Damn tailenders!!!

[vvvslaxman]

This has become a big headache all over the world. Okay. We benefitted a lot too from the tail thanks to Bhajji and sometimes Zak and Ishant. Remember 180 runs partnership between Steyn and Duminy in Australia. Some of the partnerships infact decided the outcome of the match. Panesar and Anderson saw out the last few overs against Australia. Ajantha Mendis scoring 78, Malinga scoring 65, Herath scoring 80 against us. Hilfenhaus 50, Tuffey 80, Hauritz 76 against Pakistan. This has become a big pain for all teams not just India. Those days it used to be a rare feat. Nowadays it is far too frequent. High time bowlers start coming up with better plans against tail.

[fineleg]

Confused Indian tactics. Defensive India pays a steep price: http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-africa-v-india-2010/content/current/story/495554.html .... Soon Kallis reverse-swept him, a brilliant, calculated shot all right, but one that involved risk. The man that went from short third man to collect the ball from the boundary was asked to stay back there. After just one boundary. In a remarkable show of following the ball, that deep fielder kept moving to wherever the previous shot went, and Kallis had established the psychological upper hand already. ... It was quite similar to what India did to Thilan Samaraweera in the deciding Test of their Sri Lanka tour earlier this year. On the fourth day at the P Sara Oval, India had taken five second-innings wickets for 24 runs, reducing Sri Lanka to effectively 76 for 7, and Samaraweera was 4 when Lasith Malinga came out to join him. It took one boundary from him to open up the easy-single route to sweeper-cover, and another hit over mid-off to spread the field for good. The last three wickets then added 180 runs, and it took special innings from VVS Laxman and Tendulkar to level the series. ....... Four years ago, when India came to Cape Town, they went in to lunch on fourth day with two second-innings wickets down and a lead of 114 in the bag. The next two sessions featured confused cricket, and India lost the series there. Here, too, going into lunch India had South Africa effectively at 119 for 5, soon to be 130 for 6. But the rest of the day almost played India out of the Test. Now it's up to the Indian batsmen to put in yet another special show to prevent a repeat.

[Serani]

The best thing to get rid of tail enders is express pace, Brett Lee made a career of burgling tail enders out quickly.

[vamos_rafa]

I don't know but most of the captains now go for this defensive kind of a mindset these days. Graeme Smith also did the same when Sachin was batting and even in Durban.

[yoda]

Well may be the tail has learnt to hold a bat finally.

[kabira]

another thing is no Leggies around. Leg Spinner can get thru them quickly..

[diegovegaz]

has more to do with ineffective bowling

[Zelig]

Toss it up! "Yej! This un is goin' the distance!" Pitches and turns in.. "Oh! It's a googly! Oh, noes..don't hit my stumps. Oh noes..'keeper, pleaj don't take it cleanly and whip my bails off" ..and he is gone. "Damn!" vs Kamran as 'keeper .... "Oh! It's a googly! You just don't hit my stumps..that would do." ..and Kamran has dropped it. "Sigh! This is fun! More wrong uns pleaj, dildo" :eyedance:

[vvvslaxman]

has more to do with ineffective bowling

Also something go to do with conscious effort to tailenders to improve their batting.

[vvvslaxman]

Another tailender rescue. Southee is already on 56.

[rkt.india]

bowlers forget to bowl straight and into the wickets to tailenders...no tailender would have good defensive technique to survive for a long period of time if a bowler bowl straight and on the stumps...its as simple as that...either he will go for big shots or will lose his stumps or will be LBW...and while playing big shots he can edge to slips, keeper, and give catch in the outfiled..and most potent weapon is yorker...now days bowlers do not use yorkers much and tries different other things like bouncers, wide deliveries, etc. they do not apply basic to the bowling then