T20 World Cup 2024: Will the World Cup be another version of the IPL?

Put through the wringer in the IPL can bowlers hope to breathe a bit easy in the T20 World Cup 2024The genesis of this question lies in the transformation that T20 batting underwent in the latest edition of the IPLThe 250mark was breached only once in the league till this season but teams went past that point eight times in the justconcluded editionMany of the batters who led that revolution such as Australian Travis Head and West Indian Andre Russell will be seen in action in the ICC showpiece in the Americas next monthSo its quite natural for fans to expect another batting waltzBut their approach cannot be as onedimensional in the World Cup as it was in the IPL for a variety of reasonsTo begin with teams will not have the luxury of an Impact Player in the World Cup So they will have to be ready to switch to an attritional style of cricket as and when the situation demandsAlso ReadPity Chandu is 60plus Gauti my favourite PatilMitchell Starc underlined that point after playing a big role in guiding Kolkata Knight Riders to their third IPL titleThere is an Impact Player Rule here in IPL and not in the T20 World Cup You are going to rely more on your allrounders You cannot put your batting allrounder at No 8 like you did in the IPLI dont think that youll see these kind of high scores in the T20 World Cup purely because there will be one batter less said StarcIn the earlier part of the IPL Chennai Super Kings used Shivam Dube a pace bowling allrounder exclusively as a batter through the Impact Player rule though he usually walked in at No 4 or 5 in place of a bowlerDube produced a couple of matchwinning knocks against Royal Challengers Bengaluru and the Knight RidersBut in the T20 World Cup 2024 the lefthander will have to showcase his bowling skills too to get a slot in the eleven as vicecaptain Hardik Pandya plays a similar role and remains the firstchoice Skipper Rohit Sharma has made that bit quite clear alreadyI will be expecting if we need Shivam to ball a few overs he will Same with Hardik he has come and bowled whenever needed Allrounders must do that whatever their role is he had said after the announcement of Indias squadHowever thats just one part of the story The batters will also have to negate pitches that will be very different from the ones they got used to in the IPLThe West Indian pitches are no longer what they used to be in the 80s or in the 90s They are now slower and at times gripping a veteran curator told PTII am sure the bowlers particularly spinners will have much more say than in the IPL especially from the second week of the tournamentIndia have included four spinners in their squad It was maybe because of the nature of the pitches in the West Indies Hence I dont think we may see all those 250 totals there he addedIn the USA only Florida has prior experience in hosting highprofile cricket matches New York and Texas are bracing for their maiden foray into the sport Will that have an impact on the scoring rateYeah it can be as initially the teams might be looking to assess the pitch and other conditions I think these dropin pitches that are being used in some of these venues are more consistent than the natural pitches So we may see a few high scores in that round he saidAlso ReadFinal chance for Kohli Rohit to give India an ICC Trophy after 13 yearsDavid Warner who has immense experience in playing international and franchise cricket in the West Indies concurredThe pitches in the Caribbean being dry the ball will get roughed up and its going to spin I dont think theyre going to be as compact as they are here in the IPL The lacquer on the ball is staying longer in IPL and hence its not getting chewed up and hence very little turn on offerIve played a lot of cricket over there and played in the CPL Caribbean Premier League The wickets tend to get lower and slower Warner pointed outThe average runrate in this IPL was a whopping 956 the highest ever in the history of the tournament and the average score remained upwards of 180 The average first innings score in Hyderabad was in the vicinity of 230However the stadiums in the West Indian islands are cut from a different cloth as some statistics will revealThe average T20 score in Antigua is a dawdling 123 and at Barbados it is 138 It is even bleaker in Guyana at 124 at 115 in Trinidad and at 118 in St Vincent Gros Islet tops the chart with a princely 139By the look of things the bowlers are set to be royalty in T20 at least for a monthWith agency inputs