ben hur, you have said exactly what I thought while watching the game. The boundaries were ridiculously short. However, I thought the hits of Brendon McCullum might well have crossed even the biggest boundaries :) You are right. The interest of the games will be lost by having too short boundaries, giving no room at all for the bowlers. As I said before, this is one of the reasons I haven't enjoyed the IPL games so far as much as I enjoyed ICL games. Hope the games will be more competitive and set high standards for everthing, especially fielding, which was very very poor by everyone, even the so called "youngsters".