“T-20 is not a cricket “. These statements are time and again uttered by experts of cricket who themselves have been masters of cricket and have been fabulous players during their eras.
Well one thing is sure about T-20 , its exciting and it might not be technically correct way of batting but it is pinnacle of essence of cricket and that is unpredictability.
IPL-Season 3 have seen few one sided matches but it has seen many closely fought matches where game has been turn around in a way which even best of experts could not have predicted.
Consider decaan charger’s match against KKR. It seemed deccan would cruise its way to victory before being brought back to ground and finally nailed by KKR.
While mumbai Indian v/s rajasthan saw yusuf single handely taking game away from mumbai till he unfortunately got out , today’s match was classic game of t-20.
Punjab did everything right as far as its batting goes. Score of 202 in twenty overs is big total. Bopara and bisla batted awesomely and it looked like punjab would have its first victory of the tournament.
But kahani mein twist tha. Pandey batted like way he can and smashed quick fire 38 of 26 balls. Kallis batted sensibly and robin was at his best scoring 50 runs in 19 balls. Once robin deparated kallis showed his class smashing ballers over the park to make 89 not out of 55 balls, hitting 5 sixes in this innings. Virat too remained notout scoring 16 of 12 balls and bangalore reached home with one over to spare.
What a match and display of exciting batting by all batsmans.