by Corona Man » Tue Nov 30, 2021 10:27 am
Lightning McQueen wrote:whufc wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:It's a captain's curse when you're a bowler, I hope he can master it.
As a captain you don't want to over bowl yourself but you want to take the bull by the horns and lead by example, even at community cricket just hearing the captain say "let's see how you go with one more" inspires you to dig deeper to get an extra over or two, it doesn't happen as a skipper, you just pull up. It's not easy to tell the next bowler that you're just having one more than you're done, as a bowler you tend to think you're closer to a wicket than you really are at times.
Agree. I only ever bowled part time when I skippered but did find it hard to get the balance. Generally I would utilise the vice captain to say I should come on or I should go off.
It might be a tad easier in international cricket though when you really only have 4 bowlers plus 1 part timer at most, unlike community cricket where you may have up to 6-7 blokes expecting a bowl. International cricket is kind of pretty locked in as to when bowlers are going to bowl and you have no limit of overs to keep rotating bowlers, eg if you get kept in the field for 100 overs your are just going to have to use all 4-5 of them whether they are bowling well or not.
At that level they'd more than likely have a set plan for each session too that would only alter from circumstantial occurrences.
Don't forget the coaches will be having input at the session breaks also.
They will have plans to bowl certain bowlers to certain batters too.
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