Curious Case of short Pitched Balls

I just pulled out the definition of short pitch ball - The ball pitched outside the good length and rises above waisted height. By pitching outside the good length, it prohibits the batsman to come forward and the only way to tackle it is by staying at your place or going back foot. There are couple of shots which are be played - a offside slash or a defensive stroke or a lawn tennis slog to the mid wicket region and the hook and the pull. I am sure there are many more shots which can be innovated.

So in other words, we have ways and methods to tackle the short pitch deliveries.

And with the new rules that a bowler can bowl only one bowl above the shoulder height, it is a risky proposition to attempt for more than 1 short ball in a T 20 or One day format. So at a maximum we can get 20 short balls per inning in a T 20 match. I am assuming that 1 bowler bowls one per over and he is a seamer. One a average, each team has 4 seamer who bowl 16 overs. So we will have 16 short pitch balls. It accounts to 16/120 (~13% of the bowls) which are pitched in a short length.

But in India's match against Australia and west Indies, we lost our early wickets ( around 50% of the wickets) to well directed bowls. Just wondering if we had not attempted any shot for these balls !!!! If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

And also a note to Selector, like we have a specialist for slog over, let us have a specialist for these balls as well. May be states which have Mohali and Chinnaswamy as their ground can definitely produce cricketers who can be well equipped to handle this problem.

But for me the current problem could be avoided ( In case we defeat Sri lanka Comprehensively and WI are royally defeated and by the stroke of Luck which has been perennially benevolent to MS Dhoni ,qualify for Semi's) by just avoiding the short ball.