The Game of Cricket was struck by a new wave that was The T20 Cricket.The smaller format of the Game has gained much popularity than its predecessors.One of the reasons has been the massive sixes,also the frequency of boundaries hit, have surely increased.The biggest invention for this version of the game could be the new revolutionary Mongoose cricket bat that is making a lot of waves in the English Twenty20 community.We will see how it performs in this year’s English Twenty20 Cup before making any judgments.The Mongoose will be successfull if it helps some T20 batsmen score more runs that usual by converting nudges into boundaries and lofted 4’s into sixers.

The Mongoose is the brainchild of inventor Marcus Codrington Fernandez, a former creative director at the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather.Cricket bats have looked roughly the same for at least a hundred years, but the Mongoose is a radically different animal.The age of Twenty20 cricket, there is no point in having all that wood around the bat’s shoulders. The splice has no offensive capability in any case. So you might as well lengthen the handle, and make the blade shorter and heavier. The average Mongoose has a toe that is about two inches thick, which means that even the perfect yorker can be driven for four. And when you take this rigid chunk of wood – effectively an 18-inch railway sleeper – and stick it on the end of an equally long handle, it starts to act like a giant golf club.The MCC have given the nod to the bat.The Mongoose is Priced around Rs. 12,000 and comes in two sizes 12Oz. and 15Oz. for more details and ordering you can log on to mongoosecricket.com.

Though the mongoose is capable of hitting more fiercly, it is much vunerable against the short-pitched deliveries.Due to its structure and weight i think it is incappable of dealing with those nasty bouncers.It is much harder to lift paralle to the body.Codrington Fernandez suggests that cricketers of the future might go into a match with a variety of bats, only bringing out the more destructive ones for for the PowerPlay overs.  However, Keith Bradshaw, the MCC secretary, was sceptical about the multi-bat concept last night. “Our cricket committee had no objections to the Mongoose, as it is made entirely of traditional materials,” he said. “But I would question the idea of swapping bats in mid-innings. It might slow things down, and I’m not sure it’s within the spirit of the game.”

Although it provides greater advantages for batsmen, the fact that these batsmen also have to play in first-class cricket where they are not always thinking about making runs may cause a difficulty. Batsmen have to transition between one bat and the other between different forms of the game and some/many may not able to make the change properly and will have to either abandon one kind of bat or one kind of game.

On a different note, innovations like these create a significant challenge with statistics. Comparing batsmen from different times is an apples-to-oranges comparison because the newer batsmen have more things stacked in their favor. I don’t mean to point to the Mongoose bat in particular. Even the introduction of better helmets and body protection or no-ball rules slant the advantage towards batsmen. So a century today may be less worthy of praise than one made 20 years ago.

The biggest challenge for cricket authorities is knowing where to draw the line between better performance because of more advanced gear and such performance that disguises lack of talent. If any player can come in and whack a quick fifty, that devalues the quality of the sport. Real value comes when a target is difficult to achieve. Artificially improving the performance by reducing the difficulty involved is less appealing in the long run than getting players to raise their quality.