Should bowlers be allowed to experiment?

Should bowlers be allowed to experiment?

The availability of less time has given birth to T20 cricket where batsmen go after the bowlers in order to please their masters and spectators. We have seen in lot of matches where a team requires six or seven of the last over and the batsman on strike changes his stance (switch hit) and hits the bowler for a six. The former cricketers have raised their concerns on such innovations. According to many of them, if a batsman can change his natural batting stance why can't bowlers? The bowlers are being scrutinized and controlled by a rule book while batsmen are like free birds these days.

A batsman is allowed to innovate and attack the bowlers while bowlers are made to follow strict guidelines. Dilscoop by Tillakaratne Dilshan, the helicopter shot by MS Dhoni and switch-hit by Kevin Pietersen and David Warner are the new modes of scoring runs in international cricket. If batsmen are changing because of the new format then why should bowlers be made to sit behind and go for runs? They shouldn't be bound to bowl in a particular action and within a limit of 15 degrees. Let's take a look at few ways which could put bowlers in good position against the batsmen.   

Innovative shots vs. Bowling Arm 

The bowlers of this generation have become too predictable. The batsman knows all about their bowling arm, action and the delivery which they  are going to bowl.

But a bowler can only imagine about the kind of shot a batsman will play on his delivery. The batsman can come down the track or hit in any odd fashion. He can apply switch hit or reverse sweep to up the tempo but there is no room for experiment as far as bowlers are concerned. If the batsman can change his stance, a bowler should be allowed to change his bowling arm. Let a batsman be in some sort of confusion while facing any bowler  and apply his brain power to score runs. If ICC allow bowlers to change their bowling hands, the game will certainly become more exciting. 

The challenge of bowling angles 

A ball has to travel 22 yards after being released from the bowlers hand only to behit in any fashion from a batsman. A bowler should be allowed to bend his arm in any fashion before his delivery stride. The shortest format of the game has taken the cruelty level on the bowlers to new heights and they have no choice apart from bowling their regular stuff over after over. If the game is changing keeping in mind the demands of the consumers, why can't this apply for bowlers? The old rules are brought into notice whenever a bowler tries to do something different while there is nothing of this sort in case of batters.    

Quota of bowlers

A batsman comes to bat at the start of an inning and has the option of staying till the end but the bowlers are bound to bowl only limited amount of bowlers in the shorter formats of the game. They can't exceed more than four in T20s while the number goes up to ten in the limited over internationals. When a batsman can take high percentage of overs to score runs why can't a bowler bowl more overs to take wickets and restrict teams from scoring? The top bowlers of any team is often hampered by limited opportunity of overs but if this is removed, we would see more fierce bowling from them. 

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