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canadiancricket
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Topic: You be captain!Posted: 24 December 2007 at 11:18pm |
That you will get a chance of doing after you lose the test match. ![]() |
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Smack
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Posted: 25 December 2007 at 6:50pm |
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How about something a bit more realistic?
The scenario:
The opposition win the toss and send you in to bat. You struggle to 155 off 40 overs. The pitch is soft and grassy. Your bowling attack is as follows:
Mr Black - Right Arm Fast Medium - Regularly bowls 75mph +, your quickest bowler.
Mr Green - Right Arm Medium Fast - Out swings the ball a lot and has reasonable pace but does bowl too short sometimes.
Mr Orange - Right Arm Medium - Military medium bowler, bowls full with outswing and is accurate but lacks pace.
Mr Blue - Right Arm Off Spinner - not a massive turner of the ball but usually very economical.
Mr Pink - Right Arm Medium Fast - Average pace, can spray the ball around but gets good inswing and has a good yorker.
Mr Red - Left arm Medium - Part timer
The opposition's openers are aggressive and take the game to you. They race to 40 off 7 overs hitting Mr Green to all parts and keeping Mr Black out. You need to do something or your team will lose...what do you do?
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joelza1990
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Posted: 26 December 2007 at 7:31am |
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Well i'd get mr green out of the attack keep Mr Black on for another couple of overs and chuck on Mr Blue because your description says he's quiet economical and he sounds like he's capable of bagging a few wickets. I might even try Mr Red in a sort of Ganguly, Stryis, Collingwood etc. type role.
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LethalYorker
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Posted: 27 December 2007 at 2:27pm |
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okay what i will do is take mr black and mr green out of the attack and take out 2 slips and the gully and have men in the circle with 1 slip in place. I would then Introduce a double change with Mr Orange giving him a man around the bat i will tell him to keep the ball nice and full and with occaisional slower balls. And i would introduce Mr Blue with 2 men around the bat with a slip with a reasonable normal field and i would tell him to bowl wicket to wicket, ill have fine leg up and ill tell him to slip an occaisional arm ball and top spinner and ill tell him not to flight the ball too much but just dart the ball in. After a couple of overs i would introduce Mr Black back into the attack and i would keep the spinner operating on one end while i rotate the quick bowlers. I would throw in Mr red around the wicket to the right hands drifting the ball away.
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Pietersen Fan
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Posted: 27 December 2007 at 8:10pm |
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good old skittles cricket
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check out the ultimate spinners guide - spinny.co.nr
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LethalYorker
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Posted: 28 December 2007 at 2:22pm |
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okay its a 20/20 over game and your bowlers absolutely get thrashed around 20 20 style and after 20 overs the opposition score 216-6 and you start your run chase losing 2 quick wickets both your openers who were very aggressive so the score is 30-2 after 4 overs and you the captain are at the crease wat do u do?
Batter no 1= Verry Aggressive= Out Batter no 2= Very Aggressive=Out Batter no 3= captain= at the crease Batter no 4= Moderate= at the crease Batter no 5= Moderate= Still to bat Batter no 6= blindless slogger- still to bat Batter no 7- Agressive-still to bat Batter- no 8- tail ender Batter-no 9-tail ender batter no 10- tail ender batter no 11- tail ender |
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PaulNixon1
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Posted: 28 December 2007 at 2:47pm |
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But how does the Captain bat?
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Monty
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Posted: 28 December 2007 at 3:05pm |
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awfully
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Flavia et Cornelia sedebat sub arbore!!! Oh My goodness!!
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Monty
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Posted: 28 December 2007 at 3:06pm |
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hang on..... i thought in this game YOU were the captain, so surely YOU should choose how the captain bats
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Flavia et Cornelia sedebat sub arbore!!! Oh My goodness!!
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LethalYorker
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Posted: 28 December 2007 at 3:31pm |
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yeh u choose how u want the captain to bat and at u shud tell other players how to play
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Smack
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Posted: 28 December 2007 at 6:10pm |
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@ Monty, speak for yourself mate haha. Interesting that both joelza and LethalYorker decided to take the pace off the ball in that scenario. I agree with you both on that point, by saying it was a soft and grassy pitch i was trying to paint a picture of a typical early season english pitch at club level. Often on these tracks the dibbly dobbly slow medium pacers are the hardest to play. The only point i would disagree with you on Lethal Yorker is that i would ask the spinner to flight the ball rather than dart it in. Perhaps have the mid on, mid off and mid wicket back and try and get the batsmen to throw his wicket away. As soon as a wicket falls i would bring Mr Black back into the attack in place of the spinner to try and blow the batsmen away with pace. |
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canadiancricket
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Posted: 28 December 2007 at 7:18pm |
Now if two very aggressive batsman manage to score only 30 in four overs then I can't see moderates doing anything. The quality of bowlers seems good as they kept the aggressives withing their limits. Blindless slogger won't last long with good bowling. He might biff one or two but won't last long. The tailenders are genuine tail enders. The score is within reach. But whats the pitch like? How good our batsman are and the what are their bowlers like? 216 is a very big score even for 20-20 and I can't see us chasing it down unless the slogger slogs to his century. The situation now is chasing 187 runs in 16 overs which is impossible if the bowlers are like McGrath. More info. needed. ![]() |
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LethalYorker
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Posted: 28 December 2007 at 8:27pm |
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your the captain and u shud tell your batsmen how to play, the opposition has 2 90 mph fast bowlers with 2 medium fast swing bowlers and 1 deadly leg spinner. The pitch is flat and sunny morning but there is a breeze and the ball swings a bit.
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