Mumbai really need to give luck/flukes a chance.
As I have said, there is ample room or rather a mandatory need to explore luck and flukes in T20- which unfortunately the big brand Mumbai batters are way to organized to perhaps stumble upon. Surely, there needs to be adequate method (play constuctively or as per situation), but most teams are using half their side while batting. Many teams-except perhaps Chennai- are usually hitting a much higher frequency of flukes (luck is fine, but flukes!; see defintion below*).
Can luck or fluke be planned? Perhaps not, but it can be postioned or allocated...
Here is a possible plan as with Mumbai Indians:
Note: this is not a batting order, but what can be expected from whom
- Jayasuria (just go for it)
- Tendulkar, Duminy (method)
- Pinal Shah, Dhawan (method+luck)
- Bravo, Nayar (luck)
- Takawale, Harbhajan, Malinga, (luck+flukes)
- Zaheer (or Dhawal) (preserve, bat only if needed)
Those who have luck, need to go for calculated risks, but with valid cricket shots. You still need clean shots, but if innacurate, you should have percentages in your favor, and keep ticking (15-30 runs at 120% strike rate)
Those who have fluke have to try and fabricate it- do predetermined stuff- but keeping some chance that you do not get out (let the ball hit the pads, if getting down the track or stay back and across (off stump guard?), but be prepared to block if cannot be hit... 10-12 runs in 6-8 balls is a bonus- as these are the ones who otherwise are sitting in the dugout.
I am sure classic cricket theory can give way to weird predetermined stuff, since cricket theory was invented for bastman to survive test session, not to get out in 6 balls... but those who do explore luck/flukes will need to have adequate hitting abilities, to score big when they do get lucky. The above Mumbai Indians do have that.
Hint: those who have flukes in their arsenal, have to be used in between the batting order- somewhere- and use all of them (3 in this case)- and make sure they do get out if they are not having a strike rate of 150%!
Saumil
Mumbai
9 May 2009
* Luck vs Fluke, as in my previous post:
Luck is different from fluke. When you try something and it happens well but not as perfectly- you are lucky, but when you try something and what happens is totally different- it is a fluke).
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