So for once it is not a batsman’s game
Cricket has long favoured batsmen at the expense of bowlers
Devashish Fuloria
25-Feb-2013
Cricket has long favoured batsmen at the expense of bowlers. While batting continues to get easier with shorter boundaries, flatter pitches and favourable rules, a bowler's job has been made increasingly difficult. But this year in county cricket, batsmen have struggled. Derek Pringle in The Telegraph enjoys the mismatch and says that bowlers have always been at a disadvantage with rule changes.
Over the centuries, the game’s law-makers and administrators have tended to be batsmen, ready to claw back any advantages bowlers have gained with an over-compensation in favour of those who wear the pads. After all, most of the game’s Laws seek to make a batsman’s life easier and a bowler’s harder.
Devashish Fuloria is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo