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SABJP t1_itg7fbr wrote

Reply to comment by Swathe88 in India (160/6) defeats Pakistan (159/8) on the last ball in a game for the ages by Swathe88

Babar is at fault too. Why would you save your last over for a spinner who went for 20 runs in same match? That was stupid move.

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SHYtAN_KD t1_itgbftk wrote

For me it was Ravi Ashwin! Man played the last ball with 1000 IQ

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Big-Shtick t1_iti9i2z wrote

Thanks to Jomboy, I have a great idea of what’s going on. Guy explains the sport well.

Congrats fam.

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kroxigor01 t1_ith2qkf wrote

It's better to put your worst bowler last.

Imagine they're chasing 24 from the last 2 and you bowl the crap bowler first and they tonk him for 20. Now your good bowler is defending 4 runs and he can't do shit.

Contrast to bowling the good bowler first, the batsmen will definitely try to score more than 4 runs and maybe they'll get out, making the shit bowler have a worse batsmen at the crease and maybe now he won't leak so many!

I think this is broadly true for the whole innings, not withstanding fielding restriction (powerplay) specialists and specific batsmen match ups (spinner against a batsmen bad against spin). You'd prefer to bowl your best bowler in the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th over.

The best case scenario is that your best 3 bowlers finish the job, taking 10 wickets lol. Then they never even get to look at your 2 worst bowlers!

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we_all_gon_die_ t1_ithp9nx wrote

Happened twice to Bhuvaneshwar in Asia Cup. Gave away 18-20 runs in second last over. Left 6 and 7 runs for Arshdeep to defend. Which he tried to defend brilliantly.

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imnotmarvin t1_itiwz0y wrote

As an American trying to get into cricket, I have no idea what you just said but it sounded smart.

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shivaenough t1_itkivi8 wrote

Let me try to explain in different way. If you are at exam and you are trying to score as much as possible. You see you have 5 minutes remaining with 5 questions 3 easy, 2 tough problems.

if you will start with trying to solve easy ones first then going for tough one. You will have better chances of scoring.

Or if you will try to solve tough ones first, then maybe due to time pressure you might make mistakes and have to re-do solutions midway. Scoring less because you couldn't do easy ones too because no time left for them.

Here same with bowling team, if they would send their less experienced bowlers first, they are giving batters chance to score much because this bowler might not perform well under pressure or batters can read them well.

But if you send your best bowler first batters will still try to hit him, but they would also feel the pressure and maybe make mistakes while trying to maximize runs and gets out.

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Picaloco86 t1_ithdslp wrote

Nawaz bowled the 13th over, where he got smashed...what I guess Babar was looking for was one his fast bowlers to take a wkt, preferably Kohli, and then reintroduce Nawaz as soon as that happened..since we didn't lose a wkt, Babar had little choice but to leave Nawaz with the last over.

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-Not-Racist- t1_ithw6sk wrote

Because India's specialist finisher DK Popa is not good against spin

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bharat4ever t1_itirczf wrote

For me it was the right decision. He was trying to shape the innings in Pakistan's favour before it reached the last over. He was hoping the fast bowlers could get wickets which didn't happen.

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