Cricventure

It all started on February 22 in Dubai between the defending champions Peshawar Zalmi and the Debut team of the PSL Multan Sultans. PSL has always produced young and new talent for Pakistan Cricket. The list begins From Hassan Ali, Rumman Raees, Asghar, Muhammad Nawaz, Shadab,Fahim Ashraf, Hussain Talat, Muhammad Ifran Jr and the likes of Hasan Khan, they all were noticed in the previous 2 season of the PSL and most have them have already played for the green caps at international level specially Shadab, Hassan Ali and Fahim are regularly part of the team in the limited overs. Now if we talk about PSL 3, it also has produced some extra ordinary talent, the likes of Shaheen Afridi, Agha Salman, Ibtisam Sheikh and Umaid Asif have really impressed with their performances. But it’s not only the young guns who have performed in this PSL the veterans have also produced some top performances. The likes of Shahid Afridi, Sangakkara, Darren Sammy, Muhammad Sami, Kamran Akmal,...

Cricket, the gentleman’s game, has been a batsman's game from ages, the rules mostly favors the batsman as compare to the bowlers. But since the 2007 Wt20 things even got worst for bowlers, the game has changed dramatically, if we go back in the 90s or early 2000s, 250 was a par score and 280+ almost a winning total but now a days it’s difficult to defend a total of 320 in a 50 over game. The mindset of batsman after playing so much T20 cricket has been changed, Scoring 300 by a team has become a trend now days in ODIs, teams are scoring at 3.50+ run rates even in tests and who can forget the 264 runs by Rohit Sharma in an ODI game against Sri Lanka. AB de Villiers and Corey Anderson also scored their fastest centuries when these batting friendly rules were active; from the drop-in pitches to short boundaries, big bats also favored the batsman. Well to be honest this kind of only batsman’s dominant cricket is not really famous among the ones who really understand cricket. It w...