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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 949715" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>ncurd you are completely missing the point - your focus is too narrow.</p><p></p><p>Why would a player deliberately throw the ball at a batsman when they have nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing so? </p><p></p><p>Throwing the ball to hit the batsman in order to make the ball dead so they don't give away overthrows? Seriously, is that what you are thinking?</p><p></p><p>If the fielder does that, and misses the moving target (which is very likely) the chances that there will be another fielder backing up is very small. The fielder is more likely to give away overthrows than to save them.</p><p></p><p>Why not just not throw the ball at all...then there is ZERO risk of overthrows. If they are running, throw the ball at the stumps. If they throw AT the batsman they are not going to get him out!</p><p></p><p>In short, there is ZERO incentive for a fielder to throw the ball directly at a batsman, especially from the deep field.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 949715, member: 20605"] ncurd you are completely missing the point - your focus is too narrow. Why would a player deliberately throw the ball at a batsman when they have nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing so? Throwing the ball to hit the batsman in order to make the ball dead so they don't give away overthrows? Seriously, is that what you are thinking? If the fielder does that, and misses the moving target (which is very likely) the chances that there will be another fielder backing up is very small. The fielder is more likely to give away overthrows than to save them. Why not just not throw the ball at all...then there is ZERO risk of overthrows. If they are running, throw the ball at the stumps. If they throw AT the batsman they are not going to get him out! In short, there is ZERO incentive for a fielder to throw the ball directly at a batsman, especially from the deep field. [/QUOTE]
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