the roller usually only flattens it out for an hour or so, though. NZ were just not good enough.Rather than slowing the outfield down, what about not allowing teams to use rollers at the beginning of each day, and only between innings?
I raise this owing to Cricinfo suggesting the heavy roller on the pitch this morning at OT may have helped flatten it out.
AFAIK there have been not too many cases where you could sayt he roller had a really big influence onthe game, but it may be something worth looking at.
Thoughts?
Not disputing that NZ were good enough, but an hour makes a big difference.the roller usually only flattens it out for an hour or so, though. NZ were just not good enough.
Reckon? England only scored about 40-odd runs in the first hour. It's not as if it allowed them to blaze away as there were only a couple of boundaries, no more than usual anyway. The heavy roller generally doesn't flatten the deck out into a road, just makes the bounce a bit more even initially. Most of the time, after that, it goes right back to where it was and starts deteriorating again.Not disputing that NZ were good enough, but an hour makes a big difference.
Given I don't think it makes much of a difference anyway, sure why not?Moving from the particular of that match to the general though, do you think it might be a good idea not to use the roller each morning, given this thread was looking at ways to give an edge back to bowlers?
The roller can go both ways, though. Added to which, it's also one of those things which for me feels like "undoing progress". Instead of trying to do more to help bowlers, it seems like you're trying to undo stuff to hamper batsmen. Which isn't a way I like to feel we're going.Moving from the particular of that match to the general though, do you think it might be a good idea not to use the roller each morning, given this thread was looking at ways to give an edge back to bowlers?
This is such common sense that the fact that they are doing the exact opposite (at least BCCI are) shows how little they care about the impact on the gamethe thing to counter better bats is simply bring out the boundary lines as fas as possible, more often they bring it in instead of just playing to its maximum capacity, so the icc should make that adjustment of making the minimum distance longer by 15 yards and that if grounds can go further than that they have to.
Dont think so - as far as I'm aware the bigger grounds (e.g. Oval, MCG, Adelaide, WACA, Gabba etc) all have ropes brought in on at least longest boundariesIt doesn't matter in Twenty20 - bring the ropes in as far as you want. It's proper one-day and the long-form cricket that matter.
And I've said it several hundred times - pushing the boundaries back to make maximum use of all space on the ground is all well and good and should be essential - but as far as I was aware, it's been being done for a year or so now in ICC-sanctioned cricket. But there are many grounds which are simply so small that even with maximum perimeter, they're still far too small and boundaries, along the carpet and through the air, are far too easy to come by.