We are #1 !!
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<p>I was with you on Ronchi, but Sodhi was excellent on the subcontinent... </p>
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<p>Yep Sodhi did very well when he played, Ronchi must be gone now though.</p> -
<p>Great to see.</p>
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<p>However, to be consistent, I've never rated international T20 and have never ever looked at the ratings. I also think the current "world champions" are a joke of a team.</p>
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The current world champions are made up of a team of T20 specialists. They were deserved winners without a doubt.
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Not in T20s they aren't. In tests absolutely, and should probably lose their status as a test nation. But they are fricken hard to beat in T20s. They won the thing without their premier batsmen firing a shot in the finals.
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Lol, I think it shows that winning a T20 tournament requires T20 specialists. Which is what basically the entire WI team is.
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Define "cricketer"
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The guy that invented cricket max?
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<p>Yes. And was a brilliant cricketer who saw an opportunity to design a game that any gumby could play</p>
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<p>Top 10 T20 batsman... not seeing a lot of gumby's</p>
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<p>1 889 V. Kohli</p>
<p> 2 803 A.J. Finch</p>
<p> 3 754 M.J. Guptill</p>
<p> 4 750 J.E. Root</p>
<p> 5 741 F. du Plessis</p>
<p> 6 719 K.S. Williamson</p>
<p> 7 713 A.D. Hales</p>
<p> 8 696 C.H. Gayle</p>
<p> 9 677 H. Masakadza</p>
<p> 10 674 Mohammad Shahzad</p>
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<p>Tho' I do confess to having no idea who Masakadza is... but Kane, Kohli & Root will all be legends</p> -
I wonder why Steve Smith, Hashim Amla, Younus Khan and Adam Voges aren't in the top 10? I mean they are all top 10 test batsmen, and well any gumby can play T20, so I can't understand why they wouldn't do well in that format?
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2016/content/story/1008221.html'>http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2016/content/story/1008221.html</a></p>
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<p>Tom Latham off to a cracking County Cricket start too. If he can bed in there & get a thing going with Bell-Drumond he can get a county gig for years to come.</p> -
<p>Some guys are better suited to different formats and will continue to favour one or the other or the other. Nothing new there.</p>
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<p>To elaborate on what NQ is saying the guys he mentioned are anchor type players first and foremost which makes Root and Williamsons ability in the shortest forms all the more impressive.</p> -
Yup, anyone that is able to dominate all formats is hugely impressive. The point being that qualities as a test player do not automatically translate to T20, which invalidates the "any gumby can play it" comment. As much as it grates Richie8-7, the WI are a very impressive T20 team.
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<p>The current world champions are made up of a team of T20 specialists. They were deserved winners without a doubt.</p>
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<p>The Fijians of the Cricketing world.</p>
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<p>The Fijians of the Cricketing world.</p>
<p>Top Dog in the shortest form of the game, absolute shit balls in the longer format.</p>
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<p>Good analogy although the Fijians can't look back on how amazing they used to be at 15s.</p>
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<p>A couple of years back I would have thought D Warner would be well up the list of T20 batsmen but I guess it shows that he has reigned in his natural instincts somewhat and become such a dominant test player instead.</p> -
<p>Although Warner made a name for himself in T20's first, I don't think he's really the type of player that can just slog every ball effectively. He scores his runs through good cricket shots which is why he is doing so well at test level. He's an aggressive little bugger, so always looks to score, but technically he's very sound.</p>
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<p>Kohli, Root and Williamson are on another level at the moment.</p>
