Comments on: Virat Kohli rises above the rate of inflation https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/virat-kohli-rises-above-the-rate-of-inflation/2013/10/31/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: Dreadful Cricket Hipster https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/virat-kohli-rises-above-the-rate-of-inflation/2013/10/31/#comment-57101 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:27:59 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=10994#comment-57101 Me too.

]]> By: Jefers https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/virat-kohli-rises-above-the-rate-of-inflation/2013/10/31/#comment-57100 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:20:17 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=10994#comment-57100 This probably marks me out as some sort of dreadful cricket hipster but I think I’d much rather have watched the Pakistan v South Africa match.

]]> By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/virat-kohli-rises-above-the-rate-of-inflation/2013/10/31/#comment-57098 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:01:39 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=10994#comment-57098 MSD has had a bit of a pop at the new rules:

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-australia-2013-14/content/current/story/684187.html

Cricket has always been based around the idea that batsmen can accumulate runs up to the point they make one mistake. That’s the beauty and subtlety of it. T20 destroys this by having too many batsmen for the time available, so wickets are much less important than no balls, for example. These latest ODI rules destroy it by allowing batsmen play (and get away with) too many risky shots. In fact, quite a lot of the scoring is done with mistakes. Kohli’s best scoring area was cover / extra cover, playing the drive. His next best scoring area was third man, i.e. also playing the drive, only making a balls of it instead.

Still, I guess that’s what everyone wants – batsmen completely unconstrained. Swipe and miss, swipe and miss, swipe and hit gives a scoring rate of 8 an over, and everyone’s happy.

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