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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3345383, member: 9052"] It's been Wood's go to tactic this whole innings and the back end of the first innings so be prepared for it to become the primary tactic moving forward. England also used it against Green when they couldn't get him out in the first innings.. and teams have been using it against Marnus when they realised he scores in a similar fashion to Smith i.e. anything on his pads goes for runs, but Marnus also leaves well outside his off stump. NZ started using the leg side play against him and just waited for him to get himself out... and I'm sure India used the leg side fields quite a lot too often bringing in the leg slips, etc. when they couldn't get him or Smith out. You're right that batsmen will need to figure it out, because if it's dropped the best since Bradman's average by 30 odd runs then it will work against any batsmen... which it's proving to. Also all I'm not saying they shouldn't be able to use it if they get the line right and have it going at the rib cage / head, which is what Wagner does extremely well.. but they should be getting punished with wides if they push it too far down leg or too high over their head. If a batsmen knows that a bad wide ball will get their team runs then they will be more inclined to leave and wait out the short barrage. At the moment balls 0.5m wide of leg stump aren't being punished, but there's no real way for a batsmen to get runs from it. It's the same when spinners bowl wide down leg, the ump starts calling them wides and the bowling team end up having to stop with the tactic, because they're not executing it correctly. [/QUOTE]

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