Debate: Is 20-20 cricket a batsman or bowlers game?

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I argue that it is a bowlers game. After all the bowlers get to bowl 4 overs and their stats would make comparison possible. That does now work with batsmen.

What do you say?

Thanks

Rehman of Multan
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I see Beauty, I get what you are saying and agree.

However, in my point of view all batsmen do not get the same degree of exposure as bowlers do....hence I think after a few years you may find that the batsmen stats will show this confound.

For example, the opening batsmen gets more opportunities (much more than ODI's) than a #6 or #7.

However, its all debateable, all points of view are good. Thanks.
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Richie, nice to see you!
Ben, interpreting the stats you presented, I would say the means are raised for both batsmen and bowlers; however, this would keep the bench-marks that determine rank-order very similar for the bowlers.

However, it would be difficult to say the same for the batsmen. Although, I agree that the batsmen get to hit a lot, but, nevertheless what is does is: augment the strike-rate of the lower-order batsmen, but, decrease their average.

Although, statistics is not the sine qua non for judging quality, it is unfortunately very often used to make comparisons in cricket.

Thanks for correcting my grammatical error; I barely get by with the incomplete mastery of this foreign language.

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I feel that everything is in favour of the batting.

The pitches are rarely bowler friendly.
The boundaries are always in at least 5 or 10m.
The field restrictions in the 1st 6 overs

Although Twenty20 can give bowlers favourable stats, Twenty20 gives the bowlers no leeway. If they don't bowl perfectly there punished, and if they do bowl perfectly sometimes lucky slogs can punish them too.

Whilst a batsmen can get lucky in T20, he can edge a couple or sky a ball and get away with it and make 50. Bowlers never get away with it

Then there's antics like Broad being punished for trying to distract the batsmen in his run-up. That's absolute garbage.

Sunny Gavaskar said it in interview yesterday, the batsmen is allowed to move in his crease to try and alter the bowlers length, so why should Broad be punished for trying to disrupt the batsmen.

It's a batsmen's game, Cricket.
 
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