Cricket: Bowlers should target Stumps and LBW

-DR. ABDUL RUFF

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Bowlers are the backbone of cricket. The bowling should be simply outstanding though some of the choice of shots could turn out to be poor. Frankly, every ball should be bowled for a wicket and not for fun or runs. It should be that at least a wicket in every over should be the order of cricket o that even 20 plus runs should be very difficult for batboys. 

Efforts and training in bowling are important. But only a few bowlers  do their job very consistently.  Bowlers like Australian Zyon, South African Morne Morkel and even Styn are now very hopelessly costly players offering too many runs without targeting the stumps. It is obvious they are asked by the captains or coaches or mafia not to bowl to the stumps and unnecessarily take their wickets. 

Crash bowling,used by bowlers like L.Malinga,can restrict runs and get wickets,if used with variations.  In fact there is some tension when this technique is employed. New bowlers should try this crash method. 

When bowlers become too serious about their job, the result could be  quick wickets at regular intervals as it happens occasionally. Most batboys end  up with zero to 20 runs. That is real competition.

Indian bowlers have been fully exposed now in Australia as the useless team as they refused to contain the run flow or stop big 300 plus to even for return favors and after first 3 quick wickets by Zahir Khan  In fact it appeared Indian bowlers a were eager to give as many runs as the Australian captain and his mate wanted, but they declared very early.

If a bat-boy gets 50 plus that signifies weakness of the bowler department and when 100 plus is offered that is abnormal and shows emptiness of bowlers’ ability. Bowlers should be fully committed and hence reckless and not to be positive to benefit some cricket-boys. But India offers 300 plus and refuses to target the stumps what would you call them as?

Match fixing or sport fixing?

You can’t call Indians match fixers, you know!

By the way, the bowlers should target Stumps and LBW.

Fielders should practice catch and stumps-throw from different sides and ankles - at least for a few months right now. Fielders should not hesitate make a few steps to catch the balls instead of expecting the ball to come directly into their hands wherever they are.

Batboy centered cricket must undergo reform sooner than later..

The bowlers have their assignment cut out.Bowlers  who  bowl first generally  are told  to be "considerate" about the plight of their own batboys when they come to bat next and not allowed to do their job. But Bowlers are not supposed to worry about what would happen to their own batboys when they come to bat.  Poor and  problematic bat-boys, like India's one and only cricketer Tendulakar,considered by many Parliamentarians and assembly members as a major Hindu god,  need replacement so that cricket survives and lives.

No cricketer can play international  cricket for more than 5 years. This will encourage new faces and new tactics.  .

It has been a practice for the cricketers to welcome the new comers by helping them with some "fantastic" setting in runs or wickets  so that the media report it as debut achievement. Similarly, special runs or wickets are also offered to select cricketers on the  personal events like marriage, birth day,or something like that.  It is also observed that some bat-boys simply give  away their wickets to their favorites.

Sometimes, wickets fall default, out of some unexpected error on the part of bat-boys. 

All these are illegal and immoral. Players at international level must earn their runs or wickets on their own and boldly reject the services of mafias.  Skippers should decide who should take whose wicket because bowlers just  waste the balls for nothing. The last 3  or 4 wickets are  almost freely available.

That is why each team  should have only 5 or 6 boys to bat while all of them can field, keep or bowl. 

A crucial suggestion is,  ot repeat it again here,  to do  away with boundary bonus runs 6s and 4s and let the batboys make their runs only by running between the wickets.