I'm having a bit of a trouble understanding how to play LM/RM part-timers. My batsmen get out to these guys (most often, clean bowled which should be pretty rare in any circumstances) regularly, and I don't see any reason for that.
Usually, they get 2-4 overs to bowl when my batsmen are fully (or >70%) set, and vast majority of them, on paper, are poor bowlers (bowling averages of 50+, and quite often 100+). With such averages you must get a wicket only once in a blue moon... I mean, really, even if you face this guy for 10 overs, and go 5 runs per over, it means he should get a wicket only every two innings (and no, they never get 10 overs either, so it's an overestimation). At first I tried targeting them on 4-5 aggression, but when I started to see a pattern that fully set batsmen get out clean bowled in first over,I lowered it a bit, but even now when I go to aggression 2 to just survive one of these freaks, I still concede wickets to them more often than I expect!
Haven't noticed such things with part-time spinners... They strike sometimes, but in reasonable amounts.
And my part-timers don't seem to be as effective as that, mostly they just go for some boundaries.
Any thoughts?
(wrote this after my best fully set batsman got out to a RM dude with bowling average of 212 (!), second ball, when on aggression 2)
Usually, they get 2-4 overs to bowl when my batsmen are fully (or >70%) set, and vast majority of them, on paper, are poor bowlers (bowling averages of 50+, and quite often 100+). With such averages you must get a wicket only once in a blue moon... I mean, really, even if you face this guy for 10 overs, and go 5 runs per over, it means he should get a wicket only every two innings (and no, they never get 10 overs either, so it's an overestimation). At first I tried targeting them on 4-5 aggression, but when I started to see a pattern that fully set batsmen get out clean bowled in first over,I lowered it a bit, but even now when I go to aggression 2 to just survive one of these freaks, I still concede wickets to them more often than I expect!
Haven't noticed such things with part-time spinners... They strike sometimes, but in reasonable amounts.
And my part-timers don't seem to be as effective as that, mostly they just go for some boundaries.
Any thoughts?
(wrote this after my best fully set batsman got out to a RM dude with bowling average of 212 (!), second ball, when on aggression 2)
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