"I'm the captain of this team, as advised by the Coach... I'm a right arm fast bowler. I can bat a bit but i suggest you do not Put your trust on me as a batsman."
He said with a smile.
He seems like a good person.
"Hello everyone, I'm your coach for this tournament... I'll do my best to improve your skills as a cricketer, And i hope as the team b of Seoul we don't lag back."
"YES SIR!!!"
Everyone shouted.
What is this? A Military camp?
So, this tournament even has coaches?
That's Interesting.
Very Interesting... So their whole motive of This huge tournament is probably for the 2032 T20 Wc.
They want a squad for playing the prelims win the prelims.
maybe even eyeing the Asian Games and Asia cup that will take place in 2030.
That is the only thing that makes sense why they'd put such a largescale t20 tournament involving atleast 18 cities.
It'd cost a lot not just to host this tournament byt for wverything aswell.
This includes Transportation, Food, Accommodation. Because all this would be taken care of by the Korean Cricket association.
On top of that the 3 Million won Salary for playing the tournament.
There are a total of 90 Crore won.
Ofcourse i used a calculator to calculate that. I'm not very good at math.
"Now... Let's see, The match starts at 7:30, Toss is at 7:00. We have to disperse by 6:00. hey, Give me the list."
"Yes sir."
Someone showed up, he seemed like the assistant of the coach.
he gave him some kind of paper.
"Players 1,5,7,9,11,13,15. Team A.
Players 2,4,6,8,10,12,14 team B. And player 3 will be the common wicket keeper."
Player 3? What's my number? am i being benched or something? I Don't remember my number being 3?
Ooh... that's me. I'm number 3.
Hehe, didn't know that. So I'm the common keeper.
But, what does he intend to do with 7 players?
"I'll be the 8th player for team A and My assistant will be the 8th player for team b. I'm a batsman while my assistant here is a bowler."
That'll mean there are 6 batsman, 6 bowlers 3 All roundser and 2 Wicket keepers. Of which 1 is Playing for both the teams.
That means there are about 3 batsman, 3 bowlers, One team will have an all rounder and a keeper while the other one will have Two all rounders.
That means one team will have an advantage won't they? Allowing 1 bowler to ball extra overs will give them an advantage.
But, if there isn't such an advantage the batting team will have an advantage because an amature will have to bowl.
how will you tackle this?
"I know what ya'll are thinking, There are about 6 Bowlers, 4 seamers and 2 spinners. So there'll be 2 seamers and 1 spinner in each team. amd 2 all-rounders in 1 team and 1 keeper and an AR in 1."
"So, here's what we will do. 2 bowlers in the lineup can ball at most 3 overs. while the remaining can bowl only 2. The bowling of the all rounders isn't absolutely necessary so they can bowl 1 over each if you see it fit."
I see... so that's your answer. as expected, they are giving most importance to batting for all rounders.
While keeping the main backbone as batters and bowlers.
"Also each batsman only has 2 overs to play. There are 5 of you in each group including all rounders. The Common keeper will get to bat at the end of the match. You will also get 2 overs to bat.
So, you get 12 balls to bat Your target is 8 runs in 6 balls and a total of 16-18 runs in 2 overs. Now, that i have told you the instructions you may now disperse. We'll meet in the training grounds at 3:00. Until than you may rest."
...
Almost Everyone has scored some good runs, and met the criteria except for some.
But, their technique... Has so much ledt to be desired.
They are merely tonking the ball, with speed and power. Byt, their timing, Hand eye coordination and footwork are all lacking.
And that was what the coach was also directing towrads.
He's a great coach to have seen all those Things in a 10 over match.
In the end team A won because of their batting depth. While team B lost, They had tbmhe best bowlers.
Their batters weren't all that great.
It's Interesting. Did he chose players based on Batting and bowling?
The score was low. About 82 in 10 overs.
and post around 6 wickets.
While the Team A that batted second scored those runs in 9 overs but the greatest of them all was...
The other wicketkeeper, Everyone said that his wicketkeeping wasn't all that great and didn't chose him but damn... His batting really Matches with the idea of aggression.
But, we can't let his batting go to waste.
But, if we let him play... Than i won't be playing the match.
"Alright keeper it's your turn."
"Beom seok you ball the first over and Hyun Woo you ball the second."
Everyone felt dejected to have to even watch the keeper bat for 2 overs.
because they were already under the impression that The 2nd keeper was going to bat after scoring 30 in his 2 overs.
"Do we have to do this? It's not like He'll get to play seeing how Ha Yoon batted?"
The one who asked this was a man who got bowled off of a golden duck.
Against Beom Seok.
He's the team b's main bowler. While the captain Alan didn't do much and got hit around for a bit by ha yoon.
He still did well in his first over.
That's why even if the captain was there, he was the main bowler.
"Yes, sir... we are already exhausted. We want to rest as much as possible until the game starts."
"Hey, there's still 10 Minutes until 5, I'll let you take a nap until 6:30 So let him play."
"But man is there a need to do it? We already know now who has actual potential. Plus his wicketkeeping wasn't all that great, I don't know why we have to do this."
He's right scoring at 15 an over that too alone is a bit hard even for me.
"Also, considering he has to play against someone that took my wicket... I'm sure he'll get out of the very first ball aswell. Man, You are good."
What's with this guy? He's pissing me off...
aah, think rationally... Think rationally... Don't let him anger you.
"This is pathetic, You are already exhausted after playing a measly 10 over match?"
The coach voiced his anger, And everyone shut up at that moment.
"How do you think you'll fare when playing from right in the morning at 2:30 Pm to all the way at 11:30 Pm in the night? What will you do, when you have to play from 9 in the morning to 6 in the evening?"
Everyone looked surprised at his words when he said that.
"But sir, we... do not play fiest class or 50 iver matches so what do you mean..."
"Haa... shut up, pathetic rambling won't get you anywhere. Let me tell you this... what if in the future those formats came to korea? would you play?"
"Obviously... I've always wanted to play test cricket."
It was the captain who first opened his mouth.
and than everyone started agreeing to it.
He looked pleased when he heard that, as he laughed.
"Hahahahaha, so you young ones wanna play test cricket haa? Than you'd better build up your staminas and not be so pathetic that playing a 10 over match exhausts you like this."
"YES SIR."
Everyone shouted in unison, again what's up with the Militery atmosphere.
We aren't going to war ya'll...