Should exclusivity be valued?

[CricAddict]

Do you value exclusitivity while creating your atg Teams?

Is a left arm pacer or a spinner more valuable than a slightly better right arm pacer in an all right handed pace bowling line-up?

Likewise, is a left hander playing among an all right handed top six important to win a game even if you have a slightly better right hander on bench?

 

[Prince EWS]

Do you value exclusitivity while creating your atg Teams?

Is a left arm pacer or a spinner more valuable than a slightly better right arm pacer in an all right handed pace bowling line-up?

Likewise, is a left hander playing among an all right handed top six important to win a game even if you have a slightly better right hander on bench?

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No

 

[shortpitched713]

Do you value exclusitivity while creating your atg Teams?

Is a left arm pacer or a spinner more valuable than a slightly better right arm pacer in an all right handed pace bowling line-up?

Likewise, is a left hander playing among an all right handed top six important to win a game even if you have a slightly better right hander on bench?

Question 2 is actually two different questions. I am more likely to value a spinner than a left arm pacer. A wrist spinner, or someone who has a variation to turn it both ways ends up being key here, in terms of being opposition handedness independent, at least to a large extent. An inferior left arm pacer will tend to run out of advantageous targets, after the openers are gone, IMO.

Also think the left hander for variation in a batting lineup is useful, because a fielding side is human, and the switching sides for a left-right pair of batsmen thing is more annoying that anyone likes to give it credit for. Thankfully, there are more than enough quality left handed batsmen in Test cricket history (although disproportionately among openers), that this usually doesn't have to be a consideration in team selection.

 

[Himannv]

Is a left arm pacer or a spinner more valuable than a slightly better right arm pacer in an all right handed pace bowling line-up?

Likewise, is a left hander playing among an all right handed top six important to win a game even if you have a slightly better right hander on bench?

Yes to the former and no to the latter. Having said that, the difference in player quality in the first scenario has to be "slight" as you say.

 

[subshakerz]

Left arm pace thing is overrated. I think what matters more is the type of pacer/spinner you are.

 

[ParwazHaiJunoon]

Yes to the former and no to the latter.

Your answer was obvious.

Hint: Sanga was left hander

 

[CricAddict]

Left arm pace thing is overrated. I think what matters more is the type of pacer/spinner you are.

Not at all. Having been playing cricket currently, I have always found the left arm angle more difficult to decipher than the right arm. It is a much more difficult skill to master as well and definitely provides value to an all-right attack at all levels.

 

[Burgey]

It’s just the mirror image of what left handed batsmen have had to cope with for the majority of the time since forever.

 

[TheJediBrah]

No
No
No

 

[Adorable Asshole]

It’s just the mirror image of what left handed batsmen have had to cope with for the majority of the time since forever.

Really? Left handed batsmen on average has better averages than Righ handed batsmen.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Really? Left handed batsmen on average has better averages than Righ handed batsmen.

Could be a lot of reasons explaining that. Most obvious one would be that batting with your dominant hand as your top hand is better.

 

[Coronis]

Not at all. Having been playing cricket currently, I have always found the left arm angle more difficult to decipher than the right arm. It is a much more difficult skill to master as well and definitely provides value to an all-right attack at all levels.

No its not. Its just that there are far fewer left handed players so the top class left hand pacers are far outnumbered by top class right hand pacers.

 

[Coronis]

Really? Left handed batsmen on average has better averages than Righ handed batsmen.

Probs cos there are fewer lefties so there are less random mediocre blokes dragging the averages down.

 

[Prince EWS]

Could be a lot of reasons explaining that. Most obvious one would be that batting with your dominant hand as your top hand is better.

I think part of it is that tailenders are disproportionately right handed.

In the last 50 years left handers in the top 6 average average less than 1 run more than right handers which is probably small enough to just be a coincidence.

 

[sledger]

Opened this thread hoping for a discussion about monogamy tbh.

 

[Burgey]

Really? Left handed batsmen on average has better averages than Righ handed batsmen.

Yea I know, which is why right handed batsmen need to stop whinging and just ****ing well get on with it.

 

[sledger]

Left handed batting and bowling also just look so much cooler tbh. Same with left footed footballers. Just somehow looks better.

 

[Flem274*]

it matters in match ups. you don't want to feed a pile of left handers to a lot of good offies for example.

 

[Burgey]

I’m left handed and opened the batting for decades, usually poorly. And very very occasionally I’d “bowl” left arm over, usually when the other mob were 2/360 or so.

And if you hit a right hander on the pads and appealed, the umpire would invariably say “you won’t get that from left arm over unless you’re swinging it back”, which once prompted me to say “you didn’t have a problem firing me last week off a right armer taking it across me, ****”. Got two games for that. Arseholes they are.

 

[Adorable Asshole]

I’m left handed and opened the batting for decades, usually poorly. And very very occasionally I’d “bowl” left arm over, usually when the other mob were 2/360 or so.

And if you hit a right hander on the pads and appealed, the umpire would invariably say “you won’t get that from left arm over unless you’re swinging it back”, which once prompted me to say “you didn’t have a problem firing me last week off a right armer taking it across me, ****”. Got two games for that. Arseholes they are.

SMASH THE RIGHTIARCHY