(05-24-2022, 01:30 PM)stillwill Wrote:(05-24-2022, 01:10 PM)slcricfan1 Wrote: Not necessarily though. Which conditions do you count as difficult in world cricket right now? Top teams such as India and England all play most of their domestic cricket in flat pitches. Australia don't but outside the what top 6 or 7 batters in the country or so, there's not that much depth. Surely death bowling and stuff get improved on when quicks are under huge stress to not get smashed.
Indian FC pitches aren't flat like before and I can't speak for England. English conditions are challenging for batsmen, lot more movement, so they are forced become better. India has 20% of the world's population, just going by law of average, they will have more guys who are good. SL doesn't have large talent pools. Making the pitch difficult for the batsmen will allow them to get good and be more disciplined. Disciplined batsmen are generally good. I'm not a fast bowler so I can't really talk for the fast bowlers on flat pitches, my thinking is not to have them bowl on dead pitches in FC a lot and get injured. SL fast bowlers are very injury prone, so that's what my thinking is. For spinners, flat pitches are good, it forces them to beat batsmen in flight and accuracy.
How will fast bowlers not bowling much will prevent them from getting injuries? Isn't that what's happening now? They breakdown immediately in international cricket, when piled on with the heavy workload.
According to Dr. Pete Allen who spoke to Wisden recently, research suggests that a fast bowler needs to bowl a minimum of 1200 overs for their body to get adjusted for fast bowling. Its one of the most intense things in sport and given its repetitive nature its very unique as well. This is probably what cricketers are referring to by saying bowling fitness as well. Gymming isn't the same thing.
And not bowling them and hiding them in domestic games isn't gonna help anyone.
First you need to fix the pitches, make them more balanced. Not too challenging so that batters can also thrive. Otherwise batting also will never improve.
Also pitches that aid fast bowlers help spinners too. That's correct. Not sure what you mean by it makes them work harder and smarter in an earlier post. But in reality what happens is that bounce helps spinners. If it seams - as Warne used to say - it spins too. So turn and bounce. That's why its helpful!
You say highly challenging conditions have helped English batters to be more disciplined. Well have you been watching international cricket in the last 12-18 months? It doesn't work that way.
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