[Sohel]

Originally Posted by offstump
there are something EXCEL wont show you.

the man fielding on point was RICKY PONTING. not all the times balls were going straight to point. But Ricky was so quick to cover the ball that our batsman never risked or attempted a single when imrul was hitting towards point or 1-2 yard wither side of point. also lots of those shots were mistimed so there was not enough power to take the ball pass ricky.

Both batsman had lack of intent on taking singles even when a single was on. there were lots of cases when there was a single but imrul and nafees did not trust each other. nafees particularly looked out of breath. and lots of time he rejected easy singles, or the 2nd run where.

even when mahmudullah came there was on incident like this. nafess and mahmudullah completed a first run. in a similar situation before nafees sent back imrul for the 2nd run, so mahmudullah expected nafees wont accept the 2nd run. so mahmudullah slowed down at the end of first run and when he looked back he was surprised to see that nafess already run one third for the second run.

so actually we have three problems.

1. technically we cannot make that slight adjustment in our shots so a ball is not straight at the fielder.
2. even if we are technically able to do we are not mentally ready make that extra effort or slight adjustment.
3. even if the balls are slight away from fielder we hesitate and we loss a few seconds and the opponent fielders cover the distance and we loss our chance.

So true Shagor.