sports follower wrote:fineleg2fineleg wrote:Executive Member wrote:catchit wrote:I got this old saying that once you get up to 12 balls zero runs you really start digging a hole for yourself that is very hard to get out of and if that 12 turns into 18 your team mates start falling in that hole as well....so with 60 dot balls the opposition just needs to kick the sand in and its game over...
does depend on the situation
I seen Tim May get a standing ovation at Adelaide Oval after a hour an half plus at the crease for 0, the same game Jamie Siddons made 4 in about 2 hours and also got a standing ovation
well the first week we went in to bat, after scoring 45 n craigmore makin 138-6 dec, with 10 overs the bat at the end of the day. i know im no special batsmen n will probly only ever be good for the odd 30 down the order playin in the higher grades. but i asked my captain if i could open the bat considerin this year we havent had an opening batsman really hang around at all. so i made it my business to stay there for that ten overs, i really didnt care about runs. then on the second week of the game i just wanted to occupy the crease, spend time in the middle. the game was lost already and we wanted to try bat out the overs as this was somethin we have been unable to do in the B grade all season. so yeah there probably was balls there i could have scored off but i was just defending what was on the stumps n leaving what was outside the stumps. to craigmores credit there was no loose long hops that deserved to go the boundary
I still think you had opportunities to score runs but with a negative mindset you dug yourself into a hole like Catchit said.
I would of thought there were a few times you could of got of the mark but some of the running between wickets was not good with a few near misses. Non striker didnt help the situation with yes/no calls.