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Old 15-12-2006, 08:16 PM in reply to Rachael's post starting "The point about playing Hoggard at 8 is..."
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Originally Posted by Rachael
The point about playing Hoggard at 8 is that whilst he survives.... the senior batsman can bat with restraint. Once he's gone the chances of a big partnership diminish... and with strokeplayers the other end, pressure mounts on the senior player is to slog and hope.
So Rachel but having Hoggard just blocking actually promotes slogging at the other end.

Start of the over, First ball to Pieterson - Pushs it into the empty spaces and takes the single.

2,3,4,5,6 - Well blocked there by Hoggard

Do this after 10 overs and the score advance by 10 runs of the last 60 balls - Guess whats going to happen?
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