Bazal
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Wait, so now it's T20s fault when a bloke gets lidded? LMAO...bowlers have been sconning batsmen since the game was invented. What can we blame T20 for next?
There are much bigger factors than T20 cricket in why batsmen get hit. Tbh there's not even really a noticeable increase over say the 90s. What is different is the fuss it causes when someone gets hit, because of Phil Hughes and because of the greater awareness of the seriousness of concussions. In the 90s or early 2000s Mushfiqur probably would have wandered off, had a shower, cleared his head, taken a few pills and come back to bat a bit later, if he even went off at all. Now it's off to hospital for scans and then a mandatory few days off for concussion, which is the right thing to do, but makes it seem so much more serious.
Justin Langer is a bit of a flog but he was bang on when they chatted to him on the BBL the other night. He would have scored a lot fewer runs in the modern era because he'd have had to come off after his dozens of head knocks....and he didn't play a T20 match until he was about 40 years old. Batsmen get hit because they are confident enough that getting hit will do them no lasting damage. Phil Hughes' absolute freak accident aside, your helmet will protect you. And this is probably the first and second generation of players that has always worn helmets their entire cricketing lives so they're used to having that safety net. Plus with restrictions on how many short balls you can bowl as a bowler, it really is a surprise ball these days that's aimed at the badge. There's not really anyone in world cricket you can bank on giving you a few throat balls an over like, say, Curtly Ambrose often would.
Anyway in this particular case the fact is most subcontinental players don't play the real short stuff all that well, and that was definitely evident with Mushfiqur.
