For Bowlers and Batters
Cric8wala
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>Say it ain't so!
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>http://web.mid-day.com/sports/international/2004/january/74049.htm
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Heh :-) With the increasing number of games in one-day cricket, its sort of
natural that its happening. Though, the Bracken referred to above probably has
his own reasons for advocating it as well - he isnt a first-choice bowler at
the moment, and he would move into the lineup occasionally if there was more
rotation :-)
Also, BTW, there already is a baseball influence - Australia are the current
"World Champions" after they won the World Cup a few months ago, and they did
it partly due to their terrific fielding in the tournament. And their fieldling
has been aided for the past year or so by a specialist "fielding coach" - who
is actually a baseball coach from Chicago! Saw an interview with him recently,
and he said he knew basically nothing about cricket until he took up that job,
and found that cricketers in general threw the ball differently (and not as
effectively) as baseball players. He made a few changes in the throwing style
and improved things quite a bit over the year - and it ended up playing a vital
part at critical moments in the World Cup.
Sadiq [ so there *is* actually a Chicago baseballing World Champ :-) ] Yusuf
neil macdonald
"Cric8wala" <cric...@aol.com> wrote in message
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There is a possibly apocryphal tale of a WW2 cricket match played between
British and American servicemen.
The Americans batted first and were very quickly bowled out, their batting
style being completely inappropriate for the game. The Brits, however, were
totally unused to the speed and accuracy of the American fielding and the
game, in the best tradition of these stories, ended in a tie.
FWIW, cricket fielding, particularly throwing, began to improve swiftly with
the advent of televised baseball in Britain.
Neil