Yo Twenty20!!

What a match it was....Yo Twenty20, its the way to go!
If you are wondering what match I'm talking about...well its the India Vs Pakistan match.

At the beginning of the tournament, I was sceptical about the Twenty20 game, but now I like the game very much. The credit should go to the curator of the pitch.It was a game pitch that really gave some scope to the bowlers in the game. I was actually afraid that all the bowlers would be butchered. But thank God(for the weather conditions) and thanks to the pitch, they were really the stars of the match.

True, Twenty 20 is really a made for TV format. But since most of us see cricket sitting in our drawing rooms rather than the stadium, it's OK.
I find nothing wrong.
Maybe this is the way to go ahead. Of course its really too soon to say anything about scraping the ODI format as some of my friends suggested. But still I think that this format is really good for average viewers of the game. The highlights are the crowds, the short time of 3hrs it takes to complete the match and of course the full throttled action. As for the really connoisseurs of the game there always is the Test format.

But we need to take care that the matches don't really turn into a gladiatorial shows for the bowlers. We need to see that lively pitches are made, that help the bowlers to turn the ball a bit. Of course one may wonder what a batsman can do in such conditions. But a bowler pushed to the limit can never hope to cause as much damage a batsman pushed to such limit is capable of. Even the most ardent lovers of slogging don't like a cake walk for batsman. And then there are always so many rules that really restrict bowlers.

Anyway I'm going to enjoy this tournament very much. And hope you do the same.