I felt I had to write after what has happened to me on my Lancashire game, which has even turned me to drink. I have won every county championship game i;ve played, most by an innings + runs and have often scored 600+ and bowled the opponents out for under 100.
However In the 45 and 50 overs cricket I have had some trouble, winning about half my games and losing the others. What techniques have people used with regard to batting and bowling aggression levels? Despite this I think I can turn things round
HOWEVER in 20/20 cricket it has been a complete disaster. I have lost 7 and won only 1 game. I;ve tried setting targets and chasing them, yet the outcome is always the same. When batting i;ve generally had to go for it, and played with almost maximum aggression on batting, but despite never being bowled out i always end up on something like 140/4. I;ve strategically selected my side so that my most aggressive players, best players and best 1 day players bat high up the order, and paid close attention to who scores runs quickly yet nothing works.
When bowling i've used 2 different gameplans. One is to set the bowling defensive levels to as low as possible and try and play defensively so that the batsmen get themsevles out as runs become hard to come by. This worked at first, and occasionly does now, but never in 20/20 cricket. The other strategy is to have it on the default 3 bar aggression for bowlers. Again this can on occasions work in 45 overs and is excellent in county championship yet in 20/20 it does nothing I just lose.
I wouldn;t mind but my players are far surperior to the oppisition I know about cricket and stratagies to use in limited overs cricket but nothing has worked for me. In particular when chasing runs in 20/20 Once a batsmen gets out and a new batsmen comes in I don;t know what setting to put aggression on. I;ve tried putting it on about 4 and easing it up gradually but they are always out and play and miss about 3 times an over. Obviously I could set it to less, but normally by this stage i am chasing a run rate of abomut 9 an over and so have no choice but to be reasonably attacking.
Even then I Am not gung ho about it, and play to stay in so the run rate may increase to 11 or 12 an over. In real life this would work, because once settled at least the batsmen could have a go towards the final overs. However the run rate just keeps getting higher, and then without even increasing the aggressive settings someone gets out.
Can anyone help, i'm really annoyed now, and have decided to stop playing for tonight and get drunk instead.
However In the 45 and 50 overs cricket I have had some trouble, winning about half my games and losing the others. What techniques have people used with regard to batting and bowling aggression levels? Despite this I think I can turn things round
HOWEVER in 20/20 cricket it has been a complete disaster. I have lost 7 and won only 1 game. I;ve tried setting targets and chasing them, yet the outcome is always the same. When batting i;ve generally had to go for it, and played with almost maximum aggression on batting, but despite never being bowled out i always end up on something like 140/4. I;ve strategically selected my side so that my most aggressive players, best players and best 1 day players bat high up the order, and paid close attention to who scores runs quickly yet nothing works.
When bowling i've used 2 different gameplans. One is to set the bowling defensive levels to as low as possible and try and play defensively so that the batsmen get themsevles out as runs become hard to come by. This worked at first, and occasionly does now, but never in 20/20 cricket. The other strategy is to have it on the default 3 bar aggression for bowlers. Again this can on occasions work in 45 overs and is excellent in county championship yet in 20/20 it does nothing I just lose.
I wouldn;t mind but my players are far surperior to the oppisition I know about cricket and stratagies to use in limited overs cricket but nothing has worked for me. In particular when chasing runs in 20/20 Once a batsmen gets out and a new batsmen comes in I don;t know what setting to put aggression on. I;ve tried putting it on about 4 and easing it up gradually but they are always out and play and miss about 3 times an over. Obviously I could set it to less, but normally by this stage i am chasing a run rate of abomut 9 an over and so have no choice but to be reasonably attacking.
Even then I Am not gung ho about it, and play to stay in so the run rate may increase to 11 or 12 an over. In real life this would work, because once settled at least the batsmen could have a go towards the final overs. However the run rate just keeps getting higher, and then without even increasing the aggressive settings someone gets out.
Can anyone help, i'm really annoyed now, and have decided to stop playing for tonight and get drunk instead.
