Mad as a box of frogs when it comes to cricket...playing, watching, eating, sleeping, everything cricket.
Not a great season for me last season. I took 21 wickets @ 19.75 and scored just 62 runs at 15.50.
Heroes: Ramps, Randall & Langer
Zeros: Nasser Hussain & David Graveney.
To call it an artform is stretching it a little but to be succesful it does require imagination and creative play.
The trick is to draw the batsman into thinking he can take you on; make him think needs to get forward to you. Encourage him to sweep. A few balls turning into him from about a foot outside off stump and then bowling from closer to the stumps and give him a quicker, flatter straight one that doesn't turn. Then you give him your slowest ball that floats up and drops on his toes!
Don't worry about going for runs. Set the field accordingly; Long Off, Deep Backward Square, 3rd Man up on the 45, Backward Point and a man on the sweap to scoop up boundaries. And then pressure the guy with a Short Extra Cover and Short Mid Off.
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