West Indies in England

[angryangy]

How do you bowl to KP?

Only thing I can think of is to go 'defensive' and play with like 5 men on the boundary, test his patience.

Judging from his tussles with Warne and McGrath; and this might sound obvious; but it seems you can really only get on top of him consistently if you can bowl very clever and defeat him in the head.

2nd Ashes Test at Adelaide, 4th innings, Warne has Pietersen sweeping and bowled behind his legs; after a stupendous innings in the first where no such thing seemed possible and indeed some public banter between the two concerning the subject. Warne had created a situation where KP thought he needed to stamp some authority down and he let his guard down.

1st ODI of the CB Series at the MCG, McGrath's subtle change in his delivery against a walking Pietersen has him missing the ball completely and clutching his ribs. Although he wasn't out, his wicket was lost for many matches afterwards.

3rd Ashes Test at Old Trafford, 3rd innings, McGrath comes around the wicket to bowl a leg stump Yorker, seemingly taking advantage of Pietersen's unspiked heels as he ingloriously falls over, plumb lbw for a golden duck.

If I could watch more cricket I could probably come up with an even better picture, although there's a lot of bowlers who don't deliver the quality battles. It's basically the same case as with a select few batsmen of that ilk, so long as they are in form, there's probably only one or two ways that are noticeable enough to call weaknesses and even then, they only present for a short time. Take Hayden at his best, it's so often stressed that you have to bowl outside off to him, but once he's set you're pretty screwed if you stuff up there too.

 

[aussie_ben91]

Between the Ashes 2005 to 2006/07, Pietersen went through a patch were he wasn't scoring runs to his ability but never really looked like he was struggling. Hopefully his statistics will justify his talent in the near future.

 

[Griffo]

When Pietersen loses concentration he loses his wicket you have to be very good to outdo him while he is concentrating

he is a better batmsen than what his averages show... and it scares the hell out of me

 

[Sureshot]

Between the Ashes 2005 to 2006/07, Pietersen went through a patch were he wasn't scoring runs to his ability but never really looked like he was struggling. Hopefully his statistics will justify his talent in the near future.

If that is KPs bad patch then that's fantastic

http://statserver.cricket.org/guru?...edhigh=;csearch=;submit=1;.cgifields=viewtype

It doesn't look quite so good on the overseas tours to India and Pakistan but it's still not exactly bad on those two tours.

 

[Eddie]

Judging from his tussles with Warne and McGrath; and this might sound obvious; but it seems you can really only get on top of him consistently if you can bowl very clever and defeat him in the head.

2nd Ashes Test at Adelaide, 4th innings, Warne has Pietersen sweeping and bowled behind his legs; after a stupendous innings in the first where no such thing seemed possible and indeed some public banter between the two concerning the subject. Warne had created a situation where KP thought he needed to stamp some authority down and he let his guard down.

1st ODI of the CB Series at the MCG, McGrath's subtle change in his delivery against a walking Pietersen has him missing the ball completely and clutching his ribs. Although he wasn't out, his wicket was lost for many matches afterwards.

3rd Ashes Test at Old Trafford, 3rd innings, McGrath comes around the wicket to bowl a leg stump Yorker, seemingly taking advantage of Pietersen's unspiked heels as he ingloriously falls over, plumb lbw for a golden duck.

If I could watch more cricket I could probably come up with an even better picture, although there's a lot of bowlers who don't deliver the quality battles. It's basically the same case as with a select few batsmen of that ilk, so long as they are in form, there's probably only one or two ways that are noticeable enough to call weaknesses and even then, they only present for a short time. Take Hayden at his best, it's so often stressed that you have to bowl outside off to him, but once he's set you're pretty screwed if you stuff up there too.

ok i read this and had to reply

1st : The one bowled around the legs..KP makes a LOT of runs sweeping, if u plan to get him out that way 99% of the time he's smahs you..

2nd : Hit in the ribs ..freak injury, Mcgrath WAS NOT bowling to get him out retired hurt.. (LOL ! is you think that!)

3, The LBW round the wkt was when ENgand were setting a declaration target, so he was having a swing..


so all you posted are not plans of attack V Pietersen, in fact each one was a lucky ir freak dismissal!

 

[BigCrickNan]

It doesn't matter, Warne and McGrath are no more in international cricket

Those things could work to Pietersen if you try them the odd time and they might pay off. Although you run the risk of getting hit.

 

[Eddie]

wow we actualy have cricket being played..

be interesting to see how much the wkt does after being covered for so long

how can Plunkett be sooo good and soo bad all at the same time?

 

[Sureshot]

It's hilarious. 8 balls bowled 5 or 6 down the leg side and then a perfect ball. Good catch by Prior and a good start for England.

 

[Adarsh]

Hot spot is just a waste really !! I don't really see when it'll be useful since we have snicko and loads of camera angles to view stuff from.

 

[Griffo]

hot spot is better than snicko and your eyes can be decieving it is the best method in determining if it was an edge or not

 

[Adarsh]

Rain. Stupid rain, again.

 

[Eddie]

this could end up being the most 1-sided draw of all time..lol

 

[BigCrickNan]

Two more wickets for Sidebottom as we go off for rain again. He now averages 16.25...

 

[Skater]

People used to criticise Duncan Fletcher when he introduced an inexperienced player into the team because more often than not they would fail. Peter Moores selected Ryan Sidebottom for the second test match and he has done extremely well, taking lots of wickets and looking dangerous.

 

[Animator!]

But Ryan Sidebottom has honed his game in County Cricket doing exaclty what he's done in this test match for the past 6 year in the CC. Fletcher brought in players who he didnt allow to play cricket. I.e Andersen. Had Andersen been allowed to play cricket when he went through his period of being in England squads but not in the Eleven a couple of years ago, I can honestly say he would be a much better bowler than he is now.

County Cricket has its advantages, we just dont use it.