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RE: Is T20 Cricket Making Our Batsmen Soft?
There absolutely needs to be more in pitches to make it an even contest between bat and ball. However I wouldn’t expect to see guys running in and bowling 130-135kmph on a length or just back of a length and the batsmen getting hit. If Peter Siddle is capable of getting that kind of uneven bounce off a surface in the first session of day one imagine what a genuinely fast bowler is going to do on day 4 or 5 - except of course the game will never get that far because the balance on a pitch like that is way too far in favour of the bowlers and yes it is dangerous to bat on
That clip was the first time I've seen anything from the match, and yes it did look bad and would be much worse if the likes of Josh Hazlewood or Pat Cummins were charging in rather than Peter Siddle. Having said that, I think more experienced batsmen who have played in a wider range of conditions worldwide may well have had a lot less difficulty negotiating those deliveries.
Either way, we have to trust the decisions of the match officials to be made in the best interests of player safety.