25 Jul / 2014(244)…Left-field tactics(Pataudi Trophy)Ind in Eng

How spin (left arm)bowling restricted English batsmen, especially 6 left handers!.

Rangana Herath picked 8 Test wickets in England series, and Ravi Jadeja picked 2 in 2Tests, yet they were the most effective bowler.

These two bowlers made English left handers play almost every ball in recent Tests, making them vulnerable to score runs. They were strangled by their line and length. Teams that employ a defensive tactics(English team)for their batting love to leave a lot of ball. And both these left arm spinners did not allow that to happen.

The left handers were choked as they had to play ball that came back to them, and these two spinners executed this tactics.
So far this this is how Left handers performed overall  in 4 Tests(2 v/s SL , 2 v/s Ind).

 

Left handers Inn Runs Balls 4/6s St.rate Ss/100balls
Cook 8 115 296 16 38.9 18.58
Moeen 8 247 675 36-1 36.6 17.33
Ballance 8 409 815 50-1 50.2 25.28
Broad 8 134 144 24 93.1 38.19
Anderson 8 111 233 21 47.6 17.6
Stokes 4 0 16 0 0 18.58

 

And comparison how they played left arm spin of Herath and Jadeja in 4 Tests(2 v/s SL , 2 v/s Ind). 602 balls faced, 262 Runs @2.61/overs. 5 Wkts

Left handers v/s left arm spin Inn Runs Balls 4/6s St.rate Ss/100balls
Cook 8 15 42 0 35.71 30.95
Moeen 8 79 207 7-1 38.16 20.77
Ballance 8 117 232 8-1 50.43 31.03
Broad 8 23 52 2 44.23 26.92
Anderson 8 28 65 5 43.08 16.92
Stokes 4 0 4 0 0 0

 

Here are the scoring zone for left handers against left arm spin.

SLA V LHB

 

Here is a video analysis of this theory.

 

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