As you may be aware the Stanford Super Series kicked off this weekend, and it got me thinking.
I've sat up and watched the games between the Stanford Superstars and Trinidad and also England and Middlesex. The thing that strikes me is the standard of cricket isn't all that high.
We're used to the crash, bang, wallop of domestic Twenty20 cricket, especially on finals day (the mascot race is a personal favourite) but the low scores seen...i don't think it's what the organisers had in mind.
Fellow blogger King Cricket seems to have formed the same opinions: "Thus far scores in the Stanford Super Series have been heading south faster than Boris Johnson after being offered chips and gravy by a whippet in a flat cap. Scores, in order, have been 146, 124, 121 and 109.
These aren’t the scores Twenty20 marketers want. They want sixes to all parts and bowlers getting humiliated." http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/low-scores-in-stanford-super-series/2008/10/27/
The fielding we've seen, well they couldn't catch a cold let alone a cricket ball. There have been numerous dropped chances in all three matches played, but you'd see better fielding watching Sunday league cricket up and down the UK.
Lets hope the action brightens up for the "richest cricket match" on Saturday. Heres hoping.
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