10 Current cricketers who are not made for T20 cricket
There are many high-profile cricketers who don't just fit in the T20 context of the game.
6. Tim Paine
While Tim Paine might now be helming Australia’s red-ball duties, the wicket-keeper, in general, has played a fine amount of T20 cricket. Way back in 2009, Paine had made his T20I debut and has in total played 12 T20Is for Australia till the year 2017. However, a significant chunk of his T20 games has come by representing Hobart Hurricanes where the cricketer was also the captain of the team from 2013-2017.
Now overall in his T20 career, the wicket-keeper batsman has in total played 80 T20 games and has reasonably scored 1637 at a deficient average of 23.05. Also, in terms of the strike rate, Paine just manages to maintain it around a mark of 122. Even in terms of scoring fifties, the 36-year old has a mere 10 of them along with any kind of three-figure scores not being attained.
Overall, while Paine might have once been a vital cog in Hobart Hurricanes’s BBL set-up, the cricketer hasn’t done something really extraordinary especially when also being considered as a top-order batsman. Hence, with the Australian Test skipper also now barely indulging himself much in the BBL, maybe it’s time Paine has played his last T20 game.
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