Feilding side

 

of the world

 

Guess who?

 

 

 

 

PAKISTAN!!!!!!!!!!

 

This is not a joke. this is reality and PAKI team have to work on this.

 

 

 

Spot on milkman. All those greats were bowling in an era when we used to find lively pitches everywhere(atleast equal battle btn bat and ball ).These days it's highly favoured to batsman.Earlier a Six used to be a treat and rarity, but these days its common. Earlier no team used to bowl bouncers to tailenders to get them out , yorkers would have done the job. It not like that now, some tailenders can even dish out pull or hook shot for a six. All those great of yesteryears[Botham,Kapil,Imran,Lille,Thompson,Hadlee,WI quartlet and many more] bowled to batsman with lesser protective gear,heavier bats on lively pitches.

 

These days with advanced equipments , lighter bats , video analysis tools, improvised cheeky shots and high competation even for bowler's with batting ability has made current day bowler look average.

 

Whenever a lively pitch is given and eveyone gets out soon the blame is put squarly on the groundsman that it was a dangerous pitch.

 

The biggest proof is the just see the average scoring after 1996 onwards.Also there has been so many 300+ scores in ODI's post Year 2000.

 

Well, since then, we have had 3 top all rounders in Kallis, Pollock and Flintoff.  Shame Kallis doesn't show more interest in "fast" bowling anymore and focusing more on his batting.  Freddie is healing as much as playing and Pollock, well, since he dropped his pace, he's been less effective but still 3 top class all rounders.  Everyone has a moment in their career when their brilliance fades.  Lara played with the same brutality through out his career but his ODI form was poor in his last few years.  Tendulkar doesn't beat ball with as much disdain as he use to.  Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd didn't average as much in their older days.