Why do people want to become bowlers when the game is primarily a batsman’s game? Recently, former Pakistani batsman Mohammad Yousuf in an interview said that while he loved watching Kohli bat, he felt that Sachin Tendulkar was a batter batsman. A factor that has helped batsmen in the past five years are cricket bat dimensions. “One of the primary duties of cricket's lawmakers is to maintain a balance - like an evenly weighted pair of scales - between batsmen and bowlers. The unfortunate bit is that the perception of the game is that audiences come to watch batsmen and not bowlers.

Source: dna January 20, 2017 13:08 UTC