Field Settings for Leg-Spinners

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AngryRanga said:
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I like this field too, but the problem comes if you have a left-hander on strike!
 
Spin King23 said:
Why leg spinners often have a bat pad on the leg side (to a right hand bat) when the ball is turning to the off? Because wouldn't it be more likely that catch come on the off side?
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I'm not too sure what it is like for other leg spinners on here but the short catch on the offside for me tends to go behind the wicket. The catches that do go through silly point are also normally far harder than the ones that go off the inside edge on to the leg side.

You can see from Mushtaq Ahmed's has above and also fields for Macgill and Warne have had that the silly mid-off/silly point is used when you have the control and skill to not make that position redundant or suicidal.
 
leftie600 said:
I'm not too sure what it is like for other leg spinners on here but the short catch on the offside for me tends to go behind the wicket. The catches that do go through silly point are also normally far harder than the ones that go off the inside edge on to the leg side.

You can see from Mushtaq Ahmed's has above and also fields for Macgill and Warne have had that the silly mid-off/silly point is used when you have the control and skill to not make that position redundant or suicidal.
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Yeah it's difficult to expect people to field close in when your bowling is lacking in accuracy, I don't tend to ask for, but I think I've said before we have a bloke who does field in a silly mid-wicket position with a new to the crease batsman. For the most part I can get the ball on the off-stump-line, so if he sees that I'm doing that with a degree of consistency and the bloke is trying to hit the ball leg-side he gets in there. Sometimes, just to put pressure on the batsman if nothing else.

The short catch on the off-side. Yeah I agree with Leftie, that tends to come into play if I'm bowling really well and the batsman is presenting a straight bat and blocking or trying to hit the ball straight, driving it. Normally though if they're confident or seeing the ball well, they'll play off the back foot with a cross bat shot through silly point aggressively.
 
boogiespinner said:
I like this field too, but the problem comes if you have a left-hander on strike!
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I made that field as a knock on myself for bowling too much leg side crap. When I bowl to a right hander that field would be useless. To a left hander though, flip it and I reckon I'd do a bit better. Lefties always pull or sweep me no matter how far outside off I try to pitch the ball. :p
 
Here's a question for those of you that bat well and those of you that bowl wrist spin (Leg breaks) on the off-stump. Would there be a reason to really load up your field on the off-side if you were bowling an off-stump/slightly outside of off-stump line, not quite as radical as Angry Ranga's, but more of an in-out field?

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someblokecalleddave said:
Here's a question for those of you that bat well and those of you that bowl wrist spin (Leg breaks) on the off-stump. Would there be a reason to really load up your field on the off-side if you were bowling an off-stump/slightly outside of off-stump line, not quite as radical as Angry Ranga's, but more of an in-out field?

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I wouldnt because i sometimes get my line length wrong so the batsman smashes it on the on side
 
someblokecalleddave said:
Here's a question for those of you that bat well and those of you that bowl wrist spin (Leg breaks) on the off-stump. Would there be a reason to really load up your field on the off-side if you were bowling an off-stump/slightly outside of off-stump line, not quite as radical as Angry Ranga's, but more of an in-out field?

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The only time that field could be justified is when the opposition has to hit boundaries (a lot of them), the wicket is dead and you need wickets. You would loop up hard spun legbreaks outside off stump while they look to go through mid on to midwicket.

In saying that though, I have never played at any level where the batsman is incapable of making hay with such a field.
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Now that the season has ended I've been thinking about field placements, my economy hasn't been too food, 5.98 , even though half the games I played were t20s
In longer games I've thought of leaving a lot of gaps on the leg side so the batsman plays leg side and so he plays against the spin, creating chances ? How does this sound?
 
shahidpak said:
Now that the season has ended I've been thinking about field placements, my economy hasn't been too food, 5.98 , even though half the games I played were t20s
In longer games I've thought of leaving a lot of gaps on the leg side so the batsman plays leg side and so he plays against the spin, creating chances ? How does this sound?
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I guess so if they're rubbish on the legside? What would you do - have blokes fielding close in suggesting that the batman has to play aggressively through the legside or over the top, therefore creating a chance that they make a mistake? You'd have to bowl pretty accurately though as no-one wants to field close if you're bowling lollipops? What would you do with the offside?
 
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