We grew up with Boycott and hearing him commentate.Simply loving it,partly coz of the accent too.He is an idol you've smashed with well collected and reasoned data.It was not there then,perhaps.It was pure gut feel and experience. Yes, digitisation and T20 helped you bring down our Yorkshire royal
I think there is a strong argument the Root is an anomaly that can't really be used to justify any position on English cricket, he is good despite whatever messed up all of England's other batsmen.
But, if you're going to compare to the 'Good Old Days', it's not the Boycott era, but the 2000's that should be the comparison. Between Vaughan in '99 and Trott in '09 England had 9 batters debut and go on to average over 40 (min 20 inns). Since then they have had 3 average over 35; Root, Stokes & Ballance.
Personally I think the problem is the move from having most of the Championship games in the summer months (June, July, August) to the fringes of the season. From 2000 to 2009 the only season with under 20% of the Championship in August (for Warwickshire) was 2003, from 2010 to 2019 it was only over in 2012.
To my mind, the problem with T20 cricket for England is not any direct impact on player techniques, but the decision to give over much of the limited hot, dry weather we get in England to it.
We grew up with Boycott and hearing him commentate.Simply loving it,partly coz of the accent too.He is an idol you've smashed with well collected and reasoned data.It was not there then,perhaps.It was pure gut feel and experience. Yes, digitisation and T20 helped you bring down our Yorkshire royal
I think there is a strong argument the Root is an anomaly that can't really be used to justify any position on English cricket, he is good despite whatever messed up all of England's other batsmen.
But, if you're going to compare to the 'Good Old Days', it's not the Boycott era, but the 2000's that should be the comparison. Between Vaughan in '99 and Trott in '09 England had 9 batters debut and go on to average over 40 (min 20 inns). Since then they have had 3 average over 35; Root, Stokes & Ballance.
Personally I think the problem is the move from having most of the Championship games in the summer months (June, July, August) to the fringes of the season. From 2000 to 2009 the only season with under 20% of the Championship in August (for Warwickshire) was 2003, from 2010 to 2019 it was only over in 2012.
To my mind, the problem with T20 cricket for England is not any direct impact on player techniques, but the decision to give over much of the limited hot, dry weather we get in England to it.