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Starfighter

Starfighter

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The effects of bowling lines and lengths on the spatial distribution of successful power-hitting strokes in international men’s one-day and T20 cricket

This study examined 503 power-hitting strokes that resulted in the maximum of 6-runs being scored in international men’s one-day and T20 cricket. Chi-Squared analyses were conducted to determine if...
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Given that previous research has revealed the short ball to be the least effective wicket taking delivery (Najdan et al., 2014) and this study reveals that the short ball offers 6-run scoring opportunities to the batter, bowlers may wish to limit their use of the short-ball as an effective bowling delivery in limited overs cricket
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Since Australia's bowling strategy in T20s has been 'scientifically proven' to be the worst option, can they please stop ****ing using it?
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

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RossTaylorsBox said:
The abstract of that citation says that winning team bowled a higher percentage of short balls than losing ones.
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Wouldn't be the first time a cited paper says the opposite of what is claimed - I see it all the time, often in road safety studies. Unlike there I'm nt gong to actually try chase up the full paper.
 
HeathDavisSpeed

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RossTaylorsBox

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Basically the conclusions of all those papers are "mix up your lengths and don't bowl short stuff which gets smashed", which is a huge insight for T20 bowlers.
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

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RossTaylorsBox said:
Basically the conclusions of all those papers are "mix up your lengths and don't bowl short stuff which gets smashed", which is a huge insight for T20 bowlers.
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I do find it humourous that the studies or analyses (inside or outside formal scientific literature) of these sorts of things usually confirm what one learns from simply watching the game.
 
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AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
AndrewB said:
Another record that it's slightly surprising to see is *not* held by James Anderson, but which he would break if picked again:
Most matches (for that player's country) spanned by a player's Test career:
244: DB Close (Eng)
240: JM Anderson (Eng)
217: SR Tendulkar (Ind)
205: S Chanderpaul (WI)
202: GA Gooch (Eng)
194: MC Cowdrey (Eng)
193: RT Ponting (Aus)
189: SR Waugh (Aus)
185: FJ Titmus (Eng)
184: HMRKB Herath (SL), JH Kallis (SA)

Close missed 222 of those 244 matches, a record that'll be hard to beat: Gareth Batty (161) is a distant second, followed by Pat Pocock (145).
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Update: Anderson now tops the list with 253; Broad is now in the top 10 on 190.
 
Shady Slim

Shady Slim

International Coach
one for any of our umpiring or rules contingent: yesterday we had a run out chance where our fielder threw the ball into the stumps, it hit the stumps, bail came off and landed back on the groove. the batter got back so nbd but had he not made it back what would've been the call?
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

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Shady Slim said:
one for any of our umpiring or rules contingent: yesterday we had a run out chance where our fielder threw the ball into the stumps, it hit the stumps, bail came off and landed back on the groove. the batter got back so nbd but had he not made it back what would've been the call?
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Not out
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
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International Regular
AndrewB said:
A record that it's no surprise to see is held by James Anderson:
Most gaps in a Test career (i.e. most runs of consecutive Tests missed between a player's first and last Tests):
25: JM Anderson (Eng)
21: JB Statham (Eng)
20: Harbhajan Singh (Ind)
19: I Sharma (Ind)
18: S Chanderpaul (WI), Z Khan (Ind)
17: CRD Fernando (SL), MA Starc (Aus), CR Woakes (Eng), SCJ Broad (Eng)

Another record that it's slightly surprising to see is *not* held by James Anderson, but which he would break if picked again:
Most matches (for that player's country) spanned by a player's Test career:
244: DB Close (Eng)
240: JM Anderson (Eng)
217: SR Tendulkar (Ind)
205: S Chanderpaul (WI)
202: GA Gooch (Eng)
194: MC Cowdrey (Eng)
193: RT Ponting (Aus)
189: SR Waugh (Aus)
185: FJ Titmus (Eng)
184: HMRKB Herath (SL), JH Kallis (SA)

Close missed 222 of those 244 matches, a record that'll be hard to beat: Gareth Batty (161) is a distant second, followed by Pat Pocock (145).
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Sachin only missed 17 tests in his career? That’s pretty good going.
 
h_hurricane

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
I have been critical of Sachin Tendulkar's innings of 97 against SL in 2003 WC as I always believed that he really slowed down post his half century in pursuit of a personal milestone. Recently, read somewhere that he was wearing diapers in that innings due to irregular motion on that day.

Sorry Sachin !
 
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