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Every team seems to be struggling in batting department. We have been hopeless after Younis and Misbah retired. I like it though. Nothing worse than average players averaging 50 on lifeless wickets.

standard of bowling has gone down as well, there were plethora of world class bowlers in 70's. 80's and 90's , now there only handful. Overall, quality of the game has deteriorated, t-20 is the biggest factor.

I agree with PTID.

T20 has impacted the test game negatively. There so much T20 games being played I cannot see how it could not.

Personally I feel the opposite. In 2018 I have seen quite a few sporting wickets that I haven’t seen in previous years. The sort of wickets which SA and Eng produced in the India series - can’t recall India ever getting those tough wickets before. And the same goes with some of the pitches India have dished out in the last few years where the ball turns from ball 1.

I think it’s easy to say the batting has declined when pitches play a huge part as well. For eg I have seen so many pitches which tendulkars and Dravid have batted on and piled on tons of runs and the game has gone to be a draw but people don’t question pitches /class of batting then.

But I do agree that batsmen these days lack the technique and patience to play a proper test knocks.

I’ve been saying for ages that there is a big drop in quality in both batting and bowling for years now.

However, a few deluded Alistair Cook fans seem to think that this is the best generation of cricket just to beat their chest over their favourite batsman.

Australia are a joke with the bat. The Marsh brothers aint exactly the Waugh brothers are they?

Rahul Dravid was brilliant with his defensive technique.