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I've been playing and loving this game for a couple of months now, but have had a pretty long standing problem winning the shorter forms of the game. I've played 4 different English county teams and have the same basic problem. I seem to win perhaps 2-3 T20 games per season and a similar number of one dayers, and those are almost always at the very beginning of the season.
The basic formula I follow for the T20s (and the usual result) is as follows:
I play ball by ball
attacking bowling for the first few balls of a new batsman, or until I start getting hit for runs, then pure defence
my batsmen start 2 bars down from the top aggression and go up to one from the top after an over or two (or if theyre not scoring quickly enough)
Usually the results are fairly close iff I bowl first, but then I gradually fall behind the run rate, it creeps up to 8-9 per over. I pump up the aggression more, and start losing wickets and end up needing 40 off the last 2 overs, and succeed only in losing about another 4 wickets instead
Any ideas? Seems to me that the pacing of these short form games is quite a trick.
The basic formula I follow for the T20s (and the usual result) is as follows:
I play ball by ball
attacking bowling for the first few balls of a new batsman, or until I start getting hit for runs, then pure defence
my batsmen start 2 bars down from the top aggression and go up to one from the top after an over or two (or if theyre not scoring quickly enough)
Usually the results are fairly close iff I bowl first, but then I gradually fall behind the run rate, it creeps up to 8-9 per over. I pump up the aggression more, and start losing wickets and end up needing 40 off the last 2 overs, and succeed only in losing about another 4 wickets instead
Any ideas? Seems to me that the pacing of these short form games is quite a trick.
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