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One thing that I don't understand is why South Africa like to bowl so short? In Morkel's last over, 4 of the 7 deliveries was short of a length! When he finally got a yorker in, he dismissed his man.

Alan Donald warned before the Bangladesh series that SA must be aware of not bowling too short to the Bangladeshis as this will become a habbit and then a problem in Australia. The evidence is there, we bowl way too short at the ausies. We take far to long to work through the tail of any team we play against.
 
MielieSpoor said:
One thing that I don't understand is why South Africa like to bowl so short? In Morkel's last over, 4 of the 7 deliveries was short of a length! When he finally got a yorker in, he dismissed his man.

Alan Donald warned before the Bangladesh series that SA must be aware of not bowling too short to the Bangladeshis as this will become a habbit and then a problem in Australia. The evidence is there, we bowl way too short at the ausies. We take far to long to work through the tail of any team we play against.
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I wish I knew...
In the Bangladesh test it was worst! They had batsmen deliberatly steeping out of their stumps every single ball, yet none of the bowlers bowled for the wickets....:rolleyes:
 
Code: 
Australia 1st innings
Batting				R         B        4's       6's
ML Hayden	c Smith b Ntini	12	13	3	0
SM Katich	lbw b M Morkel	83	151	7	1
RT Ponting	c de Villiers b Ntini	0	1	0	0
MEK Hussey	c de Villiers b Steyn	0	7	0	0
MJ Clarke	c Smith b Harris	62	141	7	0
A Symonds	c McKenzie b Harris	57	68	6	0
BJ Haddin	c Duminy b Ntini	46	68	4	2
B Lee	c Duminy b Steyn	29	46	4	0
JJ Krejza	not out	19	20	3	0
MG Johnson	lbw b M Morkel	18	24	1	0
PM Siddle					
Extras	(lb 7, w 3, nb 5)	15			
Total	(9 wickets; 89 overs)	341			
Fall of wickets
1-14 (Hayden, 2.4 ov); 2-14 (Ponting, 2.5 ov); 3-15 (Hussey, 5.2 ov); 4-164 (Katich, 50.5 ov); 5-166 (Clarke, 51.5 ov); 6-259 (Symonds, 69.5 ov); 7-298 (Haddin, 80.4 ov); 8-303 (Lee, 81.5 ov); 9-341 (Johnson, 88.6 ov)
			Stumps: Australia are 341 for 9 after 89 overs
Australia 341/9
Toss: Australia elected to bat
Bowling	O	M	R	W
Ntini	18	1	66	3
Steyn	18	2	71	2
Kallis	15	2	65	0
M Morkel	17	1	62	2
Harris	21	2	70	2
South Africa
Graeme Smith; Neil McKenzie; Hashim Amla; Jacques Kallis; JP Duminy; AB de Villiers; Mark Boucher; Morne Morkel; Makhaya Ntini; Dale Steyn; PL Harris
 
Pretty even first day. Aus got 40 runs too many for my liking but when the opposition decides to bat and you can have them 9 down at stumps you have done well.
 
Yeah far too many easy runs - you should be aiming (for a test) for the opposition to go at 3 to 3.5 runs/over, not nearly 4!

Ntini, Steyn, Kallis and Morkel were too expensive. Also how many times did the ball just race towards the boundry at 3rd man and Smith put no-one in there.
 
MielieSpoor said:
One thing that I don't understand is why South Africa like to bowl so short? In Morkel's last over, 4 of the 7 deliveries was short of a length! When he finally got a yorker in, he dismissed his man.

Alan Donald warned before the Bangladesh series that SA must be aware of not bowling too short to the Bangladeshis as this will become a habbit and then a problem in Australia. The evidence is there, we bowl way too short at the ausies. We take far to long to work through the tail of any team we play against.
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One strategy a bowler uses is to bowl short of a length to keep the batsmen on his back foot.
Then bowl a full one now and again (hopefully it swings a bit).

If he keeps coming forward, and you're bowling full, you'll be driven and flicked all over the place. Unless your name is Waqar.
 
alf101 said:
One strategy a bowler uses is to bowl short of a length to keep the batsmen on his back foot.
Then bowl a full one now and again (hopefully it swings a bit).

If he keeps coming forward, and you're bowling full, you'll be driven and flicked all over the place. Unless your name is Waqar.
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That I understand, but tailenders tend to struggle with space and swing (Steyn, Morkle to a lesser extent). So if you have the case where your tailenders struggle with that, why do you then bowl short pitched deliveries for most of your deliveries. Its a known fact that tailenders really struggle to play yorkers, yet in the last 5 overs or so, only one was bowled but atleast 3 or 4 short pitched deliveries an over. Yes, you don't bowl more than 2 yorkers an over, but freakin hell, you certainly don't bowl 3 or 4 short dilveries.

Because we bowl so many shorter deliveries, the batsmen aren't always caught on the back foot, alot of the times, they walk into the ball or they get a proper hook shot in, so then its a wasted ball and an opportunity to dismiss the batsmen wasted.

There's a reason Alan Donald, Shaun Pollock, Brett Lee and the likes are such a big danger to tailenders, they bowl(ed) accurately and don't waste balls on short pitched deliveries.
 
MielieSpoor said:
That I understand, but tailenders tend to struggle with space and swing (Steyn, Morkle to a lesser extent). So if you have the case where your tailenders struggle with that, why do you then bowl short pitched deliveries for most of your deliveries. Its a known fact that tailenders really struggle to play yorkers, yet in the last 5 overs or so, only one was bowled but atleast 3 or 4 short pitched deliveries an over. Yes, you don't bowl more than 2 yorkers an over, but freakin hell, you certainly don't bowl 3 or 4 short dilveries.

Because we bowl so many shorter deliveries, the batsmen aren't always caught on the back foot, alot of the times, they walk into the ball or they get a proper hook shot in, so then its a wasted ball and an opportunity to dismiss the batsmen wasted.

There's a reason Alan Donald, Shaun Pollock, Brett Lee and the likes are such a big danger to tailenders, they bowl(ed) accurately and don't waste balls on short pitched deliveries.
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There's plenty of theories as to how to bowl to tail enders. :)
 
Steyn's being skittling out tail enders his entire career but an Ozzie tail ender is a lot better equipped than say a Bangladeshie or English tail ender is...
 
Reconciliation time, Kallais owes us a lot and AB has "matured"

Comeon guys, show that fighting spirit
 
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