A fair deal
The topic that has stormed the current cricketing world is the domination of batsmen in one-day cricket. Not only the cricketing rules favor them, even the pitches are laid down keeping the batsmen in mind. This helps the batsmen to score big innings thereby minimizing the options for the poor bowlers.
If you look at it closely then you would find that except for the LBW rule there is nothing that goes for the bowlers and in that too there are various complications. So, in order to balance the game a bit, some of the senior players and commentators have raised a few questions about the way the rules have been worked out and how there should be a more serious look taken at them. The rule in question is the one where the bowler should be allowed to bowl a bouncer an over. Australian captain Steve Waugh has been the most vocal of all, as he thinks that the 15 overs rule is totally for the batsmen. They have no hesitancy in walking on the pitch even to the best bowlers because they know that the bowler would not bowl a bouncer as it would concede a run and secondly he can’t get out.
The point raised thus sounds fully justified as it would not only give a weapon to the bowlers to work with but would also play on the batsmen’s mind. At the end of the day one does feel for the bowlers as they too work as hard as the batsmen but only a few get the limelight, infact the skilled one’s too have to face the tough times. The authorities are still quiet about their decision on the said subject, but this point has quite a few supporters and it would not be long before something would be done. Lets hope it happens soon enough to bring some sanity to the game called ‘Cricket’.
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