Unpopular Cricket Opinions

[The_Reaper]

Mmm.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/story/838489.html?CMP=chrome

Disgusting

 

[The Speaker]

Disgusting

I think those are actually minor points in a fairly major overhaul of English and Welsh cricket.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

This surely has to be a popular opinion but people at my local club have made it sound like an unpopular opinion.

When a bowler bowls a wide or a no ball, there are people in my club who'll say something like

"it's alright mate, you now get another ball at him now"

Implying that bowling and wide or no ball is okay as it now gives you an extra delivery to get him out.

This is wrong as you still have the same number of balls to bowl (6 good balls) as the wide ball is a wasted delivery.

 

[western royboy]

This surely has to be a popular opinion but people at my local club have made it sound like an unpopular opinion.

When a bowler bowls a wide or a no ball, there are people in my club who'll say something like

"it's alright mate, you now get another ball at him now"

Implying that bowling and wide or no ball is okay as it now gives you an extra delivery to get him out.

This is wrong as you still have the same number of balls to bowl (6 good balls) as the wide ball is a wasted delivery.

It's called positive reinforcement, rather than focus on the negative, you turn it into a positive.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

It's called positive reinforcement, rather than focus on the negative, you turn it into a positive.

I get that. These however are guys who play 1sts or 2nds cricket.

Surely they can't be that stupid as to believe that nonsense.

Maybe I just think too logically

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

I get that. These however are guys who play 1sts or 2nds cricket.

Surely they can't be that stupid as to believe that nonsense.

Maybe I just think too logically

Maybe they are also trying to put the wind up the batsman.

 

[getthefooty]

This surely has to be a popular opinion but people at my local club have made it sound like an unpopular opinion.

When a bowler bowls a wide or a no ball, there are people in my club who'll say something like

"it's alright mate, you now get another ball at him now"

Implying that bowling and wide or no ball is okay as it now gives you an extra delivery to get him out.

This is wrong as you still have the same number of balls to bowl (6 good balls) as the wide ball is a wasted delivery.

I tend to use it in this situation: when the bowler is bowling to a tail ender, and we have plenty of runs to play with. Bowler bowls one wide of off stump, umpire deliberates before calling it a wide. If he hadn't called it a wide, it would be a wasted delivery, but as it is, you can bowl it again.

 

[western royboy]

I get that. These however are guys who play 1sts or 2nds cricket.

Surely they can't be that stupid as to believe that nonsense.

Maybe I just think too logically

Glass half empty - glass half full - it's that simple. Cricket is such a mental game if you look on the empty side the game will defeat you. If a kid gets down on himself about bowling the wide or no ball he stops focussing on the next one. I play a lot with kids nowadays, I'll say it regularly. Got at least two wickets off the seventh ball last weekend.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Glass half empty - glass half full - it's that simple. Cricket is such a mental game if you look on the empty side the game will defeat you. If a kid gets down on himself about bowling the wide or no ball he stops focussing on the next one. I play a lot with kids nowadays, I'll say it regularly. Got at least two wickets off the seventh ball last weekend.

Tbf the youngest in our team is 18 and the oldest 26. Just don't see how that nonsense works.

Fwiw I am a bowler and do understand positive reinforcement but when I bowl (a rare extra) I don't stand there and think "you beauty an extra ball at him!"

 

[The Speaker]

Tbf the youngest in our team is 18 and the oldest 26. Just don't see how that nonsense works.

Fwiw I am a bowler and do understand positive reinforcement but when I bowl (a rare extra) I don't stand there and think "you beauty an extra ball at him!"

So? If the team digs into the player for bowling an extra it is going to have a negative effect on the team.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

So? If the team digs into the player for bowling an extra it is going to have a negative effect on the team.

I would say no. Quite often there are comments like "c'mon you know where to bowl it" or "c'mon no legside rubbish, one side of the wicket" can't recall too many instances where that has had an adverse effect on the bowler. Usually just makes him concentrate harder on getting it right the next time.

 

[t_94]

Tbf the youngest in our team is 18 and the oldest 26. Just don't see how that nonsense works.

Fwiw I am a bowler and do understand positive reinforcement but when I bowl (a rare extra) I don't stand there and think "you beauty an extra ball at him!"

Good call. Playing cricket there's nothing more frustrating then the opening bowlers wasting the new ball and adding to the opposition's total early on when the batters aren't set, then shrugging it off as not that big of a deal or that they are 'warming in to their spell'. Should be at the batsman from ball one.

 

[copthat]

This surely has to be a popular opinion but people at my local club have made it sound like an unpopular opinion.

When a bowler bowls a wide or a no ball, there are people in my club who'll say something like

"it's alright mate, you now get another ball at him now"

Implying that bowling and wide or no ball is okay as it now gives you an extra delivery to get him out.

This is wrong as you still have the same number of balls to bowl (6 good balls) as the wide ball is a wasted delivery.

Think you're taking it a bit literally.

Just another light hearted way of saying "bowl it at the stumps" without being negative.

 

[crownie]

I also seem to remember Lee being the recipient of a lot more drop catches than our other bowlers but that may have just been selective memory. Probably not too far off the mark - tends to happen for the express bowlers.

Dizzy is one of the most unluckiest bowlers I've seen play, i don't ever remember watching a bowler nearly get a wicket so many times.

 

[Underdog]

I'm not sure if this is unpopular but if we pick Cummins for the NZ game, he is going to be hit out of the park...regularly.

 

[Shiv]

I'm not sure if this is unpopular but if we pick Cummins for the NZ game, he is going to be hit out of the park...regularly.

i hope mccullum takes him to town!

 

[The Speaker]

I'm not sure if this is unpopular but if we pick Cummins for the NZ game, he is going to be hit out of the park...regularly.

Got hit for one six, the same amount as Starc and three less than Johnson.

 

[SterlingArcher]

Got hit for one six, the same amount as Starc and three less than Johnson.

Correcting posts in hindsight in the unpopular opinions thread.

 

[Underdog]

Got hit for one six, the same amount as Starc and three less than Johnson.

Lucky this isn't the unpopular fact thread

 

[The Speaker]

Lucky this isn't the unpopular fact thread

Well I'm not sure it really fits the thread.

 

[Registered User]

Here's a POPULAR opinion: this is not how to run between the wickets

 

[The Passenger]

You also don't attempt run outs like that either!!

 

[peternorth]

batsmen are greedy and selfish. play natural game until they reach the high 90s. then its single here single there to reach 100.

 

[ioppolo]

Here's a POPULAR opinion: this is not how to run between the wickets

It's like watching Inzy and Mohammad Yousuf bat together.

 

[peternorth]

sri lankan, indian fans growing up in australia during the 80s and early 90s barracked for the windies because they loved cricket.