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[InternalTraining]

Folks,

Anyone has any guides for field settings for shorter formats with field restrictions. I am looking for 40 over and T20 games.

What are good fields for:

- Fast bowler - attacking field?
- Fast bowler - defensive field?
- Medium pace bowler - attacking field?
- Medium pace bowler - defensive field?
- Leg spinner - attacking field?
- Leg spinner - defensive field?
- Off spinner - attacking field?
- Off spinner - defensive field?

[WalkingWicket37]

What are your field restrictions mate?
We have to have at least 4 men in the 30 yard circle which makes setting a defensive field a lot more interesting than the village approach of "everyone on the boundary" 

For quicks at the start it's easy, ring in the off side, mid on and mid off up, mid-wicket and square leg in the circle, fine leg back.

Attacking fields for a spinner are sometimes quirky. Slip, ring on the off side, mid on and/or mid off in the ring, mid-wicket in a catching position, a man close somewhere near square leg and a man in the 45 saving one.

Defensive fields vary from game to game, wherever the batsman is hitting it most, try to cut off that gap or boundary option

[InternalTraining]

Field restrictions for a 40 over match:

- for first 8 overs, 2 fielders allowed outside the 30 yard circle;
- for batting power play (4 overs between 12 and 32nd over), 3 fielders allowed outside the 30 yard circle;
- at least five fielders + keeper must be present inside the 30 yard circle during the non-power play overs;
- no more than five fielders on the leg side at any time;
- no more than 2 fielders behind the batsman on the leg side at any time.

Field restrictions for a 20 over match:
- for first 6 overs, 2 fielders allowed outside the 30 yard circle;
- for rest of the overs, 4 fielders and a keeper must be inside the 30 yard circle.

[InternalTraining]

Our captain uses 5-4 field for 95% of the situations and the match just drags on and on. I use aggressive fields for the batsman but such experiments are not popular with the traditionalist types.

The question is whether you use unorthodox, situation driven field settings to get results or rely on orthodox (5-4, 6-3) to dry up runs in a club situation.

[ProCricketer1982]

Bat first, score 300 then stick everyone on the fence and wait for the sloggers to hole out

[smilley792]

Bat first, score 300 then stick everyone on the fence and wait for the sloggers to hole out

You got any plans for when you either field first or your batsmen aren't good enough for 300?

[ProCricketer1982]

You got any plans for when you either field first or your batsmen aren't good enough for 300?

Same field stop 4's. Yet to meet a team who is happy to take 1/2's all day.. Always get bored and hit out eventually

(Ps, pretty sure you can't do this field anyway but it would screw people up)

[InternalTraining]

Yet to meet a team who is happy to take 1/2's all day.. Always get bored and hit out eventually

We played against a team who won the division in their first year. They had some ex-first class players from their native lands.

They took singles. Lots of single. No boundaries. Ones and twos. We were bored to tears but they kept taking those damn singles and doubles. No attempt to hit boundaries. It was a clinical win for them and that's how they routed all the teams in our division.

[Woodyspin]

My Typical attacking field would be, Mid Off, Extra Cover, Short Cover, Point, gully , 2 Slips, Short Mid Wicket, Square Leg + Bowler and Keeper (Obviously)

[ProCricketer1982]

We played against a team who won the division in their first year. They had some ex-first class players from their native lands.

They took singles. Lots of single. No boundaries. Ones and twos. We were bored to tears but they kept taking those damn singles and doubles. No attempt to hit boundaries. It was a clinical win for them and that's how they routed all the teams in our division.

As you said.. Proper players.. Not many of them about, majority get bored and/or tired quickly

[WalkingWicket37]

We played against a team who won the division in their first year. They had some ex-first class players from their native lands.

They took singles. Lots of single. No boundaries. Ones and twos. We were bored to tears but they kept taking those damn singles and doubles. No attempt to hit boundaries. It was a clinical win for them and that's how they routed all the teams in our division.

I'm knackered just walking out to the middle, so running ones and two's is an instant no!

[Woodyspin]

We played against a team who won the division in their first year. They had some ex-first class players from their native lands.

They took singles. Lots of single. No boundaries. Ones and twos. We were bored to tears but they kept taking those damn singles and doubles. No attempt to hit boundaries. It was a clinical win for them and that's how they routed all the teams in our division.

Its even worse when we play our old boys (retired cricketers that used to play 1st team about 5/10 years ago). They will take a single to anyone, and they don't even need to call for it. They just knew when it went to certain people just to run... thats even more frustrating!

[InternalTraining]

As you said.. Proper players.. Not many of them about, majority get bored and/or tired quickly

I have been thinking about doing a lot of running and building up enough stamina to run lots of singles this year. Forget about demoralizing the opponents with big hits, just bore them to a defeat by taking lots of 1s and 2s.

[ProCricketer1982]

I have been thinking about doing a lot of running and building up enough stamina to run lots of singles this year. Forget about demoralizing the opponents with big hits, just bore them to a defeat by taking lots of 1s and 2s.

Teams who run well (and I don't mean suicidal risky runs) will generally win above those who basically rely on easy 1's and 4's