'Catches Win You Matches', It is a saying in cricket which is 100% true. Batting and Bowling are the Two main portions of cricket, But Fielding is a part of Cricket where you act as a catalyst to your team's success. Sometimes you win matches because of you fielding alone! Though Batting and Bowling are the areas where players work the most, but a good fielder can be as good as a batsman and a bowler. A fielder can change the course of a match in just a matter of time! He can make a dead match alive for you and can even take the match away from you! Such is the role of a fielder in cricket.
The first and foremost thing you need to have to field in cricket is a good, strong pair of hands. If you don't have one, you can develop by training hard. Your hand needs to be strong enough to stop the hard cricket ball. You need confidence and have to believe in yourself to become a good fielder. Fitness is the key of a fielder. Remember, a fielder might have to run the ground as much times as the ball is hit. You need to practice throwing the ball from the deep to the
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One of the major challenges for fielders in cricket is fielding in the slips. A slip fielder is often a catcher and he has to concentrate on every ball being bowled. No matter how good a fielder is, slip catching is always a challenge to them. Your reflexes need to be extremely fast when a fast bowler is bowling. You need to bend your back all the time which may lead to fitness issues. Slip catching is regarded as the toughest part of fielding. For this reason there have been many players who were regarded as specialist for that role.
Close-In Fielding is also one of the attacking field setting used in mostly test matches to get wickets. The challenge in fielding in this position is getting hit by the ball. Though you have protection, it is very useful to get wickets. You have to be alert all the time in this position and have to react quickly to pounce on a catch. This type of field setting though is not used in One Day and Twenty-20 cricket.
Fielding in the deep - Usually fast bowlers field here as they have good arm to throw from such a distance. When the ground is a Big one, then throwing techniques such as relay throes are used by the fielders where the fielder in the deep throws the ball to the fielder in the 30 yard circle and the fielder in the circle quickly throws the ball to the wicket keeper or the bowler. Fielding in the deep is a challenge for fielders as they can get high catches which may be sometimes too high that even a blink of an eye can get your positioning wrong and you can end up making a mistake. You need quick legs fielding in this position to reach the ball quickly.
One of the major challenges for fielders in cricket is fielding in the slips. A slip fielder is often a catcher and he has to concentrate on every ball being bowled. No matter how good a fielder is, slip catching is always a challenge to them. Your reflexes need to be extremely fast when a fast bowler is bowling. You need to bend your back all the time which may lead to fitness issues. Slip catching is regarded as the toughest part of fielding. For this reason there have been many players who were regarded as specialist for that role.
Close-In Fielding is also one of the attacking field setting used in mostly test matches to get wickets. The challenge in fielding in this position is getting hit by the ball. Though you have protection, it is very useful to get wickets. You have to be alert all the time in this position and have to react quickly to pounce on a catch. This type of field setting though is not used in One Day and Twenty-20 cricket. 