Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka
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@kev said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@Damo that’s just stupid. It’s his first game of one day cricket this season. These are the games where you want bowlers trying to bowl length balls in pressure situations.
And keep trying them when the opposition is eating them for breakfast?
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@Siam said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@Godder that's like excusing hookers who can't throw into a lineout.
The only plausible answer is:
Practice till you fucking can! It's your job, what you're paid well to do!
Or halfbacks who can't pass or commentate
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@kev said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@Damo that’s just stupid. It’s his first game of one day cricket this season. These are the games where you want bowlers trying to bowl length balls in pressure situations.
If this was a one off then that would be a reasonable comment.
However he's been rubbish in ODI's for the last couple of seasons now. He doesn't take wickets consistently at the top of the innings, and he doesn't bowl well at the death.
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@Siam If it were that easy, everyone would do it, but very bowlers can drop the ball on the penny every ball, and even those who can get mauled by batsmen who move out of their ground a little, giving them the ability to move forward or back as the ball is being bowled, changing the length to a full toss or half volley.
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@Godder 4 identical full tosses all hit for 6
And no bowler can land it on a penny every ball so that's a pointless standard
We're talking about achievable skill acquisition, difficult yes, but being reliably able to bowl a yorker has proven to be a handy tool of the profession
Southee has to do better than that
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@Damo said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@kev said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
@Damo that’s just stupid. It’s his first game of one day cricket this season. These are the games where you want bowlers trying to bowl length balls in pressure situations.
If this was a one off then that would be a reasonable comment.
However he's been rubbish in ODI's for the last couple of seasons now. He doesn't take wickets consistently at the top of the innings, and he doesn't bowl well at the death.
Interesting to see his performances in chart form. Looks fairly consistent at first glance but avg has crept up from 30 to 35 and the wicket taking chart has a lot of gaps since 2015 with lower counts as well.
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@Siam So achievable that almost no other bowlers from any country can do it or have ever been able to do it? What is it about reliably bowling yorkers that isn't dropping it on a penny? Yorkers have to be of very specific line and length to be useful, and anything much outside that is prone to being smacked or called wide - the margin for error is very small. Also, as noted, batsmen can change the line and length by moving as the ball is being bowled, and again, the margins are small - how does that factor into your thinking?
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@LABCAT said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
Malinga didnt seem to have any problems bowling yorkers consistently yesterday, although he did have a few problems in the first game.
Timmy was reliably landing those four identical full tosses on a penny that was about 4 metres behind the stumps, so a penny that's actually on the pitch should be a piece of piss for him!
Unfortunately, Perera's tactic of throwing a handful of pennies into the crowd, on his way out to bat, got Tim confused!
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What was most concerning is our inability to change tactics when they clearly were not working. Might be we were practicing something for the WC, but constantly putting the ball full was just bowling to Perera's strengths.
Also, @Chris-B has mentioned it already, but without a genuine pace option our seam attack is very same-same, particularly at the death. A bit of express pace with some short stuff tickling the ribs would have gone a long way last night.
Good to see our batsmen scoring some runs, but I don't think we can expect the same quantity of runs against better attacks, so we are going to need smarter cricket from our bowlers.
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In saying that, we wouldn't be having this discussion if we just took even half our chances in the field...
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@No-Quarter said in Cricket - NZ vs Sri Lanka:
In saying that, we wouldn't be having this discussion if we just took even half our chances in the field...
Even 20% of them
Can't believe the quality of the fielders who dumped relatively easy chances
