"Fielding is the most important part of cricket"

[age_master]

All parts can make the difference on any given day.

that said, catches certainly do win matches.

 

[FRAZ]

Pak teams of late 80's and early 90's are the best examples of "fielding is not the most important ingridient of winning a match " ..............

 

[andyc]

Yeah, not the most important part, but it can win or lose the game for you. It is the thing you'll be doing the most though, so get used to it.

 

[Perm]

"Catches Win Matches"

That is all.

 

[Poker Boy]

In ODIs it definately is important - those are matches where every run maters. In Test cricket catching is more important - if you drop, say Ponting for not very many and he goes on to make a hundred you can lose the match (i'm not talking about Ashley Giles but if the cap fits..) So i'd make a distiction between catching and groundfielding which the author did not.Mind you the reason the Pakistan side of the early 1990s were able to get away with poor fielding was because they had Wasim and Waqar who hit stumps and thumped pads with great regularity - thus dispensing with the need for good catching!

 

[nightprowler10]

In ODIs it definately is important - those are matches where every run maters. In Test cricket catching is more important - if you drop, say Ponting for not very many and he goes on to make a hundred you can lose the match (i'm not talking about Ashley Giles but if the cap fits..) So i'd make a distiction between catching and groundfielding which the author did not.Mind you the reason the Pakistan side of the early 1990s were able to get away with poor fielding was because they had Wasim and Waqar who hit stumps and thumped pads with great regularity - thus dispensing with the need for good catching!

Good post tbh. Dropping a tail ender in an ODI can be so much more costly than in tests, but at the same time, dropping Yousuf in tests is that much more costly than dropping him in ODIs.

 

[pup11]

I think fielding is very important part of modern day odi cricket, as not only can good fielders save runs but also make a bowling attack look more potent. You can see the difference that the absence of ponting,clarke, and symonds in the field has made to australian performance off-late.

 

[Johnners]

Yeah, not the most important part, but it can win or lose the game for you. It is the thing you'll be doing the most though, so get used to it.

Unless you're an english fast bowler

 

[Richard]

Good post tbh. Dropping a tail ender in an ODI can be so much more costly than in tests, but at the same time, dropping Yousuf in tests is that much more costly than dropping him in ODIs.

As we've been finding-out... 2 or 3 times per Test... over the last 18 months...

 

[Richard]

"Catches Win Matches"

That is all.

And more significantly still...

*Dropped catches cost matches*

 

[Barney Rubble]

I voted yes, but I meant no.

True, everyone has to field and not everyone has to bat and bowl in every game, but that doesn't mean fielding alone can win you a game.

 

[Richard]

I voted yes, but I meant no.

That seems to be happening a fair bit to a fair few people of late...

Maybe an option to change your vote would be in order on these forum-polls...

 

[GIMH]

Unless you're an english fast bowler

Oh come on, you've got the Ashes back, it's all water under the bridge now

 

[Neil Pickup]

It's absolutely massively critically important and it's something that my teams get banged into them repeatedly. I can't stand bad/half-arsed fielding - particularly at low levels, consistently aggressive and successful work in the field can turn junior games on their heads. U11 leagues are won by the sides who are the most alert (running between the wickets overlaps heavily with fielding sharpness at this age).

But it's not the most important part of cricket.