World Cup becoming a battle of wits
Peter Roebuck, in the Hindu , says the World Cup thus far has, barring some of the games involving the minnows, been a fair battle between bat and ball and not the one-way traffic expected before the tournament
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Peter Roebuck, in the Hindu, says the World Cup thus far has, barring some of the games involving the minnows, been a fair battle between bat and ball and not the one-way traffic expected before the tournament. Sensible batting, he says, is the key to winning that battle.
By and large it has made for sharper cricket. Few things are more tedious that the sight of a front foot bully belting the ball around on a pitch as scary as an Enid Blyton story. At least these slightly unreliable surfaces have forced batsmen to think. Shot election and placements have been important, and these count amongst the game's hidden delights.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo