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Reasons for poor death bowling
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smash84
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Poor use of smiley.
TheGreatest
U19 Cricketer
Agree that a yorker is the best weapon in the death overs but a bowler also needs to have the brains on how to fox the batsmen which sadly we don't see much today. Bowlers like Wasim, Marshall, Garner, Holding, Mcgrath etc (the list goes on) were masters in picking the weakness, even in ODI cricket. I think bowlers are trying too hard when bowling yorkers and that's why it ends up as a low full toss or a half volley.Anyways it's not a easy delivery to master.
Nowadays all the batsmen know they will be facing a lot of yorkers in the death overs, they definetly have a plan and practice accordingly.
Nowadays all the batsmen know they will be facing a lot of yorkers in the death overs, they definetly have a plan and practice accordingly.
Dawood Ahmad
U19 Vice-Captain
To me, the greatest reason is that yorker with reverse swing is very amazing at death but not good at power-play. As the power-play progressed bowlers tried more to bowl length. This caused the weakness in death bowling and strength in bowling in power play.
Now, in leagues like clt20, bowlers have been bowling a slow yorker on off side which, i think, is going to be a useful delivery.
Now, in leagues like clt20, bowlers have been bowling a slow yorker on off side which, i think, is going to be a useful delivery.
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Dawood Ahmad
U19 Vice-Captain
Bowlers should rather participate in leagues or at least practice against hitting batsmen like mitchell jhonson practicing against Watson and Maxwell.
vic_orthdox
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Balls getting soft and hard to see also made it harder to score in the last ten; never happens anymore.
nightprowler10
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Akhter used to counter the early movements of the batsmen by changing his line late and attempting yorkers where they were moving to. Plenty of deliveries would just go straight through the gate.
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If your testicles are hard and easy to spot when you're out then there's something wrong with you Jono.
There's something wrong with you regardless, but this would mean it's a bit more serious.
Agent Nationaux
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I wouldn't go into so much detail about your boyfriend Daemon. It's a family forum afterall.
Furball
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The ODI game have evolved beyond the "bowl yorkers at the death, ?????, PROFIT" model.
The problem with saying "just bowl more yorkers" is that it becomes very predictable, and good batsmen will just work on a way not just to score, but hit boundaries against good yorkers. Whether that's doing what MS Dhoni does, standing deep in your crease, using a bat that's weighted towards the bottom and helicoptering it out the ground, or using the Jos Buttler method and scooping it over the wicket-keeper's head. They're scoring shots that barely existed 5 years ago, but the effect they have is that when people see them working, more batsmen adopt the shots and give bowlers a harder job.
The game's evolved to the degree that bowlers need to evolve and do something else at the death. It's all very well pointing to excellent bowlers from 10 years ago but they weren't bowling to guys like Dhoni or batsmen who a) thought that trying to score over the wicketkeeper's head was a good idea or b) had grown up playing T20 cricket and the way that's freed batsmen mentally about what is possible scoring wise. They also bowled with older balls that you could get to reverse, and old balls that weren't changed, thus more difficult to see.
The problem with saying "just bowl more yorkers" is that it becomes very predictable, and good batsmen will just work on a way not just to score, but hit boundaries against good yorkers. Whether that's doing what MS Dhoni does, standing deep in your crease, using a bat that's weighted towards the bottom and helicoptering it out the ground, or using the Jos Buttler method and scooping it over the wicket-keeper's head. They're scoring shots that barely existed 5 years ago, but the effect they have is that when people see them working, more batsmen adopt the shots and give bowlers a harder job.
The game's evolved to the degree that bowlers need to evolve and do something else at the death. It's all very well pointing to excellent bowlers from 10 years ago but they weren't bowling to guys like Dhoni or batsmen who a) thought that trying to score over the wicketkeeper's head was a good idea or b) had grown up playing T20 cricket and the way that's freed batsmen mentally about what is possible scoring wise. They also bowled with older balls that you could get to reverse, and old balls that weren't changed, thus more difficult to see.