How many runs will Alastair Cook score in the 2013/14 Ashes?

[Spark]

ponting set deep **** fields and clearly told them to bowl short. i will hear nothing otherwise. else he is as thick as two bricks putting fields to **** bowling

Yeah I remember tearing my hair out at how quickly deep square leg became a constant thing. A few people here even started to make jokes about it, so common were my complaints.

 

[Tangles]

Deep point also iirc. That whole argument about modern players getting themselves out if denied boundaries.

 

[91Jmay]

Deep point also iirc. That whole argument about modern players getting themselves out if denied boundaries.

That argument is a strange one to apply to Trott and Cook especially isn't it.

 

[Cabinet96]

Tbf to Ponting, I'd have two deep points if I was captaining Mitchell Johnson.

 

[Cabinet96]

That argument is a strange one to apply to Trott and Cook especially isn't it.

Tbf, they never really came under any scoreboard pressure last time. Both players, particularly Trott, have shown they're susceptible to poor shots if the score stops moving the last two home summers.

 

[Riggins]

Yeah it doesn't stop moving when you get singles wherever you want though.

 

[91Jmay]

Tbf, they never really came under any scoreboard pressure last time. Both players, particularly Trott, have shown they're susceptible to poor shots if the score stops moving the last two home summers.

That's exactly my point. They don't care about hitting boundaries if they are moving the score along.

 

[Tangles]

Especially singles to deep when it's a favorite shot and you have bowlers feeding it.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah but you can't on the one hand say "stick a third man in for Bell because he scores a lot of runs there" but then expect a captain to ignore it when his bowlers dish up **** and keep gettin ghit square of the wicket. It's all right for the captain to tell his blokes not to bowl there, but the fact is they did. And when they didn't they were innocuous. I remember standing and clapping Hilf when he bowled his 500th swinging-from-the-hand-and-harmless outswinger.

IIRC that was day three in Adelaide.

 

[JontyPanesar]

Depends on how many half volleys outside off Cook is tempted to hit.

 

[uvelocity]

burgey you don't set fields to bad bowling. the difference with bell is he is able to manipulate good bowling to 3rd man for easy boundaries. that's what requires plugging. if a bowler is bowing poo and won't pitch the thing up, you take the **** off.

 

[Prince EWS]

burgey you don't set fields to bad bowling. the difference with bell is he is able to manipulate good bowling to 3rd man for easy boundaries. that's what requires plugging. if a bowler is bowing poo and won't pitch the thing up, you take the **** off.

Easier said than done when they're all bowling poo.

 

[benchmark00]

The 'don't set fields to bad bowling' argument is an argument that you teach kanga cricket players. If you look beyond that little cliche you might get an answer.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

The one thing that surprised me most was that Ponting didn't bowl himself if only to get 2-3 overs tight then turn round and say there that's how you do it.

 

[Prince EWS]

The 'don't set fields to bad bowling' argument is an argument that you teach kanga cricket players. If you look beyond that little cliche you might get an answer.

Yeah exactly. You set fields to cover your bowler's margin of error when executing their plan.

 

[uvelocity]

well it was a **** plan, which brings me back to my original point

 

[uvelocity]

although i do bow to cw's premier authority on kanga cricket

 

[benchmark00]

Yeah I can't figure out why Johnson can't swing a two piece either.

 

[GuyFromLancs]

Some of this talk about stopping Bell via a third man is cute.

Perhaps Bell played so many shots down there cause there wasn't a third man.

Crazy thought, but batsmen do occasionally aim for unoccupied areas of the field ...

 

[Daemon]

Why are you so touchy?