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John_Harkes_6
12 Jan 2006, 09:48 AM
My team is heavily weighted towards batting - therefore my pitch is hard and fast to take advantage of that. However, I am heading into Div III in Australia and will need to upgrade my pitching to survive.

Given my pitch condition - should I favor seam or spin bowlers? With my limited knowledge I would say Seam but I am not certain.

kopiteinkc
12 Jan 2006, 10:01 AM
My team is heavily weighted towards batting - therefore my pitch is hard and fast to take advantage of that. However, I am heading into Div III in Australia and will need to upgrade my pitching to survive.

Given my pitch condition - should I favor seam or spin bowlers? With my limited knowledge I would say Seam but I am not certain.

I would agree with seam.

Spinners are gonna do better on dusty and slow pitches. You may still want to have a spinner around both for variety and away matches on different surfaces.

Bluto11
12 Jan 2006, 10:16 AM
in a few matches i played no spinners and didn't do very well. Granted I was playing really good teams, but when I had my pitch on cracked I would play 4 seamers and 1 spinner and the spinner would actually do quite well. Since my bowling is better then my batting, by a little bit, I'm changing my pitch to slow. It's gone from cracked to dusty in three days.

John_Harkes_6
12 Jan 2006, 11:32 AM
I would agree with seam.

Spinners are gonna do better on dusty and slow pitches. You may still want to have a spinner around both for variety and away matches on different surfaces.

My best two bowlers by coincidence now are both spin. So that is also part of the reason I am looking more for Seam.