[Neil Pickup]

Great questions. I'll be using them. These are the sort of things that I try to cover before the match as we sit down - "there's a short boundary on that side - what does that mean for your spinners/field settings?" The answer to question one is "bowl".

I suppose I could extend the field settings bit to a more general "in the field" to include "before the game": things to look for before you toss up, like the boundary, the outfield, grass covering, cracks, dust, bounce, moisture. We can have a "did you know..." box about the tree at Canterbury on that page, too.