Those games you mention (which yes, I've made a habit of missing) are great. I enjoy T20 when for example both sides make 180. But far too many games end up like tonight - the team batting first makes whatever score, the side batting second loses a couple of early wickets and can't get a run on and by less than halfway through their innings you know, barring a miracle, it's going to peter out to an easy win for the side that won the toss. The batting is blistering at times, Mitch Marsh tonight for example. But the Hurricane's innings was full of along-the-ground cut shots for one or two, sweeps for one of two. In Test cricket that's all part of parcel of the beauty of it, but in a hyper game like T20 it's just boring. The bowling has come on, but again, because the game is so naturally weighted towards batsmen, I don't personally find any enjoyment whatsoever in the bowling. You don't get bowlers bowling in the same areas to build up pressure and then bowl a ripping wicket-taking ball. You get bowlers bowling full bungers, wide deliveries, yorkers, just desperately trying to stem the flow of runs right from the very start. The vast majority of wickets in T20 come about because the batsmen are trying to score runs, not because the bowlers have built up the pressure and bowled unplayable balls. I'm not doubting that the Scorchers bowled well tonight, they certainly did, but I derive absolutely no enjoyment whatsoever from it.
I prefer Test matches that aren't one-sided myself, but there is still plenty of enjoyment to derive when Tests get like that - a quality batsman playing quality shots and making a big score, or a bowler dominating and looking like he can snare a wicket at any moment.
