am Bays wrote:whufc wrote:Not an excuse but i reckon it would be much harder as a batter in the shield these days given every minute of every game is now streamed etc.
Years gone by a team may have only seen a certain batter 2 times in the shield and maybe 2 times in the one dayers at most. These days they have endless footage of every innings from shield cricket to t20 and even now would have district cricket footage in some states.
You're right it's not an excuse and the contra argument is that batsman should be watching vision of al the bowlers that is available for their strengths and weaknesses so they develop their batting plans
Would you say there is more a bowler can learn about a batsmen compared to what a batsmen can learn about a bowler. I mean a lot of a bowlers art is in subtle changes such as speed and grips and that would be hard to pick up on tv streams especially the shield ones which don't have the analysis and quality the big bash has. You could take a bit from how a bowlers uses the crease, what subtle field changes might mean to his line and length.
I just feel like a bowler has a lot more to learn about a batter.