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IPL Pod Ep 4: Tendulkar junior, Curran the Captain and Bairstow believes

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How to Train the Crowd to Enjoy Cricket

Since the invention of T20, it's all about runs. Bowlers are going to struggle and it's not really a game for the bowlers. You can train an audience in what is engaging and what is exciting. People would rather see 400 plus run scored in a T20 match than a 130 plays, 128 or whatever it was with Delhi. That was very engaging. We saw Nithish Rana ripping the ball towards the end there,. bowling his full quarter of four overs and getting the ball to spin and really making even top order batters struggle to get him away. He was as difficult to get away as Lassith Malinga in his prime as well.

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