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One of the first wicket lbws was Peter Hatzglou. I'm putting that one down to batsmen not picking his new awkward style. Basically hoops it in instead of turn. 3 out of his 4 poles have been LBW.So I've had a look at this a bit more closely.
It really is quite incredible that we've had 3 lbw first wicket games in 6 matches.
I looked at every one of the 61 games from last season and there was a grand total of 3 from 61!
Of course I'm not expecting anything close to the current 50% strike rate to continue- but perhaps we are seeing the start of a trend for this season where first wicket lbws are more common than the 3/61 rate of last year?
(Incidentally, the bookies aren't being very generous offering 10/1 on lbws off the back of 3/61. Should be closer to 20/1!)
The 3 lbws from this season have all been taken by spinners, 2 of them came in the 5th over and the other in the 2nd.
Are spinners coming on to bowl earlier than last year? = more first wicket lbws?
Are opening partnerships lasting longer than last year? = getting out to spinners more after seeing off the quicks?
Combination of both?
Was last season an outlier and 3/61 strikerate is low by historical averages?
All of these questions and more I have.... yet currently cannot be bothered answering.