Yeah so true. Small grounds are my personal gripe with cricket.
Yeah but it has been a rubbish cricket ground well before New Zealand got the 2011 RWC.
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IMO it makes sense to take it when you've got 2 well set batsmen going well.
I'm not so sure about that; say you're two down in the 15th and you take it, and you lose a wicket pretty quick; suddenly you're 3 down in the 16th over and you have to slow it down a little bit. I think the best time to take it, assuming you have batsmen in and at least one more to come, would be somewhere around 37-38, as that still gives you 7 or so overs afterwards to go for it, and you're taking advantage of the newer ball.
Completely disagree. Take it around the 38th over~ IMO. Basically when you're in a situation where if you lose two quick wickets you'll still want to attack. When two well-set batsmen are going well there's no point rocking the boat.
NZ took it in after the 10th during a CL game last year if I remember. I don't remember who they were playing but McCullum was smashing them all over the park. Other side didn't want to use the bowling powerplay, so NZ said we'll take the batting.
I remember when South Africa were in Australia last year at the SCG, Botha was about to bring himself on, and then Ponting decided to take the batting PP, to which Botha then changed his mind and brought back Dale Steyn, as you would. I think it was before the 24th over.
I guess, really, the ideal outcome is both. There should, hopefully, be plenty of stages of a ODI innings where you've got two set batsmen. So you should have a decent amount of choice.
