George Bailey and his panel think they are being risk-averse with their World Cup squad. They are actually risking everything as the world changes without them.
world cricket – many will stick their fingers in their ears, shut their eyes and go ‘la la la la!’ until it’s over. This circus will pass.
Twenty20 is a young form of cricket and this year’s IPL has undergone one of those quantum leaps every sport goes through in its early development. Hitting has reached a new audacity. Inventiveness for shot types and scoring areas has found new imaginative range. Bowling and fielding have responded with new craft, new athleticism.
The focal point is Jake Fraser-McGurk. Like many emergent Indian talents, Fraser-McGurk is a native to short-form cricket. Since superseding Warner for the Delhi Capitals, Fraser-McGurk has played some innings that have to be seen to be believed. His strike rate of 233.33 is fourth in the IPL and everyone else in the top 10 is a lower-order slogger while Fraser-McGurk comes in at the top.
There’s an argument that experience trumps all other values, and under World Cup pressure, the only trusted players are the ones who’ve performed before. But there again the brains trust can’t have been watching the IPL, where the atmosphere is brain-bleedingly intense, every match has the fervid atmosphere of a World Cup final, and the individual stakes are what cricketers really value: millions of dollars in contracts. It’s anything but hit-and-giggle.
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