One of the things we discussed during the match was whether we need to have specific rules on restrictive field settings - specifically number of close in catchers. There not being any specific tourney rules on this, we both used severely restrictive fields and it made scoring off the ground very difficult for both teams. I lifted my restrictive field for a more "normal" field at around 80/6 and it did become easier to score along the ground. It was also much more gratifying for me to pick up a genuine wicket rather than having the batsman caught at short cover off a perfectly timed stroke.
I'm bringing this up per Lilas & my discussion for everyone else's comments/opinions on whether we need any specific field setting rules.
This is an intresting topic, It has crossed my mind, persoanally I feel the rules that are made to take this into consideration, the close in feilders mainly come in play with the genuine fast bowlers, and because there is only 1 fast bowler permitted, it allows the batsman to play defensivly. With the Medium pacers, one just has to take a few agressive chances i guess to create a feild change.
Its Test Cricket, so it players do need some patience to overcome difficult patches. I say all this without having played a game myself lol, but this is just my opinion, if we have a vote on this, I suppose we can come up with some rules regarding over attacking feilds.
Btw..lilas11 is it possible for you to make the table for this championship the way you did in the T20 tourney?