T20 Strike Rate

Nowadays if any player, plays a slow innings in IPL we start criticizing them without considering the situation.

First Case: Shreyas Iyer in KKR VS CSK

He held his end and got his team to a defendable total. When most of his other teammates were getting out after playing less then 10 balls with a strike rate much below him. If he had not held his one end, KKR could have been all out before completing their 20 overs and not even reached the score that they did.

Second Case: Virat Kohli

When the team was losing wickets at quick accession he holds his one end and plays an innings which is at a strike rate of 150+:

When no other batter had a strike rate above 130, Kohli held his end and played at strike rate of 150+, still we have got people criticizing him.

150+ strike rate is considered well above average in T20s.

Other cases are of KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Shikhar Dhawan.

We need to understand that all the batters cannot play explosively, no doubt if lucks on their side they may score 250+ but if lucks not on their side they may get out under 100 runs due to their risky play. Even in t20s a anchor is needed who can steady the innings in middle overs when the team is losing lots of wickets or has lost several wickets.

And it is not that these players always play slow, they have their share of high strike rate knocks also:

etc, etc, etc