The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket

Message Board Archives

What Narine tells us about T20 hitting

 
sgtdjones 2017-05-17 20:23:49 

What Narine tells us about T20 hitting

In a format where batting resources are often underutilized, more bowlers might try to increase their worth to teams by developing their hitting skills

Link Text

 
sgtdjones 2017-05-17 20:24:47 

On January 1, Sunil Narine walked out to open the batting for Melbourne Renegades. He was not an obvious choice. In his entire T20 career Narine had scored 382 runs in 195 games - fewer than two per match - and had never previously batted in the top four.

The coaching staff at Renegades "saw me batting in the nets and said, 'We could try him opening.' That's where it started," Narine recalls. "No one saw me before opening the batting. They didn't know what to expect - I was batting eight or nine before, so they didn't really think I was much of a challenge."



West Indies are not creative as such. shock

 
sgtdjones 2017-05-17 20:26:18 

Narine attacks with an impulsiveness that remains rare in T20 top-order batsmen; even Chris Gayle, the short format's first great batsman, tends to begin sedately in his first ten balls