How to treat medium part-timers?

[sashaaus]

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)

[KK Star]

Hello,

Generally computer gives these bowlers a chance before spinners come on to bowl. I generally attack these bowlers irrespective of batsmen's settled rating provided there is a decent batsman. My batsman can get out but I mostly get 15-20 easy runs from his 2 overs. I attack at 5 bars if the batsman is new or even 6 bars if he is set. Spin part-timers do not get the ball frequently in matches unless one has batted for very long. I even attack a bowler at 5 bars if his bowling average is poor i.e. 40+. This is my view on part-timers:-

a) RF/LF - Most expensive.
b) RMF/RFM/LMF/LFM - Expensive but can take wickets.
c) RM/LM - Expensive but very accurate (You miss I hit).
d) OS/SLA - Reliable, won't leak runs.
e) Leg Spin - I avoid attacking as they have maximum chance to get wicket.

[sashaaus]

Hmm... So, maybe the accuracy is the issue - either it's importance is overestimated, or it's intentional that it's harder to score from slower bowlers and if you try, you lose wickets (which is not exactly true, really).

[KK Star]

In real too, we generally see part-time spinners performing well like Michael Clarke, Simon Katich, Joe Root and Kane Williamson to name a few. RF part-timers are very rare and unpredictable.