Fallacies of modern test cricket

are you shane warne?

batting out a day and a half for a draw is impossible

The One wrote:
batting out a day and a half for a draw is impossible

Wafting at wide ones way outside off stump will help you save a match on day five.

You need to step out and be aggressive against spinners to survive.

You need to sweep every ball against spinners.

You must have a deep backward square leg for the whole game.

If the light is offered you HAVE to walk off the pitch, even if you have the oppo by the short and curlies.

doremi wrote:You need to step out and be aggressive against spinners to survive.

You need to sweep every ball against spinners.

Or reverse sweep

Keeping no 3rd man in till the 60th over even though most of the oppositions scoring shots are down that way makes you look 'cool' and 'attacking' as a captain.

Reverse sweep - the stupidest shot in cricket history.

Number 8 must score runs...Giles for example

You need to look at a bowlers batting ability when picking him.

If you're an Aussie you must wear a baggygreen cap to look pure and respectable on the field.

You have to play in the Vee, (or Wee if Indians and Pakistanis are pronouncing it) for at least the first half hour of your innings. What if the bowling is short, wide and generally excrement?

orthodox bowling action, with feet in the right place and perfect release point etc etc = good bowler

good footwork = good batsman

bent arm = legitimate bowler

thick edge through the slip cauldron = deliberately played

almost getting needlessly run out = good positive running, well taken single

The saffies are a better than bog average side . . . biggest fallacy of them all

leg glancer wrote:orthodox bowling action, with feet in the right place and perfect release point etc etc = good bowler

good footwork = good batsman

bent arm = legitimate bowler

thick edge through the slip cauldron = deliberately played

almost getting needlessly run out = good positive running, well taken single

Name a great batsman who didn't have good footwork.

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:
Name a great batsman who didn't have good footwork.

The two Richards - Barry and Viv - didn't have the best footwork in the world... didn't need to.

From the footage i've seen Graeme Pollock was a bit of a stand and biff it merchant too...

Another fallacy...

Monty Panesar should bat above James Anderson.

Increasingly dumbfounded by this...

JKLever wrote:From the footage i've seen Graeme Pollock was a bit of a stand and biff it merchant too...

He played probably the the best cover drive of all time.

taipan wrote:

JKLever wrote:From the footage i've seen Graeme Pollock was a bit of a stand and biff it merchant too...

He played probably the the best cover drive of all time.

Don't disagree but from what I saw wasn't played in the classical sense of getting your foot near the pitch of the ball.

JKLever wrote:Another fallacy...

Monty Panesar should bat above James Anderson.

Increasingly dumbfounded by this...

What difference does it make?

doremi wrote:

JKLever wrote:Another fallacy...

Monty Panesar should bat above James Anderson.

Increasingly dumbfounded by this...

What difference does it make?

Not a lot, just something I and a few others have noticed recently. Anderson is much more capable of hanging in there but there seems to be this ridiculous notion that Montys batting will make good strides if he bats up the order.

But in the overall scheme of world cricket, Aye it's hardly a relevance to those not piqued by it!!

JKLever wrote:Not a lot, just something I and a few others have noticed recently. Anderson is much more capable of hanging in there but there seems to be this ridiculous notion that Montys batting will make good strides if he bats up the order.

Most Northants fans are wondering how he bats above Brown the was Freddie has been biffing it of recent - in essence it's number 10 and 11 though, so WGAF? Some Essex pedant.

Brass Monkey wrote:

JKLever wrote:Not a lot, just something I and a few others have noticed recently. Anderson is much more capable of hanging in there but there seems to be this ridiculous notion that Montys batting will make good strides if he bats up the order.

Most Northants fans are wondering how he bats above Brown the was Freddie has been biffing it of recent - in essence it's number 10 and 11 though, so WGAF? Some Essex pedant.

Pedant, yup. Just makes me roll my eyes everytime. Tis all...

Aye, those extra 5 runs would usually make a diff....