{"id":3921,"date":"2010-05-07T22:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2010-05-07T22:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T16:32:01","slug":"play-the-specialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/play-the-specialists\/","title":{"rendered":"Play the Specialists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among our commentators, Sanjay Manjrekar can be reliably banal, but rarely says something outright ridiculous, unlike some of his colleagues. Well, today he did. As India were headed out to chase Australia&#8217;s 184 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/world-twenty20-2010\/engine\/current\/match\/412691.html\" title=\"Aus v India, ICC T20 World Cup, 2010\">the T20 game today<\/a>, he praised India&#8217;s strategy of playing the extra batsman, since the total they were chasing was so big, and said, &#8216;In hindsight, that&#8217;s proved to be a very good move by MS Dhoni.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Duh, no. India lost precisely because they played that extra batsman. It meant that they played one specialist bowler less, and had to rely on part-timers to bowl 8 of the 20 overs in the innings. Against a quality batting side like Australia, that was asking to be pumped. That was exactly what happened, and Australia got a total that, given their pace attack and India&#8217;s problems against pace, was way too high for India.<\/p>\n<p>Some people suggest that in T20 cricket, a side is best off playing as many batsmen as they can, and part-timers can do the bowling. This is nonsense. Bowlers win T20 games, as we saw in the IPL recently, and every team must have at least four specialist bowlers in the XI. Those that don&#8217;t will lose&#8212;and sometimes get pumped, as India did today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among our commentators, Sanjay Manjrekar can be reliably banal, but rarely says something outright ridiculous, unlike some of his colleagues. Well, today he did. 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