Legends Cricket League: Shoaib Akhtar lashes out at batting-friendly rules Former Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Akhtar has criticised batting-oriented cricket. He said that with modern rules put in place, Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar would’ve scored 1 lakh rules who retired with 34,000+ runs in international cricket. He feels reviews would have witnessed Tendulkar making a much bigger impact in the game.
“You have two new balls. You have made the rules stricter. You give so much leverage to batsmen nowadays. You now allow three reviews. If we had three reviews during the time of Sachin, he would have made 1 lakh runs!” Akhtar said on his official YouTube channel.
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Legends Cricket League: Shoaib Akhtar lashes out at batting-friendly rules, says, ‘Sachin Tendulkar would’ve scored 1 lakh runs’- check out
He called Sachin a tough batsman because he played during the era of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Brett Lee and him.
“I really pity him. The reason I pity Sachin is he initially played against Wasim (Akram) and Waqar (Younis), he played against Shane Warne, then he faced (Brett) Lee and Shoaib (Akhtar), and later he played the next generation of fast bowlers. That’s why I call him a very tough batsman,” said Akhtar.
“It’s very batting-oriented cricket nowadays. Earlier, as a batsman, even you would enjoy fast bowlers approaching you with hair flying, bowling bouncers.”
Former India coach Ravi Shastri also agreed to the criticism. He also suggested a slight tweak to the rules. “If you’ve to balance, you shouldn’t restrict an over to 2 bouncers. Increase them. The reason why I say this is because it’s exciting,” said Shastri.
“The volume (is also a factor). There was no T20 cricket at our time. There were 12-13-14 Test matches a year. Bowlers used to be fitter. If the same bowler is playing all three formats this time, what you expect out of him in actual red-ball format will not be the same. He will perform for one or two or three years, but then he will be out of petrol.”
Legends Cricket League: Shoaib Akhtar lashes out at batting-friendly rules, says, ‘Sachin Tendulkar would’ve scored 1 lakh runs’- check out
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