Cricket Twenty20 - Redefining Boundaries!!

"Redefining Boundaries" .. This was the expression used by Ravi Shastri during the pre-match talk before the start of the India V Sctoland match. Ofcourse he was referring to the the heavy hitting that we witnessed in the Twenty20 tournament goin on in South Africa.Let me tell you one thing - the batsmen are clearing the boundaries by a long way and ICC had thought of bringing the boundaries closer! If this tournament is anything to go by, they should be moving the boundaries farther away!! Huge sixes are being hit by batsmen.

Cricket Twenty20 - Is the name of the game! Heavy hitting, Live wire fielding, Intelligent bowling is the order for the day.When the first of the ODIs were played, the pundits said that it will introduce some "bad" habbits into test cricket. These bad habbits actually turned out to be good for test cricket and test cricket witnessed some brisk scoring. All twenty20 players may not play test cricket but i think many test cricketers will get to play Twenty20 cricket. Will Twenty20 make the test matches more fast and furious? Will 400 run chases become very common in ODIs? Will we lose good test match players to Twenty20?

All teams are relatively new to Twenty20. Bangladesh retain their record of being unbeaten in a Twenty20 Game. Goin by the look of the conditions today at Durban, I think India ,the only other team to be unbeaten in this form of the game, will retain the record. But to be honest, none of the teams except England have played amny Twenty20 matches. We will wait and see how the Indians perform under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. I can assure you that India would be a much better feilding team than what we saw in England not so long ago. Tomorrow will be a fantastic day for the tournament as the arch rivals clash against each other in the Eng V Aus and Ind V Pak matches. I'm flying down to Bangalore from Delhi for the weekend after work and hope to catch the Ind V Pak match. I will not miss it for anything.It will be an electric atmosphere! If rain spoils the Ind V Scotland match today at Durban, It will be a must win match for the Indians.It is already a must win game for the Aussies.As of now, the Aussies are facing their backs to the wall - a very RARE sight - after losing to the minnows Zimbabwe. Aussies have never lost a world cup in almost a decade now. They are undoubtedly the chamipons in every format of the game. They are staring at elimination in Twenty20. As some wise man said, the mark of a champion is the way in which he comes back. Will Aussies make a comeback and reign this format of the game too or will we see a new WORLD CHAMPION?
Only time will tell if Twenty20 is actually set out to change everything we have every seen in Cricket so far? It may or It may not but sit back and enjoy the first ever world Twenty20 tournament. It will definietly turn out to be exciting couple of weeks of breathtaking cricket!!!