the same venue, where SL batted first and folded meekly and then we tonked a few as we easily chased it down. We've played what, 8 or 9 ODIs against Sri Lanka in New Zealand in the last year or so? With 3 more to go. How does that scheduling make sense?

ConanTroutman edited December 28, 2015 03:30

I dunno, it was impressive, but power-hitting by itself doesn't really do it for me tbh. You see so many 6s and 4s in T20s that a batsman doing it in an ODI on a good pitch when his team are chasing barely more than a hundred is nothing to get the blood pumping. There's no tension, no drama - if he'd got out playing like that the balance of the game wouldn't have shifted at all.

ConanTroutman edited December 28, 2015 03:27

I dunno, it was impressive, but power-hitting by itself doesn't really do it for me tbh. You see so many 6s and 4s in T20s that a batsman doing it in an ODI on a good pitch when his team are chasing barely more than a hundred is nothing to get the blood pumping.