Where Jamaica lag behind in T20 cricket
In the Jamaican Gleaner , levyl blogs on the reasons Jamaica are not able to replicate their success in other formats in the Caribbean T20
Dustin Silgardo
25-Feb-2013
In the Jamaican Gleaner, levyl blogs on the reasons Jamaica are not able to replicate their success in other formats in the Caribbean T20. He says the Jamaica team has not adapted to the specific requirements of the Twenty20 format and continue to play formulaic cricket rather than the instinctive cricket Twenty20 requires.
We all watch with great trepidation the manner in which Marlon Samuels, for example, consistently puts his team under pressure by using up sometimes as many as five overs before he gets going; if he gets going. Dot ball after dot ball usually puts the batsmen coming in after him under incredible pressure. In the game against the Combined Colleges and Campuses, he ‘rescued’ Jamaica from certain defeat with some lusty hitting at the end, but it was he who put the team under pressure in the first place.
Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo