NasserFan207
International Vice-Captain
Its just the natural progression of sport. One tactic dominates for a while, then players/coaches work out how to deal with it, and it falls out of fashion. Then something else takes its place.
Softer balls can provide a bit of protection, harder to get off the square and you can limit the regions to score more, especially behind the wicket.Nothing at all to do with two new balls. An argument could be made that the two new balls curtails reverse at the end of an innings but it really has no real noticeable different to spinners. The two new ball rule is great, it just doesn't work perfectly for the sub continent because the ball is easier to play against when it's new due to the slow pitches, which is reversed everywhere else in the world.
The hardest thing going against all bowlers is the one less fielder allowed outside the circle. You've gone from being able to protect pretty much 85% of the boundary to now only being about to protect around 50% of it.
I know that, and I was going to include that into the post however once you weigh up that with the benefits spin bowlers get with the 'skid' through factor it is balanced out to even or close enough to.Softer balls can provide a bit of protection, harder to get off the square and you can limit the regions to score more, especially behind the wicket.
I think any spin bowler would prefer to bowl with an older ball and get a good amount of turn rather than a newer ball.I know that, and I was going to include that into the post however once you weigh up that with the benefits spin bowlers get with the 'skid' through factor it is balanced out to even or close enough to.
Pak suffering from over kill though. Afridi, Ajmal, Hafeez. At least one of Afridi or Hafeez shouldn't be in the side.Another point to note is that there's one spinner per side across most teams.
You get more variation out of a newer ball, if you hit the seam you get exaggerated turn/bounce while if you hit a shiny point you get more skid, the problem is that it's a little harder to grip and get revs on (at least I find) and that it comes off the bat a bit harderI think any spin bowler would prefer to bowl with an older ball and get a good amount of turn rather than a newer ball.
y..I think any spin bowler would prefer to bowl with an older ball and get a good amount of turn rather than a newer ball.
Wrong. Ones who bow; flat would not get much spin any way. Sliding it off the shiny surface will only add a tad of pace. Take a bowler like Murali or Swann who gives it a rip. If they can grip it properly the delivery that hits the shine will go straight on without any change of action at all. The doosra and armball have little differences in action. There is no way batsman can read it, when bowler doesn't know what he's bowling.Exactly, the skid through factor works only for the ones who bowl a flatter trajectory.
I don't play a high standard of cricket but as someone who tosses it up, I actually quite enjoy getting a go with the new ball. You get a lot more bounce with the new ball which encourages tossing it up above the batsman's eyeline, and the little bit of extra zip you get off the surface with the new ball allows you to be a little slower through the air without worrying about the batsmen having too much time to sit back and adjust off the pitch. If you've got a Shoaib Malik style arm ball in which the seam actually points towards first and drifts away, then a new ball can help with that too.Exactly, the skid through factor works only for the ones who bowl a flatter trajectory.
Might have to do with the fact that you are constantly required to score in T20's off pretty much every over, or at least that was the case during the early years of T20. In ODIs you can still take your time during the middle overs instead of trying to force the rate and trying to hit out.So why have spinners been phenominally successful since day 1 in T20 if they can't bowl well with a new ball?
Reckon that just might be because pace bowlers are better with the new ball than the old ball.I think If the new ball was so beneficial for the spinners, most teams, who have had good spinners(and crap pace bowlers) in the past would have used them more often with the newer ball. We haven't seen many spinners being used that way regularly.