Bats too big for cricket

Bats Too Big for Cricket

There is nothing more frustrating as a bowler when you see a batsman miss-timing his shot and getting away with it, especially when it goes for four or six runs. Nowadays cricket bats are ridiculously huge which I think is unfair advantage to the bowler, especially on flat pitches where the ball doesn’t move around as much as a pitch with some grass on it.

This is where the ICC (International Cricket Council) and the governing bodies for each cricketing nation need to come up whit a plan to solve this issue. Whether it’s to reduce the size of the thickness of the bats or to go back to the bats that they used in the 1900 which were much more thin and slightly narrower, almost like a baseball bat.

Even if they reduce the depth for cricket bats by 5 or 6 inches, we may see a fairer contest between bat and ball. I suppose that the down side of using cricket bats with thinner edges is that the bats may not last very long, however this may not be the case if they were to be made using good quality wood which can make the bats last longer.

As a cricket fan, all I want to see is a much fairer contest between bat and ball. Cricket should not always be a batsman’s game, it’s time for the bowlers to have their say on how matches are decided.  I also think that some stadiums around the world have shorter boundaries, which is also an unfair advantage to the batsman as they do not have hit the ball as hard as they can to make the ball travel over the boundary without bouncing.

Cricket should not just be a batsman’s game but a bowler’s game as well where the batsman should be made to work hard to score his or her runs, and reducing the size of the cricket bats would make it a much more even contest between the batsman and the bowler which is what we want to see isn’t it?