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Allen Oxlade (6)
I don't think T 20 is good way to start the season. Hard to get a real handle on team capabilities. This weekend will be the first real test of teams and individual form. Looking forward to saturday
Completely agree, and looking back on my rankings I just realised that they're near identical to the T20 results. Oops.
At a schoolboy level, I only see T20 as being a detriment to the quality of the boys' cricket, and creates serious issues within the season proper. Some schools can draw the short straw in scheduling if there's a mix of 1 and 2 day matches; they may lose a chance to play potentially weaker teams with the chance to grab outright wins. Having an umpire for a brother, he comments on how he thinks it's actually turning some potentially very good longer-form batters off the game, and is giving seriously poor impressions of the game to younger blokes.