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How do You Prepare a Wicket Suitable for Swing?
Aficionados?
Hip-hop, maybe. Even salsa, but ... swing? Naaah!
You cant prepare a wicket suitable for swing. You can prepare a wicket suitable for seam movement.
Swing has to do with atmospheric conditions and condition of the ball. Nothing to do with the wicket. Swing is through the air.
Seam is off the wicket.
What if you leave a lot of moisture in the pitch and as the sun warms the pitch the moisture will rise leaving the ball to swing
In reply to Walco
would an abrasive pitch , wear the ball in such a way that swing could also come into play ?
In reply to Conorboy
Good point, but the layer of moisture would be very thin - about a foot above the ground at most. The ball needs to start deviating far higher than that to deceive the batsman.
The bowler's skill has a lot to do with it. The women were swinging the ball, prodigiously in some cases, at just about 105 kph, in hot and dry conditions in the recent Women's World Cup in the Caribbean.
In reply to Norm
Women are always better "swingers" than men...
In reply to Kay
In reply to natty_forever
I read that first sentence and my first thought was that either Ottis is a dunce or the author of the article is a dunce. It turns out the author is the dunce because there is no quote in the article from Gibson that even remotely suggests that he believes a wicket can be prepared for swing
In reply to carl0002
Exactly. You can also prepare a wicket for pace and bounce or for spin, but how can you prepare a wicket for something that happens before the ball comes in contact with the wicket?
In reply to Conorboy
Interesting question. It would a new meaning to the words "late swing" Even if what you query were possible, how much moisture can be left without preparing a sticky wicket? And how long would the moisture last? First hour of the first day? Maybe first 2 hours? What if SA prepared a wicket with this moisture and lose the toss and bat first? Risky proposition I say
In reply to Str8_Drive
Another interesting question. A very abrasive pitch would help the ball to reverse swing earlier. But the Saffies apparently have not perfected this art as yet because Smith and Warner felt it was necessary to bring sandpaper onto the field during the match in South Africa last year that got them banned
You can't prepare a pitch for swing, as it is atmospheric conditions that dictate that.
But a greener pitch, which is less abrasive, will keep the ball shiny longer and hence allow the ball to conventionally swing longer.
A rough, abrasive pitch may rough up the ball, negating conventional swing, but may facilitate reverse swing.
A pitch with swing conditions is more to do with the cloud & moisture conditions, the shine of the ball can play a part in it too.
I remember a test a few years back in South Africa, West Indies batted first and got bowled out cheaply in cloudy conditions.
By the time the change of innings and break in play etc the cloud cover had mostly gone and South Africa piled on the runs.
Been raining like crazy in Joburg for the last week.
Outfield might be heavy tomorrow morning.
Sunshine expected from Friday with the occasional T-storm.
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