{"id":52809,"date":"2016-03-10T06:58:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52809"},"modified":"2016-03-10T06:58:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:58:14","slug":"t20-world-cup-batting-order-should-follow-strike-rate-highest-to-lowest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/10\/t20-world-cup-batting-order-should-follow-strike-rate-highest-to-lowest\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Batting Order Should Follow Strike Rate Highest to Lowest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Current Sri Lankan T20 team lacks players who are both fast and furious (high strike rate and high average). In this case, it makes sense to send big hitters early despite their lower average. Let them face as many balls.<\/p>\n

As things are Team Sri Lanka has little chance of winning the T20 World Cup. Although it held the top rank in T20 cricket longer than any other team, Lankans have fallen by the wayside in innovation. Only a few batsmen are capable of hitting more than two sixers in a game and most batsmen, especially experienced batsmen, want to avoid batting under pressure towards the latter overs. This is a sure recipe for failure. Experienced batsmen play at the top order at a strike rate below the required rate which puts pressure lower down the order. A big hitting bowler cannot score winning runs in today\u2019s game as all good teams know this tactic and save their best bowling to the end. The surest way to win is to bring the required run rate to six (6) or below for the last few overs. This can be done by sending in the big guns first.<\/p>\n

As batting was revolutionized in 1994-95 with Sanath and Kaluwitharana coming on top ahead of seasoned openers, this change can propel Sri Lankan batsmen get the most runs they possibly can. Proposed batting order is (with their rough strike rate in brackets) Milinda (135) and Matthews (120) to open batting followed by Dilshan (120) and Thisara (145). They will be followed by Kapugedara (120) and Kulasekara (120, if playing). Thirimanne (115, if playing), Dinesh (100) and Dasun after them.<\/p>\n

This plan will also give good exposure to fast scoring batsmen to improve their average and force slow scorers to up their game or get out of the team. Slow scorers mustn\u2019t be allowed to play at a comfortable pace without pressure at the top. It is good for their career but bad for the team. There are only 120 balls to face and the most must be made from them.<\/p>\n

When fielding, it pays to place a fielder or two (deep fine leg, third man or long stop) to stop boundaries beating the keeper as this is a popular region to score runs under pressure. Bowling must be regimented to bowl only to each opposing batsman\u2019s weak spots. Bowlers must be advised not to experiment without regard to the field in place. In 1996 Sri Lanka beat many teams that were far better on paper by maximizing limited capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara Current Sri Lankan T20 team lacks players who are both fast and furious (high strike rate and high average). In this case, it makes sense to send big hitters early despite their lower average. Let them face as many balls. As things are Team Sri Lanka has little chance of winning the T20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}