Inaugural ICC ODI World Cup Super League | Tournament Thread

slcricfan1 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:35 am

pillowprocter wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:44 am

Gosh, what is it with Indians and double centuries?

The grounds play a part.

Well other players are also batting on these same grounds and pitches. I think its mindset mostly. The Indian batters don't tuk tuk when they are in form and realize the pitch is a belter. Other teams' batters for the most part will take a more conservative approach thinking "330-340 is a great total, we don't need 400". But Indian batters have the mentality of smashing records when given the opporunity.

Indians play more games in high quality games than any other countries. T20 cricket has sharpened up everyone’s ODI game, batsman can score quickly with less risk than 10 or 15 years ago.

It’s no coincidence that India’s rise to the top started with the birth of the IPL. Guys like Gill, SKY, Ishan etc get to play in the highest quality t20 competition in the world. What other domestic players get to test themselves and improve in such an environment?

India also play loads of domestic cricket as well, I’m not sure if it’s more than England, but I assume it would be. So ultimately their players play more cricket than anyone else and play against stronger opposition than anyone else, that’s why they’re so good.

^ Not sure on that. Most of their top players, centrally contracted or even IPL contracted, play relatively little domestic cricket it seems. Once their players 'make it' they seem to almost abandon their provincial teams completely.

Also I don't know about the quality, they have surely way too many teams and thats why in the Ranji Trophy you get mammoth innings totals and guys scoring double and triple hundreds relatively regularly. Big disparity between the strongest 8 or 9 teams and everyone else.

secretzimbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 8:57 am

^ Not sure on that. Most of their top players, centrally contracted or even IPL contracted, play relatively little domestic cricket it seems. Once their players 'make it' they seem to almost abandon their provincial teams completely.

Also I don't know about the quality, they have surely way too many teams and thats why in the Ranji Trophy you get mammoth innings totals and guys scoring double and triple hundreds relatively regularly. Big disparity between the strongest 8 or 9 teams and everyone else.

I referring to their domestic players, they play loads of domestic cricket and also get to play in the IPL. What other country has the luxury of their up and coming players getting tested against the best?

Obviously the big guns don’t play much domestic cricket, but the pathway they take to the top is easily the best in the world. That’s my point

Possibly. I don't know enough probably. The English pathway is fantastic though, surely hard to beat. And Australia pretty good.

AFG vs PAK ODI series has been converted to T20Is citing a "lack of interest"...that doesn't bode well for ODIs in an ODI year!

I would have thought any format between Asian teams would attract big money sponsors. Perhaps the AFG team still aren't rated by sponsors outside of the T20 format...