Bevab
Staff Member
Into the second session of day 1 at the moment and Steyn has got Vijay who looked settled with an inswinger that was chopped onto the stumps by the latter. Since then however, it has been a smooth ride with Rayudu and Faf both scoring 50s and a couple of close shaves with the ball dropping just short of fielders and a run-out chance.
Increasing the spin values to 60 as suggested previously has been of immense value personally, playing spin is indeed a tougher job now with Mo bowling an 80 kph floater followed by a quicker one that had me timing it late.
Not sure if the lack of overs bowled by the all-rounders has been rectified as I've had the RCB pacers bowl more overs so far despite it being a dusty pitch with heavy cracks. Is it because of Sundar and Mo being bowling all-rounders? Sundar himself came into the attack well beyond the 20th over if I remember correctly, a few overs before lunch.
I haven't had this issue with the T20s previously, but fielders seem to behave erratically sometimes. To be more precise, they seem to pirouette around the ball before picking it up. Sometimes, they roll the ball with what I can only presume to be the shoes, forcing them to move further to retrieve it. This seems most common after a defensive stroke with the bowler, but I've seen it with ring fielders too. This seems to happen when the ball is slowing down or is dead. Despite being funny, it does allow me to steal a run or two on occasions I would have had no chance without this weird movement. Does anyone else have this?
Overthrows also seem to be a bit frequent, half of my boundaries have come from them. I don't think this should be happening in a test match quite often where the urgency is a lot lesser compared to a T20. This could be due to me running aggressively to be fair. Will check if that is the case in the next session.
Overall though, I'm pleased with the match so far. There has been a difference between batting with Rayudu and Faf (could just be me roleplaying deeply again
) and while the spinners have been fairly challenging and have gotten me playing it a bit late far too often, Sundar and Mo aren't the top class spinners that you would worry about. Will be interesting to see how Jadeja performs when I bat with RCB.
Increasing the spin values to 60 as suggested previously has been of immense value personally, playing spin is indeed a tougher job now with Mo bowling an 80 kph floater followed by a quicker one that had me timing it late.
Not sure if the lack of overs bowled by the all-rounders has been rectified as I've had the RCB pacers bowl more overs so far despite it being a dusty pitch with heavy cracks. Is it because of Sundar and Mo being bowling all-rounders? Sundar himself came into the attack well beyond the 20th over if I remember correctly, a few overs before lunch.
I haven't had this issue with the T20s previously, but fielders seem to behave erratically sometimes. To be more precise, they seem to pirouette around the ball before picking it up. Sometimes, they roll the ball with what I can only presume to be the shoes, forcing them to move further to retrieve it. This seems most common after a defensive stroke with the bowler, but I've seen it with ring fielders too. This seems to happen when the ball is slowing down or is dead. Despite being funny, it does allow me to steal a run or two on occasions I would have had no chance without this weird movement. Does anyone else have this?
Overthrows also seem to be a bit frequent, half of my boundaries have come from them. I don't think this should be happening in a test match quite often where the urgency is a lot lesser compared to a T20. This could be due to me running aggressively to be fair. Will check if that is the case in the next session.
Overall though, I'm pleased with the match so far. There has been a difference between batting with Rayudu and Faf (could just be me roleplaying deeply again
) and while the spinners have been fairly challenging and have gotten me playing it a bit late far too often, Sundar and Mo aren't the top class spinners that you would worry about. Will be interesting to see how Jadeja performs when I bat with RCB.
