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[marc71178]

If Agarkar and Badani scored runs the bowling was poor!
No two ways about that!

Or maybe the batting was good, or are these 2 more players you don't rate therefore it is impossible that they batted well?

 

[Tom Halsey]

And by the way, you're wrong about the scorebook being all that mattered. If it was, no-one would watch the actual play.

Christ's sake. You know what he meant.

 

[SquidAU]

Or maybe the batting was good, or are these 2 more players you don't rate therefore it is impossible that they batted well?

Nah, Rich is right. They got those runs off of Symonds mainly, and Harvey, who started well, but seemed to lose his way. And the fielding sudenly dropped in quality as well.

 

[Eclipse]

In the last 10 overs a good length is not what would normally be a good length.
A conventional good length is in fact a very poor length.
A reasonable Yorker (it doesn't have to be right on the creaseline every ball) will stop anyone, no matter how heavy a bat and big a swing, from scoring boundaries. And if the field is set well singles won't come every ball either.

That was my point DONT BOWL a normal good length ball.

Any way you are right about good yorkers they are hard to score from but also extreamly hard to bowl consistantly.

Some players can hit low full tosses for six as well as slightly underpitched yorkers.

For one I have seen Heath Streak hit what I considerd an almost perfect yorker from McGrath for six over cover the ball would have landed about a foot half a foot short of the base off middle stump but he somehow got under it.

Abdur Razzaq and Ricky Ponting I have seen plunder low full tosses balls only slightly off being perfect yorkers.

 

[Richard]

Or maybe the batting was good, or are these 2 more players you don't rate therefore it is impossible that they batted well?

I actually rather like Badani, always have, but the sad truth is he's not a very good batsman by international standards. It's always fun to see Agarkar score runs, especially against Australia, but the fact is, if they bowl like they normally do, he doesn't score runs.

 

[Richard]

Christ's sake. You know what he meant.

Yes, but the contrary little b**tard deserves some sarcasm in return.

 

[Richard]

That was my point DONT BOWL a normal good length ball.

Any way you are right about good yorkers they are hard to score from but also extreamly hard to bowl consistantly.

Some players can hit low full tosses for six as well as slightly underpitched yorkers.

For one I have seen Heath Streak hit what I considerd an almost perfect yorker from McGrath for six over cover the ball would have landed about a foot half a foot short of the base off middle stump but he somehow got under it.

Abdur Razzaq and Ricky Ponting I have seen plunder low full tosses balls only slightly off being perfect yorkers.

Yes, yes, you get some batsmen who are better at it than others, but the fact is, most can't hit low Full-Tosses very well.
And anything pitching is almost impossible to get under; yes, it happens occasionaly. When it does, you just have to shrug and walk back, comforting yourself that it won't happen much.

 

[marc71178]

Yes, but the contrary little b**tard deserves some sarcasm in return.

Oh, the irony...

 

[Richard]

Exactly.
Sarcasm\irony - very similar.

 

[marc71178]

You clearly don't get it...

 

[age_master]

I actually rather like Badani, always have

haha yeah i loved watching him play and miss about 15 times before he got going....

 

[Richard]

You clearly don't get it...

I get it rather better than you think.

 

[Richard]

haha yeah i loved watching him play and miss about 15 times before he got going....

But at least he got going - more than anyone else except Agarkar did.