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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...shid-white-ball-england-cricket-a8220066.html
Alex Hales is the second England cricketer after Adil Rashid to sign a white ball-only contract with his county. This means he will play only one-day and 20:20 cricket. Both players are in the prime of their cricketing lives.
It's bit like Harry Kane saying that in future he will only play 5-a-side football for Spurs.
Sadly the real money is now in one-day and (especially) 20:20 cricket. Before players can perform in one-day cricket they have to learn how to play properly, which can only be done in first-class cricket (the red ball game) in order to be able to improvise when it comes to the short (very short in the case of 20:20) forms of the game.
Ian Botham might have looked a slogger to some but he was actually a very correct cricketer and could only have blasted away as he did by grasping the finer rudiments of batting. The same applies to the current crop of big hitters.
If in future they don't learn the game at grass roots level, 20:20 big hitters really will become sloggers and little else.
When we watch acrobats clowning around at a circus they can only do it because they've learned how to be proper acrobats in the first place. The same applies to cricket.
I'n very disappointed to see cricket slipping away like this. I saw my first 20:20 county match last season for a number of years. I enjoyed it to a degree but to me it is an entertainment rather than a true sporting contest and completely lacks the tactical nuances, not to mention the all-round skill, of first-class cricket. I suppose today's society demands instant answers to most things and hasn't the patience to sit through a cricket match of more than 20 overs per side.
Alex Hales is the second England cricketer after Adil Rashid to sign a white ball-only contract with his county. This means he will play only one-day and 20:20 cricket. Both players are in the prime of their cricketing lives.
It's bit like Harry Kane saying that in future he will only play 5-a-side football for Spurs.
Sadly the real money is now in one-day and (especially) 20:20 cricket. Before players can perform in one-day cricket they have to learn how to play properly, which can only be done in first-class cricket (the red ball game) in order to be able to improvise when it comes to the short (very short in the case of 20:20) forms of the game.
Ian Botham might have looked a slogger to some but he was actually a very correct cricketer and could only have blasted away as he did by grasping the finer rudiments of batting. The same applies to the current crop of big hitters.
If in future they don't learn the game at grass roots level, 20:20 big hitters really will become sloggers and little else.
When we watch acrobats clowning around at a circus they can only do it because they've learned how to be proper acrobats in the first place. The same applies to cricket.
I'n very disappointed to see cricket slipping away like this. I saw my first 20:20 county match last season for a number of years. I enjoyed it to a degree but to me it is an entertainment rather than a true sporting contest and completely lacks the tactical nuances, not to mention the all-round skill, of first-class cricket. I suppose today's society demands instant answers to most things and hasn't the patience to sit through a cricket match of more than 20 overs per side.
