Would you not have said the same about Warner a few years ago? Cricket scoring rates are increasing across all formats and I think most teams will have one players in the ilk of Warner/finch trying to set a high tempo from the start. Except England, we'll still plod along at 2.5 and let the stats dictate our game ;-)
so if all we want to see is more and more runs, we might as well sack of test matches as they aren't a test anymore. Warner plays tests pretty much as he plays ODI's.. if that's all we want then we might as well just play ODI's. Bowling is rubbish now, pitches are flat with enable these players to make it in tests.
I suppose it depends on what we want to see. If you want thrashing the ball for 4 and high scores then fair enough, keep producing flat wickets, small boundaries and players like finch/warner. If you want to see testing cricket, with the best players doing well and the others failing then you need sporting wickets where just hitting through the line isn't going to work as the pitch and bowlers are too good. Warners innings was good today, his first 35 runs were purely hitting through the line of the ball and that to me says that the bowling wasn't good enough and the wicket was too flat. that ball for the first hour should have been zipping, seaming around which would make these players unable to play like that.
maybe I'm just a outdated traditionalist and everyone does want to just see batsmen scoring boundary after boundary.
Author
Topic: Australia vs India 4th Test @ The S.C.G. (Read 33962 times)