There's nothing complicated about it mate, if you get it very full just short of yorker length} in good areas, {obviously not on leg side of the pads, that easy runs for any batsman} & cramp them up those deliveries are very difficult to score from, why bowl it short a lot of the time ? sure, back of a length & very short ones can be effective as long as those deliveries are bowled in line with the batsman, even then you can get smashed for a boundary because of the format of the game.
By I don't understand you, I politely mean your argument is nonsense to me. You miss a yorker short, its a full pie, a half volley - those get smashed. With all due respect, you're speaking gibberish to me. Full on pads is a good area? This is nonsense to me. Utter nonsense. Leg side of pads? Thats a wide (if not easy runs as you say) to a rhb... I'm sorry - I know we have differing opinions, but I find your argument very poor for reasons given above.
You either land an effective yorker, or you don't. Bowling full is not a good thing unless the ball is swinging. Even then - Jimmy Anderson credits his success in test cricket to pull his length back! Someone either hits their yorker, or they bowl full rubbish. I prefer short rubbish to full rubbish. Any day of the week.
Here are the highlights, all Scott Kuggs balls that disappear to the boundary are included. He bowled too full. Not full toss full, but a half volley and too full for a good length. But he should not be bowling length anyway, the one time he hits it, he still disappears cos his angle of delivery is all wrong (and yet ideal for a short ball).
He needed to bring his length back and bowl short of a length, and short.
End of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq4sMR2z4WY
Here are the game highlights. Goto 8min 30.
First 6 Kuggs is hit for is full. Second 6 Kuggs is hit for is full. The four at 8min 57 is backish of a length (but not short of a length) on the hip pitching outside leg. Dhawan gets underneath it to smash it easily. This is Dhawan's talent, and Kugg's poor angle for that length.
The Southee gets a wicket with a short one. This is where Kuggs should have been bowling and just in front of. Certainly not full.
Kuggs then tries to bowl a length ball but is again on the fuller side that Shankar smacks for 4 down the ground. At 9min 34 He then finally bowls length which is flick armed away to the onside because it has a leg side angle given how wide of off Scott K released the ball, length hit but angle all wrong (great angle for a shorter ball though which I think must have been his plan). At 9min 40 he totally overpitches and serves a full half volley smashed down town.
So I repeat, Kuggs bowled too full and needed to bring his length back. He should have bowled short and short of a length. Like Southee did a lot. All 3 Southee wickets were from short balls. Southee was smashed by Dhoni when he bowled full and on the pads at 14.07. That is not a good area to bowl. Dhoni actually opens up and hits to the off side of the sight screen. Which just demonstrates how much Dhoni is falling apart in SR play, he should have belted it over long on for 6 but he was possibly batting to the field which means he no longer trusts his power to clear the field at 80m.
The saddest irony of all is that Scott K has a reputation for bowling too short. But he bowled too full in this game. The video proves it. I prefer him bowling too short, to too full!
You seem to expect NZ bowlers to go for and land yorkers, and ignore the fact that SA only has Rabada nailing them, BK (at his peak) and Bumrah in India, Starc in Australia, and noone in Pakistan is. Malinga for SL but he's rusty now, noone for Bangladesh. England havn't had anyone bar Woakes and he cheats by going for the wide yorker with a field set for it so the batsman knows when its coming. We all know what happened to Ben Stokes in WT2016 to Carlos when he tried for the yorkers. It is a difficult skill to master.
Yes Ferg has bowled some beauts, so have Boult and Southee. Southee is now too gun shy to attempt to bowl them, and Ferg and Boult both have been belted when missing them too. Henry is also too scared to attempt them anymore. Boult is a canny bowler who can bowl a host of angles, and has managed to survive well enough in IPL and intl cricket death with cunning rather than nailing yorker after yorker. That said, even he is going for 8.8 runs an over in the IPL and 8.5 in t20i.
I'll take the short rubbish over missing the million dollar ball rubbish.
7th February 2019, 11:57 am
