The Art of Bowling in T20 cricket (international)

[6ry4nj]

BOwling yorkers is hard and esay to put away if you know what to expect. Only swinging yorkers are good. Which explains Malinga in a nutshell. But would you have a large scoring match or a low scoring match. It is more fun when the batsmen hit the ball

Surely the only way to make a yorker easy to get away is to get down the track and make it a full toss. You're already at a disadvantage if you're trying to do this. The trick for the bowler then becomes tailoring his length to how far down you come. Ultimately, the degree to which you can control your length (for pace bowlers - even the slowest of them) determines how effective you are. Oh and you have to be pretty straight most of the time too (except when they back away of course).

Easy peasy. Don't understand why they can't all do it...

 

[War]

Well in my view, Bowling in the last 10 overs in a fifty over game is a completly different thing compared to T-20 bowling as the ball condition is different in both formats. As far as reverse swing is concerned, You have to work out on the ball, Shine one side and keep the other side dusted, You can't bowl reverse swinging yorkers straight away. Even its very hard to bowl simple yorkers right away, however exceptions are always there like Gul and Malinga, Haven't noticed Nannes much in T-20 format.

However, I do agree that there should be atleast variation in the bowling in T-20 and that should be also be very frequently, Length Balls will definitely go for sixes, but in nut-shell You cant do much as a bowler in T-20. I don't call it a quality cricket. Its just an entertainment bang bang bang, No Quality,Gracefulness and class at all....

Ye i had mentioned this discrepancy in the opening post:

Of course its not possible to bowl 20 overs straight death/block-hole bowling, given in the first 6 power-play overs, its fairly difficult to bowl yorkers consistently with the new-white ball.

However after those 6 overs have ended teams and ball gets roughed up, the next 14 overs should be 100% death bowling. But quick bowlers dont do that.

 

[Rehan_24]

Ye i had mentioned this discrepancy in the opening post:

Yup agreed. I guess to do the death bowling, there need some courage as well coz if one or two balls get into full-tosses and goes for sixes or fours, the bowlers tend to reluct to do that. However the point is valid, I have also seen much of short bowling instead of seeing wicket to wicket deliveres.

As we all know that one or two good powerful shots destroys the line and length of bowlers and they get too much pressure of bowling, personally i feel that T20 cricket is highly injustice with bowlers. The rules really favour the batsmen but I guess the governance of Cricket are helpless, They wanna entertain the audience because that entertainment will ulitmately get them money.

I remember Tendulkar on his hay days used to destroy the line and length of Mcgrath often times. Imran Nazir and Shahid Afridi did same with Shaun Pollock, Lance Klusner destroyed Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar in 1999 Cricket World Cup group match. If such legendary bowlers can get nervous than how can we expect today's bowlers to perform well especially when the rules now favour the batsmen more, The powerplays and free Hitting thing especially.

 

[War]

Blogs: Michael Jeh: The death of the yorker | Cricket Blogs | ESPN Cricinfo

Useful to dig this thread with this timely article.

 

[ferg512]

Thanks for posting this War, didn't see this on the main cricinfo site. I know me and you both are perplexed with the whole yorker thing.

 

[War]

^^

I have given up complaining TBH Fergie, it gets worst every ODI/T20 match i see these days ha

 

[sami ullah khan]

Yorkers and reverse swing complement each other. The introduction of two new balls rule has made reverse extinct in ODIs atleast. Batsmen also have learnt to sweep quick full length bowl that don?t tale in, in absence of reverse. This has lead bowlers not to pitch it up at yorker length imho.

 

[Shift]

I can't understand this thread

 

[Punk_Sk8r]

The art of bowling in T20 = Get smacked around, get lucky bowled's/catches which are bound to happen as the batsmen is trying to slog everything wit his 3ton bat that has edges and meat on the handle. That's the art of bowling.

 

[ferg512]

Thought I'd just bump this thread after watching Arafat in the BBL tonight. He was the difference because he could accurately execute his yorkers. Also why does it only seem to be Pakistani bowlers that can do it?

 

[War]

Thought I'd just bump this thread after watching Arafat in the BBL tonight. He was the difference because he could accurately execute his yorkers. Also why does it only seem to be Pakistani bowlers that can do it?

Was looking for utube clips of the game - but didn't find any...

 

[ferg512]

Yeah, trying to have a look around myself. If I find any I'll post them here.

 

[War]

Yeah, trying to have a look around myself. If I find any I'll post them here.

I saw some highlights of his bowling during the 1st ENG vs AUS ODI. PAK bowlers like Arafat, Gul, Junaid certainly bowler the yorkers well. And of course Malinga.

But as been discussed before, i seriously believe in these early years of T20 cricket since the world started taking it seriously after the 2007 T20 W-Cup - fast bowlers don't bowl or practice the yorker well enough.

They spend too much time bowling slower bouncers and other useless variations - instead of getting it up in the block hole.

 

[sifter132]

But just to be devil's advocate...I would argue if you can't bowl yorkers well, like Malinga, you might as well forget them. A yorker gone wrong is either a half-volley or a knee high full toss - 2 of the juiciest balls a batsman will get.

Some batsmen play yorkers well too, either by using their crease, or by ramping. It's not the automatic trump ball it was in the 70s-90s.

Will definitely agree that it should be practised more! A bowler who can land a yorker consistently is a great asset.

 

[ferg512]

Definitely can see what you're saying, but I think it just irks me that most bowlers don't even attempt them and get absolutely carted everywhere. Its surprising there isn't more really good specialist death bowlers around though as these days you would make a fortune with all the T20 leagues.