General hints and tips --- share ur experience

[Offspinner]

Personally, I adjust a batsman's aggression bar depending on his preferences.

I start an aggressive batsman on 4, moderates on 3 and defensive players on 2. The batsman's aggression moves up by 1 when they reach 20 and another one when they reach 50.

 

[faizangmc]

Yeah Blake is right. It also happens with me. Put the bowlers to zero the get out more quickly

faizan_gmc added 1 Minutes and 24 Seconds later...

Hey Offspinner even I had that thing in my mind. But was reluctant to try it. Does this method give you success often?

 

[Auric Goldfinge]

In tests/county matches, I start normal/defensive batsman with two aggression bars and then put them on three aggression bars after 20/30 balls. If a part timer or a poor bowler (bowling average of above 35) comes onto bowl and the batsman is settled, I move the aggression bars to four.

Aggressive/very aggressive batsmen start on three bars but stay there until they have had substantial time at the crease. Once again, if a bad bowler comes on, they move up to four bars.

For the tailenders, I tend to use the same principles. If I have rubbish aggressive tailenders down the order and I have no proper batters leavt, I put them on five bars as they aren't going to last very long anyway.

 

[Offspinner]

Yeah Blake is right. It also happens with me. Put the bowlers to zero the get out more quickly

faizan_gmc added 1 Minutes and 24 Seconds later...

Hey Offspinner even I had that thing in my mind. But was reluctant to try it. Does this method give you success often?

I think it does. In my most recent Ashes test, my top five past 50.

Hughes - 112
Katich - 54
Ponting - 77
Hussey - 61
Clarke - 83*

I know they are not spectacular scores, but the top order is consistently passing 50, with Hughes and Ponting making centuries quite often.

Admittedly though, my lower order (North, Haddin, Johnson, Hauritz, Siddle and Hilfenhaus) all struggled to pass 20.

I don't think it is a good method for anything other than FC or Test matches.