SRH vs MI run-fest: T20 cricket’s ‘434-438’ second
(LEFT) Energy-hitting coach Julian Wooden; Sunrisers Hyderabad batters Heinrich Klaasen and Aiden Markram after their devastating partnership within the IPL 2024 T20 recreation in opposition to the Mumbai Indians. (Images: Instagram through batpowerguru; PTI)
Right here’s a dystopia for all you cricket bowling aficionados. It’s IPL 50. Your icons are now not round. None of their type is. A totally AI-automated bowling machine that may simulate all their deliveries for various conditions – in powerplay or demise overs, after snapping a wicket or being pumped for six, in opposition to a pinch hitter or a quantity 10 – stands of their stead. A dull piece of equipment, with no over-the-top reactions after getting clobbered for boundaries. The batters are all that everybody’s speaking about. “No, under no circumstances. No. No. No. It’s batter in opposition to the bowler, at all times,” Julian Wooden, the power-hitting coach, can’t see it taking place.
The brand new heights of what a group complete in T20 might appear to be don’t shock Wooden. “I don’t suppose there’s any sport on the earth that improves as shortly as batting does in T20 cricket.” All of the extra purpose, he believes, energy hitting shouldn’t be diminished to a mere train of opening the entrance leg and having a swing on the ball. READ MORE