PITCHES IN THE AUSTRALIAN SUBCONTINENT

It should be accepted that there are various factors affecting the success stories of a team. These facts include the pitch types, weather conditions, the toss and the D/L methods. Out of these, the pitches are several types including the flat pitch, bowling pitch and the hard pitch. A flat pitch is one that favors both the batting and the bowling. A bowling pitch is one that favors the bowlers in various forms of the bowling. The pitches in the Australian sub continent, which determines the success rates in various aspects. Australian subcontinent includes the two countries like Australia and the New Zealand. The pitches in the Australia are of flat tracks or of bouncy tracks. However, in the New Zealand almost all the pitches are of bowling and hard tracks. Thus, the matches played in the Australia are ending up with an average first innings score of more than 300 whereas the average score in the case of the pitches in New Zealand are around 200. Due to these variations, it becomes difficult for any touring team in the Australia and the New Zealand to identify the nature of the pitches. Only a few veteran players like the little master, Lara are capable of playing under all types of pitches in various circumstances.

ROLE OF BOWLERS IN T20

Twenty-twenty or the T20, in whatever way it is called, this new form of cricket has won a million hearts in a very short period of time and became as famous as its original version. It has been a general thought that this particular form of cricket is mainly depended on the batsmen alone and not on the bowlers. It is because T20 is based on the technique of scoring as much runs as possible in a short span of over.

However, one cannot deny the fact that the success in a 20 over game depends on the bowling tactics also. In the first T20 world cup, India became the champions. They would not have tasted the fruit of success without the efforts put by the Indian pace bowlers and spinners. New teaching and training methods should be brought into practice in order to provide sufficient training for the pace men. Modern technologies include the separate coaches for bowlers and the introduction of pace machines. These pace machines are paving the way to give sufficient practice for the bowlers in order to improve their bowling standards. Bowlers should be trained not only to take wickets, but also to contend the middle over in the game. A good economy stat for any bowler is one of the most important factors in the list of performance indicators.

FOOTBALL vs. CRICKET

The most popular sports of our time are the cricket and the football. Eleven players each play both of these games. Both these games have many common things including the number of players and the number of teams played at a time. Each of the game has been played in a large playground. Both the games have attracted millions of fans ranging from small children to old aged. In the business perspective also, both the teams have emerged as the best competitors in the marketing and the advertising agencies. The number of sponsors coming for the cricket and the footballs are overtaking the number of sponsors for the other sorts of games like the tennis, volleyball and basketball. Beyond the perspective of a sport, both these games emerged as some form of religion in this world. The football players and the cricket players have been considered as some form of supernatural heroes. However, one should be aware of the fact that these fame and respect will be sabotaged once the player or the team does not perform well consistently. Thus, these types of player worships should be avoided in both the football and the cricket for the well good of the team and the players image. Also viewers should take the games into a sportive one and refrain from indulging in any sorts of indecent activities.

IPL

The Indian premier league was inaugurated in the year 2008. The board of cricket council for India launched this ipl as a cricket extravaganza, which became a superb hit in 2008. It rolled in more number of spectators to the stadiums, creating record collections. This ipl was introduced after the t20 format was a great hit in the cricket. With India winning the world cup in the year 2007 caused this 20-20 fever in this most populated country. Totally eight teams were introduced in this league. They include Delhi daredevils, rajastan royals, Deccan chargers, Mumbai Indians, Chennai super kings, kolkatha knightriders, Bangalore royal challengers, kings xi Punjab. Each team was bought by multi millionaires. They saw more business in the ipl, because of the craze for that sport. The great ipl auction held last year, where all the top players were sold out to each team, with record price going to mahendra Singh dhoni. The bid for top players was nice to watch and the people encouraged and cheered for their team mates. This culture of players from different nations playing in same team was good to see. This year too ipl will be a good booster for people and it will provide more entertainment to the cricket world.