nickachu wrote:
Riles wrote:
I've found that defensive shots are harder to time, but this may be due to me rarely using them. I'd prefer a good leave and attack a ball on my stumps.
Just played the fourth innings of my first test and although I was guaranteed to lose, went on a partnershit building exercise. With concentration I could well have actually made a decent dent in the 550 run target (there is no explanation for the Aussie batting performance in the second innings, other than drugs). However, my top five went, each of them edging reaching for slow balls pitched well outside off, hugely unnecessary. So in conclusion, this certainly has promise.
If you let them get 550 did you at least get to try reverse swing?
I havent had to bowl more than 50 overs yet,
I got reverse swing in over 60 in my first bowling innings. They raced to 200/2 off 20 overs, then I took 7 wickets and then Watson and Siddle shut the doors - took me 59 overs to take that last wicket for 90 runs (over 60 of which were no balls - it was my first day with the game).
The 550 was an abomination - they scored 260 then bowled me out for 130 then got 420 second innings in about 40 overs. All my frontline bowlers started the second innings low on confidence (Can't see why, first innings was a very good performance), and if the ball wasnt pitched full and wide of offstump, it would be clattered for a boundary. And then, they would still get a boundary once an over without giving any chances away which meant that the confidence never increased.
So, on comes Swann who didnt bowl first innings, and my first real problem with this game*. He went at about 25-30 an over, but got a chance every over too - got a pfeiffer but his return was 190/5 off about 12 overs, and despite taking 2 wickets in two balls and being dropped on the third, his confidence never increased beyond timid. However, I could bowl the same balls with pietersen and they'd just get blocked down.
*Spinners. So far every time they have come into the game they have been smashed around (either by myself, or the opposition be it computer or real person) with relative impunity. Yes, I may have lost a wicket to one in an online 20:20 yesterday, but I'd already scored 30 off the over and was going for the achievement, and thats a pretty good return.