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Silly Point said:
Terrible last ball. If he’d left it it would have been a wide, so good job it got through for 4!
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Yep, of all the things to bowl. Basically you want a play & miss or jammed back to the bowler/silly mid-off, or obviously a wicket. Very hard to stop the run otherwise. So that ball virtually removed all the win conditions for South Africa, or tie conditions I guess. Think I'd have wanted the keeper up to the stumps too.

It's one of those things that teams don't seem to have a plan for. It's quite a specific situation and needs rather different tactics.
 
scaly_piscine said:
Yep, of all the things to bowl. Basically you want a play & miss or jammed back to the bowler/silly mid-off, or obviously a wicket. Very hard to stop the run otherwise. So that ball virtually removed all the win conditions for South Africa, or tie conditions I guess. Think I'd have wanted the keeper up to the stumps too.

It's one of those things that teams don't seem to have a plan for. It's quite a specific situation and needs rather different tactics.
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It’s a hard one because they’re going to run regardless, you’ve got to rely on a fair bit of luck or poor cricket from the batting side. I’d want to go full and straight and back the close in fielders/bowler to cut off the single and effect the run out I think.
 
Silly Point said:
It’s a hard one because they’re going to run regardless, you’ve got to rely on a fair bit of luck or poor cricket from the batting side. I’d want to go full and straight and back the close in fielders/bowler to cut off the single and effect the run out I think.
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Yes you'd think the ball being jammed back up the pitch is the easiest way to cut off a single if the batsmen hit it. Anything else is going to probably take a direct hit, unless you've got someone at the stumps or ready to be at the stumps. Even then there's going to be little margin.

It's a pretty nuanced situation with probably quite a few different options and all of them fairly unconventional. One of the things I used to like about baseball was how professional and well drilled every situation was. Cricket is rapidly getting there with T20, IPL and match-ups. I figure Gloucestershire in the Mark Alleyne era probably would have some sort of set strat for fielding when 1 is needed to win or tie.
Huh, that totally grazed the pad first before the inside edge...
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Did the hard part in detecting that it had grazed the pad first. Then disregarded it.
 
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Yea was hoping he'd get the double ton at least, it's so hard to get anything over 10+ an over when one end can't bat because singles become a dot, even some twos that aren't immediately obvious become dots.

Anyway that run out seemed iffy based on the new rules that came out to cover fielding involving feigning dives, throws etc.
 
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If and Aussie had done this...

Surprised he didn’t get done under the fake fielding law
 
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