Cheers for your help on the Powell and Wood mix up guys, ive not needed to blood either yet but Trescothic is looking shaky so it might not be long!
I was wondering how you guys played, i mean, do you just watch the highlights or every ball?
When im batting i always just watch '4+ runs' and 'chances', but during my first couple of tests against Sri Lanka i watched every ball so i could play with field settings and try to work out positions where catches are taken most often.
I setup attacking, normal and defending fields for off and leg side attacks, and found a few usefull positions like a square leg just infront of the umpire, a couple of slip fielders around 3rd slip/gully area, even sometimes a cheeky leg slip when im bouncing them on leg stump!!
Anyway i went into the 3rd test with my fields set and thought id play throughout on '4+ runs & chances' and it worked ok. I lost the third test but won overall 2-1 thanks to a combination of Hussains batting, Corks amazing 7-67 in the second test and a little luck with the weather.
After some shocking results in the one day triangular its onto the Tests against India.
In the first test i immediately noticed chances going through the slips and began playing a chasing game of guessing where the ball would fly through. As you can imagine its very frustrating to have Ganguly and Tendulkar happily slapping into their hundreds and seeing chances fly inbetween my slips! And the successfull square leg position now seemed out of position as chances now fly either side.
So how do you guys field. Do you just use standard settings or have you setup your own special fields? And do you fly through or watch ball by ball and adjust accordingly?
ALSO when playing one dayers do you bowl defensively or aggressively. I can compete in tests but the in the one dayers we just fall apart! All that happens is my players loose form for when the tests come back around!! V.annoying!
cheers
I was wondering how you guys played, i mean, do you just watch the highlights or every ball?
When im batting i always just watch '4+ runs' and 'chances', but during my first couple of tests against Sri Lanka i watched every ball so i could play with field settings and try to work out positions where catches are taken most often.
I setup attacking, normal and defending fields for off and leg side attacks, and found a few usefull positions like a square leg just infront of the umpire, a couple of slip fielders around 3rd slip/gully area, even sometimes a cheeky leg slip when im bouncing them on leg stump!!
Anyway i went into the 3rd test with my fields set and thought id play throughout on '4+ runs & chances' and it worked ok. I lost the third test but won overall 2-1 thanks to a combination of Hussains batting, Corks amazing 7-67 in the second test and a little luck with the weather.
After some shocking results in the one day triangular its onto the Tests against India.
In the first test i immediately noticed chances going through the slips and began playing a chasing game of guessing where the ball would fly through. As you can imagine its very frustrating to have Ganguly and Tendulkar happily slapping into their hundreds and seeing chances fly inbetween my slips! And the successfull square leg position now seemed out of position as chances now fly either side.
So how do you guys field. Do you just use standard settings or have you setup your own special fields? And do you fly through or watch ball by ball and adjust accordingly?
ALSO when playing one dayers do you bowl defensively or aggressively. I can compete in tests but the in the one dayers we just fall apart! All that happens is my players loose form for when the tests come back around!! V.annoying!
cheers
