Kevin Pietersen: Batting these days is way easier than 20/25 years ago

[sage]

 

 

[diga]

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Bats are larger & stronger.

Balls are batsman friendly- No reverse swing

Pitches are well curated and batsman friendly

Grounds are smaller

Third umpire referral is more batsman friendly

some more

[diga]

Srinath, Klusener, Vaas, Cairns, Gough  were not exactly great bowlers.. they were good

 

PS: Did KP ever play Srinath, Walsh or Ambrose?

[kosingh]

Early 2000s era batsmen were being told the same thing by the previous generation - "you guys have it lucky. Back in the 1980s we had to play Marshall, Hadlee, Imran, Lillee, etc"

Edited July 30, 2025 by kosingh

[Gollum]

Harbhajan tells the opposite. 

 

These old wankers keep glorifying their era as it suits them. True in all sports. Very few (like Gavaskar) avoid this kind of pettiness. 

[maniac]

100% agree 

[Lord]

9 hours ago, Gollum said:

Harbhajan tells the opposite. 

 

These old wankers keep glorifying their era as it suits them. True in all sports. Very few (like Gavaskar) avoid this kind of pettiness. 

KP is not taking about his era. Mostly the 90s and early 2000s

[Lord]

He covered more than 10 years in that so I'll bite. 

 

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Rabada 

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Cummins

Lyon

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