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Which bowler would you not want to face in park cricket
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TheJediBrah
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Ajantha Mendis
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Ramesh Powar
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Because he would eat all the afternoon tea?
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Be honest, was this just supposed to be an Ajit Agarkar thread but you disguised it because your player threads keep getting merged
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I hope not.
Lillian Thomson
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Pitches at Club Cricket level can still be okay. If "park" refers to village green level there probably isn't a Test Match standard bowler in history who players at that level would fancy facing - not even Darren Pattinson.
yeah I'm saying Tait
AndyZaltzHair
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Aritro
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One of my favourite things is watching footage of gun international players bowling at semi-pro or non-elite batsmen when they drop down a level. There's a beauty doing the rounds of Morne Morkel bowling in a club match in Australia. I watched another one of James Pattinson bowling terrifyingly fast in a club match in Melbourne. The GOAT video in this genre however has to be the one of Jofra Archer returning from injury in a County second XI match, bowling bumpers at visibly terrified batsmen.
Something about the cheaper cameras and diagonal angles of the footage just makes it look faster. An effect no doubt exaggerated by the slower than elite reflexes of the batsmen trying to stay alive at the other end of the pitch.
Blenkinsop
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Tino Best did play a season of club cricket for Mildenhall in the East Anglian Premier League not so long ago.
thierry henry
International Coach
Yeah, knowing the speeds Archer bowls when he is just trundling in like that, he was probably "only" bowling in the 130s - but the fact that his bowling is so uncannily fast relative to his action anyway would've made it that much more terrifying for the opposition.
Played a young Lachie Ferguson on a particularly bouncy astro deck when he would have been 18-19. His side were bowled out for 70 and he basically ran in and bowled short stuff for 7 overs. The massive gulf in ability between FC players and club ones was telling - Andy de Boorder handled him well, the rest were fleeing to square leg. Club players just aren't generally exposed to anything over 130, and when it does come they're not able to pick it up.
What explains is it is why someone like Roger Federer, who anyone would believe has lightning fast reflexes, goes into a sport like table tennis and can't for the life of him produce the reaction time to return serve...yet he can flick back a 250km John Isner rocket fairly comfortably. It's the subconscious cues that people can pick up in specific sports when they're exposed to them, but they don't cross over into different movements. Or, as in club cricket, they're just not accustomed timing-wise to something coming out of the hand at 130km +. The brain just doesn't recognise it. I know what some guys used to do before facing someone like Shoaib, Brett Lee etc was to turn the bowling machine up to 150 and feed it wide, so they were able to pick up the timing of hitting something at that pace. Still didn't substitute for the real thing, but it was the best way to train without access to bowlers of that speed.
What explains is it is why someone like Roger Federer, who anyone would believe has lightning fast reflexes, goes into a sport like table tennis and can't for the life of him produce the reaction time to return serve...yet he can flick back a 250km John Isner rocket fairly comfortably. It's the subconscious cues that people can pick up in specific sports when they're exposed to them, but they don't cross over into different movements. Or, as in club cricket, they're just not accustomed timing-wise to something coming out of the hand at 130km +. The brain just doesn't recognise it. I know what some guys used to do before facing someone like Shoaib, Brett Lee etc was to turn the bowling machine up to 150 and feed it wide, so they were able to pick up the timing of hitting something at that pace. Still didn't substitute for the real thing, but it was the best way to train without access to bowlers of that speed.