Depending on who is bowling and who is batting. If I take that it’s the best available bowler bowling to a set batsman, I’ll bring everyone in circle and a packed offside field - everyone saving singles (means, positions from where a direct hit and no way any of either runners can survive); preferably bowler bowls a Yorker, if he is certain that it won’t drift down or be full toss. Set batsmen hardly fail to make contact therefore there is little chance of a dot, but he can miss a Yorker trying to squeeze one past squire leg; so I’ll set a trap of 6-3 field with open leg side and bowler bowling full pitch ball just outside the line of off stick.
If it’s a lower order, I’ll push a midwicket towards boundary, a deep mid on half way and a slip or two, but no third man. Also including slip it’s 5-4 offside field, bowlers bowling out swing/leg cutter and WK extremely alert against a stolen bye. Unless it’s a perfect Yorker on sticks, lower order batsmen often gets bat or pad on to ball and steal a single against misguided Yorker. It’s the leaving ball on good or just short of good length, that’s the toughest for them to touch - even if it’s connected with a swing, almost every time top edge will be skied over mid-on or mid wicket. Long back, I saw a game at WSC, Aussies required 1 to tie (& win via losing less wickets) in last over and No. 11 Reid on strike - Kiwi pacer (Pringle???) bowled six leg cutters, within a foot of off stick, just short of driving length - Bruce Reid failed to touch it with every type of efforts all six times and Kiwis won it!!!
