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Importance of Fielding & Wicket Keeping
by Maximus (The Gladiators) 82 months agoImportance of Fielding & Wicket Keeping
After the changes for the Season 5, I have given a lot of thought about the importance of fielding and wicket keeping in the matches.
“Saving 10 runs instead of Conceding 10 would mean that the batsmen have 20 runs less to chase, or the bowlers have 20 more to defend.”
Having said that, it is not easy to have such a wonderful fielding side, without training them sufficiently!
Some important points to note here:
· The no. of byes conceded by a Reliable keeper with a wonderful bowling line-up is much higher than with a mediocre bowling line-up.
· The better the bowling, the higher skilled the keeper must be. Otherwise, more and more good deliveries would be wasted in byes.
· Getting a keeper higher than Reliable level from the market is a tough job. Don’t trust this?
o Try checking the Transfer Market and sort by Wicket Keeping skill. You won’t find many keepers higher than Reliable, and whoever it is, would be going for Gold…!
Something that might happen if Fielding is ignored:
· Training only in Batting, you would end up having an excellent batting line-up, buying some excellent bowlers, but they would not be able to save runs in the field.
· Excellent Wicket Keepers would just be way too expensive and would require too much of money to buy.
· Training only in Bowling, you would end up having a brilliant bowling line-up, only to help your keeper score tons of runs in byes.
Something that can be done:
· Striking a balance between your main training focus and fielding training.
· Training Wicket Keepers would earn you great lot of bucks to buy other players of much high Skill Index.
· Having Bowling Main, by the time your bowlers become Brilliant, your wicket keeper must be above exemplary. Sometimes, even that doesn’t help completely.
"Catches and Runs always win matches… Striking a balance between the main training regime and fielding improvement is the right way."
Disclaimer: The above content is my personal understanding of the game. User discretion is however recommended.

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@scotch, ya ur last line is the point..even in another post it is confirmed by Kashyap
That means the better ur bowling line, the better should be your wk keeper.
Well, the first time I understood this point was from the post “Changes for Season 5” by Kashyap. I had no second thoughts regarding it.
Text from the post regd. this.:
Then, my personal experience, byes were leaking off my best bowler. I and my friend have also seen a few matches of his, to finally come to a conclusion on this.
We were really appreciating the complexity in the Game Code, to have such a realistic feature…
Had I been online at the time of the discussion, I would have blushed more than I do now…
Its nice to see so many responses to a post…
I was off for a game of cricket here in Germany… The first Practice match of the season, and to reiterate the effect of an Accomplished Bowler and Hopeless Wicket keeper combination, I did some wicket keeping, and it was HORRIBLE…
I could not hold on to the best bowler we had… The ball was swinging, bouncing and doing all sorts of things…
Guys, the point here is, I have given a realistic problem and a possible solution.
Even I am new to this “No man has ever seen before” land… I don’t know how it would work, but we have to experiment… We may fail initially…
But remember a small story:
Thomas Edison’s wife was pretty angry that he failed to invent a bulb even after 10,000 times. When she was upset with him, this is what he told:
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”
See, I used to have the same feeling that the players are not getting trained if they don’t pop up… So, don’t be concerned about it…
Coming to your question, yes, the training upgrades will improve the speed of training… Not quite sure by how much, but I believe it would be significant enough, because we invested 1.5M into it…
Rapid increase, well, I cant comment on it, because I have just upgraded to the final level today... I have to wait and see how it affects...
Ssshhh…!
Don’t ask such questions about…..about “he who must not be named”….