@Courtesy

Not a word from you on slow ass Shai.

@tc1

You disappoint, put bias aside and I'm sure you understand cricket better than your comment suggest.

Chase's innings upset the tempo and others including Hope had to take greater risks. With the line-up WI has why Be cagey in a 120 ball innings vs ITALY??

@Brerzerk

You are very much on point here.

Promoting Chase to bat in the power play also reflects a huge amount of cowardice as well as a distrust by our decision makers in the ability of your middle order batsmen to undertake the ill-advised role Chase is entrusted to accomplish.

As I say, this thinking is archaic and does not measure up to the astuteness of mordern day T20 international coaches.

There should be no half way measures in T20. You are not looking to draw T20 matches. It's binary. You either maximize your resources by putting your best foot forward or lose the game attempting to so do.

There can be no night watchman in T20 and imho, this is the role Chase is asked to perform and he takes pleasure in completing the job even if it eats up most of our batting resources.

It would have been a lot more sensible to have Chase retire in these circumstances.

Further, Chase cannot just take singles and have Hope who basically anchors our innings until the 15th over, take all the risks. This is just plain silly.

Then Powell came in after chase and like a diesel engine he took another over to get warm. 25 percent of our batting resources were fretted away JUST LIKE THIS.

This 25 percent under-performance is significant in the context of a T20 game. Add this to our historical huge volume of dot balls and you get the picture.

Brerks, you felt for my bait, Chase batting in the match had minimum effect on Shai 's. The partnership yielded 65 runs on 45 balls was the only saving grace in the match. Our batting failed miserably last night. Chase 's innings did not affect Shai's scoring. in fact, when both were batting together Shai sr was the highest during his innings.

I will agree that Chase SR does not allow him to bat at no4 or be in the team, but our batting problem lie with Powell and the untouchable King.